[Tom]

Originally Posted by Stu

They may not be going to hell, but it shouldn't bother them. After all, they volunteered to send themselves out to do a job where possible loss of ego, loss of limbs, loss of confidence, mental breakdown, family separation, death by RV, death by gunshot wounds, death by disease, and death by landmine are all plausible risks. All under some fake pretense of 'honor' for the country. It's just stupidity. They aint' the sharpest in the land, let's face it.

Let other idiots do the job. Sending yourself out to war is unfair to both yourself and everyone you know. I know the adverts they market to sixteen year old's on MTV & Viva don't show it that way, but it's the truth. It's like the argument about letting gay's in the military people always had. Who cares? Anybody dumb enough to want to join the military should be let in.

I think you're tarring too many people with the same brush here. I was in the RAF when I was younger and rejoined again recently (but dropped back out again ), went through a hell of a lot of training and tbh was pretty set on it. And although I passed some course and got stuck on a reserve list for a few years/months down the line, I quit because of everything in bold. It is a voluntary job and people shouldn't forget that. E.g. if you take the Facebook group with almost 1m members about Soldiers deserving footballers wages, do they hell. They chose to do that job, they could've done something else. They know the risks, its all drilled into you time and time again. You're brainwashed into believing it is the right thing to do and you're fighting for your country.