>>18909289Unpaid overtime for less than min. wage in some cases, even with tenure making way less than someone in a civilian field at same seniority.
Benefits are, and it is explained clearly and demonstrated to younger guys that fall for it, largely a lie.
No wars, and any wars that could possibly happen besides a civil war are undesirable shitfests to fuck up people noone cares about fucking up or getting WW1 style sat in a trench until the russian/chink/3rd world suicide drone bombs you.
Leadership is fucked up, everyone incl in the civilian world can see it. Everyone who serves experiences it first, second, AND third hand at the same time (yes your awful decisions or clueless psycho-babble as SGMotA, SecDef, or JCS Chair do in fact have a significant impact on lower strata of the force) - because of the frequency of absolute fuck ups by career cocksuckers who clearly don't give a fuck about anything other than that 'light at the end of the tunnel' double pension retirement, these negative side effects vastly outweigh the impacts that anyone who does give a fuck about the troops and mission and everyone will blame genuine mistakes on incompetency to the point that there is no trust down to the tactical level that can and will lead to more avoidable death, suffering, and lost fights for us in the next big war.
We aren't looking good.
No, pulling a Rome and enticing more foreigners to join will not fix it.
No, "shifting gears" publicly and going "durr you can say racist things now and not take the vaxx we sorry" will not fix it.
It's too late, we're fucked.
The literal only way to redeem things is to literally shakeup ops and strat ldrship and under/other-than out like half the flag officers and SGMs we have and force back in retirees to man those posts. That won't happen, so things won't be fixed.
Either way, given how things are looking you, me, and fag OP will prolly be meeting in the trenches. Save a warm seat and some MRE snacks.
