Should I become a US Army soldier?

>stable pay
>room and board
>community
What's not to like? Sounds like a deal to me. The only concern I'd have is about having my own family

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's not worth all the other bullshit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I haven't really been able to progress in the current game I'm playing (college), so why not give it a try?
      What other bullshit could there be? They make me do pushups? I already do that every day.
      They make me work long hours? I already do that every day.
      They yell at me? I get treated way worse than that every day.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nothing I could explain to you would make you understand. It just doesn't make sense until you've been there. I had an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise at 1am where we did combat drills and bullshit mandatory training classes for 5-6 hours before getting released for breakfast. Came back to the company after breakfast because CSM wanted us to buff the floors all day, all hands on deck. So we spend all day until around 1500 buffing floors, then my section gets called to help set up the catering for the BN talent show. So we set that up, our NCO takes us back to the company to give us a quick safety brief. The words "have a good weekend" had just left his mouth when 1SG called him. 1SG demanded that we remain on hand to help put away all the food items we gathered for the talent show after its completion. By the time the talent show had ended, it was about 1930, and we still had to go put away all the shit.

        This story probably makes no sense, but once you've done this about 5 or 6 times, you wonder what the hell you're doing with your life in the Army.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >you wonder what the hell you're doing with your life in the Army.
          GI bill?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's the only reason I'm here, but you're not thinking about that when you're dealing with the bullshit 99% of the time.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I guess that sounds like a busy day, and I don't know what I'm talking about like you do, but doesn't everyone have busy days once in a while?

          >At 25, my parents gave birth to me. I'm still a useless, clueless kid. If not joining the military, tell me how I can stop being a useless, clueless kid.
          I don't know. Swap parents? Seek therapy? Join the military and then seek therapy, empowered by your experience with real-life bullshit and moronation?
          If you're feeling like a child at 25, it's almost certain your parents failed you.
          And before you make some bullshit parent-worshipping post, following cultural norms of how parents do no harm and yada-yada, I don't care.

          >before you make some bullshit parent-worshipping post, following cultural norms of how parents do no harm and yada-yada, I don't care.
          I know they blew it because I'm a manchild like my other 3 siblings. They coddled us and remained emotionally distant, thinking that they did everything right simply because we weren't poor. That's why I need to get away. And don't take this the wrong way, but what's therapy going to do for me?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >I guess that sounds like a busy day, and I don't know what I'm talking about like you do, but doesn't everyone have busy days once in a while?

            Yes, but the busy days are often for no real purpose. My job isn't to set up catering for a talent show and buff floors, I was a lineman. Sometimes I would have busy 12 hour days on the towers I worked on, but I felt accomplished because I did something meaningful for myself and the area I worked in. Doing pointless busywork day in and day out is draining as frick.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            > I'm a manchild
            Consider stopping being one. How are you 25 and not progressing at college? You should have a degree by 22 if you're going that route.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm not 25 I said I was 22.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                my mistake lel. Why don't you have a single semester of college at 22 years old? No bluecollar career? What's going on?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been trying to figure that out but the more I try to the more complex things get. I'm just a disaster

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Don't worry about the philosophical side of things, what have you been doing with your life? how do you support yourself?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i literally flunked out of university the first time when i was 21 because i never practiced anything
                it took me until i was 28 to realize that all learning is just practice and grinding the same shit over and over again and got a BS in comp sci
                unless you are over 150 iq and instantly retain everything told to you one time

