Early Military discharge

>>33063623
Army resecist puke here, fractured my knees during bct but the process of getting back in seems to have a good chance of being in my favor but who knows, definitely going AD now.

>>33063645
Reservist* well shit I can't get anything right. But besides that I've seen people pinch nerves in their spine, multiple shattered pelvises, a few cases of cancer one of which were life ending, and a few people hook up in funny places.

>>33063623
Got caught with restricted drugs (nothing bad) while on tour kek, given my record i had the choice of being RTU'd and disciplined or RTU'd and "leave" early.

I didn't want to have to face the rest of my regiment after they came back from tour having been RTU'd and felt ashamed, so i asked to leave.

Twas a shit job and tour anyway, so fuck it.

>>33063645
Stay in as long as possible and of course retain HARD COPIES which you keep UPDATED of all your med records. Survive to twenty if possible, then retirement plus disability (likely 60-percent or higher) will make the last half/third of your life pleasantly job free. hadit.com and vawatchdog (Jim Strickland is a bro) are worth thorough study.

>>33063623
Failed my APFTs down at Benning. Want to try to join the Navy if they'll take me.

>>33063675
What MOS were you?

>>33063673
Do you want to go Active Duty?

>>33063721
Inb4 all the motivated boots and NCOs come yelling "You shitbag!"

>>33063727
Not US.

>>33063721
Thanks I'll keep this stuff in mind
>>33063744
Yes, I was more or less pressured into reserve to both meet a quota and by my parents since I was 17 at the time.

>>33063818
Ah I see. What country then?

>>33064009
UK famalam

Broke my ankle badly at NTC Great Lakes, was discharged after a month and a half in rehab.

Not fun.

>>33063623
I did a full 4 in the Marine Infantry and got out with fucked up knees, 50% deaf on my left side, chronic insomnia and PTSD.

But them sweet sweet college bennies almost make it worth being a 40 year old in a 25 year old body.

I would still be shoveling sawdust for $8.50 an hour at the saw mill if I hadnt joined up, probably have the same health issues except replace the ptsd and insomnia with suicidal drinking (drinking yourself to death and blowing your brains out or swalling a fistful of oxycontin is the local passtime in my small montana hometown.)

So I cant complain too much I guess, just gotta not drink or get too twitchy when im feeling jittery and im good. Sounds like it sucks to be you guys though.

You can get discharged for depression?!

>>33064171
Yes of course, you just say you've 'thought' about suicide and you'll be straight out.

>>33063723
Why wouldn't they take you?

>>33064166
Not for me. I'm not a poorfag so I'm about to finish medical school. Life is good.

>>33064171
The last thing the military wants is more fucking suicides. That's a PR nightmare and it's already pretty bad.

>>33064044
Noice m8

>>33064229
Its the golden ticket for the folks who cant cut it.

If you threaten to kill yerself you suddenly dont gotta do nothin except visit the base psych who fawns over you and wait for your command to adsep you out for failure to adapt or some shit.

Granted everyone will fucking hate you and you leave knowing that ypu couldnt cut it and had to weasel your way out, but its a way out for the guys who arent wanted and dont want to be there.

Everyone knows 95% of suicide claims are full of shit, but mobody wants somebody like that around so they just find a way to adsep em.

Real suicidial types are typically interrupted in the attempt, just straight kill themselves, or their buddies intervene. In THOSE cases folks help em out and make an intentional show of not destroying their careers, but thats pretty rare compared to the failures to adapt just using it as a tap-out.

>>33064435
You're saying it like it's a bad thing. Do you really want those people covering your six? You must be delusional if you want them to stay. I would rather have someone who wants to be there watching my back than someone who doesn't and is threatening suicide

>>33063623
I got separated at BMT due to depression and a brief suicidal thought. Long story, but I should've sorted out my issues before enlisting; I thought the military would give me self-confidence, but it just made me feel worse.

I got better, but there was no way they'd let me stay in. Oh well, I probably wouldn't have passed the final PT test anyway. I strained my leg, and that killed any attempt at running.

>>33064373
Had a buddy get a free ride to john hopkin's, guy was pretty smart and deserved it too, hes finishing up his residency as a surgeon right now. I wont lie that im jealous, but we all just make do with the hand were dealt.
Pissin and moaning about being poor wont make me rich, just gotta keep bustin my ass and be smart about it and I'll make it.


My goal currently is to make enough money to be able to buy a transferrable machinegun. That'll be my first success mark, and im not talking scrimp and save, im talking about having enough disposable income to do it and not lose my car or some shit.

>>33064520
Maybe under the Trump presidency, the Hughes amendment will be repealed. It'll make buying machine guns way easier.

>>33064475
I didnt say its a bad thing, perhaps I explained it wrong.

Its a way out, most people who use it aint really gonna off themselves but yes you are right. Nobody needs a team member like that either, so its a kind of unspoken rule that real suicidal types who dont want to go get help, the ones who just want out get put out.

Folks WILL look down on somebody for tapping out like that, but its the marine infantry, lotta agressive type A personalities (and just plain agressivley retarded assholes).

I wouldnt mind except I was known as the NCO who didnt care so my company always ended up putting me on suicide watch duty and adsep boot babysitting duty. I missed a lot of weekend libbo having to stand watch on a guy who clearly wasnt suicidal and just wanted out.

I honestly think our system is too archaic, there needs to be a way guys like that can just sign away thier benifits and leave.

I mean the "OH WOW, I WANNA BE DEAD" thing is already used as a back door way to do just that, might as well just have an official channel and free up resources to help the guys who actually need it.

>>33063623
Got 10 years and 2 months into my career before being medically retired.

Got my pancreas, a small chunk of my liver, a small chunk of my stomach, and a bunch of intestine shot out, yet most of my disability rating comes from systemic osteo-arthritis and DJD.

Took them 3.6 years of me being in Warrior Transition Battalion (rehab battalion) before they decided I was permafucked and retired me. During that time I had both knees replaced, 2 titanium rods put in my back after military doctors "missed" 7 compression fractures and 2 completely blown discs in my lower back that I'd been complaining about since jump school multiple times (they sent me to a civilian specialist for the arthritis and he went "hey you know your back's broken?").

Sooo...yeah. Since they can't argue any of it wasn't service connected I get 100% disability, CRSC, and 2 categories of "special compensation" since they managed to fuck up other parts of me through gross negligence/malpractice in attempts to fix me.

>>33064060
How the fuck did you manage that? I've been to GLNS and literally everything is paved or indoors and the squids don't do anything even halfway remotely elevated or strenuous.

