Regrets leaving the military?

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>/k/ - life advice

I remember when this was a weapons board

>>31219345
>Listening to anyone here
You deserve every second of regret and suffering.

>>31219392
>>31219393
These.

You deserve to be unhappy.

>>31219392
>>31219393
>>31219409

I didn't do it because of anyone here specifically

Look at the Somme. It was a meat grinder to take pressure off Verdun

But its not like junior officers and ranks knew this. They were told to take the Somme.

When you're just a pawn, you don't know how you are being used. That was my problem

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>>31219345
canada is pretty much an american colony. we set your oil prices, our businessmen run around in your country, and you even copied our system of government.
>feels colonial man

>>31219357

the greatest weapon we have... is our lives.

>>31219409
>>31219425
I'm not even trying to be edgy but seriously i mean you just threw away what could have been a great life all for some retarded idea that Somme could occur again or that your not going to be a pawn outside of the military.

Good job retard you lost your chance too maybe pull some of those strings your so scared of.

>>31219434

>America is a Parliamentary Democracy

retard

>>31219345
I, too was an officer in my country's military. I realized that I would never see combat ever, not even as a bullet sponge for someone else's phoney military conflict. I would have loved the opportunity, but realistically there was no chance.

So I quit. I'm currently on my way to a masters in computer science. Sure I miss being an officer, the excercises, and blowing stuff up, but in the end I guess this is for the best. You have to make compromises in life, unfortunately.

So get a better education and a PhD in something you like.

>>31219460
*Not that any of this is really occurring

>>31219460

>Good job retard you lost your chance too maybe pull some of those strings your so scared of.

Politicians pull strings. Military follows orders

Anyone short of a Lt. Col isn't pulling strings in how things get done in a conflict, let alone setting the warzone

> I was a junior officer in the infantry, but I came here (and elsewhere) and got redpilled

Fucking hell you're a moron that deserves your shit life

>>31219345
Nah m8, you did the right thing

Here's what's important: You got the military training that makes you useful in the event of insurrection or war. Should Canada actually go to war and you agree with it, you'll have no trouble getting back into a similar position as you already had. There won't be a lot of people jumping up to volunteer, quite honestly.

And if there's an insurrection against the globalist agenda, your experience gives you the opportunity to undermine and destroy the elements that have fucked over your country and countrymen so much.

And excluding any war scenarios, you now have the chance to develop skills and get a job outside the military.

>>31219538
See this OP? These are the people you don't listen to regarding a fucking career.

>>31219521
idk for me its like im not fighting for freedom or whatever cause the war has. Its rather just a fight for the man next to me and the comfort of the chaos of a battlefield. Nothing feels more peaceful then a firefight. I just feel so empty outside of service. I'm looking at maybe trying to become a national park ranger. But idk everything feels so pointless

>>31219345
>>31219425

You don't need to fight for "higher cause" nor "values", you don't need to know "the big picture" nor your place in it. Trying to find any of the above is a fool's errand.

It is perfectly fine to fight, kill, and lead others to do likewise simply because you want to and/or are paid to do so.

The military doesn't need philosophers, they need people who kill who they are told to kill and not go to prison in the interim peace.

>>31219521
You know maybe it was for the best you lest the military, I mean you were stupid enough to leave over something like this, I think Canada is a little safe now because only idiots listen to people like >>31219538

>Leaving a well-paid career because of 4chan memes

Jesus Fucking Christ OP what the fuck is wrong with you

>>31219574
to be fair where I live literally everyone I knew shit on my choice of a military career. They kept telling me im just a slave to big corporations etc
desu I just dont belong anywhere else

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>>31219345
>asks strangers on the internet life advice
>doesn't like results
>"better ask again!"

Nobody likes you.

>>31219574
Military's not a good career unless you actually go career.

>>31219598

>other people don't like what I do
>better quit
Glad you're out, desu

>>31219598
So you're a fucking cretin licking the feet of people who don't like you, demanding their validation at the cost of your own enjoyment?