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So are you making anything with that degree?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You guys don't think it's too late to get a degree and start a career and have a family, do you? I mean, I'm so far behind my peers
                Once I get the degree and apply for jobs, I'll be the new guy with no experience is also older
                Once I start looking for women, ill be the older guy with less money and progress towards a home than younger guys
                This is all such a disaster I can't believe I did this to myself and Iet this happen. Life sucks and it's all my fault but it's also so unforgiving.
                Please tell me there's hope so I don't fall I to despair and seek the destruction of existence itself
                What path am I supposed to take to fix this?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >And don't take this the wrong way, but what's therapy going to do for me?
            No offense taken: What you're going in there for. If you don't know what you need therapy for, then by all likelihood it's not going to do you frick-all. That's why I added the
            >Join the military and then seek therapy, empowered by your experience with real-life bullshit and moronation?
            part. If you don't know now what your problems might be, it's very likely that after serving your stint in the service you'll have a better understanding of them, having had to fit into military life despite all of them. If there's one thing military service can do to you, it's challenge you in places where normal life will not. It will push bullshit and suffering on you that you would never voluntarily subject yourself to, which gives you ample possibilities to learn about yourself, your weaknesses and other problems.
            If nothing else, it might give you motivation to seek help after you fail to fit back into society after it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              [...]
              [...]
              im going to agree with the other anon and say get therapy, because you're so much of a mess I doubt you could even make it in the army

              Maybe you're right and I just wanted some fast way out to fix myself because everyone else my age is about to get their degrees and start their careers; they're all looking forward to marriage and starting a family while Ive done nothing. I'm the most useless son of a b***h on the planet. The only thing I have is a few guns in some old shitty safe I got from a pawnshop. I don't want to end up blowing my brains out with one of them, that's why I need to do something and I was just wondering if this could be it. I could be someone: a soldier in the army. Everyone else I know is doing living their lives and has their own thing going for them, and this could be my thing. I wouldn't know unless I tried.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Maybe you're right and I just wanted some fast way out to fix myself
                That might be. But the sad reality is that there are no fast ways to fix yourself. Whatever problems you carry with you innately like that are never easily fixed by anything. Really, trying to (quickly) unfrick yourself (and almost certainly failing) is just likely to lead to more self-deprecation like
                >I'm the most useless son of a b***h on the planet.
                which altogether serves no beneficial purpose. It's like replicating adverse childhood dynamics where you got shat on for doing your best. It doesn't do you any good at all, in any way or form.
                >I need to do something and I was just wondering if this could be it. I could be someone: a soldier in the army. Everyone else I know is doing living their lives and has their own thing going for them, and this could be my thing. I wouldn't know unless I tried.
                It could be of course, or it might not. Some people do find purpose and belonging in the service despite all their issuess and problems. They'll excel, live for the fight, but what about when you get out? What do you do then? The story of the PTSD'd veteran failing to fit into society is as old as time, but few of their problems start from when they signed up, but reach down into their childhood and early experiences.
                Even if you're not one of them, there's only so much fighting you can do until your body or mind starts giving up, but you've still got a whole life ahead of you then, and you'd somehow still need to fit back into society. The military will not change you fundamentally as a person, after all.

                Just as worthless personal advice, anecdotes really, the concepts of childhood emotional neglect and CPTSD are highly useful. Those are two terms that anyone in this situation should familiarize themselves with.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks anon, do you study psychology?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It gets better.

                Biggest thing here is figure out what your addiction is, booze, video games etc. quit that shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I could be someone: a moron who makes 27k a year doing manual labor
                The Army isn’t magic, anon.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's a whole lot better than being nothing. By a long mile

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I, uhh. Kind of don't even have a semester's worth of credits under my belt.

            I'm not 25 I said I was 22.

            im going to agree with the other anon and say get therapy, because you're so much of a mess I doubt you could even make it in the army

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Finish whatever bullshit bachelor's you can and join up as an LT

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I, uhh. Kind of don't even have a semester's worth of credits under my belt.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'm not OP, but I HAVE a Bachelor's. Why should that qualify me for the officer school? Doesn't every drooling frickwad have an undergrad degree these days? It's not 1941

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Doesn't every drooling frickwad have an undergrad degree these days?
            No, two thirds of people don't.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              What about the 18-30 cohort? That still means like... one officer for every three people if SSS is activated

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think you get to be an officer if they draft you. Although the US military has done stupider things

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Being a drooling frickwad with a bachelors degree, and being willing and able to join the army is a pretty small pool.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only get paid 23k/year
        your community is full of people who will go on to do unskilled labor

