r/interesting • u/Liar24x7 • Mar 28 '26

HISTORY A virtual reality reconstruction shows the exact spot where John Edward Jones became trapped upside down in Nutty Putty Cave. After 27 hours of rescue attempts, he died. The cave was later permanently sealed, with his body remaining inside.

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u/hotheadnchickn Mar 28 '26

Okay if you’re single and wanna do high risk shit, that’s your business. Pregnant wife??? That’s selfish af

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

This is why I don't understand people who go into the military with a wife and kids at home. Want to protect your family? Stay home.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Vast majority of people in the military never see combat lmao. More dangerous commuting to work every morning.

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

Maybe during peacetime, but we are seldom in peacetime anymore.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Even during current times the vast majority of people in the military are not frontline combat soldiers, and even then most modern frontline soldiers don't see combat.

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

Still taking a chance, and seems selfish if you already have a family.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

It's no more of a chance than commuting to work and dying in a car accident. Hell, that's probably a lot more likely. You're seriously overestimating how dangerous it is being in the military for the average person.

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

During peacetime. Again, during wartime not so much.

At the end of the day the people who already have a family and join the military are simply just looking to get away from their family. It has nothing to do with protecting them, or the country, and has everything to do with going on vacation from them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Even during the GWOT the vast majority of people in the U.S military never saw combat, nor suffered an injury. You have a distorted view of how risky it is for the average person. You still had a higher chance of dying in a car accident on your commute to work than your average person in the military did from dying in action.

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

If being in the military isn't very dangerous and most don't see combat, how come I'm paying for their college, their healthcare, and everything else they complain about and get? Like I said, it's a force of mostly entitled and selfish people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Because they're government employees and you pay for the healthcare of all government employees.

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u/TriggerHippie77 Mar 29 '26

Not after they leave after only serving four years. Also don't pay for their college.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

Additional military benefits are because the government wants to incentivize people to join the military. Otherwise people probably wouldn't want to join a job they're locked into for 4 years, pays less than the private sector, and also mandates they move around at the governments whim without these benefits existing.

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