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Why people aren't joining the military?
« on: September 13, 2022, 07:26:39 am »
 
Why people aren't joining the military?
Leo Morris | Guest Columnist 18 hrs ago

   
After a year and a half of trying to balance full-time college with full-time work, I had had enough and quit Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

That made me eligible for the military draft, a true government-induced hardship, all you college-loan whiners. But I had a plan to thwart the draft board.

“You cannot have two years of my life,” I thought triumphantly as I headed for the recruiting office. “I will enlist for three years.”

Not too bright.

Do you see what I just did there? It’s called humble bragging, the art of seeming to make a self-deprecating remark while in reality extolling one’s own virtue.

https://www.greensburgdailynews.com/opinion/columns/why-people-arent-joining-the-military/article_71d5fcf2-32bb-11ed-bd7e-b3a9b586dff4.html
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Re: Why people aren't joining the military?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2022, 07:28:32 am »
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Why people aren't joining the military?
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2022, 09:37:46 am »
Your commander-in-chief.
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Re: Why people aren't joining the military?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2022, 11:22:16 am »
Conservatives and non socialist, non mentally ill sexual freaks aren't joining the military because when they have they were persecuted.
 

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Re: Why people aren't joining the military?
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2022, 11:54:03 am »
Golly Geez, and be cannon fodder for the most corrupt, inept, and incompetent POTUS administration in history?

I can't imagine why!!!   /s
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Re: Why people aren't joining the military?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2022, 01:57:39 pm »
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

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