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re: What motivated you to join the military?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:02 am to fnchdrms87
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:02 am to fnchdrms87
Uh slaying dragons and poon in dress blues duh. No I needed to get my shite together so I could finish school and maybe go to law school and the Marines offered the challenge that I wanted.
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:03 am to chesty
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slaying dragons and poon in dress blues
Generation Kill...?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:04 am to GrammarKnotsi
Correct bro-migo
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:13 am to Signal Soldier
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And whether a person was poor or well off, I don't really see the problem. Either way they are doing the job that you were too pussy to do.
Look I am all for our troops and support...but if you haven't stepped into a hot zone and done some combat, or worked in a hot combat zone, then sit the frick down and hush.
Six week of regular ole gi boot camp and then sitting state side isn't a brave task. So I don't want to hear it.
I have two friends who joined. One is combat in Afghanistan now. The other does training and color guard stuff state side. I worry about one. Don't worry about the other.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:14 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:16 am to ASTL
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Six week of regular ole gi boot camp and then sitting state side isn't a brave task. So I don't want to hear it.
I feel this way about reserves/MOST guard members
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:20 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I feel this way about reserves/MOST guard members
reminds me of a news clip I saw on tv in SHV during desert storm, they were showing the tearful goodbyes of families saying farewell to their brave warriors as they were boarding a bus for parts unknown, turns out they were going to Ft. Polk for the weekend ETA: it was a local guard unit
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:22 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:21 am to fnchdrms87
Thought I was going to fight the Russians back then and I was country as frick.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:22 am to 777Tiger
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reminds me of a news clip I saw on tv in SHV during desert storm, they were showing the tearful goodbyes of families saying farewell to their brave warriors as they were boarding a bus for parts unknown, turns out they were going to Ft. Polk for the weekend
I fought in Desert Storm and later spent some time at Ft Polk... If I had to choose one of the two to go back to again I'd go back to the desert.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:23 am to fnchdrms87
Dropped out of college after realizing I didn't know what I wanted to do in life, spent a summer working manual labor and partying, realized I was going nowhere fast, joined the Navy and finished my degree and then got out. Someone has served in the Military in every generation of my family. I would have stayed in but this was during the Clinton draw down and making rank was next to impossible.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:26 am to Rebman601
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I've discussed this before, but the military is nothing more than welfare for those that are either too dumb for school and or too dumb for a real job. They don't know shite about "sacrifice". Maybe they should thank me for paying their bills. fricking leaches
i love these threads....they quickly identify the borderline retards on this site.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:27 am to Darth_Vader
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I fought in Desert Storm and later spent some time at Ft Polk... If I had to choose one of the two to go back to again I'd go back to the desert.
I worked there as a kid while VN was still hot and heavy, guys were going straight to Nam from there, later found out that Polk was used because it was considered to most closely simulate the heat and humidity that was waiting for them,
you might have driven across a few of the 40 or 50 tank crossing pads we put in down there
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:29 am to lathoroughbred
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Thought I was going to fight the Russians back then and I was country as frick.
When I arrived at my duty station in Germany in 88 one of the first things they told me was that when the Soviets invaded, the Fulda Gap (right where I was stationed) was going to be where they hit first and we were expected to die in the first minutes. That got my attention.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:30 am to GrammarKnotsi
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Six week of regular ole gi boot camp and then sitting state side isn't a brave task. So I don't want to hear it.
I feel this way about reserves/MOST guard members
Agreed.
Also, not everyone is cut out for combat and I understand that. If they still report for their duty and do their job well, then good for them. But learning to do tank maintenance state side isn't "serving". It is called having a job, like millions and millions of other Americans.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:33 am to 777Tiger
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I worked there as a kid while VN was still hot and heavy, guys were going straight to Nam from there, later found out that Polk was used because it was considered to most closely simulate the heat and humidity that was waiting for them,
you might have driven across a few of the 40 or 50 tank crossing pads we put in down there
I bet I did. I was a tanker so I actually used those crossing pads. I went to Polk right after I came off active duty and went into the AL Army Guard. It was in August and I remember every damn day it would come a monsoon for about 20 minutes at about 3:00 PM. Soon as the rain ended the sun would come back out and the humidity would be almost indescribably miserable (and I'm from Alabama remember!).... It did this every damn day.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:36 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:35 am to Darth_Vader
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It did this every damn day.
tell me about it, I was out there tying steel and pouring concrete in it
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:35 am to fnchdrms87
Got laid off and didn't want to go back to the same old 9-5 bullshite. Im 3rd generation to serve and wouldn't change a thing.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 9:37 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:36 am to ASTL
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But learning to do tank maintenance state side isn't "serving".
yes it is.
(and no...i wasn't a tank mechanic)
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:38 am to fnchdrms87
Wanted to do my part.
Joined LA National Guard at 27.
OEF 10-11.
No regrets.
Joined LA National Guard at 27.
OEF 10-11.
No regrets.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:39 am to Choctaw
Our maintenance guys followed right behind us in Desert Storm. And while we were in massive M1A1's, they were in lightly armored 88's.
Without them doing what they did, we would not have been able to do what we did.
Without them doing what they did, we would not have been able to do what we did.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:42 am to Choctaw
If you never go into a combat zone, then you had a job with a physical requirement be met.
Simple as that.
Simple as that.
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