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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

fraud

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Dan Boguslaw's avatar

silencio

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Madeline's avatar

"not bring harm to myself OR OTHERS"?! But... combat?!

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Stark's avatar

It's an oath made upon leaving the military.

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

“You must swear not to commit suicide so that when we drive you to it, we can oppress you further in response.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Ridiculous bullshit!

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Todd's avatar

Mast is apparently an Evangelical; it could simply be that.

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Tom Morrison's avatar

As a Vet, this is deeply offensive.

This, remember, is the crew one of whose first acts as DOGE fascism was to cancel the Veterans Suicide Hotline.

As usual with these liars, ignore what they say & watch what they do

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FINTEL's avatar

Recruitment met all it's goals this year several months early for all branches. You might wish to check this and update that part.

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Dan Boguslaw's avatar

Fair point. Tweaked it.

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DFG's avatar

The only reason I can think of for adding an oath like this would be to allow the military to deny survivors benefits for the death of a member who violated his oath by committing suicide.

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Stark's avatar

Definitely what this seems like. Here from the AirForce Reddit; we're not happy about this over there.

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Chuck Connor's avatar

wtf really?

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Chuck Connor's avatar

Damn just looked it up , crazy. And depressing tbh. They’re all gonna get stuck in nasty wars with Iran and Russia.

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