Has America ever fought in a more physically challenging environment

korea

>>31382508
Do they know how many people froze to death?

>>31382501
Well, it IS bad but dont forget that you can bring supplies via helo.

That being said, Afghanistan is prime country for elite units. You have the long, hars conditions where their training really makes the difference. Also Afghanistan is sniper wonderland. If you are a sniper or DMR you really can show what you've learned

>>31382501
Depends, I'd rather trek in mountains that are as dry as your mum's cunt than in rainy jungles, getting eaten alive by giant mosquitoes, but that's just me.

>>31382630
i wonder when we go back to jungles humid conditions we'll go back to just lbvs and boonies.

Or will congress and general politicians demand we carry everything for forprotection to due to media and everyone yelling at them? This bullshit about commanders discretion is never really his discretion

yea afghanistan is pretty fucked up you can get pinned down in the open easily
case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLHU-_OhT8g

>>31382618
Helicopters cost thousands of dollars to operate on an hourly bases. They aren't going to make a special drop at your squad's observation post each and every time you leave the wire.

>>31382508
This
>everything OP said
>but cold
>and then some

Shit man we were in the jungle.

>>31382501
Yeah, but its challenging for everyone else too.
Think a big key to our long range patrols for 6-12 days was the fact we toughed it out where the enemy wouldn't go because it was 'too hard' and they never expected anyone to come from certain directions. That 5000ft pain barrier of altitude though, shit that'll make you figure out who you are pretty quick smart.

>>31382796

nice video
thx dude

Now imma play arma

>>31382501
The culture war that's being fought right now

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>>31382501
>millennials thinking Afghanistan was our hardest war

You fucking short ass children don't even know what the fuck you're on about

>>31384663
He means from a terrain/topographical perspective. No one here believes the Afghanistan War was America's worst war in terms of level of violence/men killed

>>31384663

Summer is almost over komrade

this is the hardest summer we have ever fought

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>Ground so hard you can't dig in
>Ground so hard you can't bury the dead
>So much artillery you have to shit in your own fighting position
>8,000 Japanese in a 500m by 400m area
>Everything needs to be manually handled from Amtracks
>People die from heatstroke
>People die from point blank artillery strikes
>People die from being shot on stretchers

FLIES FROM CORPSES LANDING IN YOUR RATION TIN

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>>31382501
>What else am I missing?
they lost the war

>>31384678
>Summer meme
School starts pretty soon son. Should start getting dressed

>>31384691

If you are so new you think that summer or summerfaggots are a meme you should probably take a look at the pic >>31384663 posted

Not every fucking word that is posted on here is a le ebin meme you cringelords

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>>31384705
>Omg what ru lik nu cus u dot agee wit me
Not like children have a monopoly on being retarded. School is starting in like 20 minutes, you really should get going

>>31382501
I would say the New Guinea campaign during WW2.

Mountains, jungle, hostile cannibals and all done with 1940's tech.

>>31382501
Afghanistan is bad, but the jungles in Vietnam was probably worse

>>31384682
>Not much drinkable water due to a boneheaded logistics scheme involving converted oil drums that--surprise, surprise--failed to work
>The Japs have also poisoned most of the wells and springs on the island

>>31382501
Kiska islands? most soldiers died of exposure

I don't know, wet humid and hot jungle where you can't see much sounds worse.

asia/africa/italy?

>>31382884
And the average soldier being at 80k, in a war that's cost trillions. Throwing money at the problem may as well be US doctrine at this point. No they won't do it every time, but they had fun in Vietnam

>>31382501
What is Vietnam for $500 Alex?

WW2 Asian theatre

It's like a fucking video game
>frozen Alaskan islands
>glorified sandbar level
>solid rock level
>volcanic ash level
>urban Philippines level
>literally 'Nam teaser with Burma
Wasn't a single nice place in the entire war with Japan.

>>31382501
don't forget the giants they have to fight

>>31382501
Pretty sure jungle sucks way more

>>31382501
Nam was pretty awful, but a different kind of awful. Being soaked for days at a time is literally torture.

>>31382508
No wonder my grandfather and uncle were never the same afterwards.

How does Korea get mentioned only once!?

You're insane if you think Vietnam or Afghanistan was the worst environment the U.S. has fought in.

I mean fuck, just look at the Chosin Resivoir.

>cold
>really fucking cold
>like bodies freezing to the ground cold
>wet
>mountain top fighting
>only routes out are through valleys that are pretty much gauntlets of Chinese fire
>terrain so shitty, both sides said "fuck it, it ain't worth it"

>>31388256
>cold
>wet
Wut

>>31388316
Have you seriously never been outdoors

>>31388316
Snow, numbnuts.

>>31382743
Are you retarded son?

Maybe not invafe countries that are thousands of millions of kilometers away from your borders? You know nothing of the country and you invade it like a bunch of retards. Just like the Russians invading there, these vodka drinkers were destroyed by a bunch of dirt farmers.

yes you stupid fuck, we lost to russian winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_Siberia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition

>>31384663
YFW people born after 9-11 will be able to enlist in 2 years.

>>31382501
That fucking gear horse up front.

"Fine fuck you guys I'll carry all the shit"