[ok_dad]

The military isn’t some place you send miscreants who always misbehave, most of us wanted to do our best and your description of it is petty insulting and inaccurate. We worked together to attain a goal and fight alongside each other, not because we were beaten trained dogs.

[Aeolun]

I think the implication was more that there was a lot of social pressure in the military that is absent in megacorp X

[bravetraveler]

For the better, I don't live with my coworkers and I don't want to

[eddyg]

Absolutely no disrespect intended at all. Thank you for your service. Perhaps I should have said “basic training” instead of “the military” because that’s the context I was thinking of.

[none4methx]

But those engagements would go so much differently and churn would be so much higher if the threat of prison didn’t disallow going AWOL.

It’s a threat of violent coercion, even though daddy never personally hit you or anyone you served with.

It’s how all abusive relationships work, they just operationalized and scaled it to an unprecedented degree.

And then you come out of that abusive relationship with a quick reintegration course and track your duty, but no honor, back to the private sector. If vets weren’t a protected category, they’d be subject to more discrimination due to the warped psyche basic training is designed to produce.