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Originally Posted by soot
I'm assuming that you've served this country and what you've said here was common talk in the barracks and on deployment. You and the guys in your Platoon sat around cleaning weapons and complained about how you wouldn't be wearing the pickle suit if there were more decent job opportunities in the civilian sector.
Am I correct?
Because for you to make these statements based on assumptions or on an article you read in Time magazine would be about retarded.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm sure that something like 0.5% of enlistees do so because of the job opportunity the military offers, and those that do usually enlist in an MOS that keeps them about as far from the fighting as someone can be in a war zone (which still isn't 100% safe, but it's not like they're kicking doors either).
But your sweeping generalization is about as knuckle-headed as the rest of your rant.
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That's quite an assumption. That an 18-year old with a gimme GED, no desire or ability to pursue higher education and facing the choices of stocking shelves at Wal-Mart, picking lettuce or the chock full of benefits and higher pay military as a career path might have the intellectual capability to recognize and discuss motivational differences between self-interest determination and societal manipulation was my first real laugh of the morning.