        The military will not fix you. It will only act as a buffer for you to ignore your current problems. If you can't do well in college, you can't do well in private employment. the military will just baby sit you and force you to work, which won't teach you anything at all.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So are you a foreigner or a neverserve, kek

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I was never in the military
            My second job paid 3x what the base pay for an e-3 is
            The military is for psychos that want to murder people 6000 miles away, poor people and those who got shitty bachelors degrees in feminist studies

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >frogposter
    I think airsoft is more your speed

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you are young and directionless it can be a good thing to do for a few years, good way to save up money and get a free education. If you play your cards right you set yourself up for later in life, but most don't.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. The problem is that it's boring as shit for 99% of the time and most enlisted do dumb shit like buy expensive cars and blow money on strippers instead of saving everything they make and using vet status to get a decent job

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Are you young?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is 22 young?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes. Youth ends at about 25-27.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well I need to do something quick. I'm wasting away right now. At 25, my parents gave birth to me. I'm still a useless, clueless kid. If not joining the military, tell me how I can stop being a useless, clueless kid.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What you are looking for in the military is stability and camaraderie. I thought I'd join the military when I was your age, but I found what I was looking for in construction instead.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >At 25, my parents gave birth to me. I'm still a useless, clueless kid. If not joining the military, tell me how I can stop being a useless, clueless kid.
            I don't know. Swap parents? Seek therapy? Join the military and then seek therapy, empowered by your experience with real-life bullshit and moronation?
            If you're feeling like a child at 25, it's almost certain your parents failed you.
            And before you make some bullshit parent-worshipping post, following cultural norms of how parents do no harm and yada-yada, I don't care.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            [...]
            Maybe you're right and I just wanted some fast way out to fix myself because everyone else my age is about to get their degrees and start their careers; they're all looking forward to marriage and starting a family while Ive done nothing. I'm the most useless son of a b***h on the planet. The only thing I have is a few guns in some old shitty safe I got from a pawnshop. I don't want to end up blowing my brains out with one of them, that's why I need to do something and I was just wondering if this could be it. I could be someone: a soldier in the army. Everyone else I know is doing living their lives and has their own thing going for them, and this could be my thing. I wouldn't know unless I tried.

            You can see what you could be, but you can also see what you're not. It's an intensely terrifying emotion that only grows as time passes. Now is not the time for you to run away and play soldier, maybe join the National Guard if you're so insistent about it, but what you need to do is accept your responsibility to become a useful and reliable human being and then offer that to the right woman. This will fix your problem.
            It could be the case that joining the guard and going through OSUT will teach you to become disciplined, face your fears, and remain productive and calm under a lot of stress, and that could be exactly what you need. However, what you don't need is 4-6 years of mopping the barracks and standing at parade rest. This will do you nothing.
            In conclusion, I recommend you join the National Guard as an infantryman, joining an airborne unit will be even better.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I’d say youth ends at 28 but my sincere advice to you is to try to figure out something you want to do with your life, at least through your 30s and 40s, and make some progress on that in the next two years. When I was 25, I wanted to be a writer. So I spent the next 3 years reading and thinking about being a writer one day. What I should’ve done is finished a book and published it.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm so fricking tired. I have to help my cancel riddled, injured mother so much and then I have run my brother around since he can't drive. Then I have to take care of the family dog because no one else really cares. Then I have to study, which takes a lot even though I'm doing very little. Then I have to do all my exercise day in and day out and that's a drag. Im completely and utterly broken I can't see how I can push myself further

