Question for Military Vets

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:

if you go JAG they’ll pay for your law school.

otherwise, since you didn’t use the GI bill while you were in college, you could use the GI bill to pay for your grad school.

you’d make a ton of money just GOING to school. lol
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So you mean: sign up, get GI bill, figure out branch and all that, serve/do military job/deploy/whatever, and then come back and have grad school paid for while getting $$ from signing up?

I know the appropriate recruiter could explain all this to me in layman’s terms and I’m gonna find one to meet with ASAP. Thanks for taking the time to spell it out for a brother in the meantime.

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let’s say you went national guard (for the sake of simplicity)

you go to OCS. you get paid while you’re there.

you come back from OCS. CONGRADULATIONS! you’re a 2LT.

you go to BOLC 3. so whatever you decided to branch (aviation, armor, eng, signal, intel, whatever) you go learn how to do that. again, you get paid while u’re there.

you come back. dunno what state you’re in. let’s say alabama b/c i live here. yay! you get a 10,000 dollar bonus for signing with the guard as a LT.

you get assigned a unit. you show up. they make fun of you b/c u’re the new guy. you now go to drill one weekend a month, and spend two weeks in the summer at annual training (AT)

now you have all this free time. you can either A.) get another civillian job B.) get deployed with a unit C.) go to grad school (and have the guard pay for it) D.) get a full time national guard job E.) get ADSW orders so you can go be active for anywhere from a week to a year.

A drill weekend pays you like 300 bones. an at pays you like 2200.

the new GI bill is SICK. i have buddies getting like 1200.00 bucks a month. ONTOP of having school paid for, books paid for. on top of drill pay. on top of having room and board paid for. insane.

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
let’s say you went national guard (for the sake of simplicity)

you go to OCS. you get paid while you’re there.

you come back from OCS. CONGRADULATIONS! you’re a 2LT.

you go to BOLC 3. so whatever you decided to branch (aviation, armor, eng, signal, intel, whatever) you go learn how to do that. again, you get paid while u’re there.

you come back. dunno what state you’re in. let’s say alabama b/c i live here. yay! you get a 10,000 dollar bonus for signing with the guard as a LT.

you get assigned a unit. you show up. they make fun of you b/c u’re the new guy. you now go to drill one weekend a month, and spend two weeks in the summer at annual training (AT)

now you have all this free time. you can either A.) get another civillian job B.) get deployed with a unit C.) go to grad school (and have the guard pay for it) D.) get a full time national guard job E.) get ADSW orders so you can go be active for anywhere from a week to a year.

A drill weekend pays you like 300 bones. an at pays you like 2200.

the new GI bill is SICK. i have buddies getting like 1200.00 bucks a month. ONTOP of having school paid for, books paid for. on top of drill pay. on top of having room and board paid for. insane.[/quote]

Fuck me in the backseat of an old hummer with one eye up. MAC, FUCK CUNT, WE GET IT, YOUR IN THE ARMY. YOU DO COOL ARMY SHIT LIKE BARRELROLLS AND BLOW CRAP UP. JUST CLOSE YOUR BALL JUGGLER AND BE NORMAL. FUCK.

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
let’s say you went national guard (for the sake of simplicity)

you go to OCS. you get paid while you’re there.

you come back from OCS. CONGRADULATIONS! you’re a 2LT.

you go to BOLC 3. so whatever you decided to branch (aviation, armor, eng, signal, intel, whatever) you go learn how to do that. again, you get paid while u’re there.

you come back. dunno what state you’re in. let’s say alabama b/c i live here. yay! you get a 10,000 dollar bonus for signing with the guard as a LT.

you get assigned a unit. you show up. they make fun of you b/c u’re the new guy. you now go to drill one weekend a month, and spend two weeks in the summer at annual training (AT)

now you have all this free time. you can either A.) get another civillian job B.) get deployed with a unit C.) go to grad school (and have the guard pay for it) D.) get a full time national guard job E.) get ADSW orders so you can go be active for anywhere from a week to a year.

