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Vahakyla posted:Finland is always my fall back if my life would go dramatically altered. I'm not questioning your desire to stay in the military, I'm not in a position to do that. I will however question your desire to do voluntary poo poo that gives you a significant chance of loving up your body and giving yourself chronic pain. I have chronic back pain and am on daily doses of pretty hefty painkillers. I'm lucky that they don't seem to affect me much, but the pain never goes away and it affects every aspect of my life. How I sit, how I walk, how I sleep, how I gently caress, literally everything. I didn't really get any warning about it and it's not from a specific incident or anything but I can tell you right now I sure as poo poo wish I had one that I could have listened to. It is awful and it is never going to go away for me, ever. I would work til the day I loving die if it meant I could get rid of this.
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Vahakyla posted:Death before re-enlistment. I have no interest in medic stuff. I’ll wrap up the rest of my career as an O. Go MI please. Either the intelligence variety or the MOBILE INFANTRY in the SPACE CORPS lmao.
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Vahakyla posted:the Army shields me from the otherwise terrible parts of american society. Hahahaha wow
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Vahakyla posted:the Army shields me from the otherwise terrible parts of american society.
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Living in Italy in amazing house with poo poo ton of pay, lots of time off, with awesome unit. Racing motorcycles with the wife on alpine roads with all the loving time off we get all the time. Hmmm sure is hell this Army life.
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Vahakyla posted:Living in Italy in amazing house with poo poo ton of pay, lots of time off, with awesome unit. Racing motorcycles with the wife on alpine roads with all the loving time off we get all the time. you're in italy, you lucked out stupid
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I know. By the time I am out of time here, I’m at 4 years of active duty already.
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Vahakyla posted:I know. By the time I am out of time here, I’m at 4 years of active duty already. Wow congrats you’re 20% of the way to 50% of your base poo poo enlisted pay for life. You’re still going to need a job when you get out to be able to vacation and poo poo you dumbass. But all you’ll be qualified for is bagging my loving groceries.
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i'm gonna go with medical separation within 6 months of his next duty station edit: at least the process will be initiated
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Sometimes I wonder if I would have turned out like this guy and stayed in after my 4. My first duty assignment was for Italy, but a few weeks before graduating AIT it got changed to Drum. Vahakyla, you know in a normal 9-5 job you wouldn't have to deal with these types of injuries because most 9-5 jobs don't involve jumping out of planes, right? Aranan fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Dude if your back is that hosed up, the chances of you jumping again and not loving your back up again, but even worse, seems so slim that I'd categorize it along with them telling Jackie Chan that "sure you could do more fight scenes, but if you take another good blow to the head you'll probably die." Cut your losses, if they'll even let you stay in stay on the ground. One guy I knew hit the ground so hard on a jump he got brain damaged. Dude had 14 years in, got medically retired. Last I heard he's a truck driver now because his brain is mashed potatoes and that's the best he could do.
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So like, what do you plan on doing after your 4 year enlistment if you don't want to do medical? I mean i'm not gonna lie, being a nurse in the army seems cushy as gently caress as well as *insert any other medical MOS* that the army/navy/air force offers. I mean I'm an idiot too who tried to get back into the game through the Marine Corps OCS but if I had sustained such an injury and was still pursuing that retirement I'd work finance and sham my way to 20....
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Also the idea of living anywhere on retired enlisted pay is hilarious, or the concept that it's a lot of money to begin with. Yeah, it was a lot compared to my previous job stocking shelves as a teenager, but my interns at work take home more than an E4 living stateside, and they're 20 year old useless fucks that don't even have a college degree yet. I'm four years in to a real career and i'm pulling low 6 figures in a non-tech, social science / medical job. When my interns reach my age, they'll be earning close to 50% more than what I do at this point in my life, easily. The real world isn't that scary, yo. Get the gently caress out when you can, go to school, and start a real career before your body fails you and you're stuck as an invalid in a VA home secretly hoping you're on their death list.
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Vahakyla posted:Living in Italy in amazing house with poo poo ton of pay, lots of time off, with awesome unit. Racing motorcycles with the wife on alpine roads with all the loving time off we get all the time. Korea, Bragg, Drum, or Wainwright
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Syrian Lannister posted:Korea, Bragg, Drum, or Wainwright Irwin
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Anywhere CONUS other than Carson, JBLM, or the DC area.
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Vahakyla posted:Death before re-enlistment. I have no interest in medic stuff. I’ll wrap up the rest of my career as an O. I have civilian Fire 1, USAR, Tech Rescue, Diver, EMT certs so a fireman would be a stop gap option. Oh my god go be a firefighter on the west coast. In my first year, I am making more per month than my wife who is a 3rd year nurse, with charge nurse duties, chemo treatment certification, ACLS, and a few other things. And I have probably the same or better bennies than you in the army. Edit: Actually strike that - your bad back that you blew up in the Army might disqualify you in a pre-employment medical exam... So don't get your hopes up.
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Firefighter is awesome, nurse is awesome. Enlisted is not awesome.
