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re: The worst wars to be a US soldier in
Posted on 1/18/22 at 7:21 am to Palmetto98
Posted on 1/18/22 at 7:21 am to Palmetto98
War of Northern Aggression a/k/a Civil War
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 7:32 am to Palmetto98
American Civil War- 
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Posted on 1/18/22 at 7:58 am to Palmetto98
Korea.
There was no Saigon in Korea.
There was no Saigon in Korea.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:08 am to Palmetto98
I would say all of them were bad...as the saying goes, "War is Hell". There are no good wars to be a soldier in! 
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:09 am to alwaysknow
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All wars...all are the worst to be a US soldier.
First gulf war wasn't a bad time to be a US soldier.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:14 am to Afish85
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Also Korea in winter must have been terrible.
Know people that served there and they claim it is the hottest place on Earth in the summer and coldest place during the winter.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:18 am to Palmetto98
WW1 All that and a bag of poison gas
WW2 pacific theater
Civil War
Revolutionary War seems like it would have been fun. Dressing up like Indians and raiding a ship. Riding around on a horse yelling the British are coming. Hiding in the tress while the dumb arse English in red coats piled up in the middle of a field like a bunch of puldo.
WW2 pacific theater
Civil War
Revolutionary War seems like it would have been fun. Dressing up like Indians and raiding a ship. Riding around on a horse yelling the British are coming. Hiding in the tress while the dumb arse English in red coats piled up in the middle of a field like a bunch of puldo.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:21 am to Palmetto98
Apparently I drank to much when I was in the Army. Cause I swore the title said “The worst bars to be a US soldier in.”
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:24 am to LSUBoo
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The worst is either the Civil War or WWI... basically whenever technology to kill prople had far surpassed medical ability to save them
It’s not just the medicine. Weapons suddenly became far deadlier before both wars and battle tactics were very slow to adjust. Lines of men marching towards each other was standard procedure for way too long. The accuracy of the mini ball in the civil war and the destruction of artillery in WWI made for huge killing fields.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:24 am to DavidTheGnome
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For the US though?
If you look at the amount of time we fought, you could make the case. Casualty rates were rough for a short involvement in the conflict.
Serbia lost approx. 20% of its population during WWI, the Ottoman Empire lost about 15%. US losses were low, but we were only in a handful of conflicts. We arrived on the Western Front in the summer of 2018, war was over by late November of that year.
Posted on 1/18/22 at 8:58 am to Palmetto98
Civil War
Large Gap
WW1
WW2 on Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Large Gap
WW1
WW2 on Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:12 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Nocturne of the Damned
Well the pyres of the dead,
Fueled by the damned they’re fed,
Mere fodder cast, into the maw of war,
While men in stately halls,
Make profit from it all,
And leave the debt for brave fools and the poor,
In many foreign lands,
In the jungles and the sands,
In the forests and the tundra freezing cold,
Sacrificing sons and brothers,
Brethren set upon each other,
While the rich and Royal count their stacks of gold,
Yes there’s ossuaries filled,
With soldiers who lie still,
Who charged the doors to hell in storms of steel,
And to this very day,
Their broken bodies lay,
Forgotten underneath a verdant field,
A picture in a frame,
A headstone with a name,
The stories of the generations lost,
And o’er No Man’s Land,
Plays the nocturne of the damned,
What’s won for some, is seldom worth the cost
Well the pyres of the dead,
Fueled by the damned they’re fed,
Mere fodder cast, into the maw of war,
While men in stately halls,
Make profit from it all,
And leave the debt for brave fools and the poor,
In many foreign lands,
In the jungles and the sands,
In the forests and the tundra freezing cold,
Sacrificing sons and brothers,
Brethren set upon each other,
While the rich and Royal count their stacks of gold,
Yes there’s ossuaries filled,
With soldiers who lie still,
Who charged the doors to hell in storms of steel,
And to this very day,
Their broken bodies lay,
Forgotten underneath a verdant field,
A picture in a frame,
A headstone with a name,
The stories of the generations lost,
And o’er No Man’s Land,
Plays the nocturne of the damned,
What’s won for some, is seldom worth the cost
This post was edited on 1/20/22 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:17 pm to kisatchie53
uh the first one.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:17 pm to ThatTahoeOverThere
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Revolutionary War seems like it would have been fun. Dressing up like Indians and raiding a ship. Riding around on a horse yelling the British are coming. Hiding in the tress while the dumb arse English in red coats piled up in the middle of a field like a bunch of puldo.
