lmao every tough guy wants to dress like a soldier and be treated like a soldier. none of them want to spend days shitting themselves in a shipping crate while someone fires rockets at them in the distance this isn't exactly what they deserve but it's pretty funny
What they deserve is to be slowly fed feet-first into a wood chipper, but I'll take any suffering they can experience.
I wanna see the propaganda recruitment videos.
Psh! They have a shipping container? Get back to me when they've shit back to back with another guy into a cardboard box in the back of a moving mrap.
now that's teamwork
I mean except for the deportees, can we trade them for more ICE agents?
tbh this what anyone who volunteers for ICE deserves
much too good for them
def it's the absolute conceivable minimum anybody who volunteers for ICE deserves*
mfers read 1984, they forgot to read Homage to Catalonia
I'll take it, and note part of my Southern Watch deployment in Saudi was spent being horribly sick from God's know what, albeit with nobody shooting at me. So I know part of what's going on here. And yet I have exactly zero sympathy.
the only shame here is that the ICE soldiers aren't outnumbered in there, but on the other hand, that means it will be even funnier when they get the breaks beaten off of them despite outnumbering their victims
In 2010-2011 we called that a day off in RC-East.
vigilante wannabe posting: "I'm a soldier fighting a war for the soul of my country!" actual soldier posting:
having sat in a metal tube for hours on end in the desert for months on end (fixing airplanes) I hope they're hydrating with something that's also a diuretic, or maybe not at all
No, everyone who joined ice in the last couple decades knew what it was and why they were doing it and they all deserve no less than shitting themselves to death in a metal box in a warzone.
I hope the refugees escape unscathed, but God, please let those ICE agents die scared and alone in a hot tin can. 🙏🙏🙏 You'll do this for me if you're real, you son of a bitch.
Everyone wants to be a soldier til it's time to shit like a soldier.
They ought to get the deportees out of the container and put all of the malaria mosquitos in
my cousin was stationed in Djibouti and he is extremely not impressed with the ICE agents complaints
I caught some kind of a bug in Saudi Arabia in 1996, made for a very miserable couple of weeks out of a miserable boring 4-month TDY. I have no sympathy, regardless.
I was at Bastion in 2012. No sympathy for brownshirts.
We need to find a way to rescue only the deportees
This is absolutely not the point but would body armor really help you in the event of a rocket attack?
Yes. Armor absolutely helps protect against shrapnel.
Ah makes sense, thanks. Not a war guy, my experience with rockets is mainly using them to jump boost in video games.
Shrapnel is a much bigger issue than bullets on the modern battlefield. Across three rotations in eastern Ukraine as a medic, I saw tons of blast injuries and zero GSWs.
Thank you for your service
I did nothing special, and tons of other people I served with did a lot more.
If it was only ICE in there, I would agree
i am talking about the ICE guys though
I know, I get it, but I can't laugh with the 8 innocent people being trapped with them.
Good thing they have masks!
It's genuinely funny when something terrible happens to cruel and remorseless people as a direct result of their callous attemps to force innocent people to endure that very same terrible something. The only sad part is that there are poor innocent bastards stuck in there with them.
Each and every one of them will die a horrible death in a horrible place, and their last thought will be "I signed up to shoot gays!"
I hope none of the deportees get hit and all the ice agents do.
Lol. Lmao, even.
Fuck them. They called them CLUs (contsinerized living unit) when I was stationed there and those were the *nice* facilities. I lived in an 8 man tent.
Let's put it this way: I feel bad for the deportees. That's it.
FAFO
to be clear ICE cops deserve much less pleasant surroundings
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I hope they have their masks for protection.
Appreciate you clarifying 🤣👊🏻
Malaria is too good for them
It's definitely a cleanser
We can be secure in the knowledge that they're almost certainly not vaccinated.
Yay, came to say this
A weird result of all this is I seem to hate regular cops less, if only by comparison. I mean *some* laws are worth enforcing, surely, but what does ICE ever do that’s good? Like ever
Yes
I do love how it is EVERYONE ELSE'S fault that these poor hapless ICE agents are there. Oh, evil judge saying we can't just dump em on South Sudan. Oh horrible deportees for not saying "send me to my home country." It *couldn't* be on DHS for not doing their shit jobs correctly. Or coming back to US
Also, am I mistaken that they are bitching because... nighttime is dark? Fucking hell.