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gently caress my union contract states that we will work out for an hour a day. I literally get paid to do physical fitness training and choose how to do it in the best way for my body. Instead of being forced to do situps on a concrete surface and pop fuckin discs doing it.
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I'm watching a Forensic Files episode where a software development company continued to use Novell well into the mid-2000's with their main admin login being U: 12345 P: <no password> and was surprised when their entire development storage server was deleted via a drive overwrite from a virus labeled "fix.exe." Even that isn't as dumb as Vahakyla's idea about enlisted life and retirement.
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On a side note, if you want to be a firefighter, be one on the west coast. My department actually has a part-timer working with us who used to work down in Florida as a firefighter. He earns almost twice as much being a Part-Time firefighter at this department than he did as a full time employee at his previous department in Florida - which had roughly 500 full time firefighters working at it. Edit: East Coast wages suck in general for Fire/EMS
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Don't do it in the southwest, though. Southwest is worse. AZ is like the last state in firefighter/EMS pay.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Don't do it in the southwest, though. Southwest is worse. AZ is like the last state in firefighter/EMS pay. Yeah, but you get to live in Arizona..... oh wait
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windshipper posted:Oh my god go be a firefighter on the west coast. In my first year, I am making more per month than my wife who is a 3rd year nurse, with charge nurse duties, chemo treatment certification, ACLS, and a few other things. And I have probably the same or better bennies than you in the army. Ahhahahahahahahahhaha
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Dudes going to jump first chance he gets and disappear from the forum after getting paralyzed.
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I don't even know what to say to this dude. His first duty station post deployment and he'll be on suicide watch in his wheelchair. LMAO like they'll commission your broke rear end
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Vahakyla, stop doing hooah poo poo. I’ve got a buddy that did and now has compression fractures in more than a handful of vertebrae and two bone spurs pressing on his spinal cord that his doctors have already told him will paralyze him from the chest down if they were to break off. Their solution involves cutting open his side, cracking his ribs, deflating a lung, moving his heart, fixing his poo poo, and then putting it all back. He said that ain’t gonna happen either. Get healthy. That retirement ain’t gonna be worth it if you’re in constant pain
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I think we collectively have more experience jerkin' it in a portashitter in Iraq/Afghanistan than he does in the Army period, but he knows better than us regarding major injuries and going green to gold, the siren call of all smartass enlisted.
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Mustang posted:I lost you here loving LOL
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maffew buildings posted:Dudes going to jump first chance he gets and disappear from the forum after getting paralyzed. MARCH ALONG SING OUR SONG WITH THE ARMY OF THE FREE
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COUNT THE BRAVE COUNT THE TRUEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH baby...baby help me to the inversion table please!! - Vahaklya 10 months after being medically retired
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I was in for five years and I regularly have back problems and have to sit in funny ways. I’m laying down right now on my back and it feels like my spine has a loving lump in it. I sleep on my side because I can’t sleep in any other loving position or else I won’t be able to walk upright tomorrow. And I was just light infantry. gently caress you and your dumbass hubris hooah bullshit. I hope you do jump out of a plane again and your leg flies the gently caress off.
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If you're on JBLM every morning you have to sing the 7th ID Bayonet Song after Reveille
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Hey I've never jumped out of a plane but if I landed badly and couldn't get up right after, I'd probably go to medical immediately. I dunno what a partial chute collapse entails but it sounds awfully bad. Actually I just googled it and it sounds loving terrifying. How the gently caress are you a medic and didn't go run to medical right after? "Hey doc I had a rough one, can you check me out, my chute tried to kill me." That seems pretty reasonable to me? Doc to doc. Explain that poo poo to me.
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Viva Miriya posted:Hey I've never jumped out of a plane but if I landed badly and couldn't get up right after, I'd probably go to medical immediately. I dunno what a partial chute collapse entails but it sounds awfully bad. Actually I just googled it and it sounds loving terrifying. I told you he’s trolling and has finally overplayed his hand. He’s probably an IDR alt.
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boop the snoot posted:I told you he’s trolling and has finally overplayed his hand. He’s probably an IDR alt. whose that loving boot on the left Its even his real name. Like lmao
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boop the snoot posted:I was in for five years and I regularly have back problems and have to sit in funny ways. I’m laying down right now on my back and it feels like my spine has a loving lump in it. I sleep on my side because I can’t sleep in any other loving position or else I won’t be able to walk upright tomorrow. One of the things that pisses me off the most is that the Army has known for years that the sit-ups are basically a recipe for bulged L4/L5 discs and other back injuries and yet they kept in doing it. Yes, something as stupid as PT is probably a primary factor in why half of the people here have back issues.
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boop the snoot posted:I told you he’s trolling and has finally overplayed his hand. He’s probably an IDR alt. I'd have to commend him on such an amazing tapestry of work. Except I don't remember him complaining about Mypay or MILPERS so unless IDR stepped up his game...
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Viva Miriya posted:whose that loving boot on the left He’s just a good troll. There’s no way someone is this stupid. He should get out and run for president.
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