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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
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."
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Indeed. Most people over here find this habit and the relative aggressiveness by which it is pushed at schools (and schools even demanded to give the military postal adresses of their students, I think) nothing else but despicable. I saw them repeatedly in TV docus that they even approached 12 year old kids on public events like fairgrounds, attracting them and starting their interest with entertaining game desks where they could shoot at something or crawl around in tanks or such. And of course it is meant to get interst for the military becoming anchored in their minds as early as possible.
If this is needed to cover the personnell needs of the armed forces, then I think mandatory conscription for both sexes and of a sufficiently long time would be the far more honest and less underhanded way to go.
Being a soldier or memeber of the armed forces is njust not just like any other job, even if end up in a calm office at a desk. You are still enagged in issues of war. And that is what makes all military jobs not just jobs. Either you feel called for living a warrior'S life, or you don't. In cas eof the first - do it then, but do not have any romantic illusions. In case of the latter insist on your right to not be tried to be lured into service. And stop brainwashing kids.