Need to complain

[Alawen Everywhere]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

I hate to say it, but this is specific to America. Many first world countries have mandatory government service, whether civil or military, for all young people. With a strictly volunteer military, it's no surprise that the American military attracts a lot of young people with troubled or violent pasts or very poor economic backgrounds. It's also no surprise that some of them then go on to commit atrocities in other countries.

I think this is a systemic flaw which the OP attempted to correct on an individual level. I respect him for his attempt to do the right thing, but the ridicule for his idealism is not much of a surprise.