broke/ unemployed and out of options so i signed up for the military.

Would you let some jackass who enlisted purely for financial gain to be in your squadron? How reliable do you think the guy might be? Do you think he would cover your ass when the time comes? It's something to think about.
 
Quote from baggerlord:

Talk to a recruiter you will understand lol. About the physical issues that is. I quit before it got too bad anyways.
More...

Been there, done that, know all about recruiters and medical issues.

Your whole story just doesn't add up, but it's not worth the time to debate it.
 
Quote from Roark:

WTF happened? You lost seven figures in year eight, and thereafter decided a guy screaming in your face and telling you to do push-ups and run laps sounded like an attractive career change?
More...

This has to be one of the better threads I've seen lately on ET...
 
Quote from Trvlwanderer:

Actually Sal, there is no truth in your post. Do your contract, leave.

Sign a contract and look to get out is another story. CONTRACT.

Of course you can cry like a baby and get out ahead of your contract as well. US military is "sensitive".

This is not the 70's military (or earlier).
More...


Unless you get stop-lossed, maimed or killed, that is.



Quote from baggerlord:

Shit pat tillman I think quit the nfl to enlist. What's so hard to believe? I wasn't exactly living the big life lol.
More...


Pat Tillman enlisted right after 9-11 with the declared purpose of coming back with Bin-Laden's head in a bag.

You enlisted after getting married and having kids saying that you weren't living the big life.

I sure hope your wife doesn't surf this forum. :D (peace)
 
Quote from retaildaytrader:

Lets address your post categorically.

First, I can call the post anything I want because I was stationed there at one time.

Second, Airborne and all the other schools you mentioned are leisurely depending upon who you are. I was on the track team in high school and ran a sub-10 minute 2 mile weighing in at about 150 lbs. I also was a Boy Scout and loved to go camping. I grew up in a moutainous area and would go out into the wilderness for days...sometimes weeks. Hunting was my thing too. So all those schools you mentioned are pretty leisurely to me. I already did all that for fun. In fact, you will find Airborne school pretty leisurely after working a construction, farming or other manual labor job. I did that too before I was 18...farm labor...now that is a real job. Back then, you were barely paid anything and had to live in ramshackle tight quarters unlike today where you get paid a college graduate's wage and get to sleep in luxury apartments.

Third, when I went through airborne school the parachutes fell a lot faster then they did now. They have to slow them down for you because you are heavier and slower then the soldiers of old. There were no "stress cards" or whatever you call them nowadays. Everything was a lot more rigourous then they are now.

Fourth, it doesnt matter if its a combat or training post, the military can stick you wherever there is a need for you. They still need soldiers to staff training posts in the various positions. Lets take a 92A or whatever they call that nowadays. They could take a guy like that and stick him in any installation in the world. You could get stuck in places where you didnt even think they had military installations. Sometimes you see these military guys out in these random places in the United States where its hundreds of miles to any installation. They are staffing some remote room full of junk in the middle of nowhere. Thats not the life the recruiter told you it would be, but thats what happens at times in the governmental mess. You get stationed in the middle of nowhere in charge of junk and seemingly forgotten about with no bar or anything else around for hundreds of miles.

Fifth, you dont know what a hardship tour is until you have lived in Kentucky. I am not saying its a bad place, its not for me though. To me thats hardship. Getting up the hills of Agony, Misery and Heartbreak loaded down at elevation was a lot harder then anything Benning could ever present to me. How about getting up to the sounds of main guns on the tanks going off and seeing the flash in the sky? I guess thats how you want to raise a family or live life. I honestly would live in any other place, even Alaska, then Kentucky.

Sixth, if you think Benning is hard then you need to lose that weight cowboy and stop eating the pizza&Burger King. You can run a lot faster when you have lost that 10 lbs of fat and water.
More...

retaildaytrader sounds like he knows what he is talking about. Sounds like hes been through it. Listen to what he says.
 
Like any other job, you have to go in with the right mindset. The Army is a place where you have to absolutely enjoy being an outdoorsman, an athlete and a hunter. If you dont enjoy camping, hiking or running then you will probably not last very long. Every military unit that I was involved in, no matter what they did, went into the field and ran everyday. Even soldiers of the Army band have to meet the same physical standards that everyone else has to meet and do a certain amount of time in the field.

If you like spending lots of time in the midwest in places like Ft Hood Texas...if you like being an athlete and can manage spending weeks of time in the outdoors...then the military is for you. However, if you go in with a different mindset and cant handle any of that then its not the place for you to be.
 
You forgot to mention, getting shot at, killing other people, ordering people to their possible death and possibly getting maimed or killed yourself. War is HELL.

Quote from retaildaytrader:

Like any other job, you have to go in with the right mindset. The Army is a place where you have to absolutely enjoy being an outdoorsman, an athlete and a hunter. If you dont enjoy camping, hiking or running then you will probably not last very long. Every military unit that I was involved in, no matter what they did, went into the field and ran everyday. Even soldiers of the Army band have to meet the same physical standards that everyone else has to meet and do a certain amount of time in the field.

If you like spending lots of time in the midwest in places like Ft Hood Texas...if you like being an athlete and can manage spending weeks of time in the outdoors...then the military is for you. However, if you go in with a different mindset and cant handle any of that then its not the place for you to be.
More...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top