Saturday, November 19, 2005
If your character is such that have to ask, you morally cannot afford it
Recently the Commandant of the Marine Corps testified before congress. He was asked directly "Do you tell possible recruits that they may be sent to Iraq?" He responded in a straight forward manner I would expect of any Marine, "Yup, and more. We tell them and their parents that if you join the Marine Corps you will do a tour of duty in Iraq, and they still sign up..."
The war is going so badly according to the MSM and Democrats an yet Recruitment in all Armed Services is up:
August 2005 shows military recruitment is up substantially obtained from dcmilitary.com show that total military recruiting has exceeded all set goals.Air Force recruitment is at 104% of quota, the Air Force National Guard stands at 108%, the Air Force Reserve at 101%, Navy recruitment is at 103% and the combined Army and Marine Corps stand at 102% of goal.
It is harder than ever to get into the U.S. Armed Services. Under the current standard, 58% of age eligible youths don't qualify for other reasons (medical, academic, character issues to name a few). It is also been reported recently that 85% of the enlistments come from households with a income between 30 and 85K per year. That's as middle America as it gets, folks!
It is not what people who have no other options do. The people without options are the 42% who cannot qualify because they did not graduate high school, are already a single parent, have a drug or alcohol problem, have a physical limitation (this isn't how good an athlete you are, it is your basic health), because they have committed a criminal offense (the services do not care if you were convicted or not and your records as a minor are not "sealed" to them, they want to know what you did, why and what is says about your character), have a mental disability, chronic antisocial behavior... And the list goes on and on.
It is not for money. After training a basic soldier makes about $300 a week in base pay. Congress estimates, that with benefits included, the average service person only makes 6% less than their civilian counter part.
It is not what people do to avoid jail or criminal conviction. All services adhere to the policy of "Applicants may not enlist as an alternative to criminal prosecution, indictment, incarceration, parole, probation, or other punitive sentence. They are ineligible for enlistment until the original assigned sentence would have been completed." Once the sentence is completed they typically are disqualified for the criminal conviction.
At this point if you do not understand why men and women volunteer to serve in the U.S. Armed forces, you never will. Maybe it is more accurate to say: If your character is such that have to ask, you morally cannot afford it.
The war is going so badly according to the MSM and Democrats an yet Recruitment in all Armed Services is up:
August 2005 shows military recruitment is up substantially obtained from dcmilitary.com show that total military recruiting has exceeded all set goals.Air Force recruitment is at 104% of quota, the Air Force National Guard stands at 108%, the Air Force Reserve at 101%, Navy recruitment is at 103% and the combined Army and Marine Corps stand at 102% of goal.
It is harder than ever to get into the U.S. Armed Services. Under the current standard, 58% of age eligible youths don't qualify for other reasons (medical, academic, character issues to name a few). It is also been reported recently that 85% of the enlistments come from households with a income between 30 and 85K per year. That's as middle America as it gets, folks!
It is not what people who have no other options do. The people without options are the 42% who cannot qualify because they did not graduate high school, are already a single parent, have a drug or alcohol problem, have a physical limitation (this isn't how good an athlete you are, it is your basic health), because they have committed a criminal offense (the services do not care if you were convicted or not and your records as a minor are not "sealed" to them, they want to know what you did, why and what is says about your character), have a mental disability, chronic antisocial behavior... And the list goes on and on.
It is not for money. After training a basic soldier makes about $300 a week in base pay. Congress estimates, that with benefits included, the average service person only makes 6% less than their civilian counter part.
It is not what people do to avoid jail or criminal conviction. All services adhere to the policy of "Applicants may not enlist as an alternative to criminal prosecution, indictment, incarceration, parole, probation, or other punitive sentence. They are ineligible for enlistment until the original assigned sentence would have been completed." Once the sentence is completed they typically are disqualified for the criminal conviction.
At this point if you do not understand why men and women volunteer to serve in the U.S. Armed forces, you never will. Maybe it is more accurate to say: If your character is such that have to ask, you morally cannot afford it.
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