Military Personnel

[Bengalzona]

(10-25-2015, 08:29 PM)basballguy Wrote: Being smarter and more professional is an era thing more than anything.  It doesn't change the fact that more people are enlisting because they have to and not because they want to.   There are genuinely good people that enlist because they have no choice....doesn't change the fact that they only enlisted because it was the last option available to them.  

I feel like people stopped making military a career move after the early 2000s....not saying i blame them....but it's a different type of person enlisting now than it was before.  

If you enlist because you have no other options, i respect the fact that you recognize you need to do something with your life....but it's not going to make me respect what you're perceived to represent.

And yes i know my comments here have nothing to do with the actual topic....forgive me...sore spot. 

When you use phrases like "bail them out of failing at life", it makes the majority of those who enlist sound like complete losers who are incapable of interacting in the real world. There are some who fit that bill (there were a lot more back in the late seventies and early eighties). But I gather from the rest of your comments that that was not how you intended it to be taken, and I generally agree with you.