Military service, and your thoughts on why you served your country!

[capone113]

Served in a RANGER Bn. in '83 for the Grenada invasion,was pulled to invade Panama in '89 and was with 3rd infantry division for Desert Storm with 3/64 Armour bn. as a LURP.Don't know if I would do it today;but at the time I had all Viet nam vets as cadre and they taught us all how to fight and surviveMy CSM was Patrick(Tad) Tadina;Look him up if you want to know how far we have fallen in the way of heroes. 2/75 inf.(RANGER),we were RANGERS before they formed the first two RANGER batallions.

 

[Captain GhoulAgain]

That's exactly how it went for me, my mother said you're not acting right......she wasn't wrong, I was on the edge of a cliff and didn't even realise.

Sometimes one must jump off the cliff to find themselves.

 

[Deleted member 46687]

Sometimes one must jump off the cliff to find themselves.

Indeed, I hit rock bottom. They don't prepare you for that in your TRIM meeting when you get back.

All they say is jacko. You alright? Me: yea. Sign this......

Jobs a good one.

 

[Gerdo74]

Hiro mate, first off thank you for your service, I admire and take my hat off to men and women like yourself.
My maternal grandfather served in the Royal Navy during WWII, saw some action. He was a bit of a Rogue, didn't take well to discipline and knocked a petty officer out for calling him a sweaty sock.....he got time in the Australian Detention Barraks....
.told my gran who he was only dating that ADT stood for the Australian Dagger Brigade 😆
My paternal Grandfather I never met as my dad was a cunt and fucked off when I was 6 months old, but I've been told he was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Black Watch during the 2nd WW, ive seen the odd picture of him(apparently he was as hard as they come)
I like yourself was a bit of a tear away in my teens, loads of fighting in gangs etc, got to 19, I was an apprentice Electrician and had always wanted to join the Army, I was in Queen Street with my now wife and was about to go into the recruitment office to sign up, she pulled me back and told me if I did it she'd not wait around for me as she didn't want to wait for bad news......so unlike yourself I never had the privilege of serving my fellow Scots.

 

[Deleted member 46687]

Hiro mate, first off thank you for your service, I admire and take my hat off to men and women like yourself.
My maternal grandfather served in the Royal Navy during WWII, saw some action. He was a bit of a Rogue, didn't take well to discipline and knocked a petty officer out for calling him a sweaty sock.....he got time in the Australian Detention Barraks....
.told my gran who he was only dating that ADT stood for the Australian Dagger Brigade 😆
My paternal Grandfather I never met as my dad was a cunt and fucked off when I was 6 months old, but I've been told he was a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Black Watch during the 2nd WW, ive seen the odd picture of him.
I like yourself was a bit of a tear away in my teens, loads of fighting in gangs etc, got to 19, I was an apprentice Electrician and had always wanted to join the Army, I was in Queen Street with my now wife and was about to go into the recruitment office to sign up, she pulled me back and told me if I did it she'd not wait around for me as she didn't want to wait for bad news......so unlike yourself I never had the privilege of serving my fellow Scots.

The tear away teen echos quite loudly in the ranks of the British army. I was a later entry, so always fairly squared away with my admin when joining, so a lot of the younger lads always gravitated to me for help. I guess it's why I progressed as I did.

Iv'e made some amazing life long family in the army and lost some amazing life long peoples in the army RIP Big bails!

 

[Gerdo74]

The tear away teen echos quite loudly in the ranks of the British army. I was a later entry, so always fairly squared away with my admin when joining, so a lot of the younger lads always gravitated to me for help. I guess it's why I progressed as I did.

Iv'e made some amazing life long family in the army and lost some amazing life long peoples in the army RIP Big bails!

Mate you're giving me goosebumps.
My Mrs and myself watch that SAS who dares wins.......and she always says you'd have passed selection.......I'd have loved to have tried......one of my few regrets in life.......did an army outward bound training course in 1987 for 2 weeks, loads of orienteering, hill climbing abseiling, long hill runs......taken by a hard as fuck Sergeant and a few squaddies.......I had a stupid mate who got a bollocking and stupidly said up the RA......the Sergeant knocked him out 😆 bollocking him saying "I lost best friends to those cunts" Loved the experience so know I'd have taken to it like a duck to water.......like you I craved discipline and direction.

 

[Deleted member 46687]

Me and big bailey doing the final change of flag in Afghanistan for the Royal Artillery.

Miss that guy.....

 

[MaidenRose]

I feel like in spite of politicals all those who serve their countries deserve the highest regard at least in a measure of respect...

 

[Jacky Boy]

oh really @Jacky Boy ?
then dont post gay shit like that then, if thats not the kind of answer you want to hear!

