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I call BS. I doubt you have even 1 friend who actually served. As for the suicide issue, those are tragic beyond measure but again I think you are just pulling said associations totally out of Uranus.
Originally posted by The_Zomar
Thankfully not even a minute of my life wasted on such a dead end "career"
unfortunately 20+ of my closest friends are serving and let me know what happens.
And not all of them get killed; more of them commit suicide.edit on 28-1-2011 by The_Zomar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sonofliberty1776
I call BS. I doubt you have even 1 friend who actually served. As for the suicide issue, those are tragic beyond measure but again I think you are just pulling said associations totally out of Uranus.
Originally posted by The_Zomar
Thankfully not even a minute of my life wasted on such a dead end "career"
unfortunately 20+ of my closest friends are serving and let me know what happens.
And not all of them get killed; more of them commit suicide.edit on 28-1-2011 by The_Zomar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by lewman
reply to post by DrumsRfun
so i suppose the voting age would need to be lowered too.
Originally posted by lewman
another idea would be to let them join the army but not let them go to the front lines until they are atleast 21, but i suppose the us and uk armies are so despised around the world that any situation regarding our forces in another nation can very quickly turn into a battle ground.