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Question: ... what would you choose ?
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6-month military service
 
#2
9-month civil service
 
#3
I have a severe medical condition, making me like 100% unable to serve
 
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« on: August 13, 2016, 03:10:20 PM »

9-month civil service for sure.  I would never qualify for military service even if I wanted to due to mental health reasons.  (I'd previously considered being in the military as a chaplain until I found out training is about as rigorous as it is for reserve and combat enlisters.)  I'm still not ruling out a term in the Peace Corps, though.  And it's not popular to say, but the US military over the past few decades has been so far cucked and pivoted around false impressions of "manliness" that I have no desire to be in the company of troops while on the job, and there's no way on earth I could bear showering with other men.

The politics or cause wouldn't sway me, either.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden
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« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2016, 03:56:49 PM »

And it's not popular to say, but the US military over the past few decades has been so far cucked and pivoted around false impressions of "manliness" that I have no desire to be in the company of troops while on the job, and there's no way on earth I could bear showering with other men.

1. Please stop using that word.
2. What the heck does that mean?

I think the US military has, even from a non-interventionist perspective, drifted far from what its intended purpose was or should be - protecting the country.  It does much good, but otherwise it's become the standard tool of the United States to meddle in other countries' affairs even when there's no perceived need for it or when doing so only aggravates the problems overseas.  (And with that, it would make little sense for me to serve in the military when I'm so fervently against most areas of US foreign policy and want no part in their misadventures.)  Not to mention the deplorable way this country treats its vets when they come home and how our soldiers are used as human guinea pigs when they're on duty.

I'd probably have a different attitude of the US military if this country wasn't so involved in the world stage.  I realize that's inevitable for such a large country as the way it's been for empires historically, but I don't agree with it.
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