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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181420)1/23/2004 8:55:54 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (3) of 1574267
 
Any soldier can tell you that he or she is in the military so that their loved ones back home don't have to be.

That's the dumbest thing have read today. The vast majority of kids enlist right out of high school and have absolutely no sense of the spirit of patriotism you like to tell youself about above. They are lured with incentives and they bite because of their social background and limited choices. Today uncle sam is having to pay re-enlistment bonuses of up to 10K to retain folks...if they re-enlist while on foreign soil, it's tax free. That seems like a lot of money to a typical soldier that lives paycheck to paycheck, has car payments, and sometimes a wife.

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