why do people join service organizations (like americorps, peace corps, armed forces, etc.)?

Question

and HOW CAN WE GET MORE PEOPLE TO JOIN?

Answer 1

The short answer is for service to God and country. But it goes much deeper; parents often advise them to do it. It really goes well with a resume for future jobs. Companies know they are getting a quality individual.

Answer 2

Speaking as a woman veteran, we "join freely" because it is our right to support our country. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We will always remain this. We will fight to never loose as each man and woman "having the choice to serve or not", brings forth many willing individuals to stand with Honor for their Great Nation. Even here home bound there is much we civilians can do. We can keep a keen eye out for unusual things, unusual movement by another in our country (perhaps a person wearing a bomb) unknown to us yet acting suspicious, maintaining tests on our water daily for some unknown possibly to be found. Think and there are much, much more that can be done by each American.

Answer 3

Encourage the belief that the action of one person can make a difference. Sometimes the reason many people do not do an action (voting, volunteering, even doing their best in the workplace) is because they don't believe that their actions will make any significant difference in the long run so why bother.

In the spirit of 'service' a person must be wiling to serve...having a belief that their actions mean something may not result in instant change but a more enduring one for sure.

Answer 4

The armed services are not exactly "service" organizations. People join them for the training, the money and the chance to kill their country's enemies.

Americcorps and the Peace Corps are for people who have high ideals and a desire to make the world a better place peacefully. They don't get paid as well, and they don't get re-enlistment bonuses.

(Not that the world wouldn't be a better place if Osama bin Lauden was removed unpeacefully).

Answer 5

I am an Eagle Scout and was a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity when I was in college. I joined APO because of their ties to the Boy Scouts and the fact I enjoyed helping others.

You can't force people to do service, but you can encourage it. . . The only way you make more people do it is improve their quality of life so they feel an oblilgation to serve their fellow man.

Answer 6

The need for affiliation and service to the community of mankind is often felt as a calling for the youth of our nation. It's a good thing. If you join, then we got more people to join. If you don't then why ask?

Answer 7

People join these organizations because they want to help out to the country they love more then their lives.

Answer 8

What and be treat like an animal i disagree with armies and peasecorps ect as the one i joined a few years ago was as bad as the army i was bullied as were the rest in my group our leader had his head up his ****

i agree with disaplin in the army ect but i disagree with some aspects i dont agree with training anyone to kill however i do believe every country has a rite to protect its self

we shouold stay out of the middle east

Answer 9

Why would u want more people to join the armed forces, when you have more people joining after high school and college. People don't want to join because people know how stupid bush, really is.

Answer 10

I joined the Army and carried a gun for those that couldn't. I got almost nothing out of it.
The army has many jobs that have no civilian equivalent. Not much demand for a missile crewman or tank jockey in town.