Why people should not join the US Army

For the people who do not have money nor intelligence to get into a college, joining the Army is another career choice that may have more future than taking part-time jobs at supermarkets or restaurants. However, your choice of the career making as a solder might cause you to be treated like a potential terrorist.

The report warned law enforcement officers to be on guard against “disgruntled military veterans,” especially veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who were demonized as potential terrorists.

“The return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks,” stated the report, equating America’s supposed best and brightest with Al-Qaeda bombers.

(http://www.prisonplanet.com/feds-use-pre-crime-to-target-disgruntled-veterans.html)

The United States is the country a type of country that treat solders who fight for their country as a social disease. In France, veterans can get some rewards and respected from his work.

Local World War II veteran Elvert "Buck" Pooler has been honored many times by the country he has served. Now — more than 65 years after his heroics in battle — Pooler will be honored by the country he helped save.
(http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100722/GJNEWS03/707229844/-1/SANNEWS)

I think the problem of American veterans are not the problem of their behaviors but the ignorance of the society. There would be no jobs for them and they might find jobs from the gangs to survive.

I know the truth... The US just need some more veterans in the jail, so it can use them for the human experiments. Veterans and prisoners are the best candidate for human experiments through the history of the United States. People with mental problem are also the good candidate. The solders can be used for the human experiment like walking toward the ground zero, but it would hart the moral of the coworkers. If they retired and were caught for illegal action, the researchers would not feel anything but to use them for the guinea pigs because they fell to the state of social disease.

If you want to have a future and not treated as a potential terrorist, don't join Army. The government might treat citizens as volunteer solders, but the policy can only make them

In Gates’ view, the all-volunteer force, an outgrowth of political anger over Vietnam and the draft, has been an “extraordinary” success in terms of military professionalism in one conflict after another. But that success has come “at significant cost” — namely, the lopsided burdens that emerge when fewer than 1 percent of Americans serve in uniform during a decade of war.

Some of those costs are material. The all-volunteer force is expensive: the military’s personnel costs have ballooned from $90 billion in 2001 to $170 billion today. Military health care costs rose $30 billion in that period. “There is no avoiding the challenge this government, indeed this country faces, to come up with an equitable and sustainable system of military pay and benefits that reflects the realities of this century,” Gates told the Duke audience. But he didn’t offer a solution, either, since no political figure wants to cut veteran benefits or troop salaries during wartime in the name of balancing a budget.

Then there are the greater “cultural, social” and human costs of the volunteer military. Putting only a narrow slice of the country into uniform — though not the overwhelmingly poor and uneducated enlistees that many feared would be the result of scrapping the draft — means repeated deployments in a time of protracted war. Those pressures lead to elevated rates of depression, substance and family abuse, “and, most tragically, a growing number of suicides,” Gates recognized. He might also have mentioned post-traumatic stress.

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/gates-delicately-criticizes-the-all-volunteer-military/#ixzz11DOIlmC2

If you are not Swiss or French, it's not worth to become a solder. Don't try to join the Army. It only increases your health risks like PTSD and suicide as well as the physical risks like disability from the work or even the death, and moreover, you will be treated as a social problem when you try to change your job. Working at a shop or a restaurant won't give you so much disadvantages. By stating this, I'm suggesting to reduce the terrorist risks for the US.