Poll: Ever Served In The Military?

[Rigs83]

I would but I like to sleep in and I am allergic to dying so I have to avoid places where that happens like battlefields and East LA.

 

[IxionIndustries]

I don't plan to, honestly. Not built for it. No muscle, just all brain. Well, if you can call it that. I value my life too much, and i'm a coward. If there ever came another draft in the U.S., I'd be sent out as cannon fodder.
Also, I've never really liked millitary personnel that much. And after being stuck in ROTC for a year, that didn't help those ideas.

 

[Ethereal]

I don't plan to, honestly. Not built for it. No muscle, just all brain. Well, if you can call it that. I value my life too much, and i'm a coward. If there ever came another draft in the U.S., I'd be sent out as cannon fodder.
Also, I've never really liked millitary personnel that much. And after being stuck in ROTC for a year, that didn't help those ideas.

Just to let you know a lot of people who get their Officer Commissions from ROTC aren't liked by most enlisted personnel either. Also, I wouldn't be to quick on calling yourself a coward until you have actually been in a situation that would define you as such. Courage comes from facing fears, not being ignorant of it.
In much better words:

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."

~Jean Paul Richter~

 

[IxionIndustries]

I don't plan to, honestly. Not built for it. No muscle, just all brain. Well, if you can call it that. I value my life too much, and i'm a coward. If there ever came another draft in the U.S., I'd be sent out as cannon fodder.
Also, I've never really liked millitary personnel that much. And after being stuck in ROTC for a year, that didn't help those ideas.

Just to let you know a lot of people who get their Officer Commissions from ROTC aren't liked by most enlisted personnel either. Also, I wouldn't be to quick on calling yourself a coward until you have actually been in a situation that would define you as such. Courage comes from facing fears, not being ignorant of it.
In much better words:

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."

~Jean Paul Richter~

On the fourth of july, I ran away from a firework shell being shot off. I was about 12 yards away, and I wasn't the one lighting it.. I think that counts as pure cowardice.

 

[hotacidbath]

I'm hoping to join the Navy after college. I've always wanted to join the military and the Navy seems like the best fit for me personally. Both my grandfathers served in WW2 as well as a few great-uncles.

 

[twistedshadows]

No. It's just not in my personality.
I did consider joining the Navy once upon a time, but that was because I had a slight breakdown during which I wanted to get away from everything and everyone.

I got better.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

piloting drones requires you to sit behind a screen miles away...cyberwarfare is still 100% posible, RC recon planes are usually launched by recon teams already in the field of combat

True, but it depends on which country you are talking about. In the US for example, only Pilots fly drones. But in Australia we realise that you don't need a degree and the training of a combat pilot to use a remote control drone. We, as in the people who maintain/launch, pilot them ourselves.

 

[Plauged1]

I would never make it in the army, even if I tried.

I would get my mates killed in disastrous attempts to be funny and lighten the mood.
EX: Running through the desert, being sniped at, with cluster mines. I would step on heels, screaming "flat tire!", laughing my ass off. I am unusually relaxed, and it surprises even me.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

You say "most importantly." I disagree.
People are less than a dime a dozen.
People are nothing. Worthless.
A person may be worth everything, but people as a whole are not.

Four/Three B: There is nothing worth dying for.

I would die for my family. Wouldn't you sacrifice your life for those you care about?

No. Simply put, I don't feel the "love" for my family I am told I am supposed to feel.

I am sorry to hear that you feel that way about people.
I can't really relate to how you feel towards your family. I was lucky, I have a great family. However, I really hope that your are not married and don't have kids. If you do, and don't love them then I feel sorry for you, and your kids. The only thing I care about more than Honour, is my wife (I don't have kids yet).

 

[Sewblon]

I am the last person who should serve in the military. I am undisciplined, sloppy, lazy, anti-social and perverted.

 

[Jharry5]

Although I respect the people that have ever served in a war, and what they were fighting for, I know for a fact that the only way I'd end up serving is if conscription was brought back.
I'm not amazingly fit, and definately not a killer.

 

[Gaz_mcMillan]

Currently serving the Royal Army, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, as a sergeant.
deployed to Iraq, currently off duty in Britain(scotland).

 

[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.

piloting drones requires you to sit behind a screen miles away...cyberwarfare is still 100% posible, RC recon planes are usually launched by recon teams already in the field of combat

True, but it depends on which country you are talking about. In the US for example, only Pilots fly drones. But in Australia we realise that you don't need a degree and the training of a combat pilot to use a remote control drone. We, as in the people who maintain/launch, pilot them ourselves.

That's not true at all. I flew a UAV for a short period of time for the US Army and I was 20, no college degree, and it wasn't even my MOS. I received 3 weeks training before being certified to fly it. Granted, it sucked and the whole project was canceled after one deployment. I think it was just one, at least, I got out right around that time.

 

[gh0ti]

Four/Three B: There is nothing worth dying for.

Freedom to express that sentiment?

I already have that. If I died for it, I would no longer be capable of expressing anything, because I would be dead.

Obviously what I meant was, if hypothetically your freedom of expression was under threat and the only way to maintain it was to put your life in grave danger, would you?

By the way, would you consider yourself a nihilist?