If a super-power can't give justice, what else from your own nation.

I have always been an advocate for the military.

Heck, i was born into a military family, my father thought and showed what it was
like to serve the nation for almost his entire life, though in the process of that
service he was one of the men who brought the reputation of this nation up to a higher
level.

Its men such as my father that continue to inspire thoughts of self-lessness and due duty
to a country which in fact might not even return you a scrap of service, they simply forget
that you ever existed, a piece of thrash basically you become.

Why such a system? where scholars instead of true soldiers become the ones that get the recognition, all
the benefits from the taxpayer's pocket and at the end of the day, never get their policies no matter how positive
or optimistic they might sound even through the basic level of the SAF, the footsoldier, the National Servicemen.

I'm going to be blunt, we have no darn choice to defend this nation, many would want the chance to end up like a friend they have met who was born overseas and has the choice of not ever serving at all, i always rant at the sad fate of 2 years going up in smoke, of whether i'll be of a sane mental state when i get out, would i be able to make a living for myself? Yet continue studies in a good positive manner? Or would it just be saluting crap idiots who exist in the SAF for the sake of doing so? Do they even deserve my respect? Have they bled for this nation as per the glorious SAF advertisements would make us believe? Its always the scenes of men coming down choppers, jumping out of perfectly good aircraft and tanks rolling on open field, wheres the blood? Wheres the gore? Where are the screams of our men in No.4 who get hit? Body-parts and what not? Where is it?

To summarize my point is this, we are not prepared for war, we might think we are but we are not. Our officers don't have respect from the men who will do the fighting, most of the people we are drafting in don't have the attitude anymore to even fight or take training seriously, incidents are growing and what can we do about it? Recruits can threaten Sergeants with a phone-call, what sort of an armed force have we become? One of weenies i feel.

If one cares for his loved ones, family, pah we all heard this before, have we even laid a thought to what that really means? Or is the social fabric of the nation i would say in a state where simply nobody gives a damn anymore to family and friends? Its every men for himself now i see.

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Refer to the article "Catch and Release"