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In reply to the discussion: One of my former students just committed suicide. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Expected? Not a surprise? This wasn't a shock to him--he knew his deployment rotation when he went to his advanced training after boot camp.
Perhaps you should also know that deployments happen a dozen or more times before an individual retires? And, as deployments go, most people would rather be in the Air Force or the Navy when they roll around?
And people who don't like the lifestyle can just NOT re-up at the end of their service obligation.
It's not conscription--it is a career. It pays well and many people like it.
This has nothing to do with being "forced out" or "forced to deploy."
People DO have emotional or mental health issues that are unrelated to their military schedule--that was my point that you apparently chose not to take.