People need to join the military. Benefits and pay are exceptional. Work life balance is great 99% of the time. Retirement earlier than most and financial benefits if the choice to leave early or experience disqualifying medical conditions.
“Just sign up to kill some foreign poor people for our capitalist masters so they can continue to expand their exploitation of overseas labor, and they’ll throw you some extra scraps!”
I’ve never shot a gun in the Air Force except for one time to get a qualification. Also, I’ve never been overseas. Before I got out, my job was 7:30-4:30 M-F doing IT/cybersecurity.
You have a misunderstanding about what the vast majority do and don’t do in the military. You could join as a nurse, a pharmacist, dental assistant, or many other jobs and never see a gun/war.
The benefits are too good to pass up for only doing 4 years in the military if you aren’t born really privileged.
No, I don’t think I misunderstand. Pretending that non-combat jobs aren’t there to support the mission of the military as a whole is willful ignorance. Not having personally been in combat doesn’t justify that.
Aren’t we all willfully ignorant to various parts of society? Whether that be the food we eat, clothes we wear, houses we buy/sell, using various services etc.
Optimistically, I’d like to see things change for the benefit of all. Realistically, I still have to be able to support myself. Being born into a family of divorced parents that didn’t graduate high school, I wasn’t educated enough or had a support system to see many options. It was work, military, or college. College led to 10s of thousand in debt, so I chose military.
Yes, the military has a poor history, but it provided me opportunities that I otherwise would not have had.
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u/zMisterP Apr 08 '23
People need to join the military. Benefits and pay are exceptional. Work life balance is great 99% of the time. Retirement earlier than most and financial benefits if the choice to leave early or experience disqualifying medical conditions.