I don’t blame you. If I were doing it all over again today, I would never join under this administration. Someone motivated to serve these days can help their country far better and more effectively by helping individuals at risk in their communities / working at a local and regional level against fascism.
My mom and older family all want me to join the Air Force at the very least.
My mom actually took me to breakfast to talk to someone about joining, but I only went so she’d get off my back about it.
Literally any time I said I didn’t want to, she’d ask why. Like why do I need a reason to not want to join the military? I don’t care if I’ll mostly be removed from the worst shit, that can change literally at a moment’s notice at literally anytime. I don’t even do well with authority; like I’m not disrespectful, but it’s a huge detriment to my mental health.
I also didn’t want to be a tool of a fascist regime. And I knew that’s where things were headed.
In 2018 I re-enlisted and remember internally laughing at the line ‘…obey the others of the president…’ as I said it. I was at 18 years of service and just wanted to finish my time.
I was going to join up in 2024 but I wanted to wait until after the election. After Trump won… I decided to just stay at my shitty office job.
I don’t blame you. If I were doing it all over again today, I would never join under this administration. Someone motivated to serve these days can help their country far better and more effectively by helping individuals at risk in their communities / working at a local and regional level against fascism.
True, I just wanted the benefits you get but now those are slowly being dismantled so it’s not even worth it for that LMAO.
The cheap prescriptions are nice, I’ll admit lol
My mom and older family all want me to join the Air Force at the very least.
My mom actually took me to breakfast to talk to someone about joining, but I only went so she’d get off my back about it.
Literally any time I said I didn’t want to, she’d ask why. Like why do I need a reason to not want to join the military? I don’t care if I’ll mostly be removed from the worst shit, that can change literally at a moment’s notice at literally anytime. I don’t even do well with authority; like I’m not disrespectful, but it’s a huge detriment to my mental health.
I also didn’t want to be a tool of a fascist regime. And I knew that’s where things were headed.
In 2018 I re-enlisted and remember internally laughing at the line ‘…obey the others of the president…’ as I said it. I was at 18 years of service and just wanted to finish my time.