Gil Hamilton wrote:
I would think that if you banned people who believed in all four syllables of Jesus from joining the Army, you'd have trouble meeting your enlistment goals in alot of places.
You could also fix the enlistment quota thing by letting gays and women in.
That wouldn't fix the quota at all. Women are already in the military, and for the most part wouldn't take combat jobs, many complain about their pog office job as being strenuous. I also doubt there would be enough openly gay recruits to take jobs in frontline infantry to replace Bible thumping christians. Thats mostly experience from what I've seen.
Anyways, Durandal the Army shafts you on some of the things you mentioned in irder to get "better training." It sucks, I fucking hate running twelve fucking miles every Friday and going shoot over two thousand rounds at the range, but the truth is if it helps me come back from Iraq its worth it.
Formerly the artist known as Captain Lennox
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." - Sir Isaac Newton
If you look at British society during the height of their Empire, the answer to the military's recruiting problems is clear: make it intolerable for the lower classes to live at home, by providing them an environment of unemployment, seething contempt, pollution, misery, and disease.
This kind of environment makes the deprivations of military life more palatable by comparison. Thankfully, the Republicans have already figured this out, and are already putting this plan into action.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