Absolutely pathetic.

>>31219598
And now you come crying to us? Go fucking grow up you vapid retard, go kiss the undersides of their boots while your at it.

>>31219598
>Some people don't like what I do
>Better give it up to appease them

What a sniveling, cowardly creature you are

>>31219611>>31219610
im not op u fucks

>>31219625
>>31219621
>>31219611
Is this samefag general?

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>>31219633
>less then a minute between at least two posts
Go rationalize your poor decisions elsewhere, we're gonna laugh at you now.

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>>31219345
>abandoned career as a junior officer because of 4chan advice
Now you done fucked up

Guys, I also have a university degree in Finance. So pay and having a good career isn't out of the picture for me.

>>31219572
Don't be so salty

>>31219554
A career as a bullet sponge, though. Junior officers are a dime a dozen

Do you know what a fucking artillery barrage looks like? Anyone getting caught in it is toast from overpressure alone, from private to general.

>>31219425
Nigga this ain't 1914.

>>31219648
Uh oh now your getting defensive, not expecting everyone to get so mad eh? Wrong board to expect anything but anger and annoyance.

Go find a hugbox.

>>31219648
>A career as a bullet sponge
>Do you know what a fucking artillery barrage looks like?

Yeah gosh those 157 Canadians that have died in the past two decades of warfare, they're being absolutely slaughtered out there, these are really realistic worries you have worthy of deliberation.

Coward.

>>31219607

You're definitely a salty bootlicker or an NCM/NCO who regrets joining but will never admit it to himself

>>31219611
>>31219621

>>31219625


Thats not OP. I am


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>>31219648
See >>31219652

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>Left your job because 4chan
>Ask 4chan what do

>>31219648
>A career as a bullet sponge, though.

>Do you know what a fucking artillery barrage looks like? Anyone getting caught in it is toast from overpressure alone, from private to general.

And these are realistic issues to you? You're not on this planet.

>>31219648
Depends on the artillery I'd say
Rommel's accounts of WW1 made it pretty clear that trenches and foxholes worked wonders against artillery.

>>31219673
It's edgy teenagers like this that make /k/ such a pain

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>Asking 4chan for advice fucked my life up

>Better ask 4chan what do do

Ever think that maybe you're not the best person at choosing what advice to take

>>31219693
>Edgy
How? Op wanted us to feel bad for his dumb decisions and we're obviously not.

>>31219673

I expect it's all the non-military people getting stupidly angry, while everyone who actually has military experience can understand where I'm coming from

>>31219652

You're not wrong, but then what is the point? Either I would be killing villagers in some 3rd world country in the best case, or being frontline in WWIII worst case.

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>>31219648
>Do you know what a fucking artillery barrage looks like? Anyone getting caught in it is toast from overpressure alone, from private to general.

>22 Canadians killed by indirect fire since the 1953

>>31219345
Shit man, I'm chilling with my bros at the barracks rather inebriated, we got some major field op after the labor day 96, theres some guys playing ghetto baseball in the basketball courts.

Life is good as an NCO, our boots rather go around us than try to walk around us, Im gonna miss this shit when I get out

>>31219707

>us
>we're
>Being so autistic that you feel an entire board identifies with you

Salty autist

>>31219699

I'm really just looking for military vets for advice. I don't care what a civilian has to say about something they know nothing about

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>unironically taking advice from cave dwellers on an Belgian waffle enthusiast forum

>>31219722
>I expect it's all the non-military people getting stupidly angry, while everyone who actually has military experience can understand where I'm coming from

"I need to assume there's a silent majority agreeing with me or else this isn't the hugbox I need it to be"

>>31219740
>I'm really just looking for military vets for advice

You want a military vets advice? You shit your bed, and now you're going to have to lie in it.

