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the myth of military intelligence and media literacy (i.redd.it)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm from the UK and when I was at school, we went out on a day trip to an army base. It was cool to see all the vehicles and weapons but I remember some British army guys trying to get us to join up by letting us play call of duty in a tent and telling us that we'd get paid for sitting around all day doing nothing.

I didn't realise it at the time but now I know they were just plain lying to try and sell army life to a bunch of teenage boys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I remember something very similar. If they did that to my kid now I will be very angry about it because it's ridiculous. At least back in the 90s when this happened to me there wasn't really any ongoing conflicts, not like now where you're basically guaranteed to have to go fight somewhere.