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                sounds like you're doing a lot without compensation. consider getting a job so you have the excuse of having to work to not do anything.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Mindlessly tortures himself for no gain
                You've already got it what it takes.
                Anyway, moping around about it isn't going to do you any good. No one is going to feel sorry for you, no one is going to offer things for it, and no one will be attracted to you for it. You have to do things for yourself and accept that things aren't fair. Thats every veteran who got injured in the GWOT learned. There may be commercials and songs and little discounts at Walmart, but the reality is no one gives a frick about vets, even the wounded ones, and the more they asked they for help, the more they were perceived as whiny and annoying. You should learn that lesson fast because it applies everywhere in life. That's why you look after yourself first, the only people you might put ahead of yourself is your wife and your children, but besides that, don't ever think your efforts your get recognized or rewarded because it's often the case the butthole who deserves nothing gets everything.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Upper end of when joining as enlisted is a viable idea.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The GI bill that pays for your further education + whatever you learned in the service is more important.
    The military is genuinely a worthwhile stepping stone in your life, but as a long-term career it's severely questionable.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >having my own family
    once you're promoted to sergeant you can move out of the barracks. the meta is moving around the world with your wife [so she assimilates onto you instead of the local karen community] sending your kids to the on-base schools.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >the meta is moving around the world with your wife [so she assimilates onto you instead of the local karen community] sending your kids to the on-base schools.
      No care for your own children, then? Because they sure as hell won't be suited for that moving around. Children need stability, not insecurity.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thats probably a risk factor when it comes to military deployments. The military offer schoolings on base or maybe even among the local population, but they wouldn't even stay there for a long time because you keep moving into different bases and communities. I know one vtuber(pikamee) who is half Japanese and half American that has to consistently move around while attending schools at the base she is at in her early childhood.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I know one vtuber(pikamee) who is half Japanese and half American that has to consistently move around while attending schools at the base she is at in her early childhood.
          >vtuber
          >a.k.a. ugly person, possibly even a man, that hides behind an anime girl avatar
          >never reveals their real face
          I see being a military brat has ruined their life completely.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            She claims she was picked on a lot for being hapa.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >She claims she was picked on a lot for being hapa.
              25%+ of the students in DoD dependent schools are hapas/asians. She or he was obviously bullied only when her dad retired and she had to go to Bumfrick Ohio Community High School For Black folks.
              There is no bullying of Hapas at DoD dependent schools.
              >t. military hapa

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They imprint on you and your wife and burger overseas-government-military culture instead of troon teachers at Bumfrick Ohio Community High School For Black folks.

        It's a benefit tbh. They grow up with a broader perspective and mental toughness.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It's a benefit tbh. They grow up with a broader perspective and mental toughness.
          Emotional neglect, no stability, no early friends and other bullshit?
          Children do not need mental toughness. Mental toughness is something you teach to teenagers, not small children. All you'll do to small kids trying to teach toughness like that is break and corrupt them, so they grow up into weak and degenerate adults.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >so they grow up into weak and degenerate adults.
            Perfect candidates to become the next generation of cannon fodder.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Frick me, you're right. Screw them up in early childhood thanks to constant deployments, take them in at 18 when they're trying to find some reason to live after having their childhood robbed off them.

              Speak for yourself degenerate. I turned out fine. Better than most, tbh.

              >I turned out fine
              >posts on PrepHole

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Speak for yourself degenerate. I turned out fine. Better than most, tbh.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >They imprint on you and your wife and burger overseas-government-military culture instead of troon teachers at Bumfrick Ohio Community High School For Black folks.
          I'm going to guess the on-base schools are doing the troon thing just as much as anywhere in Ohio

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i had a friend who was in the army for 6 years, he said the people who got promotions and deployments had connections, otherwise you'd stay stagnant

    also goes without saying the ideological bullshit the military has these days

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >he said the people who got promotions and deployments had connections, otherwise you'd stay stagnant
      100% true. Mingling with your superior and leaving a good impression on them socially matters as much as being genuinely great at your job does. If you're not the top 1% at your job, you need to make those connections.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He also said there's lots of nepotism too, it was part of why he quit

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, because the fun is over. From Vietnam up through Afghanistan you could get a lot of action without too much risk. Right now you'll either have a peacetime military with no action, and sit around the barracks doing nothing, or you'll end up in some horrific asian trench war, where there's still very little action because you're sitting in a trench, but there's horrific risk. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get to do counterbattery but it will still be both boring and very risky.

