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It's not semantics, I said what i said and anyone reading this topic can see it for themselves. They don't have to rely on you cutting out bits and peices to support your argument.

I left out that part because it has nothing to do with the point we are discussing. How does that strengthen or weaken your statement that education (or lack thereof) is not the reason they are having difficulty landing jobs? All that statement is adding is essentially that them joining the military is putting them at a DISADVANTAGE due to issues in keeping a job. That actually hurts your claims even more.

You are still wiggling around the topic at hand I see. Just own up to your statement. It's not that difficult. It baffles me that you can't understand why a vet who, say, wants to be an architect has difficulty doing so when they don't have a degree in architecture. Or a vet who wants to do nursing struggles to find a nursing job where they view her 10 years driving a tank as being an acceptable replacement for nursing school. It's almost comical I'm even having to defend this.

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I lowered the number for your benefit, it supported your argument, but obviously you're not bright enough to see that.

This discussion neither benefits or hurts me. I'm indifferent to it. I'm just stating simple facts and attempting to inform the misinformed. Either way, you could have said any arbitrary number and for the third time, it has absolutely nothing to do with what we are talking about. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Why you keep bringing it up is beyond me.

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Read last post.

I'm done with you. I don't normally side with BT but this time I'm going to, you don't like the military despite what you claim.

No one wants to have a discussion with someone that wants to twist words and select bits of a conversation without adding the whole thing. And if you want to look up the statistics, then by all means do so. I told you what the VA statistics show but if you're not happy with that figure find one that suits your claim, I'm sure there's plenty out there.

Well then you are as close-minded and blatantly incorrect as he is. Then so be it. I have no problem with the military. In fact I support it, have done engineering work for various military branches, and have plenty of friends and family who are in it. The fact you think I have any emotional involvement towards this discussion to me speaks loads of your underlying bias towards this. Bias is fine, but don't let it cloud your judgement to the point that you can't acknowledge simple facts that are right in front of you. Doing so makes you no different than BTHog.

If you can give me a SINGLE example of "twisting words" then I'll take back what I said. Quoting something you said and replying to it isn't twisting words. Providing verifiable, established examples of laws is not twisting words.