>>33064272
Because he's an unsat piece of shit that's probably overweight that couldn't dig up enough intestinal fortitude to give basic training 100% of his effort?

>>33063623

Nope. 13 years and counting. I don't hold anything against people who get Burton and don't make it. Unless you're one of tools who won't shut up on Facebook and wears RUDY shirts. Then you need to drink bleach.

>>33064646
>he says in the "depression" thread

>>33063623
>sign 35n contract
>do all the shit for the clearance
>get in
>get along with most of the people in the platoon except some puerto rican faggot from Boston (but seriously fuck puerto ricans)
>double sprained ankles week 3 of bct
>cant run or walk fast until week 7
>miss my run time by like 30 seconds but pass push ups and sit ups
>lol cya

>>33064593
That's true, we don't need people like that one guy from saving Private Ryan. That's scene pisses me off every time even though it's fiction. The ones who get pissed off are the ones who aren't salty yet, especially boots. Most infantry guys I met were desperate to EAS. It seems like it's usually the boots filled with moto that get anrgy at someone for leaving their beloved Marine Corps.

>>33064632
Punishment runs!
Some fuck lost two rounds from the "Pistol, 9mm, wooden model" magazine.


Three hours of looking later? It was a miscount.


PUNISHMENT RUNS


Tripped on my own feet while exhausted and fell hard.

Crack.

>>33064695
They kicked you out over that? They must have been downsizing at the time. They usually give you 2-3 chances. Did you get a general discharge?

>>33063623
I had no problems with training, but I'm medically retiring now at about 3 years. It's what most people would consider comfy living but it's driving me fucking insane. I never thought I would get to the point where I would despise weekends, because now it's like every day is a weekend. Nothing gets done. I never thought I would be rationing out what little controlled substances I have left until the next time they will let me get more pills. All because I used too many to stop the pain, which was great while it lasted, but the pain always returns.

>>33064695
>Puerto Ricans in my OSUT class
>literally the only people to have and try to sell contraband.

>>33064719
This was like 3 years ago, my discharge was uncharacterized. I work in a family business I'll probably take over in the next few years anyway.

>>33064719
I joined in the height of the surge (2004), when they were giving waivers for speaking 0 english, having weapon/violent/drug related felonies, sub-20 ASVAB scores, etc.

They still dismissed people outright over relatively minor and quick to heal injuries in OSUT.

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>>33064746
Neat.

>>33064698
>falling from zero height
>broken ankle
Unless you're female, fat, or both I don't see how this is possible.

>>33064775
Pigeon bones. I weigh 125lbs and didn't drink my ovaltine for a few years.

Shit happens.

>>33064620
>Got my pancreas, a small chunk of my liver, a small chunk of my stomach, and a bunch of intestine shot out, yet most of my disability rating comes from systemic osteo-arthritis and DJD.
What was your MOS?

>>33064697
That, and the egotistical narcissists and assorted sadists who will jump on any excuse to belittle and haze somebody.

I was the boot-sitter because I was one of the few guys who never got NJP'd for hazing or caught fucking up.

I was a squad leader, I had terminal lance team leaders to do what hazing I needed done. Plus I stress the never got CAUGHT part, I was as much of a shithead as any other grunt, I just posessed enough foresight to ensure my escapades didnt make the Sgt. Major's blotter.

So command got it into their head that I was "responsible" and I became the suicide and broke dick sitter in the last 8 months or so that I was in. Guess there are worse duties to be assigned as you are getting ready to leave, but protecting broke-dicks and boots from sadistic SGTs and salty lances because I would be held responsible for whatever happened to em wasnt exactly a pleasant duty. I wont lie, I felt mostly contempt for my charges, but I never let it get in the way of doing my job, and I dont really express anything outwardly to people I dont know anyways so they probably thought I was really chill.

I wanted nothing more than to make the 18 year olf pfc who threatned sucide because the girl he dated for 3 months left him do push ups in mopp gear while I dumped bleach over his head and screamed at him, but I never acted on such urges during my career.

>>33064772
I was more surprised after being told it costs the government like 10 grand to do the investigation for a ts clearance.

>>33064646
>Because he's an unsat piece of shit that's probably overweight that couldn't dig up enough intestinal fortitude to give basic training 100% of his effort?
I was overweight at the time and went in way more out of shape than I should, but if you say I didn't give 100% your a fucking liar. I improved more than anyone in my entire company in OSUT but still wound up failing do to how unfit I started off in the first place.

>>33063623
The most vocal vets are disgruntled, and their attrition is never their fault. News flash: you let your buddies down.

>>33064790
19D

>>33064816
I had guys in my OSUT class that literally could not run from one end of a living room to the other without having a simultaneous heart attack and stroke at the start. Literally nobody failed their final PT test, though a couple of the widebodys got close on the run.

Kinda sounds like your DS's fucked you. Either recording incorrect results to intentionally fuck you specifically, or simply half-assing your training and fucking the whole platoon.

>>33064823
60% disabled/retired after 4 years and just finished my bachelor's degree.
Vocational rehabilitating through the VA is paying for graduate level education.

Purty sweet desu.
Hope you enjoy your life grunt life.

I'll be banging the college hoes while you bake in the desert

>>33064800
That bullet almost got the job done. You might have to assist with the deed now.

>>33063623
Coworker of mine completed his four year commitment and chose National Guard for two years of IRR to make six.
>gets out and to his NG unit
>they're a bunch of shit heads
>he has no confidence in the lot of them but puts up with it to get it done
>unit ordered to prepare for deployment
>he has no confidence in them
>decides he's not going back to the ME to die surrounded by a bunch of retarded NG
>petitions for transfer or anything he can to not deploy with them, exhausts most avenues he can think of
>gets denied
>decides to get baked on his way to his next weekend
>smokes pot throughout the weekend, reeks of the shit, gets 'caught' by multiple people
>nothing happens
>eventually has to turn himself in and convince someone to get him piss tested in order to make something happen
>they try to offer him to suspend punishment until after deployment, has to fight to get kicked out
Finally ended up with an OTH, gave up his GI Bill and shit to dodge that deployment and was putting himself through school instead, said he was just done with Army bullshit. Short, brick shithouse of a guy, was salty as fuck and funny as fuck. One of the couple people at that job who wasn't a complete shit.

>>33064859
We only had 1 DS for the majority of OSUT, 2 left to go to schools week 3 and didn't come back till week 12. My run was fine, I ran a 13:30. I only ever did 40 push-ups though.

>>33064800
Were you the suicide and broke dick sitter in Camp Pendleton in SOI?

