Originally posted by: palehorse74
listen here homie, I am intimately familiar with "grunts," and their pay - and I still contend that I've never met one in it for the money. Eskimo is flat wrong in his assessment. After 10 years, even as an E6 I take a VERY substantial paycut whenever I am mobilized, and even with tax exemption in the combat zones, my pay si far from stellar. So who got "neutered" again? ya... right.
Second, What is I believe? If you were paying attention (doubtful), you'd see that I said that I agree that these protesters have the right to do what they did, but that does not make what they did any less disgusting.
consider yourself "neutered"
g'day.
Well, according to our good friends at the
department of defense, money for college was the reason cited by 32% of recruits, job training was 25%, and flat out money was 12%. Duty to country came in at 11%.
This means that more then 2/3rds of people joining the military were stating that economic reasons were their primary motivation for joining. Maybe palehorse is a proud member of the 83rd Unreasonably Patriotic and Altruistic 11% Duty to Country Airborne Division, but if not... chances are 2 out of every 3 grunts he meets joined for economic reasons of their own admission.
I'm sure the DoD hates America too though, and were just making those statistics up... because we all know that the people in our military are heroes that do it out of the goodness of their hearts because they love freedom. That makes a LOT more sense then thinking that people in the military like their country just fine, but that they consider finding a way to put food on the table before they consider The Defense Of Freedom Worldwide.
Then again, who am I to speak? We have palehorse's anecdotal evidence! Maybe everyone in the military really does act like people do in those crappy John Wayne war movies. I guess I was too busy hating America, Freedom, and looking for ways to sell us out to the Islamofascists to notice.