I don’t understand the backlash you’re getting. It’s not very surprising that a poor 18 year old sees the military as a way out of their hardship. I’m not saying it is, there’s a very good chance it is not. But that a struggling teenager can see it that way, and getting drawn in by recruiters isn’t odd.

100% agree with your edit. You’ll see people used as drug mules, not because they’re hardened criminals, but because they’re desperate enough to do something they know is wrong.

I think a lot of the people taking a hard stance against you here haven’t seen hardship up close and dont realise how tempting it would be to do something to get out of it

This doesn’t make sense. If they simply plug them with cement, it’s fairly easy to just drill out the cement plug and do some clean up runs before testing the well and putting it back into operation. If they’ve actually filled the entire string with cement you simply go down the same hole, kick off above the cement and drill a new one next to the previous. I’m not advocating for it, but you’re not destroying the field by doing this, just making startup more cumbersome. Seems like spending money on image politics to me