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Rodney, many people go into recruitment because it is one of the fastest pipelines to advancement. Others do it because of family, or because of some nice pay bonuses.
Anyways as stated above, to every one cool job, there's three that no one wants to do. Everyone wants to be a pilot, but no one wants to be the guy who cooks his food or ensures the air conditioning on the ship works, or crawls around the turbine to ensure the ship can drive properly. Those positions HAVE to be filled or the miliary heirarchy falls apart. I take a utilitarian point of view, that the good to our culture and society outweigh the four years these people give up. If our military at any time starts to fail to keep all of their ranks alive (from general to private) the entire system will fall apart and guess what, we'll stop being an all-volunteer force again. The military HAS to keep running.
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