Posted on Jan 23, 2014
What are the best excuses you have heard for people not joining the military?
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People always have some pretty colorful excuses for not joining the military. What are your favorite/ most absurd?
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My 26 year old cousin has wandered a lot in life, and his argument since high school has been “can’t get a job without experience, can’t get experience without a job.”
So, one Thanksgiving dinner, it was mentioned that he could join the military (in my extended family, replete with a plethora of cousins, I’m the only one that joined.) The table became uncomfortably quiet at that suggestion, and he said “No way! I support my military, but I’m not getting shot at.”
“But you support someone else doing it, though,” I said. “You support someone else getting shot at or blown up in the defense of your Constitution and your freedoms and your liberties, but you’re unwilling to secure those things for yourself, is that it?”
I don’t get invited to many Thanksgiving dinners anymore.
So, one Thanksgiving dinner, it was mentioned that he could join the military (in my extended family, replete with a plethora of cousins, I’m the only one that joined.) The table became uncomfortably quiet at that suggestion, and he said “No way! I support my military, but I’m not getting shot at.”
“But you support someone else doing it, though,” I said. “You support someone else getting shot at or blown up in the defense of your Constitution and your freedoms and your liberties, but you’re unwilling to secure those things for yourself, is that it?”
I don’t get invited to many Thanksgiving dinners anymore.
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1SG(P) Dean Mcbride (MPER) (SPHR)
Same excuse some college grads have for not wanting to relocate to a different state... To far from Mommy!
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PO3 James Heine
I have no use for these 'armchair general' types. Over the past 35 years they've been cheering war on TV w/o knowing why/who/what for/etc. I just tell them to 'put up or shut up'. Sign up or shut up.
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They would have joined, but they'd never make it through basic because if someone gets in their face and yells at them they'd knock them out...
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SPC Sharra Schwartz
SP5 Dave Forrest That's actually a beautiful story. Lol. I always loved the Docs who would help you out for a good reason.
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SPC Sharra Schwartz
I've probably heard this more than any other excuse. Day 1: Drills enter the arrivals bus, and EVERY butthole puckers. But keep lying to your fragile-egoed self, pal.
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CW3 John Himes
When I was a Drill Sergeant we were aboard the bus or cattle car before the trainees got on at the reception station. We didn't say a word. One of us was in the front of the bus one in that back. When we arrived at the battery area the other drill sergeants were on the sidewalk. As soon as the door of the cattle car or bus opened the trainees got the shock of their lives. I don't recall any trainee getting in my face or any other drill sergeant I do recall them being in a state of shock. Ah, the good old days.
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CW3 John Himes - I was in Basic Tng when theree was Wall to wall Counseling and Vietnam Vets as DS's Reading an Article within the last few months, i read that they are doing away with the DS's bombarding the new recruits as they get off the bus (Shock and Awe) and going to a buddy approach in Basic Training
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"I'm not the Army type. I cant deal with being ordered around. If I do join, I would try to start off as like a Sergeant or Officer or something so that I can be in control" - Lowe's Employee <br>
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SMSgt Harvey Weinberg
But you get told what to do every day at your civilian job. You're just a coward.
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SSgt Carl Trimble
Word of advice, if you're not at the very top you will never be in control and even then, you will still have to answer to somebody!
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