My dad read an article a few years ago about the whisper campaign about maybe needing a draft again because nobody was signing up to go to Iraq/Afghanistan.
He did 20 years USAF, and my brother was in Iraq twice.
My dad went off and sent LTTEs all over the place, and to the SecDef saying you only want to draft because you won't pay for the risk. If the men/women in the military were paid 6 figures to put their life on the line, we'd be a lot more careful about who got sent.
My brother signed up after 9/11, and did two tours in Iraq. They tried to charge him for his gear that was damaged by the recklessness of others. Then he came home, had a hard time dealing with the mortgage that his wife got tricked into. The Army talks about all the stuff you'll learn. They never say that's only during peace time. So he got no marketable skills, and a crappy mortgage while he was thousands of miles from home.
He tried to do milk delivery and that ended up being WAY too much like convoy protection runs. Big boxy, hard to maneuver vehicle, driving in the dark. Every car on the side of the road looked like the IEDs he got hit by in Iraq. So he had to stop that job too.
So now he's using food stamps and his GI Bill to try and get some skills that don't involve kicking in doors, rousting people, and shooting anything that moves.
Yet somehow, he's a mooch.
Some dirtbag Republican "representative" that hates government will get a pension and healthcare forever.
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