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I joined the Navy to get the GI Bill for college. Winding up as a River Rat was a greatly appreciated bonus and an outstanding education on what humans can do under great stress.
I have no objection to the Military Recruiting on campuses. They have to get their staff from somwhere and college graduates are less inclined to become lifers. The recruits have to know this old saw.
How can you tell if a recruiter is lying? His lips are moving.
If it's a public school, absolutely. Even if it's private, I would not want to see military recruitment banned from the school. The military protects all of us, and we're all paying it.
But public at the state level not the federal level.
College campuses are subsidized by public funds. If the likes of Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Party USA, and Code Pink can openly subvert students on campus, the military should be able to hold recruiting fairs.
The mindset of administrators and uber-liberal professors is to lean anti-military (yet they admire those who protect us (hah!)) and to nurture a deep seeded hate for anything-conservative ideology. It's their religion.
College campuses are subsidized by public funds. If the likes of Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Party USA, and Code Pink can openly subvert students on campus, the military should be able to hold recruiting fairs.
The mindset of administrators and uber-liberal professors is to lean anti-military (yet they admire those who protect us (hah!)) and to nurture a deep seeded hate for anything-conservative ideology. It's their religion.
LOL times have changed. Recruiters are allowed to omit things but not lie. They may even embellish. For example:
Recruit: I want to be a Navy SEAL can I do that?
Recruiter: SEALs are selected from amoung the active duty navy. You can apply and if your eval's are good enough be selected.
NOT a lie. Just not the entire truth.
or better;
recruit: i want to be a corpsman
marine recruiter: we will teach you to save lives.
I think that some people who have an ideological opposition to the military don't see a distinction between going onto a campus full of adults and going onto a campus full of twelve year olds.
If students were interested they would not be in college.
lol wut? Many would rather go to college and then become officers than join right out of high school as enlisted because the pay is better, the benefits are better, and the jobs are better. I was considering joining after high school and a lot of the people I talked to said it'd be better to go to college and then join as an officer. I've got a friend going to a liberal arts college who's also doing ROTC and plans on being a Special Forces officer.
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