Actually, the rainy season is pretty brutal. It washes away roads and bridges like-whoa.
Regarding your strikeout text:
That's macro, Baraka. And we've always been at war with East Asia. And the US military is hardly the best anymore, judging the meat or the missiles.
I'm talking micro. There aren't enough EOD guys. There aren't enough medics. There aren't enough people with the needed technical skills in
X branch to keep up with this bullshit "war" because this war isn't what our military was trained up to handle based on 1980s doctrine. We don't need droves of mechanized artillery guys and tankers in A-stan. So the military swaps branches to get the tools it does need on the ground. That and there are too many deployments (or their used to be, we've only got like ~48k chumps in Iraq right now). The rotation schedule means the guys that have the necessary skills are going home at some point and need to be backfilled by somebody. You get a lot of interservice activity in these specialty areas. Lets say I used to drive around and find bombs with my face. My branch isn't the only one that does that. Army, Air Force and Navy all do that job.
That and Canada couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag. The only thing you've got going for you is a good sniper school and fancy rations.
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I'll buy a beer for someone if they can find something really odd in that first picture.