Posted on Sep 3, 2021
Would you join the military all over again if you could?
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I am sure the questions gets asked a lot, but being as i'm one the the FNGs around here I want to know. If you could start your life over, would you go back into that recruiting office and sign your name? Would you pick the same career path or do something different? Maybe even change Branches altogether? As I am now almost 15 years retired I can't help but wonder where I would be if I could have stayed in (medically retired here) I wanted a career for sure, so I would do it again. I love the Army, but if I were to do it again, I would probably become a Navy Guy. My dad was a medic in the Navy, and we like to rib each other about how our perspective branches were superior to the other, but at the end of the day, I think working on an Aircraft Carrier would have made me just as happy.
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I would enlist again. Even though I love my infantry days, I'd go the aviation route.
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Or to add to the question, if you joined the Air Force, would you do that again, or actually join the military?
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I miss it and think about my time in the service. Although this new woke military would make me say say no. It isn't the same military, and I do not believe the change is a good one. There is no way in hell anyone is forcing me to set through any kind of "woke" training of any kind.
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Cpl Vic Burk
PO2 Colleen O'Hara I suspect those who were in twenty years before us also thought the military was getting too weak and soft.
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PO2 Colleen O'Hara
Cpl Vic Burk I'm sure they did. But now it is unlikely anything I could have imagined. Can you believe there are "stress cards" that you can hold up in basic training for your mental time out? And how about the now enforced training that whites are bad and white prilviledge? Bullshit. We are in uniform. There is no color distinction in my eye. We are a family. This racial training creates racism. No way in hell would I enlist with this going on.
I loved my time in the service. My friends kids who have enlisted are dismayed to see how it has changed. Critical race theory and softness has ruined a beautiful thing.
I loved my time in the service. My friends kids who have enlisted are dismayed to see how it has changed. Critical race theory and softness has ruined a beautiful thing.
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COL Carl Jensen
Stress cards? You need stress cards? In my Co. in basic, if you complained of stress, the drill Sgt. would have you double time it to the ranges and back to relieve it. We had no stress problems, many of us were kids from the depression days, we grew up experiencing stress and dealt with it.. "We didn't need no stinking stress cards." (Channeling Oscar Bedoya.) Who made up this stress card BS? Basic was meant to be stressful, you were there to learn to deal with it. We were there to become young disciplined lions, not a bunch of pampered whiny kittens. In the battlefield, you can't wave a stress cared and call for a time out. I fear for this country, we've become to pampered, and the fewer 7/4 celebration parades we see, is the foretelling of our future.
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Yeas but I would still only do the 2 year hitch. I was proud to volunteer for the draft but had no intentions of making a carreer of the Army.
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Thank you very much for responding good to hear from other military people and I'm new to this site.
James Akins (GMM1)
James Akins (GMM1)
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