Navy.

[holly_noel]

So here I go again thinking about all of the things that I would like to accomplish in my life. You know the things that I want to do. The only problem is the lack of anything to help me get there. I mean no job, money, friends. I mean i do have friends, but they are all in different states in the Us. I mean ALL over the map. My family is no

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Re: A message from an informed consumer.

[mind_feild]

Ok, I will give what I can to add to your understandings.

In no particular order:

Once you sign on, you then become property of the U.S. government, to be done with as it pleases, if you don't like 'some things' and respond in a negative way, you have the potential to wind up in a military prison just for refusing to do what they want, even for petty things sometimes. All you have to do is refuse to do it.

I had a captain that came up through the ranks as apposed to starting out in a O.C.S, (Officers Candidate School), and had all kind of people trying to sabotage his future in the military, trying to get him kicked out of the service.

Females getting raped on the battle field and other places by the same people they are serving with, the same ones that are suppose to be watching their backs.

Some of the people that go into the military usually bring with them their own personal 'baggage' with them while in uniform. They arrive in the military as human pieces of waste, and remain that way and/or get worse while in there.

There is also people that end up as 'accidents' while on the battlefields. Some people 'accidentally' get shot by their own people because the opportunity presented it self for someone you are serving with get a chance to kill you and make it look like an accident to get away with it.

As on the streets, it is not long before people that go in find other people to hang with and basically becomes clicks or gangs instead of all one group of people doing a job against an enemy of the U.S.

If you happen to get put in with a group of people that don't like you for some reason, whatever that may be, you or anything you have is never safe while you are with these same people that you are suppose to depend on to watch your back in a war.

Ask one of those people that you know what blanket parties are. I have never be involved in one, but have seen one while in the service.

Being in the military is in some ways like being in prison in the ways things work. Once you go in, if things get ugly, you are stuck, pretty much, till your time is served, if you survive long enough to get back out. And it is not just on one level. it is that way from the bottom up to the top. And on top of that, what happens can also follow long after you leave the military in many different ways.

Also, once you kill another human being , even in the military, you can never go back to being who you were before it happened. The military teaches you to kill others with out giving any thought as to that person you kill may be there with out being a willing participant to the war, they could have been forced to be there, just trying to survive till they could get back home alive, being there because someone is invading their home, (country), and being a threat to their loved ones. That is not something taught to you think about while you are aiming a gun at the other person. "Yours is not to reason why, yours is to do or die!", that is the mentality of the military.

And knowing that you are on a battlefield about to get killed at any time and never seeing your family again, while the people that caused you to be in that situation are out partying and sitting in an air conditioned room half way around the world, they only know you exist as a number on a piece of paper, and a thought in the minds of some people who probably are only thinking about their own agendas that have nothing to do with protecting the people of this country, that only being a after thought. Ask the one that was getting a 'hummer' while conducting business with the lives of those suppose to be protecting the people of this country, and we are not talking 'hummer' as a vehicle.

Anyway, those are a few reasons to really consider the choice you are making.

I did leave the military with an honorable discharge and full benefits.

There are many good reasons to serve in the military, but there are many reasons not to also, good luck on your decisions.

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Re: A message from an informed consumer.

[holly_noel]

I knew alot of what you have shared..but thatks for warning me anyways. I know the risks and I think that it's sad that Im still willing to take them. The thingis I really have nothing else and I have always wanted to join the Navy, so I am.

Since the economy is so bad though, the ASVAB scores have to be highr1 It use to be that you only had to score a 32, I believe and now its a 50 something. YEA! Thank God Im smart. lol..Not bragging, just really thankful!

Re: A message from an informed consumer.

[mind_feild]

I just wanted you to know a few of the things I had learned while I had been in there and since then to help in your decision making, I was not trying to influence the outcome of your decision, :) . I have had good things come from having been in the military as well as some 'less than' things while in there. I used to say, and still do, that everyone would do well to experience it at least once, but after that, your on your own if you decide to stay in it. For some, it is probably the best thing that will happen to them, for others, the worst. One never knows till after 'the roll of the dice'.

I hope you the best of luck in your decisions no matter which way things work out for you, :) .