71% of 17-24 years olds are ineligible to join U.S. Military

[CopiousX]

A black man ….

I Disagree. It adds structure to young men lacking father figures or household wealth.


Do your 18yrs of service and you leave with free college for you or your offspring, free healthcare for life, a 0% homeloan(on a half paid off home due to bah-pay) , and a pension. And all At the ripe age of 38; while your civilian peers often must wait until their mid 60s to achieve the same thing.

 

[42 Monks]

if people are lining up to join the military, that usually means times are bad across the board - not that military life is better or worse than normal

 

[Voice of Reason]

I Disagree. It adds structure to young men lacking father figures or household wealth.


Do your 18yrs of service and you leave with fre college for you or your offspring, free healthcare for life, and a pension. At the ripe age of 38; while your civilian peers often must wait until their mid 60s to achieve the same thing.

Plus in a white supremacist country we need Black people with military tactical training.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Smart kids, unfortunately this will create some super soldier run dystopia

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

i don’t blame em

I’m not cutting my locs off for nothing

 

[Koba St]

Why do you sound disappointed?

 

[CrushedGroove]

I used to frown upon it until I joined. Taught me discipline, transferrable skills, organization of priorities, provided a built-in network for after service, national and state benefits for myself and my family whether I'm dead or alive, and other things that I'm still learning about.

I ain't saying it's for everyone, but I know a lot of folks I grew up with kicking themselves. After a year of being in, I reached out to everyone I know and told them to join if they weren't doing anything. Most of them still ain't doing anything. We all human and got our own paths, but I can assure you they'd rather be on my path than the one they've been on the last 20 years.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Gotta be brief, no orders from a chief
Hot butter on what, say what, the popcorn…

-Tribe

 

[42 Monks]

I Disagree. It adds structure to young men lacking father figures or household wealth.


Do your 18yrs of service and you leave with free college for you or your offspring, free healthcare for life, a 0% homeloan(on a half paid off home due to bah-pay) , and a pension. And all At the ripe age of 38; while your civilian peers often must wait until their mid 60s to achieve the same thing.

crazy thing is, you don't even need to do a full *single* contract to get most of that either lol....

but sure - when you can let some misinformed talking point from a movie that came out in 1991 influenced by situations built in the 70s shape your perspectives in 2022, you gotta do it

 

[Drakes2ndCousin]

This is good news. Why is thecoli mad about this? Less people are interested in imperialism y’all should be celebrating

 

[Marc Spector]

I’ve been in a while and will be in a lot longer. I’ve enjoyed my time and made way more money than I ever would’ve expected


But knowing what I know now about my career field (IT), I would’ve NEVER joined

 

[gho3st]

Draft will eventually come. Either that or they need to increase the benefits/salary.

 

[R=G]

Insta era...they don't like working..of course they ain't joining the military.

 

[xiceman191]

crazy thing is, you don't even need to do a full *single* contract to get most of that either lol....

but sure - when you can let some misinformed talking point from a movie that came out in 1991 influenced by situations built in the 70s shape your perspectives in 2022, you gotta do it

All you really got do is a good year and not get a dishonorable discharge and you get school and va loan benefits.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

75% of Americans that age are unfit for military service.

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