>>33064882
Maybe I'm reading the chart incorrectly, but you're saying you get $1000 a month just by existing? What were the qualifiers for your disability rating?

>>33064927
Little more actually.

Had lots of issues, mostly broken bones and malpractice. They quitely let me go after I petitioned the IG to investigate how bad they fucked my shit up after surgery.

>>33064916
>1 DS
Jesus Christ. I had 4 full-time and another like, 7 junior ones (including a Corporal), that rotated in and out.

>>33064958
Damn. I've heard stories about vets milking the system for everything they can get but that sounds pretty shit. Does it affect your day-to-day life?

>>33064972
What base/company? Like I said earlier I just hope the Navy needs people now and will work with an ELS.

>>33064979
Yep. Don't wanna get into the details too much but they incorrectly "diagnosed" me when I went in for an initial broken bone type injury and then like 3 months after my shit hurting excruciatingly they did more tests and realized they didn't notice the big break. So they opted for casting at that point. It didn't do shit and then they went for surgery, which made it worse.

Mil doctors are garbage.

Got hit with a mortar 2011 in Afghanistan on my second tour, fucked up my back and now have TBI.

Got the help I needed and now I get back in injections.

August make 11 years I've been in.

>>33065022
I was also doing pt after the waiver they gave me expired, since nothing was found wrong.

>>33065014
Benning, C 5/15

>>33065070
D 1/50
Never heard much about you guys.

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I was in for 3 years in active 11b. I got a back injury, became depressed and gained 60 pounds. I was kicked out immediately. I should have swallowed a round because I can't live with the dishonor of being kicked out.

>>33065102
Don't be so hard on yourself.

>>33065082
We're in a weird spot of not infantry but still OSUT. Doesn't surprise me at all.

I've also heard 5/15's downsized a bunch, we were running 5 companies when I went through and supposedly they're having a hard time filling 2 each cycle.

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>>33065162
Whats worse is that none of my family or friends know. I hate talking about the army and my only release is you all.

>>33065102
Ensure you get your VA benefits sorted out.
You served AD and deserve it.

>>33065215
Becoming a fat body is a pretty BS way on getting put out

10 years in, really tempted to quit. Tired of having to reprove worth every duty station. I would really like some balance to my life.

Probably won't though now that we can retire at 15. I'm salty as all hell till then though..

>>33065022
>mil doctors are shit
THIIIISSSS
>take a couple rounds through the gut
>evac'd to Germany
>German doctors are weird as fuck but very very good
>spend 3 weeks in Germany, up and about, feeling pretty good, get transferred to Walter Reed for rehabilitation, prognosis is RTD in 5 weeks
>get there, random-assed doctor decides I need more surgery despite absolutely zero fucking indication of needing more surgery
>oops, there goes your perfectly healthy gallbladder and another foot of small intestine. Oops, I left a sponge in, it'll dissolve in about 12 years if it doesn't encyst. Ooops, I used non-dissolving sutures on an interior stitch, guess you're stuck with those the rest of your life (unless you pull them and cause internal bleeding).
>sharing hospital room with a dude with FUCKING TUBERCULOSIS
>catch tuberculosis, nearly kills me because I can't sit up to drain the nastiness from my mouth and nobody answered the "emergency" call button for 7 hours straight
>nearly die a second time because nobody ever ever ever fucking checks on me and almost die of dehydration, IV bag is empty 90% of the time
>oh hey, post-op infection because we can't be bothered to wash fucking anything
>no it's not MRSA, we just gave you out of date antibiotics, that's why it's not going away
>sitting there with overflowing bedpan because NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THE CALL BUTTON EVER, literally covered in my own shit and piss because I literally can't move

>>33065215
Look, it doesn't matter what other people think. Who gives a shit? You did what you did, now you have to move on. It's not like you raped a toddler. All you did was get discharged. It's not that big of a deal.

>>33065259
It was my fault for becoming a fatbody. But still, with not even a negative counseling to my name, I was surprised they didn't even give me a chance.

>>33065327
Thanks man

>knee nearly explodes in week 10 of 12B OSUT
>stuck on profile for weeks
>Spend so much time feeling useless and shit that I lose my motivation
>end up failing APFT
>Discharge takes so long to process that I end up getting out on an Honorable Ch13
>5 Months as a holdover
Shit's fucking depressing.

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I'm in fueler ait right now, hate this fucking place. I enjoyed basic a lot, but this is a joke. I've only been in 5 months so I'm considering hunting that entry level separation and enlisting elsewhere 6 months later. But on the other hand I detest the idea of quitting. Someone help me

>>33065195
1/50 had 5 also. Somehow Delta wound up at the bottom of the hill surrounded by 1/46 companies. It was weird being infantry surrounded by pogs. It's fully my fault that I failed, it just sucks being yanked 3 days before graduation. If worst comes to worst I could probably get back in the army.

>>33065357
Stay in do 4 years and separate honorably.

You'll be swimming in the bennies, make sure to keep medical records for the VA after you discharge.

>>33065357
Are you black or Puerto Rican?

I've never met a fueler that wasn't one or the other. If there's a white person in a III/V platoon it's either an ammo guy or a truck driver.

>>33065357
Well, do you need to be in the military? Is that your only way for paying for college? If so, stay. Because if you get discharged it'll most likely be general or general OTH which means you probably won't be able to reenlist. If you don't have anything to lose, then go for it, be "depressed" or whatever and get out, it'll save you a few years of your life.

>>33065338
No problem, just know that your life is the one you should focus on. If one of your buddies thinks you're "bad", then fuck that guy.

>>33063623
they kicked me out when docs found my lungs are FUBAR (only work at 70% what should be normal) that sucked

>>33065505
What this guy said, just be careful there are a lot of stds out there.

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>>33065485
White as can be. I can't believe I let myself be tricked into this job. How long until I can drop a psyops packet or reclass to something actually soldierly?>>33065491
No, that's not an issue. My fiance just started a decently wellpaying job and doesn't understand why I wouldn't want to quit and be taken care of by her like some junkie rentboy. Sweet woman but no understanding of pride

>>33065611
>fiancee
>only in for FIVE fucking mon ths
>hates his job


Oh boy... you have a lot of shit ahead of you, better hope your fiancee isn't a 7/10 or greater.

>>33065611
>how long until I can drop a psyops packet
Generally whenever you make E4.
>or reclass
Unless you manage to snag a spot in and and get selected from RASP or SFAS, whenever you reup. So probably 4 years.

You might have opportunities to reclass to BEAR program/Gold Star MOS's earlier, but literally none of them are combat arms. There's a reason they're undermanned.

