Joining the Military?

                                                                     Thinking about joining the Military?


The military... trying times to consider joining...  Economically it may make sense... patriotically it may make sense...  all that may be.  I once joined the military for these reasons in 2002, after 9/11.  My experience was... well, I will explain my experience later.  For now, here are a list of questions you might want to ask yourself:

1.  What if i join the military and it turns out these wars are not justified?  How do I know they are truly justified?

2.  Joining the military means putting myself in a situation where I will be asked, nay ordered, to kill or be killed myself because the Commander 'n' Chief decided it was necessary.  That is, the President.  Is this, or perhaps future and past, presidents THAT trustworthy?  Have they/he ever lied before?

3.  No matter what anyone says, the real reasons for war are usually only known to a select few.  Am I comfortable putting myself in that situation not knowing for sure that it really is necessary?



My military experience was this:
I spent 4 years in.  The first 6mo.  consisted of basic combat training and Advanced Individual Training.  The next 2 months I waited for my Security Clearance to pass.  The rest of the time I was a part of SIGINT (signal intelligence).  I cannot go into details here, but I never saw combat, luckily.  But I did take it upon myself to pay attention to politicians for the first time in my life, as this was life and death.  Can you guess what I found?  LIARS.  The reasons for Iraq changed quite often.... I also found that the U.S. Government took credit for over 500,000 children deaths BEFORE 9/11 in the middle east, as a result of sanctions... 

I was not smart enough to think about this stuff until it was too late. When I first considered joining, all I received was praise from those around me.  My teachers at school, my military family,  some of my friends, brothers, you name it.  and now that I have been out for years, and talk about this stuff, one of two things happen.  Either 1) they tell me everyone knows this stuff but I'm just a jerk because I talk about it or 2) they tell me I hate my country.  Well, those are not arguments.  Those are statements that are either true or false...   now, I will take being a jerk or an unpatriotic jerk over having deaths of innocent people on my mind any day of the week and a hundred times on Sunday.  Use logic, think for yourself.

As you can see, I am not spreading a conspiracy theory, I'm not telling you to not join, I'm simply asking you to think about what you are doing.  Go look at the suicide statistics of soldiers in the military these days...  it is not a game.  Life and Death are literally what is at stake...  Choose wisely... and I will make this plea, do NOT sign any papers or take any oaths until you are sure... because once you are facing the gun of some foreigner somewhere, none of this will matter... your survival instincts will kick in and you may say to yourself "ya, I was duped into this mess, it's not my fault, but I am going to survive it."  Well, if you read this and still join without being certain you are doing the right thing, it will be your fault.