A drill weekend pays you like 300 bones. an at pays you like 2200.

the new GI bill is SICK. i have buddies getting like 1200.00 bucks a month. ONTOP of having school paid for, books paid for. on top of drill pay. on top of having room and board paid for. insane.[/quote]

Dude, you go above and beyond the call of friendly explanation with this stuff. All the T-Nation assholes are a little less asshole-ish when HolyMac is around. No homo.

Anyway, good to know there’s at least some money involved. I’ve got bills to pay like everyone else. Like I said before, I definitely wouldn’t be doing this for the money 'cuz I could get a relatively high salaried job elsewhere. This one just means more and has more potential for good in the future with grad school and all that. Oh, and there’s def more ‘pew pew pew’ potential… which is way more fun than a cubicle/desk situation even despite the enemy fire and IED playtime.

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I’m Canadian Force, does that count as a military vet?

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[quote]Rev1911 wrote:

Dude, you go above and beyond the call of friendly explanation with this stuff. All the T-Nation assholes are a little less asshole-ish when HolyMac is around. No homo.

Anyway, good to know there’s at least some money involved. I’ve got bills to pay like everyone else. Like I said before, I definitely wouldn’t be doing this for the money 'cuz I could get a relatively high salaried job elsewhere. This one just means more and has more potential for good in the future with grad school and all that. Oh, and there’s def more ‘pew pew pew’ potential… which is way more fun than a cubicle/desk situation despite the enemy fire and IED playtime.
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well shit, if you like your job, you could just go nat guard and get a badass branch (armor, cav, infantry) and keep u’re normal job. you can always pick up a deployment, and then come back to u’re normal shin ding.

or were you planning on dropping all u’re shit and going active?

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They waterboard you at SERE school. At least that’s the word on the curb.

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
Rev1911 wrote:

Dude, you go above and beyond the call of friendly explanation with this stuff. All the T-Nation assholes are a little less asshole-ish when HolyMac is around. No homo.

Anyway, good to know there’s at least some money involved. I’ve got bills to pay like everyone else. Like I said before, I definitely wouldn’t be doing this for the money 'cuz I could get a relatively high salaried job elsewhere. This one just means more and has more potential for good in the future with grad school and all that. Oh, and there’s def more ‘pew pew pew’ potential… which is way more fun than a cubicle/desk situation despite the enemy fire and IED playtime.

well shit, if you like your job, you could just go nat guard and get a badass branch (armor, cav, infantry) and keep u’re normal job. you can always pick up a deployment, and then come back to u’re normal shin ding.

or were you planning on dropping all u’re shit and going active?
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I was just saying I wouldn’t be doing it for the $$ right now. I’d be interested in going all in and getting some killer life experience in addition to making progress towards a career (after grad school) and such.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to even have a job right now. I’m just ready for something new and this seems like a viable option for pursuing multiple goals (military service, grad school, more traveling, etc.).

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[quote]Rev1911 wrote:

or were you planning on dropping all u’re shit and going active?

I was just saying I wouldn’t be doing it for the $$ right now. I’d be interested in going all in and getting some killer life experience in addition to making progress towards a career (after grad school) and such.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful to even have a job right now. I’m just ready for something new and this seems like a viable option for pursuing multiple goals (military service, grad school, more traveling, etc.).
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lol. in absolutly no way did you answer my question

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“going all in” = dropping my shit and going active

My bad. Coulda been more direct.

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“going all in” = dropping my shit and going active

My bad. Coulda been more direct.

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I plan on doing OCS. Go infantry in the Marines. Eat MREs and wear green facepaint in the woods. That’s my style.

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[quote]Therizza wrote:
I plan on doing OCS. Go infantry in the Marines. Eat MREs and wear green facepaint in the woods. That’s my style.[/quote]

Double-wielding Sig P220s with grenade launchers!

