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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.

    Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.

    It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.

    Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.