Author Topic: Is the military a good career choice? (Read 8912 times)

bowler · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2013, 11:53:24 AM »

Quote from: sedetrad

I would recommend becoming a navy nurse. If you are bright and do well , the navy will put you through nurse practitioner or physicians assistant school. You will also be able to attain good government jobs more readily than your peers after your service.

I remember reading that 60% of women in the Navy get pregnant within 1 year. I would not recommend such a job for women.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2013, 11:59:11 AM »

The military is a great paying occupation. They are actually overpaid, sob stories in the press notwithstanding.

The Navy and the Coast Guard would be the least morally offensive. Both of these organizations have completely legitimate missions in both peacetime and wartime.

The Air Force exists to bomb and incinerate people, so if our country was lead by fine morally upstanding people this wouldn't be a problem. However, even under the best circuмstances, the air force is morally repulsive. Technically fantastic, though!

The standing armies are neutral, as in their job descriptions. A guy aiming a rifle has more moral agency than a guy pushing a button on a computer screen far removed from the scene.

The environment in the military is largely inconducive to living a Catholic lifestyle but there are "Iron Man" competitions so to speak.

I would discourage the military as an option, unless you wanted to excel at some exclusive military skill like flying a fighter jet or some military activity.

The culture of the military is constantly going more and more pro-abortion and now women and gαys are poster children for the "future" of the military. Too many of your fellow soldiers would be almost like grifters always looking for a scam.

You would also be at the beck and call of what can only be described as a masonic society (which is what the U.S. has pretty much always been but the mask is completely off now).

bowler · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2013, 12:01:39 PM »

Quote from: CatholicinFL

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.

What does your father do for a living that he can't teach you? I learned my work from my father, and he learned it from my grandfather, and my grandfather learned it from his father. Although all four of us dealt in different businesses, the knowledge base is still the same. A father teaches his children EVERYTHING about survival in the world, how to repair everything in the house, field, auto, business, conduct, honor, justice, the Faith..... etc.

This theory of sons learning on their own from others is for the animals that abandon their offspring at birth, like snakes, and sharks.

CatholicinFL · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2013, 12:50:57 PM »

Thanks for responding so quickly. My father was an officer in the Navy and now he is an industrial engineer. I agree that a "profession" is better than wasting money and time at a 4 year university in this day in age. I agree that the Coast Guard is probably the least offensive because they are practically a maritime rescue/police force with a military spin and they rarely leave US waters. But what do you think of Firefighting and/or EMT? You can raise a family on the average pay but you wont get rich. Plus you are doing a work of mercy, right? Visit the sick. I think pulling someone out of a wrecked car or burning building falls under that. I don't think getting a Firefighter job or EMT job is that hard, I looked into it. There are always more people so that also increases the need for more doctors, EMTs, Paramedics, Firefighters, ect.
The lure the military has on me is I guess the desire for action or excitement, maybe I played with G.I. Joes to much as a kid. And I agree that the military is just muscle for the masonic "empire" we belong to, but is the coast guard a possible alternative based on the reasons I gave above?

CatholicinFL · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2013, 12:54:02 PM »

Oh and to give you some perspective Father Hewko convinced me and my dad about the military.