• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    First world militaries do a hell of a lot more than fight. For example, talking to a young guy at a party last night and the older host. Kid’s a Navy SIGINT guy, host is about to retire from commercial sailing. They got to chatting and the kid had been monitoring threats in the area the host’s ship had passed through in '21.

    After Hurricane Ivan the Florida Guard rolled in and saved our asses. After Katrina my ex-FIL led the Mississippi guard into south MS. They cut houses in half to open the roads.

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      10 months ago

      In japan when a tsunami or earthquake hit the yakuza always help the locals, that does not make them any good.

      Firefighters are not teach how to attack countries with biological weapons or psyop