You will never be an operator

>>32107046
I don't want to be

It's overrated

>>32107046
>he's shooting our ammo and taking our time

more like shooting the US taxpayer's ammo and taking the US taxpayer's time

Sometimes I think about it and feel kinda sad.

Then I remember that i'm a faggot that cannot even do 50 push ups, so there's no regrets to have about something I couldn't do anyway.

>>32109479
You appear to be operating off the arcane ideals of US government. For the last hundred years it goes like this; you work for them, not the other way around.

>>32107046
18x isn't an operator, just a candidate.

Yes it sucks not being an 18e anymore. Oh wait, their is still the retirement check, comraderie, working for a defense contractor......it's not too bad retiring from that world.

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>>32107046
I don't wanna be the MAN'S DOG, MAN

I WANNA BE MY OWN DOG, MAN

I WANNA BE THE PEOPLE'S DOG, MAN

>>32107046
i get sad, but then i think that one day i might still be able to serve my country in a buisness role. as in designing, testing and manufatoring the best weapons for the u.s military i can. if i cant be a soldier, then im going to make sure people that become soldiers get the best equitment out there.

Why are rich people so miserable/

I mean, god damn nigga, just make your own seal team. You can afford it.

>>32107046
I would mind being any of those, but i dont want to be killed by some brown guy over a piece of dirt that another brown guy wants.

In my opinion the borders of the middle east should be treated like the 38th parallel.

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Well, either way im going for it,if it doesnt work out i could always just be turn into this guy

i just hold out hope for another american civil war or an american invasion. Appalachian armed resistance here.

I've got a friend who was an 18D.
He got TBI, and I've seen it's effects. He ended up in prison for a bit. He's got a few loose screws under it all, and sometimes when I get him drunk enough, he'll vent out some gnarly stories.


I had my ranger contract dropped at MEPS a few years back, and after becoming really close with some vets, I'm not too fucked up about not going in.
I'm now about to become a commercial diver instead. I'm proud of having to bust my ass on my own to get to where I am. Would've been a lot easier with a GI Bill though.

>>32107046
>not pissing my time away working for politicians

oh god, how can i live

>>32109935
You will soon figure out that in modern society you will always be working for a whole mess of people and groups pulling strings behind you.

You can't stop it, and it isn't some illuminati conspiracy. Everyone has their own agenda and ambitions. And the absolute mess of decisions by the powerful can determine a lot.


However doing you, and willingly doing something to get what you want is the only way to thrive in life if you have any ambitions. How else would you do such a job?

Then again you can always smoke weed everyday, be a hedonist, cloud your logic, and die on your deathbed regretting your lack of achievements.

>>32107046
Im sorry man but the reason I had no interest in operating is that thise guys are constanly deployed to shitholes. Years of your life will be spent in some third would cesspool, waiting for something to happen. No thanks. Going on deploymet with a regular unit is bad enough. With special operations you spend far more time away than home. Not worth it to impress 10 year old boys and man children, the women you get for being a high speed sneaky pete, will just end up fucking a mechanic who is actually around while you are on your third tour in sudan.

As sick at I imagine it would be to have their skillsets I don't think the risk of death or dismemberment, in addition to degraded mental health and the seeming certainty of knees that've blown out like a truck tire, is worth it.

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>>32110158
>knees that've blown out like a truck tire

>>32110118
Except SOF get taken care of, unlike big Army/mil, and deployments are actually short...so...

>>32110158
I've jumped 35+ times and my knees are fine. I also squat almost 5 plates.

The reality is 3 things:
-some people have unfortunate accidents
-some people have awful genes physically
-some people don't take care of themselves and don't have proper form or don't PLF well

>>32107046
i got an 86 on my asvab and am swearing in next week. should i enlist as an 18x?

>>32109985

Here's the thing, I know who I work for because the management chain is clear and the board of directors is public knowledge. I know my work doesn't involve doing the dirty work of the worst people on the planet. I know my achievements will actually help science and in turn help people instead of objectively making the world a worse place for the benefit of the establishment elite. Plus I get paid more doing it than just about everyone in the military.

On the flip side, the US military serves the whims of politicians and no amount of sophistry changes that fact.

>>32110330
You cant unless you have a gt score of 110. With an asvab of 86, that's not likely.

Try 11x opt 40

>>32110357
And which corporation funds your research anon?

>>32110447

Ourselves? We pull $50 billion a year in revenue.

