Military

[Dinh AaronMk]

No banging, sergeant's orders...

Hider

Unless he gets to join.

[mdk]

West point is near enough to NYC, you'll be fine. Plus you can walk into town on weekends. AFA is on like ten million thousand acres of land and it takes 15 minutes just to drive from the cadet lot to the gate (plus you had to go up/down a mountain just to reach the lot in the first place)

[TheMusketMan]

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Just to keep your expectations level, that's the same thing most future Army civil engineers say right about now.

If you want to be the best, be the best, and that'll help your chances. Personal experience says, manpower vacancies can help too -- pipelines are opening up as we step up our SOCOM game. But that pendulum swings both ways and you never know when the window closes.

@mdk

Hah, engineer, that's funny. And I know not to get to cocky about getting in, I'm gonna serve for three years before I try out though so I'm not a greenhorn. Hopefully there will be some combat experience so I don't look like a complete tool.

[BrobyDDark]

Could somebody tell me what the Academies are?

[mdk]

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Hah, engineer, that's funny. And I know not to get to cocky about getting in, I'm gonna serve for three years before I try out though so I'm not a greenhorn. Hopefully there will be some combat experience so I don't look like a complete tool.

@TheMusketMan

Nothing wrong with engineers. Or tools, for that matter. I only bring it up to point out, you know, there's however-many thousands of people in the Army actively trying to kill for that job. So don't expect to breeze in. You should really have multiple backup plans that you'd be happy doing for your whole military career.

[mdk]

Could somebody tell me what the Academies are?

@BrobyDDark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_service_academies

[BrobyDDark]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_service_academies

@mdk

Thank ju

[Vilageidiotx]

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Yeah, but they're scary.

@TheEvanCat

That's how you prepare for ISIS.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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That's how you prepare for ISIS.

@Vilageidiotx

And for the thug life.

[TheEvanCat]

West point is near enough to NYC, you'll be fine. Plus you can walk into town on weekends. AFA is on like ten million thousand acres of land and it takes 15 minutes just to drive from the cadet lot to the gate (plus you had to go up/down a mountain just to reach the lot in the first place)

@mdk

Except plebes get one pass a semester and $250 a month. Which means NYC is kind of rare for leave, at least in the first few years.

I went to the AFA summer seminar (didn't get in, weirdly enough) and it was a beautiful campus. Isolated on its hill and not much of a base to speak of. They might get more leave than me.

[mdk]

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Except plebes get one pass a semester and $250 a month. Which means NYC is kind of rare for leave, at least in the first few years.

I went to the AFA summer seminar (didn't get in, weirdly enough) and it was a beautiful campus. Isolated on its hill and not much of a base to speak of. They might get more leave than me.

@TheEvanCat

nah that's about even. They're different because to even see a civilian face at AFA requires a pass..... well you've been there, you can't just hike out to town and come back (Annapolis is the king of doing that, then WP, then AFA). What you wanna do is save up some money for a few weeks (or a lot of weeks) then hop on a train to the city, so you don't have to borrow a car. I forget how the details work, but people there obviously know how to do it, and it makes sense. Anyway it's not like you'll have free time, anyway, so it's a moot point, but it can be done on the cheap, especially junior-senior year when you're banking a lot more cash. Trying to do anything in your first year is pointless and stupid, just be a plebe.

[TJByrum]

My teacher was a drill sergeant and he always told us Marines are 'first in, first out'.

That's about as much as I can tell you. I'm to scrawny to join the military.

[Rilla]

Had my psoriasis not been so bad, I probably would have went, to the army and went MP. I got a 93 on my ASVAB, but my recruiter stopped coming through.

I'm gonna talk to the kid about going, when hes older. My uncle had been a marine since he got out of high school, and he lives pretty damn good.