One service member is concerned the military blew up bridges in Iran that were not military targets. Another thinks Pentagon leaders are not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths during airstrikes inside Iran.

Yet another asked questions about how the military knew it was not killing civilians when launching missiles at boats it believed were trafficking drugs.

MS NOW spoke to five troops who want out of the military because what they saw in recent months challenged their moral beliefs.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    He said most of the calls he receives about the Iran war are not from service members fearing for their own lives. “They are scared of the moral and ethical implications of participating in this,” he said.

    What part of the history of the US Military made you think this was going to be ok?

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    CO status is a religious exception, not a moral one. These guys are fucked.

    Don’t join the US military if you’re not willing to commit war crimes.

  • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host
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    I’ve come to learn that people don’t care unless a legal authority tells them otherwise.

    Speed limit is 50km/hr well folks will gladly do 60 maybe 70 until pulled over, businesses will gladly violate the law, like blocking a fire hydrant, until audited and military officials will bomb whoever, wherever and whenever until court martialled.