Yknow a piece of me is glad the military is recruiting less, but the reasoning is terrible.
Yeah, I realized after I posted that anything presenting the US military as a thing whose interests and priorities need to be considered is not exactly going to be consensus on Lemmy. 🫤
Specifically speaking as a working caste rust belt captive, you are correct, harbor nothing but venom and contempt for the junta and its false promises. Being ignored by junta recruiters is a blessing.
Almost everyone I know who was at one point involved in the US military, came out it with a lot of resentment for the US military and bitterness towards the system in general. Maybe there is some self-selection bias there, and maybe my generation going to Iraq and Afghanistan makes a big difference, but that’s what I observed.
A buddy of mine when he was much younger actually was really thinking about signing up, and he spent half an afternoon or so talking with a recruiter, and the recruiter and his colleague both clearly had massive issues both with the military and with their own lives, and he came out of it with the firm conclusion “Jesus Christ I’m glad I didn’t do that.”
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.
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?
The decision to abandon the Black engineering event marks a significant shift in military recruiting strategy – and sparked calls of discrimination.
“It’s f—ing racist,” one active-duty Army general told Military.com
Holy shit, man.
This is why I am glad it is Trump and Musk leading the coup, and not some smarter people.
These competent military officials better fucking act soon