    Things might be different for a very few specialized roles. SOF is different but if you're wondering whether to join or not at all, that's probably not you. Warrant officer would be fun if you like flying and are willing to take high risks if war breaks out, but it's kind of limiting career-wise.

    Not to mention the sense of comradery is dying because of all the SHARP and woke bullshit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Not to mention the sense of comradery is dying because of all the SHARP and woke bullshit
      back to /chug/

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This has been an escalating problem since Obama's 1st term. Just do a google search and append "before:2012-12-31" if you want to verify it has nothing to do with /chug/

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Putin/China/*insert current enemy* will lose because he is incompetent and surrounded by yesmen
        >anyone that disagrees is obviously a Chinese spy or has brown skin or is an ESL
        why are late stage empires like this?

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just read it.
    Go to the

    [...]

    sticky, pirate it and read it.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wait a bit with the low recruitment rates they might boost incentives

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I joined the Army but went Reserve. It's not a bad gig and helps pay for college.

    I'm going to agree with a lot of the people in this thread and say maybe consider therapy. I went to therapy a bit before joining and it really helped me out and gave me some sense of direction, even though I thought at the time that it was useless.

    I would go to therapy and see where you want to go from there. If you still feel the Army may help you out, either active or guard/reserve, I say go for it. Just be warned about all the issues everyone else has mentioned. The Army isn't for everyone and has a lot of kinks that can very quickly get to you. If you decide on the Army and all the bad shit continues to pile up and you decide to leave, you may honestly find yourself in a worse position than before, feeling even more directionless.

    I say go to therapy and choose what you think will work for you. There's a lot of bad in the Army and a lot of good. One underrated aspect of the Army is that you can pick your own job and some very good trade skills. If you don't think college is for you, maybe join the Guard/Reserve and pick up a trade that the Army can teach you. That's what I did.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is apparently a therapy thread now, so

      > even though I thought at the time that it was useless.
      This is something very, very important to keep in mind. It always feels like a total waste of time and money, but in the months or years after you realize how it helped.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pay
    >>room and board

    none of those are applicable anymore. This isn't your grandpa's Army anymore, it's not even your fathers Army. The pay is abismale and the living conditions in most barracks are squalor. Theres plenty of videos from soldiers during the covid lockdowns that show mold, asbestos, backed up plumbing and general filth that shouldnt exist. Trying to live off base is even worse. People are fighting tooth and nail for BAH that just barely covers the rising cost of living, and if that falls through, youre on a waiting list for base housing in the aforementioned squalor. Granted not all bases are like this, but enough are, and even more are just mediocre. Since they claim they "take care of everything" for you, its unacceptable. The GI bill/VA disability isnt worth what it used to be either. Its rare they will cover 100% of everything, and simply put a college degree is just as questionable these days, so there goes another benefit thats a false promise.
    And the community isnt there either. All these problems, coupled with the politics of today, have really divided people. Its not just the wokeness, or #BLM, or #metoo or whatever, its how its all happening at the same time and theres no breathing room. One of those things could be a pain in the ass, but several at once is suffocating. Since 2020 we've been directionless, leadership doesnt know or care what to do anymore and outside parties are slicing us up. Ive seen more disconnect from people than I have ion the last decade. Everyone is in little cliques now and out for themselves. Im coming up on my eleventh year, and im leaving at 12. I thought I could do the full twenty but Im fricking done

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >VA disability isnt worth what it used to be either.
      >Get $4,000/mo nontaxable (so basically $6,000/mo) for not doing anything.
      >NOT WORTH IT.
      What do you mean?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Go back to /meg/

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >op asks if military is worth it
          >pic says you can retire from 4 days of boot camp and not have to work the rest of your life
          >hey man go back to
          huh

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        not everyone gets lucky like that. Some slip through the cracks, and plenty more that actually deserve the kind of money dont get it. Ask yourself if 4 years (minimum) of that bullshit, plus the potential for life long damages, is worth it

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anon, growing up I had the same sorta thinking you're having right now. Being a soldier would validate me, make all the other shortcomings I felt but couldn't name become irrelevant, that no matter what my peers did I'd have that and it'd be enough. That's the wrong reason to enlist and you will be disappointed. Take some time, start writing out your thoughts perhaps, and figure out why things are as they are in you head. You won't get it at first but keep trying. A year ago I was half ready to shoot myself, even had a bullet I designated for the occasion. I was there because I tried to escape my problems with booze and half baked ideas like this. Once I started working on my shit, failing again and again but continuing to dig, eventually I worked things out.

