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  • 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.













  • 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.