You know I didn't even join the discussion before, but I will now. How can you not say its welfare? Why do you think the military is the last option for fuckups? They get a job, housing and food. Now i'm not saying everyone who joins is a fuck up. However, there are a lot of morons who realize its their last shot. I have a friend of a friend who has been in there and he has been promoted a few times. This guy is a complete moron. He can't spell he can't do math. No common sense either. No critical thinking. I mean Hedgy could probably run circles around this guy. And he has been promoted a few times.
I know some of you are going to get all pissy, but it is a form of welfare. No doubt about it. That doesn't mean they aren't making a huge sacrifice. That doesn't mean I don't respect most of them for willing to sacrifice their lifes. However, for some of them its their last chance. I think people are idiots for joining these days, but if thats what they want to do thats their choice.
wrong again...
""U.S. military service disproportionately attracts enlisted personnel and officerswho do not come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Previous Her*itage Foundation research demonstrated that the quality of enlisted troops has increased since the start of the Iraq war. This report demon*strates that the same is true of the officer corps.
Members of the all-volunteer military are sig*nificantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods. Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 per*cent came from the wealthiest quintile. These trends are even more pronounced in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) pro*gram, in which 40 percent of enrollees come from the wealthiest neighborhoods-a number that has increased substantially over the past four years.
American soldiers are more educated than their peers. A little more than 1 percent of enlisted per*sonnel lack a high school degree, compared to 21 percent of men 18-24 years old, and 95 percent of officer accessions have at least a bachelor's degree.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service. Enlisted troops are somewhat more likely to be white or black than their non-military peers. Whites are proportionately represented in the officer corps, and blacks are overrepresented, but their rate of overrepresentation has declined each year from 2004 to 2007. New recruits are also disproportionately likely to come from the South, which is in line with the history of South*ern military tradition.
The facts do not support the belief that many American soldiers volunteer because society offers them few other opportunities. The average enlisted person or officer could have had lucrative career opportunities in the private sector.
Those who argue that American soldiers risk their lives because they have no other opportunities belittle the personal sacrifices of those who serve out of love for their country""
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Re...-Demographics-of-Enlisted-Troops-and-Officers
that`s the object of your argument,isn`t it?...belittling those that actually serve...
we are after all,the most heinous terrorist nation on earth...
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