@hurtingsara
Because it’s true, Jarhead Jerry.
Ouch.
Why do you think high schools in wealthy areas send recruitment opt-out forms home with first-day paperwork,
Rich areas tend to be liberal and rich, either skewing the area to dislike the military or afford opportunities to their kids instead of needing the military to do it.
but schools in poor areas don’t?
Because those kids would benefit more from the opportunity? This also has nothing to do with military and is entirely up to the schools. Many poor school districts don’t even allow recruiters on campus.
Why do you think the first comment on every post from a young kid in poverty with limited options is “join the military?”
Because they can join with zero skills and few qualifications, but will pay them an above average wage, free healthcare, virtually unlimited opportunities, free college while in and after when they’ll pay you to go to free college.
My university had to bar the recruiters from setting up in the free food pantry.
Why?
Heaven forbid they come to the people that could benefit the most?
So they could shill at you while you got some peanut butter to survive finals week.
Better you never hear about the options? If the peace corps did it, would you call it shilling?
The US military is a death machine that eats poor kids.
Not really. Most people that go into combat arms just be are middle class white kids. Most poor and or people of color pick support/skills based jobs that are less likely to see combat.
The rate of combat deployments has dropped to an incredibly low level, with the intensity matching suit. A poor kid joining the military today is almost guaranteed to not see combat in their initial enlistment, they can get out and get paid to go to free college.