Once a Soldier, Always a Soldier. Is this true??

Always, and Always Forevermore!

Do you arrive at a meeting promptly?
Do you pick up after yourself? Do you organize your clothes, and prepare for the next day the night prior? Do you get up early enough to get your planned activities completed? Do you speak your mind, while being respectful to the opinions of others? Then I guess you might still be a soldier...

Yep, once you make it through BCT, you are forever a soldier. Can't be changed back easily, if at all.

If you are infantry........answer (HELL YEAH)

can't say for the army, but it is for Marines.

Anyone willing to adopt military ideals and take up arms in defence of his country is a soldier. While the requirements of being labelled a soldier are easily met, being labelled a good one is far more difficult.

Let's face it. There are people in every service who shouldn't have been there, or who got in because they think it's a job training program. But even if it's not true for everyone, it's true for me.

I will always be a paratrooper and a soldier.

I took the Oath 5 years ago. I didn't say at the end of my Contract I'll no longer protect and defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.

I'd say that the statement is true.

You join up, get into basic and your whole mindset changes.

And it follows you throughout your entire life.

When I joined the Army I was a slob. A duffle bag hit by a wrinkle grenade held nothing on me!

Today, I'm a clean freak. I get laughed at a lot at the house because I can't leave a dirty dish in the sink! Lol

I still check my gig line before leaving the house...

I do PMCS on my Jeep...

My closet is organized....

Jeez! It's really true!! Run for your life!

It is impossible for me to erase that experience from my life.