    I'm not perfect, nowhere near all good, but take this (slightly) older 24 year old anons advice and work on yourself now not later. Journal, meditate, confide in people (even strangers at a bar), read shit about this sorta stuff, and keep trying no matter how pointless it will feel

    >t. A guy who knows how you feel

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So what booze do you drink?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    everyone I've ever met who served in the Army has some kind of debilitating injury or disability anon, often in the knees or back - because the idiots running things think manlets and women should carry the same weight and perform the same maneuvers as as wide-receiver.
    you will regret it. every other week there's a veteran here shitposting trying to warn you, but zoomers don't read archives so... enjoy your subpar medical care and GI bill for a degree that won't get you work in an economy that doesn't exist because AI are taking over
    you'd be better off learning a trade or fixing cars

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Good horse.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    obvious recruiter is obvious

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Black person, where did you see trannies in his post?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Trannies and israelites march around in russian heads all day long.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Trannies and israelites march around in russian heads all day long
        Someone should really draw this. It would be amusing.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If bootlicking globohomosexual homosexuals is your fetish have at it soldier! I literally cannot fathom why anyone has joined the military in the last 15 years, have to be the lowest IQ, sheeple masochists around.

    0 respect for anyone who joined after ~2006

    The only reasonable reason for joining is if you want to murder people and be a SOF operator.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah if you wanna, it can suck but that's work

    Just don't die anon, even if you see action

    And join the militia

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Go for it. You'll see what everyone tried to tell you.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >stable pay

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Aren't they literally fed in a cafeteria?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only single soldiers.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So they just decide to take your food away if you aren't single? What kind of bullshit is that?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            you have to pay out of pocket you absolute civilian

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You pay for it when you're single too. See

              Yes and no. Comrats is deducted from your pay automatically whether you go to the chow hall or not. It's been a minute since I checked but when I was in comrats was $300/mo.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes and no. Comrats is deducted from your pay automatically whether you go to the chow hall or not. It's been a minute since I checked but when I was in comrats was $300/mo.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's still about $300-330 zone.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Lovely. That's about what I spend to feed me and my wife, on food that isn't cafeteria slop.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The US Army charges its soldiers for its cafeteria food
          holy frick, i knew the US was a backwards shithole but what the frick

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Numbah wan bby

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Someone has to buy the ingredients, another person transports them, another person cooks them. These are people's labor we're talking about, why would any of that be free? Why would you be entitled for it to be free? Europeans are the backwards ones.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Someone has to buy the materials, another person transports them, another person assembles them. These are people's labor we're talking about, why would any of that be free? Why would you be entitled for it to be free? Soldiers should have to buy their own ammo.
              You are moronic anon, this is madness.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If you work for a contracting company they will give you a hammer and screws but you bring your own lunch. Why should this be different?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Because you go home at the end of the day when you work for a contractor.
                When they make you stay away from home, if they aren't complete shit give you a food per diem and cover the hotel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's so weird to watch history repeat itself in slow motion. It's like we are following the blueprint of Weimar Germany, even military veterans are forming paramilitary forces against the state while inflation runs and human growth hormones are sold in stores. We've been here before.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only Putin profits from veterans acting like spoiled brats. They need to show some discipline

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Israel killed American troops

          Then 7,000 died for Israel in the ME

          You have no clue what is going on around you

          You have not lost friends to suicide and combat in the ME

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hopefully there will be a war. i cant imagine being a lifelong civilian but the administration is a total disaster right now obviously. get an 18x or option 40 or something usasoc