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>>32107046
>How do you cope, /k/?

By telling myself I was never fit to being one. I don't have the "personality" to be a SEAL or whatever. Those SOF type people have a mindset that if they have to get shit done, they get it done ASAP no questions asked without someone having to prod them to do it and that isn't me.

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I have so many allergies I can't even enlist to rake gravel.

>>32110461
Pfizer?

>>32110537
Fake it, they don't test for it. Stop making excuses man, it'll affect you the rest of your life.

>>32110477
Not true. Theres those types for sure. But I know a countless amount that were "I'm not sure."

There is nothing wrong with not being absolutely sure, as long as logic is involved. I knew going in I could fuck up or be fucked, and what do you know I got both. But I stuck to it and have never given up.

Don't let your dreams be dreams -Shia the messiah

>>32109985
>be a hedonist

If you go absolutely balls-out with it, that could be an achievement in of itself.

>>32110541

no, computers/semiconductors. but my current work has man bio-medical uses.

>>32110585
ABB?

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>mfw constantly exercising for the past few weeks
>my weakass limbs can barely handle it and it hurts like fuck
>plan on keeping it up until I can enlist next year

I'll do it, /k/. Believe in me

>>32107046
Don't really fuckin care honestly, I am confident enough with my familiarity in my weapons and skills to know I can still get some things accomplished. Being told what to do and trained by the big mean gubment doesn't impress me really.

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>did five years as a Corpsman
>did some greenside shit
>did some Middle East shit
>did some shipboard shit
>did some squadron shit

I pretty much covered all the bases I wanted to cover and then some. I had no desire then, nor do I now, to do SPECIAL OPZ SHIT.

I chatted with the EOD guys on the carriers but their career field never really piqued my interest.

Oh well. The GI Bill stays the same whether you were a Yeoman on shore duty for four years or a SEAL for twenty. Y'all niggas don't think long-term sometimes.

>>32107046
Being a Raider would have been cool, but that shit's not worth my physical health going away by 30.

18 series are not operators, they do have some teams that focus on DA, but the the operators that are manned by the army belong to CAG and jsoc.

>>32110293
>plf
Nobody plfs... the best way is to keep your legs together and knees bent and just go limp otherwise.

T11 don't even really slip, so it's pointless, front left front right rear left rear right...

>>32109935
I think it'd just be fun. You be surprised how many are like that in the community.

>>32112572
Like you'd know.

>>32112424
How do you Mean?

>>32112436
Somebody else wanna take this one?

I'm pretty tuckered out, and this just made me triple take.

>>32112582
OK.

>>32113092
Thanks for agreeing Tom Clancy.

>>32112572

Yes I am sure some people like the adrenaline. Obviously they are either blind or deliberately ignorant of the human cost of their endeavors.

"Just following orders" doesn't really cut the mustard any more especially with a non-conscript force.

>>32113098
No point in trying to prove anything, just gave an outlook on it.

Bitter skepticism is really not surprising.

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>>32107046
I dont want to be a career military man. I mean, I could have but after 4 years it just felt like I had had enough. Granted, I was only in the 82nd airborne, but the thought of another 4-20 years of military life wasnt for me. Like if I had done it I would have resented it
I play pretend operatah at my range and go hiking and innawoods on my own time which is more fun and I joined an LEO dep., looking at a spot in missing persons detective so I feel useful and operatuh in that way

>>32107046
Pretty comfy, if I passed I'd probably would stay in till either I died or killed myself after knowing too goddamn much and how we're making things worse. Then there's always today's ally is tomorrows enemy mentality eating at the back of your mind.

So I'll keep in shape, join the national guard, pay to train privately, stay in college, do a tour or two, help out of theirs a disaster, get a good job that I can still do when I'm old and live my life knowing while I'm not a tier one elite operator, I'll be well above average in everything else that matters.

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>>32107046
Y'know, I take solace in the fact that I'm not being sent to life-threatening situations to kill people, watch my friends get hurt/killed, and where I can never tell anyone about my exploits or my mental issues from said operations.

There is a reason why I appreciate our military volunteers.

>>32107046
why would i be an operator and a tool for some rich dudes i would rather be the rich dude who send these tools off to war

>want to enlist since high school
>7 years later have done nothing with my life
S-someday soon.. I'll enlist... y-you'll see!

>>32107046
You mentioned the MSRTs, but i haven't seen any information on the web about them. Does anyone have any? Where have they been deployed? When? What operations have they been a part of?

