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Ronin13
11-04-2013, 20:33
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I'm kinda sick to my stomach with this Sub-Headline from USA Today:
"Elite warriors lost without war"
"For many highly-trained 'killing machines,' returning to civilian life is difficult and frightening."
WTF!? Considering USA Today proves they know very little about our current military numbers- about 34% of the US Army is combat arms, the rest is considered "service and support" related MOSs. This is precisely the reason so many veterans (including myself at one time) are finding it difficult to find work; so many idiots in our society know so little about the military that all a lot of people think is that we're all adrenaline charged up "killing machines." Recent veterans have higher numbers of unemployed than the rest of the population, and I fear that part of it is because so many fail to see the real skills we're bringing to the table learned from our service. Then lib-rag USA Today has to go and stick a finger in our eye. Any of the veterans on here know that even if you served in Infantry, Scouts, Tanker, etc you have valuable leadership, problem solving, teamwork and other skills that transfer over to the civilian realm. Luckily, there are some out there who do see and recognize the wonderful skills one can gain from being in any job in the military... but in the grand scheme, I suspect this may be a minority.
cstone
11-04-2013, 20:45
Does anyone pay for the USA Today? The only place I have ever seen it is free in hotels.

People tend to find the information they are looking for and rarely find anything they are not looking for. I suspect the people who will find this story informative already suffer from a lack of information, which is commonly known as ignorance.

Here is an interesting Op-Ed piece from the NY Times earlier this year http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/americans-and-their-military-drifting-apart.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
UrbanWolf
11-04-2013, 20:52
The writers for newspaper like USA Today are usually not the smartest people, they might be college grads with an useless Liberal Arts degree and 2.05 GPA and no other skill that enable them to do anything better. They usually don't even get paid full time, so they don't like anyone other than themselves. Take their writing pieces as what they are, but don't expect much journalism in them.
DavieD55
11-04-2013, 20:55
It is a "mainstream" publication, what do you expect... Stop subscribing to that propagandist BS.
UrbanWolf
11-04-2013, 20:58
It is a "mainstream" publication, what do you expect... Stop subscribing to that propagandist BS.

One of the shittier ones of the "shitty-streams" too.
Zundfolge
11-04-2013, 21:16
Don't worry USA Today ... you're god-king will probably start up another war soon ... probably right here on American soil ... so our boys will get a chance to fight again.
MileHighOutlaw
11-04-2013, 21:22
As an infantry man I wasn't sure what type of jobs I could look at since I was nothing but a "killing machine" but once my wife looked over the job description that the Army put up on their web site she spun my resume into this beautiful poetic piece of paper that had my former employer impressed as hell. Now time to pull that piece of paper back out and look for a job. Damn job hunting.
Ronin13
11-04-2013, 21:28
As an infantry man I wasn't sure what type of jobs I could look at since I was nothing but a "killing machine" but once my wife looked over the job description that the Army put up on their web site she spun my resume into this beautiful poetic piece of paper that had my former employer impressed as hell. Now time to pull that piece of paper back out and look for a job. Damn job hunting.
I hear you on that. I had a CPT from Golden PD give me some tips to help better translate and articulate my military experience. And I feel your pain on the job front- I have 5 weeks left in the Academy and would love to have a conditional job offer by Christmas, especially since the last agency I interviewed with, Thornton PD, had something like 200 applicants try out for 2 spots. I have a feeling my best bet will be with Commerce City since they're hiring 10. Good luck with the job hunt.
Irving
11-04-2013, 21:35
I'd let you work in Thornton Ronin. I think it'd be pretty cool to have a board member be a cop in my hood actually.
sniper7
11-04-2013, 21:52
USA today is only good for Sudoku and crosswords!
Ronin13
11-04-2013, 21:56
I'd let you work in Thornton Ronin. I think it'd be pretty cool to have a board member be a cop in my hood actually.
I think I did okay on the interview- won't hear word until the 11th. Thornton, Littleton, and Parker are my top choices- fingers crossed!

USA today is only good for Sudoku and crosswords!
You can get that stuff elsewhere- besides, who would want to be spotted even holding a USA Today? [LOL]
OtterbatHellcat
11-04-2013, 22:42
People tend to find the information they are looking for and rarely find anything they are not looking for. I suspect the people who will find this story informative already suffer from a lack of information, which is commonly known as ignorance.

I've heard that phenomenon described as "low information voter".... among some other things.