I'm Joining the Army

[SlayerZ99]

I don't know about that. My cousin got done with Basic in the Marines a couple months ago and said that they still hit you. But they do it differently. He said they would make everyone stay in small rooms together and piss them off. Then when one of them would start fighting the Drill Instructors would like break it up by beating the stuff out of them.

i don't think they can legally hit them

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[devildogelite]

i don't think they can legally hit them

They can't, but it doesn't mean that they didn't do it. They have to break up fights between recruits. So they made them fight then went in and beat them to break up fights.

[Visage]

i don't think they can legally hit them

It is highly illegal now but it is likely there's a few old school drill instructors left in the marines that do unorthodox stuff like that.

[Keith]

I don't have specifics but back when FMJ was made marines were notoriously hard. Now all the boot camps are kind of standardized and basically all the same. The only difference is the army has a slightly higher requirement for running and marines an even higher requirement for running. In Air Force and Navy they test you on like 1.5 mile run, in the Army its 2 miles, and marines is 3 miles I believe.

I've put like a month into this before I came to that job decision. It has a nice mix of being safe, having real world use and future, and it teaches a wide variety of fields. Also I really wanted a job that teaches you a foreign language just because, my recruiter says currently they need mandarin chinese and korean speakers I think I want to learn korean and get me that avg korean gf.

Also out of curiosity what did you get on the ASVAB bones?

Wait, do you actually go in real world combat? My brother is a marine and he's never even been on guard duty.

[Visage]

Wait, do you actually go in real world combat? My brother is a marine and he's never even been on guard duty.

What exactly are you asking? Anybody in the military has the potential to go into real world combat. Certain jobs guarantee it and certain jobs make it highly unlikely though.

[Harm94]

If any of you remember I was going to go into the military after high school but I needed a medical waiver for latent TB(tested positive on skin test) and the medical waiver was disqualified barring me from service for 2 years. A year ago I did a quantiferon blood test that came up negative(negative means no latent or active TB) which means the skin test was just a fluke or a false positive.

I chose the army because I liked the sound of Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist. I just did my ASVAB test today and am very pleased to have gotten a 95 and over 130 on all proficiencies(you only need 110 in any proficiency and only 31 on ASVAB) which means I am eligible for every single job in the entire military excluding officer jobs.
Anyway I will probably update next week when I do my medical and pick my job.

I know Bones is in the Air Force but is there any other current or future soldiers? Also feel free to wish me luck or hope I die in combat, whatever floats your boat!

You got a 95? You should go to the airforce or navy if you want a tech job.

Just don't become one of those arms cigarettes that calls everyone else a "civilian"

"Ah, you civilians wouldn't understand"

Damn pogs trying to pretend to be grunts

I don't have specifics but back when FMJ was made marines were notoriously hard. Now all the boot camps are kind of standardized and basically all the same. The only difference is the army has a slightly higher requirement for running and marines an even higher requirement for running. In Air Force and Navy they test you on like 1.5 mile run, in the Army its 2 miles, and marines is 3 miles I believe.

Marines have a 500 yard rifle qualification test and have bayonet training. Also Army boot camp is 9 week and marine training is 13 weeks.

[Bacon Pancakes]

Good luck! I hope it goes well and all is ok.

[Caribou]

I hope you stay well and satisfied! It's an exciting field.

[Stocking]

Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist

oooOooo careful with that dude. do not get into the foreign language field in crypto

[Visage]

oooOooo careful with that dude. do not get into the foreign language field in crypto

I think what you're thinking of is the crypto field in the Navy, which was actually what I originally was going in for when my medical waiver was DQed. Crypto is what they call the cryptology field in the navy. They call what I'm going for Cytech.

The only doubts I have about my field is it is new and advanced so it is what they call top heavy, meaning it has an abundance of high ranking officers. The military works kind of the opposite of civilian job systems in that the easier jobs like infantry actually pay more because they are extremely easy to move up ranks in, while the more advanced jobs usually make less because they are harder to rank up in. Like my recruiter was infantry and he was E5 after his first 2 years and E6 after his third. In an advanced field you could be stuck at E4 for like 10 years.

[Block1zilla]

Wish you luck!

[hammereditor²]

What exactly are you asking? Anybody in the military has the potential to go into real world combat. Certain jobs guarantee it and certain jobs make it highly unlikely though.

Cryptological network specialist = No war involved.
You just sit in a tech room with those 'hardbook' laptops.

[Visage]

Cryptological network specialist = No war involved.
You just sit in a tech room with those 'hardbook' laptops.

Most likely true but in the marines and army they are more likely to issue an in-lieu order to you, which means they will send you to combat because they are short actual infantry. All military branches can do this too so it's just something you have to be aware of. You can't go into the military with the idea that you definitely will never see combat.

[Night Fox]

Cryptological network specialist = No war involved.

if you join the military and we enter a war, they can send you into combat if they want

[hammereditor²]

if you join the military and we enter a war, they can send you into combat if they want

But it's bad to be a Pvt. Grunt, isn't it?