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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Jurassic Park palaeontologist parts ways with university after Epstein emailsEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Anyone in education with a functional sense of self preservation, much less morals and intelligence. I did my undergrad TA work in a middle school and high school. I basically chained myself to the nearest woman staff member the entire time I was on the campus, and there were several times I had to grab literally a random staff member so that one, or a group, of the girls didn’t corner me in a classroom by ourselves. I’m certain that none of them had any interest in me, but I’m not a good judge of that, and wasn’t taking any chances at someone claiming that I did something untowards to a student.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Imperial soldiers be like
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    8 days ago

    There are tons of contracts in the USN that absolutely guarantee that you will never see anywhere close to combat. All Nukes only serve on Carriers and Subs. Corpsmen (Navy Doctors and nurses) tend the wounded. You KNOW what you are signing up to do before they ever even send you to MEPS for medical testing. The only people that might not have specifically signed up for firing a weapon is whoever launches the missiles that we shoot from our frigates. I don’t know if “Gunner” is still a job, but I would assume it is since the Navy has all the big guns.

    I can’t speak to what happens in the fleet. I went to Navy Nuke school, learned to operate power plants, and they gave me a new extremely lucrative contract to stay there and teach other people to operate power plants.

    I also cannot speak for The Army, Air Force, or Marines. Though with the first and third, it’s hard to imagine that one wouldn’t know that they are signing up to potentially kill people.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Imperial soldiers be like
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    8 days ago

    Not true for the USN. They hand you a contract that you sign. You only have to do what is contained in that contract. To change your job they have to get you to sign a new contract. I was never close to combat, and neither would any other Navy Nuke, though they actually left the school for the fleet. I skipped that step. There are tons of non-combat jobs in the US military that will never be anywhere close to combat. Logistics is why our military works.

    That being said, it’s worse than you are making it out to be. A lot of the people who signed up for combat roles were looking to kill people before they ever signed the contract.