RESOURCE - Active Duty Resources (lol if you're still in though)

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Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Aranan posted:

Basic was dumb, AIT was dumb, "real army" is dumb, 'guard/reserve army is dumb.

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Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Vahakyla posted:

Just don't enlist.

LOL

# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 17:54

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Vahakyla posted:

Don't enlist.

LOL

# ¿ Apr 7, 2017 22:45

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Pesticide20 posted:

Never join the military

# ¿ Oct 3, 2017 23:55

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Mustang posted:

So you get a commission, go to BOLC or whatever your branches officer training is, get out at like 3 or 4 pm when you're not in the field. While in between follow on courses you'll show up for PT and 0930 formation and then have the rest of the day off to jerk off, go to the gym, see what there is to do in Columbus, GA (hint:nothing, burn this city to the ground), go to the gym, jerk off. You might accumulate 3 months of jerking off before you're done with your follow on schools and go to your first duty station.

You'll get to your first duty station and mostly likely end up on staff working with a bunch of other LT's and some CPT's. Depending on where you're stationed you may or may not be surrounded by a bunch of socially awkward academy grads that make you cringe every time you see them interact with somebody that isn't an officer. If you're at Lewis, Carson, Germany or Italy you're probably swamped by West Pointers.

Eventually you'll be sent down to a platoon to be a PL. This is the most fun part. If you're not a dickbag you'll enjoy working with your NCO's and PSG, and non shitbag soldiers. On the other hand, you'll constantly be tasked to do things that seem like a tremendous waste of time. You WILL waste a tremendous amount of time as a PL. Whether it's standing around twiddling your thumbs in the motor pool watching oil stains grow because your new BN leadership come from an ABCT or waiting for your soldiers to print out AT lvl 1 certs from a printer 2 miles from the computer they're using, you are going to waste a lot of time. And here's some free chicken as the Army likes to say: right click somebody's name on their AT lvl 1 cert, click edit text, and then have one your NCO's fill in everybody's name to print off. Congratulations, you and your platoon never have to do 90% of online training ever again.

And then there's all the personal issues you have to deal with like divorces, DUI's, drug dealing, theft, whatever. If one of your soldiers farts you better have a counselling ready.

So, what I'm trying to get at is this: gently caress the Army.

Lol

# ¿ Dec 26, 2017 04:46

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

EBB posted:

Please post more, we miss you

Also get on Discord

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 04:55

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

DoktorLoken posted:

Uh there's few WO jobs that will take you without being prior enlisted in that field. Aviation obviously, maybe some signal or logistics stuff?

Admin too

# ¿ May 28, 2019 17:17

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