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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Why not?
The military can be an entry level job and a way to fund a college education after enlistment.
The military is a bootstrap up for a lot of HS grads whose parent(s) can't manage financially to send them to college. We should have paid continuing education in the US -- we don't now. I would prefer that new enlistments be after their 14th year of some schooling (community college or trade school).
The military can offer some technical training and more importantly -- self discipline. People with self discipline achieve more in life.
A lot of countries have mandatory military or government service (as an alternative) for all youth for 2 or 3 years.
Do you object to girls that are 18 being in porn -- what is the difference really? Being "damaged goods" in society or maimed or killed?
Free World ...
Young men have the stamina for combat -- can you force march 30km that well when your are over 40  |
Lol, discipline. Not in the dutch army. When i had to go there 12 months it was only playing monoply, cards or Risk, drink and smoke weed and party. Every night everybody was drunk. No respect for the colonals, corporals, sergeants and so on. They where seen as losers, risking their lives from some euro's cause they couldn't succeed in normal life. I wouldn't want my children go in the army, if i had them, getting shot for some political lies. My brother was not smart not listening to me when he went an volunteered for Bosnia. He regret that the rest of his life. I told him, only losers with people who can't think themselves. Sent by some politicians who thought it would be a peace keeping missions and didn't support them when it went wrong.
