Quote Originally Posted by Steppe Merc
To me, the commericials all seem to make it cool. Theirs a guy going all around the world, they apeal to people that can't afford college, they try and the vibe I get is that their trying to make it seem cool. Not about protecting your family, but that it's cool.
I get quite disgusted and angry when I see them in my school, giving tee shirts. They are trying to get my friends, people I care about, killed.
Again stuck in the wrong time period - you should wrap yourself back to 1970-1973.

The recuriter is not out trying to get your friends killed - that is such a load of emotional appeal garbage that its really only something to ridicule not have a logical discussion about.

So let the ridicule begin.

So are you attempting to say by default that all of us who served in the military are out to get ourselves killed because we are or were suicidial. Or lets really spin it a tad and say this - are you trying to say that only those who want to kill other human beings join the military because we are all sick little bastards who have nothing better to do with our lives.

But the run of the mill 18 year old is not armed with a big gun, and allowed to kill people.
Yes indeed to join the military does require a few qualifications that some just don't have.