r/nottheonion • u/novagridd • 8h ago

Thailand's Prostitution Patrol on High Alert as 5,000 US Sailors Drop Ship After 200 Days at Sea

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/pattaya-police-intensify-prostitution-patrols-us-navy-visit-1763395
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u/BareNakedSole 7h ago

I grew up with a lot of guys that really didn’t have anything going on so a bunch joined the military. Years later, the guys that joined the Marines are mostly OK, but the guys that served in the Navy are mostly out of shape obnoxious know-it-alls who love Trump and think that because you didn’t serve in the military you don’t know shit about anything.

And yet, when you ask them about their time in the Navy, all you get is multiple stories about either some homo erotic shit being done on the ship while they’re in the middle of the sea, or all of the times they got gonorrhea from their time in ports like Subic Bay and Thailand.

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u/Throwaway392308 7h ago

I would never join the military, mostly for philosophical reasons but also because I'm a coward. The latter is why I figured, if I ever had to join the military, I would join the navy to avoid all the getting shot at. Any military in the world with enough firepower to genuinely threaten an aircraft carrier has too much to lose by actually doing it. 

I guess I say all that to say that I'm not too surprised to learn that the navy has a bunch of chickenhawk losers in it. 

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u/DroidOnPC 2h ago

I did 8 years active in the Navy and now do Reserves.

I spent half my time in a joint command (working with Marines, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard).

There are losers in all of those branches. And some really chill, cool people in all of them.

I don't really get the OP comment that much because most of who I knew hated/hates Trump, and we avoided bringing up that we were in the Navy out of uniform. The loudest ones were the Marines who were almost all Trump supporters and had a lot of "homo erotic" stories.

So complete opposite experience for me.