Also, your fiancee's taken at least 3 other dicks since you shipped.

>>33063723
What company and year?

>>33065727
D 1/50 2016

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>>33063623

>this fucking thread
and I thought I was a bitch for doing only my first contract, one deployment and getting 70% disability through the VA

>>33064912

What a fucking idiot

>>33065319
After an experience like this, I'd probably become a serial killer, or very very godly.

Two sides of the spectrum, which did you choose?

>>33065319

pussy

>>33065758
You are one for not reenlisting.

>>33065755
B 1/50 2016
I passed faggot

This is an interesting thread, but way too many acronyms for me to look up!

>>33065611
Fiancee is gonna realize she makes her own bread and you're a loser once a coworker pounds the puss just right. She'll be better off too.

>>33065818
lol you graduate April or May?

>>33065793
I'm really not mobile enough to get away with killing people, but I'm not particularly religious.

I guess I kinda fulfill both parts of it by being a hateful asshole to almost everybody.

It pays quite well though, just shy of $3600 a month, tax free.

>>33065818
Wait, did you guys have a platoon called punishers?

>>33065801
easy there sarge

>>33065801
>I actively produce a shitty work environment simply by being present

I wonder why people don't want to re-enlist.

>>33065865
Never have to work again in your life, but your body is fucked.
I know I wouldn't trade my physical well being & health for that amount monthly

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Did 2 years in cav, PSG hated me and falsified PT score with the 1SG and I just accepted it because I wanted to get the hell away from those retards. Honorable with full GI bill so whatever.

>>33066086
Why did he hate you?

>>33065979
Fuck no I wouldn't either, had I had a choice in it.

And, nah, still have to work. Tricare has a 10% copay and a $3000 catastrophic cap after which you still pay a 3% copay. I blow 20 grand on medical shit every year even after the VA, and most likely will for the rest of my life (assuming it doesn't go up).
>fetanyl be expensive yo
And no they don't give me enough to both take care of most of the pain and offset costs by selling it on the side.

what makes light infantry light? i remember before flaks became standard naval troops were considered light infantry.


last time i heard of heavy infantry was during 4id getting fucked over by turkey. but i thought they were mechnanized.


i wouldnt mind alice gear in those afghan mountains if i had the choice.

>>33066170
Light infantry has no vehicles.

Mechanized infantry has vehicles.

Heavy infantry is kind of an obsolete term now that BCT's have integrated no-bullshit armor into the organic force.

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>>33064800
>I wanted nothing more than to make the 18 year olf pfc who threatned sucide because the girl he dated for 3 months left him do push ups in mopp gear while I dumped bleach over his head and screamed at him, but I never acted on such urges during my career.
lol

>>33065848
August.
>>33065873
Yes, I believe that was 1st platoon, I was 4th platoon headhunters

>>33066127
No idea but he probably resented getting put in charge of rear D while everyone else deployed. I was intelligent and the only joe not getting an art. 15 or medical discharge.

>>33066186
i remember be amazed at regular army infantry seeing them all with a4s and acus, pretty cool to see before everyone got m4s.

>>33066205
Did you guys have the Gatorade machine in the CTA or was that Charlie?
I'm pretty sure I heard some of you guys were high stress. Delta was like no stress.

>>33066166
What is it with medical and not giving people enough medication?

I'm still in right now and they won't give me enough medication. I've got the strongest pain meds they'll give me, and they still aren't strong enough. Apparently they don't like it when people want their pain gone. Then they accuse you of being addicted to your meds. They could fix addiction problems if the Marine Corps didn't have a mandatory issue of debilitating illnesses.

>>33066219
>infantry
>A4's with ACU's
What podunk backwater NG base were you around?

I enlisted 2.5 years prior to the switch from BDU's to ACU's and fell in on an M4 that wasn't new, even our POGs had M4's by 2005.

>>33066166
You're medically retired from the military. You're VA healthcare should be entirely free, and tricare should cover what's not.

>>33066276
im not army. saw them in kuwait. guess they could have been ng/reserves but they had fancy gear so i assumed active. guess army is big money? getting free benchmade knives like cool?

>>33063623
Enlisted in the USAF along with my friend since Middle School. We managed to somehow get in the same flight together. Things were fine until the 2nd Week. He kind of broke down, clearly regretting being there. The next day, Sunday, I didn't see him in our dorm after coming back from church. Apparently, he threatened suicide, got sent to the hospital. Continuing training knowing that something like that was wrong with him didn't sit well with me. I got "depression" too, went to BAS, told them I had a suicidal dream. Worst decision of my life so far. The guys at medhold said I'd be able to enlist again in 6 months, but the RE code on my ELS states otherwise.

>>33066360
does a small part of you blame your friend?

>>33066376
I'm pretty sure if he wasn't in my flight, I would be stationed somwhere, guarding a gate. But ultimately, I'm the one who made the dumb decision.

>>33066288
Treatment through the VAMC is covered 100%. Medications that can be provided on-site at the VAMC is covered 100%, but they only carry generics and if you're prescribed a non-generic you are required to get it via Express Scripts (tricare), which charges you the copay. VAMC's do not handle a lot of medical conditions, either due to patient load or lack of equipment/staff, and outsource, which they cover partially.

Any treatment done at an outpatient clinic outside of the VAMC, even those run by the VA (such as PTSD clinics and seminars, physical therapy, etc) is only partially covered under the VA and goes against your insurance. There's a lot of shit Tricare either doesn't cover at all (chiropracty, accupuncture/accupressure, anything dealing with reproductive health/ED that isn't pill-form birth control, even when prescribed by a doctor in the Tricare/VA network), or requires special permission (which takes months to get) to cover, and then they do so at a reduced rate (75% instead of 90%). Any care outside of your "home area" (medical emergencies while travelling) are covered at a significantly reduced rate, and this rate varies, because you always had the "option" of refusing treatment until you could get back to the VA at which you're a registered patient and Tricare is always secondary payer. Medical treatment outside of CONUS is NEVER covered, even if it's a territorial VA like in Puerto Rico or Guam, or anywhere in Alaska if you're not an Alaskan resident. Ambulance service is NEVER covered, even hospital-to-hospital transfers, in which you get no say, and those can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

If I make it to 65 I automatically get disenrolled from Tricare and get enrolled in Tricare For Life, which pays even less, and ONLY covers things Medicare doesn't (and is officially a Medicare Part B/part D supplemental insurance). Neither TfL nor Medicare cover name-brand drugs at all, I'd be forced to buy a THIRD insurance plan that does.

