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Killing people for a living is not very desirable.

Hi! So my sister joined the air force right before college, and did basic training and stuff for a year and then went to college and they paid for it. My friend did college and then joined the army and I think they paid for him too. I’m guessing that there is a way that you could go to college first and have the Navy pay if you make a commitment. I think you should talk to someone in the Navy, they could probably give you the lowdown, but I think you can go to college first.

Or a combination of both?
Navy College or Distance Learning on Navy Partnership Schools:
· https://www.navycollege.navy.mil/
· https://www.navycollege.navy.mil/stor…

kittenbasket wrote:

spiratec9 wrote:
Killing people for a living is not very desirable.

I would NOT be killing people. I was going into human resources type work. I probably wouldn’t even leave the country =P

Anyone joining the military cannot say they are not going to kill
people.Thats what the military does.The US has killed over 1 million people
in Iraq.That is one in every 25 people in Irag.All for oil.
You should reconsider joining such an organiztion.

The US has an image of being freedom loving people.
How can they justify killing 1 million people and taking their
oil resources.Freedom to do what they like is that what it means?

I am not just pointing a finger at the US.
I am Canadian and am just as dissappointed in Canada killing
people in Afganastan all those years for what.
If they really wanted to fix that place they should buy all the poppy
crop at above what they get paid for it.And burn it.
Then pay them for next years crop and make it a condition they must grow food.

Maybe I shouldn’t even respond, but maybe you can learn something.
First of all, the US has killed far less than 1 million people in Iraq, just take a look at wikileaks if you don’t believe me. I think the number is near 200,000. People in the military can say that they are not going to kill people. My friend disables bombs. I don’t know of a job more benevolent than that.
Taking their oil resources? Are you kidding? Would the government spend $1 trillion on a war to pick up so little of the US’s oil supply? 0.6% of iraqi oil is consumed by the US. Iraq would like to sell more to the US being desperate for revenue, but we get oil elsewhere. The math just doesn’t add up. The US could buy the oil for significantly less than the war cost. Oil has nothing to do with the war in Iraq. By the way, Afghanistan doesn’t have any oil, so I’m not sure why some claim that the war in Afghanistan “was about the American thirst for oil.” Do you know ANYTHING about what was going on in those countries before other countries intervened?

So you don’t want the US or other countries to interfere when countries oppress other countries or their own citizens? You realize that you take a position that would have left Germany to its systematic killing of Jews, blacks, gays, gypsies, handicapped people, and others, and you take a position that would have you against the action the US took in Iraq to end the sick regime of Saddam Hussein who gassed and tortured his own people and the action taken to crush the Taliban who execute people who so much as look at them the wrong way. I think you take your freedom for granted.