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The fact we have 1.4 million people in the armed forces is so ridiculously unnecessary. It's also ironic neocons complain about public sector jobs but dont seem to mind those 1.4 million public sector jobs
Military Sexual Assault Epidemic Continues To Claim Victims As Defense Department Fails Females
Active-duty female personnel make up roughly 14.5 percent -- or 207,308 members -- of the more than 1.4 million Armed Forces, according to the Department of Defense.
One in three military women has been sexually assaulted, compared to one in six civilian women, according to Defense. According to calculations by The Huffington Post, a servicewoman was nearly 180 times more likely to have become a victim of military sexual assault (MSA) in the past year than to have died while deployed during the last 11 years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to the most recent report by the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, 3,192 sexual assaults were reported out of an estimated 19,000 -- roughly 52 a day -- between Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 31, 2011. The department estimates that only roughly 14 percent of the assaults were reported. The majority of sexual assaults each year are committed against service members by service members, SAPRO reports. While MSA does not affect only women, the office characterizes the"vast majority" of victims as female junior enlists under the age of 25, and the "vast majority" of perpetrators as male, older (under the age of 35) and generally higher-ranking.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_1834196.html
WC, my little , be slapped.
The fact we have 1.4 million people in the armed forces is so ridiculously unnecessary. It's also ironic neocons complain about public sector jobs but dont seem to mind those 1.4 million public sector jobs
Is this more from Wild Cobra's school of "I've got a hunch..." forensics?
Yeah. It's also from his school of "Let me ignore statistics that directly contradict my opinion...." analysis
I have no issue with people who join the military who do it because they believe they're serving our country.
The problem is that just about every military person I've ever met, just does it for the benefits/recognition/get into college/get a job etc which again I have no problem with. Everyone's trying to get by with whatever means necessary but I'm not gonna stoop and kiss their ass because they're just doing it for their own personal gain.
or the AGW-type or creationist type of denial: I found one fact that totally wipes out the 1000 others opposing facts.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-04-2013 at 11:29 AM.
Well, sure, but that's one comment out of a much longer article.
The piece is every bit as hyperbolic as one would expect of Moore. And there's lots of bluster and shaming about the relative insignificance of our daily trials and tribulations when compared to the things that the military personnel have to deal with. But I think the main thrust of the article is less that true support should be a 24/7 job that places the rest of our lives on hold, and more that there are enough things broken with our collective treatment of military persons, both while in service and afterward, that their support requires far more than a phrase.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. Only a moron would join/stay in the military to protect their country if they had crap pay and no benefits.
In most of the briefings and commander calls we've been having lately, they said that 1 out of every 5 women have likely been raped and/or sexually assaulted.
Point is Im never gonna knock on someone for doing what they really wanna do. But I'm not gonna bend over and kiss someone's ass if they choose to do it simply for their own benefit.
Goes with anything IMHO not just military
it's room and board, health care, maybe some travel, vs civilian unemployment. Not a bad deal.
And if in the Marines, they can for the rest of their life tell everybody what a bad ass mofo they are.
Don't kid yourself, it's a bad deal in plenty of respects. It's pay and there's a high chance you get deployed to a 3rd world country no one in their right mind wants to be in. There's a reason people sign up for the military because it's their only method of financing college or because there life has amount to jack since graduating from high school and they need direction.
Eh, it's pay depending on what job you do. I could probably make a lot more on the outside, but for guys who get put into career fields that don't have a good civilian world equivalent, it's not too bad. But yes, people who have better options usually exercise them. And the lifelong retirement after 20 years is a big trump card.
You seem to forget how hyper paranoid US was after 9/11 due to a perceived tangible nuclear threat. That wouldn't have changed. In retrospect, the war was stupid, but the misinformation that was out there at the time had even the smartest politicians in US fooled and thinking a war was necessary.
The whole I support the troops is another example of American society hypocrisy at its finest. There is nothing or very few behind the whole I support the troops slogan and at ude. Moore is right if people cared about the troops they would manifest to bring them home or to provide better health care etc... instead of that they declare proudly I support the troops to lighten their conscience, nothing else.
I personally don't support the troops, in a sense that I don't support them more than the doctors corporation, the sales men or whatever profession.
These guys chose to be soldier, they are paid to do what they are doing. A homeless former soldier has not to receive more than a homeless former waitress. I don't specifically thank a soldier for his service as I don't expect a thank you for my civilian activities.
The politicians who fabricated the misinformation and conned the country into thinking Iraq was a threat would have never done so if it meant a draft. Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld knew well ahead of time the country would eventually figure out the war was a sham, and they also knew it wouldn't stop Bush from getting a 2nd term since the only people dying in Iraq would be poor Americans who's families didn't have a voice. With a draft, they likely face enough backlash that makes Bush a one term president.
That's how neo-conservative chicken hawks work, they send poor kids who no one gives a about off to war. Implement a draft, and it's no longer just poor kids getting sent to war.
I am assuming you have nothing more than cynical conjecture and links to liberal websites (with more cynical conjecture) to back up part in bold. You are like the poster child for mainstream/liberal media brainwashing.
Only a matter of time before you'd revert back to, "You're just a leftist lib !"
Yes, but even in that political climate, there was still widespread public anger about the Total Information Awareness program, eventually causing it to be de-funded.... I can't imagine a draft would have gone over any better, tbh....
LOL leaving to Canada to avoid killing people for oil being a pussy move. DOK, what a scared got you are, afraid of a few bullets from some raghead's machine gun.
What's funny is they think calling me a coward because I don't wanna fight in wars (as if war is something you should want to be a part of) is a really clever insult that counteracts the truth bombs I drop about the military on reg.
Second condition isn't all that bad tbh. I know the full prohibition wouldn't fly in this country, but I would support cell-phone owning women not being allowed to drive big ing SUVs.
This is true.
Though to be fair, 80% of the population is mentally incapable of driving. Women just add the tinge of hesitation that brings out the Saudi in all of us.
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