"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message


> Because despite any claims of officials, people don't REALLY know the
> chance of going off to war or coming home dead.

You mean they were sick the day their school made the field trip to
Arlington or what ?

Normally, in American schools, there are 2 compulsory subjects : English and
American history. That's not the case ?
So, they should be able to read the conditions and 2 or 3 articles about
their future employer, and they should have heard about all wars the USA
lost, and the number of death per victory.
If they are too idiot to know that, well...you have a serious ethical issue.
Is it well to hire mentally retarded  people to fight in the name of one's
country ?

>The military promotes
> itself as giving people opportunities for employment, education, and self
> improvement, or in the case of the national guard, a second income.
>They
> don't say, come join up and we'll ship you off to the Middle East for up
> to a year or more at a time, and maybe come back dead.

I'm pretty sure they write it somewhere in the contract, in the pages of the
middle, printed in smaller characters.

> "Expect to go the the front"? How often do wars occur? Always? Once
> during a period of a four year enlistment?
>
> No, only about once a decade, or once in three decades.

Once in a decade ? Which one did you select for 1980's, which one for the
1990's ?
When I say I find many Americans are as ignorant as Japanese kitty-chan
collectors, that's not because they didn't read Red Badge of Courage , but
because of what you've just written. Yeah, I'm sorry too.

A guy called Zoltan Grossman compiled that list, but I had the same in all
my history textbooks, in the chapter US military interventions. That does
not include regular interventions or when they help other armies. More
details in the book "A century of U.S. military interventions ", published
in Sepponia, probably avalaible and affordable to any candidate to US army
enrollement.


 IRAN 1980
 LIBYE 1981
 SALVADOR 1981-92
 NICARAGUA 1981-90
 LIBAN 1982-84
 HONDURAS 1983-89
 GRENADE 1983-84
 IRAN 1984
 LIBYE 1986
 BOLIVIE 1986
 IRAN 1987-88
LIBYE 1989 .
 ILES VIERGES 1989
 PHILIPPINES 1989
 PANAMA 1989-90
 LIBERIA 1990 .
 ARABIE SAOUDITE 1990-91
  IRAQ 1990- ?
 KOWE$(D??(BT 1991
 LOS ANGELES 1992
 SOMALIE 1992-94
 YOUGOSLAVIE 1992-94 .
 BOSNIE 1993-95
 HAITI 1994-96
 CROATIE 1995
 ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97 .
 LIBERIA 1997
 ALBANIE 1997
 SOUDAN 1998
 AFGHANISTAN 1998
 IRAK 1998- ?
 YOUGOSLAVIE 1999- ?
 YEMEN 2000 .
 MACEDOINE 2001
 ETATS-UNIS 2001.
 AFGHANISTAN 2001

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