The military can fire you at will to, they just have to be a bit more creative in the excuse used.
Not really no. Because they have to have an actual reason and it has to go through a lot of paperwork and the like.
At McD you can just get fired and be gone before the day ends.
Military? Months.
McD's also doesn't abridge your rights, cannot 'stop loss' you, and you can actually hold a bad manager at a McD's accountable far, far more easily.
Well the former is because you are signing your life to be owned by the government and being put in a position where you sre given a lot of power above that of a civie.
Multi-generational homes used to be the norm, with 2-3 gens all living in the same house, and military pay has not been even close to keeping up with modern housing prices, even with VA loans out there. So the 'live with you parents' as an insult is buying into the same Boomer illusion of easy home ownership at a young age or of each generation having a separate house as soon as possible.
The american dream my man. Live your own life without neeeding family there. I used the Army to escape a psychopath of a family member of mine.
Something many others used it for as well
And resorting to 'well you can party and live the single life', aka sleep around and get drunk doing stupid shit, is something people can get in college without the same risks. Sure they may end up in student debt, but that's most of the country now, and the military doesn't pay better or offer better QoL.
The military can make it so you don't go in debt... and you have obviously never been to Korea on a 4 day then because the amount of shit one can do there and wake up in a hotel room with a stranger or your buddies and be fine is great.
Most college towns you would probably be dead.
Yes, it does need to be said explicitly in the article, if you want to build a huge argument out of it.
Why?
Also, the QoL issues mentioned are not political, nor is the job market competition political.
It makes you have competition once you get out. Certs up the wazoo.
And QoL is the worst part. But it gets better if you make the best of it.
Because I recognize that these complaints are more than just things isolated to the Left or Lefty areas, and I recognize that the military is not going to try to only get people from the 'rah, rah' background as much, because the DoD wants a woke military.
it doesnt thiugh. It sees the pushback it is getting and the hard recrutiing it is making for itself and is basically staying apolitical and dies what cingress mandates.
They only want red state troops to be bodies for expeditionary forces, not their valued and vaunt Navy and Air Force with expensive shit and nicer living conditions. And the crayon-eaters in the Marine's are way more glamorous than the Army, also are in Stratcom while Army pukes aren't, because the Navy has nukes for Marine's to guard, and the Army really doesn't anymore.
the Army is the main fighting force of the USA and its goal is to bring destruction upon its enemies. Should I mention we are the only ones who will go the fighting in Europe. We are the main logistic capability of the US Military. Because the Navy and AF get it there, but we deal with it from there.
I mean, we even agree this seems to be the Army suffering the worst problems, and well, the Navy and Air Force are far more workable life-styles for wokies and way more 'cool' than most army jobs.
Eh, the AF has its own problem if having officers control most aspects where the US Army has mostly NCOs doing the work. AF basically have the problem of not letting NCOs be NCOs or Airmen being able to do things by themselves.
Maybe the Army can beg to get the A-10's and CAS jobs back to lure in more good PR.
Why?
We have majority of schools every body wants to do.
All SF for all branches goes to Benning and Campbell...
When's the last time a we had a flag officer who started as an E1?
It is possible
Hopeful and aspirational theoretical possibilities should not be pushed over realistic expected outcomes, and military PR doing that is part of why recruiting is so bad.
Don't sugar coat shit, don't give unrealistic expectations, and don't blow smoke up people's ass's for PR/morale purposes. Explain the suck, explain the depths of the suck, and explain that anyone who wants in needs to want more suck than good in life if they want to fit and make it a career.
Tear down all illusions and propaganda about service life, about military society in general, and let people make fully informed decisions.
I mean because life in the military sucks and recruiters often tell you this.
Marines are the ones who embellish it. Army often tells the truth. It doesn't help that most Rexruiters don't know what every job does.
Bacle, I work with a guy who was recruiting u til he became a warrant.