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[quote]Rev1911 wrote:
Therizza wrote:
I plan on doing OCS. Go infantry in the Marines. Eat MREs and wear green facepaint in the woods. That’s my style.

Double-wielding Sig P220s with grenade launchers![/quote]

LOL.

gotcha man. yeah go active. whew. infact, if you get the same unit as me, we can hold hands and walk around. hell i’ll make my callsign crimson and you cna be trace.

coolio dude, enough beating a dead horse. let me know how shit works out for you

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
Rev1911 wrote:
Therizza wrote:
I plan on doing OCS. Go infantry in the Marines. Eat MREs and wear green facepaint in the woods. That’s my style.

Double-wielding Sig P220s with grenade launchers!

LOL.

gotcha man. yeah go active. whew. infact, if you get the same unit as me, we can hold hands and walk around. hell i’ll make my callsign crimson and you cna be trace.

coolio dude, enough beating a dead horse. let me know how shit works out for you[/quote]

I’ll get w/ a recruiter and check back in to run anything questionable by you.

But only if we can hold hands and walk around when I request your unit (hehe), ‘Crimson’.

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[quote]Rev1911 wrote:
Therizza wrote:
I plan on doing OCS. Go infantry in the Marines. Eat MREs and wear green facepaint in the woods. That’s my style.

Double-wielding Sig P220s with grenade launchers![/quote]

Well, if I got into MARSOC, I’d get one of them Unertl 1911s. But, I can see two of them, like in Goldeneye.

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I’d done 4 years Naval active duty and about 8 years in the Naval Reserves when I got called up for Desert Storm. My original recruiter didn’t promise me anything but, in boot camp, by week 2 nobody was starting a sentence with “But my recruiter said…” anymore. By then, everyone knew recruiters had quotas to meet and would have said anything to get us to swear allegeance.

I can truthfully say my wartime experience is something I wouldn’t trade for anything. But Desert Storm in Bahrain, where I had an actual job but went dancing every night, was VERY different from what the guys in Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing right now. As long as you understand that by enlisting now you will in all likelihood head straight to a war zone, with everything that entails, and you’re cool with the balance of risk and reward, maybe it’s something you find worth considering.

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
1ranger3 wrote:
yeah, I think I can throw you a couple of cans of Surge… speaking of which, I have yet to try that… guess that’s next on my list of stuff to buy…

don’t tempt me. hell i space-a about once a month to ft.dix to visit a chick up there. i just might stop by and knock on your door.

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Hell, the next time you’re up, knock on my door… we’ll head to the gym and get a workout in… of course I’ll have to stray away from my current program (just started the 5/3/1) so I don’t embarrass myself by using lighter weight ha ha

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[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
lol.

kinda bullshit sgtQ for you to put something out there like that. i come from a private military school is alabama that has produced over 200 generals and admirals. just because you’re not a ring knocker (west pointer for the civies) doesn’t mean you won’t get any higher than full bird.

to the OP. actually just finished validating some EOD units before they moved to their mob station. EOD seems pretty badass IMO. never done any kind of training and haven’t been with a unit personally, but they all seemed pretty squared away, as well as higher up seems to baby them almost as much as the sf guys.

remember too, as an officer you will be required to get AT LEAST a secrect security clearance. once you get out, that is an EXTREMELY valuable tool. hell, they have websites dedicated to listing jobs that require you already to have a security clearance. that always looks sexy on u’re resume.

you know the airforce used to administer their PT test on a STATIONARY BIKE!? hahaha. wussies.

but seriously, all branches of the military are great. but of course the army is where it’s at[/quote]

I’m prior AF…trust me…we HATE the bike…

The Guard deplys. I’ve got a whole brigade here with me right now here in Afghan.
I don’t know the officer side, but if you go in, make sure you get your job in writing. Guranteed.

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wow…somehow missed pages 2,3 and 4. Long day.
mac gave good advice.
AF still hates the bike though…