jettaboy04

On a unrelated note, I had a female one time come in wanting to join. Was dead set on enlisting, scored good on the practice test, and she keeps talking medical so I'm no thinking anything of it, her entire processing is rolling along till the day we go to pick her job. Her mother comes with her and is talking about how she is so excited her daughter will get to work with babies. I was baffled, how the hell is this girl thinking she going to work with babies.

So I pull up her job options and there is no medical showing. As I am about to tell her sorry she is like, "oh yes, there it is, that's the one" . She is pointing at infantry. I had to explain to her that infantry has nothing to do with infants. She of course didn't join, probably for the better

The fact that he brags about shooting and stabbing means he is likely lying. Trust, those who have been through that kind of stuff don't want to talk about it

I believe that sums up 90% of the highschool applicants! yes.

Well I am absolutely not speaking on any official capacity, but I think it's ridiculous. Everyone is pissed at Obama for getting us out of Iraq, when that was already in motion. And regardless, we couldn't stay there forever. In my opinion, my personal opinion we had no business there to begin with. Sadaam was a dirty, evil bastard for sure! but he kept that region in check. Now every half brain with an AK wants power.

That country is facing a civil war based between two religious groups. We couldn't possibly expect to solve a civil war in a single decade. Hell, we still have remnants of our own civil war here in America. We still have little pockets of hate crime going on many decades later. The people of that region have been fighting since biblical times, we can't change that overnight.

From what I saw the Marines go for the " Were the best" mentality. Play to the ego and competitive spirit of a high school age boy. I watched the Marine recruiters that worked next to me do swear in ceremonies right in their office. Not legit of course, but the average person doesn't know that. A kid would go in, talk a few minutes, and leave out thinking they had already signed up cause they done a swear in ceremony. The Army however tends to flaunt its numerous jobs, talk about education and the ability to pick a job before you go to the MEPS. Of course, once you take the ASVAB and we discover you don't qualify for the job you initially wanted, or it's just not available we now have to explain why you should choose another job.