the vast majority of the people I met while serving were in it for the education and housing benefits and had no intention of making a life out of service.
it says something about our society - you have to have a degree to get ahead (society tells us) and housing is neigh unreachable without some kind of assistance that comes at great cost.
for the critics / anti-war types, I’d just add that the military is a microcosm of the entire society - there’s decent, kind people, and also, there’s chuds, pogues and racists, it’s a distillation of everything you get in the real world, just cooked down into a smaller body.
the vast majority of the people I met while serving were in it for the education and housing benefits and had no intention of making a life out of service.
it says something about our society - you have to have a degree to get ahead (society tells us) and housing is neigh unreachable without some kind of assistance that comes at great cost.
for the critics / anti-war types, I’d just add that the military is a microcosm of the entire society - there’s decent, kind people, and also, there’s chuds, pogues and racists, it’s a distillation of everything you get in the real world, just cooked down into a smaller body.