

This was always the truth of it. The FBI was always the organization the people in power wanted it to be. They love that the FBI takes the blame for their policies.
This was always the truth of it. The FBI was always the organization the people in power wanted it to be. They love that the FBI takes the blame for their policies.
Oh United Health has nothing on the VA. The VA literally left veterans with cancer on a waiting list until they died. On purpose.
Well that’s just like … True. I’m joking I love my family and I’m lucky as hell on that front.
Buddy, you try humping 175 pounds of gear in a combat zone on the daily and come tell us that again with a straight face. I knew 19 year old kids with back and knee pain.
I have a theory. Everyone gets about 15 years of hard driving out of their body. So if you start seriously pushing for sports around the age of 12 and then take a physically intensive job you too can be told you’re too young for joint and back pain when you’re 27.
Sincerely, A child athlete and combat veteran who got told he was too young for knee pain at (checks notes) … 30.
Note - The VA eventually fell back on the argument they love best. While your knee problems were documented in the Army, they were not documented exactly the way we wanted. So because neither 20 year old you nor the 20 year old medic were psychic we’re going to deny this claim.
If that’s all it takes to get uninvited then they weren’t interested in being family anyways. That would be an A tier joke in my family.
I think they confused Denver and Phoenix. Because you’re very likely to get something like that in the South West.
Somehow the hot dog taco/burrito got assigned to Norway?
There’s a few weird things on this list. For example, someone really loves their mayonnaise.
In the US eggs are washed which then means you need to keep them cold.
That’s why you do other things too. Ambulance drivers, library helpers, school assistants, construction corps, etc…
It’s socialism as described by the GOP though, which is why it’s so funny.
If we have 100 percent service and they don’t serve then they don’t get the rights of citizenship either.
A lot of countries make that distinction. Everyone goes through basic but you have to volunteer into a deployable job.
6 percent. That’s the percentage of the US population who are veterans. I don’t think a military only mandatory service would work in the US but we don’t have the same effect just based on a volunteer military.
You should judge people for who they are. They absolutely change over time, and the military really likes indoctrinating kids before they get good critical thinking skills. Many recruits quite literally didn’t realize what they’ve signed up for, even without the unfathomable parts.
The stuff we’re finding out about modern war is that it’s all brain damage. If you’re regularly firing rounds of any kind then you’re damaging your brain. In a normal training environment it’s not really noticeable. But when you start going through entire cargo trucks of shells, bullets, or missiles on a daily basis then real damage is happening. There isn’t anything you can do to mitigate it and still fight a war.
With this new understanding of what’s happening in war zones our society needs to have a really big conversation on just when it’s okay to put any soldiers into combat.
It depends on how it’s done.
First, there has to be a compensation. Generally speaking free college gets tied to it a lot. In the US a mandatory service isn’t getting off the ground without it.
Second, there needs to be multiple avenues of service. It cannot just be military. To be honest, the military can’t handle the number of conscripts. There’s about half a million every year. So spreading that out into other service avenues such as a construction corps, EMTs, hospital helpers, legislative staff, libraries, etc, is required. (The specifics are obviously up for debate)
I do believe a mandatory service brings people together and strengthens a country. But it’s just not possible for a large country like the US to do military only mandatory service.
Depending on how attached people get it can easily be their entire life…
Oh I’m sure some people do. But it seems very prevalent in this chart for a condiment that seems a lot less prevalent in real life.