Originally posted by BDBionic
I look back on the days when I first joined the service 10 years ago. And think about how young, naive, immature, inexperienced and unwise to the world I was.
Your whole post was very well said and SO on the mark! In reference to the quote above... how did you join? Were you recruited? On Farenheight 911 they follow some recruiters around and see how they goto the poor parts of town, find something someone is interested in ( like basketball ) and they say " Hey, you can play basketball on the army's basketball team and travel the world " So cynical. They also make the point that, of all our U.S. senators, only 1 has a child in the armed forces.

It's common knowledge that people join the forces for economic reasons, not, in most cases, for the reasons they would have joined 100 years ago. People now join the army so they can get an education and have steady employment, isn't that what our government is supposed to give us anyway? :wacko: