• ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org
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    12 days ago

    We’re roughly the same age then, about 1/2 of my friends served, who got snatched up entirely broke down to economics.

    Whoa, your friend got lucky! Even disillusioned recruiters tend to fall into the “don’t talk to cultists because they stand to earnestly sell you the lies that convinced them” column of troublemakers in my experience. All of my friends left the military disabled, some worse than others. Most of them were injured by friendlies, the rest were indirect IED hits on transports.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      12 days ago

      Yeah. No one I know got messed up bad, but some were clearly psychologically damaged. And some people they knew from before got real messed up. Like real bad. And for what?