>>31219722
Your really trying to rationalize this man, ever think your just lying to yourself to make yourself feel better?
>>31219740
Thank you for putting those tasty words into my mouth, though obviously I meant the posters laughing at him specificly.

>>31219728

>What is asymmetric warfare
>There will never be an enemy that can challenge our air superiority
>Russia doesn't have superior artillery by literally miles

Yeah, and WWII will be over by christmas.

Why is everyone here of the opinion that leaving the military = ruining you life?

Did I walk into a fucking recruitment centre or something?

Seriously, how a 20 year old changing careers "ruining his life"?

>>31219345
>Any words that might help my regret? Did I do the right thing?

Just think about what you've done. Resigning a commission because a fourteen year old on a website told you that you were fighting for Zion.

It's possibly the most laughable thing I've ever heard of.

>>31219787
Look at the reason you left and ask yourself that again.

>>31219787
Where_the_fuck_do_you_think_you_are.gif

>And that night many Canadians drank their maple syrup with a smile, knowing they were a bit safer

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>>31219789
>he rejected a promotion because an antisocial, overweight high schooler told him what to do
I hope OP is just pretending to be retarded.

Wow OP, you're a fucking retard.

You deserve to feel bad about what you did because it was a very stupid thing to do.

>>31219707
Are you liberal by chance?

You keep appealing to popularity in your arguments.

>>31219828
Poe's law anon, though I can only hope he's pretending to be retarded too.

>>31219740
>I don't care what a civilian has to say about something they know nothing about

Maybe that should have been something to keep in mind the first time around, hm?

>>31219833
>>31219828
>>31219815
>>31219794
>>31219789

Every single person saying it was dumb hasn't given a single reason that it was dumb.

Do you guys think having a commission is like becoming a CEO or something? All it takes is a university degree and passing training, its not hard to become a commissioned officer.

So aside from leaving one career for another, what is OP missing out on other than getting shot at for politicians?

>>31219837
Oh are you trying to get personal now anon? Obviously the smart move is to not answer but I want to see where you take it. Go on, tell me how I avoided the question.

>>31219872

Thats not OP you spazz, stop thinking everyone who disagrees with you is OP

>>31219868
Go rationalize your poor decisions elsewhere anon. This is the last place you should look to find pity.

>>31219888
Delicious words in my mouth, feed me more bait.

>>31219889
>>31219894

This board needs IDs, I can't tell if this is just only salty guy who keeps replying to me so I can't just ignore him

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>>31219868
we're just pointing out the fact that he led his life around the advice of a vietnamese tunnel construction monthly magazine, not the fact that leaving the military is bad per se

>>31219787
/k/ is full of edgy teenagers who've never served in their life, but imagine themselves as hot shit. You don't get posts like this with 30-40 years.

t b h /k/ is the last place I'd go to any advice for military shit. I only come here to check out and discuss guns sometimes. Get anywhere close to political, scientific, or technical that requires an IQ over 70 to reply to and you'd literally be better off asking /v/.

>>31219900
That would ruin the whole point of anonymity wouldn't it?

>>31219915
Well op obviously tried it once before so why should you care anyway, it's was his dumb decision too.

>>31219901
This, I mean Jesus isn't it plastered on this site that you shouldn't take any kind of advice from here?

>>31219916
Not really, it mostly just exposes shitposters.

It'd ruin anonymity if it makes people actually think twice about what they're going to post.

>>31219937
4chan can give good or bad advice, depending on who you talk to.

The spergs in this thread so far, I definitely wouldn't take advice from. OP should try again when the kids have gone to bed.

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>>31219868
>Do you guys think having a commission is like becoming a CEO or something?
I don't see anybody saying that, but to reject a promotion in your job field because of the influence of a group of anonymous users on an anime image-board is a pretty fucking asinine reason.

>>31219901
>>31219937

>Saying I left because of advice from here

I never implied this. But people here in general seem to understand that the military is for killing, not for freedom etc.

