• LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      The Army came to my highschool my senior year and put on an exhibition. They had Humvees and APCs and a massive wall of speakers that would make a passerby deaf at 40 yards. You were able to get out of class if you went to the event and listened to their pitch. I was one of like 4 kids who didn’t go. Parents weren’t told about this in advance, and there were recruiters there with pens waiting.
      TBF, my school did have JROTC program but still… I think thats what set off my long history of being anti-that.

    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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      14 hours ago

      That’s crazy but not really surprising to me anymore for the States I guess. I think I’ve only ever seen an army recruiter once in my life and it was a booth at a convention semi recently