[Weed.Wacker]

Hooka, first of all, I'd like to say I'm sorry for your loss. Also I'd like to thank everyone for the info they posted.


I appreciate you guy's concern about mine, or anybody else's decision to join. I am well aware of the dangers and problems of joining. Also I am aware that theres a part of the U.S. government that is the bitch of global and munition corporations. I know the Iraq War is a bullshit war over oil and I know almost every war or conflict after WWII is most likely bullshit or started because of lies. The Vietnam war started because our ships were placed in a way near Vietnam to provoke getting shot at. I know that our government supported elements in the South America for the sake of fruit industries. I know which wars are fought for corporations and business.

The U.S. is not perfect, but I do feel that it is the best place to live. The only reason why my family is alive is because of the U.S. military. My family were from South Vietnam and my grandpa was a spy and he found many Vietcong people took them into custody. After the Tet Offensive when the U.S. was pulling out, my grandpa just happened to be fishing on his boat and saw the U.S. ships leaving, he brought his family to the U.S. ships and they were willing to take him and his family to safety. Now here I am today, if that never happened I would never have existed. I know the U.S. provoked North Vietnam to fire at their ships so they can start the war with a good excuse and I know how the war was filled with BS and lies. But the thing is, the South Vietnamese did not want to live under Communist oppression, its better to live in a democracy then a under communist oppression. The U.S. helped South Vietnam and they helped fight the Communists. Not all wars are perfect, and sure the U.S. lost. But what if they dident? Vietnam would of been a much better place right now. The Vietnamese people today are being fucked over by their government. Its not fun when a police officer places a gun in your house, then accuses you of illegal owner ship and faking a plot that involved you using it against the government. Then your put in jail or executed, not fun at all. Also the U.S. entered also because they wanted to stop the spread of Communism, if we just let it spread, it would of soon reached our soil too. Think about it.

My point being, I know wars are sometimes started or helped started by people in our government who are rich greedy bastards. But that dosent make the individual people serving bad or for stupid reasons. The Iraq War is taking up precious lives of brave Americans and other coalition forces. I feel that the conflict in Afghanistan is the most important. Sure, munitions contracts are milking off the conflict, but we are helping the Iraqi people. The previous government in Afganistan that we all know as the Taliban is pretty fucked up and tortures people. I don't see why its okay to let a nation were they allow people to get stoned to death as entertainment for a half-time show during a soccer game just because the two people were caught together before they were married. Different culture? Sure, but stoning them to death does not make any sense. Our current conflict there is going to end stupid shit like that, I don't think its right to kick back while people are being put to death by a government run by men with guns riding along toyota pickup trucks. Also, there is genocide there, the taliban thinks they could just ride along and enslave Asian people and execute them as they please. Our current mission there will stop all that.

Stopping genocide is always a good reason to start a war, all wars fought to stop genocide is always logical. Would you like it if a mob armed with knives and guns decided to roll unto your house, rape you and your family, and chop off body parts as they please and torture you, and then kill you?

The only reason why our nation is so safe is because of the military, the only reason we are not invaded is because of the military. If we had no people serving, another nation can just roll around into ours and just start pushing people around. Would you like to live under a Soviet or Chinese dictatorship? I'm not a big fan of genocide and slave labor happening in our country. Yes, we have been fighting bs wars from time to time. But people seem to forget that the U.S. ENDED the Soviet Union's communist regime. If it still existed, our country would still be under threat of invasion or large scale attack. Imagine if most of world was under Soviet rule, the next step would be just to invade the U.S. As we all know, communism is great on paper but it fails the real world.

America may be a shitty place, but it sure as hell is better place to live then many other countries. That is why we are all here. To serve and protect it, AND getting paid for it, is a pretty good offer. Also, were not forced to join. We should be proud of that.

A lot of U.S. forces are being routed to serve in Afghanistan now, I am willing to serve there because I believe the war there is right.

I have a lot of friends in the military and they were bored as fuck when they serve, but they also had the times of their lives too. Now they can afford to study, and with what they learned in the military they have much better career opportinitues. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, the most retardedly expensive place in the U.S. to live in, even houses in the ghetto cost like $700,000. While the rest of the U.S. has huge homes in decent neighborhoods for like $250,000. This place is fucking expensive to live in, my family dosent have a lot of money, my dad is not supporting me when it comes to college money and my mom is not really making a lot. Yes I do have a lot of options aside from the military, heck my mom works for Financial Aid. But I choose to serve in the military, with the career and money opportinuties, I think its a good choice. I am well aware of my plan to join the military may backfire, sure I may lose a limb, sure I might die. But you know, life's full of risks and I feel okay with taking this one.

Okay well shit load of typing I know. But with that stuff aside, I never meant this thread to be political debate. I was only wondering about ownership of a card and being able to be enlisted. Thats all I wanted to know, and thank you for the info. I'll probably get a card after my military service.