Marines are basically the Slavs of america atm

yeah brute forcing shit doesn't work out so well irl

The army isn't all amazing either but we have our shit together relatively speaking

Honestly if the corps would get it's shit squared away, it wouldn't be so bad.

Their biggest issue is lack of focus branchwise

But with things going the way they are, I doubt they will

I think the Navy is doing the best atm

They don't know what they want to be as a force

Idk man I have friends in the 7th fleet

And they paint a different picture about the navy

I.e undermanned, overworked, shits falling apart, Chiefs are half shitty etc

Turning into the brits

I mean that same complaint can be extended mil wide but you squids got it rough sometimes

Ya we are under manned but it depends on command really

Military in general is in some bad times

Honestly joining in peacetime is kinda stupid unless you do a very technical role

And at that point just go air force and have it easy

Or coast guard and go do something useful

My step brother is a coastie

It's underrated

Doesn’t do shit but fish all day

Everyone shits on it but they're a cool branch

I have only had interactions with him and honestly those are pretty few and far between. But they do some cool drug interdiction stuff.

Lol yeah that's more than you can say for the rest of us

That whole not getting paid during government shutdown is pretty fucked though.

I did some fun stuff in the army but like damn most of it was just waiting around

Saaaaaaame

Yeah that part was shitty

Back in 2014 we had something similar with the shutdown then

When DoD wasn't funded

2011 it happened too

Everything around base was closed for 2 weeks

Nothing happened

I was in Germany and they were like hey no ones getting paid

Yep it's pretty dumb

We were in Graf so it didn’t really make a difference to us at the time

But yeah the constant doing nothing especially once the wars mostly ended is the worst part

Totally agreed. Garrison army shit blows. Deployments are a whole different beast.

It's an SOF world now

I enlisted during war time when there was that mini surge to Afghanistan in 2011

And didn't get to go

I joined in 09 I didn’t get to Afghanistan until 2012

So I just applied for a special task force here and was augmenting JSOC with the 75th ranger bat

Did cool shit in mexico

Went to Chile

Peru

It was a fun time when we got to go

Nice.

But still kinda salty I missed the actual war lol

Eh, 90% of it is boredom

I just want that CIB

It’s the 10% of pure terror that’s the fun part

My work had me becoming a MOUT expert

Ahhhh 11B 😂🤣

It's my bread and butter

Did constant raids and glass houses every day

Shoulda tried to slide into a SOFARTEC slot

Yeah I put in a packet for SFAS but then was too hungover to remember to submit some other forms they wanted

I just hunted bombs and sometimes shot at people 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm doing a reclass to EOD soon

If big army wants to keep me then I'm not doing this 11B shit anymore lol my body hurts too much

Lmao you think it hurts now

Wait til you’re in the suit.

At this point in time I'll take that over this hell

Where are you at?

Benning

Ewwwwwwwwww

Home of the INFANTREEEEEEE

Lmao mostly REEEE

I make prank calls to the 19D OSUT Cadre a lot

It's great

I was at Stewart for awhile. I feel your pain

Lmfoa that shithole

I fucking hate cav scouts

I was in 3rd ID at first

Hated it

2/7 can suck a big cock

Was in 3rd ABCT

Stuck in brads

Ahhh. I was old 2 ABCT

Left that shit to go join my task force

Before they inactivated and then 4/3 became 2/3

Which was attached to 75th bat so the unit was much better

I believe that.

Now Benning isn't amazing but it's a hell of a lot better than Stewart

I finished up at 3/101 and said fuck it and got out

Makes sense lol

3/101 is a fucking meat grinder. And it’s not a JRTC deployment unless they kill like 4 joes

Some sort of Torri sacrifice

i only ever had one good JRTC rotation

and that time i got to be OPFOR

and beat up pogs

that was fun

Nice. Fuck Polk in general though

i mean fuck like 95 percent of army bases lol

I liked JMTC in Graf and Hoensfeld

never been

Ahhhh. Different army in Germany.

Like I was spoiled because I spent my first 2 years in Bamberg

Then I came down on orders to Stewart and I begged to let them keep me in USAEUR