[PeterPrinciple]

I know several young men (all private school educated, high school athletes, good kids from good families) who have been turned off from military service because of this.

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So where else to you go that isn’t woke? Military is still best relative to everything else.

The comparison is not to what is used to be but to everything else currently.

[pinkandgreenmom]

Various trades. That is where they seem to be headed (my son included).

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Speaking as a Marine Corps combat vet, the military exerts more control/influence over your life, and over the installation of values, than does just about any other career path. That's fantastic if they are training youmg people in traditional American values, but a disaster if they are training them in wokeness.

Civilian government service may be just as bad or worse, but a good bit of the private sector just goes about its business without mandatory wokeness.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

The comparison is not to what is used to be but to everything else currently.
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That may be true in the faculty lounges but on the street the comparison that matters is how America’s PC-addicted military compares to the kind of fighting forces that will be needed to win the coming wars with our country’s enemies.