You might find it difficult to get in at all if you live up to your name.

I think they have a very heavy drug screening program.

If you do get in and then fail a test, it won’t look good on your discharge papers or whatever they give you.

Anyway, do you really want to contribute to killing people? I think it’s one thing to sign up if your country is under attack but it seems a bit silly right now.

I have a friend who came back from Afghanistan last year with a perforated eardrum, a detached retina, and shrapnel scars all over his face and neck. The 3 people he was with when they got hit are dead.

Yeah they are quite strict and drug testing is completely random, so you aren’t forewarned. However there is a lot of cocaine use in the Army, mainly because leaves your system relatively quick.

I wouldn’t join, for one thing I wouldn’t agree with what I was fighting for. But then, they pretty much train you to do, not think. My mates older brother came back from Iraq mentally scarred. He kicked the shit into his own dad, over a petty argument. He’d never done anything of the kind before. It has turned him oblivious to the effect of violence, if that makes sense.

what like kill foreigners who dont deserve it?

if you sign up to any part of the UK army, raf or navy, you are part of a brutal occupying force that is one of teh biggest threats to world peace right now.

yea, you should feel proud.:yakk:

fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity etc. etc.

but seriously, how is fighting in iraq conrtibuting to world peace? 75,775 civilians have died because of military intervention, we are at greater risk of terrorist attack, and our troops are gettin killed too. tell me how it is achievin peace…?

Maybe people would only point guns at you because you’re holding a gun.

I don’t remember there being too many terrorist attacks in the UK until we started a war for no reason.

Remember that most of the “Intelligence” that was used to justify the war at the start has now turned out to be to be fakery and lies. Plagerised, word for word, including punctuation errors, from a fictional piece that was written for someone’s university thesis.

I must say, I wouldn’t fight for a government that did that.

There’s no doubt that there will be a lot of change in the wolrd power balance over the next 20 years.
Remember the story about the feeble blade of grass and the mighty oak tree. When the wind came the grass bent and then came back up when the wind passed. But the mighty oak tree tried to fight the wind and was broken.

I don’t think that ‘might is right’ and I don’t believe that ‘peace through superior firepower’ is a viable long-term foreign policy.

People need to learn more about the reasons for the anger and work towards taking them away.

Not just blowing all the angry people away. It won’t work.