Fleshlights aren’t flashlights
Not even when you shine UV bulbs on them, I guess. I love how McLaughlin there is trying so hard to elicit empathy for the agents and all I can think is, well, they chose a shit job to explicitly be shit people. They could've just been QA inspectors at the print shop but they wanted *uniforms.*
They wanted guns and to be able to legally scare TF out of people and it didn’t quite go the way recruiters promised it would.
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I was going to ask how this is “not what they deserve”. The deserve PRECISELY this shit. All of them do. Maybe keep the bastards in there until they develop some human empathy.
They'd be stuck there until they died, bitterly ruing how unfair it was for them, specifically.
True. It’s the military way.
It's sad to see people protest our laws at work. What's even more sad is knowing they'll never do the American thing and appeal to their representatives to change the laws.
Anti-vax ICE agents are going to go thru things, mostly baby wipes and Gatorade.
The heat of a shipping container, but the vulnerability of a field of daisies with big red arrows pointing at them
Let the ICE melt
and the deportees are probably much better equipped to handle such stress.
No DFAC, just eat out of a can.
They deserve to be hit by those rockets
I went looking for fucks to give about them but I'm fresh out.
We take what little victories we find. These assholes are absolutely going to come back and whine about how dangerous it was, how unfair. They're going to create little badges for them. All while completely eliding the people they've kidnapped, who's experiences are just desserts.
Send the dudes home leave ICE in Djibouti
not exactly fair to the poor deportees though
It's all a set up to free the deportees and they are in on it while sipping their secret water flasks waiting for go time. Yes, I am watching Handmaid's Tale.
Thank you, Karma.
I am reminded of the a reason Homelander didn’t try to save that airplane.
Hell yeah if I could describe one thing to explain war to normies it would be this lol welcome to the plant you soft white milk toast babies
I humbly submit they DO deserve it. They can leave at will. They're not soldiers. They're not bound to fulfill a term of service or face severe consequences. They're civilians doing a civilian job, and they can just say "I quit!" whenever they wish.
immigrants stuck with them tho :/
Yes, they likely need the job. That's understandable. But there's plenty of opportunities in the "brutal thug" line of work these days, so perhaps they can more up one rung on the moral ladder and find a marginally less evil position in the exciting field of paid bullying.
The lack of shopping malls has accidentally created a political crisis, as former over-zealous mall-cops have had to invent new jobs for themselves. =( Yet another thing the internet is ultimately to blame for.
Damn you, Internet!
ICE: the new Witch-Finders general.
yeh your basic cop shop is usually looking for warm bodies, no? also see: regular U.S. prison guards, etc
As a combat vet, I endorse this.
Pretty standard for Newark these days.
I love that for them (for the ICE agents, not the deportees)
"If I wanted to be stuck in a stifling metal box with a bunch of pukey shitty dudes, I would have stayed in the Proud Boys" -ICE agent, probably
Top quality.
Switch out rocket attacks for having to keep 4 jets in the air at all times, and that was my life for a lot of individual months in a lot of unpleasant places from my time in the Marines.
Those poor deportees. I hope they come out ok.
hahah not like i had it tough but i hung out in Djibouti for a week waiting for a ride somewhere once, on the way to my actual job. I take great pleasure in immigration cops crashing out having to do the same. i enjoyed it because i had dvds, access to good snacks, and i wasn't on the watch bill
I would also point out this is based off an ice agents CLAIMS in a declaration. And we all know cops never lie to courts.
critical support to malaria in this trying time
Joining the war on malaria on the side of malaria (this skirmish only!)
Upon their return: “Huh this entire cargo plane full of ice agents is all bipoc, weird. And what’s with the pile of dead white bodies in the corner?”
May the eight humans survive. May the immigration thugs die.
Speaking of rockets, didn't Hegseth claim that we had defeated the Houthi rebels? They don't look all that defeated from where I'm sitting. Even less so from where the ICE guys are sitting...
I feel bad for the eight deportees.
Me, living by the sword: This fucking rocks, this is dope, can't imagine this will ever end
I think it's really damn funny. They should all get to know exactly what they are doing to others who don't deserve it feels like.
hope the deportees pull some "you're trapped in hear with me" shit
Tots and pears!
Deployment is all cool and hooah until you realise your chu is a cargo container older than you are and the latrines were "temporary" emplacements built 30 years ago
I was having a mild moment of despair but this story gave me a tiny spark of joy.
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this is the definition of "careful what you ask for. you just might get it"
I'll take it!
