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Isn't everyone (in general) just getting fat and unhealthier? Of course they'd losen their standards.
by aio2 3y ago
Isn't everyone (in general) just getting fat and unhealthier?
Of course they'd losen their standards.
- version_five 3y agoI think it's more that they have trouble attracting people. Banking and consulting have no trouble finding fit people.
- htrp 3y agoYou start fit.... and then you start getting promoted.
- rsynnott 3y ago> Banking and consulting have no trouble finding fit people. ... I'm not sure _banking_ has particularly rigorous fitness requirements.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoLarge swaths of jobs also have an unspoken requirement of looking good. Notice how most FAANG engineers are fit? Notice how you don't see fat bankers often? Pretty privilege
- frozenlettuce 3y agoRecruinting in general is getting harder https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149855912/the-navy-has-raised-its-age-limit-as-the-u-s-military-faces-a-deep-recruiting-sl https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149855912/the-navy-has-raise... My guess is that in a few years there will be a foreign legion in the French model (serve some years, gain citizenship)
- the_only_law 3y agoIsn’t there already some sort of path to citizenship via military service? I suppose that you’d probably have to at least be a resident though.
- duxup 3y agoYes there is: https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita... It's not exactly a foreign legion style thing but you can become a citizen via military service.
- Eumenes 3y agoRome also utilized mercenaries during its downfall
- Ericson2314 3y agoForeign legion is not the same. Arguably the Roman army always had foreigners, and it failed when it stopped trying to assimilate them and just treated them as mercenaries.
- janzer 3y agoNot sure what your exactly looking for this to be, but you can already become eligible for citizenship via military service. https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...
- mardifoufs 3y agoCan you do that from another country? Or do you have to be a resident first?
- johncessna 3y agoThere is already a path to citizenship by serving in the US Military.
- frozenlettuce 3y agothere is, but you need to be a resident already (what I mean is the program being opened to people around the globe)
- alistairSH 3y ago20+ years of non-stop war will do that. Every 18 year old thinking about service has known nothing but war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a handful of other place, most of which were abandoned and not won. For those with parents who serve, they saw extended and repeated wartime deployments. Contrast that with my generation (late GenX). The single "big" war growing up was the first Iraq War. It was relatively popular and we "won" the war... the follow-on was no-fly enforcement, but minimal boots on the ground. And we grew up with parents deployed on a regular schedule to Germany or Korea, usually relatively comfortable places.
- codalan 3y agoI'm guessing private mercenary/security companies will become more common in the future, e.g. Blackwater