What branch of the military would you want to be in?

[Disciplined Galt]

Not going to get into a my dad is tougher than your dad kind of thing, I do know that my old battalion does some training with the Seals in San Diego and it's quite competitive. One of my best friends is a former Ranger and was a bit of a mentor when i started slinging drugs. Has saved my ass from getting busted a couple of times. Respect to all. Except the coast guard...

 

[teamquestnorth]

@Splinty

IIRC you're an Army medic right? Or maybe used to be? No offense to the soldiers but wouldn't you say that they have the lowest standards for enlistment?

 

[Disciplined Galt]

Which branch of the US military were you in?

I am Swedish. I was in the Swedish Marines. AMF-1 out of Vaxholm.

 

[teamquestnorth]

I am Swedish. I was in the Swedish Marines. AMF-1 out of Vaxholm.

I used to have a Swedish army knife when I was a kid. A little red one with a white cross on it.

 

[Disciplined Galt]

I used to have a Swedish army knife when I was a kid. A little red one with a white cross on it.

That'd be Swiss, and I don't think they have marines there...

My first racket was stealing those and selling them at my school, I was thriftier when I was younger.

 

[Deleted member 1]

@Splinty

IIRC you're an Army medic right? Or maybe used to be? No offense to the soldiers but wouldn't you say that they have the lowest standards for enlistment?

Just a part-time Army doc. I train medics though.

Largest branch has lowest standards absolutely.
Army has largest variation of areas to fill and can afford it.

How smart or fit does a fueller have to be? Not trying to be rude about it, but that's a sort of metaphor.

I joke I wasn't strong enough to be a Marine or smart enough to join the Air Force


The reality is that the best branch depends on hour job. My navy doctor friends have swwweeettttt setups. Officer clubs and nice locations. As an Army doc, I have tons of options but nothing is so bad or so good.

My air force reserve friends are spending 'deployments' in nice hotels in central america while I train in a tent and shit in an over filled over jacked port a potty....but at least I'm not digging a hole, shitting in it, and sleeping in the other hole nearby that I dug for safe sleeping like @Sophia_Helwani used to do.

 

[Deleted member 1]

Except the coast guard...

Lmao

 

[teamquestnorth]

Just a part-time Army doc. I train medics though.

Largest branch has lowest standards absolutely.
Army has largest variation of areas to fill and can afford it.

How smart or fit does a fueller have to be? Not trying to be rude about it, but that's a sort of metaphor.

I joke I wasn't strong enough to be a Marine or smart enough to join the Air Force


The reality is that the best branch depends on hour job. My navy doctor friends have swwweeettttt setups. Officer clubs and nice locations. As an Army doc, I have tons of options but nothing is so bad or so good.

My air force reserve friends are spending 'deployments' in nice hotels in central america while I train in a tent and shit in an over filled over jacked port a potty....but at least I'm not digging a hole, shitting in it, and sleeping in the other hole nearby that I dug for safe sleeping like @Sophia_Helwani used to do.

What's your rank? I'm guessing 0-4 range

 

[Deleted member 1]

What's your rank? I'm guessing 0-4 range

Correct. Packet is cooking for O-4.
I kind of delayed some thing or would already be there.
Dunno if I'll stick at it for O-5. I really enjoy it and wouldn't mind being deployed, but really want my freedom back in a few years to pursue more private practice stuff.

 

[teamquestnorth]

Correct. Packet is cooking for O-4.
I kind of delayed some thing or would already be there.
Dunno if I'll stick at it for O-5. I really enjoy it and wouldn't mind being deployed, but really want my freedom back in a few years to pursue more private practice stuff.

I'm taking it you're in the reserves? Anything past O-4 is getting pretty up there. All the captains on my sub's were O-5's. Had around 12-15 years in before they took command.

Did you go to West Point or an OCS? How did u get your commission if u don't mind me asking

 

[Simpleman]

USMC - I always took pride in being one of a small group. Filthy bastards gotta love it. I would have tried to do more deployments though.

