Alot wrong with adds, they alter perception vs reality and it's asking for people with less with half a brain to come & cause problems. Fact of the matter is that many in the army suffer from psychological problems simply because their personality doesn'tt suit the military life or due to them being untrained in that aspect.Feel free to blame that specific individual for it's actions, that way it's just waiting for more troubles to happen. And yes, they do happen quite often but they don't make it the news quite often.
Secondly, I dislike the training and college money for the fact that this results in many young men enrolling in the military. These are people who are not fully developed psychologically and trauma's are bound to cause a ton of damage. I favor superior after war support and special honors for them or their family as motivational tools more then the current stuff. Fact of the matter is that better support means less dropouts.
On your last point,I'd rather have men chosen by draft then kiddo's running around in the battlefield. On the other hand Í am against most wars and military actions so the entire military should be smaller anyway.
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The military hires ad agencies to make their TV spots, although they do screen the ads before they are posted and allow actual troops instead of actors be in them. Blame the ad agency.
Anyway, if somebody is too stupid to know that joining the Army means you might go to a combat zone they're probably too dumb to pass the ASVAB in the first place. That pretty much solves the problem you have with the ads not mentioning the dangers of war. You don't see McDonald's saying eating too many Big Macs can make you fat in their ads but common sense should reveal that being a possibility.
The military doesn't employ professionalpsychiatristsat every military processing station to screen for people who may be mentally handicapped. They just do a full physical on them and make them fill out a medical questionnaire with the threat of jail time and/or fines if they lie about past medical conditions. If you want them to putpsychiatrists at each processing station be prepared to pay more in taxes.
As for the draft, I would prefer people who actually want to be there watching my back than draftees. I would probably have more confidence in the 19-year old who joined out of high school because his grandfather fought in Vietnam than the rich kid who is only there because his dad didn't know a Senator powerful enough to get him out of the draft. Also, a smaller military means larger workloads or longer tours on the few who are still in.
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