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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-06-11 06:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #2352 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2352 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-06-12 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
It's not precisely a peactime generation. But it is a generation which has never experienced a draft, and is therefore largely isolated from the reality of the wars we're engaged in because relatively few of their friends and loved ones are directly affected.

Many recruits today are young, unattached, disadvantaged people, some of whom are being drawn from nontraditional pools such as prisons, and this exacerbates both the problem I just mentioned and the negative perception civilians have of the military (which attitude, I'm told, is unfortunately somewhat mutual. The military may be the only family some of these guys have ever known, so when they're released to civilian life after sometimes multiple tours of duty in hostile territory, they have trouble re-integrating into a society that never welcomed them in the first place. Some are immediately snapped up by law enforcement, which results in situations like police officers opening fire without warning on unarmed civilians while in pursuit of a suspect.)

tl;dr: Yeah, it's a generational thing. No, it's not entirely unwarranted.