anyone thinking about joining the army?
VIP Member
iTrader: (14)
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 8,675
From: Wherever Sucks the Most
Car Info: 2003 WRX, 2008 Camry
I don't think I've seen or known of any Ca issue Vet plates that did not actually belong to a Veteran. I did, however, see a CA "Congressional Medal of Honor" # plate with a woman driving by herself. Not sure where the actual recipient was but you can be damn sure you need verification for those.
I think you're getting the wrong impression. The way he asked if I was scared was condescending and with a redneck kind of tone and attitude. Am I scared to join the Army or any other military branch? No, I'm not scared, but just because I'm not scared of something doesn't mean I have to do it. I go to De Anza because I want an education and to transfer out to a UC or state university. I have other things that I need to be worrying about right now and the wars in the middle east are not my #1 priority. However, I do thank the men and women that serve this country that allow me to even have the option to continue on in life and receive a good education. So to answer your question, No, I am not scared to join the Army. But would I drop everything I had right now to join? Now about my character. Did I feel insulted? Its kind of a 50/50. Half me was pissed that he can make an assumption that because I didn't want to join proved I was scared to fight for my country, which is completely false. Then the other half of me was completely dumbfounded. In this country's current state. Declining economy, stagnant wars in iraq, and low on enlisted men; you think they would show some effort to enlist people. But no, instead, they try to harass me. Thats a horrible ****ing "tactic" to get people to enlist. Whatever, I'm done about talking about this topic. Say what you want to say.
sorry but im going to be real, solider or not........taking part of an overall problem is not moral.........................
by fighting you are destroying our country and squeezing out all the money we do have to keep us afloat.......
hell i'd even say you are unamerican.
Fighting in Iraq is not the same as fighting for American and for freedom........
you are fightin for the guys in power, and if you are too dumb to see it......sucks for you.
Registered User
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,686
From: I was up above it, now I'm down in it
Car Info: New Government Motors SUV!
yeah, you are a ***** for being scared.........but the guy sitting in the recruiting office and recruiting people off to their deaths for a waste of a war......he's not a ***** he has a uniform.
sorry but im going to be real, solider or not........taking part of an overall problem is not moral.........................
by fighting you are destroying our country and squeezing out all the money we do have to keep us afloat.......
hell i'd even say you are unamerican.
Fighting in Iraq is not the same as fighting for American and for freedom........
you are fightin for the guys in power, and if you are too dumb to see it......sucks for you.
sorry but im going to be real, solider or not........taking part of an overall problem is not moral.........................
by fighting you are destroying our country and squeezing out all the money we do have to keep us afloat.......
hell i'd even say you are unamerican.
Fighting in Iraq is not the same as fighting for American and for freedom........
you are fightin for the guys in power, and if you are too dumb to see it......sucks for you.
People see things the way they want to see them. I'm sorry you feel that way.
Thread Starter
Registered User
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 744
From: Bay Area
Car Info: iono nemore
anyone ever watch that PBS documentary called "Carrier" The one where they film life aboard the Nimitz when they got deployed to the gulf. They sure do complain a lot about being on a boat for 6months. At least they have running hot water, toilets, and a px. They have it better than some thats deployed. And is it really a deployment? Its a 6month deployment but they spend 2 months getting there from san diego, another 2 in the Persian gulf, then another 2 going back. I thought the army had some crappy jobs but the Navy has a couple that tops us on the crappyness scale.
Registered User
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 9,198
From: I gotta have more cow bell!!!!
Car Info: 05 STi
anyone ever watch that PBS documentary called "Carrier" The one where they film life aboard the Nimitz when they got deployed to the gulf. They sure do complain a lot about being on a boat for 6months. At least they have running hot water, toilets, and a px. They have it better than some thats deployed. And is it really a deployment? Its a 6month deployment but they spend 2 months getting there from san diego, another 2 in the Persian gulf, then another 2 going back. I thought the army had some crappy jobs but the Navy has a couple that tops us on the crappyness scale.
Thread Starter
Registered User
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 744
From: Bay Area
Car Info: iono nemore
thats what i'm saying. The documentary makes people on that boat seem like a bunch of babies. And they interview this one guy who's been in the navy 3 years but is still an E3, I mean come on. 3 years?
Registered User
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,686
From: I was up above it, now I'm down in it
Car Info: New Government Motors SUV!
anyone ever watch that PBS documentary called "Carrier" The one where they film life aboard the Nimitz when they got deployed to the gulf. They sure do complain a lot about being on a boat for 6months. At least they have running hot water, toilets, and a px. They have it better than some thats deployed. And is it really a deployment? Its a 6month deployment but they spend 2 months getting there from san diego, another 2 in the Persian gulf, then another 2 going back. I thought the army had some crappy jobs but the Navy has a couple that tops us on the crappyness scale.
Thread Starter
Registered User
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 744
From: Bay Area
Car Info: iono nemore
Try it. I have yet to meet anyone that's been on deployment and hasn't complained about it. And what does it matter if you spend 2 months headed one way and two months headed the other? You're still stuck in the middle of the ocean with people you hate somewhere near the hot *** equator.
Registered User
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,686
From: I was up above it, now I'm down in it
Car Info: New Government Motors SUV!
Oh I'm sure they do. Everyone has to deal with the choices they make. I chose the Navy for the advanced electronics training (I just missed qualifying for the nuclear program *thankfully*). But that electronics training also meant a 6 year enlistment with the first 1.5 years in training. And both of my deployments went for 7 months.
iClub Silver Vendor
iTrader: (25)
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 15,494
From: Participating in some Anarchy!
Car Info: 2005 LGT wagon
Ways to Simulate Navy Life at Home
Sleep on the shelf in your closet.
Replace the door with a curtain.
Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack".
Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level.
When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping.
Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high".
Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level.
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Once a week blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
Eake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking.
Invite 100+ people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through.
Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away.
When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning.
Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.
Sleep on the shelf in your closet.
Replace the door with a curtain.
Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack".
Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level.
When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping.
Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high".
Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level.
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Once a week blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
Eake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking.
Invite 100+ people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through.
Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away.
When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning.
Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.
iClub Silver Vendor
iTrader: (25)
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 15,494
From: Participating in some Anarchy!
Car Info: 2005 LGT wagon
Registered User
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 5,686
From: I was up above it, now I'm down in it
Car Info: New Government Motors SUV!
Ways to Simulate Navy Life at Home
Sleep on the shelf in your closet.
Replace the door with a curtain.
Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack".
Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level.
When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping.
Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high".
Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level.
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Once a week blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
Eake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking.
Invite 100+ people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through.
Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away.
When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning.
Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.
Sleep on the shelf in your closet.
Replace the door with a curtain.
Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack".
Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level.
When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping.
Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.
Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high".
Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.
Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level.
Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
Once a week blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
Eake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup.
Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose.
Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again.
Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking.
Invite 100+ people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.
Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through.
Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away.
When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning.
Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.
Thread Starter
Registered User
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 744
From: Bay Area
Car Info: iono nemore
Registered User
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 9,198
From: I gotta have more cow bell!!!!
Car Info: 05 STi
