r/VolunteersForUkraine - The ManChildren's Crusade of 2022

Manul Otocolobus said:
They really don't teach soldiers about EXIF data, and that most videos, unless they are scrubbed, or set not to geotag, indicate where they are filmed?
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Given all the identifying info in the videos and photos on the characteristics of the building, you really don't even need to worry about the associated location and other tagging info (IMHO). A sophisticated computers team could use a databse of existing images of buildings in Ukraine to find similarly constructed and outfitted buildings then start hitting the most likely ones to house units in descending order.
 
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Echo_Ender said:
So, I asked a military vet friend of mine who actually saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan about these "Special Forces" guys going over to Ukraine and pussying out immediately. He was refreshingly to the point about it.

"I talked to some of these guys. Most of them are legit SF with good intentions, but they got spoiled by our last couple outings.

They think that their combat experience is going to make them so valuable that instead of being sent to fight on the front, they're assigned to either run conscripts through basic training or attached to experienced local SF teams to help plan ops.

Instead Ukrainian leaders are seeing them and saying "You're experienced? Good. We need you at the Kyiv Frontlines immediately to help field train and rally a regiment of our volunteers. You'll get your equipment on-site. Expect heavy shelling and enemy air support."

And they realize that instead of being relatively safe in an advisory role, they're actually being sent into a combat zone where their side has a real chance of losing and they have a non-zero chance of being hit by random shelling or even friendly fire from inexperienced locals given heavy weapons and hardware.

And logically, they don't want any part of that mess. At the end of the day, it's not their country and they aren't willing to die fighting for them."
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This aligns pretty well with what I've heard from combat vets. Special forces are the "tip of the spear" but in order to be effective, they still need the rest of the spear. US SOCOM just assumes that all the background stuff gets handled for them - they have the necessary equipment, transport from A to B, have the intel to know where to hit in the first place, etc. But in Ukraine, they are likely going to get dumped wherever on the front lines needs more warm bodies, where they will be marginally more effective than a grunt with a few weeks of training. All those special forces skills don't mean much when an artillery shell lands on the position they are defending.
 
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
What's the point of being a mercenary without Reddit karma? Money?!
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Some enterprising Ukrainian should hang a shingle out of his home, calling it a Reddit bureau de change. Tell people their Reddit gold can be exchanged 1:1 for Ukraine’s liberation currency through your authorized Slava Ukraini™ cash machine:

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TheDuncanKramer said:
Guys, I was terribly disappointed to discover that the world's deadliest sniper, codenamed "Wali", did not, in fact, die 20 minutes after getting to the combat zone, but is alive and well within walking distance of the Polish border. Truly a sad day for the lulz.
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>Russians are afraid of a close fight
>Only claim to fame is shooting a goat herder over the longest distance.
>Shills his stupid book

Yeah, no sympathies of he gets a missile to the head.
 
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TheDuncanKramer said:
Guys, I was terribly disappointed to discover that the world's deadliest sniper, codenamed "Wali", did not, in fact, die 20 minutes after getting to the combat zone, but is alive and well within walking distance of the Polish border. Truly a sad day for the lulz.
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>be sniper
>"Russians are afraid of a close fight"
This people have no self awareness whatsoever
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
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I hope those updoots were worth it. If these people are any sign for Western militaries it is that in a real war you will need to confiscate all non-issued devices from your troops.
Baloney Face said:
The losers of the Spanish Civil War had plenty of posthumous romantic propaganda to remember them by.


Can you imagine some future movie about the Reddit brigades with a scene like this?
Their story will be suppressed by their "own" side as too embarrassing to be romanticized.
Even if their "own" side wins, they will be erased from the historical record.
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No because even to their own the reddit battalion are laughing stocks.
SaidNoOneEver said:
RHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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Here's his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ROKSEAL

South Korea will arrest him for violating passport laws (among other things): https://www.allkpop.com/article/202...rested-as-soon-as-he-enters-south-korea-again
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How many of these tough guy LARPers that have gone to Ukraine have already turned tail and ran realizing this is a modern war and not bombing some goat herders or Somali pirates who barely know how the maintain their rifles?
2lolis1cup said:
A British volunteer was actually interviewed in Kiev.

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you know the one thing that is universal for Ukrainian, Russian and UK forces? A giant red cross on the medics clothes and vehicles to mark them as such. This guy hasn't even seen any combat yet. I can't wait to see any update on him, since by the time he does see combat Kiev will be surrounded.
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If there is one thing this thread has taught me, it is the absurd amount of people going there to LARP being a soldier and hero who instead want to be a medic because they took some first aid classes once. Do these people think help people with shrapnel or bullet wounds is as easy as it is in a video game? They don't even put red crosses on their helmets or anything.

If you cunts want to play medic sign on to some NGO like DWOB.
 
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Corpun said:
I hope those updoots were worth it. If these people are any sign for Western militaries it is that in a real war you will need to confiscate all non-issued devices from your troops.

No because even to their own the reddit battalion are laughing stocks.

How many of these tough guy LARPers that have gone to Ukraine have already turned tail and ran realizing this is a modern war and not bombing some goat herders or Somali pirates who barely know how the maintain their rifles?

If there is one thing this thread has taught me, it is the absurd amount of people going there to LARP being a soldier and hero who instead want to be a medic because they took some first aid classes once. Do these people think help people with shrapnel or bullet wounds is as easy as it is in a video game? They don't even put red crosses on their helmets or anything.

If you cunts want to play medic sign on to some NGO like DWOB.
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DWOB probably doesn’t want them though. They value skills and previous experience a lot, so they may not want an overly enthusiastic amateur.

Had a friend who really wanted to join DWOB to be sent to a specific place I’m not PL, got rejected because he didn’t have field experience and a extensive history of panic attacks.
 
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Corpun said:
I hope those updoots were worth it. If these people are any sign for Western militaries it is that in a real war you will need to confiscate all non-issued devices from your troops.

No because even to their own the reddit battalion are laughing stocks.

How many of these tough guy LARPers that have gone to Ukraine have already turned tail and ran realizing this is a modern war and not bombing some goat herders or Somali pirates who barely know how the maintain their rifles?

If there is one thing this thread has taught me, it is the absurd amount of people going there to LARP being a soldier and hero who instead want to be a medic because they took some first aid classes once. Do these people think help people with shrapnel or bullet wounds is as easy as it is in a video game? They don't even put red crosses on their helmets or anything.

If you cunts want to play medic sign on to some NGO like DWOB.
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To be fair we never wore visible red crosses except on vehicles, but saving people wounded by combat is not easy you are right.
 
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The Nothingness said:
I hope the military history books cover all of these moments to teach what not to do in the middle of war.
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I keep assuming the average person knows by default not to share their location with the enemy during war. But if you are retarded enough to farm upboats on reddit you are clearly retarded enough not to know the phone you never drop from your hand geotags your videos and photos.

I hope they are all dead and I hope many more follow. All these retards must get rekt.
 
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