Posted on Aug 20, 2016
What did you think the military would be like before enlisting, and how has it changed after?
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I thought the Army was full of people who were ready and willing to serve and fight for their country, and older NCOs scuffing you up for the smallest things to mentally prepare you for battles to come.. but after a few months of being in, I quickly realized that most are just there for college or for a paycheck, and apparently my generation isn't too keen on harsh words and loud voices.
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Welcome to the new Army Private! Grab your stress card, line up for your monthly feel good counseling, and never feel the wrath of a good smoke session! Oh sorry, I forgot to call you Private First Class. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings. If I did, well there goes my career! (Being sarcastic of course. LOLZ)
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I enlisted for everything that's the opposite of what they are now. I once had an NCO who had to debate on doing paperwork or just let it go when I made a mistake, so I pulled him aside and said, 'Hey Sergeant, if you want you can pull me besides the dumpsters and smoke the dogsh*t out of me. No one has to know!'. I think it's stupid that NCOs get in trouble for doing what they're supposed to do now.
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SGT (Join to see) - Different times now man. When I joined in '09, things were on the downhill of getting soft. No more DS's in AIT, a little bit of hand holding through out AIT, but I still got the shit smoked out of me in my first unit a couple times for various reasons. Showed up to the company run drunk/hung-over a few times, missed a spot shaving, wore a short sleeve PT shirt when I had no clean long sleeve shirts. I could go on, but after a while I went from being a strong private to a smart one.
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I used to be tempted to fuck up on purpose to just get told to do push-ups; but paperwork was the way to go following a chewing out. Not worth.
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All I knew of the military came from reading Beetle Bailey comics. Thus every day brought surprises
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CPT Jack Durish
PO1 John Crafton - ...and the chow hall. Don't forget that. The food in the Army was actually good
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I agree. When I first joined the Air Force I bled blue... but after countless irrelevant training classes, too much desk jockey paperwork, lack of a sense of teamwork, leadership who doesn't seem to care about anything with the mission as long as they get ahead... its turned more into a civilian job. It is hard to say but almost makes me miss the structure, and discipline of basic training. But that doesn't change how I do what is expected of me or how I view what I'm doing. I couldn't agree more!
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I have more experience sitting in SHARP and EO briefs than I do training for a deployment or my actual MOS and it kind of makes me ponder if it was worth it, considering my ideas of the military and how it should be are just a thing of the past now.
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