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Fears lives could be lost due to lack of volunteer rural firefighters during 'traumatic fire season' (www.abc.net.au)
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I think for what the Rural Fire Service does they should be paid, what kind of first world country do we live in where we don't pay all of our emergency services

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[–] Jax 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, what I know is every one of my army buddies got sent into the middle of the fucking desert to work on HVAC units.

Stop acting like bases in the middle of bumfuck nowhere are somehow important when the people stationed there LITERALLY refer to their work as sweeping sand in a sandstorm.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

If you think that anecdotal story somehow justifies the idea of using the military to fight fires, I don’t know what to tell you. The fact the military has dudes who’s literal job it is to fix HVAC because the air con dying would fuck with operational readiness. How do you think having random amount of your service members tied up fighting fires would affect that readiness. It’s a ludicrous idea that doesn’t pass any test based in basic common sense.

The whole hurry up and wait shit was because the US military valued its readiness and would rather have people standing around ready to go rather than the inverse situation. Especially since the amount of bushfires are predicted to increase and the fact that most militaries have area of denial weapons specifically to set large areas of land on fire… I don’t know what else I can say to make you see what a shit idea it is.