chapotraphouse

Kids today don't want to throw their lives away for naked resource grabs and then come back broken and traumatized and be thrown in the garbage by their own government anymore smh

Service guarantees citizenship

oh no not my national defenserino

Not enough rubes are signing up to die for this decaying empire. What to do? I know! Let's make life even more untenable and miserable. Surely they will then want to defend the homeland!

I guess the promise of all the brown people they can rape and kill can only carry recruitment efforts so far.

Promises of a salary like Kate Monroes to puke out articles like this are deepening (sic) one of the more powerful incentives for military service

: "If people are actually able to choose their careers, how will I get to choose people's careers for them?"

: "That's the neat part, you don't!"

We have a bloody doctor shortage, even a capitalist society should be outright begging people to train for positions in healthcare and therefore make education for it cheap.

Why isn't anyone's answer ever "maybe we should make it so the lived experience doesn't suck?"

If instead of doing imperial war, you were tasked with cleaning up the ocean. And in pursuit of cleaning the ocean, you work a 6 hour day 4 days a week. As a reward, a stipend of $20/hr and tuition is free. It'd go further to bringing peace to the world and it'd be hard to say no unless you were really gung ho about building a brand or something capitalist-y.

Well there's no such thing as a promise of free college for civilians in the US, so is she talking about free college for veterans?

promises of free college for all are only deepening one of the more powerful incentives for militray service

Wtf does "deepening" even mean in this context? Is she whining that veterans having free college is somehow hurting retention numbers, or is she saying just the very idea of free college out there in the political ether is hurting recruitment numbers?

wtf is this ghoul babbling about, was this written by a bot?

Maybe because their free college line is full of BULLSHIT. Your taining may or may not (more likely not) tranfer as credits. Oh you're not serving 10 years? No free college 4 U.

Ok maybe 2 years, but you'll have to jump through hoops every single month. Phone in to the mothership. Keep grades up. Proove every thing over and over and over and over and over again. Document ad nauseum everything. And everyone knows 2 year degrees mean jack shit so you're on your own for the rest - SUCKER!

Oh certain colleges only. Here's a list of schools who do the program (crap crap crap mehhh crap is going bankrupt or non existant in 4 years so their degree is worthless but you don't know that yet.)

Unless you're an officer getting recruited at a state college and then IF IF IF you're lucky or fancy enough to make the officer program and commit 10 years on top of the 4 years (and they will pay for the whole bachelor's....minus some important things but mostly) but you wouldn't be applying to fancy college if you weren't already in a situation where you can spend big bucks or a legacy / nepobaby.

My veteran benifets after 6 years was JACK SHIT. I mean here's 10% off Lowes. Oh boy! The VA? Oh hai our nearest location is 45 minutes away. We need you to register and someone will get back to you within a week if you're accepted DO NOT RE-APPLY if you don't hear from us. Ok lets see what thia application process thingy is - 3 hours and 10 website fuck ups and digging into papers over a decade old (I'm glad I'm a data hoarder). OKAYTHXBAI! 7 weeks later.....here's you're welcome package acknowleding your registrarion with the VA. No phone call. No preliminary appointment. Nothing.

Yeah and that's a taste of why people know veterans benifets are full of shit and the younger gen who had veteran parents go through this and hear it from their friends also know it's bullshit. That's on top of all the bullshit immoral crap our so called "defense" arm does being litterally The Empire we revolted against.

Will say this though - TRICARE - was ok. I would like to see a national program rolled out modeled after that. It was mostly for family members on base while you serve and get the "here's an aspirn STFU get back to work" care.

One of my favorite bits years ago when the sub (may have been the discord this is an ancient AF one) was still active was filling out the ASVAB and then trolling the happy recruiter who called, overjoyed there was someone who finally scored higher than 30, all I had to say was I was trans and the sucker just hung up. Tells me everything I already knew and then some.

Giving people freedom over what they choose to do?! But the free market needs more murdered foreigners!

Conservatives deflecting why people arent joining the military, as if people wanting free college is going to stop people who are trying to go to college, its laughable. That doesnt make any fucking sense beyond "people just want free!!! Troop good!!!"

The reasons why people are joining enough are: bloated unsustainable military footprint, modernization of medical systems that make it harder for people to lie about their history, state marijuana legalization and federal refusal to legalize it, the contradictions within a capitalist system that desperately wants a docile, cheap and stupid labor force but a military that needs people who can still read and carryout complex and sensitive tasks. That is on top of constant needless greedy unpopular wars and a populace that is highly distrustful of its government

Education should be free for everybody EXCEPT people who volunteer for NATO militaries.

GOP chuds are evil, but I do prefer their honesty over the euphemistic pablum of the dems.