https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-08-31/17-guardsmen-have-died-on-gov-greg-abbotts-controversial-border-mission-soldiers-speak-out

“When we requested that we stop training because someone had died … we were told to ‘shut the f— up, sit there and keep doing your job’ as if nothing happened,” the guard member told TPR. “We had made a request for chest seals, trauma supplies like tourniquets — stuff like that. … We were told that there was ‘no need for those supplies at this time.’ So they were denied. … This is immediately following a servicemember being shot in the back and dying.”

  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Sucks to find out your actual value in the middle of your service, but you chose to fight for the great satan

    If you come at me about how there’s no better choices in poor neighbourhoods but to join the genocide on the side of genocide, feel free to enlist