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zarc · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: enlisting

anyone ever serve before other than diplo? I am very much so considering enlisting for a lot of reasons and need some folks to talk to about it.

Dao Jones · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

I considered it long ago, and I spent 15 months in Kuwait working with the soldiers quite a bit. I also have several friends who are serving and have served. I'm certainly not the authority, but I might be able to help out if no one else steps up.

Torrent · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject:

im guessing youre an american...and that being the case you should think about it politically (i assume if youve put enough thought into it to ask for opinions then youve done this already). do you support bush, the war in iraq, etc?

skulls · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject:

I might be of some help..US Navy for 4 years..I enlisted..

Wank · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

My brother is in the Navy currently.

I'm personally looking at the army.

Torrent · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject:

Dao Jones · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Wank · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

zarc · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

everyone says to go with navy or airforce. I am leaning a lot more towards navy because 1. its in my blood 2. it seems to have better career options and 3. I like the ocean.

Everyone keeps saying these things about the middle east and blah blah blah, but in all honesty, i probably won't go if i'm in the navy. I will more then likely get stationed at different posts around the world and get to experience new things from new cultures. I want to meet interesting people and get awesome stories. I want to become better disciplined and a better person. I do not want to fight some war where i will just be a bullet catcher. I want to use the government as a tool to help me accomplish my goals. The navy will provide me food, shelter, and money for as long as i want to be in. And if after two years of service i don't like it, then i don't enlist again. If i do like it, i will stay with it until i feel like settling down.

Theres a lot i have been thinking about, and it really seems like a pretty good choice.

Wank · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

Roy · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

I knew some navy guys before - they really liked the service because they got to travel the world and have some amazing experiences. And when they finished their tours, people respected them for it. Everyone I know in the Navy has really gotten a lot out of it.

Dao Jones · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

No matter what branch of the military you're in you'll be traveling the world. And don't think Navy guys don't end up in the Middle East; there were *plenty* of Navy guys doing crap guard duty around the Army bases (because the Army and Marines were busy).

I'd say Navy or Air Force are your best bets. Army is kinda blah, and don't even think of joining the Marines unless you have something to prove, and are crazy.

zarc · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:49 am Post subject:

DiPLOMAT · Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 1644 12.37 Silvarrr

just through experience...

1. i didnt give a shit about the current politics, it has little to no effect on the common enlistee, everyone deploys regardless of who is in office... i joined for my country and for me.. not neccesarily in that order

2. army is on 15 month deployments with terrible accomodations over there... the army does not take care of their troops. the marines take a bit more care of their troops but their deployments are usually 6 months deployed, 6 months home, consecutively through your whole enlistment, unless on speacial duty, not sure about the navy, usaf is anywhere from 2 months to 8 months, depending on your speacialty... on average af personnel spends 4 months every 1.5 years

3. navy spends 6 months on a boat.. i hope you love the ocean that much.

4. college. +++

5. OJT experience +++++

6. you never have to worry about not having a place to sleep or food to eat.

7. dont let basic sway your options.. its so brief... and has no actual relativity to your actual career or what military life is about.. it jus teaches you by the book BASICS.. hence.. basic training (speaking on an af point of view)

8. whatever you choose to do.. know this.. usmc/army's prime speacialty is COMBAT, your chosen speacialty is secondary... usaf and usn is opposite, your speacialty comes before combat.

9. if you choose usaf or usn.. dont sign a gat damn signature anywhere, until you have a job YOU WANT garunteed! recruiters are souless and have to meet a quota.... they will stick u with the shaft if you let them... know what job you want before u sign...

i know im not always the most mature person on this site.. but i know my shit about the recruiting process... i can give u a detailed explanation of most jobs in the usaf... i love babbling about it, so if you consider af... let me know what interests you and i'll point you in the right direction

zarc · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

usmc/army are 100% out of the question. I am looking more towards navy to be honest. What i really would like to do is something involving photography, video, or journalism. Everyone says that if thats what i want to do, then i should go air force. What do you think?