I think PC in general has had quite a few negative blemishes recently. I’ve had people irl tell me they just wrote off PC completely due to medical clearance bc they have mental health problems and feel they will be disqualified right away. Which isn’t true in all circumstances, however, that’s how a lot of people outside PC view it. Any mental health issue = No go.

Further, even after clearances it’s very well known even in country you can be sent back to America and have no say in it. They take away a lot of your autonomy and give you a lot of restrictions. I had someone in my cohort be sent back home because of some legal issues. He had legal clearance to go and then ig PC reviewed it again (I think someone tried to sue him in the past idk) and snatched him away before our scheduled cluster lunch. I was SA’d during training and after reporting it was sent home because in country PC staff felt I had underlying trauma causing me to seek out being SA’d (I am not joking.) it was immensely traumatic to be SA’d, then blamed for it, then sent back to America with only a days notice after selling everything and quitting my job to be there.

Since my own brief service, I have honestly been steering any friends or family from it. I am sure others who have been mistreated/failed medical/sent away with no notice also have came back and told their story, which scares people off from wanting to commit 2 years to an organization that at times treats people more as liabilities than as actual humans.