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COL Mustard

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5. They were expendable.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 06:11 PM

Tuesday

The hard calculus is that it was cheaper in the long run for the Army to pay ~$1M in benefits per dead soldier than to spend significantly more in force protection. Whisky Pete will never say that, but it's the truth according to these people.

I am so saddened by that I can't tell you.

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