bruh pleeeeeeeease stop trying to investigate my life story just because i said paratroopers ain't shyt
what i did doesn't matter. because it legit doesn't matter. the most valuable thing i did in the military was take shifts for people who couldn't do em anymore. and that put me in a lot different maneuver units in both iraq and afghanistan.
i don't do war stories. there is no point in some dramatic retelling about ammo cooking off on someone stuck in vehicle. people drowning in their own gear. wired houses and people shytting themselves. rockets. etc. especially not for daps and in response to someone saying "equipment is more important than men" or whatever that shyt was.
the people who get off on that or think its validation instead of simply an experience are bozos. in or out.
as bad as hood was, the military was still the best gamble i ever took on myself. and i didn't get out because of hood, i got out because of shafter - where i was doing the job of 3 people for a shytty coin and covering for contractors who each made way more money than me. now i've gone from contracting to teaching. i'm happy i joined and never said otherwise even once. i'm even happier i got hurt and chilled the fukk out before i got a bunch of other soldiers killed with the 'lead from the front' trash that they had me smoking.
i really don't give a shyt outside of seeing people *not* fukk themselves up trying to be superheroes for an army that will happily replace them in an instant with the lowest common denominator and keep going.
basic training is not the same as happily taking on the dumbest, most antiquated attrition-based descriptor in the military
nah recruiting is depressing as hell. see yourself in a kid and be ready to drink yourself stupid....