Who here was in the military?
Swayze
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I only know of me, cas, and bellcity.I think I remember one guy saying that he was in the navy.This question isn't just for US strutters either.Just curious.
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What up Diz!
I did some Army ROTC in college, too...Needless to say, I never joined the military.
I think we are all veterans of the Salvation Army.....
Waddup John!
Several of my braincells just fused into one worthless lump.
Post pics of you rockin' fatigues and stompin' in your big black boots!
and Good Will ambassadors
with college. I joined when I was 17, and regretted it
nearly the whole time. But getting out was never worth
the serious hassle, plus the extra scratch was nice.
Good thing, Bush the 1st, had enough damn sense not
to invade Iraq or I certainly would have done a tour.
You can't identify them by their posting style?
My dad claims he can always pick out a fellow Navy man.
i got enough money from school to not have to make the choice
You should be back out there in that case, then there might not be so much friendly fire...
zing!
93-97 (4 years, 8 months)...
b1-b avionics specialist...
rank of e-4 (the ones they give)...
honorable discharge (but 2 article 15s
GI Bill ($600/ month for 3 years)...
stationed in CO, TX, SD...
free medical care for life (but no dental)...
a few racists, but lots of REAL (genuine) people...
the worst thing is the fact that since everyone who
outranks is your boss, so its like having 10 peers,
a few people below you, and 100 people treating you
like
but overall id say that peacetime military is something that
What did you do?!? Not enough starch in the uniform?
(my first soulstrut zoomie joke! yay!)
cq duties one night...really the 1st caused the second, so....
whose got any great or sad stories?
Anyways.......
I was in the army from 94 to 98.
A year and a half at the Defense Language Institute to learn Korean (98G)
6 Months at Goodfellow AFB, TX, for intel school.
6 weeks at Ft. Huachuca, AZ, for more training.
2 years at Camp Humphreys Korea, 751st MI BN (RIP), 501st MI BDE, Voice Operations Branch. My old unit (751st) was disbanded around 2000, which kind of makes me sad.
Saw some cool shit though. My room mate in Korea outed one of my co-workers as being a North Korean spy. He disappeared. We called him the Mad Monk. Kind of weird, but a nice enough guy.
My Cheif was a Korean-American female. A real bitch. She HATED me. The story goes that she used to be a "Juicy Girl" in the ville, married a GI, joined the Army, got a divorce, and became a warrant officer. I didn't beleive that was true, so I asked some of the Old Timer Koreans that I worked with and they said that it was true. She used to be a ville whore. Nutty. God I hated her.
Spend some time sitting on a mountain top at the DMZ. Nice hiking.
Glad I'm not in now, thats for sure.
Wow. I might extend for a year just to go back to the ROK. The money ain't but plus I'm not mad being in that part of the world neither.
So you spent 2 years in training/school? Nice.
Lot of shit has closed down out there though... most of 2 ID, and they are trying to move yongsan down to the Hump. The ville down there has cleaned up a lot though, which in a way is almost kinda sad to me... for some weird reason. I liked how grimy and shitty it was.
That story about the cheif is some shit too. We always called her juicy girl behind her back and made 'drinky' jokes and shit. I actually would have respected her, all things considered, for having made it that far, if she wasn't such a goddam bitch!
Man I got stories for days from that joint.
I'm trying to switch over to a group at work that does lots of travel. they might have some korea trips coming up too, at osan, so if you are out there I swear to god we will hook up!!! soju bowls, son!
Diz, we need to drink some soju slushies, hammie!!!
I work for the navy now and I STILL can't read their rank. For that matter I still don't understand navy 'culture'. They address each other by their job title, rather than rank. Like "good morning BM1" or whatever. They have a million different uniforms. When I was out to sea they were allowed to wear civilian baseball caps with their uniform.
Navy is cool though. I'm just glad I was in the army............
Either they don't have the time or the discipline to do PT on their own.
I like to think it's the former
haha, their rank is a trip. I didn't know that they were addressed by job title.
Weird.
I really wish I joined the Air Force (even though promotion is slower than pondwater).
That's why it stung--not to mention it was the Navy. It's not like I was trying for the Marines. Anyways, that was Sept 2000. A lot has changed since then.
Yeah, I don't know... I ponder that sometimes... Its like, you could put 10 years in and either be a grumpy E6 or a relatively happy E4.
My MOS was desperately trying to hang on to people so I went from E1 to E5 within 4 years. I was the youngest sergeant in the whole BRIGADE. which was actually pretty cool. PLDC in Korea is the move. Its only 1 month and the place is famous for their hamburgers. I'm not kidding. Ask anybody that went to PDLC in Korea about the hamburgers there. And land nav is easy as shit because its all mountains with plenty of reference points. You'd have to be retarded to not be able to land nav that shit. And still, there were some people that couldn't do it. Night hiking was cool as shit because you'd get to the top of the mountain and be able to see all the city lights of the northern seoul metro area. it was really cool. also there is a subway stop at that post so when you get your 1 day off you can head into seoul for a few hours.
Speaking of the subway, it does all the way to daejon now, which means you can ride from seoul to pyongtaek and cab it to the hump for about 10 bucks.