I'm a new ROTC Cadet and I just had a conversation with

You're probably fine he knows you're new. as long as you start to develop your military Bering and stop saying yep yeah and shit like that you'll be fine
>be me 1st week of basic
>ds yelling at me in dfac Infront of everyone for some dumb shit
>yells "YOU UNDERSTAND ME"
>reply with "yeah"
>Endure the ass whooping afterwards
>never do it again
>officers

>>35040950
You will learn in time young cadot

>>35040950
He knows you are knew. He is there to teach and guide you, to hone you into a better cadet. Someone has to correct you on that stuff and it is better to be him, casually in conversation, than some instructor when you get carted off for field training.

You are only a week in, expect stuff like that.

>nice to know that I am not the only /k/ommando on the officers path

Why can't you say yep or yeah? Man military loves stupid shut huh

>>35040950
As long as you unfuck yourself for good, you should be fine.

>>35040950
>saying yep
>to anyone of seniority
>ever
Jesus H. Fuck kid.

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>>35041054
Damn right they do. You represent the fucking USA, you speak act and operate entirely as if you are above being human. You are there to be a shining example of what the free western world looks like.

>I know this is totally untrue, but this is what they think, or at least thought at one point in our history, barely anything has changed for the conduct of military personnel since WWI

>>35041022
Holy shit dude I retroactively feel sorry for the beating you endured.

>>35041073
I know. I want to jump off a bridge. Part of it was I was coming down stairs we bumped into each other coming around a corner. It started with me saying "good morning sir" at 1 pm and it was downhill from there

To be honest Yep is much better for military use than Yes.
Any word with an s in it really should be phased out of military parlance

>>35041175
That's where "roger" is used most of the time.

>>35041175
I thought it was only H's and R's that people had difficulty with?

>>35041144
Those times tend to be pretty funny. The classy way of it is for them to give the same greeting to you, then correct themselves you both can look stupid and no one is totally embarrassed.

>>35041144
Ah, greeting-of-the-day mixups, classic.
>11:30
>Gunny walks past
>"good morning, Gunnery Sergeant"
>"it's afternoon, turd."
>look at my watch in confusion
>"I've eaten lunch, that makes it afternoon."

>>35041212
Lisps and such
Also it's a loud as fuck consonant, why do you think when people mimic the sound of whispering they often go "pss psst psssssst psss sss"

I Fucking hate you people so much.

I went to a military school that also had a junior college for kids doing ECP and shit. You're all fucking ugly, skinny, awkward, and annoying. I can't believe the overwhelming amount of guys that chose this path because they're quite obviously nerds and want to prove something. All you're doing is making our military weaker and uglier. Do us all a favor, put down the uniform you keep taking selfies in, stop talking about morning pt, and stay a civilian.

>>35040950
>boot camp
>first phase
>firewatch
>standing front post
>SDI on deck
>start reporting in
>swarm of DIs from another platoon join him
>oh.jpg
>had already said "GOOD MORNING SIR" at the report
>absolute gagglefuck of yelling from the large group
>"IT'S GOOD MORNING "GENTLEMEN"
>"LOOOUUUUDEERRRRRRR"
>"ADSJFDHJAJLSDHGFJA"
>apparently wasn't loud enough
>forehead slammed into the stacked foot lockers used as a desk
>sprung back up into the POA like a MARPAT colored boner and finished reporting the post
>was no longer fucked with by those DIs

It's too bad I was still a spaghetti-wrangling autist at that point because that led me to be a fuck-up on everything but shooting, field stuff and PT. Drill was my worst spot, and unfortunately most of Marine Corps boot camp is drill despite the commercials that try to make it seem all badass. Also, when I hit the fleet I accidentally called a gunny a staff sergeant and had to rewrite the rank structure a lot/sweep the area in my alphas until it was time for us to check into the company.

>>35041054
Yeah, the military is pretty autistic.

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>>35041240
Nah bitch, we need more Capt. America's in our ranks.

>>35041334
>>sprung back up into the POA like a MARPAT colored boner and finished reporting the post
Ahh MCRD, no place quite like it

>>35040950
You gonna b a butter bar for life m8.