Easy to say don't join the military when you have an income, education and skills and haven't been deliberately impoverished as slave labour in prisons or as canon fodder.
I’ve known several kids out of HS who went military because it was their best/only job available. They’re not heroes, they’re mercenaries. I worked 35yr refining oil. Saw much enemy fire. Coworkers got killed. Yet nobody who ‘served their country’ by refining oil is regarded as a national hero. Why not? I guess because we were in it voluntarily for the money. Same as every soldier or LEO.
Easy to say don't join the military when you have an income, education and skills and haven't been deliberately impoverished as slave labour in prisons or as canon fodder.
Are you willing to die for what you believe in? Rather than what someone else wants you to believe?
I meant some people just need a job to be able to eat.
Joining the military isn't "just a job." It's a moral choice, especially now.
I’ve known several kids out of HS who went military because it was their best/only job available. They’re not heroes, they’re mercenaries. I worked 35yr refining oil. Saw much enemy fire. Coworkers got killed. Yet nobody who ‘served their country’ by refining oil is regarded as a national hero. Why not? I guess because we were in it voluntarily for the money. Same as every soldier or LEO.
Easy to have the privelidge of making moral choices when you have options.