I have never gone into what are no more than the modern day equivalent of the crusades and that isn't cowardly in the slightest. Cowardly is signing up to do things that are wrong and making a living from it. A lot of people have been killed in overseas countries by US troops. Vietnam was supposedly over 2 million and granted many had no choice as they were forced to do it, but even then one should resist and go to prison instead. In these modern wars it is people who are in the military as a career choice. I don't see the point in skirting around the issue and not telling the truth. It isn't a noble and decent thing to sign up for the US military with all that it involves. It means selling out morally.

I don't see the need to defend my work as it is peaceful and there is no destruction or harm involved. If my conditions deteriorate then I will leave which is something I may well do come the end of the year, but it will have nothing to do with war crimes, murder, torture, or any of the other things that are synonymous with the US military. I have always been involved in work that doesn't harm and most would say the same. However, there are terrible corporations and one should morally not be involved with them too. Walmart is an obvious case in point. The NSA now is too on the suck list. In saying that there is no more terrible job than to be working in the military of the worlds leading sponsor of international terrorism.

You are supposed to mouse around and never point out the obvious and I find it amusing that I am painted as the big bad devil for pointing out the white elephant in the room. The US military sucks and anyone who signs up to become a trained killer is not like ordinary people who don't pick up guns, invade countries, and kill. It is an abberration and should be described as such and especially when it concerns the US military of the last decade. It is a monstrosity.

Having said that VC seems alright. However, reconciling the job is something I have never been able to do. I don't understand why anybody would train to kill other people. I'm not cowardly for thinking that way as I imagine many probably think the same way. Everybody likes to hammer teaching which is a benign and positive job, but you say anything about the values of people who sign up for the military as a safe job and you are satan. It just seems a bit absurd.