To the liberal a$$wipes at NPR. Serving in the military is an honor. It is not settling, second best, or second rate.
Many of them will want to go straight into Officer Candidate School (OCS) or Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS) and find that just having a degree is not an automatic ticket into either one and that once in, it ain’t hackey-sack at the student union. I salute them for making the right choice, of course.
I would clean the bathrooms at Grand Central Station with my tongue before I would work at NPR.
Have you thought...perhaps they are gays and girls?
The twits at NPR have an agenda and it includes being disrespectful to our military, our defenders of our nation and of our Constitution.
It may be true that enlistments and re enlistments are up, but it just as well could be from a resurgence of patriotism among our younger citizens. After all, those in and deployed have shown commitment and excellence in their service. If looking for a soft place to eat and sleep was the first objective, those who are serving certainly have shown they are sharp and on top as to duty in very hard and dangerous places.
Complete B.S. My income more than doubled when I retired from the military, doing exactly the same kind of stuff I was doing in the service.
I gave up easily 50% of my earning power for 21 years to serve.
I only hope it sticks. Though from what I’ve seen and heard from the military lately - especially from the top down - has been mainly disheartening.
And though I feel I’m as tolerant as more and more Americans are forced by their government to be these days, I’ve seen several examples of the uniform of my country being disrespected by homosexuals, and to quote the Corporal-Captain episode from MASH: “I don’t like it. No sir, I don’t like it at all!”
NPR just can’t understand why an educated elitist would choose to join the military rather than huddle in the rain with the drug infested Occupy Wall Street Crowd. Losers.
Just hoping that some of them have to nonsense of college knocked out of them and learn the realities of this world..
I remember when it was the case some guys had a choice of jail or the military. That's not exactly the type of person I'd want in my foxhole.
Same for these people. "Can't find a job? Join the military so you don't starve."
They make it sound like welfare.
Actually, right now is a golden opportunity to create an offshore corporate army, probably in the Caribbean, that would save the US a huge amount of money performing low- or no-intensity missions that are prohibitively expensive for our military to do.
That is, “guard duty” and “peacekeeping” missions that run on for years of nothing happening. Using such a corporate army could cost just a fraction of using our high tech, top of the line real army, and would also prevent the loss of a lot of readiness, which happens to our military during such mundane activities.
The officers of this corporate army would be US officers, and their transport and logistics would also be provided by the US military, which keeps them on a tight leash. However, as contractors, if the US government wanted them to do things that were dangerous or intolerable, they could just say no.
bttt
I get a different message from what I read. I thought they joined the military because they were “jobless”...not to serve their country.
My cousin serves close to the DMZ and absolutely loves America. It’s not that he was jobless, he has a mechanical engineering degree from a respectable university and had an offer from Dell and IBM before he joined.
After the completely retarded and worthless pun in the article title, why would NPR expect an adult to read on?