Padawanbater2
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No not really, I approached them first and they said they're only signing reserves, I told them I'd like to go active and they told me to go speak to the Navy
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desert dude
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Too bad....
desert dude
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Did USCG tell you that their "no active duty enlistments" policy is for this year, 2013, or indefinitely, or what? I am interested because my son is interested in joining USCG.
Padawanbater2
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I spoke to them in November and the recruiter told me they didn't have any open spots for active CG, I assumed she meant at the time. I did a little research after and read somewhere they only recruit around 1,500 new people per year and the CG has the highest attrition rate (84%) in the military, so less people finishing their time or retiring = less open spots.
Army Infantry
2001-2005
Overall no, mostly due to my time in Iraq.
It did teach me to be responsible and to be on time.
In jail
Not bad, I used them to go to school and buy a house
Yes, but only so I could refuse my orders for deployment.
I wanted to be an operation room specialist when I joined but was told they didn't have any open, should of walked out then. I got 13 g for going infantry
Padawanbater2
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13 grand for joining as infantry? Is that the actual title, Infantry?
Why did you choose the Army instead of a different branch?
11Bravo Infantry I guess is the full name. Army was all I could get in because I had gotten into trouble, I did have good asvab tho.
Padawanbater2
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How was the actual pay?
did you end up with PTSD?
did you end up with PTSD?
I think I know what you mean, but its not what was said.
Basically less people are leaving the CG than in recent memory so recruit intake is down and retention is very high.
I didn't do a comparison search, but keep in mind the CG is the smallest of our armed forces & when everybody decides to hang & make a career of it for what ever reason it clogs up the pipe.
I wish you well my friend.
Active Duty Military Workforce Situation Report
FLAG VOICE 323
With the poor economy and the new post/9-11 GI bill for educational benefits, we are experiencing extremely high retention rates. For active duty enlisted the attrition rate has gone from a five-year average last year of 12.2% to 9.5% in 2009 and is currently 7.5%. This equates to approximately 1600 (4150 - 2550) less enlisted members separating from the Coast Guard each year, which results in significantly less advancements. To offset this lower attrition, we have lowered the number of recruits entering TRACEN Cape May down to 2250, the lowest level since before 1958.
Even during the 1990's streamlining years, we only reduced recruiting down to 3000. Keeping this low level of incoming recruits has significant negative impacts on the workforce in the out-years and it doesn't increase advancement rates, it only provides a means to help align body to billet so we don't have a huge deficit in the AFC-01 military personnel pay account. The active duty officer corps is also experiencing high retention, which slows down promotion rates and we now have more officers than billets.
In the President's FY2011 budget there are 1112 military billet reductions. If the President’s FY2011 budget is approved and retention remains high, by April 2011, we will have over 1500 more active duty military people than we are funded. PSC will release messages shortly that define what voluntary measures will be used to try to increase attrition.
http://www.uscg.mil/hr/flagvoice/fv323.asp
NLXSK1
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Padwan...
Obama will get the sequestration that he said wouldnt happen passed and a slot will open up around the time you are 50....
Obamanation...
Pay wasn't bad. I was e 5 sgt when I got out. Was making about 2,000 every month take home. 525 of that was for living off post and another 150 for food. No ptsd tho. I just feel that the military is bull shit for most if not all, of what it does.
abandonconflict
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I commend you. Most people will never understand courage the way you and I do. Most people think courage is embodied by our decisions to fight. It gives me the urge to light a doobie to know someone out there understands courage the way I do.
"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one." ~Bertrand Russell
Thanks homie, that means alot. The famous saying " if we knew then what we know now". If you can, spark that shit up, if not, I'm gonna spark one up here soon. Mi yerba muy fuego!!!! Your right too, I don't think they will get it either. It's not there fault tho. I remember standing in line with my son once talking to this older lady. She asked me if I took him to church and I said no. She said "you gotta get them while there young". No offense if your religious, but I think that sums it up. I grew up watching GI joe, Heman, and transformers. I watched hulk hogan wave the red white and blue. In school I was made to put my hand over my heart and pledge allegiance to a inadament object. They got us all when we was kids and it's hard as shit to pull out of.
[video=youtube;E0XKcqdjle4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XKcqdjle4[/video]
Yeah we went to Hawaii, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Diego Garcia, Australia, UAE, Somalia, San Diego and San Francisco. I never got sea sick, spent 18 months aboard a carrier(CVN-72) and 3 months on a Gator Freighter (USS Trenton LPD-14). Only 3 kinds of Marines; ones getting ready to go overseas, ones getting back from being overseas, and ones that are overseas. Ooooh Raaah. Only time I got tossed in Jail was in Perth, local drunk tank, Piece O cake. There was a little trouble with a local girl in Dubai, but it was all worked out.
Oh I dunno, when a Tomcat comes in too low and smashes into the ships fantail, things get pretty exciting. Going up on the captains deck and watching carrier qualifications is pretty cool too. Maybe fishing off the stern or going in the forecastle when they drop anchor, some pretty cool shit. Plus the Nuclear stuff, which we didn't see much of.
Lotta guys just sat around and watched TV and played cards though, I went to the weight room a lot.
What branch did you serve in?
Marine Corps
When did you serve?
08-12
Do you feel it was worth it?
Not at all, I did a disservice to the earth by playing stormtrooper for the worlds most tyrannical government on a conquest to enslave the human race even more.
What did you learn while in the military?
Dont "just follow orders" Question everything
Where do you think you would be today if you never joined?
Who knows
How are the benefits after having served, as well as during?
They dont give a fuck about you, you're a disposable government asset.
Would you do it again?
Never
Marine Corps
When did you serve?
08-12
Do you feel it was worth it?
Not at all, I did a disservice to the earth by playing stormtrooper for the worlds most tyrannical government on a conquest to enslave the human race even more.
What did you learn while in the military?
Dont "just follow orders" Question everything
Where do you think you would be today if you never joined?
Who knows
How are the benefits after having served, as well as during?
They dont give a fuck about you, you're a disposable government asset.
Would you do it again?
Never
Army, Combat Engineer, Light Infantry...
When I was a mindless drone - I liked it... But then my eyes were opened to the reality of things that the US Military is pretty much evil. If you go in, go Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard... Army and Marines are for the weak minded - which I was.
There should be no joy in killing your fellow man just because the industrial complex and world banksters want you to. Rambo is bullshit make believe... Get a skill, get educated, get the fuck out. What good is all the money in the world if you lose your soul in the process? Lots of military committing suicide cause they can't live with the shit they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
RIP Pat.
When I was a mindless drone - I liked it... But then my eyes were opened to the reality of things that the US Military is pretty much evil. If you go in, go Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard... Army and Marines are for the weak minded - which I was.
There should be no joy in killing your fellow man just because the industrial complex and world banksters want you to. Rambo is bullshit make believe... Get a skill, get educated, get the fuck out. What good is all the money in the world if you lose your soul in the process? Lots of military committing suicide cause they can't live with the shit they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
RIP Pat.
