We literally missed out on the biggest adventure of the millenium. Like a massive state sponsored school trip to cool place around the world with your battle bros in tow. Cracking jokes with the boys while trekking through vistas straight out of LOTR. Morning coffee in blown out marble palaces of kings A new adventure every deployment. Friendships forged for life. Sure, lots died. But those were mainly people sent to front lines. Only 10-20% of total enlisted were sent to the front lines, and you can bet your ass if you were someone important your ass was never going to the front line, but an unforgettable kino adventure of a lifetime.
it was men raised starving, angry at their lot in life who fought that war they’re called the “golden generation”, but I would call them the “steel generation “ because their sacrifices built everything that this kiked world is now built upon https://youtu.be/N6naKvmyWAwGod bless those men who died on a fucking beach for what 80 years amounted to nothing
>>18440503Don't worry they'll be another one soon enough. If you can't wait both sides of the Ukraine war are still accepting foreign volunteers
>>18440503>TFW my experience as a restraunt manager would probably have landed me a cushy quartermaster job with no frontline combat And they laughed at me for doing it
>>18440503Against weak countries like France or Yugoslavia sure. But I don't feel like starving in Stalingrad.
>>18440503>Only 10-20% of total enlisted were sent to the front linesWhere'd you get that figure
>>18440573OP was clearly talking about Americans but for your average borderline-retarded Russian farm hick with a 200-word vocabulary, zero knowledge of the outside world and childhood memories of nothing but Africa tier famines and chaos and people already dying like flies all around you because of it, blasting your way into a Prussian aristocratic mansion with your pick of luxury wines, cheeses, and Lithuanian servant pussy afterwards was also quite an adventure as wellAs for the Brits or French, they always had the opportunity to enlist in the Army, Navy or bureaucracy and get deployed to go have adventures in Myanmar, Indochina, India or Hong Kong
>>18440865the vast majority of men that enlisted in the US army or Marines during WWII ended up as support troops (truck drivers, pencil pushers, mechanics, artillery crewmen etc that all had a very low chance of dying). The army personnel that tasted the nasty stuff at the front line (infantry, tank crews, bomber crewmen, etc) were indeed only about 12% of the army's manpower.The Marines had way less non-combat manpower but they were also still like 75% non-fighting men.If you were in the Navy and posted onto a ship, you were in a pretty constant state of needing to fight against a Jap suicide plane or a German sub, but still 50% of Navy personnel were pencil-pushers or wrench monkeys on land.
>>18440559Machinist here in Detroit, so I'd probably be "essential to the war effort" and never get drafted but if I joined the Army, I might have found myself rolling thru the French countryside in 1944 in a 2½-ton truck converted to a mobile machine shop.
>>18440573Yugoslavia was a fucking nightmare in WWII, almost as bad as the Eastern front
>>18440503OP would be crying, pissing his pants and begging to go back home if he was put in WW2
This unironically but for the cultural revolution. I would have lived if at 16-20 years old chairman Mao closed down my school and told me to go hunt counter revolutionaries. Riding trains across the country, sleeping with girls, singing revolutionary songs, beating up grown ups I didn't like. Sounds like a good time.
