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