>>33064171
yea developed depression while i was in japan. Shit sucks and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Doc got me out for failure to adjust. Pretty sure my ship was fucking cursed. I left for depression and so did 2 other guys I knew. We had an attempted suicide during Insurv, A miscarriage, an actual suicide right before i left, and to top it off they fucking ran aground.

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>>33066429
found ur boat

>>33066409
You could always at least ask recruiters from other branches if you could sign with them; I'm USAF, about to get medboarded, and have already talked to Navy recruiters who want me if I end up getting sepped.

>>33066429
Its called the curse of shitty commanders.

>>33066303
>guess army is big money?
Depends entirely on the time period. If it was Kuwait they just picked up a bunch of new shinies via RFI.
>getting free benchmades
well fuck, I was in a HSLD unit and the only cutting implements I got were chinkshit seatbelt cutters and Gerber multitools. I never once got an actual knife, including never actually being issued a bayonet.

>>33066360
>1 suicidal dream

I'm sometimes amazed at the differences between different branches. I would say I think about death every other day with multiple nightmares a week. Nightmares where I wake completely soaked in sweat. Weekends are usually the worst time for me, because I'm not going to spend a ridiculous amount of money just so I can go do something.

I'm still in for now. Such is the life of a Muhreen.

We had a guy hang himself from a tall tree overhanging the only road that led to our hangar.

>>33066453
yea CO was a dick. Was best buds with the CNO cause they went to the academy together. Dude shit on all of us and pushed us just so he could get his shiny promotion to 1 star and go suck the cno's dick in dc.

>>33066458
weird to see from greenside. some army cat gave me a benchmade said he was issued 3 of them to keep.

>>33066466
>>>33066360
>>1 suicidal dream
>I'm sometimes amazed at the differences between different branches. I would say I think about death every other day with multiple nightmares a week. Nightmares where I wake completely soaked in sweat. Weekends are usually the worst time for me, because I'm not going to spend a ridiculous amount of money just so I can go do something.
>I'm still in for now. Such is the life of a Muhreen.
>We had a guy hang himself from a tall tree overhanging the only road that led to our hangar.
kek

some pogs in french creek got in a fight, hit him with an entrenching tool and left him to rot.

>>33066443
kek

>>33066452
I haven't had a serious discussion with them. I had a short conversation with a Marine recruiter I know, told him what was up. He told me that it shouldn't be too much of a problem later on, even if I wanted to go into ROTC.

>>33066518
*one of the pogs hit the other with the etool

>>33066518
did he died?

>>33066549
no that was the crazy part he just rotted

>>33066566
How did he get necrotizing fasciitis?

>>33066549
yea. crazy stuff. ran by that green area all the time. think its in marine times

>>33066600
who said anything about him being a fascist?

>>33066499
RFI changed constantly.

I got some cool/expensive shit in some of them, and total duds in others. I think between 3 deployments I went through RFI like 11x. Other than updates to mandatory gear (swapping SAPIs for ESAPIs, swapping ACH for MICH2002, swapping woodland gear for multicam gear) with follow-on turnin of old shit, I think I used like maybe 6 items total.
>Gerber EOD multitool (got like 3 of them, used one the entire time I was in, other two got pawned because the first never broke)
>Oakley ballistic glasses system with interchangeable lenses
>some HSLD mag pouches that weren't part of the basic MOLLE2 kit
>some HSLD knee pads that weren't the huge bulky CIF bullshit ones
>a Therm-a-Rest sleeping pad (had to turn this in as it was a cold-weather-specific issuance for Afghanistan)
and I'm sure there's a 6th but I can't come up with it. 99% of my RFI issue shit either immediately got pawned or sat unused in a duffel on the floor of my closet. Huge waste of money that bullshit is.

>>33066638
He is a muhreen, isn't he?

>>33064723
Hey buddy. I don't know you. But I love you. Everything will be okay in the end. Always strive to be the person you want.

>>33066263
> Gatorade machines in the CTA

I remember seeing those everywhere
Such a fucking tease

>>33066787
You guys never met pizza Jim, did you?


Seriously though, do they at least let pogs use the machines?

>>33066707
Thanks I guess. I know everything will be ok. Things get quite repetitive when you're a drug addict stuck on active duty.

>>33066495
We had a BC who was a ribbon chaser. He sent us in places with no intel, and no defined reason to be there just so he could show up in a helicopter, walk around for a few minutes, then claim hed participated in ground combat operations.

Had guys die and lose limbs on missions that really served no purpose. Then get this, this fucker gets caught trying to steal the battalion standard after command changeover.

He said he thought it ought to belong to him.

All our lives were worth to that cunt was a bronze star. It was amazing, we got a new BC who was legit as fuck and ALL libbo incidents and fuckery ceased.

A good commander is a blessing to a unit, a bad commander is a curse. If shit sucks on the bottom, its because somebody is fucked up at the top.

>>33064723
Where you live anon? Maybe another anon lives nearby and yall can pal around.

I aint gonna try to say I got it bad as you, but I definiteley got the civ div blues after the excitement of EAS wore off.

Life turned into a grind and I had nobody in my area to talk to or hang out with, and going out and doing stuff quit being fun because whats the point, im just gonna go to the range alone and be depressed while shooting, I can just stay home and feel like shit.

I sold a rifle to a guy on armslist, turned out to be a /k/ommando, we go shooting every sunday now. Gives me something to do that isnt barricading myself in my apartment.

>>33066939
I'm just waiting to get out. I'm on an isolated base now with 1 of every clothing item because they sent all my stuff to my HoR when I got medevaced from overseas. I'll be fine when I get out so I can be productive and be with my doggo.

Yep. 2000, Army, Ft. Benning's School for Boys. ELS'd.

>>33067117
I see. them remote bases fuckin suck. I was in 29 palms, place is a geographical wonder, its somehow 200 miles away from everything.

>>33067358
All I need is for the paper pushing bureaucrats to hurry up and sign my papers.

>>33067358
lololol.

I spent TWO YEARS on Ft. McCoy. The closest actual town is Eau Claire, which is only ~70k people, and it's still 2.5 hours away. Everything else is little dont-blink farm burbs of <1k people.

Ft. McCoy has a permanent population of ~2000 people, 1700 of which are soldiers, and 1650 of those seem to be MP's.

Also it's a dry base with an enforced curfew of 2100hrs 7 days a week.

