Joining The Marines

[ANNE HATHAWAY FANANNE HATHAWAY FAN is verified member.]

Shows how Americans have become too retarded these days compared to our ancestors. They just rather sit at home, fart and play Call of Duty. Us retarded Canucks even provide refuge for those who refuse to enlist in the Vietnam War. It's an indicator of how retarded Americans are becoming.

BECOMING?

(Space man holding a gun) Always has been.

That's the entire first world though, baby. America, Canada, England, basically anywhere that life isn't a struggle. America specifically has been cruising since after the depression. I'm not talking about the wars that people have went through obviously, but the society in general has been living LARGE since the beginning of Truman's America.

The last good generation legitimately was people born on or right before the 1920s. Those people knew what hard times were. They ate out of trash cans during the depression, didn't have anywhere to flee to dodge the draft EXCEPT Europe or Japan to fight the axis, and lived in a dog eat dog world. But strong men create weak times.

And that's exactly what the Western world has been living off of for GENERATIONS. Everyone has had it soft and easy and we think hardship now is the fucking WiFi going down for a couple of days.

The reality of it is, the absolute joke of it is @Bear Hammer after you come home, when you've got your discharge and especially if you've seen combat... go read reddit for a couple of hours. Then the absolute fucking HORROR will slowly creep into your mind and you will have the sickening realization that you were dodging rifle fire and IEDs to protect these fucking people. And these fat little creatures with soft underbellies that are chronically online not only expect to be living in a world like this where everything is handed to them in perpetuity, they still have the balls to say fuck this country.

Who would have thought that literally a hundred years of people living like fucking royalty would have made us weak, stupid and entitled?

 

[Bear Hammer]

The reality of it is, the absolute joke of it is @Bear Hammer after you come home, when you've got your discharge and especially if you've seen combat... go read reddit for a couple of hours. Then the absolute fucking HORROR will slowly creep into your mind and you will have the sickening realization that you were dodging rifle fire and IEDs to protect these fucking people. And these fat little creatures with soft underbellies that are chronically online not only expect to be living in a world like this where everything is handed to them in perpetuity, they still have the balls to say fuck this country.

Who would have thought that literally a hundred years of people living like fucking royalty would have made us weak, stupid and entitled?

I get what you’re saying, and I honestly don’t even know if I’d ever see combat, especially since we are in peacetime right now, if I even do a combat related job, and how scary my waiver stack is.

But even if I would have to go into combat, I'm fine doing hard, thankless work so that others can live soft. That's literally part of the deal with joining the military. I think what people miss is that saying "fuck veterans" or "fuck America" is also part of what makes this country great. That you can say that and not be disappeared or sent to a labor camp, and still enjoy the comfort and safety people like you (and hopefully someday me ) are willing to preserve, even if it pisses us off.

The comfort they mock is exactly what is needed to be defended, and they don't even realize it.

 

[ANNE HATHAWAY FANANNE HATHAWAY FAN is verified member.]

I get what you’re saying, and I honestly don’t even know if I’d ever see combat, especially since we are in peacetime right now

Yeah but here's the scary part dude: all them boys in the American Army we're training with wooden rifles cuz they didn't even have enough to go around. The military budget wasn't that big back then because we we're in peacetime.

Then bam. Pearl harbor. You have to be ready for it at a moment's notice is all I'm saying. And last time I checked we had a lot of enemies and there was a lot of wars going on around the world that we had our fingers in.

if I even do a combat related job, and how scary my waiver stack is.

But even if I would have to go into combat, I'm fine doing hard, thankless work so that others can live soft. That's literally part of the deal with joining the military. I think what people miss is that saying "fuck veterans" or "fuck America" is also part of what makes this country great. That you can say that and not be disappeared or sent to a labor camp, and still enjoy the comfort and safety people like you (and hopefully someday me ) are willing to preserve, even if it pisses us off.

Well yeah but I'm also happy that I defended my right to be like "fuck these rodents, they don't deserve the life that this country provides them"

The comfort they mock is exactly what is needed to be defended, and they don't even realize it.

I feel like that comfort should be taken away, or earned. These people have been pampered for so long they never learn to appreciate it.

 

[Bear Hammer]

So yeah, even though my suicide-by-cop attempt and the shit I was saying back then was really bad, my recruiter still says there's hope. Apparently the magic number is two years, and it's been exactly that long since I've had any major meltdowns, hospital visits, or attempts to bait a cop into killing me.


He said that if I stack the following:

>GED (in progress)
>15 college credits (easy Tier 1 boost — Sophia.org is actually legit)
>A job (I’m working on this, probably something basic just to show I can be responsible)
>Fitness improvements (already dropped weight from being a green redditor, working toward pull-ups)
>And a good ASVAB score (I'm aiming very high, no "minimum score to enlist" garbage)
>A note from my manager saying that he did not have to make any accommodations for me and he doesn't think I'm crazy
>A note from my past therapist saying that I did not have to come back and that they believe I am "mentally fit to serve"
>Word the personal statement like I was just being really dramatic and that I wasn't really that crazy (which was true)

…then the waiver has a real shot. He basically said it's hard, but not impossible. Especially if I don’t come off like a liability or a timebomb. Which I do genuinely believe I am not either of those things.



