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Have him look at welding or IT.
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Melthir posted:Have him look at welding or IT. Welding is more up his alley. He had an opportunity to go that route at jobcorps but pissed it away on security guard school that he then dropped out of.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:08
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He dropped out of security guard .... school?
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Mar 20, 2018 16:12
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Book rec: the 7 habits of highly effective people. If you pay attention and do what dude suggests you can unfuck your life and possibly the lives of people around you. IDK if it can work in the army/navy/marines but it's worth a try right?
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Mar 20, 2018 16:15
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My book recommendation is On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
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Mar 20, 2018 16:34
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Mr. Nice! posted:Welding is more up his alley. He had an opportunity to go that route at jobcorps but pissed it away on security guard school that he then dropped out of. The thin yellow line gets a little thinner 😢
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Mar 20, 2018 17:45
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LingcodKilla posted:He dropped out of security guard .... school? Job corps had a “security professional” program that he was in following his GED classes. He dropped out because it was boring. He opted for that over electrician.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Job corps had a “security professional” program that he was in following his GED classes. He dropped out because it was boring. He opted for that over electrician. 
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Mr. Nice! posted:Job corps had a “security professional” program that he was in following his GED classes. He dropped out because it was boring. He opted for that over electrician. Hmm rent a copy or nice union job rent a cop or nice union job hmm...
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Mar 20, 2018 18:47
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Can I pick meth dealer? Is that an option?
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LingcodKilla posted:Can I pick meth dealer? Is that an option? I don't think you want to do that https://local.theonion.com/undercover-cop-never-knew-selling-drugs-was-such-hard-w-1819566772
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I met a dude 10 years who had just wrapped up AIT in the Army at age 40. His story was that he was enlisted in the Air Force at 18 and got out as soon as possible, hating every minute. He went on to become a truck driver in civilian life, and discovered that was crappy in it's own way. When his daughter turned 18, she was considering the National Guard to help pay for college. He came along with her to the recruiter as a prior service dude who knew the ropes (20 years ago). Chatting with the recruiter, he mentioned that he wished he had put in a full 20 with the Air Force, and that leaving was his biggest regret in life. The recruiter's eyes sparked and he told him he might be able to get him back in the Army. He enlisted. He was now a truck driver in the army, working with kids half his age. No idea how he physically made it through boot camp. His wife had a couple of hand surgeries that they had put off for years because they didn't have good insurance. He joins his unit, and they're getting deployed to Iraq in ~6 months. But first, truck driver and his unit are going for 3 months to another state to learn how to run a prison. That's what they'd be doing in Iraq, operating a prison. His daughter didn't end up joining the guard anyway 
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LingcodKilla posted:Can I pick meth dealer? Is that an option? It's always an option. Just not an ideal trajectory.
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canyoneer posted:I met a dude 10 years who had just wrapped up AIT in the Army at age 40. Ahahahhaahahahhahahahahahahaa
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canyoneer posted:I met a dude 10 years who had just wrapped up AIT in the Army at age 40. Holy poo poo
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canyoneer posted:I met a dude 10 years who had just wrapped up AIT in the Army at age 40. Being an old in boot ain’t so bad. It’s mostly mental and resisting strangling kids.
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LingcodKilla posted:Being an old in boot ain’t so bad. It’s mostly mental and resisting strangling kids. Not an old but going to OCS as prior enlisted was the same experience. It becomes an exercise in patience.
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I enlisted at 28 and that was rough enough. drat stupid kids.
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canyoneer posted:I met a dude 10 years who had just wrapped up AIT in the Army at age 40. Edit this into the OP and close the thread
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DaNerd posted:Not an old but going to OCS as prior enlisted was the same experience. It becomes an exercise in patience. The SEAL chief who was our class president had an insane monk-like level of patience for all the annoying younger guys in our class.
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Mar 21, 2018 02:34
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Inside he’s already killed you all 5 different ways with just office supplies.
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LingcodKilla posted:Inside he’s already killed you all 5 different ways with just office supplies. ...while thinking about how he’s going to pitch this part while he’s shopping for book deals.
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When I went through basic, there was an 0321 (recon) contract in my platoon. The kid in question was scared of water, could barely get a 3rd class pft, barely passed rifle qual, and was all around pretty lacking in common sense. Well, come BWT, we had the night attack range or whatever it was called, and it comes out that he has night blindness. Turns out he isn't even allowed to have a driver's license because of it. He managed to go from the bwt night attack course all the way over to the company currently doing the crucible, who were on the opposite side of page field, and got brought back by the other company's 1sgt and CO. It was pretty funny watching our DI's get chewed out by the whole chain of command for losing a recruit. The next day, we get back and he goes to the optometrist. Within ten minutes he walks out with a fraudulent enlistment charge. How he got through meps without anyone finding out about his night blindness, I have no idea. He was on the working party cleaning up the parade deck after we graduated, and stayed on the island for about a month after that.
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I'm trying to remember the initial medical screening poo poo that we did to get kids in and I don't remember if night blindness was ever even a thing on it, though yeah I know its a category you can get on drivers licenses and poo poo
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Mar 21, 2018 05:36
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Must be a recent thing then, I remember there being a check box for it when I went through meps
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Mar 21, 2018 05:40
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My mother-in-law has been pretending to have night blindness for about 30 years so that she can get drunk and make my father-in-law drive home whenever they go out for dinner.
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Oh I'm not doubting your story or anything I just don't ever remember even thinking about it or it being a concern, but maybe the army just didnt care about it vs the usmc, and that just seems really weird to me
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I don't remember any test for that.
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Just the color blindness and normal vision when I went through meps.
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I went through a compressed 30 day OCS for medical units right off the street. Which also happened to share a campus with the Senior NCO academy. I spent my time in a sleep deprived haze broken only by the death-hate glare I directed at the prior enlisted who were somehow able to spend every second out of class kicked back on balconies drinking beer and bullshitting. Still, that short time taught me a lot about military education. I walked into my next course fully prepared. Fresh off a three day bender in Austin, so hung over I passed out two times during the test. I still made a 90% on a pass/fail exam.
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mods change my name posted:I'm trying to remember the initial medical screening poo poo that we did to get kids in and I don't remember if night blindness was ever even a thing on it, though yeah I know its a category you can get on drivers licenses and poo poo Don't you have to disclose medical conditions? I assume night blindness applies under that.
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Yeah I suppose it would fall under the Anything else you want to tell us? Category
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I can't see poo poo at night, but MEPS didn't test for that back in 05, so I was good. Didn't realize it until I went overseas where streetlights were a luxury
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03-05 meps didn't test for anything other than a heartbeat pretty much.
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DaNerd posted:Not an old but going to OCS as prior enlisted was the same experience. It becomes an exercise in patience. I've toyed with the idea of doing Navy OCS for the technical track (weapons/sensors), but dealing with all the bullshit and kids... No thanks.
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lightpole posted:03-05 meps didn't test for anything other than a heartbeat pretty much. only got worse with the surge
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It took me 6 months and 6 trips to MEPS during the surge.
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Soulex posted:It took me 6 months and 6 trips to MEPS during the surge. goddamn
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I have a hard time remembering anything that happened at MEPS other than sitting in a cold room on a bench wearing nothing but my underwear, surrounded by a bunch of stinky guys, and my feet/hands slowly starting to turn blue because it was so drat cold.
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Went through MEPS again last May, they still don’t test for night-blindness.
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