>>33067528
I should also mention the barracks I was in were built for WW1 and had zero climate control, 4 toilets for the entire building and a single gang shower (with, naturally, no hot water heater at all much less a working one), and sporadic electricity, there is no internet available anywhere on post with the exception of crappy wifi at the hotdog stand in the AAFES that's the size of a shoe box and the 2 houses reserved for field grade officers, there isn't a liquor store within an hour of post and the closest place that sells tobacco is a gas station 20 minutes outside the gate, and POV use is strictly prohibited on cantonment from 2100-0530 7 days a week.

Also, since it's a training base used almost exclusively for annual training for the reservists and nasty girls, expect to have unfamiliar people tromping all over 24/7.
>mfw I moved in and the duty NCO took a broom with him
>to evict the family of raccoons that'd eaten their way through the wall and were living in my room
On the plus side, I had an entire 8-man bay to myself

>>33067647
My barracks was shit, but not that shit. Our A/C pumped out hot air in the summer and cold air in the winter. You had to make daily sacrifices to the toxic mold hivemind growing in the bathroom in order for it to spare your life. Fucking insects everywhere. I did battle with multiple paper wasps many times after they swarmed me while I was sleeping. Also there were swarms of cats living in the woods behind the barracks which was kind of funny actually.

>>33066879
Holy shit what a fucking cunt. Only guys I ever trusted was the ones in my division, even my Divo cause he was the most upbeat dude ever and would put your needs in front of his.

>>33066939
I've been doing this, much as I feel I'm better off outside the navy, I miss it, or at least the camradire. Now that I'm out I'm working a slightly more than minimum wage job so I can pay off a credit card, aside from guns and video games, not to mention copious amounts of booze, I've got nothing. Still talk to friends back in japan but I've got nobody here to be friends with, shits lonely and it sucks

>>33068048
Find a /k/ommando.

As autistic as this board is all the ones I have met in person have been atleast tolerable dudes.

I mean I aint gonna lie, I miss the shit out of my old squad, and kinda feel like civvie friendships are kind of blunt and shallow in comparison, but its still important to socialize.

Otherwise youll just work, eat, sleep, and get drunk in an increasingky depressing cycle until you suck-start a .45

>>33068275
Any kommandos in the 814 area that want a friend?

>>33066418
I'm sorry to hear that man.
Let's hope Trump reforms the shit out of that garbage. Might wanna write a well worded letter to various congressman, white house correspondents explaining this.

>>33068483
My dad broke his spine in desert storm, needed an operation.

VA dragged their feet for 8 months, he wrote our senator, 3 weeks later he got a phone call from senator john tester, now hes getting in to see a specialist and get ready for his operation.

Granted its montana and a sentor only has 500,000 constituents so its easier here, but it cant hurt.

Currently getting fucked after completing my AIT course but I got injured early on. Been injured 4 months, on crutches for 3 months. When I originally got injured 2 weeks after my PSGs made me go on a ruck that I objected to, they said I'd get in trouble if I didn't. And the day I got crutches I got to crutch back 8 miles to the company. Army gave up on me, all I get is an honorable, my TS, and 6 months tricare

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>want to go into the military.
>choose the Navy.
>go reserves.
>great lakes goes okay until.
>don't graduate on time due to swimming but still make it through.
>do great in A school.
>go to the reserve center.
>It is absolutely SOUL CRUSHING how lazy people are in the reserves.
>fresh out of A school and not knowing any better I got lazy too.
>after a few years I get a deployment out to Afghanistan.
>really, really terrible at my job but didn't pull have the shit people around me did.
>make it through deployment with a promotion and lots of new medals.
>get back to the reserve center.
>anon you are an E-5 now, go lead this group of sailors.
>never lead anyone before in my life, too much responsibility, lots of home related stress post deployment.
>oh and I was working at an E-3 level during deployment, barely.

Couldn't handle it. So I just smoked a bowl and came in one weekend and popped.

If anyone on /k/ is thinking about joining the reserves just don't do it to yourself.

>>33064859
what scout group were you with?

>>33064916
scout school is a whole other animal compared to what i hear others went through with having to do bct and then ait.

>>33065082
scouts although we have existed since the beginning, damn near no one knows who we are...>>33065070
heard they moved scout school to benning,and all 5/15 is there now,kinda sucks not being at the knox,but i understand why they did it

>>33064723
I know how that feels man, not a milfag but I have had a shit form of leukemia twice now in the past year. Had to get a bone marrow transplant and have been stuck 4 hours from home for 6 months Just getting treatment and recovering. Days all blur togeather and lose meaning weekends mean nothing and in my case I cant even go out because my immune ststem is fucked. I have essentially been living the NEET life in a small apartment for 6 months. Painkillers also suck, only use them for the physical pain you have. It is tempting to use them to dull mental pain but dont, it leads you to a bad place, get yourself off of them as soon as the pain lessens enough to be off of them. Keep your head above the water anon it will eventually get better. We all have shit we are fighting personally everyday I think what I am going to do if my cancer comes back for a 3rd time. I still cant even begin to think about what I would do. Stay strong anon.

>>33068598
Why is the US military composed of retards with a "fight through the pain" mentality? The whole point of pain is that it means something is wrong and bad for your body and therefore you should stop but idiot higher ups seem to think its only smart to stop after someone is already needlessly hurt.

>>33064166
I match in everything, bar deafness. And I didn't even get to serve.
Tried to get into the British Army, got stopped because of my knees. Already had insomnia and PTSD from a lovely incident in the past. Didn't want to let that get in the way of my dream, but the knees did.

Fucking came off mountain biking and fucked 'em right up. Fucked my life plan up as well.

>>33069336
you should learn the difference between lactic acid, physical discomfort, and physical pain.

3 totally different things.

>>33069364
Oh I know them, you absolutely shouldn't let people pussy out, however my point is that most military officers seem to not be able to comprehend the difference between someone bitching and someone getting injured. In the last 24 hours I've probably read 20+ stories on here about the ways officers have fucked up soldiers by refusing to actually have a brain and just going "oorah fight through the pain".

>>33068755
I was an active duty STG, was ok at my job, enjoyed the fixing side of things but hated operating sonar cause I couldn't figure out jack shit. Everyone else in my division was pretty good at figuring out shit though. Got out as an E4 cause admin fucked my paperwork up when I went to mast.

>>33063623

Had a buddy who was discharged out due to his knees going. No hardcore war story or battle injury,,, just an accumulation of 20 years of knee injuries due to physical activity and wear and tear.

He basically was held together with tape and compression wraps. He ended up having arthroscopes and stuff. Eventually he was basically a high functioning cripple. He ended up almost immobile.

>>33063803
:-)

The smarter of those motards will do the same shit to claim what is rightfully theirs after they are worn out.

