I want to go into the army do you all think i should?

Answer 1

Most of the responses are right on. I personally was a soldier for 32 years and have retired and am in the middle of a second career that was based on the training and benefits the military gave me. Is it dangerous, yes at times, even in peacetime. You are working with big machines, live ammo, and explosive devices. Is it rewarding yes and no. If you are expecting people to worship the ground you walk on because you fought for freedom, forget it. If you want the satisfaction of doing a hard job in conditions that are not the best, then go for it.
I retired as an E-9 with 75% of my base pay for life. I get full medical and dental benefits and other amenities like travel and discounted accommodations. I make a lot more money than my peers and live in a beautiful house with all the toys thanks to Uncle Sam and his monthly payment.

Answer 2

C B, you should join the Army, or any branch of service for that matter, if you desire and possess a few things.

First, it is a chance to serve your country. That is an honorable and apolitical action to take as a citizen of this fine land. This doesn't mean you either agree with or are against the current war or any other conflicts. It simply means you wish to serve your country. Remember that.

Second, it is a GREAT opportunity to learn skills that will be valuable throughout your life, whether you choose to stay in military service or move on to the civilian sector and continue to server your fellow man in that capacity.

Third, the Army will help instill or further strengthen your senses of discipline, honor, pride and brotherhood while helping make you into a future leader, which this country always needs from its citizens: leadership.

The Army is worth a try. You will be challenged and you will be surprised at what you can do and accomplish. Good luck.

Answer 3

Here is what my husband who has been in the Army for 14 years would say. If you are ready to work and not sit on you butt, If you ready to follow the rules ( and there are ALOT of them) and you not some nut that is out to be a hero and your of age than go for it. But if you are doing it for money or to be a 'hero' don't the last thing they need is some young kids out to get some one killed.
I think that you should talk to some one that has been in BEFORE the war that way you can get a real cents of how things are. And of course talk to you family see what hey think they know you and well be able to tell you if they think your right for the army.

Some things that you should know

You can Not join if you do not have a GED or have graduated from high school.

Answer 4

Serving the Army is courageous and great thing. Not every weak heart and pleasure seeker can do it? It needs " a Power" "an inborn flair" "dedication" , "self descipline" and over and above "patriotism". Now here is a question for your interospection.
Do you have it in You?

Answer 5

Only self-hating sheep volunteer for this slave army. You know you're going to get stuck in Iraq and die for nothing; why don't you have a problem with that? Do you think the rich trash who benefit from this war and would exempt their sons if Bushit is forced to have a draft will really be grateful to useful-idiot volunteers and give you good jobs when you get out? Timothy McVeigh made that mistake; you will only wind up as bitter as he was.

You know what you're getting into. You're not some innocent pre-teen who knows nothing about anything. You may consider yourself to be apolitical, but your anti-democratic ideology would be revealed if I asked you some key questions about an American's duty to blindly serve his Master.

The sheep who volunteer insult Vietnam veterans by having no problem with the fact that their Masters are pro-war draftdodgers who think you should be proud to die taking a rich kid's place. Sick little slaves who deserve to die for nothing, the scab volunteers are traitors to democracy if they follow politicians and talk-show nannies who pulled strings to chicken out of Vietnam.

Forget those wimps; their slavishness is not courage. Concentrate on making your friends who haven't volunteered realize that they are suckers if they do.

Where there are wimps there are bullies, don't forget that. Many volunteers are just Nazi skinheads and Klansmen, who like the fact that if they make rank, they have the legal right to absolutely dominate those they outrank. These fascist freaks are just like the Republican snobs who call democracy "mob rule," and want all us, especially those of your generation, to just shut up and do what we are told.

Answer 6

Think very carefully. I love it (been in for almost a year), but I know that several fellow soldiers hate it. Also check into the other branches of service. Just remember that BCT (Basic Combat Training) is alot of mind games.

Answer 7

Why not the Navy? My son is in the Navy and he loves it good food warm bed and better living conditions than the army no dirt floor........Just a thought.

Answer 8

I thought the same thing at 18 too.Serve my country like our fore fathers did.
Do you like living in a hole in the ground for 30 days,bathing out of a canteen,eating sea rations,that bind up so you don't crap for a week.Taking orders from a retard that don't have the brains that God gave a piss ant.I won't put my life in someone else's hands like that again.

Answer 9

If you want to go, you definately should. It's great to hear someone positive about going into the army rather than hearing someone complaining about it.

Answer 10

That's up to you. Some things to consider are: Do you want to get shipped to war? Do you want the discipline? Do you want to stay in for the amount of time that they require?

Just a thought.