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I saw this point over at Blue sky: if you want to know how pissed people in the military are, look at how long it takes for the info to leak.
In this case, the slide decks are dated April 29 or 30. They leaked on May 1. So it only took one or two days for someone to get pissed off enough to put their career on the line go to the press, for the press to get the story together, and to find enough other corroborating sources (also probably pissed off) to publish the story.
I’d say this is a good sign. I’ve never served but I’ve known a lot of people who have at different levels and capacities.
The military folks I’ve known would hate this, I feel comfortable saying they’d say it’s absolutely not the kind of thing we do here and it’s not the kind of thing a professional military should be doing.
I take comfort from this knowing that our military seems to still have actually committed service members in it and hasn’t been corrupted with sycophants.
This may not even be anti-Trump motivated. Literally nobody likes being in formation, drill or parade; it fucking sucks. The bigger the event/ceremony the worse it is. This may just be anti-formation sabotage.
Back when I worked on a base, we'd sometimes get told to go to the atrium because some high muckety muck was giving a speech. We'd call it a "rent-a-crowd". The speech was sometimes interesting, but never relevant to me or my position.
One of the former military people I know was at JBA as Security Force and the amount of nonsense stories like that they had…
Would be funny if they all showed up for the parade and then turned it into a coup.
Would only take a few rogue soldiers to handle the situation with the FLOTUS (Fucking Loser Of The United States)
I hope there are a lot of protest signs.
"Bonespurs Mc Draft dodger called vets suckers and losers so why you dancing like monkeys for him?"
"My tax money doesn't go to making our military to put on a parade for a dick-tator."
"Cuts your benefits and makes you put on a parade in his honor? How does that feel?"
"Only weak fascists need military parades. History will tell you this."
"All Threats Foreign And Domestic--- does this sound familiar?"
Trump is Americas biggest loser.