In World War II, a Marine on Guadalcanal radioed back his situation report: “Situation excellent. Send more Japs.”
In Korea, Chesty Puller was asked the same question at the Chosin Reservoir. His reply? “We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
In Vietnam, our black humor version was simple: “Send more gooks.”
So one day, as I was posting to a Vietnam veterans Facebook group I thought it might be a funny remembrance to post that sitrep. A few minutes later — bang. Post rejected. Message from the algorithm: you violated our community standards. Sentence: 30 days in Facebook jail.
🪖 The Irony of It All
Here’s what gets me: Facebook has no problem running ad after ad selling garbage — miracle weight-loss gummies, crypto pump-and-dumps, and “28-day AI get-rich challenges.” They’ll gladly take money from every hustler with a scam tonic to peddle.
But a Marine vet quoting history? Gone. Context doesn’t matter. Humor doesn’t matter. The bots don’t know the difference between gallows humor and hate speech — they just know ban hammer.
🎯 The New Front Line
It’s a strange world where the real sitrep is this:
Veterans get silenced.
Scammers get sponsored.
The biggest “community standard” is whether you’re paying Zuckerberg.
My post got 30 days in the brig. Meanwhile, the “Synthetic Intelligence” snake-oil salesmen buy ad space promising miracles in 28 days.
I can almost hear Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales spitting tobacco juice on the snake oil peddlers white coat and asking:
