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Go somewhere else with your deceptive advertising.

I love how you made it sound like this AMA was about your interesting experience alone, yet when we open it up, SURPRISE! OP IS TRYING TO SELL A BOOK! AMA SO I CAN SELL MY BOOK!

Because the FBI is basically an arm of the church.

lmao yeah right

Do they give actors who show up to promote their movies each time the same lip?

No, because they actually have interesting things to talk about, and are important and fascinating people. They also aren't professional e-mail spammers.

They should be more positive in life, I suppose. I'm taking time out of my day to answer questions about how to find cheap flights and travel for less..

lmao nice gaslighting...

Diet Pepsi is criminally underrated IMO. I vastly prefer it to Diet Coke. But yeah. I guess that makes about 3 of us in the entire world.

4 years Army combat arms (Infantry) here...

My interests are medicine and combat/weapons,

If you sign up as a medic, you will literally sit on the outskirts of most training exercises ready to treat anyone who gets injured during training. This will also be your role on the objective; keeping yourself safe, locking down an alley or a few windows, and standing by if needed. We never had our medics kick in doors. We only had two medics per platoon (~40 guys).

My two cents is if you're going to sign up for the guard or whatever, go Infantry so you'll be able to train on cool toys. As a medic, your life will be the same as an EMT's but with no calls, so to speak. Yes you will do basic maintenance training in your unit on machine guns and stuff like that, but you have to understand that in the Infantry we take special precautions to keep our medics safe. We literally put them in the safest position possible at all times with the exception of the commanding officer who is #1, and the senior NCO who is #2.

Medics are a precious resource to us. So you can go medic and sit on the sidelines (no door-kicking, only doing things when someone is wounded) or you can go Infantry and do door-kicking as your job description. It is also imperative that you ask for a school like Airborne School as part of your enlistment contract, because in the guard, you are unlikely to get a slot to those things down the line as they are expensive and the guard is underfunded. Many recruiters, however, will make a concession like giving you Airborne School just to get you to enlist and meet their quotas. Be firm on what you ask for, they will almost always "call my commander and try to make an exception. Wow, it's a miracle! You got approved for what you want!" Either way, there are entire websites devoted to getting the enlistment process done correctly. Look at those sites for info on signing the actual contract and the logistics of it all. Be prepared to call their bluff and walk out if they say "No" to what you want. They will give in.

Also, please understand: Army Infantry OSUT (One Station Unit Training, that is, Basic Training + Infantry School with no change of rigor, just getting smoked shitless all day), Infantry OSUT has a 20% drop rate among people mostly aged 18-25.

Many people think the Army is soft... it is, everywhere but the Infantry and other combat arms.

Prep your body by getting used to boots (buy military issue boots), and start prepping yourself. Follow the SFAS preparation guide. ALWAYS TRAIN TO KILL SOMETHING THAT IS 40x HARDER THAN WHAT YOU EXPECT TO FACE! See those selection numbers at the bottom? If you can get to 78% selection odds at SFAS, then OSUT should be only a moderate challenge.

I hope this has helped you out a bit.

edit: Oh, AND EASE YOURSELF INTO IT. AVOID INJURING YOURSELF PRE-TRAINING. Eassyyyyy. Taking an extra even 6 months to prep yourself is well-fucking-WORTH-IT if it makes the difference between you passing training or not and serving a 10-20 year career, right? Be smart! It seems you are in the habit of asking people smarter than you how to do things. This is a good habit to have in the military. I understand that I am no SEAL and was not who you were originally addressing, but I feel obligated to help a motivated candidate like yourself. Keep asking smart people what to do. After all, training is nothing but a situation where you (mostly) stop asking smart people what to do as the entire mindset is as if you had asked them the question "How do I become a solid Infantryman?" Every fact taught after that is an answer to that one question.