The Official NeoGAF Military Thread

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I searched and didn't find any other thread here to talk about this. Anyone else in the military? What branch? What's your MOS/AFSC/rate? Where are you currently stationed? Or for you retirees, what was your experience?

I'm a cyber systems operator (fancy word for network engineer) at Beale Air Force Base, in, guess it, the Air Force. I can't be the only guy here in the military, can I?
 
I the joined USN a couple weeks ago. I'm going in as an ET, ship date April 5 2011. I'm hoping I can take the NAPT before then though and go in as a nuke
 
Army, Human Intel Collection (35M) Leave for Missouri in March.

So far, people have described the job to me 6 different ways and USIS knows more about my bills and personal debts than I do. :lol
 
DY_nasty said:
Army, Human Intel Collection (35M) Leave for Missouri in March.

So far, people have described the job to me 6 different ways and USIS knows more about my bills and personal debts than I do. :lol
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Lulz. Electronic Warfare Intelligence Recruit (38W), leave for South Carolina in March.
 
WanderingWind said:
No you're not alone. You almost don't qualify as "military" in the first place....:D

/USMC
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I deploy the same, go outside the wire the same.

Bad_Boy said:
Bookmarking this thread. Joining the airforce in about a year, looking into SERE training.
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Good luck, man. SERE jobs were coming up incredibly rarely a year ago, they're probably even more rare now.
 
blame space said:
pretty bored w/ life tbh.. what's the best branch if u don't wanna die
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Definitely the Air Force if you're just looking for a regular "job" with the added extra that you have to do some PT and stay healthy. That's the vast majority of the AF, but there are some of us who actually volunteer to do some dangerous stuff.
 
Just got out of the Navy after 4 years. I am an RP2(FMF) first 2 years was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan on the USS Shiloh, and the last 2 i spent working with the Marines of 2/11 as their chaplains assistant/bodyguard.

Any questions about the Navy in general i probably can help. Also USMC seeing as how i worked hand and hand for 2 years.
 
Nekofrog said:
I deploy the same, go outside the wire the same.
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Not real interested in getting in a dick waving contest, as I was joking, but my whole family is Air Force. Not the same. Not even close, my friend. We all do our part though. It's just sibling rivalry.
 
Pinko Marx said:
Lulz. Electronic Warfare Intelligence Recruit (38W), leave for South Carolina in March.
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MEPS was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. My group had some old guy trying to enlist, a girl who got to find out that she was pregnant with us, a guy who literally passed out while filling out his medical forms, a kid who did his physical examination in a thong, and a recruiter who 'did it for the pussy'.

Shit was a blast.
 
Nekofrog said:
I deploy the same, go outside the wire the same.




Good luck, man. SERE jobs were coming up incredibly rarely a year ago, they're probably even more rare now.
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Thats disappointing to hear. Hopefully I get in, SERE sounds like the type of experience I want.

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I don't mean experience as in 'oh it'll be fun, and something really different'. But I mean, if I join the airforce, I would like to have the knowledge and skills that SERE graduates have.

DY_nasty said:
MEPS was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. My group had some old guy trying to enlist, a girl who got to find out that she was pregnant with us, a guy who literally passed out while filling out his medical forms, a kid who did his physical examination in a thong, and a recruiter who 'did it for the pussy'.

Shit was a blast.
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:lol
 
DY_nasty said:
MEPS was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. My group had some old guy trying to enlist, a girl who got to find out that she was pregnant with us, a guy who literally passed out while filling out his medical forms, a kid who did his physical examination in a thong, and a recruiter who 'did it for the pussy'.

Shit was a blast.
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Sounds fucking awesome. :lol
 
CaptYamato said:
Air Force
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I've always pegged Navy myself. There are far fewer training accidents in Navy during peace time and during war time... you have a greater chance of falling off the ship and drowning than being killed by enemy fire.
 
For as much crap as you guys get daily from media, Internet forums and what not all I can say is; thank you for your service to your country and the world!
 
So are you guys going to leak something?

CNN : "GAFLeak: Chinner to invade the US for 'King and Country, Fish and Chips'"

Just kidding lovable duck.
 
