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Dec 12, 2018 7:06 PM
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TheDarkLordWyvvern
Way I look at it OP, you do what you have to do to survive. Doesn't make you good, doesn't make you bad. It's human. Keep your head up man.
MeesterButts
Maybe don't join the army if you don't think you'll be ok with killing people? Sorry you didn't get the free ride you were looking for.
MidLifeChrysler
I've never had anyone straight-up ask me about it; after the battles I've been involved in and the injuries, it kind of speaks for itself.
RightHandedMan
@thatoverseasguy
DurendaI
The only real injury I ever got while deployed was being rocked from impact. Got a vertebral compression fracture.
Repostradamus
My worst was gashing my leg open by falling in the VBIED ditch. Luckily closest booms were far enough to just knock the wind out of me.
BelfryBats
Got to love hilarious algorithm fail.
DysgraphicProgrammer
Casual algorithmic cruelty
MrNobodyLivesHere
Part of the job.....no shame.
CPTHindsight2020
I was a foreward observer. i called in bombs to kill those that attacked my platoon.. I'm not sure how many, but they asked for their fate.
Nykidemus
At least he kept up his K/D ratio.
twofoureight
Those are rookie numbers.
C141Clay
steviedrawsdinos
Related to the original image - the first person my husband had to kill was a 13 year old kid. It fucked him up bad..
Thismanneedsaname
I resemble that remark. people don’t get what they are even asking so best to avoid
DarkerSavant
I tried to upvote the picture. Kept popping out and was so frustrated. I feel you as a fellow Soldier. I don't talk about it.
kolao3fyllo
givemyrighteye
Kjasi
That resolution...
BarretXIII
speedbagmynuts
Time to get started. Contact them.
rift555
It's none of their damn business if you shot anyone over there. Any respectable human will never ask you that question.
Arnoxthe1
Unless, you know, you committed war crimes.
apolloscrewedmeover
Am married to an Iraq vet and have never asked him he'll tell me stories if he wants to but never ask PTSD is real and it's horrible 1/
apolloscrewedmeover
2/ We loved playing Call of Duty together until we got the first Modern Warfare I cant even explain that night and weeks after were not good
smokeyfantastico
Always wondered about that. How do people returning from combat deal/handle with people asking those questions
Noob3rts
(1) I'm just a random Canadian dude, but I wouldn't have thought of you any differently if you had told me this. You did what you had to, n'
Noob3rts
(2) if anyone thinks of you differently for that, fuck them. They aren't worth your time or emotion.
MeesterButts
No he didn't. He joined the army knowing full well that might mean killing people. He did what he WANTED to do, not HAD to do.
Noob3rts
Those two are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of people join the Military in non-combat roles, and combat forces you to adapt or die.. soo..
sjpbailey122472
Hang in there, brother. I did the same fucking thing.
dwilson0725
My mother has killed someone. I've never thought differently about her after finding out.
burneraccountsoidontusemyrealone
What would you guys say if someone said this but told you the person was unarmed and he killed them and lied about it later?
Arracor
Eh, fishier but still depends on circumstances. (Those who truly deserve to die are just as guilty, armed or not.) ..But I'd have questions.
burneraccountsoidontusemyrealone
what kind of questions
Pandquin
My ad /a/2AcMjd4
VinerialBlumpkin11
Mine too
DoctorDudeBruh
Same here.
blzrdphoto
Me too
TacticalVelociraptor
Took me 4 years to tell my family that i had taken someones life in combat its so tough to talk about worrying about being judged
CookieLeo
What was their reaction?
TacticalVelociraptor
They understood i did what i had to , it was a huge weight off my shoulders
CookieLeo
That’s great, you have a very supportive family :)
DiracsDelta
I have friends in this situation. Some of them lost count. The only difference it should make to others is knowing their support is needed.
MusicalOtter
I never knew how much the army is tryharding before I watched an american "soccer" stream (I'm Norwegian) and saw these insaane COD-like ads
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
Honestly, they have to try hard as fuck these days to get recruits. The American population has never had a smaller percentage of eligible
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
for military service candidates than it does now, be it from obesity as a result of sedentary lifestyles or mental health issues or what
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
have you. I've got buddies recruiting right now and its really hard. So I get it.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Tip them that the homeless and hopeless VAs and high suicide ratings might be bad PR.
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
Doesn't make much impact. Public perception is still pretty good for military. Most people just aren't qualified to join.
WasThatRacistOr
Uncomfortable truth- Nobody is drafted or forced into combat arms, and you likely enlisted during an active time of war, then had to
WasThatRacistOr
volunteer to do a combat related job, because only a small percentage sees combat. Then during that training everyone fantasizes about what
WasThatRacistOr
combat will be like, and can't wait to go over. Then you ask the cadre about it and they tell you about shooting the fuckers. I don't get
WasThatRacistOr
this bullshit " I did what I had to do". No you didnt. You wanted to go, just like the rest of us that did that shit. If you have demons,
WasThatRacistOr
sure, get help or whatever. But don't for one second pretend like it wasnt something you couldn't wait to go over and do.
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ClarissaPDG
Maybe Ads algorithm finds “trigger words” & show that type of ads. Or maybe I’m paranoid.
BadDragon1183
Maybe ads algorithm finds “trigger words”, and show those types of ads, or maybe I’m paranoid?
CreepyPhlox
This is exactly what the committee interrogating the google guy don’t understand about the internet.
tzxAzrael
i mean let's be fair: any committee interrogating ANYONE about the internet usually doesn't understand very much at all.
