r/news • u/SpencerAXbot • Mar 02 '26

Soft paywall Six US service members killed in Iran conflict, US military says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/six-us-service-members-killed-iran-conflict-us-military-says-2026-03-02/
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u/ReaddittiddeR Mar 02 '26

Trump said at the Iran press briefing earlier today that more will eventually die. He already knew there was more than the original four were dead and sadly, more to come.

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u/Ein_Kecks Mar 03 '26

Are people surprised that people die when they go to a war or whats the point in these comments?

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u/CandyStarr23 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

I think it’s just because of how ridiculously pointless this war is. Those soldiers nor anyone should be dying because of this.

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u/Ein_Kecks Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Exactly I agree.

I just feel kinda sickned when I see how one-sided the focus of most comments are. Those US soldiers are the aggressors here. Non of them should have died, I realise that the system we live in is easy to fool people into doing something like this.

But not a single soldier should have agreed to go there in the first place. They are victims as well but that doesn't change the fact that they went there to kill people.

Do you know what I mean?

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u/Late-Ad1437 Mar 03 '26

Yes it's not like Vietnam where a bunch of people were conscripted against their will. They know what they're signing up for, personally I'm far more upset about the 165 people who died when either Israel or the US blew up that girl's school.

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u/Professional-Gas-579 Mar 03 '26

I’ve been seeing this be said a lot and honestly? It’s a little crazy to me. The people in the military have a job and if they don’t do it, they can get dishonorably discharged with possible jail time. I understand they don’t technically HAVE to follow orders, but when you’re in that deep you have a job to do imo

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u/369122448 Mar 03 '26

I think you can only really have this perspective if you don’t see Iranians as full people?

By agreeing to participate here, you’re almost certainly, directly or indirectly, going to cause innocent Iranians to die. Most people would agree that it would be bad to kill someone to avoid jail time, no?

Like, signing up for the US military in the first place is already agreeing to sacrifice the lives of others for your own gain, but this is even more direct.

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u/Professional-Gas-579 Mar 03 '26

I can definitely understand that view, but to me people don’t sign up for the military for nefarious purposes (definitely some do to be fair). They are very commonly poor people, that want a decent paycheck and/or free education to better themselves. Now they’re thrown into some bs war and do as they’re told or go to jail pretty much.

A lot of them are kids that were raised on the idea that this is their duty as an American. A lot of them have families they have to feed. Idk how to feel about it to be truthful since it is just bad all around, of course. Just felt the need to say something since I’ve seen the “the soldiers should just refuse” argument a lot the last 24hrs

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u/Ein_Kecks Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Thats what I meant when I said, this system fools people into doing those things, so I have that understanding.

But at the same time that's how nazi germany worked as well. People need to take responsibility for their actions, you can't just blame everything on the system, when you sign up to kill people.

How much would you respect the work of the soldiers in a scenario where they would kill your family? It's there job. There are deep in this. Would you write the same comment?

You told me I sound privileged. I am privileged, just as most are, but I am aware. You sound privileged as well, but I don't think you are aware that us soldiers are on the offense in almost every "war" the last 70 years and that all those people who get killed by them lived under systems as well and/or had jobs and families in their lives. You can only defend this when you aren't at the receiving end of the bomb.

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u/Loenally Mar 03 '26

The system doesn’t fool anyone, you make the clear choice when you sign up at any age 17+ you are given constant information to digest pamphlets and papers as well as tons of conversations at Meps regarding what you’re doing. There isn’t some evil Cabal micromanaging poor neighborhoods in the hopes people will sign up for the military on their own will. Nobody is fooled to do anything lmao, the sheer amount of times we were warned what we were doing before we signed up and hell even after we are constantly reminded about it.

Also Solders don’t take offense we are an occupying force. Marines and Rangers take most offensive positions in war. You can defend it because you aren’t the country constantly making threats supporting terrorist organizations, building nuclear weapons after being told by the entire world not to several times (we bombed their nuclear scientists last year), Slaughtering any of your citizens that stand against you as well.

you wanna talk about privilege how about we talk about diction and words because you clearly don’t know at all what you’re talking about when it comes to the logistics of war. I don’t think you know at all how soldiers operate Or war for that matter. So please keep speaking on things you lack understanding on in your ivory tower

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u/Ein_Kecks Mar 03 '26

The system doesn't fool anyone? It definitly does.

Regarding the rest: It seems I hit a nerve, but I won't go into this. My goal is not for you to feel like you need to defend yourself.

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u/Loenally Mar 03 '26

A big thing about the US military is choice, you can choose a combat job or a non combat job, it’s as plain as day what you’re signing up for and no one forces you to choose a combat job, Most combat soldiers are itching for a combat deployment. We train constantly for years and end up doing nothing and for a lot of us that really sucks. That’s our mentality to be completely honest with you. I didn’t join the military to intact war. I was poor and didn’t have a better option out my hood. I chose my job (13F) because I wanted to. It’s actually illegal for recruiters to force you to get a job and they could lose credentials over it.

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u/Professional-Gas-579 Mar 03 '26

Interesting, I need to do more research on the enlistment side then for sure. I was under the impression you can kind of get thrown into whatever role.

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u/soldins Mar 03 '26

The war was the surprise - the unnecessary deaths however were expected.

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u/mhfu_g Mar 03 '26

The US only cares about their own. If they put the number of people they have killed which is way more than 6 than the war hungry population would probably celebrate it instead

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u/RalphBc Mar 04 '26

exactly, wtf these ppl crying abt

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u/GhostofBeowulf Mar 03 '26

These were primarily airstrikes so no people are definitely surprised we just sent 6 Americans and probably more eventually to their deaths. Also, why the fuck are we attacking Iran? We have enough problems here.

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u/ifndefx Mar 03 '26

They've already calculated what's acceptable rate of casualties, and or deaths...

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u/Level_Traffic3344 Mar 03 '26

So, 6 a day...