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Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by beebmam »

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #27
AardvarkAnon wrote: post #12

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This reminds me of when I turned 18. I was pissed. Signing up for selective service while the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were going strong. I was worried there could be a draft and I'd end up in jail. Recruiters would call my house and I'd bitch them out about how I wasn't going to go invade another country and murder civilians. Just typing this out really reminds me how much I despise our military. The US is a shi…

I'm curious about your opinions here. Do you think the war in Afghanistan was unjustified from the very beginning?

Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by AverageDude »

Apocryphon wrote: post #20
onigiri420 wrote: post #6

Big food companies pushing carbs while funding anti-low carb diet studies have nothing to do with it.

What if the military-industrial complex declared war against the food industry to increase the ranks of viable recruits. A great lobbyists' war.

Or maybe they will just push for robots.

Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by qup »

mkolodny wrote: post #37
htag wrote: post #18

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Coffee: no Alcohol: It includes a level of alcohol abuse, but I'm not sure how they draw the line.

Good question. I'd say if you're drinking during work, it's a problem. If you're not, hopefully they have some way of proving you're abusing it rather than making unfounded accusations. It seems like people will believe anything these days.

Drinking during work in the military?

Yeah, I think you'd find that to be a problem.

Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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pengaru wrote: post #17
AardvarkAnon wrote: post #12

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> Confirming 3, everyone needs to take a look at the comments on the latest recruitment ad on YouTube to gauge the sentiment of young American men towards the government and military: Because we all know the vocal minority commenting on youtube videos is a sample-set free of biases.

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Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by vkou »

meling wrote: post #3

Maybe military service could help some of these folks out of their unfortunate situation, given a longer training period and proper support.

Whatever health issues you may or may not have had before joining the military, it's often quite happy to give you a few new ones before you're out. Exposure to toxic chemicals, PTSD, or combat injuries, take your pick.

Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

beebmam wrote: post #41
zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of when I turned 18. I was pissed. Signing up for selective service while the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were going strong. I was worried there could be a draft and I'd end up in jail. Recruiters would call my house and I'd bitch them out about how I wasn't going to go invade another country and murder civilians. Just typing this out really reminds me how much I despise our military. The US is a shi…

I'm curious about your opinions here. Do you think the war in Afghanistan was unjustified from the very beginning?

Yes

Re: Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military

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Post by orangepurple »

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #34
zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #32

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How does our society accept the evil shit done in our name? Why do we participate in and encourage warmongering and violations of human rights throughout the world? Because we're selfish and benefit from it? Society is fucked

And while I'm ranting, one more thought. Republicans are so concerned about "groomers", go after the military recruiters in the schools. That needs to be shut down

It gets worse. Some American high schools have some form of military recruitment in a building on the same plot of land.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1119257,-77.5784644,3a,75y,2...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/LCHS+Annex,+NJROTC/@39.111...

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