Jakethesnake357
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you
Bri4h
The ad for this post is for a battery back up from amazon. I never searched for one, but maybe that dude was right about secret Santa scheme
ccgreen139
If it's Google AdWords it based off previous internet history.
WillDropPantsForFood
As a digital marketer - spot on! We call them keywords, but otherwise you got it.
TheRicM
Username relevant (keyword stuffing) lol
ballsack426
Think it's more browsing behavior in this case, no keywords in an image
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
The image has text captioning it.
WillDropPantsForFood
Computers cant read captions the meme generator makes them part of the image. But the O.O.P. did say Iraq & Afghanistan in their description
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
1. What Nerd said. 2. The image has actual text captions ie, title and description, which is very easily read by any such AI.
NERDRAGEohacat
Image-to-text algorithms have been a thing for a long time now and work on images with more noise than the one in OP.
Gayforbae
*TRIGGERED*
AdmJota
Why would that be paranoid?
Xenarion
The word you're looking for is "keyword".
ItsJustMeDave
Maybe it's Maybelline
ClarissaPDG
Sally, darling, please stop. You’re making me blush.
MyTrueIdiotSelf990
ScarecrowSticks
They, aim, to appeal, that works for their, target, audience
Squirrelprophecies
“Trigger” “aim” “target” for all y’all mad about commas.
ScarecrowSticks
,
ViscousMotherCream
Shatner?
ScarecrowSticks
Walken
tannenbanannen
Ok calm down there Captain Kirk
DavidBrooker
Many people don't punctuate their sentences, but punctuation is actually conserved, so if you mess up they show up in someone else's post.
iCurse
Imgur's law, conservation of punctuation
iScootsMcgee
Well they, really hit' a, bullseye, with that' one!,
aslowgiantfart
Someone gave you to many commas
TheManWithTheSevenScars
Hey it worked for Christopher Walken.
ManicYEEtPressive
Somebody didn't give you enough O's my friend.
afroniner
WHAT, THE THE ACTUAL FUCK, DO YOU THINK, A COMMA DOES?!
ColonelCasual
It's the Shatner comma.
ScarecrowSticks
Also the Walken comma
ScarecrowSticks
A break, in a sentence...
DeathBy1000PaperCuts
I prefer an ellipses...even though it isn't...proper.
theLimerickGuy
I think he was adding visible emphasis to particular keywords in his comment that related to the content or the post?
ScarecrowSticks
[Austrian accent]: That's the joke.
MofongoBalls
I remember a recruiter in 2004 told our high school the Iraq war would be over by the time we would finish basic training
JamJamJamboreHE
they told us that our senior year. I graduated in 2001
Corsair212
Well he wasn't completely wrong, the war only lasted a week or so, the occupation...now that's another story.
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
It'll be over right after we swoop in to beat those koreans!
prozack8356
My bad. Haven't joined the army yet. I'll get on that soon so the war ends
CamelToeChew
And this is one of many reasons i think it should be illegal to recruit from high schools.... I served and everyone I served with has PTSD
Cereaza
"Don't worry. We'll be out of Afghanistan before your unborn child dies of old age."
SomeGrayFox
Same here.......
Bunsen
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia" has proven to be excellent advice.
SpookyNav
Nykidemus
Recruiters say a lot of shit.
thissitestealswhatcouldvebeenmyproductivity
They may not have estimated that you could finish basic. Or, they fucking lying liars like so many of any type of recruiter.
fibersplicingreekman
That’s sad.
WolfRexV3
After how many reenlistments?
MofongoBalls
Didnt get that far. Knew he was full of shit even as a teenager in high school
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
To be fair, considering how Desert Storm went, he may have actually believed it.
MofongoBalls
True. But the reasoning behind desert storm was much different than Iraq war part deuce
AmateurCaulkRingEnthusiast
Yes, but that doesn't have any bearing on the fact that the vast majority of people thought that war wouldn't last long.
circlebreaker
[MISSION ACCOMPLISHED]
Thismanneedsaname
Hell, I retired after 15yrs of GWOT, now my son is fighting it. Truly an intergenerational war
fibersplicingreekman
Traplordz
CotterPyke
Forever wars i call them, because, they are
alpacasaurusrex
My recruiter tried to rape me, that was... fun. I never made it over there, not that I’d have been near the front. Cause girl & I was gonna
alpacasaurusrex
be a navy corpsman.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Maybe he was just trying to explain your VA-benefits?
alpacasaurusrex
Ew. If raping a 17yo girl is VA benefits, I’ll pass.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
I meant you as the.. Forget it, I am sorry that you had to experience that. It is probably an advantage to be an ass-hole as a recruiter.
neil137
recruiters specialize in the redlobster dinner and unlubed honeymoon invasion
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
"It will be over by Christmas." --numerable people throughout history
SolaceHaestas
"You will be home before the leaves fall" - Kaiser Wilhelm II, Prelude to WWI.
SolaceHaestas
Not an exact quote, but as close as I could get it.
DavidBrooker
Pro-tip: never specify *which* Christmas. Then you're only predicting an event will end before Christianity does (or maybe longer).
shortwarrior
Christianity is more likely to end before Christmas does.
DavidBrooker
I included that bit!
TheS4ndm4n
The famous fruhstuck in Paris. German solders were told they captured Paris this fast, the war would be won by breakfast.
Thismanneedsaname
Then Hitler wanted Russia caviar
slack3rdav3
Which he could have had if he went straight to moscow, but noooo he has to make detours.
daffles
No? Why would Russia give up if Moscow was lost? They killed their own people like a child eating candy
Ulthirm
A lot of what the USSR did was comparable to the Nazis. They not only had book burnings but killed the responsible authors.