My tag line expresses my sentiments about this and all the other insanity going on these days.
I wasn’t a career man but I went straight from high school to Navy boot camp and served my hitch and am happy to say I received an honorable discharge. I would never be guilty of encouraging any young man now to join any branch of the military any more than I would encourage them to join the Outlaw motorcycle gang.
Our military is being corrupted and I don’t even like to think about what the purpose is for corrupting it.
Amen to that Rip. As I have posted here many times, when asked about joining the military, I tell every person, NO. Do not do it. If you MUST do it for whatever reason, select a military job that you can find a job on the outside using. Mechanic, medical, MP (for police work), etc. I tell them go in, get the training, do the 3 or 4 years and get the heck OUT! Do not stay for a career. They lied to me and mine for 20 years. All the promises they made are gone. They lied. Simple as that. Go figure, the US government lying to us! But, I tell them find a job outside unless you just have no other way to get training, but get out. They lied to me, they will lie to you and not keep one of the promises. If I had it to do over, I would have done the 3 and walked and never looked back. My mistake. I did it for my country. I did it for the Republic. And, yes, for what I was promised, IF I did what I was suppose to do, what I earned. That is now gone. Military retirees nowadays are getting screwed more and more each month, and year. More taken away, and massive costs piled on us. We were promised certain things for our service. The lying government now uses us as the cost reduction. The Pentagon scum are one of the main cutters. Civilians making six figured salaries and tons of bennies and cutting ours. I hope the earth opens up and swallows Washington, DC whole. No loss. We would be better to start off over again.