Enlistment in AF. (Military)

[wipers]

Full Metal Jacket.

[saven]

More explanation on what you exactly mean by this please?


EDIT: The post before ^

[Orph]

What you told your recruiter about your medical history, drug use, anything like that, you will tell anyone else who asks, Mainly at MEPS, exactly what you told your recruiter. If you don't, they will send you home, and depending on what you told them, it can prevent you from joining.

Basically, what you told your recruiter is now the truth about you, no matter how much you lied to him.

[Cletis]

im not sure how advancement works in AF, but your rank/mos matters. in the navy you can join e-1 to e-3. with some rates auto advance to e4 after your Aschool/AIT.

some important info for benefits and such. the higher asvab score mos's/rates get treated way better. dont take the 'cake' job because you think it'll be easy unless you know you'll advance fast. theres a guy on my ship whos e3 over 5 years. where i am e5 with 2.5yr.

theres college credits and all that jazz. per diem for cool jobs. civies showing you respect by bumping you up to 1st class or w/e. e5 you get BAH so you can live in your own house.

theres shitty parts of the military too. orders. the biggest thing in the navy is to be clean. e1-e4 is all the same. you are cleaning the ship for 1-3 hours a day minimum, i think its degrading to the older 24-28yr old e3's to listen to me 21yr old e5. it gets old. DUTY, no one really told me how bad duty was. your duty day is every 3-8(sometimes less) days where you have to stay on the ship for 24hrs and stand watch. watch is 2-10hrs(mostly 5hrs) of standing outside with a gun(most of the time). this too, gets old. INSPECTIONS, your uniform has to be 'perfect' if your attitude sucks, and it can be 'average' if your a blonde with big ol' tittys. people are biased, military is no exception. its all politics and a fucking game. its not work. its a lifestyle. theres days you hate it and days you love it. (more hate for me)

i plan on getting out but mostly because im young and i dont want to miss out on my family. serving for any amount is still serving.





as for Physical Fitness, i ran 2 nights a week for about 2 months before bootcamp. maybe .5-1.0 mile each time. boot camp was my first 1.5mi ever and i did it in 10:51. its not hard, its mental. pushups i started at 20 and finished at 80. situps start 40 to 110 finish. its not hard. you'll get in shape. i dont work out now AND i picked up smoking and i run it now in 11:30.

good luck with everything dude

[Clash Perez]

Typical 'duty' is laughable. If you can't handle that, you probably don't belong in the military.

[Aksannyi]

It does suck sometimes, like that four-day weekend you were going to head out of town with your buddies and you got stuck pulling duty on Saturday. Also, it sucked when I was pregnant but you usually don't pull duty alone, so you and your partner will switch off and take a couple hours each for a catnap. Worst duty is KP, fuck KP with a rusty metal spoon. I'd rather stay up for three days sitting at a desk than pull 12 hours of KP. Then again, I have a severe food phobia (not going into it) so KP was generally worse for me. Hell, even spending the summer of '03 in the sandbox wasn't as bad as pulling KP in basic.

I suck at running and I did fine. I'd always fall out of company runs and be unable to keep up with the company but have no trouble passing my PT test. I could run for miles and miles without stopping but I couldn't hold the steady pace with the group. They'd bitch me out for it but I always passed my PT test so they couldn't really force me to do remedial PT.

Also, if you think something is fucked up/you're being treated unfairly look up the regulations. I chose to get out early on a pregnancy discharge, and my 1SG didn't want to let me take my terminal leave, as he was "pretty sure" that if you get out early, you can't do it. I wanted to take my terminal leave so I'd still technically be in when I had my son and because then I would hit the minimum mark for benefits. So I looked up the regulation regarding both pregnancy discharges and terminal leave, proved that it was allowed, and got my 1SG to sign off on it. So learn how to look up the regulations once you get in. You may never need to, but if you do, you'll be glad you did. Not that I'm saying be one of those people who uses it to get out of doing shit or to find loopholes - don't be that guy - but sometimes shit goes down that you know isn't right, look it up and prove it. Cover your ass, they say.

Keep all of your paperwork. EVERYTHING. Anything you ever get that's official looking, even if it just looks like a cheesy certificate or something, keep it.

Military isn't hard, it's just a lifestyle like someone else said. Some love it, some hate it. Do your term and get out or stay in forever, no shame in either. Just have fun, remember that you'll get to travel a lot of places so enjoy that. I was in Germany for 18 months and it was great. I learned very little German but I got by, ran around and explored the local stores and interacted with the locals some and just had a good time.

[Trinsie]

They will ask you to do stupid shit. Not not what you are thinking, dumber than that.

Don't ask why, just do it. Doing something retarded is fine. If a superior told you to do it, then it is on them not you.

Example: This is a picture of me in Iraq. They had me standing on chairs using a broom to hang 15' tall tiki posters on concrete walls and pillars ( the broom and chairs is cause I cant reach 15')
This is probably the dumbest thing I have ever been told to do, but I spent all day doing it. (I know old uniform is old, this was in 2008 so we all didn't have the new uniforms yet).




If Richardd sees this I hope he doesn't go blind from staring so long.