• Flying Squid
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    2010 months ago

    Is it a counter? Because your argument seems to be that risking dying for some oil company was worth it for you because you ended up successful since you didn’t die.

    That seems more like a caveat than a counter.

    • capital
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      10 months ago

      This is hard to convey to people who didn’t serve but my job, even if I had deployed, was low risk.

      I worked in datacenters where I needed a jacket to stay warm year round.

      I wore the same pair of boots, issued to me in basic, my entire 4 years because I sat on my ass the majority of the time. They never needed replacing.

      • Flying Squid
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        510 months ago

        Did you know how low the risk was going to be when you signed up? Do you think most people sign up knowing that there will be little likelihood that they will die in a war?

        • capital
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          1010 months ago

          I did and I would expect most do because the jobs are public.

          I considered pararescue and the difference between that and what I did was clear before joining.

        • @aidan
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          410 months ago

          Yes, most people that sign up for infantry want to do it