Signed, another highschool wannabe faggot

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>>32107046

I served my Country on 3 operational deployments as a REMF. I have nothing to "cope" with.

>>32107046

Well, I find solace in the fact that I'll likely never find myself bleeding out in some foreign hellhole, grasping a sucking chest wound or the stub of a limb that was blown off.

>>32107046
by being one of the best golfers who's ever lived and having millions of dollars.

>>32107046
Im trying SWAT then DEA RAID. Im in fucking amazing shape. Dont really care for jack of all trades SO groups rather specialize in urban and call it a day

Well, living in a third world shithole of a commonwealth that I have no financial way to get out, I might as well take advantage to leave this place. I don't care if I have to go to another third world shithole, living conditions about the same as here in the ELA with more activity than usual.If this mean fucking leaving this place, then take me with you and let me do my end of the deal so I can enjoy Wyoming.

>>32113539
How do you go about getting in shape

I have posted far too many ironic memes and gay furry porn on social media to be considered for Top Secret access, so I probably wouldn't get in in the first place. Maybe I can still be a Muhreen if I get fit.

>>32113670
You'd be surprised.

>>32107046
Well before I got cancer I wanted to join the military, but now after treatment and all I'm just glad to be fucking alive.

>>32113568
Stop being a lardass bitch.

>>32110384
>mfw took ASVAB while buzzed in high school, through the school
>completely out of it, didn't realize the test was that day
>score a 74 with GT score of exactly 110

It isn't impossible, anon.

>>32113568
Cardio and and basic upper body and core calisthenics will get you in enough shape.

Pretty simple. But obviously everyone doesn't do it.

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I'm a grill and i want to join SOF. Can I do it? I'm pretty fit and smart too.

>>32109597
MAN

>>32112604
It's not bait you faggot. SF primary role is as a force multiplier...but you know so much from video games and movies.

How do I cope? I'm in denial about it. I sincerely believe I'll somehow cure my disqualifying eye condition via therapy.

>>32113866
No you aren't, and no.

>>32113866
Probably not. But maybe.

>>32107046

I get sad but then remember I'm an autismal NEET who gets an adreneline rush when I go outside and people try to just talk to me so I conclude it's all for the best.

>>32113866
are you a tactical grill that can be quicly used to cooks some quick goat burgers in the field?

If not, they'll just stick with MREs.
George Foreman ass looking grills won't cut it in the field.

>>32112126
Never give up
Im counting on you
Which branch are you enlisting? SF??

>>32107046
Well, I worked and went on missions with them in Afghanistan (I was a terp). 95% of their job is boring bullshit.

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If I'm a chronically bored psychopath, what would be the most exciting SOF to join? Tired of living this monotony.

>>32114279
Cartel hitman.

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>>32107046
I jack off to big ass latinas and tell myself i like the cartilage in my knees, hips and ankles. Also not having my family wail over my coffin when i get 360noscopedinrl because I wanted to go fast and blow stuff up is a factor.

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>>32114304
Yeah, but I need experience as a professional killer first and I figure SOF is probably the best way to get that.

>>32112126
If I can beat asthma enough to be a regular Joe Navy, then the sky's the limit. Believe in me who believes in you

Because my job is at least equally important to our national security, pays better, and doesn't wreck my body.

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>>32107046
>wanting to sell yourself into indentured servitude and be the ultimate house nigger for the ZOG

>>32116033
>Mom, I posted it again!

>>32116033
Owthedge.jpg.

>>32112126
A guy who could literally not do 1 single pushup got passed through Navy bootcamp.

Quit being a bitch.

>>32107046
It used to upset me but then I became a regular grunt and found out its basically the same shit but ramped up to 11. It sounds cool when talk about the long range recon patrol you did or clearing an entire compound with five men but when your actually living it then it's not as fun. I still daydream about operating but know that at least for me, now a days I'm happier just shooting at targets that don't shoot back.

>>32113120
I see your 82nd and raise you 10th mountain. Fort drum is hell just kill me now senpai

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>>32107046
I play airsoft and pretend I am.

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>>32107046
>Knowing you'll never be
I don't know this feel.

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>>32112455
>Nobody plfs
That's just like your opinion man.

>T11
SF-10

>>32116322
I really considered 10th mountain. I also looked at intelligence but at the end of the day I wanted to say I was a paratrooper
totally worth it