Explain

 

[K.I.T.T.]

I joined the U.S. Army in the 90's during Desert Storm. My decision wasn't motivated solely by patriotism, but also a need to financially support my newly single parent and siblings.

Unfortunately, during the last week of boot camp I suffered from a seizure induced by heat stroke. That ended my potential military career immediately.

But I tried, and that was the best I could do. Some of my siblings went on to serve as well, all of them now Veterans.

Thanks for sharing all of this, especially the old photos! A very interesting history.

 

[Nihilianth]

So as most know I have served my country in the Army, And I often get asked why did you join. Which requires a usual in-depth response that I typically can't be fucked talking about.

I've always been a fighter in my youth, always getting into trouble. Especially after I lost my first child.... Off the rails for years. My upbringing was always drilled into me, serve your country, do not have your country serve you!

I have a long line of family that have served in many wars. From great-great-grandfather, grandfather, missed a generation, uncles, cousins and myself have all served.

The saying always stuck with me, serve your country! In my mind there is no greater honour than serving your country, (regardless of the situations you get thrust into) I don;t want to go into the politicking regarding "shouldn't be there" “government pawn” all that jazzz hands bullshit, said by 140lb soaking wet shitcunts. Who would shit their pants if they had to do anything hard, the same ppl probably drink oat milk skinny mocha choca lattes with rainbow fgt sprinkles on them. Nobody wants to hear your inane shit pipe flapping.

Do you or your family have any history in the services?
Do you mind sharing?

So here is a picture of my grandfather, in 1942, and also in 1947 in Palestine war, (cracking jews heads) this was when Israel was founded, there about.


He was my role model until he died again around the same time i lost my 6-month-old son.......it was a month later he passed. Now i have detractors and some may even call me a cunt, Well deserved, I own it. But what i was good at was fighting and being a solider. I apparently craved discipline and routine, i still do to this day. The Army provided it and made me a better human (some may disagree, but some don't know me) 1 person here truly knows me......

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My grandfather after the Army joined the police and finished chief constable, then onto mountain rescue until he could no longer keep up......He did bag pipe for Royalty at Glamis castle after all that.........He was a very talented musician, right up until months before he passed away.......

A thing that always sticks in my mind.........to paraphrase George Orwell......We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm!

What service does your family give for your country? I'd love to hear. I love history and i love the interactions people have with others and their stories.

Are you Scottish, or American? Because you just quoted a US president.

In any case, my older brother-turned-sister did four years in the US Navy. He/she was there on his/her missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf back when the USS Cole got hit in like, 2000.

My dad did a four year stint in the Air Force in Germany back in the 70s.

I had one grandfather who was a tailgunner during WWII, and flew his 25 missions and escaped alive. Got shrapnel in his neck on his 25th mission.

My other grandfather was from Sicily and was an underground partisan sabotaging the fascist dickheads of Italy who thought that everyone needed to be told what to do and when to do it. (Both of my grandfathers fought against that kind of fascist bullshit that you crave in your life.)

I had a great-great-great grandfather that fought in the US Civil War. My great grandmother (his grand daughter), who was born in 1899 and died in 1998 and I was 15 years old, was taken to the Gettysburg battlefield by her grand father in 1910 when she was just 11 years old, and he told her where he was when he shot a young boy no older than 15 or so, directly between the eyes as he was charging up Little Round Top towards him. My great grand mother took us down there and related his story to us just before my 12th birthday in July of 1995.

I wanted to join the air force after high school. Scored really high on my ASVAB test. But then disaster struck:

My recruiter game to my last baseball game of my high school career. I was on first and started charging towards second on a hit-and-run play. My twin brother hits the ball. A really low grasscutting line-drive. I'm already running full-speed towards second with my eyes completely focused on the prize. When I heard a loud "crack," and stepped on the side of my foot at full-stride with my full weight bearing down in the damned thing. Whelp. There goes any prospects for any sort of military career. That ankle was destroyed, lol. Never felt any sort of blinding pain like that in my life before or since. Broken bones to this day make me wince, haha.

But yeah. I did try to mount a comeback in baseball in college the following year and the year after. After being laid up for 9 months, I started working out with the college team as a walk-on. Coach had to cut me pretty damn quickly, as I was still doing PT. Told me to come back next year. Which I did. But after two years of not playing through the ages of 19 and 20, and with an ankle with a severe injury attached to its history, I was washed up before I even had any sort of shot. I DID work out with the team that following year at age 21, and I was one of two walk-ons left (there was only one spot available for walk-ons; all the rest were taken by scholarships), and the guy who got that spot was a freshman who came close to breaking the state stolen base record in high school.

