After watching Spike’s “U.S. Navy Pirate hunters”, I miss it even more. The little things like drawing your weapons from the arms room, knowing your going to do what you’ve spent countless months training on.
But on the other hand, I also like seeing my family every day.
I guess I’m just being a little nostalgic. Anyone else?
After I visit one of the Warrior Princesses I start missing the Army too (especially when I see how good they have it compared to how we had it ‘back in the day’).
Your mind is not letting you remeber the bad stuff. Like sleeping in a ditch filled with human shit for 2 weeks and MOP gear in 140+ heat.
I think of that when I start missing it.
This, plus working for a retard who outranks you only by virtue of social programs instead of competency.
You just described a Second Lieutenant.
Mm. Not what I meant, but okay.
Care to elaborate…in detail?
And it’s easy to miss military life. Between the long periods of doing nothing you get to do awesome stuff even Bill Gates cant do.
It’s hard to let it go and return to civilian life.
Yep, I remember butter bars trying to tell seasoned NCO’s how to set up a perimeter defense and how to run the QRF.
Sounds like Army MP 2nd Louies LOL… (J/K)
I miss alot of the great folks that I served with. Many of my good friends I stay in touch with and many of them even live in the Northern Virginia area- so seeing them a few times a year is easy.
On Thursday, get a mop, bucket, green monster, sponge, roll of paper towels, and some pine oil and go field day your head, just for old times sake… That will help those feelings pass…
B
Don’t forget to do pmcs every morning on your motor vehicle and at the end of the day, give the misses a checklist, you can’t go anywhere until she signs off on it. Althought really it would be more like everybody on your block and some days you’re waiting on your neighbors from 19:00 until 23:00 to leave the motorpool :mad:
:eek::eek::eek:
I miss the camaraderie and certain aspects of it.
The rest Im perfectly fine living without.
Actually I’d bet he’s talking about any number of inept “leaders” that end up in the military.
You can’t serve in the mil and not be subjected to chickenshit. The Peter Principle applies, except that the mil will often promote someone well beyond their highest level of competence.
The chickenshit is out here in the civilian world also.
The thing that I miss is the look in the younger Marines eyes when they ‘get’ what you are teaching them. Watching them execute a plan without micro-managing. Hearing it through the grapevine that your problem child got drunk and beat the shit out of someone because they didn’t show enough respect towards you.
There is always going to be someone higher in the food chain that doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground…military or civilian. It’s all about how you lead your subordinates and how they run with the ball that makes it all worth it.
You can have two PFCs in a room, one of them is senior to the other…there is always an opportunity to lead/teach/mentor.
That doesn’t happen to much in the 1st Civ Div.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Lets stay on topic…
B
PS: ;);)
Damn, you’re good!!!
My Army experience IS limited to the MPC. One of the Warrior Princesses is in the JAG Corps and the other is in the Medical Corps (admittedly neither outfit is truly representative of the Army, but at least they both qualified Expert last time. ;)) All those days at the range when they were growing up really paid off.
Indeed and there are certainly excellent leaders in the military (usually NCOs) but in the civilian world you don’t end up standing tall when you tell your boss off because of chickenshit. In the civilian world you might get passed over for a promotion, but you can always get a new job. In the mil if your leadership is inept (and heaven forbid threatened by subordinates that are smarter) your career can certainly suffer.
You can have two PFCs in a room, one of them is senior to the other…there is always an opportunity to lead/teach/mentor.
That doesn’t happen to much in the 1st Civ Div.
Not true at all.
There are certainly parts of the mil that I loved and enjoyed but let’s not pretend that it was idyllic. If it were most people would stay in…most people get out. Of those that stay in there is a sizable percentage that stay because they couldn’t do any better in the civilian world. That’s not to say that’s everyone, or even most, only that it is a significant percentage.