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

Which branch is the best?

  • Navy

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Army

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • Marine Corps

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Air Force

    Votes: 12 57.1%
  • Total voters
    21
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...
 
@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?
 
teamquestnorth said:
@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?
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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.
 
Splinty said:
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.
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What's your rank? I'm guessing 0-4 range
 
Splinty said:
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.
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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
 
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.
 
teamquestnorth said:
How did u get your commission if u don't mind me asking
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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.
 
Splinty said:
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.
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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)
 
Splinty said:
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.
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In the Army, do they call prior enlisted that turned officers Mustangs? That's what they call them in the Navy
 
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Galt said:
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.
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The Swiss guard the Pope. They have to have some badasses somewhere in that country.
 
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'm really good at the old Star Fox games too so they would pretty much have to make me a fighter pilot.
 
teamquestnorth said:
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.
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51 actually. It's for a tanker too...
 
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