Phoenix said:
I've always pegged Navy myself. There are far fewer training accidents in Navy during peace time and during war time... you have a greater chance of falling off the ship and drowning than being killed by enemy fire.
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The enlisted side of the AF almost never gets directly involved in any sort of hostile situation (and are far, far from it). The officer side is usually more at risk (though accidents/being shot down are few and far between).

We do have the highest numbers of EOD across the entire military, so we do take hits there pretty bad.
 
Phoenix said:
I've always pegged Navy myself. There are far fewer training accidents in Navy during peace time and during war time... you have a greater chance of falling off the ship and drowning than being killed by enemy fire.
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Navy Corpsmen serve with Marine Infantry, so depending what you do in the Navy it does get more dangerous than the Air Force.
 
Was about to join the Marines after high school but decided to go the smart way and join as a doctor. My plans are to join the ARMY as a plastic surgeon under the HPSP scholarship.
 
I'm actually considering signing up for the Navy in the spring but I am completely uninformed. Gaf Halp!

P.S. All these acronyms are going over my head.
 
salva said:
Was about to join the Marines after high school but decided to go the smart way and join as a doctor. My plans are to join the ARMY as a plastic surgeon under the HPSP scholarship.
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I feel like I've raised you over the years. I'm proud of you holmes
 
Retired Navy. Served on the John F Kennedy
Aviation Ordnanceman also known as AO
Left the Navy as a Petty Officer First Class
 
cnizzle06 said:
I'm actually considering signing up for the Navy in the spring but I am completely uninformed. Gaf Halp!

P.S. All these acronyms are going over my head.
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You can spend years in the military and use acronyms without ever even knowing what they actually stand for. The sheer number of them is ridiculous.
 
Just for fun, go to one of your lesser ranked brethren and tell them to get the [insert made up acronymn] and walk away.
 
I spent 6 years in the USAF as an F-15/F-16 engine mechanic (aka "Aerospace Propulsion").

Cool factor? I got to work around jets all day, and after I fixed one we got to strap it down with a giant metal bar and crank up the engine to max (looked pretty sweet with the 20 foot blue flame coming out the back at night).

Down side? Pretty much everything else, including all the cancer causing chemicals I worked with, and the jet fuel that caused a rash wherever it touched within 30 minutes of being on your skin (didn't exactly get many opportunities to just run inside and wash up on the flight line...)

Now? I work as a system administrator for a web hosting company from my house making more then I did in the military.

and they said I'd never find a job in the civilian market with this economy. HAH! EAT THAT BITCHES

:D
 
I'm in my 30's, but I've honestly been thinking of joining the army for the first time in my life. I think i must be going crazy or something.
 
Well, I barely qualify to be in this thread, but whatever. I'm currently just starting week 6 (of 15) of my basic officer training program with the Canadian Forces. I'm going in for Maritime Surface and Sub-Surface (MARS) officer. They're the guys who are in charge of weapons, communications, navigation etc on a ship (and 20 years or so down the road, with a little luck, in charge of the whole thing). It's going to be about 2 years until I'm even trained and posted to a ship, but thus far I'm loving every minute of it even if it is just Army training and not Navy at all.

I will probably post a little more in depth in a week or so with some impressions on Basic and some of the stuff we've been doing (I lucked out, we have Christmas leave for 3 weeks in the middle of the course, good timing of the course start date. Had I been a couple months earlier it would have just been 3.5 months straight). Internet access is pretty limited and we just got our phones back last week, so I'll just wait until I'm home to go all out with posting.
 
Evenball said:
I'm in my 30's, but I've honestly been thinking of joining the army for the first time in my life. I think i must be going crazy or something.
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I was at MEPS two weeks ago and there was a surprisingly large amount of super late 20's/30 year olds enlisting for the first time.
 
DY_nasty said:
MEPS was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. My group had some old guy trying to enlist, a girl who got to find out that she was pregnant with us, a guy who literally passed out while filling out his medical forms, a kid who did his physical examination in a thong, and a recruiter who 'did it for the pussy'.

Shit was a blast.
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If only it was that fun where I went. It was a long and boring as process.
 
Hartt951 said:
I was at MEPS two weeks ago and there was a surprisingly large amount of super late 20's/30 year olds enlisting for the first time.
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Guaranteed paycheck. Whenever the economy goes to shit the military grows in size.
 
