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Political Affiliation In The Military

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I have been in the military my entire adult life, I live a lifestyle where politics is not a topic that comes up, political discussion is discouraged. The military does not want to find itself aligning with one side over the other, because at the end of the day we serve the American people and we must serve nonpartisian. Will, I state my affiliation if asked? Of course, I am a registered Republican. In my understanding of myself, I align myself as one with primarily conservative with some mixed liberal notions for our nation, so more moderate I can suppose in terms of the political spectrum. All in all, though, the discussion of politics serves no purpose in the military as we take an oath to obey our leaders, some of which we don’t vote for. We do our duty and we don’t care what religion you are, what color skin you have, what nationality you are, what sexual orientation you are, or what your political affiliations are. We just care that you do what it is you came here to do too. Politically my goals of the government and the purpose of the government tend to be of moderate-conservative mind. I agree with the notion that I have ‘high value on the principal of order, on family values, and on patriotism, but believe in the need for establishing new policies and practices,’ (Sidlow, 2017). I believe that if it is not broken, don’t fix …show more content…

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