Can we talk about something that has never been talked about before
About how in the Vietnam war America invented a new kind of warefare, a warfare that I like to call comfy war
>the music >the drugs >the banter >the war crimes >the weapons and vehicles >the uniforms >napalm
Everything about it was just so aesthetically pleasing. Wars before that had just been miserable, but this war was just so comfy and fun like a lads on tour holiday with killing thrown in as a bonus and that was not the end of it, the same thing happened in Iraq and Afghan. Is comfy war here to stay?
I would consider the Seminole War more if a comfy war than Nam man
Evan Evans
Give me one reason why I'm wrong without using the words punji pits
Jayden Nelson
Nah, you've just watched Viet Nam movies. Jungles sucks, especially when the weather is extremely hot and humid, you're in your uniform, you've got a 150pound backpack on your back, and you have marched for 5 hours already. It sucks, it's boring, there's a chance that at any moment 30 Viet Congs will pop out and turn you into a tortured slave. Don't romanticize it.
Henry Fisher
>Rains all the fucking time >Trench foot as a result >Never know if the smiling 6 year old is going to pull a grenade or tokarev and blow you away >Ingesting toxic defoliants that will give you cancer in a few decades >People back home think you're a baby murdering cunt Truly comfy
Matthew Moore
>get to stand back and watch as the manlets trigger traps in holes Sure was comfy
Cooper Smith
not gonna lie Vietnam always seem lit af there is a certain magic and mysticism to it missing from other wars
can't wait until Hollywood starts making Vietnam movies again
Leo Moore
Jungles are the opposite of comfy, they're total hell.
Tyler Wood
>magic and mysticism Blame Apocalypse Now and Platoon. It was a fucking dull war in real life.
Connor Jones
The Soviet-Afghan war is 100x more comfier than Vietnam desu, either that or the Korean War if its US wars.
I wouldn't say "comfy" but I can agree that it was an aesthetic war
Isaac Lopez
>It sucks, it's boring, there's a chance that at any moment 30 Viet Congs will pop out and turn you into a tortured slave. If I see my baby becomes a mutated mess of flesh and my wife gets burned to death by napalm I'm pretty sure I will torture each of those soldiers too >can't wait until Hollywood starts making Vietnam movies again And they can't force diversity in vietnam war movies, it's impossible
Juan Roberts
> they can't force diversity in vietnam war movies Vietnam was full of coons, it's one of the reasons the average Vietnamese wasn't on board with America, it reminded them of the French Tirailleurs
Gabriel Hall
I read that as "they can't force diversity because it was actually diverse"
Kevin Murphy
>Trench foot Technically it's jungle rot when it's warm water, although I'm sure the soldiers had issues with all kinds of water temperatures in Vietnam.
Aaron Bennett
I remember this BBC documentary about WW1, there was this Brit veteran saying it was the best years of his life, that he never felt so alive. So yes, even the worst war can be seen as pleasant, stop being shy virgins.
Indeed, Afghanistan has a comfy vibe. It's often compared to Vietnam btw.
Zachary Diaz
The desert might be bleak,bland and boring compared to western europe or the jungle, but its probably one of the best environments you could fight in.
Kayden Russell
>a new kind of warefare, Navy SEALS developed from their WWII UDT style into their modern form.
Nathaniel Russell
I think you've been watching a bit too much MASH, OP
Elijah Cruz
Go ask any vietnam vet if nam was comfy you fucking moron
William Scott
>the music You mean the popular music of the time? Because that's just the musical movement of the decade. That's like saying Grunge is a direct result from the gulf war. >the drugs This wasn't new. Berserkers likely used drugs to induce faux supernatural strength. >the banter You think soldiers didnt chat? >the war crimes People have always been killing cruelly, raping, etc. >the weapons and vehicles Okay I'll give you that, but Vietnam didn't have as much vehicle advancement as the first two WWs did. Pic related can be considered an advancement in military vehicles since horses are used as transportation, not weapons. >the uniforms WW1 and 2 were more Veeky Forums but I guess it's subjective >napalm The product known as Napalm was new but similar weapons (sticky fire) have exited for a long time. IIRC The Greeks invented a flammable liquid similar to Game of Throne's Wildfire.
