i know many such women.

It's funny because growing up (90s) we weren't allowed to watch Star Trek in my house because it was "liberal propaganda".

^^^ Y E S

It was a hard read for me at first, because it is dense. The lore is dense. The plot and characters are layered and nuanced.

A great story, just was not one I could just sit down and breeze through.

But if you like heavy political thrillers and doomed by the narrative yuri, you'll like this.

Sartha was the real villainess all along.

I'd be there weekly, at least

Wait, why did not one tell me that Dr. Stone had a gay NASA Scientist X Marine Scout Sniper ship?

At the peak of our food crisis going a month and some change with no unrep (except fuel), we were carefully guarding our coffee supply we picked up in Bahrain in the JIC.

Sorry to say, but this isn't unheard of in the military. A few weeks of missed UNREPs due to operations will leave food supplies depleted.

Honestly, beyond the food, the part I imagine being worse, is that they must have been at General Quarters multiple times a day at the height of the conflict, especially on the DDGs. That's another level of misery right there.

My 2012 deployment was top-five worst experiences of my life; the 2010 one was only marginally better--at least we got a couple true port calls out of that one.

Comparatively, I'd go back to Iraq or Syria in a heartbeat. Even living on a shitty FOB was better than the ship by a wide margin.

To all the people asking why "they aren't doing a mutiny"... You're not going to get enough people willing to throw their careers and possibly their lives away because the food sucks and they are miserable.

Life sucking is par for the course of being on a ship in the Navy.

Remedial range day is in order.

The Maids should be proficient in the employment of belt-feds and mortars

People severely underestimate how much of the military experience is learning to live with life sucking. Navy basic was mostly a filter to see if you can deal with being miserable, do seemingly meaningless task, cut off from the outside world, and not go insane.

Theaboros archon in the "wow cool robot meme" labeled as "mechsploitation." Man says "wow!! The machinery of fascism and weaponized trans misogyny make navigating and surviving oppressive systems feel like mind breaking torture" The gunshot going over the head says "TRANS WOMEN WIN WARS OORAH!"

Sliding this in before HELLHOUND nukes the tl.

There can only be one! Sartha Thrace Death Match, lfg!

If you loved HELLHOUND, please go read my good friend's original jetsploitation story, The Angel in Your Heart.

It's so dark. It's bleaker than bleak. It's so good and deserves more attention.

HERE WE GO

It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of getting the replenishment ships into a combat zone, or into the Gulf, given the risk of enemy fire.

USNS replenishment ships are mostly unarmed.

“the iron maiden might not have ever been used

but the idea of a beautiful woman surrounding you

and piercing your flesh

and ending your life

is as timeless

as any other good idea

one could have”

Aeon Ginsberg, narcissus panopticon

GOD I LOVED THAT LINE. And what a fucking thing to say at that moment. 😵‍💫

Been there. We had all our port calls suspended, no internet or phone for months, ran out of food, and extended from 6 months to 10. We just sucked it up and continued on.

We did have a couple sui attempts and an attempted murder, though.

I have a feeling the sailor that sent these is going to by NJP'd and lose rank/pay for exposing operational limitations.

I assume the UNREPs have stopped and they can't go into port because of the risk of enemy fire, which means this will continue for at least a few more weeks until they rotate additional ships into theater.

I do wonder how these pictures got out, though. They should be at RIVER CITY.

It was so bad, the last of the meals were basically rotten. I stopped eating for a few days. We weren't allowed to break into the C-rations (MREs) until everything else was gone. Easily the bleakest experience of my life. I see these pictures and feel nauseous.

In 2012 I was on the IWO JIMA and we missed two UNREPs because of reasons and we were cutting it close but we were suppose to get resupply in port... then we got diverted for an operation. We ran out of food. The meals got to this point, and then were whatever was left in the back of the freezers.

DOO ITT! I think of Clicker Training a lot. Just such a devious premise.