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Originally Posted by debdodd  I joined when I was 21, they sent me to school for nursing. When I got out I resumed college and went on to study more nursing ..... |
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school for nursing do you mean you were in college, joined the army, and then wen back to college? Did you do nursing as a career?
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Regrets? Not about joining. I'm not quite 5'2" and my basic training class was the first with co-ed basic training. males and females doing the same thing. The guys low crawled thru the mud ... we were required to do the same. They threw hand grenades .... then it was our turn .. It was a time in military history in which the military was trying to gage the female's ability to function in the military the same as males. It was right after the whole women's lib movement and such. It was a lot of work but a lot of character building in the process. Since we were the first going thru the whole co-ed thing there were lots of statistical things they compared on us. We were always checked on by the high "muck-mucks" to see how we were doing. I have always been a maverick and ready for any adventure or new challenge so I enjoyed most of it. 4am wake up calls sucked, marching in the cold December rain in South Carolina with an M16 and a full pack wasn't fun but finding that I could over come obstacles made it all worth while. It made me a stronger person. There have been times when I have been over whelmed with the crap that life throws at you and when ever I have had a "boo hooed, whoa is me I won't survive this" attitude, thinking I can't make it thru something ..... I remind myself of other times when I thought I wasn't going to survive and tell myself how stupid I am, etc. Sounds like I am psycho "talking" to myself but you knew what I mean .... the military, like anything else is what you bring to it and what you take from it.
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I would love to hear every little detail if you don't mind sharing. Did you enjoy the exercises; which ones? Did you enjoy shooting and throwing grenades? How much did your packs wigh back then and what was in them? What was your biggest obstacle?
It sounds like na amazing program. Besides makin gyou stronger, did you experence any other changes?
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At times I regret not staying in longer but then my life would be so very different and as of today I am happy with my life, check with me tomorrow I might not feel the same LOL.
I think, like the Swiss, everyone should be required to do some military training. What are your feelings on that?
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I really do think everyone who is physically capable of doing military training should be required to do it because I believe it does make a lot of people stronger. My family plans for me to head straight to college in 2 1/2 years when I graduate HS, but I think the army would do me a lot of good for reasons you mentioned: beuilding character, and discipline is also something I think I could use more of. I'm at a crossroads where I have two big decisions, one choice to make and it could drastically change the outcome of my life.
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Originally Posted by debdodd No preference has been on dog tags forever ..... I was in the military a billion years ago and it was the same way .... just lets them know you aren't Catholic who wants last rites, Jewish who require burial before sundown or what ever ... it's not meant to be anything other than that. I agnostic in itself implies an indecsion or otherwise you would have said atheist ... thus "no preference" fit your belief .... had you said satinist ... it very wel could have been on there. It isn't always necessary to think the military are the bad guys. The military is as only good/bad as their leaders. |
Indecision implies lack of conviction. That doesn't mean one does not have an opinion. Every one does so this means an agnostic is a theist or atheist.