>>Bill,
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>>In "all volunteer" do you include the fewer and fewer opportunities for h.s. graduates, accelerating since 1980?
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>>Do you include the "volunteers" that do so to get health insurance for a kid already on the way?
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>>Do you include the "volunteers" who are told (with subtle caveats, or sometimes not) by recruiters that they can pick the specialty and then get their education paid for after they get out?
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>>The volunteer army was created to keep the middle class quiet.
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>>That doesn't mean that there are not individuals there who are indeed there to serve their country. It is also true that boot camp and army life in general creates an environment where "belonging" becomes emotionally meaning: as any prolonged, isolated, stressful group experience creates in individuals, in fact.
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Hank
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>And.. there are guys like this...
>https://usmclife.com/stealing-hubcaps-led-lee-trevino-marine-corps/
Bill,
71 years ago today on 15 September 1950 American troops started the landing at Inchon, Korea. I'll bet that if you took a poll of South Koreans you would have almost 100% agreement by the Korean people that they are glad that guys from NJ and FL and 46 other states and the UK , France and Canada showed up when they needed help.