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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Facts. Facts based on...what, exactly? Google? Puhleeze. Stories relayed to you by non-hackers who didn't last through boot camp, 'cause it wasn't the wine and cheese party they thought it'd be? For me...personal experience is everything.
Look, Will...take a survey of the veterans just on this board. There are many of us. Ask us how many were blatantly lied to. I'm not talking about just having details glossed over. I mean actually out and out lied to.
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Damn straight. All these cute Google links and "I-went-to-college!" opinions are garbage unless you've actually gone through the process yourself. Hill of beans, I say!
I knew perfectly well what I was getting into when I signed up. It was part of being an educated adult who couldn't afford college and wanted to embark on a life-changing adventure to gain skills and experiences that the civvie system will never be able to provide. It was part of joining the military after 9/11 and dealing with Bush's trigger-happy get-them-evil-doers policies. My recruiter told me I could either be a paratrooper or get a huge cash bonus. I still took the wings. My recruiter told me I would be deployed after basic. I knew damn well that meant a year in sunny downtown (city), Iraq. I knew it meant stepping into an atom smasher and coming out a different man.
I was never lied to once during the entire US Army recruiting process.
I get the feeling they don't have to lie much. The job really sells itself.
The military was the easiest (or dumbest?) job I ever had.