Disclaimer:
Every so often, I will have one of those posts that sincerely offends many of my readers, and then just like that, they are gone. This is likely to be one of those posts. It’s not that I don’t want people reading my site, quite the contrary in fact, it’s just that sometimes there are just things that I feel the need to say, regardless of whether or not other people share my opinion. If I offend you, then I am sorry and that is never my intent. My intent is usually to make you laugh, occasionally to make you stop and stare, and sometimes, as in times like now, to make you think.
My problem with the American military:
Or at least the recruiters.
Anybody who has ever attended high school or college in America is very familiar with the army/navy/air force recruiters. These are very friendly people that seem to have a sincere interest in getting to know you, and a sincere interest in helping you out. They tell you all these wonderful things about the military, and how great it is for our country, of course in an attempt to get you to join.
This is all well and good, I don’t have anything for soldiers in the army, navy, or air force except tons and tons of respect and admiration. Likewise, I have no problems with recruiters attempting to bolster America’s ranks, because it has to be done somehow, you can’t win a war without an army. (You can’t start one either)
No, my issue is when they start jostling around some of the less patriotic rationales for joining the armed forces.
It makes you into a better person
I have never been in the military, nor do I have even the slightest plan on joining it. Is this supposed to mean I’m a bad person? They appear most eager to sell this concept as if the only way that you can “be all that you can be” is if you join. I feel that I am a fine young man. I am very fit, I am very smart, and I actually have outstanding leadership characteristics. I am outgoing. I make friends easily, and maintain a civil attitude toward almost every aspect of my life. The military didn’t do this to me, but when I come across a recruiter telling me I can better my life by volunteering it to get shot at I get apprehensive. If I respond back that I already have a very strong life ahead of me, they tell me that the army can make it better. This is truly outrageous in my opinion. Soldiers are truly valiant, outstanding American citizens (for the most part), but to say that I can achieve this title without placing myself in a position that I have no desire to be in does not in any way sound inviting, but instead more along the lines of threatening. If they feel they are going to defecate on my manliness, or my citizenship, or my strength of character, they can have another thing coming if they think I am going to put my life on the line so they can scour a bit of commission. I would lay my life on the line for my country, not my ability to stand a little straighter or have a distinguishable bumper sticker on the back of my car. I would lay my life on the line for freedom, not so that I wouldn’t be told that I wasn’t in good moral shape. I would lay my life on the line for all whom I love, not so that I could be more loved.
It is a career, and a path through school
This, I feel is even worse. They almost ruthlessly go after kids whom they feel struggled in school or seem to be financially in a state of difficulty, and this is most unfair. At the rate that I have seen them haggle fellow classmates or friends of mine, they seem to implant in the target’s head that the military is the only way that they can have a successful life. They take young adults that already seem to have a difficult time thinking for themselves and then go and try to make up their minds for them. I understand that there is a great need for soldiers in the military, and I’m not saying that soldiers who are volunteering should not be treated with dignity and respect and given good benefits, but to force them down people’s throats when they are just learning how to swallow seems impractical and inhumane. I wish the recruiters would advertise this more as a possibility instead of a solution. Besides, if you die, it doesn’t matter how much money you raised toward an entrepreneur grant or a scholarship. If you die, it doesn’t matter how much you had to pay to get through school. If you die, all that matters is what you died for, not all the fancy things along the way that were used to lure you into the service.
These are simple beefs of mine, and I’m not trying to convert anybody’s opinions about the armed forces. I am very proud of our men and women overseas and I am very proud of my country and its army. What I am very specifically not proud of is the tactics and propaganda used to recruit young men and women. It honestly makes me sad.

HOO-AH!
Until next time, good luck with life.








Okay, before I close, I think it’s letter-of-the-day time. As everybody knows, the first word in the English language that comes to your head when you think of ‘R’ is racemation. But the catch is… do any of you actually know what that means? The word actually refers to a bundle or cluster of something, most commonly used in reference to grapes. Don’t you feel enlightened?



Oh, and of course, letter of the day: Q
Also, 
starting to become a factor). Hernandez came to the realization that her life had been lived much too fast and That she needed a change of heart.
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