I feel like the deportees can invoke some G'kar energy right now:
Forgot the alt-text for image: G'kar from the series Babylon 5 laughingly says to an off-screen captor I don't have to do anything and I still get to watch you die
Yeah.. except I suspect that the Londo Mollaris in this scenario don't care that their shoes are too tight and that they've forgotten how to dance.. and while they'd have a reaction to the whole 'orbital railgun' thing, 'horror' would not be the emotion.
I think comparing the agents to Londo Molari is far too generous for them
Probably so, but it wasn't like I had a lot of options to choose from in that elevator car. The Nightwatch comparison fits, of course.
And that is completely fair!
I was Navy so never experienced a overfull port-a-potty in 120F heat but the boat the day after they opened up Main Seawater for major maintenance had to be ballpark.
We were spoiled. Our port-a-potties in Kuwait and Taji had actual porcelain toilets in them. I did not know such a thing existed. Always get a base where the Air Force has been. They always have all the luxuries installed, like pools and coffee shops.
Oh yeah. Homeport was Pearl Harbor-Hickam, which is a Joint Base but it's very obvious which side is Navy and which is Air Force.
Like, "Wait, you all pay an actual landscaping service instead of a bunch of guys on restriction/extra duty?"
Wow. I just had a horrifying flashback of picking up cigarette butts around HQ as a punishment for someone else’s fuckup.
It actually evoked a very specific smell-memory to me. The type of campground bathrooms that are a concrete slab over a trench with a shack on top. More permanent than a portajohn but very not actual plumbing.
How about an rv sewage dump at a lake rv park? Cuz that’s all I can think of now.
I guess the common thread is "slow baked decomposing biological matter".
Ugh I had to clean those when I was a counselor at Girl Scout camp and that smell will forever haunt my memory.
"Low tide but in a confined space" will get you close too
I worked construction briefly, so unfortunately I have. The closest thing you can get to experiencing death that isn't actually harming you.
The administration is literally saying the ICE officers are dying of exposure to horrid conditions … at US Camp Lemonnier. No shits given for the soldiers ordered to be stationed there daily breathing the burn pits; just the fragile gestapo who are used to going home to their beds.
Join the military, see the world , get your degree… Die of cancer from being ordered to shovel human shit , chemical and plastic waste into a burn pit to huff 24/7 with no regard to your own life. The part they left off the posters with the cool rifle and boots to snatch up financially poor kids
2A NRA AR15 militia bullshit is army for people who don't want to actually enlist.
So what you’re saying is ICE does not know how to shake Djibouti?
I'd say they're getting the full soldier experience
I'm gonna be honest I really love this for ICE. It couldn't happen to a bigger group of turds.
Also if they wanted to avoid malaria they need to have started taking prophylactics 6 weeks before. Which they should even if they went to South Sudan as planned. Nothing says being ready for some exotic soldier action like not having your anti-malarial and jabs up to date.
oo oo i know this one Mistah Kottah since the shiny new admin, there's a LOT less adherence to silly woke crap like "mandatory shots" before deploying to scary disease riddled parts unknown
...bets
Malaria risk is relatively low at CLDJ, compared to most of Africa. They don't get rocketed very often. And that smog cloud is just the incinerator. They're being a bunch of cosplay babies.
Fun fact, Djibouti is one of the 3 countries globally with the highest PPM of airborne human fecal matter, you're literally constantly inhaling shit...combine that with the heat and humidity & it's the perfect little petri dish. I was there for 15 months of my 2 year posting.
I don't know if US troops get to see Djibouti the way we saw it as Legionnaires, the sights, the smells, the sailors heads behind a dumpster in Quartier Deux, exploding cows on the beach...good times Billy, good times.
Also if someone is claiming a threat of rocket attack from Yemen...they're full of shit
Exploding cows on the beach? What in the anatomical sorcery was going on?
There's a big abattoir right next to the sea (which is why there's plenty of sharks there) and every now an then a cow makes a break for it, ends up in the sea, drowns and floats ashore but the currents always bring it to a spot not far from the US Embassy...& they sit in the sun & eventually pop 😂
That is a remarkably logical explanation. Still amusing though. Things that explode tend to be. Also, I now imagine the local shark population complaining about the quality of the steak tartare on any given day.
I was 2iC for a week of the unit guarding the French Forces Commander's house when I got up one morning to find a cow floating onto the beach so we got out there & nudged it back out until the current caught it & brought it down to the US Ambassadors house
Sucks there's innocent people trapped in there with a bunch of doodoo discount cops tho.
It's like Rod Serling came back from the dead to write this
Oh well