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[–]HeyImSancho 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Don't join the army because you're just a number, and somewhere they've had a statistician decide how replaceable you are, or how you were a sacrifice for the greater good.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

And once you sign your life away you get no say in anything or you get locked up.

[–]Blurnaldblurmpf1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

While I completely agree with this, after somehow not getting hit in multiple firefights as a medic in a US Airborne recon unit, I'm pretty well taken care of - medical, dental, and a permanent monthly award that gauruntees I wont be in absolute poverty, while being allowed to work with what I can. I work because I want to stay busy.

But I am diagnosed with permanent PTSD from a few of the situations I participated in during my deployment, which is what gives me those benefits in the first place.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorry to hear that.

If you had a do over would you do it again, or do things differently?

[–]Blurnaldblurmpf1 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would join again, but maybe choose a different MOS, like S1 where I get to sit in an air conditioned building all day

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

MOS? S1?