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Originally Posted by Skybird
The military is not there to boost your later civil business chances or your political career, it is not there to provide you with some years of adventure or letting you see some shares of ther world, and it also has not the function to give you a job and an income where else you would be unemployed - all these things are only (unimportant) side-effects. The military is there to fight battles and wage wars, and to prepare for this by training in peacetime. This, and nothing else.
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Then it may be a good idea for the US armed forces to stop advertising military service as such. They've been telling it to America's youth for the better part of 60 years. "Be all that you can be. Get an edge on life in the Army."