So yeah, it's still spooky. The psych ward paperwork exists. The quotes I said back then were cartoonishly insane. But if I can come in with receipts that show I've been stable, productive, and focused for two years, there's a path forward.

Worst-case scenario: I get denied and I guess I'll volunteer to fight in a foreign war. But best-case? I earn my way in despite all of it. Which would be kind of poetic, honestly.

 

[ANNE HATHAWAY FANANNE HATHAWAY FAN is verified member.]

So yeah, even though my suicide-by-cop attempt and the shit I was saying back then was really bad, my recruiter still says there's hope. Apparently the magic number is two years, and it's been exactly that long since I've had any major meltdowns, hospital visits, or attempts to bait a cop into killing me.


He said that if I stack the following:

>GED (in progress)
>15 college credits (easy Tier 1 boost — Sophia.org is actually legit)
>A job (I’m working on this, probably something basic just to show I can be responsible)
>Fitness improvements (already dropped weight from being a green redditor, working toward pull-ups)
>And a good ASVAB score (I'm aiming very high, no "minimum score to enlist" garbage)
>A note from my manager saying that he did not have to make any accommodations for me and he doesn't think I'm crazy
>A note from my past therapist saying that I did not have to come back and that they believe I am "mentally fit to serve"
>Word the personal statement like I was just being really dramatic and that I wasn't really that crazy (which was true)

…then the waiver has a real shot. He basically said it's hard, but not impossible. Especially if I don’t come off like a liability or a timebomb. Which I do genuinely believe I am not either of those things.



So yeah, it's still spooky. The psych ward paperwork exists. The quotes I said back then were cartoonishly insane. But if I can come in with receipts that show I've been stable, productive, and focused for two years, there's a path forward.

Worst-case scenario: I get denied and I guess I'll volunteer to fight in a foreign war. But best-case? I earn my way in despite all of it. Which would be kind of poetic, honestly.

Not for nothing and no offense intended, but if you had problems like that being in the mental hospital and stuff... I'm already going to tell you right now from experience you have a WAY higher success rate at joining the Army than the Marines, because I've seen people get turned down from the Marines and the Navy and immediately get swooped up by the Army.

The Army will pretty much take anyone who's not a frothing at the mouth psychopath. I mean Jesus dude they'll take anyone up to 35 years old, and even then you can get an age waiver and join when you're older if they give you a physical and think you can make it through basic training lol.

I mean Jesus Christ man they took 19 year old ME so what does that tell you?

 

[Bear Hammer]

Not for nothing and no offense intended, but if you had problems like that being in the mental hospital and stuff... I'm already going to tell you right now from experience you have a WAY higher success rate at joining the Army than the Marines, because I've seen people get turned down from the Marines and the Navy and immediately get swooped up by the Army.

The Army will pretty much take anyone who's not a frothing at the mouth psychopath. I mean Jesus dude they'll take anyone up to 35 years old, and even then you can get an age waiver and join when you're older if they give you a physical and think you can make it through basic training lol.

I mean Jesus Christ man they took 19 year old ME so what does that tell you?

Yeah, I'll most likely try the Army if the Marines reject me. I know the Army's waivers go down easier, and they're more likely to give someone like me a shot if I come in squared away.

But for some reason I still want to try the Marines first. I don't even fully know how to explain it. It’s just something about the marines, the structure, the intensity, the adventure that it promises, the culture. I really want to go there, ideally not just coast into whatever branch will have me.


If it doesn’t work out, that's unfortunate I guess i'll pivot and make something out of it. But I'd rather take the shot that means the most first, even if the odds are shit.

And I also will probably go infantry just to try to be on this attack drone team, it seems really cool.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/ne...07/marine-corps-introduces-drone-attack-team/

 

[ANNE HATHAWAY FANANNE HATHAWAY FAN is verified member.]

Yeah, I'll most likely try the Army if the Marines reject me. I know the Army's waivers go down easier, and they're more likely to give someone like me a shot if I come in squared away.

But for some reason I still want to try the Marines first. I don't even fully know how to explain it. It’s just something about the marines, the structure, the intensity, the adventure that it promises, the culture. I really want to go there, ideally not just coast into whatever branch will have me.


If it doesn’t work out, that's unfortunate I guess i'll pivot and make something out of it. But I'd rather take the shot that means the most first, even if the odds are shit.

And I also will probably go infantry just to try to be on this attack drone team, it seems really cool.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/ne...07/marine-corps-introduces-drone-attack-team/

I understand completely. For me the army was the choice because I had a special kinship with it because my grandpa was in the army. So for me just rolling around as a PFC in grunt infantry was all I wanted. That was the brass ring, hit the same action pop pop did. Everything else after that came after that was just gravy.