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[tampabulls]

[CentralCali]

mc: You forgot about medically retired personnel. Also, I don't think there are too many civilian jobs where the boss won't can someone for telling the boss to "shove it"!

Fox: I wasn't aware we'd be redefining words willy nilly in this discussion.

[Fox]

[CentralCali]

Sociopaths, huh? Your use of that term to describe the military is quite telling.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

[Fox]

[mc_jc]

[rocket_scientist]

I was in the Navy. It sucked. Never Again Volunteer Yourself. I wore those bell bottom pants and that faggoty sailor hat. I cleaned toilets and chipped paint. Then I chipped paint on the engines and wiped oil and then I clean the toilets in the electric shop. The Hull Technicians would blow the *hitters by putting a e hose in the toilet system and then give full pressure. It blew *hit on the ceiling and I had to clean it up. I liked to hang my @ss over the rail and crap in the sea two stories below. After the Navy, I became an officer in The US Public Health Service and I'd wear my uniform and go to Sand Point just to make people less important than me salute and call me sir.
It sucked.

[Jeonmunka]

I quit basic training for the army because I realised I didn't want to kill anyone.
Rather than think about your own death as a reason for not joining the army, also think about the deaths of others i.e., that you will kill another person.
That is, if your position in the army involves shooting.

[Draz]

[Street Magic]

[Zulethe]

I'd take out a small country to put food on my table. And I'd gladly take out three if I had a family to care for.

Just like this lame ass job teaching in Korea there are five other directionless meatheads willing to step up and do the job for a buck if you aren't.

When I'm on my death bed I don't want my last memory to be whether or not I correctly conjugated a verb while teaching Englishee in Korea.

I also don't want to be 70 years old sitting around with a group of friends shooting the breeze. "yeah, I spent twenty years in Korea teaching English...(quickly interrupted cause no one cares)"

"Let me tell you about those three...I blew up with a hand grenade..."

Now that's a story people want to hear.

I can tell the boss to shove it because I don't need to work at this point in my life. I work because I choose to.

I haven't lost a second of sleep thinking about all of the Iraqis killed while I was stationed in the military. I spend my time thinking about what I'm going to eat for breakfast.

War didn't faze me at all. What fazes me is being around lifeless idiots or doing mundane tasks day in and day out. Facing my mortality was the best thing I've ever done. I never take a day for granted.

[Zulethe]

[.38 Special]

I like you, Zulethe. You're my kind of guy.

However, and I say this as a staunch advocate of the US Armed Forces, your experience is far from typical.

The Armed Forces offer rewarding careers. They cannot guarantee easy-street, or middle-class retirement at a young age. You will earn your daily bread. This should be surprising to no one. If anyone should find this statement unreasonable, I am not professionally qualified to help you.

If I could go back to being 18, I'd definitely join the forces. I would have, had I not went to college.

But, then again, I'm one of those nutters who believes it to be honorable and enviable to die for your country. I'm also not so well cocooned in bizarre humanitarian ideology to find killing in duty to the benefit of one's people to be unpalatable. It's just a part of the human experience.

If you have a desire to serve your country (instead of to be served by your country as many creatures of entitlement believe today), the military is an excellent choice. I would not, however, expect a career in the armed forces to be a huge cut above other middle-class professions and therefore a short-cut to wealth.

[bucheon bum]