>>31219950
>4chan can give good advice
Not for making career decisions obviously

>>31219868
>Every single person saying it was dumb hasn't given a single reason that it was dumb.

Damn, the fact that you can't see why in your own OP means you must be on the spectrum

>>31219951

See

>>31219954

>>31219951
Why?

Are people on anonymous anime image-boards incapable of giving good advice? Or better advice than normal-fags?

Why do you think your opinion is worth anything while simultaneously arguing that it isn't and you shouldn't be listened to?

Is it possible that you're actually kind of a complete retard who can't maintain any sort of consistency in his arguments and just resorts to ad hominems and other fallacies instead of reason or logic?

>>31219954
You'd have to be a special kind of simple to think you'd not be killing in the military, or believed Evey word your recruiter told you without question.

>>31219961
Leaving the military is a pretty good career decision desu

>>31219987
Mushi mushi

>>31219954
As soon as this line of thinking infects the military, you've got a group who won't mind performing coup d'etats, acting as mercenaries, or in general, fucking over the country.

Please stay in your post-soviet shithole.

>>31220002

Lol I'm Canadian you fool

>>31219974
It's less his advice meaning anymore and just the absurdity of this entire situation and the damage control that is occurring. Not that other guy, just my worthless opinion.

>>31220017
Please emigrate to a post-soviet shithole and never come anywhere near my borders ever again you fucking commie.

>>31220017
Post colonial shit hole?

>>31220029

No

Actually since I am no longer committed to living here, I might move to the US and become a citizen

>>31220061
Ew no we don't want your non commital ass here.

>>31219974
>Are people on anonymous anime image-boards incapable of giving good advice? Or better advice than normal-fags?
Never said that it was impossible to find good advice here. But if you resort to making a big decision while looking entirely at one perspective, then maybe you need to reconsider
your options.

>Why do you think your opinion is worth anything while simultaneously arguing that it isn't and you shouldn't be listened to?
Because what I gave was an opinion, and not advice, which are two different things.

>Is it possible that you're actually kind of a complete retard who can't maintain any sort of consistency in his arguments and just resorts to ad hominems and other fallacies instead of reason or logic?

>uses ad hom to make the point that I use ad homs
hahahahaha

>>31220080

L I T E R A L L Y Nothing you can do about it

>>31219425
Jesus Christ, in fairness, when you join the military, you are signing up to a potentially DANGEROUS job, because, they pay you to do service for the country, and if that means to go shoot, and/or get shot, in return for that pay, so be it, as you are expected to do so. So if YOU don't like it, leave, you shouldn't be there in the first place taking the job from someone who may be committed and actually enjoy it, if those around you don't like it and call you a pawn, fuck them, I'd rather be a pawn than the board, personally.

>>31220099
Well at least you'll fit in in commiefornia

>>31220111
But anon muh puppet masters and cloak and dagger!

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>Yfw not as gullible as Op

I mean military life is literal cuckoldry but at least it's a career

>>31219345

>>But there is nothing more cucked than getting paid ~$100 a day to go be a bullet sponge for someone else's phoney military conflict.

Oh, boo hoo, cry me a river. You;re a soldier, getting shot at is an occupational hazard.

Or rather, it was. Because you've thrown away an enjoyable career for no reason other than some regressive delayed teenage angst that nothing, like, matters, man.

What an utter waste.

>>31220277
It's been said before but the Canadian army is better without him, given how he makes life choices.

>>31220277

So... why would I want to maintain a career where getting killed is an occupational hazard?

>>31220305
Because you enjoy it faggot, if not, kindly fuck off.

>>31220305
A better question is why were you stupid enough to join an organization well know for death being an occupational hazard if it's such an issue.

>>31220305

And he could get hit by a bus crossing the street on the way to the concrete tower where he's going to be spending the next 40 years of mindless drudgery hitting buttons on a keyboard.

