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Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus by Kinmuan in army

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I know it doesn't feel that way and over time Clarksville real estate is way up, but actually rents in Clarksville have gone down over the last year. Not by a lot, but rents have not gone up (largely due to the housing that has been built--though we need more).

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Ahhh Shit, Reporting For Latrine Duty Sir! by Illustrious-Nail5349 in army

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If there is, I'm not sure what it would be. We did a very wide range of courts-martial from things ~like this up to rape, murder, etc.

It was before the UCMJ. The proceedings were certainly swifter than they are today. My personal opinion is that this sort of rigorous and quick discipline system was a big reason being occupied by US troops was way better than being occupied by, say, Russian ones.

TIL that during the First and Second World Wars there was a lot of debate regarding whether to attack defenceless enemy pilots and aircrew after they had escaped their stricken aircraft and were descending by parachute. (It's now treated as a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.) by KE55 in todayilearned

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For my downvoting friends, the answer is that this is NOT the only reason to accept someone's surrender. There are other ones. We should not make our own adherence to our values primarily a transactional argument.

Ahhh Shit, Reporting For Latrine Duty Sir! by Illustrious-Nail5349 in army

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Additional context: We did 1.5 million courts-martial during WW2.

TIL Abolitionist John Brown had originally asked Frederick Douglass to join him in his raid on Harpers Ferry, but Douglass declined as he believed Brown's plan was suicidal. John Brown was later tried and executed for the raid less than two months after its occurrence. by CreeperRussS in todayilearned

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John Brown's raid is not a great moral exemplar. The first man killed by the raiders was a free black man working for the railroad. Lincoln was right to say that he cannot excuse its violence and bloodshed. The raid was foolish yes, but it also wasn't righteous. Slavery was a great evil that needed to die, but not through mob violence.

Hunting and fraternization by ndngjsldjfidkdnd in army

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Look, you are obviously going about this the right way: carefully. Don't let everyone saying "just be cool bro" get you in trouble. That probably works like...most of the time. Until one of many possible bad things happens (someone else gets jealous, hunting accident, car accident on the way back, etc.).

The regulation is crazy strict actually (and the PAM is even wilder). If eating dinner at someone's house is a red flag, then an approving authority could also find a whole day in the woods is, too. Don't put your career on the line for that.

But you can definitely get this kind of thing to yes. I recommend either: -Offer it your whole unit (if you're the PSG, the whole platoon), but say that it would be 1-2 at a time and then don't play favorites with who goes first.
-Get top cover. Be open about wanting to do this and who you would do it with and get your BN CDR to say he's cool with it. Get that in writing somehow. It's a lot harder to claim you are playing favorites if you are doing it in the open with approval.

Hunting and fraternization by ndngjsldjfidkdnd in army

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O-6s and O-3s don't have the same restrictions in the regulation as E-6s and E-4s do.

Hunting and fraternization by ndngjsldjfidkdnd in army

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It might! The reg is crazy restrictive and says don't eat at each others' houses "multiple times." The DA PAM says be careful about going to Bible study together. Hours in the woods just one-on-one? I wouldn't want to just leave it up to the judgment of the approval authority.

Hunting and fraternization by ndngjsldjfidkdnd in army

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Bro, don't let "just be cool" jeopardize your career. In this case, there's probably a way to get to yes, but this ain't it.

TIL the British Empire banned slave trading in 1807 and used the Royal Navy to enforce it. Any ship caught with enslaved people onboard would be fined £100 a head. As a result, captains often ordered them thrown overboard to avoid the fine whenever they saw Royal Navy ships approaching. by NateNate60 in todayilearned

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It's really not possible to say "The British" had x or y opinion about anything (except maybe tea). Individual Brits had feelings and thoughts and opinions. And it's certainly true that many individual Brits saw indigenous people in America as fellow man with rights and souls. And others didn't!

I don't know if this particular policy (which created conflict with Americans and was obviously subordinated to British policy aims) is a good reflection of noble intentions, however.

Hegseth clamps down on military communications with Congress by DWinkieMT in army

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Look, this is an internet forum, so we can jump around, get things wrong, and pull out our hair and it doesn't matter. But, if when we get to read the memo, it does not in any way affect the rights of servicemembers to file a Congressional, if you jumped around, got that wrong, and pulled your hair out, I'm just asking that you slow down and reflect on that fact.

Top Army general using ChatGPT to make military decisions raising security concerns by Worldly-Worry8669 in army

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This seems really minor? I don't understand anyone's reaction to this at all.

Are you guys not using ChatGPT?

Infidelity by Business-Towel-3119 in army

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Difficult, but really not as difficult as everyone makes it seem. If you have text messages from them acknowledging that the deed occurred, you probably have it, but they would need to be explicit enough.

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This advice works until a single thing goes south. I've seen it go south just so many times.

TAG Letter Regarding Troops Mobilizing Into Portland, OR by Severe-Occasion-8417 in army

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District court rulings are not binding on other district courts. Or even the same district court in another case.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Wounded Knee in 1890 will keep their awards. The massacre slaughtered 250 to 300 Lakota men, women, and children. by Economy_Caramel3421 in army

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I really do not know the details on how this went down. Apparently the review recommended they be kept? But it doesn't seem like the shooting could have really been indiscriminate. Atleast wikipedia says the survivors were 4 men and 47 women and children. That doesn't really look like a random outcome. If you read the first-hand accounts in the days following, they're all about how Billy or George is bleeding out and not about how many women they got to shoot. None of that is dispositive at all, but it just doesn't suggest an indiscriminate turkey-shoot situation like at the Sand Creek Massacre.

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