It was probably the most fun and the worst war for soldiers.
It was feast or famine all the time. Literally. Did our soldiers have to eat their dead in any other war?
Posted on 1/20/22 at 9:31 pm to Zarkinletch416
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Which brings me to hope we NEVER plunge our country into another bloodbath like that one.
75% of the PoliBoard seems ready.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:13 pm to Palmetto98
the Argonne. the reckless bravery of those boys was seared into german soldiers. to the point of almost feeling pity
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:19 pm to WinnPtiger
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the Argonne. the reckless bravery of those boys was seared into german soldiers. to the point of almost feeling pity
I wrote this one a while back on this subject.
“All my friends...Argonne”
Vs 1:
Well We set out from New England,
Dodging U-Boats all the way,
When we landed they said we were Doughboys then,
Scores of raw untested Yankees,
Hungry boys so far from home,
But the ones who’d make it back returned as men,
It was 1918!,
when we marched into the forest,
Drunk upon the thirst of battle we were brave,
For the next Hundred Days!,
Fought the foe that waited for us,
Where many a soldier found an early grave,
Chorus:
Bullets screaming through the trees,
Seeking out a soldier’s death,
As we stood against a stalwart enemy,
Bombs wrote bloodsoaked symphonies,
Poison gas choked out our breath,
‘Til the only soldier left alive was me,
And the bodies fell like firewood,
Piling higher, till the dawn
And now All, my friends...Argonne
Vs 2:
By our side the Brits and Frenchies,
Fought and died against the hun,
As we pressed into the dark primeval wood,
As the frost consumed the forest,
Teeth chattered like Vickers guns,
Trying to survive in any way we could,
Cut a path through the wire!,
Through the breach we’d rush screaming,
Soldiers falling down as crimson stained the snow,
Into machine gun fire,
Sending men to endless dreaming,
The survivors bringing vengeance to the foe,
Chorus:
Bullets screaming through the trees,
Seeking out a soldier’s death,
As we stood against a stalwart enemy,
Bombs wrote bloodsoaked symphonies,
Poison gas choked out our breath,
‘Til the only soldier left alive was me,
And the bodies fell like firewood,
Piling higher, till the dawn
And now All, my friends...Argonne
All…my friends…Argonne.
This post was edited on 1/20/22 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:21 pm to beerJeep
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Wound treatment for the civil war was absolutely brutal.
Fun fact... Dr Tichenor practiced medicine in BR. I had to find his grave for bonus points in high school.
Tichenor developed his antiseptic formula in Canton, Mississippi, and thereafter practiced medicine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 1869 to 1887. He started bottling Dr. Tichenor's Patent Medicine in New Orleans; the formula, consisting of alcohol, oil of peppermint, and arnica, was originally marketed as useful for a wide variety of complaints for both internal and external use for man and animal. A patent was registered in 1882.[3] The company producing this liquid was incorporated in 1905 and is still in existence, though the recommended uses are now more modest: principally as a mouthwash and topical antiseptic.
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:31 pm to Palmetto98
Civil War, no Question. WW1 was awful, but most US soldiers were there for the Allied offensives so at least it wasnt as bad as the British and French from 1914 to 1917. That shite was awful.
Vietnam not good, but not nearly as bad as other 2. BTW, CW and WW1 had conscription...
Vietnam not good, but not nearly as bad as other 2. BTW, CW and WW1 had conscription...
Posted on 1/20/22 at 10:44 pm to Palmetto98
The Cold War
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