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Originally posted by User Name
You seem to have a romanticised view of those who participate in wars based on the "defenders of benefits" statement. Sorry to thread-jack a thread that I started, but most people who volunteer to serve in the military simply do so because of lack of other opportunity, not because of a desire to fight for this country. The military is one of the only, if not the only, field where a person with only a high school diploma can advance up the ladder and get paid a decent salary. I really hate how these people get portrayed as oh-so-heroic fighters of our freeedom.
People who volunteer for duty while having other GOOD opportunities: HEROS.
People who join the military because they need a career and have nowhere else to go: ORDINARY PEOPLE with a dangerous job.
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I am an ordinary person, (Regular old computer hardware fix-it guy in the USAF) with an ordinary job, I have done nothing dangerous, and I have never put my life on the line, (except maybe it felt like it in Basic, but that's becides the point...) so according to you, I am just a regular joe with a job like anyone elses except that If I had other options before joining,
THEN I am a hero? Or am I missing the point here?