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Originally Posted by Willravel
Let the troops decide how political they need to be to protect themselves. That's the whole point.
Soldiering is the only job you can't quit from (aside from the mob, but that's for another thread). That kind of thing is just asking for abuse from above. The most effective way to prevent abuse from above is organization from below.
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That's absurd. War is not about kubaya warm fuzzies.
They sign up for a process of taking orders, not for being able to think and deciding things for themselves. While you may think that their pay is abysmal, it seems that many make a decent, fair, and honest living. Living on the base gives them subsidized housing, groceries, gasoline, movies, food, heck there was even a Burger King on Governor's Island (Coast Guard) back in the 90s that had $.35 burgers.
I met many squids during my years in Singapore and they weren't poor by any means. They'd take out a wad of cash plop it down on the table and say, "No one leaves this table until all the money is gone."
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