I did try one last time with a public tryout for a semi-pro hardball team; the Pennsylvania Road Warriors of the Atlantic League. But that was far above my abilities. Those guys were pros. When I went for the public tryouts, I had absolutely no idea whatsoever, what "Professional Baseball" REALLY was. I've never seen people move that perfectly. Never seen the ball move in the ways it was moving. That shit was scary. Haha. And they all look at you like you're alien who clearly doesn't belong. 🤣

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

We have a lineage of serving in the USMC. My grandfather, my father, myself, and now my son (he’s in the reserves, but I don’t give him grief for it bc he’s also in college).

It’s just the thing we do upon adulthood.

 

[SickoPsycho01]

Grandpa landed troops at Okinawa, Guam, Leyte, and Saipan. An uncle had the misfortune of having carried a flamethrower in Vietnam. If a large war is on and they need every man they can get, I’d go. I want to be on the frontlines of history, even if it likely means my death.

 

[evil retard]

usmc. it is every young man's duty to serve and defend america. no questions. HOORAH!!!

I was going to join the army here in the US like my mom and her dad and so on. Unfortunately a year before I was about to enlist they went full LGBTQ woke. I would be court martialed so fast it’s not even funny. They have to ask for your pronouns and shit. 🤦‍♂️🤣

then get your skinny ass ready for a civil war.

 

[Theseus]

usmc. it is every young man's duty to serve and defend america. no questions. HOORAH!!!

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then get your skinny ass ready for a civil war.

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I’m locked and loaded have roughly 3 months worth of canned goods and regularly visit the range so I’m ready af😂🤘🏻

 

[MATAMUERTOS]

I love my Cuntry

 

[Ouchfl]

So as most know I have served my country in the Army, And I often get asked why did you join. Which requires a usual in-depth response that I typically can't be fucked talking about.

I've always been a fighter in my youth, always getting into trouble. Especially after I lost my first child.... Off the rails for years. My upbringing was always drilled into me, serve your country, do not have your country serve you!

I have a long line of family that have served in many wars. From great-great-grandfather, grandfather, missed a generation, uncles, cousins and myself have all served.

The saying always stuck with me, serve your country! In my mind there is no greater honour than serving your country, (regardless of the situations you get thrust into) I don;t want to go into the politicking regarding "shouldn't be there" “government pawn” all that jazzz hands bullshit, said by 140lb soaking wet shitcunts. Who would shit their pants if they had to do anything hard, the same ppl probably drink oat milk skinny mocha choca lattes with rainbow fgt sprinkles on them. Nobody wants to hear your inane shit pipe flapping.

Do you or your family have any history in the services?
Do you mind sharing?

So here is a picture of my grandfather, in 1942, and also in 1947 in Palestine war, (cracking jews heads) this was when Israel was founded, there about.


He was my role model until he died again around the same time i lost my 6-month-old son.......it was a month later he passed. Now i have detractors and some may even call me a cunt, Well deserved, I own it. But what i was good at was fighting and being a solider. I apparently craved discipline and routine, i still do to this day. The Army provided it and made me a better human (some may disagree, but some don't know me) 1 person here truly knows me......

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My grandfather after the Army joined the police and finished chief constable, then onto mountain rescue until he could no longer keep up......He did bag pipe for Royalty at Glamis castle after all that.........He was a very talented musician, right up until months before he passed away.......

A thing that always sticks in my mind.........to paraphrase George Orwell......We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm!

What service does your family give for your country? I'd love to hear. I love history and i love the interactions people have with others and their stories.

I was beyond depressed. I was suicidal. I was well aware that, mixed in with thousands of phyco fuckers in the USARMY that wouldnt be missed....there were also thousands of young people who loved life and had every reason to live fighting and dying overseas. I figured rather then off myself or drink/drug myself to death that i would rather indirectly off myself by doing my best to help good people make it home to their families, so I got clean and went to my local recruiting office.
After scoring 93 on my asvab , and convincing the higher ups to sign off on a few waivers, was giving my choice of MOS (other than medic and MP I think it was because of waivers) , i chose 19D and was leaving meps on a bus to FT. Knox Kentucky to start OSUT to become a cavalry scout.
Training ended up feeling like vacation compared to how my self-destructive ass had been living in my civilian life.
The army helped me find my will to live. I was still suicidal, but I made damn sure that I would do everything i could to not waste my life and to keep my brothers safe and take as many Haji with me as possible.

I ended up surviving iraq, and reconnecting with my long lost family I hadn't seen in 20 years. Eventually met my wife and live a relatively happy life now. If I had to do it all over again I would only change it by joining as a Marine, because good Marines are some bad ass mother fuckers.

And as I submit this response, I've told you fuckers more about myself than 99% of the people in my life! Haha, your welcome