I don't mean this as any offense to the military for the job they do, but you have to realize that enlisted man is (through out modern history in most countries) a grunt, borderline criminal, uneducated, mailable piece of human existence.
Who do you expect to volunteer to risk their life for less pay than perfectly safe civilian jobs? This isn't a knock for the men and women who answer the call, it's the reality of the nature of our military and its true (unimagined) place in our social strata.
The military is a place in our society where the those on the very bottom have a chance to raise themselves up a few notches out of the gutter...or not.
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