Originally Posted by
rppearso
Absolutely, but that is almost never the case. The military has gotten very good at manipulating people into joining over the years and I consider myself a pretty smart guy with a BS in engineering but because I wanted to fly I was romanticized into the national guard and did not learn the real truth until I was already in, so can you really call someone a "volunteer" when they don't know the whole truth before they join. Its a very tedious game of knowing what is beneath the contract with the scant data available for what really matters (ie if I actually wanted to attend flight school after OCS I would have to sign for 6 more years which I was never made aware of up front so I opted out) but not before I got a busted ankle in basic that bothers me to this day for nothing. And when someone does join that is not educated does that give recruiters a right to exploit that ignorance and still be able to claim to be honorable.