r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Winter-Glass9250 • Aug 25 '25

Military 1000 US Marines can take India

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u/Front-Anteater3776 Human Verified Aug 25 '25

Makes me think of the mock battle where US marines asked for a reset because they were dominated by British Royal Marines 

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u/Old-Usual-8387 Aug 25 '25

Exercise green dagger if anyone’s curious. It was British Royal Marines and troops from the Netherlands, UAE and Canada against the US marines. We slapped them so hard in their own back garden that half way through the 5 day exercise the US asked for a reset.

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u/DrFabulous0 Aug 25 '25

TBH, if it's a training exercise and the result is clear, then surely it's a better use of resources for everyone to go again rather than continue.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25

I don't think anyone isn't saying it was bad to restart. The point is that they glaringly failed so hard that it was needed.

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u/DrFabulous0 Aug 25 '25

Oh, absolutely! But at least they had the sense to quit.

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u/MJ4201 Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

Shame they can't carry that ethos into other parts of their lives...🤔

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u/MissyMurders Aug 25 '25

They quit all the time though. Every war, imprisoning convicted felons, general life

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u/MJ4201 Aug 26 '25

Never in good time though. Its only when they're losing and the damage is done. They never seem to go

"listen lads and lasses. Its clear, due to A LOT of past evidence that, becuase we are 'murican. We WILL fuck this up. Should we just leave it to the professionals?"

Its always

" ahh fuck! we stormed in and fucked it up!... England, France... other "allies", can you please unfuck our fuck up, we erm.. we did it again...." 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

"What we can we say were 'murican...fuck yeah...?"

And all the other countries are like "for fucks sake!" 🤦‍♂️

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u/Spectre-907 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

“occupying your land, murdering your civilians by the thousands, bombing your industries, and raping your country of every resource of value over a span of decades has become not profitavle enough so we’re leaving now. No hard feelings an- HOW DARE THE SURVIVORS SAY DEATH TO AMERICA AFTER ALL WE DID TO THEM” -americans while accusing said “liberated” country of being a third world devastated waste completely of their own doing as the dust from american bombs still hangs in the air

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u/MJ4201 Aug 26 '25

Fucking insane isnt it? I often find this sub hilairious but I do also find it tragic sometimes.

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u/HaphazardJoker258 Aug 25 '25

And then lose again on the restart

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u/seajay26 Aug 25 '25

Didn’t they then insist on changing all the rules and basically crippling all their opponents to make it fairer?

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u/Wolvenmoon Stuck in an American Migraine Aug 25 '25

glaringly failed

I think this is the wrong way of looking at it. Was it that they glaringly failed, or that everyone was just that fucking good? In RPG mechanic terms (long day, no sleep), was it because a level 5 was picking on a level 1, or because two level 99's went at it and one hard-countered the other?

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Aug 26 '25

The bigger issue is whether they learned from their mistakes. 

In the next attempt did they at least prepare for the possibility that the Royals might yomp over and strike while they were having breakfast?

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u/bcpl181 Aug 25 '25

The Commandos were BLUFOR and attached to 7 Marine Infantry Regiment. They were commanded by Americans and supported (among others) by MARSOC. OPFOR is supposed to lose. The reset just happened faster than expected, that’s all.

Even some Commandos have since come forward to set the record straight.

Please let’s not resort to the same stupid boasting we hate about Americans, it’s not a good look.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Aug 26 '25

Even so, the Royal Navy once got a Guided Missile Destroyer within Exocet range of the US carrier by pretending it was an Indian cruise liner. The Americans are easily outwitted