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Combat roles are a minority of military jobs and vast numbers of people live off base with a somewhat 9-5 job.
by harvey9 4y ago
Combat roles are a minority of military jobs and vast numbers of people live off base with a somewhat 9-5 job.
- lapcat 4y agoYou seem to be missing the point. The OP said people could save a lot of money by living on base. Thus, living off base is irrelevant with regard to the aforementioned purpose.
- harvey9 4y agoI should have been more specific. Even people on base may have 9-5 jobs and autonomy over how they spend time off the clock.
- iinnPP 4y agoSergeant: "Correct, there is no obligation. Unless, of course, war were declared." [Alarm goes off] Fry: "What's that?" Sergeant: "War were declared." Your solution for poor people is disgusting to say the least. It works for some, but that some is definitely not the remainder of those with bad limbs and/or a sick grandma.
- acdha 4y agoWhere I went to high school in the mid-90s, most of the kids who didn’t want to be farmers enlisted. They figured they’d mostly likely doing something like Bosnian peacekeeping. After 9/11, one of the guys I knew ended up getting sent to Afghanistan on short notice. Multiple vets I know had similar experiences: nobody says it shouldn’t be an option but they’re adamant that poor kids shouldn’t end up in the military because there’s no other way to pay for college.
- harvey9 4y agoEven Bosnia was not risk-free. But I agree with your point that people shouldn't have to join out of desperation.
- acdha 4y agoDefinitely not — I used that mostly because I think a lot of people really wanted to believe the post-Cold War future was going to be small-scale operations like that with limited hostilities and popular support. What came next was relatively predictable to anyone who'd studied history but a lot of 17 year olds weren't doing a deep-dive in their rush to get out of a depressing farm town.