The advocacy group Hots&Cots says it collected the photos from anonymous service members to push the Pentagon to fix living conditions in military housing.
While that’s true, it’s also worth looking at how the army nearly mutinied during Vietnam. There is a limit how far you can push people, even ones that have been brainwashed by the military. The morale in US army is basically non existent after decades of forever wars.
At the same time, a substantial portion of those grunts in Vietnam were draftees; I don’t know if we’re scraping the bottom of the same depth of morale failure yet. I don’t think we are, at least. This force is still a (mostly, if you don’t count the “it’s either a prison stint or military service” enlistees) volunteer army.
While that’s true, it’s also worth looking at how the army nearly mutinied during Vietnam. There is a limit how far you can push people, even ones that have been brainwashed by the military. The morale in US army is basically non existent after decades of forever wars.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210905142700/https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1322790035935141891
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/Vietnam/heinl.html#0
At the same time, a substantial portion of those grunts in Vietnam were draftees; I don’t know if we’re scraping the bottom of the same depth of morale failure yet. I don’t think we are, at least. This force is still a (mostly, if you don’t count the “it’s either a prison stint or military service” enlistees) volunteer army.
Yeah, I don’t think US military is quite at Vietnam levels either. Vietnam does show that there are limits though.