Politics Trump claims previous presidents didn't call families of fallen soldiers

I don't call for a surrender as Obama did.

I wrote:

If Trump really wanted to honor our military, he'd get us out of those combat situations (like he promised) without surrendering the gains we made at the cost of injured and killed military personnel.​

 

On cue, CNN televising a widow crying over the flag draped coffin at the air base.

 

The USS McCain had 10 sailors killed as well.
7 MARSOC Marines killed in a KC-130 crash.

I used this at SOCOM to keep up to date with "cleared" info: http://www.sof.news/tag/casualties/

 

Not to sound callous, and I haven't read what the President did or did not say, but every one of those operators would tell you three things:
1) "We signed up for the tough missions like this"
2) "I'll take my chances against anyone, any day of the week."
3) "We expect the best in training, discipline and equipment b/c if we mess up, guys don't come home, because of #1 and #2"

 

Thanks, Brian.

I would think that increasing our force/presence in Afghanistan would only increase the chances our guys get into bad situations.

I couldn't find stats on servicemen who are killed here in the US on base, in accidents (like getting hit by a jeep). I'm sure there's a few of those, sadly.

 

I agree with Denny, we're a nation of snowflakes, it's wrong to show the cost and sacrifice of war. We need to hide that so we don't upset people. Showing coffins only shows that people might die. We should show only the positive happy fun time things about war.

We need more shows like Hogan's Heros and Gomer Pyle. They never showed death on there, only fun things.

 

Liberal woman setting a bad example for her child by crying on American flag.

 

(Liberal tweeters politicizing a woman's grief on never seeing her loved one again.)

But one of the great things about the military (at least, for me, can't speak for everyone) is that, inside that coffin is a brother/sister, whether that person looks like me or dviss's cousin or HCP or crandc. They earned that flag, they earned the honors, and they earned the benefits that come with giving Uncle Sam a blank check on their life.

 

Why is she only crying for her loved one? Why isn't she crying for all loved ones lost? Don't all lives lost matter?

 

I didn't ask her. I respect her time of grief.

 

that's literally the opposite of what should happen, but I'm interested in what you're thinking that I'm missing...

 

we've always been pawns. We're literally Constitutionally stopped from being much more. Yet there was always a faith that blood wouldn't be shed without a good reason, that we'd be trained and equipped to win, and that someone would always come for us if we got in trouble.
The first died in Vietnam, if not Korea. The second died when social engineering overruled mission accomplishment, and Benghazi was a mark against the third. Y'all don't need to be worried about what Hillary or Obama did around Benghazi, you need to be worried that people like me but younger are going to look at stuff like that and say "why TF would I sign up for something that gets crapped on by much of the media and liberal elite (I'm looking at John Kerry, not HCP), run by people who have not served and have no clue what the military is or does, and is used as a glorified and captive petri dish for every social engineering experiment coming down the pike. If we are not being allowed to fight the way we can and defeat Afghans and Somalis, why would I want to write a blank check to this country just to get clobbered by someone a bit more near-peer?"