http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-j...s/mechanics/utilities-equipment-repairer.html http://www.us-army-info.com/pages/mos/medical/91w.html Your service to country is greatly appreciated.
Ex-military are certainly better at knowing what war is really about, so if I'm going to decide whether we should get into yet another war I'd much rather listen to ex-military than neocon chicken hawks.
I think generalizations are not useful. And using terms like neocon chickenhawk is as useful as racism. In your mind we should have a government run by the military and exclude civilians? Is that what you want?
When I decided to join it was at a college fair in my hs. The recruiters were lined up Army, Navy, Airforce, Marines. I figured if I was going to join the military I would join the hardest branch. Since I knew very little about the different branches I asked each recruiter the same question "which branch of service is the hardest?" The Army guy said: well, you can get money for college and go to Germany....(thanks) The Navy guy was like: well you get to ride on a ship and see different exotic ports and...(thanks) The Airforce guy said: you have to be good in math. (ok...uh...thanks) The Marine *looks up at me like I have a dick on my forehead* and says, rather incredulously: The Marine Corps. Me: here's my name and number. I swore into MEPS 2 days later and was on the DEP. I never forgot that Airforce guy's answer though. I guess it tends to back up what you are suggesting, at least insofar as where the braniacs go
Each branch has a specific mission and each of our branches are the class of the planet. There is not an air force in the world that can match ours.
My older brother was a Navy medic during the Korean war stationed with a Marine platoon inland. When he came home his hair was all grey. Scary shit in those days sleeping near the front in a pup tent.
I wandered into a USAF recruiters office near Hollywood and Vine. I was 17. They had me take a serious of tests. Then they looked puzzled and asked me to come back and take the AFOQT and some language and technical aptitude tests. Then they came over to my house and explained that I had scored extremely high on asian language aptitude, they highest they had ever seen. They wanted me to go into a special flight and attend classes at the American Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey to become a simultaneous Chinese interpreter, the most difficult language course in the military. They wanted me to delay enlistment for 6-months so I could enter a flight with similar people. I thought they were nuts. I had flunked out of Spanish in highschool. I had never perceived that I had any language skills and could barely speak proper English. So I asked what jobs they had that would allow me to enlist the next day. I left the next morning for boot camp and became a radar guy working on Phantoms. Later in life I ended up doing some business travel to Asia and noticed that I seemed to learn asian languages conversationally in about a week lol. After having dozens of asian girlfriends I started to think those tests actually meant something.