Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials

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• kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They increased the max to 42

  https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements

  This is not a draft. Which is like 18-26ish typically.

  BUT, that doesn’t mean the draft is fixed at those ages. BUT, I doubt they would ever need to draft up to 42 based on the US population and the willingness of psychos to want to a) kill people or b) get paid to kill people via promises of a better life later as a veteran (Baby killer)

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There's the ones who like to shoot things, but don't forget the c) it's either join the military for pay or live in poverty or worse.

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tagging you as “killing is cool” for trying to justify joining the military and killing people to have a good life for yourself as somehow acceptable in any situation.

      With as much civility as a person like you deserves: please exit the planet at your earliest convenience.

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      • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not sure where that came from, but tag me however you want. Might want to reread what I wrote that was agreeing with you and adding more ways people get funneled into service? Nothing I said was a promotion for joining anything.

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Chill the fuck. That isn’t what they said at all. They said it’s the reason some people do it.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The only actual psycho in this conversation is you.

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I doubt they would ever need to draft up to 42 based on the US population and the willingness of psychos to want to a) kill people or b) get paid to kill people via promises of a better life later as a veteran (Baby killer)

    They need a draft once all those Action Hero wannabes get swatted down by Iranian drones and the Canadian troops start rolling in to annex the southern province.

    Who knew Fallout would be right about the annexation but wrong about which way it went?

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Haha annex. Love it.

      There’s a good line from the TV show, I don’t think it was used in the games. It’s in reference to a character that has to travel from Canada to the USA, and someone tells them:

      “don’t think of them as humans, think of them as Americans”

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  • Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This website says it goes up to 45

    usmilitary.com/from-18-to-45-a-comprehensive-look…

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well awesome for me I reckon, I’ll be 44 this Wednesday. 👍

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• HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’re never too old to soak up an FPV drone

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  • Hello_there@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Join the navy so that a single $300 drone can destroy a $50B Trump class battleship

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    • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Give the year 10 years and it’ll be a $350 Trillion Trump Class America Drone, and be some janky ass quad copter that burns coal

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      • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well maybe we are getting steampunk after all…

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• mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Draft age gonna change in any real war.

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  • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, they will forcibly recruit anyone they want if their hold on power is seriously threatened

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most of war is getting things fixed or moving to the front line fighting. For every battalion fighting there is another fixing cars, doing laundry, cooking, or getting the paperwork in order for all of those. Doctors are just as important to an army as soldiers. None of those jobs is too much for a 35 year old getting 4 years of service in.

  Ageist nonsense.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They used to contact out most of that stuff for us Marines

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• StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Russia entered the chat

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• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  35 is the new 27

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• 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good thing I’m 35 in a few months.

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  • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except they just changed the enlistment (and by proxy draft) age to 42.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You and i my friend

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• lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  35 is too young imo, or should be the minimum age

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah we need the military as an option for poor 18yos with no job or education prospects after highschool. Which, despite the declining birthright, is still somehow a growing demographic.

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  • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, it should be, but 18-24 y/o’s are much easier to indoctrinate and radicalize, as well as far more reckless in their tolerance for risky activities.

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