I'll agree with Tanker on all of this.
I too am a fomer US Marine. I was stationed mostly at MCB Camp Lejeune, NC. We had an entire town called "combat town" where we trained at least once a month.
Don't tell me we "weren't prepared for it". Fuck, we moved in so fast and had so few problems we had to "stop" for the supply lines to keep up with front lines. Seems to be going damn well to me.
Training for combat and being in combat is two different things. I was into playing paintball for a while; Imagine standing up during a game where paint is flying everywhere. Then imagine it's not paint, but that it's bullets.
Then factor in the fact that their army is trying to blend in with the general population.... You don't know who the fuck to shoot at.
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