“I know guys who left who are nothing but scam artists, one is a big drug dealer who plied his trade whilst serving”
I saw something happen several times in criminal courts about 10 years ago that would interest you. Offenders who had ‘violent records’ who were turned away by the military because of those records. Other offenders who were welcome because of their ‘technical skills and trainability’ - were in fact a group of embezzling employees in one case, fraud in another, and identity theft and falsification of public documents in a third. They were literally smirking as they were sworn in in a warm and fuzzy ceremony to show how rehabilitated they were.
The violent offenders would have made better soldiers after some attitude adjustments from the DI. Far better than the little frauds.
agree.
In my unit, many of us were fighters, come from broken homes and we made the military our familiy.
We liked to fight,we liked to get stuck in , we enjoyed the good fight and when we were fighting the enemy we were fighting for each other.
Today we get people joining for the wrong reasons and we have PC destroying the military.