 

[Deleted member 1]

How did u get your commission if u don't mind me asking

Direct as a doctor (signed up as a student).
Direct is looked down upon. It's a fucking tough place to start personally.
On the plus side I'm a very specialized skill and in a wartime critical speciality. I'm needed, hold a high rank, so no one is ever going to be like, "Sir, I think you are doing that wrong".

But to break the doctor stereotype you have to work twice as a hard to not be a fuck up. Every one except brass will excuse your idiocy because " hey you're a doctor ". And it will piss off all the prior enlisted that went to OCS after getting all salty as an NCO. Army medical lives in the Army universe but on another planet.

 

[teamquestnorth]

Direct as a doctor (signed up as a student).
Direct is looked down upon. It's a fucking tough place to start personally.
On the plus side I'm a very specialized skill and in a wartime critical speciality. I'm needed, hold a high rank, so no one is ever going to be like, "Sir, I think you are doing that wrong".

But to break the doctor stereotype you have to work twice as a hard to not be a fuck up. Every one except brass will excuse your idiocy because " hey you're a doctor ". And it will piss off all the prior enlisted that went to OCS after getting all salty as an NCO. Army medical lives in the Army universe but on another planet.

Yeah same with the Navy. Our " Doc" on the sub was usually an enlisted E-6 or E-7 but if we had to have surgery or anything major done, he would send us to the Navy Docs on land.

Nobody cares whether you graduated from West Point when they're getting operated on as long as they do a good job.

You have one of the most important jobs in the military. Regardless of how you got there. I tip my hat to you sir (in a Kentucky accent)

 

[teamquestnorth]

Direct as a doctor (signed up as a student).
Direct is looked down upon. It's a fucking tough place to start personally.
On the plus side I'm a very specialized skill and in a wartime critical speciality. I'm needed, hold a high rank, so no one is ever going to be like, "Sir, I think you are doing that wrong".

But to break the doctor stereotype you have to work twice as a hard to not be a fuck up. Every one except brass will excuse your idiocy because " hey you're a doctor ". And it will piss off all the prior enlisted that went to OCS after getting all salty as an NCO. Army medical lives in the Army universe but on another planet.

In the Army, do they call prior enlisted that turned officers Mustangs? That's what they call them in the Navy

 

[Deleted member 1]

In the Army, do they call prior enlisted that turned officers Mustangs? That's what they call them in the Navy

Yeah, but only the older guys.

 

[sparkuri]

AIM HIGH

FIN

 

[tang]

No shit? When was this? I do recall at the time I got out of the Navy (2008) the Air Force and Navy were both down sizing drastically.

It was around aug2007, i was also try'n to get into blackwater at the time but month later they had some crazy scandal.

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

That'd be Swiss, and I don't think they have marines there...

My first racket was stealing those and selling them at my school, I was thriftier when I was younger.

The Swiss guard the Pope. They have to have some badasses somewhere in that country.

 

[member 1013]

Figher pilot or bust, imo.

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

Navy, again, never understood why anyone would want to sleep in the mud. We had 3 meals a day and a rack with white sheets. Plus we got to go to awesome places.

 

[ThatOneDude]

Navy, again, never understood why anyone would want to sleep in the mud. We had 3 meals a day and a rack with white sheets. Plus we got to go to awesome places.

I take great pride in my ability to endure the suck.

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

I take great pride in my ability to endure the suck.

Jarheads are awesome thats a fact.

 

[member 1013]

I'm really good at the old Star Fox games too so they would pretty much have to make me a fighter pilot.

 

[HEATH VON DOOM]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cYAJvJpy0


ATTN @teamquestnorth since you are a Navy guy and from pacific northwest and love the fatties you should know exactly what this is about.

 

[Punch]

IMO, and this is just what I've heard, could be rumors.

Air Force is the laziest. Bunch of guys on the fat boy mandatory PT program in there.

Army, they'll let you in with an asvap score of 15. If you graduated 3rd grade you'll excell there.

51 actually. It's for a tanker too...