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i mean it was my stupidity that ended up saving me but all the same
my idea of the military was 1/3 war movies and 2/3 star trek, i had no idea how real military command structures worked so i was snooty about the idea of going in at the bottom rank
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I was blue-sky thinking about it, but just like, I wonder how that would be. Never really had any intention to do that.
But signing up for officer or command school was a bit intriguing, since I liked being in the army. Nice simple life with stuff I was good at.
which again worried my parents because they thought that it would inexorably lead me to sign up for afghanistan at some point. Which they're probably right about.
Or maybe "we need a science guy for this mission to Antarctica which may involve aliens" rank
My friend went from Army Reserves then went full active on his only deployment.
They let him finish college then sent him to OTS for like a year then he got deployed to Afghanistan then he got R&R at some Sicillian paradise then came back to the states, got stationed in Washington and goes on kick ass road trips and hiking trips. He's still in his 20s and is already a Captain I believe and makes pretty decent money.
fuck GWB
seriously
impossible to trace back one's life and say what would have been good or gone better or whatever but in the aggregate i really wish i'd joined the military.
in fairness even if you had gone to Afghan your odds of coming back home without a scratch would've been pretty good
with the best will in the world the Norwegians are hardly doing the risky stuff
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I was in jrotc in high school for 3 years
then after I flunked out of college I went to join active duty -- my asvab scores qualified me for any position, so I said I'd be happy to take X Y or Z and the recruiter was like yeah! and then I got down to meps and did the physical and stuff and they had me in this little room trying to get me to sign for bomb squad and I was like NOPE.JPG and so I left and my recruiter was all furious and I was like, I told you
then I joined rotc in college and did it for two semesters and then left
then I joined the af reserves and did that for I think 4 years and then transferred to inactive reserve to finish out my contract and go to grad school like a month before my unit got deployed
Would've had to go through basic anyway. Haha, no, not happening.
yeah, our regulars just tool around mazar-e-sharif and get blown up by the occasional IED, occasionally shooting the taliban. There are way worse places in afghanistan.
what our special forces are doing nobody knows but that doesn't really count.
but I started taking pills for deepreshun when I got back from basic training and tech school and that DQs me
the military is probably a great option for most people (in first world nations) at most periods of time, except the US and UK post 2001
like, fuck. that. shit.
you should be thanking your lucky stars your eye kept you out of Iraq and Afgahn
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
those digital camo fatigues are atrocious
What sucks is I just resigned my lease. The office has just completely ignored me, but 10 teenagers hanging about outside the front of my apartment does not make me feel comfortable. Two teenagers are kosher, but jesus christ, I feel like I'm in the fucking hood or something. I don't pay a $1100 a month to deal with this, if I wanted to deal with it, I'd pay the $400 and move to the south side of Syracuse.
i didn't even know you guys had a combat role, it was my understanding pretty much everyone other than the UK/US were in logistiacal/support roles
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
i'm not. i wasn't a disillusioned teenager (i mean, about other things i certainly was). i'd probably still enlist today if i had the opportunity for very similar reasons.
plenty of people joined post 9/11 and don't regret their service or their deployment, which i think is a category i would also fit given the opportunity.
what? pretty sure my wife was on depression meds when she enlisted...
Mostly a realization of how quickly and easily you can die and how real life has no respawns. Also how everyone in real life has friends and loved ones.
Friend of mine joined the navy after he quit working in Stainless, the last time I talked to him he was just back from a tour that involved heading down to the Antarctic, taking a quadbike out to where he was told was the crater of an extinct volcano and taking a bunch of readings for "some guys in oxford somewhere"
I get the feeling he made a pretty good choice there.
but then my mom was like, you know, you kind of have a big problem with authority figures and being told what to do
and i was like, oh right haha fuck that
Sup?
they didn't disqualify me from the service I was currently on the hook for, but in order to go active duty I would have had to get a waiver and they stopped giving those as freely as they did right after 9/11
so when I looked into it, it was p much a DQ
So digital camo is to make it hard to see you when you're working with computers, right?
In the 2000s. The US smuggles puppies in Washington state.
When will the American atrocities end?!
oh, well i guess that's not as surprising
Yo!
Are you still in Japan?
Right now I am in Indonesia but I will soon be back in Japan.
I've had every set of Army uniforms in 12 years. The old forest BDU's, the old Desert DCU's, the ACU's. The only one I haven't had yet are the Afghanistan specific multi-cam, but there is no way in hell I ever want to get those. Not because I don't think they're better, but because getting them requires me to deploy to Afghanistan and F that noise.
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sometimes they'll take someone interested and make you run and shit for 6 months before they send you to basic, where you will run more