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >hopefully there will be a war

      I can tell you've never been shot at

      "Hopefully more Americans die for Israel"

      This is what you are asking for

      The point of a military is to protect a nation not go full nazi Germany on every other nation

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Veterans are homeless and living on the street

        It's not lack of discipline, it was total betrayal

        The war was built on a lie that killed Americans

        That's the real reason why suicide killed more than combat

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >The only concern I'd have is about having my own family
    Over 80% of Zoomers will never marry or have children. What makes you think you will be in the remainder?

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You will NEVER understand it until you try it for real yourself. I can sit here and type a book for you and it will never amount to the awakening you will bring upon yourself by actually enlisting. I will still strongly suggest against it but I'd you're dead set on smoking meth and shoving c-wire down your dick, I can't stop you I'm not going to touch your dick and light your pipe. Unless you're in my emergency room then I might touch your dick within professional limits.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bro

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you aren't ready to fight you are a vatnigggggggggggg

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >time for pt private anon!
    the us military has really gone off the rails with their bullshit. so i would stay clear of it if you can.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They're gonna shove a mortar round up his ass.
      And that's just the warm up.

      Were it 10-20 years ago I’d have said go ahead if you really wanted, but nowadays? Absolutely fricking not, hell no. You literally cannot perceive how absolutely gay everything has become. Do you want to join the military that tried to get new recruits with an e “sports” team anon? Do you think thats the kind of organization that could give you what you really need, the ass kicking you should have gotten almost two decades ago? Because I’ll tell you now, it won’t.

      E-sports still might have a little more dignity than hiring strippers. They seem to be taking a page out of pharma's book.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Army looks like the most chill branch of the government, and you got the right ideas dude. Plus if you find a hottie who locks onto you you'll get like 50,000$ dollars a year extra tax free. I hate math. There's also a millionaire's club if you use your retirement 401k/ whatever the frick it's called plan correct. The only reason I didnt stay in is because of job opportunities but you get more of those also after you get out due to being a vet

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine being a grown ass man and getting yelled at by other men while earning less than a McDonald’s employee

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So just like civilian life then except I can shoot them in minecraft because I "mentally ill" and was given a gun by the state instead of purchasing one out of pocket?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I genuinely can’t understand your post anon

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get a job at the post office if you need money, anon. Then find an entrepreneurial or professional pursuit. Ain't no one seems to be getting rich working for another now though.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Were it 10-20 years ago I’d have said go ahead if you really wanted, but nowadays? Absolutely fricking not, hell no. You literally cannot perceive how absolutely gay everything has become. Do you want to join the military that tried to get new recruits with an e “sports” team anon? Do you think thats the kind of organization that could give you what you really need, the ass kicking you should have gotten almost two decades ago? Because I’ll tell you now, it won’t.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you're 18 and you don't know what you're doing with your life then it's probably not that bad. But it could be. Get in, get out, get as much out of the experience as you can. Don't get married to a bar rat, in fact you should probably just put your dick in a chastity cage and throw the key into the ocean, you'll thank me for that one later. You can figure out how to get it off once you're out. Also do not buy a Jeep Gladiator. No, you can't afford it, I don't care what the salesman told you. Oh you're going to take out a 7 year loan? Well shit dude, I guess you are a soldier. Come here, let me shake your hand!

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i would rather work at walmart, better benefits and it's safer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why does our government hate its own citizens?

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Okay, JIDF

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meds

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How do you feel about sweaty man on man sex?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Arousing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Then the military may be for you.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It depends. Are the men big and hairy? Do they make me want to tell Daddy as they frick me?

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What's not to like?
    Stupid boring work in shifts that can be as long as whoever is in charge while surrounded by living examples to the importance of abortion. But honestly that's a lot of jobs. Room/board and the veterans' benefits are legitimately pretty nice. The GI Bill is infinitely superior to getting israeliteed by usurers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Put your ass on my wiener

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