Tbf the national guard recruits with videos of putting up sand bags during floods and digging through rubble after earthquakes and tornadoes looking for survivors. They tell them they’re there to help the state in emergencies and the army reserves is who goes to fight to fill in gaps. I spent my 4 years in the army helping to train new recruits. Basically I did nothing in the regular army. Then I spent 2 years in the national guard and got deployed. During my year in Baghdad I saw regular army, navy, marines and national guard, as well as soldiers from too many other countries to count. What I never knowingly encountered? An army reservist.
Ok, so I’m not saying this kid was good or bad, there’s no way to know his intentions. I’m just saying it’s certainly possible he was just a naive kid who wanted to help but didn’t do his homework. He should have known plenty of Iowa vets that could have told him. At one point Iowa national guard had over 140% deployment rate. Meaning that many had gone multiple times, which is fucking bullshit. The national guards recruiting is far more sinister and predatory than the army. Because with the army you likely know you’re getting your ticket stamped at some point. These kids often just haven’t done their due diligence.
It seems that Americans, who spend all their time online, are completely unable to ascertain that the US military complex exists primarily for killing people outside of America. Before the internet, I could excuse young people falling for the propaganda. It was possible that they didn’t have access to information. Now you have to want to fall for the propaganda and purposely ignore all evidence to the contrary to believe joining up isn’t a ticket to eventually be called on to kill someone outside of the US and possibly be used as cannon fodder yourself.
Again, I’d say naivety and well… Sheer stupidity aren’t out of the question here. There’s been decades of propaganda and eroding education here. I’m not quite willing to call this kid willfully evil yet.
Did he think he would be delivering tickles? Because if he did, the military seems like an odd choice.
Tbf the national guard recruits with videos of putting up sand bags during floods and digging through rubble after earthquakes and tornadoes looking for survivors. They tell them they’re there to help the state in emergencies and the army reserves is who goes to fight to fill in gaps. I spent my 4 years in the army helping to train new recruits. Basically I did nothing in the regular army. Then I spent 2 years in the national guard and got deployed. During my year in Baghdad I saw regular army, navy, marines and national guard, as well as soldiers from too many other countries to count. What I never knowingly encountered? An army reservist.
Ok, so I’m not saying this kid was good or bad, there’s no way to know his intentions. I’m just saying it’s certainly possible he was just a naive kid who wanted to help but didn’t do his homework. He should have known plenty of Iowa vets that could have told him. At one point Iowa national guard had over 140% deployment rate. Meaning that many had gone multiple times, which is fucking bullshit. The national guards recruiting is far more sinister and predatory than the army. Because with the army you likely know you’re getting your ticket stamped at some point. These kids often just haven’t done their due diligence.
It seems that Americans, who spend all their time online, are completely unable to ascertain that the US military complex exists primarily for killing people outside of America. Before the internet, I could excuse young people falling for the propaganda. It was possible that they didn’t have access to information. Now you have to want to fall for the propaganda and purposely ignore all evidence to the contrary to believe joining up isn’t a ticket to eventually be called on to kill someone outside of the US and possibly be used as cannon fodder yourself.
Again, I’d say naivety and well… Sheer stupidity aren’t out of the question here. There’s been decades of propaganda and eroding education here. I’m not quite willing to call this kid willfully evil yet.