But they're training to save lives during war? Tf? Just because they arent a medical person ( and there are medical people trained in the military too) doesn't mean they dont save lives?
Yeah, military training isn't exactly "free."
There may be no cost to you, but the educational valuation of the training can reach several hundred thousands of dollars.
The training for some specialties may reach as long as an entire year, and that's five days a week and 8-10 hours a day... equivalent to at least Master's degree worth of classwork.
Because you're bound by at least a 4 year contract as the government's property. If they wanted our entire volunteer force to pay for themselves, no one would join, because it's financially impossible. Tell a pilot to pay for the jet, all the shit that the jet needs like bombs, missiles, cannon ammo, fuel, etc., training costs, living costs, and all the other shit. That's millions a year compared to 50k a year. It's sad that people think this is a reasonable argument and a good meme. Bad meme.
I'd rather have dumbasses shoot guns than dumbasses mess up my internal organs during surgery and quite possibly ruin me for the rest of my life.
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Then again, both are pretty bad when mess ups happen
You idiots are all missing the point. They don't charge people to go through military training, and yes, they have their reasons for it, but why don't they find reasons to do the same with medical training?
Because then you would open a loop hole on what skills are considered "free" worthy. Such as having a fitness trainer/ nutritionist promotes health so less medical training would be required, or art and music help with depression, or mechanics are needed to help keep mental stress down, or Engineers are needed to make people feel safe, and it will keep going. So everybody would start claiming that in a way their job is required for the medical well being of people.
It takes DECADES to learn to be a doctor and a day to be useful in the military. One is just an expensive process for all people involved while the other is rather cheap.
Then will yourself to become a lion right now. "Where there's a will, there's a way" is complete optimistic bullshit. For every "will" devoted person you list, I can list ten who died using the same "will"
Because there are already enough things that would prevent someone from joining the military, now imagine if you had to pay to subject yourself to psychological and physical stresses that would drive some people insane, and then you have to commit 4 years of your life to being government property.
There may be no cost to you, but the educational valuation of the training can reach several hundred thousands of dollars.
The training for some specialties may reach as long as an entire year, and that's five days a week and 8-10 hours a day... equivalent to at least Master's degree worth of classwork.
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Then again, both are pretty bad when mess ups happen
PRIVATE, I DIDN'T SEE YOU AT CAMOFLAGE CLASS TODAY!
THANK YOU SIR!