[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
I don’t know much about the US Forces, nor have I had a chance to interact with them, so I’ll take your word for it. This is what I was told by several members of the Canadian Forces.[/quote]
I know about as much about the Canadian military as you do ours. What I can guess, though, is the OP would probably get trained just as well and see plenty of action in your military as he would in ours.
If a guy in any military only did one thing, he wouldn’t last long. Discriminated against? No. Unless you were a real turd. Would American soldiers give you lots of shit, a lot of the jokes being some variation of moose-fucking or playing hockey, and ending every sentence with Eh? Of course. It’s just what we do.
sjoconn- Yeah, looking forward to it. You got post-Army plans yet? I’m planning to contract for a few years, then go to PA school.
Army and Marines are getting hit the hardest with cutbacks, as per my 2 USN recruiters words. I had 1 friend in college drop out, join the Marines and they took care of all his paperwork and granted him citizenship from Burma to the U.S. Another friend of mine served in Iraq (1st Infantry) and had 1 of the Haitians in his unit get called down to Baghdad for a day where the State Dept. granted him his citizenship. The Navy only accepts U.S. citizens. I’ve got to see the recruiter tomorrow so he can schedule my final MEPS trip and tape measure me. Got a random call today from the Officer Recruiting and he told me nothing new at all: wait 24 months after enlisting to apply for OCS (and likely get rejected). It’s looking like I should do 1 tour and get out or do a tour and switch to USN or USCG reserves.
Whoever said you’d see lots of action as a city cop is NOT kidding. That’s what I did in a city of 2 million down south. Basic training was 24 weeks and run by retired gunnery sergeants, an air force candyass and a gay female. After grad, it was busy for me, lots of arrests, building-clearing day and night, etc. Not to mention we had 30 officers killed in the line of duty and several more deaths weekly due to heart disease/heart attacks. A lot worse than overseas from what all the Marines were telling me. I could go corpsman fleet side or sit behind a desk from here on out.
[quote]boatguy wrote:
sjoconn- Yeah, looking forward to it. You got post-Army plans yet? I’m planning to contract for a few years, then go to PA school.[/quote]
I am looking at overseas retirement and short term contracts. I am trying to finish my degree now and not worry about it after I retire. I don’t want a full time job after I am out. I am hoping for steady employment for 6-8 weeks at a time a few times a year.
I had a friend of mine that was Canadian in our army. We gave him shit because he spoke French, but that’s about it. He was pretty damn solid to work with though.
How about the foreign legion? A lot less stipulations(relatively) from what I’ve read.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Calgary is known for it’s pancakes? I didn’t know that…[/quote]
No, but we are in the middle of the Calgary Stampede, which means there are lots of places and companies holding Stampede breakfasts, which tend to include a lot of pancakes.
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
How about the foreign legion? A lot less stipulations(relatively) from what I’ve read.[/quote]
This.
If you think you can handle the real thing, I would believe that the legion estrange may be more up your alley. To join you need no experience or prior military service, and if you’re a Canadian with French language skills your chances to get through the selection phases are pretty good. If you are not in A1 top physical condition (and you will take multiple piss-tests) don’t even consider applying.
You just need a passport, a ticket to France, about 2 weeks time to get through the pre-selection and selection testing, and a week more for the contract work and indoctrination. I would suggest to try the pre-selection center in Paris as it’s pretty close to the airport if you don’t succeed.
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
[quote]sjoconn wrote:
The U.S. military is cutting it’s forces by more than 80,000 people. Most of these are being put out, not getting out on their own accord. The budget is being cut to hell.
As far as getting to see action…the majority of U.S. forces will be out of Afghanistan in the next 18 months. I doubt you will be seeing any action.
Just something to consider if you are seriously looking at enlisting.
