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Extremely low probability of any of those happening. Besides, military service changes you. It gives you perspective you will never get anywhere else.
by jki275 7y ago
Extremely low probability of any of those happening.
Besides, military service changes you. It gives you perspective you will never get anywhere else.
- mnm1 7y agoMaybe the percentage is low but it's still plenty high to be a deterrent and much, much higher than at any educational institution and most jobs. You bring up another excellent reason to avoid military service. I'm sure there are plenty more.
- standardUser 7y agoExtremely high probability compared to any other developed nation. The US fights foreign wars with alarming regularity, We are currently fighting several.
- jki275 7y agoThat’s because other developed nations barely have militaries. Of those who actually do and deploy and do the things we do the numbers are probably about the same - very low.
- btilly 7y agoI have 3 nephews who served in the military. 2 have PTSD, one severe. The one with severe PTSD also got to spend 6 months in a hospital after being shot out of the air in a conflict that we are theoretically not involved in. Given their other options, military service might have been a good thing. But the odds of PTSD or injury are much, much higher than I would like.
- jki275 7y agoI served in the military for twenty three years. My sample size is thousands of times yours. The odds are very low.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> The odds are very low. The odds are very high for post-9/11 veterans (and higher the more of their period of service is post-9/11 within that group), who are more likely to have been deployed and seen combat than veterans of earlier eras (both because of optempo and organizational changes that have increased the teeth to tail ratio of uniformed services as support functions have been moved to contracted support.) There are ample actual studies of this, we don't need to rely on the “sample size” of competing anecdotal reports.
- jki275 7y agoNo, they’re not. I retired last year. I deployed to Afghanistan multiple times. I’m literally someone who experienced the life you’re trying to tell me about. Your studies are mostly bullshit written to drive an agenda.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Your studies are mostly bullshit written to drive an agenda. It could be that that's true of of a variety of scientific studies from diverse sources with no reason to have common agenda, or it could be that that's just true of your unsubstantiated pseudonymous anecdotal ranting in an internet discussion board.
- jki275 7y agoCite the studies and I'll be glad to explain to you why they don't say what you believe they do, or why their methodology is laughably incorrect. Again, btdt. I don't need a think tank to write a paper to tell me how the military works.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThis discussion interested me enough to do some casual Googling. The US military's statistics from 2011 say that only 15% of service members are actually involved in combat roles; slightly over 1 in 7. See figure 2 and figure 4 here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Improving-the-DoD's-Tooth-to-Tail-Ratio.-Revision-Gansler-Lucyshyn/faa8140d24e8d909d3bf519146d5cf6b96369b8b https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Improving-the-DoD's-To.... And, of course, not every service member who is in a combat role gets PTSD or injuries. If you have current tooth-to-tail estimates, they'd be interesting to see.