(01-31-2018, 10:55 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(01-29-2018, 10:51 PM)TJBender Wrote: McDonald's recruiter: "Come work for us! We have lots of room for growth and upward mobility!"
Reality: Flipping burgers for $8/hr. until you get promoted to assistant manager and start flipping burgers for $9.50/hr.

Military recruiter: "Sign up! See the world! Great educational opportunities! Specialized training you can use when your two years are up!"
Reality: You're lying on the sand bleeding out through a gaping hole in your torso, and the last thing you hear is a band of ISIS fighters celebrating your death

The promises made by the recruiters aren't too different, really, and neither one is entirely honest, but one of those two recruiters knows that there are even odds your career ends with a bang, and the other one just wants a warm body working the microwave until Dollar General comes along to snap up those managerial skills for $9.60 an hour.

Anyone at this point who joins any branch outside of the Coast Guard who doesn't know the reality of what they're getting into does not need to be in uniform. Period. Unless you've been living under a rock the past 15 years you know exactly what enlisting means. 

It's like the idiots who were shocked they were having to deploy. Um, we are at war folks. It's a post-9/11 world. Don't be so stupid.

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(01-30-2018, 11:09 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I need to work on my sarcasm font. I was poking fun at the assertion of high schoolers who join the service automatically becoming bullet sponges. Surely TJ must know that those who go into combat made a clear decision to volunteer for combat arms specialties. Supply clerks, aircraft mechanics, and other support specialties don’t just somehow magically find themselves in foxholes.

No, but they do find themselves to be under fire more often than a lot of people realize.