i really feel for the kids on transports now towards the middle east. it’s one thing to be deployed — that’s part of the job, what you signed up for. 1/

but it’s another thing, an unexpected thing, to be deployed under circumstances of manifest improvisation and incompetence and perhaps indifference to your welfare. 2/

say what you will about the US military, but until recently you could take for granted operational competence and and a posture of protectiveness toward military lives. /fin