The silly ones will think Uncle Sugar will take care of them without them having to be actively engaged in providing information. Save your LES too because tho CZTE doesn't necessarily prove boots on ground it helps along with TDY orders. Save your ORIGINAL orders AND amendments!

I help older vets and one Nam vetbro has amendments but no hard copy orders so he can't prove boots on ground doing transient alert service on Ranch Hand birds. He's a sharp, career SMSgt but the recordkeeping was casual and of course his unit and their orderly room were inactivated decades ago.

WWII vets lost many of their records in the famous VA records fire. Shit happens.

Save your records, forever. Scan to the cloud, email them to multiple email addys and save messages on server, and otherwise have redundant backups.

Don't think I'm fucking exaggerating. You can, and I did, appeal your own disability rating. Fuck handing someone else POA when you can learn and do it yourself.

>>33065025
Middle career is usually boring and stressful. Only nine more until twenty. Do it, because it's worth it to be free for the rest of your life enjoying your EARNED DEFERRED COMPENSATION.

Retired pay buys G.I. service on credit. The early retirement relative to civilian life is because military life is hard on human bodies.

>>33065102
>I should have swallowed a round because I can't live with the dishonor of being kicked out

Bad perspective. Pull your head out of your ass and use what you earned to move forward with life. No one else cares you got separated. You don't leave a hole in the water when you get out of the bath tub.

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>medically retired at 100%
>trot out of the army getting 3k a month tax free

>>33065284
Quitting mid-career is insanely stupid. Relax, chill, play the system as designed. Ten flies by.

Tape a copy of the retirement and disability rate tables somewhere you'll see it often. Civilian life is not only capable of sucking, the benefits are terrible and one Recession can wipe your 401K the fuck out.

>>33065319
I'd be contacting my Congresscritter early on. That's heinous.

>>33065611
>Sweet woman but no understanding of pride

Pride is adorable but if you let it drive dumb career choices pride is stupid. Grow the fuck up, precious! If you permit teenboi butthurt to fuck your life up because "muh pride" you will fucking lose.

Finish school, learn how the military works IRL, then tweak your career as you gain experience navigating the system.

Think like a calm professional even when you don't want to.

>>33065801
>You are one for not reenlisting.

Motard detected. The fucking reason enlistment contracts end is to facilitate force shaping and permit those who have served the option to move on with life as they see fit. Assuming you make SNCO you may get a seat at manning meetings. They are educational.

There is no manning shortage, and if there were, everyone who leaves FREES A STRIPE FOR THE NEXT GUY so it's all win.

The system is not designed by accident. High attrition means there must be a reasonable way to process those damaged by (frequently stupid) training, combat, and accidents (which often kill more troops/year than combat) back into society.

>>33066288
>You're VA healthcare should be entirely free, and tricare should cover what's not.

HAHAHAHAHA! Nice dream.

>>33066360
Same shit for me too in the Marines, friend I enlisted with got "depression" 2nd week and left so I boomeranged to the medical rehab platoon to get out. Spent 3 months in training and 2 in medical rehab just because I didn't want to use the depression excuse.

Three years later I'm a paramedic and he's an unemployed addict

>>33068289
PA? I'm in 724

>>33066518
>Weekends are usually the worst time for me, because I'm not going to spend a ridiculous amount of money just so I can go do something.

Recreation is not ridiculous. Recalibrate somewhat for a better life because you are not currently getting optimal results. Try new things, then sort by results. Education can be a good distraction. Challenge and engage your mind.

>>33068578
Good advice. Too many G.I.s wait instead of aggressively engaging. Remember Congresscritters usually WANT to help vets.

>>33069336
US Army and Marine military culture doesn't differentiate between pain types and treats troops as if they are expendable, which they are. If you are smart, avoid those services. Someone else will happily take the manning slot you never occupied in the first place.

There is no culture of professionalism in most of most large armed forces. That's why the officer caste is supposed to exist, to supply leadership for mass levees of meatbags.

>>33063623
>broke hand In a really stupid accident
>stuck in IET for an additional 6 months because of how long it took to heal +recovery from surgeries I had to fix it.
>really low morale, have no intention of leaving though.
>finally out and at my unit having a relatively good time. No discharge.
It sucked getting back into shape for my PT test after coming off that dead man's profile. and I had to spend my recovery period babysitting some guy who tried to kill himself after getting convicted of sexual assault. (spoilers, he actually did assault someone)
PS: for anyone thinking about enlisting. don't be part of the suicide squad, everyone makes fun of them and for good reason. they are pussies.

>>33066263
Yeah we had a Gatorade machine. High stress what do you mean?

>>33070691
what is the suicide squad? A military nickname for people who kill themselves, or...?

>>33069382
This is true, especially in the infantry. There is definiteley an automatic perception that anyone who is injured or sick is faking it to get out of work.

So guys with torn rotator cuffs, slipped disks, or fucked knees get bullied into refusing medical treatment and end up permanantly crippled.

There is a weaponized strain of stupid that circulates amongst staff and O where they do everything they possibly can to be detrimental to their men's health and tell themselves its "good training."

Theres a difference between discomfort (good for training) and injury (bad for training.)

Ive seen DOZENS of very good motivated and hard charging marines careers get fucked because some gunny or LT calls him a pussy for asking for medical treatment and accuses him of malingering instead of just letting them go to fucking BAS.

>>33071091
Its a nickname for the medical, refusal to train, and psychological holding unit most training schools have.

By concentrating all the broken people into one company it creates an actually palpable miasma of depression and despair that quickly leeches the motivation from whoever gets sent there.

I would say about 40 to 50% of people who ended up in the holding company at SOI just give up from having to wait there pointlessly for 3 to 6 months surrounded by cripples and failures to adapt.

If you ever meet somebody who spent time in one and managed to cowboy up and complete their training and go on to have a good career it means they have some measure of will power and determination.

>>33064166
>>33069348
>PTSD
lmao didnt get your daily burger platter or what

>>33071221
37 gunfights, 3 trucks blown out from under me. Its actually kinda hard to tell if its psychological or nuerological since I had 3 TBI's and the symptoms for brain injury can mirror PTSD.

Was supposed to get an MRI, but they decided it was cheaper to declare me fit for duty and send me off into civvie life instead.

I cant afford an MRI and the VA will just shovel piles of opiates at me until im too stuped up to ask articulate questions.

I manage fine on my own for now.

>>33071279
nah you're just a queer cunt mate

>>33071283
So? Being queer is cool nowdays. Dont know if you got the memo but straight white conservatives are the new fags of the social pecking order.

Aircraft maintainer here.

