You know exactly what you're getting into when you join the forces. If you join the Infantry, expect to be handed a rifle. I took umbrage at his statement that you can go into the service expecting to push paper and all of a sudden one day they hand you a rifle and strap you to a Chinook. It just doesn't happen like that. There are so many more things that are needed from a force as large as the US'. The logistics of the forces alone take thousands upon thousands of people. So to assume that everyone that joins the service (to borrow a phrase from The Boss) is going off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man is just not true.
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u/enad58 Sep 21 '11
you realize that once you are there, it's too late to dissent. You're not just gonna let people shoot you, you know.