Generally you are getting paid less for a bunch of "step ups" when you get out, like GI Bill and a bunch of skills/discipline you learned. And it used to be that society respected you so highly it was a huge benefit.
The problem is that the negatives you walk out of it with usually cancel all of that out and often cost you even more. Even outside of the wartime scars one can get, even in relative "peace" way too many guys walk out with high ass disability counts and a VA that is barely worth even engaging with to deal with them.
So you basically sign up to hope you survive unscathed enough to get free college and some home loans and that's about it. Its all you can guarantee of value.
That's before you even talk about the political angles.
Even the free college is increasingly not worth it, as all the globohomo corps prioritize hiring DEI blacks and wahmans. You don't need a degree to start a business, which is where I see veterans actually leverage their service at all by advertising it's veteran-owned. That's assuming they come out unscathed and aren't homeless and addicted to painkillers, as you alluded to.
Plus you have the Dems constantly dangling loan forgiveness, which cheapens the fuck out of the GI Bill. Why get shot at for a piece of paper when you can game the system like all the other fuckheads?
You are correct, but there are still a handful of industries where those degrees are still necessary and you won't go anywhere otherwise. A lot of Engineering subsets come to mind, especially as a lot guys I knew who enlisted had passions and dreams in those types of fields.
And the Military knows that is its biggest value. Back when I was fresh out of high school and getting the Standard Daily Calls from every branch that was their first question and pitch. They pushed it so hard that it actively pushed me away from possibly joining out of pride at the implication I couldn't pay for fucking college without them (paid off my degree 2 months before graduation, fuck anyone who needs forgiveness).
But if you don't have one of those specific dreams, it offers basically no value for you that isn't a huge trap.
Generally you are getting paid less for a bunch of "step ups" when you get out, like GI Bill and a bunch of skills/discipline you learned. And it used to be that society respected you so highly it was a huge benefit.
The problem is that the negatives you walk out of it with usually cancel all of that out and often cost you even more. Even outside of the wartime scars one can get, even in relative "peace" way too many guys walk out with high ass disability counts and a VA that is barely worth even engaging with to deal with them.
So you basically sign up to hope you survive unscathed enough to get free college and some home loans and that's about it. Its all you can guarantee of value.
That's before you even talk about the political angles.
Even the free college is increasingly not worth it, as all the globohomo corps prioritize hiring DEI blacks and wahmans. You don't need a degree to start a business, which is where I see veterans actually leverage their service at all by advertising it's veteran-owned. That's assuming they come out unscathed and aren't homeless and addicted to painkillers, as you alluded to.
Plus you have the Dems constantly dangling loan forgiveness, which cheapens the fuck out of the GI Bill. Why get shot at for a piece of paper when you can game the system like all the other fuckheads?
You are correct, but there are still a handful of industries where those degrees are still necessary and you won't go anywhere otherwise. A lot of Engineering subsets come to mind, especially as a lot guys I knew who enlisted had passions and dreams in those types of fields.
And the Military knows that is its biggest value. Back when I was fresh out of high school and getting the Standard Daily Calls from every branch that was their first question and pitch. They pushed it so hard that it actively pushed me away from possibly joining out of pride at the implication I couldn't pay for fucking college without them (paid off my degree 2 months before graduation, fuck anyone who needs forgiveness).
But if you don't have one of those specific dreams, it offers basically no value for you that isn't a huge trap.
I'd say that he VA can eat the peanuts out of my shit, and they'd still find a way to fuck it up.