Reading this thread made me feel better over just being fucked on pay and having a metric dickload of schooling to get through. At least i have a chance to make it out with my health and mind intact.

>>33071078
You never heard the rumors about the different stress levels? People argued about that shit all the time at Jew church.

>>33071078
>>33066263
>>33066205
>>33065848
>>33065818
>>33065755
I blew out my knees at B CO 1/50, graduation was in December 2016. I need to join again asap to redeem myself.

>>33071769
im convinced they are real. in my company at fort jackson we were never allowed to wear our cold weather gear, we had no tents at FTX, and instead of the one hour of personal time we had extra PT. after we met all of our graduation requirements the other companies had pizza parties while we did PT and watched them enjoy themselves. we froze our asses off at FTX 3 while the other companies had hot chocolate and tents. Shit one of our guys got hypothermia and went to the emergency room. We tried telling the other companies about it on family day and they didn't believe us. except for the pizza thing because they saw it.

>>33072023
People have tents at FTX? They don't at Benning.

>>33072044
jackson is a bizarre place. the rumors about it being relaxin jackson are mostly true. i found that really dissapointing desu.

>>33072023
My younger bro went there and told me a similar story. Told me other companies had breaks and phone calls home while his pretty much just slept outside all the time and wasnt allowed cold weather gear or shit like that.

>>33072069
I had literally the easiest infantry company I've ever seen and we still didn't have tents or phone calls.

>>33072178
pog life

>>33071367
>make it out with my health and mind intact

Not if you work with PD680 or any other chemicals, unless your branch actually allows you to use the right ppe.

>>33064044
greentext?

>Join Marines
>boot camp/MOS school goes fine
>get to unit
>fairly relaxed, lots of training but not too bad
>randomly develop sleep problems
>start to get more and more depressed
>suicidal, end up having multiple attempts and hospitalizations
>doctors are confused by the mix of symptoms and end up just diagnosing personality disorder and separating me
>Honorable, so go to school on GI bill
>Several years later finally get diagnosed with a dissociative disorder from repressed early childhood trauma

It's pretty shitty, but at least I got a degree out of it and 60% a month in disability.

>>33071221
>>33071283
ebin

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Tfw literally a fucking midget and made it through my grunt enlistment (somewhat) intact, I dont know how so many people bitch out or break in training.

i have sleep issues. nothing traumatic . wonder occasionally if its from basic programing or working on 3rd shift for half my enlistment. not navy so any navy bros with 24 hour duties or mps relate?

>>33073436
I assume 3rd shift is night shift? I was aircraft maintenance. Night shift was the best. You didn't have to deal with all the irritating higher-ups, if you finish all your work you just sit around playing games and sometimes leave early. We also had 24hr duty. My sleep problems didn't start until after I was taken off night shift, then they went away for 2 months. Now they are back.

You don't always get a early discharge for failure. Old unit member of mine was able to leave 2 years early after he got a contracting job doing the same thing but with a private contractor employed by the feds. He went from being a e-4 nobody to business meetings with Gen. Petraeus as a contractor.

>>33063721
Have fun doing 20 years of hard labor, with shit leadership and young retards to watch over.

Get pumped full of vaccines and given medicines from professionals who have no understanding of their effects.

Leave service with a disabled rating while your peers in your age group have lived a better life.

Fight the VA the rest of your life and likely die from some disease.

SOUNDS GREAT

p.s. retirement checks aren't shit.

After three years with three more to go in Aviation I said fuck it and got out. Failed two APFTs in a row in an air cav unit and went home.

>>33064620
You forgot to bend your knees?

>>33063623
Bloke I used to know got dropped from the top of the high ropes course in basic. Fucked his spine up. Last I heard he was getting the right royal fuck around towards a medical discharge until years later he showed up on one of those tv shows that go around remodeling peoples back yards.

>diagnosed with CF as a child
>when I was 17 I decided it was a good idea to mention this
>turned away and then do nothing for the past 8 years
>have no idea what most people are saying in this thread because crippled civilian
Did I fuck up back then or did I save myself? Would they have found out if I kept my mouth shut? I always wonder.

>>33075938
Beats the hell out of a 401k you can't touch until you're 60, wagecuck.

>>33064491
Medhold brother, which dorm were you? Dorm chief (formerly) of bravo 7 reporting in.

>>33078327
I don't remember the dorm. Bravo 7 sounds familiar, so that might've been it.

I just remember it was Popavich Flight.

>>33078405
Yup, you're one of my boys. I spent three weeks in that shit hole with the moldy bathrooms and the suicide cases. Bitched at every single day by MTIs who hate you simply for not cutting it. I got fucked over because of childhood tourretes I didn't know about, and somehow to them that was my fault.

>going to a special 'seperation platoon'
>not the brig
ah, the good ol' days

>>33078452
You were there longer than I was.

Some of the reasons they put people into separation were really stupid. A few had been there for a month (I think one guy was there even longer).

The people I met there weren't so bad. The problem with being in that dorm/flight is that there's nothing to do; nothing to do while you wait until they send you home.

>>33075938
Vaccines vaccinate you though, even a child knows this.

>>33064912
he deserves any hardship in his life he receives from making a shot decision.

Nastygirls is so easy, like holy shot just deploy, soak up cash, and almost half the time is up, what a fucking pussy.

>>33065319
holy shit, I would have just set the room on fire.

I'M FILLING AND ICE REPORT, FUCK THIS PLACE.

>>33065758
Kek are you me with 10% less and a deployment?

> tfw got suckered out of a deployment and most of my time was spent in korea...

>>33063623
>>33063645
I'm particularly interested to know the exact nature of your injuries, and how they occurred. Please share how you got hurt

>>33066086
HOLY FUCKING SHOT ARE YOU EVEN MORE ME?!?!?!

>4sec late on run
Dats a nogo priat.

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Did 5 years in the Marines, glad I didn't re-up but fuck all you pussy faggots in here. WTF did you think the military was going to be?

Also, all the advice about getting hard copies of you medical records is very true. They flat out lost all my shit, and I can't apply for disability (even though I wasnt going to anyways)

>just turned 29
>wasted my life bouncing between tech jobs
>always dreaming of enlisting
>in great shape physically
>must do something before i hit 30
>read this thread
damn some of these stories. super motivating

I broke my fractured my foot in AIT then kept running on it till I failed a PT test run by 30 seconds. Then all that running cause my knees to give out on me and they started a medboard on me when they told me rehabbing in AIT wasn't something they wanted to do or something I wanted to do. Being a holdover sucked and I was on the old Medboard system while people after me went through the new one and got out quick.