Military Retirees & Healthcare
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El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Sorry to drag this thread back up, but I'm ETS'ing in 9 days after fulfilling my 4 year contract with the US Army. All I want to say is this -
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That's cool; not everyone is cut out for it. Good Luck in your future endeavors.
Sacrosanct
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Sorry to drag this thread back up, but I'm ETS'ing in 9 days after fulfilling my 4 year contract with the US Army. All I want to say is this -
Congrats! And here's wishing you a smooth transition. Biggest problem for me was the difference in managing people in the army to managing civilians. You can't yell at a civilian or drag them out to the flight line and forcibly hose them off because they stink so bad and live in filth
Valador
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Thanks, guys. My biggest issue is that I joined at an older age (26) and I have a hard time dealing with all the stupid crap that comes along with being in the military because I have real world experience and maturity outside of the Army, so I don't buy into all the BS from the Army culture. I think I would have gotten along better in the "old" Army when NCO's could put hands on soldiers when they got out of line and smoked them til they passed out. This "new" Army is too worried about offending people and having someone file a complaint on them. It's pathetic. It's some Mickey Mouse watered down crap now.
Anyways, I've been stuck in the middle of nowhere Germany for the last 3 years, unable to see any kind of break from the droves of low IQ morons that I have to work with. Seriously, the military will take anyone, including child molesters and rapists... Every other day is some training on not raping people and not doing drugs...
I'm 30 now, I feel like I'm 60, and we were all treated like we were 5. When we weren't busy being combat janitors, I was a networking tech with multiple certs which I can use to make a lot more on the civilian side than I would have ever made in the Army if I stayed in.
The only positive I have is they're paying for my college and I also got to travel Europe with my wife while I was here.
Anyways, I've been stuck in the middle of nowhere Germany for the last 3 years, unable to see any kind of break from the droves of low IQ morons that I have to work with. Seriously, the military will take anyone, including child molesters and rapists... Every other day is some training on not raping people and not doing drugs...
I'm 30 now, I feel like I'm 60, and we were all treated like we were 5. When we weren't busy being combat janitors, I was a networking tech with multiple certs which I can use to make a lot more on the civilian side than I would have ever made in the Army if I stayed in.
The only positive I have is they're paying for my college and I also got to travel Europe with my wife while I was here.
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