I'm not expecting replies, I'm just bothered by this.

Army recruiters are like door to door salesman, they need to reach their quota to keep their bosses from breathing down their necks. I've accepted this idea of business and how corporations work: a chain of people just doing their jobs no matter the consequences. But this is more serious than say, me getting shit on at work by the powers that be to get more work done in fewer hours. This deals with life and is a complete scam that gets rid of the human aspect entirely.

Soldiers sign a contract that in the fine print that says, basically, you will serve 8 years no matter what and everything from wages to conditions will change and you will accept that. They will add time onto your service and call it an "involuntary extension" (that was during the late 80s/early 90s, the name has changed since then).

Wannabe recruits are not given all the details, details that they should be. As some of you may know, the Iraq "war" is a good example of this. Greedy money grabbing corporations trying to make money off of a war (whether by attaining oil or the massive quantities of money that's dumped into creating killing machines). War is profit.

These soldiers are completely dehumanized and ignored, even after boot camp. Soldiers usually sign up- I'm assuming- knowing boot camp will be difficult but they aren't aware that they will be treated like shit for the rest of their "careers."

One soldier (his name escapes me at the moment) was trying to give out water and food- in which they had two cases of civilian rations or whatever they call it- to starving children while situated in Iraq but he wasn't allowed. Why wasn't he allowed? Surely giving out food would be beneficial? He wasn't allowed to give it out freely because they (meaning whatever higher power(s) is in charge ultimately) didn't want the civilians to be confused as to why they were there.

There's more but some of it I can't think of at the moment. Thanks for reading if you did.

Yea, it sickens me as well.