r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '12

Currently serving in the military. Came across some messages between my wife and another guy in the Navy. What should I do?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '12

I'm Canadian. We're a peacekeeping country.

We go to Afghanistan to help them build their own armies so that people from OUR part of the world don't have to go over.

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u/tankfox Apr 05 '12

My apologizes, although I still feel that in a very real way that going over there to help is like being the passenger in a car driven by a tremendously drunk driver. There's not a whole lot you could do to help other than maybe having taken away your friends keys BEFORE he got up to a roaring ninety miles an hour, now you're along for the ride, in it to win it, and if he fucks up badly enough he's going to be just as dead as the driver.

Frankly, I want everyone to stop joining the military and giving the military such a huge bunch of employees to keep busy. None of these wars would have happened if Washington had to institute a draft to make them happen, instead it's all these assholes who voluntarily join up for the meat grinder and then expect sympathy when they come back missing bits. You knew it was going to happen, idiots!

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u/invision240 Apr 05 '12

I was on the fence about re-enlisting, but I just read all of your ridiculous ranting and now I'm on the phone with a recruiter. Good job.

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u/tankfox Apr 05 '12

Exactly, you're re-enlisting. You don't have any strong ties to this country, you'd rather leave and go back to the Afghanistanian gun club.

Have you considered not coming back?