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What exactly would that look like from the position of an individual low rank unit? What would $32k of risk look like on a foreign battle field? I'm strugglin
by themafia 6mo ago
What exactly would that look like from the position of an individual low rank unit? What would $32k of risk look like on a foreign battle field? I'm struggling to understand this prerogative.
What would be far larger source of risk is if they bet _against_ the operation and then personally sabotaged it. That's far more understandable but it's not what happened here.
It apparently and sadly needs to be said on Hacker News, I'm not defending him, and he should be punished, but I genuinely can't apprehend the risk assessment logic here.
- HDThoreaun 6mo agoEasy to think of a scenario where he should stand down but instead continues with the mission, risking the lives of his team mates, or maybe civilians.
- mizzao 6mo agoHe's a master sergeant, once of the highest enlisted ranks, involved in planning the mission. Not low rank at all.
- pempem 6mo agoHe's low enough that he felt he must go along with kidnapping the leader of a foreign country
- throwaway85825 6mo agoA lot of people were involved with the mission that were not themselves directly endangered but could still stand to profit.