DY_nasty said:
MEPS was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. My group had some old guy trying to enlist, a girl who got to find out that she was pregnant with us, a guy who literally passed out while filling out his medical forms, a kid who did his physical examination in a thong, and a recruiter who 'did it for the pussy'.

Shit was a blast.
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More details!
 
There were a lot of mid 20s/30s guys that I saw at MEPS. My intel job was pretty hard to get apparently. There were 3 spots up for grabs and it went to me, a 29 yr old bartender who does drugs all de time, and a 32 yr old father of 2 with 4 degrees (I beat some middle-aged slightly-racist woman out in the ASVAB test - taught her dougie before I dipped).
Pinko Marx said:
If only it was that fun where I went. It was a long and boring as process.
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It was long as hell and I had to do it twice because my good old HBCU didn't want to give me my transcripts, but I still had a lot of fun both times. First time at the hotel, I made the mistake of saying "I don't care who my roommate for the night is" and I got stuck with the weirdest guy ever. Guy looked like he never washed, stayed on the phone with mom the whole night, had crazy social problems and had issues dealing with himself in general... it brought joy to my heart knowing that it was his 8th visit (As far as I know, he still isn't good to go).

But free food man. So much free good. And they had cards and PS3s at the hotel too - I ran everybody's pockets in MW2. When it was time to hit the caf the next morning, dude's were extra salty. The funniest part was the urine test. The guy doing the test was gay, clearly, but he was fucking hilarious - a lot of guys were nervous and insecure trying to pee (they had people in there in groups) so he kept fucking with them by waiting right until they got loose enough to go then he'd break out singing Usher songs to tighten em right back up. Dudes were stuck trying to get past that part in the physical for hours :lol

I almost got held up because I'm a 'toe walker'. They had me walk across a tile floor on just my heels and walk back and forth a couple of times and told me that I'd have to work on that... whatever that means...

Met a couple bunch of girls there. "What do you do?" "Intel" "omg me toooooooo"
fuck yea
 
I have been in the USAF now for 13 years, but I am currently going through a Med board to get Medically retired due to issues with my health that are Iraq related.
 
Nekofrog said:
The enlisted side of the AF almost never gets directly involved in any sort of hostile situation (and are far, far from it). The officer side is usually more at risk (though accidents/being shot down are few and far between).

We do have the highest numbers of EOD across the entire military, so we do take hits there pretty bad.
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Not me, I was in a few fire fights and did town patrol's with the Italians at Camp Mittica and tons of convoys, a few years back we in the USAF dependent on job were constantly in hostile areas.
 
4 years active Army as a combat medic (91W), got out in 2005. Jumped out of planes, lived in and traveled Europe, went down range, even did some time as an STD counselor. :lol Great times and a great experience.
 
methos75 said:
Not me, I was in a few fire fights and did town patrol's with the Italians at Camp Mittica and tons of convoys, a few years back we in the USAF dependent on job were constantly in hostile areas.
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That was during a time when hostilities were still very high. Where we might have been on the ground with you in a normal deployment before, we barely even ride along in a convoy anymore. The reduction in what our normal duties are on a deployment is almost sickening (barring security forces and the more hardcore AFSCs like PJs and SEREs).
 
Nekofrog said:
That was during a time when hostilities were still very high. Where we might have been on the ground with you in a normal deployment before, we barely even ride along in a convoy anymore. The reduction in what our normal duties are on a deployment is almost sickening (barring security forces and the more hardcore AFSCs like PJs and SEREs).
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That is true, my first three deployments to Iraq we were always outside the wire, my last tour in Kirkuk we did nothing and ironically that is the one that screwed me up
 
one of my best friends is on the air force and hell be here with us till jan 10th before he gets deployed to afghanistan.

wanted to join the marines but pulled out last second a couple of years ago. dont think im cut out for it, but God bless yall for all the hard work.
 
Hartt951 said:
Navy Corpsmen serve with Marine Infantry, so depending what you do in the Navy it does get more dangerous than the Air Force.
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Yep, anything relating to aircraft operations on a carrier can be pretty dangerous, especially if you're working topside.
 
I'm thinking seriously of joining the marines/OCS after I've finished my degree (1 more semester). I guess it depends on how my life pans out over the next year but it's something I think of constantly.

My biggest concern is the "you signed up for 8 years even if you signed up for 4" thing that I keep hearing about.
 
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