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You clearly have never experienced the dark underbelly of the sign spinning subculture.

In the military you are 4 times more likely to die from suicide than you are from being killed in combat.

The greatest threat to US military personnel is the US military.

35k is also shit pay.

and you aren’t going to get PTSD from spinning a sign.

Unless you get hit by a car.

Still safer than the military though.

You won't get PTSD from spinning a sign, but most of the sign spinners I've known have been homeless, and you will get PTSD from being homeless. The cops alone cause all cities and towns to be hostile to your very existance

Fucking spectacular

Thats actually hilarious. Good on you.

Maybe your teacher brought the recruiter in to make you realize exactly that 'n stuff.

I'm pretty certain that I made an entire recruitment office hate each other for a day. Walked into the Navy office and they had me take a "mini-asvab" Literally 5 minutes later, I called out "I think I'm done!" they replied "no you aren't." One of them came in and looked at my screen and said, "Um... Guys... He's done." They told me to go talk to the other branches first to make sure that I didn't really want to be "Air Force, or something," and finally got my signup bonus, since I knew I wanted to be Navy Nuke. I wanted a good paying rate.

When I got sent to MEPS I was told that I was the highest testing applicant from that particular MEPS station since WWII. I probably should have taken that as a warning sign.

A few of the guys I game with were sign spinners at some point, and they're all extremely anti military for that reason. One of them is technically homeless and has spent a few years without a roof, and wouldn't join the military if his life depended on it.

To be fair, for at least the first couple years, your cost-of-living expenses are also essentially zero if you're single, since you'll be staying in the barracks and eating in the mess hall without having to pay anything out of pocket. So that $35k stretches a lot further than it would outside the military.

The 35k reads to me like an enlistment bonus not a base wage. You can google base wages for the US military if your actually interested. That said if we're talking the US military there isn't a chance in hell that it's a 40 hour work week. He'd be lucky for a 60 hour work week and 80 is pretty standard if your leadership sucks. I had a cot in my office I used multiple nights a week when working for a particularly dickish commander once.

There are plenty of terrible things about the military, stupid long hours, highly toxic work environment, alcohol abuse is encouraged, rape culture is accepted, etc. But the pay isn't all that bad when you add everything up (base pay, tax breaks, housing allowance, on post child care discounts, uniform allowance, free health care, dependants, re-enlistment bonuses, etc). The per hour rate isn't good but I've also never gotten the equivalent time off in PTO that I got in leave either.

There also isn't a wage gap for minorities, there's a ton of other bigotry, but no wage gap.

Assuming you work for 40 hours.

Dunno how it works in Murica, but here in Britain you serve your duty from 00:01 to 23:59

So the equivalent of about $4 per hour...

To be fair, people will also say "thank you for your service" n 'stuff

No. We don't want conscripted soldiers. We have proven that a volunteer military will stomp a conscripted military into the dirt. See Wagner VS US in Syria ç 2017-2018

The US military has more than enough people signing up willingly. The only way conscription would ever possibly get restarted is if the US was in a conflict where hundreds of thousands of soldiers were being lost. I honestly don’t even think it would be necessary then either, because the US is a giant war cult, so people would be lining up left and right to “serve their country.”

If I had to join a service (and I'm just plain too old at this point, anyway), it'd probably be the Coast Guard. Their primary mission is saving lives. One issue is that they're also an arm in the War on Drugs, and that's where shooting might actually come into play. Other issue is how they handle refugees. That said, you can still feel better about their work than the regular military.

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Of course people dont want to go to the trenches with a rifle and helmet, they would get mud all over their duck costume

Hey, now. That isn't completely accurate. You can also get PTSD!