Yeah. I'm a driver in the army reserve, yet I still get lumped in with "OH SO YOU KILL BROWN PEOPLE FOR A LIVING YOU FASCIST IMPERIAL SLAVE"
[QUOTE=bugfix;23866874]Nope, being in the army pretty much means you weren't qualified enough for the real jobs, so it's hardly an accomplishment.[/QUOTE]
You have a very narrow mind, don't talk about somthing you don't know much about. Also this isn't the 1800s or the early 1900s.
Pfft, the army gives dropouts a second chance, it's hardly patriotism, it's poverty...
Some of the people in my unit never completed High School. Most them are very successful. The army won't keep you around of you act the fool. You will be kicked out. And good luck getting a good job on the outside world with a Dishonorable, Other Than Honorable, or Bad Conduct Discharge from Service.
The military offers the fantastic option of helping you get that education and doing it on your own time. Which is why we have our GI Bill.
To be honest, I kinda have to agree with OP's sentiment, if not his sometimes ham-handed wording.
If you're joining the military, good for you, you are doing a great service to your country. However, if you are trying to boost your e-peen by doing so, there is something kinda fucked up about that.
A good friend of mine joined the marines after high school and never really said much about it besides "yeah, I joined the marines" and, just a few weeks ago "Hey everyone, I'm coming home."
In the time between those two statements he did the whole training thing, went to Iraq, got shot, came stateside to get patched up, and went fucking BACK to Iraq to finish his service. And not once did he try to garner cred for his actions, even from his friends, much less on some anonymous web forum.
I think someone else already posted that "Those who truly deserve respect rarely seek it"
Okay let's look at it like this.
OP="Joining army/coming back" threads are 'shit posts' and, we all know are ban-able.
So, anyone who wants to talk about it before they leave should stay the fuck away from the new thread button.
Meanwhile: Fast threads.
I hope to enlist in the Air Force. It'll be fucking tough the reach my ultimate goal with my career in mind. BMT alone will be really fucking intense. What some of you fucking idiots don't get is that the military doesn't have to be about HURR I WANT TO DIE FOR MY CUNTRY!!!! A lot of people join it for the financial and education advantages of it.
I think a good solution to this would be a member of the armed forces of their respected country set up a thread for all of the military members. The thread could be to say you're joining or answer questions about the armed services or just trading stories of their time in the service. Less threads in GD about joining the military but still letting people inform others that they're joining the service, and other general talk related to the military.
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