>>31219345

OP, maybe go and say you made a mistake and ask if they'll you back.

It;s probably too late and you've probably fucked it up for good, but you may as well try, the worst they can do is say no and it won't be any worse than what you've already done to yourself.

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>>31219345
>Leaving a career you legitimately enjoyed (and only like 1% of the population actually ends up doing something they love for a living) because of what someone on /k/ said

>>31220326
>>31220321
>>31220317
>Literally no arguments

OP, you're dealing with a bunch of kids. Try a board with some posters who have a modicum of intelligence about them, like /b/.

>>31220576
Stop trying to save face, it's getting sad.

>>31220576
There is a clear argument, here.

IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO DIE OR GET SHOT AT, DO NOT JOIN THE FUCKING MILITARY, AND CRY THAT YOU DON'T LIKE THE LEADERSHIP OR DON'T WANT TO DIE, YOU COCKSUCKER.

>>31220627
That's not an argument m8

He asked why you'd want to sign up for that in the first place, and all you've said, like the retard you are, is "DON'T DO IT IF YOU DON'T WANNA DIE". Your IQ is so low I doubt you can even figure out why or how that isn't even an appropriate response to the question.

>>31220590
Look in the mirror.

>>31220681
All I see is ugly in the mirror anon, but no [spoiler]arguements[spoiler], also please, be more condescending while throwing personal insults everywhere.

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>>31219345

>>But there is nothing more cucked than getting paid ~$100 a day to go be a bullet sponge for someone else's phoney military conflict.

See this image, OP? It's the world's tiniest violin, playing the world's saddest song, just for you.

So you're angsting over being a "pawn". Congratulations, pointdexter, welcome to the Eighth Grade. So, what else are you going to do? Join a company and be a wage slave for Corporate America instead? It won't be any different after the socialist revolution, either, as you just replace CEOs with Party Secretaries and they're just as selfish and stupid.

Listen, dipshit, take another redpill - growing up is learning to accommodate the world's systems and developing the ingenuity and moral fibre nonetheless flourish within them. All you have done is proven that you;re still a retarded kid.

If you want to get out of the rat race, hike off and vanish into the wilderness forests of Alberta then you will have all the freedom you desire. You will do a great service to society when people come to behold your frozen corpse and understand what happens when people make poor life choices like you.

>>31220681
>He asked why you'd want to sign up for that in the first place

Why would someone want to sign up to a mindless desk job and live a dull 9 to 5 life for 40+ years and then die of old age in a hospital shitting yourself regretting the fact that you never did anything that stood out in your life.

Why would anyone sign up for a job where you are knee deep in shit cleaning sewers all day for minimum wage.

Its simple really, we all have preferences, If I like being outdoors, enjoy fitness, and have in interest in military things in general, then yes, why the fuck would I not join the military?

If I like living a boring ass 9 - 5 hour life then why the fuck would I not do that?

>>31220749
this

>>31220793
>>31220749
Neither of you have yet presented an actual argument to the question

You keep dodging around it like jews.

>>31219648
>Do you know what a fucking artillery barrage looks like? Anyone getting caught in it is toast from overpressure alone, from private to general.
Actually, I happen to be an expert on this subject by virtue of my trade. Blast isn't terribly likely to kill you in an artillery barrage though it IS possible--it's just far, far more likely that you'd die due to fragmentation.

>>31220879
>Its simple really, we all have preferences, If I like being outdoors, enjoy fitness, and have in interest in military things in general, then yes, why the fuck would I not join the military?

yes he did

OP you did the right thing. I am in the same situation and I did it because the military doesn't pay enough for:
-the possibility to get shot at
-having to move every two years
-all the other bullshit they throw your way.

More money and more freedom as a civie with a decent degree. I joined to become an ATC not to get pushed into some dull and underpaid desk jockey job because I get hey fever once every four years.

>>31220879
>Jews
Why are you trying so hard to piss everyone else?