Take a look at racial breakdowns of *combat arms jobs*, not just servicemembers. The bulk of the dudes I saw on foot patrol with the infantry were white or latino and were not liberal. Were there black dudes out there? Sure there were. But the infantry and ground combat jobs in general are mostly filled with white/latino conservatives. I…
Take a look at racial breakdowns of *combat arms jobs*, not just servicemembers. The bulk of the dudes I saw on foot patrol with the infantry were white or latino and were not liberal. Were there black dudes out there? Sure there were. But the infantry and ground combat jobs in general are mostly filled with white/latino conservatives.
Isolationists will join because of patriotism, family roots in the military, or good old poverty. Others will join simply for college benefits while staying away from combat jobs. They will try to learn a technical trade and then use their GI Bill plus military experience in that trade to make something of themselves when they get out. Only 1-in-every-9 jobs in the US military is a ground combat job. The rest are logisticians, supply clerks, bulk fuel specialists, ordnance handlers, helicopter crew chiefs, etc. The bullet-dodgers are mostly the kids with the lower ASVAB scores who can't make it into technical jobs. I was one of the crazy kids who got a 110+ GT score and could choose and job I wanted, but asked for infantry because I didn't want poor rural kids from W Virginia or Pennsylvania doing the fighting for me when it was my city that had gotten hit, my people who were jumping 1300+ feet out of skyscrapers to their deaths. That's why I joined. I saw a lot of different reasons why others joined only after I got into the service.
So you're implying that you volunteered for combat as much out of guilt as outrage, and it apparently annoys you that more well heeled liberals didn't do likewise. Meanwhile you suggest that most "bullet dodgers" were assigned from the bottom of the achievement scale. That sounds more like an indictment of the military than of the proverbial chicken hawks.
Are you saying that anyone who doesn't qualify for jobs outside of the ground combat ones are somehow at the bottom of the achievement scale? Just because someone doesn't have higher aptitude doesn't mean they should be looked at like a sub-human. Do you get why MAGA hates people like you who look down on the lower-aptitude cohort now? No offense, but you come off as sounding like someone from one of the higher rungs of society in Brave New World here.
Take a look at racial breakdowns of *combat arms jobs*, not just servicemembers. The bulk of the dudes I saw on foot patrol with the infantry were white or latino and were not liberal. Were there black dudes out there? Sure there were. But the infantry and ground combat jobs in general are mostly filled with white/latino conservatives.
Isolationists will join because of patriotism, family roots in the military, or good old poverty. Others will join simply for college benefits while staying away from combat jobs. They will try to learn a technical trade and then use their GI Bill plus military experience in that trade to make something of themselves when they get out. Only 1-in-every-9 jobs in the US military is a ground combat job. The rest are logisticians, supply clerks, bulk fuel specialists, ordnance handlers, helicopter crew chiefs, etc. The bullet-dodgers are mostly the kids with the lower ASVAB scores who can't make it into technical jobs. I was one of the crazy kids who got a 110+ GT score and could choose and job I wanted, but asked for infantry because I didn't want poor rural kids from W Virginia or Pennsylvania doing the fighting for me when it was my city that had gotten hit, my people who were jumping 1300+ feet out of skyscrapers to their deaths. That's why I joined. I saw a lot of different reasons why others joined only after I got into the service.
So you're implying that you volunteered for combat as much out of guilt as outrage, and it apparently annoys you that more well heeled liberals didn't do likewise. Meanwhile you suggest that most "bullet dodgers" were assigned from the bottom of the achievement scale. That sounds more like an indictment of the military than of the proverbial chicken hawks.
Are you saying that anyone who doesn't qualify for jobs outside of the ground combat ones are somehow at the bottom of the achievement scale? Just because someone doesn't have higher aptitude doesn't mean they should be looked at like a sub-human. Do you get why MAGA hates people like you who look down on the lower-aptitude cohort now? No offense, but you come off as sounding like someone from one of the higher rungs of society in Brave New World here.