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Didnt hear about the US forces cutting people. I talked to an War Register/Deserter and got the idea that the US army would welcome a volunteer with open arms. I cant be alone in that thought. So far as there being no war to fight, are you that naive to believe there wont be another ‘conflict’ brewing up before long? The US cant stay out of a war! Look at the Spanish American war, the US was doing great, soda pop was invented, the economy took a dive so just for funsies the US decided to get involved in Cuban affairs (their battle ship that got blown up in the Philippines by the Spanish was a load of BS). Just an old example of when the US went to war when it wasnt necessary. So Surely the good folk here can agree that some country will do something ‘inhumane’ and require the US military to step in…sooner rather than later. Actually, its about time for another terrorist attack so since I figure its bound to happen lets at least hope that the terrorists hide out somewhere interesting where the military will have to go to flush them out. It would just suck if they got deployed in the arctic. [/quote]
Sooooo…
You hope to join the US military and that the US government finds some BS excuse to invade another small country so that you can shoot people and get shot at.
While I do prefer that to the “heroes, all of them” angle, or, worse, “fighting for your freedom”, you are clearly not entirely sane either.
Just an observation.
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
How about the foreign legion? A lot less stipulations(relatively) from what I’ve read.[/quote]
This.
If you think you can handle the real thing, I would believe that the legion estrange may be more up your alley. To join you need no experience or prior military service, and if you’re a Canadian with French language skills your chances to get through the selection phases are pretty good. If you are not in A1 top physical condition (and you will take multiple piss-tests) don’t even consider applying.
You just need a passport, a ticket to France, about 2 weeks time to get through the pre-selection and selection testing, and a week more for the contract work and indoctrination. I would suggest to try the pre-selection center in Paris as it’s pretty close to the airport if you don’t succeed.[/quote]
La legion estrange…
rofl…
No, those are the US forces.
La legion etrangere on the other hand…
Mwuhahahaha…
oh my, that has me in stitches.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
How about the foreign legion? A lot less stipulations(relatively) from what I’ve read.[/quote]
This.
If you think you can handle the real thing, I would believe that the legion estrange may be more up your alley. To join you need no experience or prior military service, and if you’re a Canadian with French language skills your chances to get through the selection phases are pretty good. If you are not in A1 top physical condition (and you will take multiple piss-tests) don’t even consider applying.
You just need a passport, a ticket to France, about 2 weeks time to get through the pre-selection and selection testing, and a week more for the contract work and indoctrination. I would suggest to try the pre-selection center in Paris as it’s pretty close to the airport if you don’t succeed.[/quote]
La legion estrange…
rofl…
No, those are the US forces.
La legion etrangere on the other hand…
Mwuhahahaha…
oh my, that has me in stitches. [/quote]
FWIW you forgot the “legion extranjera”, and if you want to write etrangere correctly, at least try putting an aigu over the e. 
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
How about the foreign legion? A lot less stipulations(relatively) from what I’ve read.[/quote]
This.
If you think you can handle the real thing, I would believe that the legion estrange may be more up your alley. To join you need no experience or prior military service, and if you’re a Canadian with French language skills your chances to get through the selection phases are pretty good. If you are not in A1 top physical condition (and you will take multiple piss-tests) don’t even consider applying.
You just need a passport, a ticket to France, about 2 weeks time to get through the pre-selection and selection testing, and a week more for the contract work and indoctrination. I would suggest to try the pre-selection center in Paris as it’s pretty close to the airport if you don’t succeed.[/quote]
La legion estrange…
rofl…
No, those are the US forces.
La legion etrangere on the other hand…
Mwuhahahaha…
oh my, that has me in stitches. [/quote]
FWIW you forgot the “legion extranjera”, and if you want to write etrangere correctly, at least try putting an aigu over the e. :)[/quote]
Ah, sorry, what had me in stitches was that if you could violate the word estranged into being a french adjective the legion estrange would either be the alienated legion or the alienating legion.
Both might be not that far off, but military brass like their euphemisms.
ist egal, wir beiden verstehen es sowieso als “Fremdenlegion”
Also, you try accents on these here forums.
I was able to post an umlaut ONCE and it took me two hours finding out how to embed ASCII codes.
Légion étrangère
[quote]Cuso wrote:
Légion étrangère[/quote]
Now post an umlaut and see my confidence shattered.
Finish me.
Arschlöcher
ä orion: just hit and hold Alt while you press “132” on your number pad (it as to be a number pad or you have to use the Fn key instead) and then release the Alt key.
Shit it didn’t work, trying again: ä
There it goes, my num lock wasn’t on.