• spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Do you think that all army jobs are bullets and action? It’s most likely gonna be administrative stuff. Especially since the Afghan war is over.

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      9 months ago

      The US military has 1.4M active-duty personnel. With a turnover rate around 20% per 36 months, that’s about 2.9M cumulative service members from 2001-2021. During that same time period, US forces suffered about 7000 casualties. That’s a fatality rate of 0.24%, which is not that much higher than that of a civilian living in Detroit in the 90s.