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Redleg

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2. I don't think he is questioning Hegseth's combat experience so much as his "no quarter" rhetoric

Reply to flvegan (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 12:09 PM

19 hrs ago

I could be wrong. The closest I got to combat was pre-deployment orders for the first Gulf War. We got a shitload of immunizations, wrote our wills, prepared our vehicles for ship transport, and then got the news that the war was winding down. I did get a splinter from a wooden crate holding our fire direction center stuff.

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