You can be a knight , maybe dark type

Originally Posted by JackIMF

Believe it or not I'm a completely respectable kid. If I wanted to I could make it in the army. Just because I don't want that kind of structure doesn't mean I'm a delinquent. Actually, I plan to join the military if I can't find any other work. Second there are plenty of pmc's that will hire kids with no experience. Yeah they pay basically nothing , and yeah they'll probably get you killed, but really I couldn't care less. If I die, well I'm dead so why should I care.

You have not been in the army, so no - you don´t know if you can handle it.
The military is not a unemployment agency you can go to if you can´find a job.
If there are so many who will hire you, then go and join them.
Big talking man. Like listening to a virgin who talk about sex.

Originally Posted by Kesse81

You have not been in the army, so no - you don´t know if you can handle it.
The military is not a unemployment agency you can go to if you can´find a job.
If there are so many who will hire you, then go and join them.
Big talking man. Like listening to a virgin who talk about sex.

Nah let him come join the Army. He'll get a dose of reality when that Drill Sergeant gets in his face.

Originally Posted by JackIMF

Believe it or not I'm a completely respectable kid. If I wanted to I could make it in the army. Just because I don't want that kind of structure doesn't mean I'm a delinquent. Actually, I plan to join the military if I can't find any other work. Second there are plenty of pmc's that will hire kids with no experience. Yeah they pay basically nothing , and yeah they'll probably get you killed, but really I couldn't care less. If I die, well I'm dead so why should I care.

I am sorry to tell you this; Burger King, MacDonalds, Wendy's, DQ, Taco Bell and the others aren't PMC's, but they hire people without any experience.

So you are going to come in here and dictate terms on what we can say to you because you think you are the exception to the rule just like every other 17 year old in the world. If you had this all lined up then why the hell did you come on here to ask anyways?

You think you don't care if you will die... I laugh at you. You don't have any clue what you are talking about in any of this, especially death. That crap might work on your buddies when you are standing around trying to be tough tough. Guys like me see right through the BS fascade and know you are actually just posturing little boys. The thing you don't realize is that in a combat environment, that BS will not only get you killed, but others killed too.

You're entitled to nothing! Pull your head outta your ass and realize that what you're talking about is a pipedream. If you don't have experience, noone will hire you period. Welcome to reality.

Originally Posted by crazytanker

Nah let him come join the Army. He'll get a dose of reality when that Drill Sergeant gets in his face.

Nice guys like you?
You wouldn't would you?

I start off with kids just like him every two and a half months. By the time I'm done, they are trained soldiers. Disciplined, motivated, and respectful.

Originally Posted by crazytanker

I start off with kids just like him every two and a half months. By the time I'm done, they are trained soldiers. Disciplined, motivated, and respectful.

Mostly...I would be lying if I said that there weren't quite a few who make it through IET with the sense of entitlement that characterizes this younger generation still intact. Quite a few know it alls too, just like this kid. Maybe I'm just getting older, but I don't remember privates, or civilians even, being as disrespectful as I have seen the last 5 years in the Army. It isn't a lot, but it is enough to realize there is a problem out there much bigger than BCT/OSUT can handle.

I got into it with a kid a few months ago because he wanted to know what combat was like. I told him he wouldn't understand and by the way he was talking it was clear he thought he was something special. He was supposed to join the Army as an infantryman and was trying to get a feel for how it all goes. I told him that he was no different than anyone else, he was the same...utterly the same. He didn't like it at all, then he went on a tirade calling me a coward and that I fear death and all kinds of nonsense. It was comical...but sad at the same time. When I came in the Army, or even before then, when a combat veteran talked, you shut the fvck up and listened...I guess we are a dime a dozen these days...

When did I ever say I know it all? None of you know anything about what I've been thru. I'm not some pampered naive kid who thinks there entitled to anything. In fact I probably have had a tougher life than most of you when you were 17. The reason I came here was to get advice on how to join one not about how I should get a real job and keep my head out of the clouds. You guys think you know it all, talking about how I wouldn't make it through basic training and crap like that, we newsflash, a lot of people do, millions in fact.