Got an email through my school. Basically I could finish out my degree and they'd train me to be a pilot. I would make $60k a year.
Is this BS? Also, would this be like the worst decision of my life? I don't wanna end up fighting for Israeli genocide or Ukraine.
RN I'm studying spanish in guatemala and traveling south america a bit. I've gotten some pressure to consider it. I wanted to hear from y'all because I don't wanna hear a bunch of biased BS.
This isn't a shitpost, and I'm probably not going to do it. Was wondering if anyone in here was in a similar spot.
My gut instinct is that they're telling lies about the pays/opportunities.
Thoughts?
Isn't that the rub? That nobody knows what the military will assign people to or where they were put them in the world and nobody can know the future.
Imagine you enlisted last year and right now you are on warship sent by Biden to the Eastern Med. It's anchored to menace Hezbollah and shore up Israel - bad pun intended. If your job is maintenance and your ship doesn't end up killing anybody directly - I guess you could make a moral argument that you have no reason to feel guilty about anything. But you're still a cog - no matter how small - of the American war machine. And your ship certainly is indirectly causing death, pain, and suffering in Gaza (and the West Bank) simply due to its presence. It's yet another thing that makes the Israelis feel like untouchable supermen.
I know I'd never want to be on that ship.
Or projecting American power against China, or DPRK, or in a nuclear sub patrolling God knows what.
Unless you're doing it as a last resort in your life, knowing what you know by being a leftist here on Hexbear, there really is no moral way to serve in the US military.
Even in the "best" case scenario, you're flying a plane to drop bombs on enemies of the US. Fuck that.