It the concern is killing somebody, then go into the majority of occupational specialties that don’t involve that. Become a corpsman, medic, etc. As regards hunting & camping as a substitute for military training, that is absurd. The Croats who fought the Serbs had military training; the Finns who defended their freedom did so with military training. The BSA’s pioneering merit badge won’t cut it. Again, the bottom line is that the country needs young men to serve in uniform. If you take a pass, take a pass; don’t get sensitive when somebody points out you took a pass while the McCain and Hunter sons were on the front lines. Some families serve; others sit on their ass and watch.
“If you take a pass, take a pass; don’t get sensitive when somebody points out you took a pass while the McCain and Hunter sons were on the front lines. Some families serve; others sit on their ass and watch.”
I’ll go a step further; I’m feeding, clothing, housing, and schooling the McCain and Hunter’s sons. I’m paying their fathers’ salaries as well. The money is gone; workfare is finished. Nobody in uniform today has done anything to protect me; they are serving others’ interests. If the military was securing our country instead of empire-building overseas, I might consider your points valid; as long as the Tsarnev brothers (despite warnings from Russia) can kill people here then don’t pretend those in Afghanistan are “fighting terrorism”.
The enemies that defeated us in Lebanon, Somalia and Iraq(and are defeating us in Afghanistan now) are doing it without formal military training.