lets join the military!

i never said there was nothing wrong with it... i personally wouldn't joinn because i like the freedome that I have... trust me I appreciate the people who serve to keep the freedom that i have. I could never do it.

 

very true, my father served 31 years in the air force. i am as liberal as they come however, i always support our troops. a lot of people forget we have the freedoms that we do because of our military.

that is why i am so grateful for the young men and womyn who in my opinion, make the ultimate concessions for us. i considered the military as a youth but in retrospect i know it would not have been appropriate for me.

 

are you saying as in your freedom while you are joined?

My other nephew, (the one I sometimes refer to as the "bad one") joined the marines made it through boot camp was almost finished with SOI school and bailed out. To make a long story short, he was discharged with an "other than".

his main problem was that he was tired of people telling him when to sleep, how to sleep etc., and the fact that he wasnt able to go and come as he liked. He felt he lost his freedom.

 

I wasn't trying to come down on you earlier, sorry if I sounded like I was. Actually I would rather run off to Canada then join the military.

 

one of the big reasons why i am not joining...even at military college i got fed up with a lot of it by my 2nd year there. i'm so glad i didn't sign those papers

and i don't fully agree with the soldiers giving us the freedom statement - theres 'some' truth to it, but i really hate blanket statements like that.

 

...and we would answer "Not because our young people have been signing up to be the jackbooted thugs of a fascist regime"
Or the more simple:
"No amount of dead children in Iraq makes me more free. In fact, I'm less free now than I was ten years ago."

 

i didn't join up because i can be a really evil fucking nightmare of a bitch if i allow it. killing people is something that i have nightmares about enjoying. therefore i try to be a pacifist. some roads should not be taken.

 

USA Today
1 in 4 War Vets troubled

Almost 1,700 servicemembers returning from the war this year said they harbored thoughts of hurting themselves or that they would be better off dead. More than 250 said they had such thoughts "a lot." Nearly 20,000 reported nightmares or unwanted war recollections; more than 3,700 said they had concerns that they might "hurt or lose control" with someone else.
These survey results, which have not been publicly released, were provided to USA TODAY by the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. They offer a window on the war and how the ongoing insurgency has added to the strain on troops.

Overall, since the war began, about 28% of Iraq veterans — about 50,000 servicemembers this year alone — returned with problems ranging from lingering battle wounds to toothaches, from suicidal thoughts to strained marriages. The figure dwarfs the Pentagon's official Iraq casualty count: 1,971 U.S. troops dead and 15,220 wounded as of Tuesday.



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