The covid refusal also became a scam. If you refused then you couldnt be deployed. But it tool months to kick people out. So people who didnt want to deploy would refuse and then agree to get the shot at the last minute. So it kept them home for up to six months while thier buddies went overseas..

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jemmyw 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The US has a volunteer army, if you don't want to do army things why be there in the first place?

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vitally3643 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Young people want the benefits like the promised free college, but don't want to get sent off to die for a cause nobody believes in and nobody approved.

	▲	krapp a day ago \| parent [-]
		Add this to the list of reasons the US will never have nationalized free education or even student loan reform.

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JeremyNT a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

More accurate to call it a mercenary army. These people presumably collected paychecks and benefits the whole time.

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sandworm101 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Volunteer, but only on the way in. And new recruits are very young. Things in thier lives change. They grow up a bit and often want out, but cant get out. Being stuck in a multi-year term of service doesnt feel like a volunteer army to them.

	▲	red-iron-pine a day ago \| parent [-]
		yeah this be the answer. easy to volunteer when you're a hoodrat or hillbilly and it's the only way out of your situation. but that's just the way in. Problem is you're on the hook for 4+ years and you can't just quit. I've definitely had white collar jobs I got to, realized it was fuckin miserable, and noped out in < 2 years. Cuz, like, I can just quit. you end up in a shitty unit with a shitty boss, you get to eat shit for ~4 years, and will go to jail if you fuckup or disappear. put another way, there is some statistic like 25% of military recruits who get kicked out get kicked out in the first year; it wasn't what they thought it'd be

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secretsatan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Economics

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