The US will send you into harm's way so that industrialist-serving dictatorships stay in power (because US doesn't actually do humanitarian missions) and then they'll fuck you over on your contract.

I also know (in some cases, knew) veterans who are missing bits or have their brains too rattled, thanks to IEDs, or are too shell shocked with PTSD to trust they're outside a hot zone, and the DVA won't do shit for them, even sometimes at gunpoint.

Then there's the folks who ended up under an abusive CO hell bent on making their lives living hell, sometimes as a result of refusing a sexual advance. This and sexual assault is routinely covered up with reprisals trickling back down to the victim. One of my contacts just got hip surgery she needed ten years ago as a result of an incident of assault.

Military service in the states is bad news from top to bottom, and the student loan thing is a debt bondage scam.

「/rant」

[–] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I'd say "are you my dad" but you type too coherently.

They did basically the same thing to him.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never had student loans but I got my degree without a cent of debt which is nice. The guard/reserves get very similar bennys as active in that regard so honestly it was fairly enjoyable. It also showed me why you don't want a government in charge of large parts of your life if you can help it. With the layers of paperwork, red tape and regulations it's amazing how anything gets done at all.

I wonder if some kind of mandatory service would have to be implemented if student loan forgiveness was ever pushed through?

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 44 points 1 year ago

The majority of people join the military percisely because of student loans, the only loan that isn't forgiven by bankruptcy.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 21 points 1 year ago

Sort of a reverse Squid Game where if you don't kill people you rack up 40 grand in student loan debt.

[–] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

"Thank you for your service."