Thinking of joining the Navy.
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I have little to no respect for the military, no offense.Private Joker said:
I'm thinking of joining the Peace Corps, maybe we shall meet on the Field of Battle one day and I'll throw flowers at you.
cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
i'd say pass on it, but i'm what passes in the metal community for a stinking hippie so feel free to disregard
Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
Scrapped that idea, decided to just get my master divers certification asap and star teaching diving, or working as a comercial diver.
I just wanted to find a way to be underwater for my job =) =)
I just wanted to find a way to be underwater for my job =) =)
Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
Tranquillian
Svartmetallist
Anyone with any military experience around? Military service is mandatory in Sweden, but theyve cut down the budget so much that they don't train as much people as they used to. I was in the army, shooting houwitzers for 10 months.
Tranquillian
Svartmetallist
Righto. Well, it was fun shooting these 100 lbs shells. A field houwitzer is quite a manly gun. Diameter is 15.5 cms or about 6 inches.
Hell Mike
fuck melodic black metal
I got out because I'm a heavy! metal maniac! (stand back). Seriously.
Not that I'd object to shooting things all day long and all of that, but having to spend a year with complete morons and people waking me up early and yelling at me and shit would suck.
Not that I'd object to shooting things all day long and all of that, but having to spend a year with complete morons and people waking me up early and yelling at me and shit would suck.
Tranquillian
Svartmetallist
We had this female officer. Her ass looked better in jeans than naked. She was cool, tougher than a lot of the guys. From Luleå.
I'm a pacifist, so I had civil duty. That sort of rocked. I got a job at this media center, where tons of teen "musicians" came to records their extremely crappy music. It was cool to get a certain idea about how those things works, though, and I got to live at home with my parents instead of on some shitty military base that's actually within the arctic circle.
lizard
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I haven't been in the military but grew up in a career military family and work for dept of defense, so I've been around uniforms all my life...I even met my wife when she was in the army.
it's not for everyone, but for some its a sweet deal if your president doesn't declare a bullshit war and get you killed fighting in a useless sand country. at least here in the states, you can save money for college, and perhaps the sweetest thing is you can retire after only 20 years, so you're still young enough to enjoy life and have a second career.
I got accepted to the Citadel, but I knew I would suck at it so I didn't go
Tully: you should find Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson. pretty awesome book about the deepest kind of scuba diving and these guys' efforts to identify a previously unknown U-boat wreck off the coast of N. J. Three guys died in the efforts.
it's not for everyone, but for some its a sweet deal if your president doesn't declare a bullshit war and get you killed fighting in a useless sand country. at least here in the states, you can save money for college, and perhaps the sweetest thing is you can retire after only 20 years, so you're still young enough to enjoy life and have a second career.
I got accepted to the Citadel, but I knew I would suck at it so I didn't go
Tully: you should find Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson. pretty awesome book about the deepest kind of scuba diving and these guys' efforts to identify a previously unknown U-boat wreck off the coast of N. J. Three guys died in the efforts.
I was waiting for your response, I trust you because your the closest to military around here.
And that book sounds very good, and right up my alley. Im going to the bookstore in a couple hours actually, I'll definitly look for it there.
And that book sounds very good, and right up my alley. Im going to the bookstore in a couple hours actually, I'll definitly look for it there.
lizard
Member
the marines are the hard corps, you join them if you are trying to test how badass you are.
the air force and navy are easy compared to the marines, unless you're a navy medical corpsman, in which case you could be assigned to a marine unit as a medic.
the army is (and I hate to say it) kind of the ass end of the american military. you have to work harder than navy or air force, the discipline is more bullshit, and you end up getting shot at as much as marines do. but it also all comes down to your Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)...if you're an 11B, you're infantry cannon fodder, but if you test high enough you can go into one of the tech fields and actually learn something useful. My dad was artillery, firing 155mm self propelled howitzers...he's half deaf from all that stuff. but he's the successful example of what the army can do for you; he spent 26 years in, retired as a Colonel (O-6), and gets like 70% of his base pay as his pension. so he wasn't even 50 yet when he got out, so he went to law school.
good things about the military:
uniforms, so you don't have to worry about your wardrobe
mess halls - maybe crappy, but if you spend all your money, you still can eat
potential for early retirement
travel
GI college bill
garrison troops fuck like rabbits
bad things:
war
people trying to stab/shoot/disembowel you
training accidents (I saw a safety manual once with pics; one guy had an unsecured gun barrel fall on his head and it crimped his helmet onto his skull like a fucking bottlecap
the air force and navy are easy compared to the marines, unless you're a navy medical corpsman, in which case you could be assigned to a marine unit as a medic.
the army is (and I hate to say it) kind of the ass end of the american military. you have to work harder than navy or air force, the discipline is more bullshit, and you end up getting shot at as much as marines do. but it also all comes down to your Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)...if you're an 11B, you're infantry cannon fodder, but if you test high enough you can go into one of the tech fields and actually learn something useful. My dad was artillery, firing 155mm self propelled howitzers...he's half deaf from all that stuff. but he's the successful example of what the army can do for you; he spent 26 years in, retired as a Colonel (O-6), and gets like 70% of his base pay as his pension. so he wasn't even 50 yet when he got out, so he went to law school.
good things about the military:
uniforms, so you don't have to worry about your wardrobe
mess halls - maybe crappy, but if you spend all your money, you still can eat
potential for early retirement
travel
GI college bill
garrison troops fuck like rabbits
bad things:
war
people trying to stab/shoot/disembowel you
training accidents (I saw a safety manual once with pics; one guy had an unsecured gun barrel fall on his head and it crimped his helmet onto his skull like a fucking bottlecap
Two important questions:
Do you get to take a test, see what you place, and THEN enlist, or do you have to enlist, then take the test to see if your going to be a human shield or not?
And also, when/where do you have to wear the uniform? Wearing it isn't a big deal or anything, I'm just curious, I see people walking around in uniform in Boston shopping and such.
Do you get to take a test, see what you place, and THEN enlist, or do you have to enlist, then take the test to see if your going to be a human shield or not?
And also, when/where do you have to wear the uniform? Wearing it isn't a big deal or anything, I'm just curious, I see people walking around in uniform in Boston shopping and such.
spaffe
Geisterglut
Tranquillian said:
I did military service for some three months before I managed to lie my way out of there (thoughts of suicide etc) ;P
I was in a truck company which, needless to say, sucked immensly, but shooting was fun though
lizard
Member
#1: not sure...I'd ask a recruiter, but of course with the caveat that they can be slippery bastards and will sometimes lie to meet their quota. In Recruiting command we used to have to fire them all the time because of shit like that or if they got caught "dipping deps" - fucking their female recruits in the Delayed Entry Program.
Basically, you wear the uniform (keeping in mind there are actually several types of uniforms) when you are on duty.
Basically, you wear the uniform (keeping in mind there are actually several types of uniforms) when you are on duty.
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