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Yeah...this is it. This is as retarded as it gets.

We can get more retardeder

I give it a week.

😂 He should witness CAX training at 29 Palms where infantry Marines get placed in a fake Muslim town for a month.

“These kids who put on the kufiyyas and tried to look like Muslim enemies didn’t think very hard about what they were doing,” Abou El Fadl said. “That TV stereotype is a completely cultural stereotype that has nothing to do with the reality in the military field.”

Huh, I wonder if all those dudes I saw in Iraq knew they were portraying a TV stereotype.

Maybe you should have told them they were appropriating REAL muslim culture when you weren't shooting at them, tbh

Lol, I wonder where the media gets all these "experts" from. I know several fellow Marines that are combat vets and are now involved in NROTC. From what I hear they favor combat vets when looking for people to fill positions at schools. But ain't it funny how some pencil neck Californian scholar who's never visited Iraq or Afghanistan in his life knows more than those experienced senior Soldiers running the AROTC program.

But isn't it funny.

Neck yourself.

y tho

Too bad no jihadist combatant is gonna wear that headgear into battle. Kind of defeats the training purpose.

They actually do. There's lots of combat video online that you can watch to confirm this.

The one with the scarf stuffed into the ring. I haven't seen any yet.

But maybe they exist.

It's as common as a baseball cap over there.

Why did we go full geographic correctness "Southwest Asia and North Africa region"? Is the Middle East too problematic these days?

It makes sense. The middle east technically includes Egypt to the west and goes as far east as Iran. But West asian countries like turkmenistan, kazakhstan, tajikstan etc, and also countries like Pakistan, are part of the muslim world, but arent techincally part of the middle-east. Same goes for North African countries like morocco, sudan, tunisia and libya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East

If we're deploying troops to Turkmenistan in a combat capacity, shit has gone far, far too sideways for some ROTC cadet training to matter.

I'm pretry sure all of the -stans would be classified as Central Asia.

That's exactly what I said. But they're not part of the middle-east.

I've noticed this too. Never seen "SWANA" used until recently. I've always used MENA

During a training held by UCLA’s and California State University, Fresno’s Army ROTCs in early April, students acting as enemy soldiers in combat simulations

Stambersky added that in the ’90s, the program trained by using simulated combatants dressed up as Soviet troops.

WTF, man? In my 4 years of JROTC and 4 years of ROTC, we never got to do anything resembling a live-fire exercise. Is this because mine were Chair Force flavored? Did everyone in Army ROTC get to go play Rambo?

Yes. My little brother is in Army ROTC and they do infantry training all the time. Stay mad airfag : ^ )

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And Islam is not fighting anyone

Meanwhile in Indonesia...