{"id":22068,"date":"2011-02-03T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22068"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:53:23","slug":"more-idiot-hippie-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22068","title":{"rendered":"More idiot hippie crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

StrikeFO sent us a link to an article in his school’s paper, University of Tampa’s “The Minaret” (Seriously?). The article written by Camilla Chabet is entitled “Military Service Preys On Fragile Minds Of The Youth<\/a>“. Yes, it’s says what you think it says;<\/p>\n

Although military drafts were banned back in 1973, it is not hard to see instances where military service is heavily persuading and aiming for young people. The army openly stated that it was looking to attract and recruit more young people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The draft wasn’t “banned”, cupcake. In fact it may surprise you that the Selective Service System still exists, and all of those 18-year-old men around you at college are supposed to be registered for the draft. And of course the Army wants to recruit young people…cuz old people like me don’t make good soldiers. Dipshit.<\/p>\n

I was perturbed that the minimum education requirement for a person to be recruited into the U.S Army was a high school diploma, while the minimum age requirement was set at 18. Even this requirement has been over looked at times by allowing 17-year-olds to be deployed.At the age of 18, and even with a high school diploma, a person is too young to be recruited into military service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, most of the people in the United States only achieve a twelfth grade education. If teachers would get off their fat asses and actually teach, that’s all of the education we generally need. I went through most of my adult with just a high school education and when I did graduate from college, all I needed was the diploma because I learned more in high school. <\/p>\n

They are young and still fresh. They are yet to be exposed to the real world, or even college, which is a diluted form of the real world. It is during the 18-25 age bracket that a person develops and tests their beliefs, it is at this time that they explore who they are and what they are about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

College has absolutely nothing to do with the real world. In college, you learn HOW to learn for yourself, your real education happens AFTER you leave college. In fact, college is so unlike the real world, folks in the real world giggles behind the recent grad’s back. The only thing you get from college is the sense that you know something.<\/p>\n

I’d hire a twenty-two year veteran with a high school education before I’d hire a twenty-two year old college graduate.<\/p>\n

t is in college that these beliefs are formed, fully developed and make up a person\u2019s character and personality. People get to see a greater extent of what they hear about, they get to experiment with the process of making a decision by themselves and dealing with the implication of the decisions they make.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ve obviously never seen a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead a fire team against an enemy. Or a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead physical training. What have you done in your pathetic little college student life? Planned a kegger?<\/p>\n

This is clear when observing the choices made by a freshman at college, compared to those of a junior or senior. As a person is exposed to more, they learn the difference between good and bad and right wrong; it is these that form the basis of what a person chooses to believe in and the path of life they choose to take later in life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, learning the difference between good and bad is different than doing the right thing. Hell, these days, most college students can’t even pick a major in their first two years. Because they don’t have to. Army recruits make their career choices before they even enter the service. They know what they want.<\/p>\n

The main problem with trying to recruit people who are young and mostly fresh out of high school is that they are not fully aware of what they are going to do. Some people\u2019s main motivation for wanting to join the army is the allure of adventure and being exposed to guns and actually being able to use them. A young man is willing to lose his life for a cause that he may not even fully understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why? Because you were such an immature airhead that you didn’t understand at that age?<\/p>\n

Young people are quicker and more aggressive at defending their decision to join the army as opposed to veterans who will tell you the thick of what it really is, without all the puffed up promises of glory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You don’t know any veterans either do you?<\/p>\n

The only redeeming portion of the article is the comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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