Poll: Ever Served In The Military?

[ElTigreSantiago]

-Why do you want to be that fit?
- What skills are you going to learn which you can learn nowhere else? How to use a rifle to effectively murder someone? Not particularly high on my to do list.
- Comradeship? WHat if you end up as the 'Privat Pyle' of your unit? The one who is not quite as good and gets bullied into suicide by all the others?
- Why do you want to be so diciplined?

The military carves you into a mentally damaged, physical cripple with no employable skills apart from how to kill people in a variety of interesting and creative ways. Either that or it carves you into a dead person.

The only thing you'll acheive by joining the military is the furtherance of economic dominance by the US and the EU. I hope you enjoy killing poor people

Asking why one would want to be in good shape is a stupid question. Why wouldn't you? If you are mugged on the streets or you get into a fight, you will certainly be happy you had military training. No one is "bullied into suicide" in the military, Private Pyle was captured. The fact that you would even say that leads me to believe you need to see a therapist. And for the last question, it makes you a better man.

If it weren't for the guys that are willing to do this, your life would be a helluva lot worse (if you would be alive at all).

 

[traceur_]

No, nor do I plan to.

I don't want to get shot and I don't want to get shipped overseas with no option of leaving.

 

[KaiusCormere]

Did 4 years in the US Air Force. I learned a lot and had a great time, and I was deployed to Kuwait but never involved in any combat nor (do i believe) was any combat within 100 miles.

I feel I had a more interesting life experience than the other people I know who didn't join.
This has to do with the travelling, meeting people from so many walks of life, being responsible for important missions. However it was the people I knew and worked with who were good, and not really the military structure itself. The structure involves mountains of paperwork, long waits, orders that make little sense to anyone...the legacy of the giant bureaucracy involved with the government.

I'm glad I joined, but I'm also glad I'm out

 

[dymond2K9]

No i havent served in the army yet, i plan to be in logistics and support, Driver. Cant wait to go and join.

 

[The Hitman]

I'm in the school RAF section, I plan to join up after I get a Degree (a good fall-back plan with respect to the tough selection)

 

[MSG_Klemer]

Proudly served and still serving, 12 years and counting.

US Army.

Served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afganistan, Columbia, Israel, Horn of Africa, Georgia, Mexico, and.... screw it...I am not listing anymore.

As well as my wife has served in the US Army for 8years and is now currently on US Army Reserve duty. She has deployed to Iraq, Kosovo and Bosnia.

 

[Dantes Alaska]

i want to, and i am trying to, joining the military is the one thing i for sure have wanted to do with my life, i come from a family of soldiers, i love my family and my country, i live in the USA, sure we don't always make the best decisions, but i wouldn't live anywhere else, i have other reasons for wanting to join, but you guys prolly dont care, but ill give you one more, and its a little self serving, i love camouflage, what other job would only let me wear camouflage as my work uniform

and frost, what branch?

 

[TheSapphireKnight]

I would only join the military if I could be a fighter pilot and I would sign up faster than you can say "Lightning II" if I could fly a F35.

 

[Glerken]

No. My country isn't worth dieing for in my opinion. I'm not in charge of it, they aren't all my decisions.
It's a piece of land with imaginary lines separating it from the rest of the world.

I'm reminded of that one song from The Clash. "You have the right, to not be killed"

And I plan on utilizing that.

 

[DeAvatar]

Six years as an electrician/mechanic for a last-ditch defense piece of equipment. Got in intending to of made it a career, got out with a sigh of relief. Sometimes I look back and wonder if I could of gone all the way, but very glad I didn't. (Too many chiefs, not enough indians as the saying goes.)

 

[Najos]

I was in the US Army from 02-06. There were good times and bad times. It isn't nearly as difficult as everyone makes it out to be, though. And you definitely can get some training that just isn't offered anywhere else...not that any of it is really useful anywhere else. Anyway, I wouldn't recommend it to everyone.

Here is a saying that I learned that is so true.

There are no atheist in foxholes.

Do you get what I mean by that

No, I don't. I was an atheist (and still am) throughout all of my deployments.

Well go back to WWII then come back then tell me what you think. The saying is from WWII not current. Today the enemy only gets 10 min gun training and they never aim. it's only a spray and pray thing. Our only f***ed if there's and RPG.

Sorry I'm responding so late to this, but I don't really peruse the forums like I should. I'm basically only popping in to call bullshit on this. You obviously made some typos, so correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but are you implying that RPGs are more accurate and take less training than rifles? If so, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Furthermore, implying that "the enemy" (I'm assuming this means anyone that shoots at US troops) is poorly trained and aren't actually aiming at their targets is insanity.

I really want to go on with this, but I've just decided that you'll probably never read it (since I am posting it weeks after the fact) and even if you do...well, you won't really grasp the concept. In short, to believe in God just because you're in danger is a cowardly act and if you think your God is fooled by it then I can't understand why anyone would worship him.

 

[Saluce]

No, being shot at doesn't appear on my favorite jobs list^^

 

[Duragorr]

Cpl in the USMC. Here is one of my favorite quotes from a hero of the Corps

"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race!"

-Chesty Puller-

To me that kinda sums up the reason for me joining.