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Originally posted by Sistermadly
You're right when you say that most of the people in the military are a bunch of kids who need support while they're so far away from home. Many of these same kids are poor. They didn't have the benefit of university educations like the rest of us. For many of them, joining the military was the only way they could finance their future education. For those who don't plan to attend university, the military offers them the only job security that is available to them -- especially to those poor kids who live in cities where most of the high-paying labour jobs are being shipped out overseas, north to Canada or south to Mexico. Sure, a lot of people join the military for the glory and out of love for their country. But a whole lot of people also join because there's no other way out for them.
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Sorry, but I just do not buy this. Unless you are prepared to fight in a war and possibly be killed in that war, you
should not enter the military, no matter if they're paying for your school, car, home, whatever. I don't care how dire your situation is, there are other ways out.
One of the women I work with has a son who just entered the armed forces last spring and is being deployed. He doesn't want to go, she is upset and everyone is saying how terrible it is. GUESS WHAT? HE SIGNED UP!! If he became a doctor everyone wouldn't be commiserating because he has to stick his hands in someone's chest cavity.
We've become too complacent and too many people think the military is an easy way out. It's not. You roll your dice and take your chances, but if you can't live with the fact that at any minute you could be in combat, you should not enter the military. Period.