Originally posted by: DVK916
Originally posted by: shortylickens
I dont know about the other branches, but when I left the Navy last year they were trying to get from 400,000 down to about 340,000.
They still have a little way to go on dumping current enlistees.
They can afford to be VERY picky on new recruits right now.
I think it may the same for the others. Fighting a so-called war takes money, and a congressmans brother-in-law takes priority over 100,000 warriors.
How can the military afford to be picky when they are desperate to send more troops to Iraq. We are on the brink of a draft.
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
Originally posted by: DVK916
Originally posted by: shortylickens
I dont know about the other branches, but when I left the Navy last year they were trying to get from 400,000 down to about 340,000.
They still have a little way to go on dumping current enlistees.
They can afford to be VERY picky on new recruits right now.
I think it may the same for the others. Fighting a so-called war takes money, and a congressmans brother-in-law takes priority over 100,000 warriors.
How can the military afford to be picky when they are desperate to send more troops to Iraq. We are on the brink of a draft.
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Originally posted by: AFSCrazy
Hey guys, sorry for the randomness but I feel like venting.
All I've wanted to do my entire life is serve my country(USA). I've had no other plans. It's my senior year in high school so I went to the local Marine Corps recruiting station to enlist.
I went to MEPS(Military Entry Processing Station) nearly aced the ASVAB(Standard aptitude test for enlistment) and breezed through the physical. That is, until the vision test. I've always had bad eyesight, only correctable to 20/40 with glasses. After that long process, I was DQ'd and had to get a note from my eye doctor, and I did. The note stated my nearsightedness, but also recommended me for a waiver, I was denied. For months my recruiters tried everything they could to get me in, but to no avail.
So after that, I went to the ARMY to see what they could do for me, same long process, same denied waiver. So I went to the NAVY with the notion that I would be denied enlistment, but they said they'd try anyway. It's been about 2 weeks now and I have received no word from the Navy. It's a pretty hopeless situation, I have nothing I wish to major in, in college unless I can enter an ROTC program. I'm physically fit, scored pretty well on the ASVAB, but there's nothing I can do even while they call more and more troops overseas. I want to be one of them, I want infantry, I want to serve the United States of America.
Originally posted by: TehMac
Originally posted by: Phokus
Yeah, well, right now is not exactly the best time to get into the military. Consider yourself lucky.
A USMC Motto: First to fight and fit to fight.
Your motto: I'm going to save my sorry ass first, and bash everyone serving to make myself feel better.
Why do you have to degrade others by calling them cannon fodder? These men are hardly such, but men who are skilled, and don't get killed easily. Rangers, Marines, Naval Corpsmen, all have a job and if they do it right, they triumph. They're doing their job as best as they can, and they're doing it right. You're not helping, acting like a stuck up prig.Originally posted by: chambersc
You can serve your country in other facets than being cannon fodder. I for one am going into the legal sector to quench my thirst for national duty.
And suing people doesn't count as national duty.
Maybe you didn't mean it offensively in which case I apologize, but if you did....go to hell.
Originally posted by: huberm
if you cannot get into the service and still want to help the service out, check out the civil air patrol
Originally posted by: Phokus
And the OP sounds like your typical unrealistically idealistic high school kid. Even that Tillman guy who jumped from pro-football to the military was idealistic as hell about joining the military to fight in Afghanistan but then became disillusioned after we invaded Iraq... and he was a full grown adult by then.
Originally posted by: PowerEngineer
Members of the military need to put "following orders" above their own judgement and even their sense of self-preservation. You can not have an effective military force without this kind of forfeture of individuality. Giving recruits that mind-set is a big part of "basic training".
That said, IMHO it does have a down side. I believe we are better served as a society when everyone thinks things through for themselves and acts according to their own conclusions. I certainly wouldn't want the people around me to continue to "hang up" their morals or "let the higher ups worry about the reasons why" after they've left the service. Sometimes I wonder if there should be some "basic untraining" at the end of military service.
Originally posted by: DVK916
We are on the brink of a draft.
Originally posted by: AFSCrazy
Sorry to bump this thread, but I was disqualified by the Navy today, so I walked over to the National Guard Recruiter.
The journey continues...
Originally posted by: Compton
Originally posted by: DVK916
We are on the brink of a draft.
No we're not. Only a handful of far left politicians have called for a draft because they think they can score political points with their constituents.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
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