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http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/27/headlines/report_us_soldiers_contractors_sexually_abused_54_children_in_colombia

A new report commissioned by the Colombian government and FARC rebels has concluded U.S. soldiers and military contractors sexually abused at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007. The investigator cites one case where 53 girls in the town of Melgar were targeted by contractors who filmed the abuse and sold the films as pornography. In another case, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and raped by a U.S. Army sergeant and a contractor. Under immunity agreements, none of the alleged abusers were ever punished.
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troops dont kill themselves any more than gen pop unless they get a dishonorable discharge http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2211891
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are you tezzor, goatstein
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why do they always send the poor
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i locked my wallet in the late night atm vestibule and had to ask passersby if they had a credit card they could use to open the door and one guy was like "i cant fuckin do that!!" I said "why" and he stood and stared at me, he pulled out his wallet. there was a weird little badge in it and an ID of some kind. I waited and he said "I'm in the military. I can't help you with that." and stormed off. troops
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lol
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Panopticon posted:

are you tezzor, goatstein



No

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People ask me sometimes "well where else are they going to get the money for college" and I've stopped even arguing the point that "wanting to go to college isn't an acceptable excuse for murder for hire" I just say "student loans," but it really hasn't had any effect because apparently not wanting to pay off a legitimate debt is also an acceptable excuse
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joint terrorism taskforce officers

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I assumed this was a porn thread and not a troop thread, whatever I'm out.
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tpaine posted:

anywhere the military / contractors go, it's rape city. should be common knowledge


File:Okinawa club.JPG

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Keven posted:

I assumed this was a porn thread and not a troop thread, whatever I'm out.


Can't it be both?

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what if someone made a rap about mcribs? would your mind melt?
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swampman posted:

i locked my wallet in the late night atm vestibule and had to ask passersby if they had a credit card they could use to open the door and one guy was like "i cant fuckin do that!!" I said "why" and he stood and stared at me, he pulled out his wallet. there was a weird little badge in it and an ID of some kind. I waited and he said "I'm in the military. I can't help you with that." and stormed off. troops



We all know what really happened. I have a copy of the security footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXJ7dDtjj4

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Among the approximately 800,000 military veterans now attending U.S. colleges, an estimated 88 percent drop out of school during their first year and only 3 percent graduate, according a report forwarded by the University of Colorado Denver, citing a March 22, 2012 study by the Colorado Workforce Development Council.
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

Among the approximately 800,000 military veterans now attending U.S. colleges, an estimated 88 percent drop out of school during their first year and only 3 percent graduate, according a report forwarded by the University of Colorado Denver, citing a March 22, 2012 study by the Colorado Workforce Development Council.




"We're used to high intensity life, constant vigilance on a very routinized lifestyle," said Cody Nicholls, an Iraq combat veteran and grad student who directs the VETS program at the University of Arizona. "Coming into higher ed is a stark contrast, especially coming out of combat. Here, it's kind of 'Here are the keys, good luck, you're on your own.'"

That's a key factor that defines the difference between the WWII veterans who attended college and today's veterans. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, with 13 million veterans pouring out of the ranks and the new GI bill providing free tuition to any four-year college, practically everybody in school was a veteran. Now, with less than 1 percent of military-age Americans volunteering for military service, veterans on campus are scarce and can feel alone.

As a Marine sergeant, Dan Standage relied on his team all the time. But arriving on campus at the University of Arizona, he found "you don't have a team any longer. That's what really messed me up; I was sitting all the time in the library totally isolated," he said. "Having other veterans around is just critical. When you have a bad day you can talk shop with another vet who totally understands you, you can laugh if off rather than take it out on someone."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/veterans-college-drop-out_n_2016926.html

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Men built to be slaves
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or people adjusted to a communist lifestyle thrown into the uncaring, isolated, and alienated world of liberal institutions
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aerdil posted:

or people adjusted to a communist lifestyle thrown into the uncaring, isolated, and alienated world of liberal institutions



"Universities have long been a place where young people develop an identity, or a purpose in life. Students load up on debt as they find out who they are and what they can achieve. But for older students with wartime experience, those lessons have already been learned amid a procession of struggle and sacrifice that's impossible to reproduce in a classroom. A personality molded in the crucible of war doesn't easily bend to the institutional tenets that universities push in glossy brochures. That leaves student veterans not only detached from other classmates, but from the schools their classmates take pride in attending."

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/lonely-men-on-campus-student-veterans-struggle-to-fit-in/261628/

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aerdil posted:

or people adjusted to a communist lifestyle thrown into the uncaring, isolated, and alienated world of liberal institutions


ah, yes, the famous communist lifestyle of slaughtering your colonial conquests at will and fearing their reprisal so much you lose your mind

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Personally, a high intensity life that still follows an orderly routine sounds like a fairly attractive deal. If only it did not revolve around killing non-whites in endless quagmires manufactured by grey-haired jingos....
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i hear foxconn is great for high intensity, very routine labor
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c_man posted:

i hear foxconn is great for high intensity, very routine labor



Time to test my cousin's strategy of omitting you ever went to college on a resume!

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But yes, the mutilated cultures of American higher education and the US Army complement each other, which will combine, if the behavior of the clerks and culture workers in color revolutions around the world is anything to go by, to create a grimly humorous climax when the military finally decides to liquidate the formalities of bourgeois legality here.
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The difference between the "liberal' Egyptian professionals and intellectuals who fell in line behind General Sisi and their American counterparts who are willing to treat a neo-liberal warmongers like Obama or Hillary as a progressive hero is thinner than the latter would like to believe.
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Edit: holy shit fix the fucking youtube embed

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