• capital@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is hard to convey to people who didn’t serve but my job, even if I had deployed, was low risk.

    I worked in datacenters where I needed a jacket to stay warm year round.

    I wore the same pair of boots, issued to me in basic, my entire 4 years because I sat on my ass the majority of the time. They never needed replacing.

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      9 months ago

      Did you know how low the risk was going to be when you signed up? Do you think most people sign up knowing that there will be little likelihood that they will die in a war?

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        9 months ago

        I did and I would expect most do because the jobs are public.

        I considered pararescue and the difference between that and what I did was clear before joining.