Luke Campbell
>Vietnam war nostalgia fagging >thinking war is "comfy"
Well, OP, you know WWII soldiers had sexy pinup girls on their walls, listened to cool 40s music and had cool uniforms. WWI even had cool cavalry, awesome gas masks, cool tanks and military marches. And the mustaches. Who cares about blow to bits or seeing civilians butchered, right?
Alexander Wright
That's where you're wrong, it's pretty common among veterans (even the wounded) to claim their war was cool. Good memories, pride etc is what you'd hear the most if you ask them.
Dylan Sanchez
I work with Viet vets, all they ever do is say the government were cunts and the draft was a shit idea because it threw a whole bunch of kids who didn't want to be there into the army
Alexander Bell
Turns out it's called Greek Fire and it was used by the Byzantine Empire
My great grandfather and my grandfather were veterans of 4 wars, and I never heard anything but laughters and tears of nostalgy during their veteran meetings.
Jayden Hall
>Vietnamese were more mad that there were black Americans there than they were about the fact Americans were invading
Imagine being so pathogically obsessed with blacks you think like this
Eli Thomas
MASH was set in Korea though
Isaiah Smith
>Vietnam War >"it ain't me" by CCR starts playing
Tyler Morales
Fortunate Son you pleb
Alexander Torres
>Vietnam war >comfy >when trench warfrare exists
Is there anything comfier than hanging out with your entire neighborhood oldboys (because you all got shipped together) in a trench during a gas attack? Listening to wild beats on your gramophone, boiling tea in a pot, inhaling dank gasses, waving at huns hanging out on the other side of A E S T H E T I C no man's land.
Aiden Morales
>How to spot the Retardditor immigrant
You need to go back.
William Campbell
Better be bait
Carter Nelson
that war was such a shitfest m8, not comfy at all
Jordan Stewart
Fond memories sure, but "comfy"?
No.
Ryder Parker
you are clinically insane romanticizing Nam is a stretch but we can at least blame movies for that. but romanticizing fucking trench war? how do you even manage that?
Liam Morgan
Comfy thread and of scientific value
Liam Phillips
I think he's being facetious
Brandon Edwards
>what is propaganda >implying this aestheticisation of war hasn't existed forwver >what is the illiad
Levi Stewart
That's nothing compared to how hilariously comfy the 30 year war was >Baroque music >High on religious zealousness >Started because people couldn't handle the bants >40% of all Germans dead LOL >Weapons with actual feeling to them >Coolest uniforms ever >Schwedentrunk
Life sure was wonderful back then, too bad we don't have wars all the time, really sucks not being able to take part in them
Justin Barnes
Just look at the uniforms my dude. They combine sharpness and sexiness of 19th century with a more practical modern outlook. Not too strict and not too chic, pure comfy. And gasmasks are the nicest thing anyone ever invented, the longer you wear them the warmer you get, perfect for late night card games.
Isaac James
hmmyess spiffy
William Gomez
Comfy AF Imagine the feeling of absolute freedom and total bliss, when each minute of life is the most beautiful gift, when hiding in the bush, trembling with fear, is a full part of your life. Ah, I was born far too late, this timeline is deadly boring.
Charles Rodriguez
Is this bait? Allied soldiers didn't even get to eat warm food in the trenches until mid 1917
John Campbell
You are like a little baby >Flamenco music on the radio as you rape nuns >Drunk on delicious Ribera del Duero vino tinto >Eating jamón ibérico that you stole from a bishop you murdered, dope af >Chilling with the American lads and fucking an Anarchist qt while whispering Marxist tractates into her ear >Raping Republican women with your Moorish bros >Started because of deepseated divisions in society that went back hundreds of years and still persist to this day >Totally cheeky massacres committed on both sides, LOL >AESTHETIC art produced from the dank bombing of Guernica
comfiest war
Jason Flores
? What makes you think that? Of course they had warm food.
Noah Phillips
Nicely memed, soldiers enjoyed quality handmade food from portable ovens.
Colton Collins
I know a few of them who say that in public but will tell you they had a lot of fun in private.
I think the biggest factor in making an event traumatic is society deciding you should feel traumatized by it. Soldiers dont necessarily suffer all the very worst or feel as shocked by deaths and danger around them to the point of psychological damage.
Jayden Foster
It was an analogy about Vietnam, user.
Austin White
>post in a Vietnam thread >it ain't me starts playing
Nolan Fisher
If there ever was a "comfy war" it would definitely be the Gulf War