Author Topic: Is the military a good career choice? (Read 8907 times)

CatholicinFL · « **Reply #35 on:** September 16, 2013, 02:19:51 PM »

I agree with the moral/ethical issues of joining the military. But I have looked into stuff a little more and I came up with three possible ways I could do service to my country.

1. I could try out for one of these 'elite' units( i.e. SEALs, Pararescue, Special Forces.) because they seem more focused and more competent than regular "grunts." For most of these their recruitment websites on the requirement list they want people with no criminal record and moral standards (for instance, they aren't going to give some slum-dawg gang-banger a navy SEAL contract, or any special operator contract for that matter). Now the down side of this is that I might be used for 'peacetime' direct action missions that help further the agenda of O' and his ilk.

2.I could join the national guard. That way I wont be around the homo/drugs/anything-else crap 24/7, only 2 days a month and 2 weeks a year and plus I would get skills, experience, ect., and still have time for family and I dont have to move around so getting to Mass wont be so hard. The downside of this is that There is a great chance that I will be activated and sent to Afganistan ( 55% of troops there are National Guard). Also the NG are the true cannon-fodder, they train 2 days a month,get the picture? There is a Special Forces NG unit in Florida but you have to be at least 21 ( their website claims that they are up-to-snuff with active duty SF units). NG people go to regular army (or Air Force) training and boot camp :drillsergeant: (obviously).

3. I could just become a Firefighter. They get okay pay and as they go up in the ranks they make more. I would help my local community, I wouldn't have to move around, and it Isn't morally questionable, in fact it is morally good.

CatholicinFL · « **Reply #36 on:** September 16, 2013, 02:40:02 PM »

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I agree with the moral/ethical issues of joining the military. But I have looked into stuff a little more and I came up with three possible ways I could do service to my country.

1. I could try out for one of these 'elite' units( i.e. SEALs, Pararescue, Special Forces.) because they seem more focused and more competent than regular "grunts." For most of these their recruitment websites on the requirement list they want people with no criminal record and moral standards (for instance, they aren't going to give some slum-dawg gang-banger a navy SEAL contract, or any special operator contract for that matter). Now the down side of this is that I might be used for 'peacetime' direct action missions that help further the agenda of O' and his ilk.

2.I could join the national guard. That way I wont be around the homo/drugs/anything-else crap 24/7, only 2 days a month and 2 weeks a year and plus I would get skills, experience, ect., and still have time for family and I dont have to move around so getting to Mass wont be so hard. The downside of this is that There is a great chance that I will be activated and sent to Afganistan ( 55% of troops there are National Guard). Also the NG are the true cannon-fodder, they train 2 days a month,get the picture? There is a Special Forces NG unit in Florida but you have to be at least 21 ( their website claims that they are up-to-snuff with active duty SF units). NG people go to regular army (or Air Force) training and boot camp :drillsergeant: (obviously).

3. I could just become a Firefighter. They get okay pay and as they go up in the ranks they make more. I would help my local community, I wouldn't have to move around, and it Isn't morally questionable, in fact it is morally good.

I forgot to mention that Pararescue only does Search-and-Rescue and they only shoot people/kill in defense of themselves and/or their patients.

What say you!

claudel · « **Reply #37 on:** September 16, 2013, 09:11:08 PM »

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What say you!

I say you haven't listened to a single bloody word spoken to you. You want to be a US-government-certified killer-for-cash, even if only for a few days a month, and you want other people who frequent this site to tell you to go for it.

Not me. Never. Do me and everyone else a favor and take your vanity-driven search for applause elsewhere.

Shame on you.

mikemac · « **Reply #38 on:** September 16, 2013, 09:58:55 PM »

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Hi, as you can see I'm new. I have been looking for advice everywhere on what to do with my life as I am graduating next year. I have always planned on joining the Air Force but because of recent events(i.e. Syria, gαy marriage, ect.) I am thinking that the military is not what it once was and if I were to go to war would I be justified? I have been considering something like firefighter or EMT or even the coast guard instead of the Air Force. I want a job that is not the 'corporate slave' type but that is also morally good. My father and I talk about it and we both agreed that a combat job in the military would be wrong, but would a combat medic job be bad or some other support type job?

Since I am new I will give you a bit of backround. I am homeschooled, I live on a farm with goats and chickens, I serve Mass, I am the oldest of 10, I used to play Lacrosse as a Goalie, and thats about it.

"Is the military a good career choice?"

No it is not.

A firefighter, EMT or the coast guard would be a much better choice. The coast guard would be interesting. Service to my country domestically. Two of my cousins worked with the Canadian Coast Guard based in Tobermory on Lake Huron. Two weeks on the ship and two weeks off. If they wanted to they could have applied for a transfer to the east or west coast or to work on ice breakers in the Canadian arctic.

All the best in your decision.

rlee · « **Reply #39 on:** September 16, 2013, 10:31:56 PM »

http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/09/06/christian-airman-punished-by-lesbian-commander-now-being-investigated-for-talking-to-media/

The armed forces is not my Father's (a career Army Officer) military. That includes the US Coast Guard.

I spent 18 years in law enforcement ending in the mid 1980s and wouldn't even recommend that any more. It has been transformed by Federal money and influence from a Peace Officer's role into a domestic military operation that views the citizens it is supposed to protect as "the enemy" with far too many coworkers that you cannot trust to help you keep your body and soul safe.

I have been an EMT and a Respiratory Therapist and think that a career as a Paramedic would be something you could do and hold your head high.

Career choices for good Catholic men are rapidly disappearing.