Moses Mobetta
Well-Known Member
Right but in the 2 enlistments I served the war involvement we had was less than 25% of both combined. That was not even close to what I had in mind and because of that I refused to reenlist again. During peace time my unit saved lives by responding to aircraft that went down at sea and on land many times. We pulled pilots and aircrew out of the ocean on quite a few occassions and participated in removing mines from highly traveled waterways again helping to save lives. This was 75% of my combined service being involved in rescue type missions. The political leadership that starts wars and uses the military to strong arm foreign nations out of their resources are the real ones to blame. Unless they are held accountable they will continue to wage endless wars and cause a lot of innocent people to die. Our closest neighbor Mexico is a place that needs help, we could be helping ourselves and them if the leaders really cared about people. But sadly its all about money and power. Hard for 18 year olds to understand that when they enlist and want to do something good. We should be outraged at how these young people are manipulated and coerced into these wars by lying politicians. Many of them lose their lives so a few billionaires can get a few more billion and it is a shame.just giving my two cents, its not freedom if your oppressing another nation, which is iraq. thats basically all we did. thats basically all we do in all wars, its all about economy. if there was a real threat, there would be a draft. people should look into the reasons why a war was started, but dont listen to the first two reasons. the real reason is usually to dark for our government to glorify. so think before you go off defending yourself, its great you wanted to serve for our country, but you fought in an oil war that was only significant because a couple of warlords like saddam. taliban wont ever be fully eliminated either, that country may as well nuke themselves because all they do is kill each other. and plenty of countries are developing wmd's, dont see us barging in there, running over women. we keep our distance, theres not resources in north korea anyways.