NMA Military Folks

[OnTheBounce]

Thanks OntheBounce.

Hey, no prob.

Oh, and make sure you're at Parade Rest when you read my posts. K, Private? (If you don't know what Parade Rest is yet, you'll soon find out...)

Besides, I plan to make the most of the service. when you don't have much choice but to suck it up and do your best you'll be surprised on what can be accomplished.

Ain't that the truth? Lots of opportunities, use 'em, even if all you intend to do is to do one enlistment and then get out. In addition to the fact that you'll have done things that the pogues you went to school with only dream about, you'll have lots of opportunities like going to school w/o having to work thanks to your MGIB. (Makes the whole experience a bit more bearable/pleasant.)

Take Care and Good Luck,

OTB

 

[Carib FMJ]

I got a nifty Book called the Enlisted Soldier's Guide Book. Pretty informative stuff. As for parade rest, I had gotten an idea of what that was when they gave us the Oath of Enlistment.

Hooah!

As for the MGIB, I plan to milk that sucker for what it is worth. I am not sure if the army will end up being my career, I mean my old man stayed for ten years and he was a Green Beret and he enjoyed his work. But who knows. Maybe I will marry an army chick?

It felt like the right thing to sign up for. Just felt right and I will go through it, hell or high water.

 

[PhredBean]

Maybe I will marry an army chick?

Bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea.

 

[OnTheBounce]

I had gotten an idea of what that was when they gave us the Oath of Enlistment.

Then get that way, fucker! [j/k]

BTW, I hope you don't get all bent out of shape about being called names like "homo", "fag", "fucker", "cocksucker", "motherfucker", etc., etc. While the Army's official stance forbids drill sergeants from using profanity in front of trainees, let alone calling them names...well, it's like that at Ft. Jackson where the pogues train, but as for combat arms (this goes doubly for Infantry)...err...they don't seem to have gotten that memo.

Maybe I will marry an army chick?

Bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea.

I'm pretty much with PhredBean on this one. While there are exceptions to the rule I'd say by-and-large you'll want to stay away from Army females.

I have to stress that I'm not speaking universally, but there are large-scale tendencies in Army females toward promiscuity -- in many areas more males soldiers pick up STDs from their female counterparts than from any other source -- or there are many that will trap themselves a soldier with the oldest trick in the book: pregnancy, after which they take a chapter (i.e. are discharged) and become housewives...

Of course, there are some advantages to having a military wife, like not having to over-explain everything to a civilian when you talk about your day...

You'll have to make your own decision based on a woman's individual merits, of course, but I'd say that the odds are stacked against you.

OTB

 

[PhredBean]

There is the addage "What goes TDY, stays TDY." While this means you'll get to cheat on your wife while overseas, the reverse is also true (and she will have far better luck than you). If you go overseas, you may find your friends taking better care of her than you'd like... and here you thought they were just offering to mow the lawn while you were out to make it easier on her. Four or more months of you being in the sandbox may make her a bit lonely. If you are at home and she deployed... well, have you ever heard the term "desert queen"? There are hundreds of men to a female there, the attention gets to them at times, no matter how faithful they thought themselves. Looks also don't mean much over there, and if she's good enough looking for you, she's more than good enough looking for a hundred sex-starved men making tons of tax-exempt incentive pays and few ideas how to spend it in the middle of a desert.

Thankfully none of this is from my experience (I stayed the hell away from military girls when it came to dating, with the exception of one leiutenant, but that was terribly stupid and almost ended really badly for both of us), but I've seen alot of broken up guys who dated military girls and have seen VERY VERY few success stories.

There are other problems involved, but OTB covered a number of them, and the others some might not consitter problems, but whatever.

 

[TorontoReign]

What you say is true Phredbeam. My standards were getting horribly low up until leave, then I had lots of lovin' from my wife....now I'm back in the desert again and all those ugly chicks are pretty again. Damn it all. I actually watched my standards shrink and then reappear on the plane home. I was looking at this chick and she looked alright. I thought to myself, "With a little makeup......", then I got off the plane,saw my wife and I was in a state of bliss again. Then I looked back at the chick who moments before looked pretty good....and I gasped. I gazed upon a nasty,she-he who I would have never even considered screwing in the "Real World".
Damn Iraq and all that jazz.

 

[Carib FMJ]

I'll be sure to grab a girl in the service. Lucky for me I am not leaving any girls behind.

 

[victor]

Can you join the USMC if you're not American?

 

[Carib FMJ]

I suppose you could, but you'd have to have a green card or something of the sort.