You can’t be serious. They are flirting with nuclear war, that certainly isn’t winnable. Since when has America avoided wars it can’t win? Not in my lifetime.
The Army’s Looking for a Few Good Soldiers—With Neck Tattoos
In this day and age, the Army was excluding people with tattoos?!
I literally don’t know a single gen Zer without extensive tattoo work. Just yesterday I was at the barber shop, and ever single one of those dudes was inked on the neck, behind the ear, etc.
I don’t get it, they are permanent, my taste in art evolves, shudder to think of what I would think of a tattoo I would have thought was a good idea when I was twenty. Would probably have involved beer and boobs. Then laser surgery.
Back in the day some of my friends joined and stayed long enough to get the benefits like a paid for education and guaranteed mortgage. The article mentions the low unemployment rate but does not say anything about the benefits gained by joining up. Are the benefits not worth it anymore?
And another thing that I don’t understand is that we are no longer in a shooting theater which to me would make a military option more attractive.
75% of US youth are ineligible because of obesity, lack of education, and other problems. Closing schools and forced lockdowns mean that the land of the free and the home of the brave has become land of the ignorant and the home of the couch potatoes.
I suspect that talk about sending NATO troops to fight in Ukraine is not helping either.
Quite a change from when I was young. I had a buddy who figured his lottery number was going to get pulled for Nam (it wasn’t). So he joined the Navy figuring it was his best chance of survival. And back then it was a pretty good service to be in. His only problem is that he did a hooker in Subic Bay, caught the clap and they ran out of penicillin on the ship. Other then that, he had it pretty good.
I have a friend who is a Lawyer. He is also a JAG in the Army Reserve. He recently was sent to Kuwait. When he cam back he told me that all of the cases he was given was for sexual harassment. He said that it was totally different from any previous deployment he had gone through. He was at a loss to explain the explosion in those cases.