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Offline AceV53

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Military Life
« on: June 21, 2002, 01:13:30 AM »
Who here has had a military background? If so what branch were you in? What was your rank? What was the best thing about your career? Just curious, I'm probably going into the military myself. 8)
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Re:Military Life
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2002, 01:43:19 AM »
i'm not in the military persay, but i'm in the royal canadian air cadets.... and i guess it's kinda like the military. FYI, you don't have to be buff and hardcore to be in the military, u just have to be obiedient, learn the rules, get good at what u do, and you'll get rewarded in no time. kinda like a normal job, xept you protect your country and stuff like that. oh and be prepared to do alot of training, 'cause they will train u pretty hard.

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2002, 01:47:59 AM »
Oh forgot to add I'm in the Air Force JROTC myself and yeah I agree with ya gripen40k  :)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."
-Steve Martin in Sergeant Bilko

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2002, 01:52:08 AM »
U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division
3/505 P.I.R. Delta Company

Spent 3 years jumping out of planes and blowing up tanks and people - well training to blow up people anyway.  Honorable Discharge as an E-4, incdently i'm also now a disable vet.  Got a screw in my wrist and the knees of a 40/yo (i'm 25). But i do get a free education, $200 a month for life, and use of VA hospitals so that's worth it (yeah right)

Anyway, if you like playing with guns and blowing stuff up, then it's a great time....for a while.  The best thing about my military career?  Made some of the best friends a guy could ever have.  I fly all over the country just to keep in touch, the kinda guys that would literally die for you.  Plus, if you patriotic at all, then you get a chance to give a little back to a great country that gives you everything - which was important to me.

Just remember, they don't make recruiting posters of cleaning the Latrine, or mowing dirt, or sleeping in the rain; stuff you spend most of your time doing.  And those fancy parades they DO make posters of? yeah they're great....as long as your not IN them.
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Re:Military Life
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2002, 01:57:37 AM »
AGEED! i hate marching in parades!!

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2002, 02:11:08 AM »
5 years brit army artillery(hence the post on IG)
only a gunner(pte) this being the reason for the bad spelling etc
am working in cyprus with the UN
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Re:Military Life
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2002, 04:36:34 AM »
4 years US Army, MOS 31C, Radio Operator/Maintainer...
Am a SPC/E-4. Career high was winning the 1999 USARPAC soldier of the year. Spent most of my time in my home state (Alaska), served at Ft.Sill Oklahoma, Ft. Gordon GA, Ft.Richardson AK...Also did 4 years High School Army JROTC before the REAL Army stuff...my old 1st Sgt warned me away from the airborne jobs though...all he had to do was talk about all the guys with bad knees & backs on disability..... :-\  That changed my mind about Ranger school pretty damn quick.

Not all of us are in combat job slots...I spent most of my time in the Command Operations Center (COC) of whatever base I was at. A twelve hour night shift spent encrypting/decrypting the occasional message isn't that bad when your sitting in a bunker underneath a building...No Officers aound either. Just a Big Screen TV, and a couple of PC's with 'Net access....those were the days.... ;D

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2002, 04:37:33 AM »
German tank forces, 1./PzBtl 154 (First company, Armored Battallion 154)
I'm a corporal there, and i saw some action in Kosovo three months ago, we went there to examine the area because my battallion will go there next year. Nothing very dramatic.

Does anyone of you own codex IG? On page 20 there is a scarred guy, and right of him there is the logo of his unit. It is astonishing similar to my baret sign, except that the tank on it has no shield on its turret like this one, and we have a flag on the bottom, not a text banner.
Guess what i thought when i saw it the first time...that's not funny.

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2002, 04:43:42 AM »
Ha, now i have three golden stars, so i am a lieutenant general (At least that's the translation of the German rank).

Drakus: Oh, yeah, i know what you're talking about, 500 doing a job that could be done by 50, hanging around the whole day, reading porn magazines, watching movies...
Military life can be really easy-going once drill training is over, but if you go to a crisis area or even combat, things change...

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2002, 05:19:18 AM »

A twelve hour night shift spent encrypting/decrypting the occasional message isn't that bad when your sitting in a bunker underneath a building...No Officers aound either. Just a Big Screen TV, and a couple of PC's with 'Net access....those were the days.... ;D
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big agreement there (working for JOC UNFICYP)
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Re:Military Life
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2002, 06:39:06 PM »

German tank forces, 1./PzBtl 154 (First company, Armored Battallion 154)


I served in the air force, 1./FlaRakGrp 39 (anti-aircraft missile group). And I had almost gone to Greece with them for a NATO tactical evaluation. It was just one month after I had quit. Too bad, it would have been pretty exciting...
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Re:Military Life
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2002, 07:17:36 PM »
well not yet, but im 16, in very very good shape, im shootin for annapolis, but NROTC will suit me just fine. Im going into, you guessed it, THE MARINES! YES IM GOING TO BE A MARINE. Anyone whos been in the marines id be interested in hearing your tales.
Im a cowboy......on a steal horse i ride, and im wanted ........ Dead or Alive.

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Re:Military Life
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2002, 07:20:31 PM »

Who here has had a military background? If so what branch were you in? What was your rank? What was the best thing about your career? Just curious, I'm probably going into the military myself. 8)


I'm currently serving in the US military.  As for rank, I'm currently awaiting a promotion to sergeant.  As for what I do....  I'll wait 'til I'm out before saying that.  

I will, however, put in my plug for a good job in the military.  Whatever service you may end up in, ask for a linguist job.  If you get into that, you get to spend 6-18 months in Monterey, California. the military's best-kept secret.  Seriously, though, there really is no better place to be stationed.  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Therefore I say: 'Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril....'

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