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Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 23 hours agoThe military is majority support roles like mechanic, cook, medic, signaler, padre, admin, logistics. There’s combat roles like infantry, artillery, combat engineer and armored and then the rest are people supporting them. Even in the combat roles it’s still pretty rare to be “murdering”. Americans are a bit different but a lot of militaries have rules of engagement. It’s not indiscriminate killing. It’s defending your fellow soldier, it’s protecting your base. They’re just people trying to do a job like any other.
Most of these roles are means to help actual infantry and pilots to kill people.
The only roles that might be seen as something different are medic and cook. But even then - they are there so that the soldiers could be there on the battlefield later on.
Sending an army of medics and cooks would be pretty based if they weren’t there yo help the people doing the pillaging instead of the people who need it.
UN is doing pretty much that. A little armed personnel, a lot of medics and cooks to help the locals
Somehow I think they don’t get to burn a trillion dollars a year to do that though
No they’re not. The military’s role is not to kill. The majority of soldiers careers are spent assisting during disasters and supporting and maintaining equipment. The amount that kill are a very big minority. Movies and TV play it up.
Assisting during disasters
Emergency responders do this with much less overhead - like, well, weapons. They also receive a much more extensive training for this specific kind of thing.
Stabilizing areas
UN Peacekeepers do this. National armies serve “national interests”, as defined by the government backing them. They are not always interested in deescalation of conflicts, and US Army is particular stirred so many conflicts and made them worse because it served US government.
It’s not the soldiers decision
It’s their decision to join the army and voluntarily give up their right to refuse. If you know you can be sent to raze territories and people, why do you join in the first place? There are better places to do good aspects of what army does.
The primary role of military is to project power by either destroying or threatening to destroy anything a given government doesn’t like. Everything else comes secondary, and if not for that, we would have dedicated personnel only meant to do the good things instead. Don’t buy weapons and helicopters, train people to respond to emergencies and assist local civilians in hostile areas. UN does this. But hey, how do you instate banana republics then?
Yea not reading all that. I know it’s just your opinion. Facts are the military isn’t a murder machine. They serve the country in multiple areas. Many areas that don’t get credit. They also do a lot of harm. But the vast majority of soldiers are amazing people who do more good in their lifetime than I bet you probably do. Much of a soldier’s career is helping other people. You have a very simplistic understanding of what a military is.
Ah yeah the “I didn’t serve in the SS but the Wehrmacht” defense
Give it a rest. You’re closer to a Nazi then they are.
hows that lol
You’re extremist driving politics to the fringes based on in/out group think. You’re highly exploitable and manipulated by people in power while believing you’re fighting for values that somehow superior to everyone and everything else
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Hey man, I’m not a Nazi, I only supply the gas
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You’re on .ml
You’re all closer to Nazis than they are.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Oh cool I, I can ask for a military discount now
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Are you always this big of a loser or is this a special occasion