I was in the Army for a short time. While I was in basic training at least 5 privates under the age of 21 either died or committed suicide. Two of them collapsed from being pushed too hard to run and just keeled over. One stabbed himself by ramming a pencil up into his nasal passage. Another hung himself with a shoe string and I forgot how the other died.
You never hear about this type of sh*t in the newspapers do you?
My recruiter drew up false child-custody papers on my daughter to get me in. I almost lost my child because of them. The health care they give you is equivalent to what public assistance gives you. Most of the time you don’t even get to see an actual physician – you are usually treated by a RN or Physician’s Assistant.
They say they are going to pay for your school. What they don’t tell you is that your “financial aid” is based on seniority and it is distributed on a first come/first serve basis. Then there’s the issue of them moving you around from state to state and country to country. How can you possibly earn any type of degree when you’re being moved around constantly.
Lies, lies and more lies
You will be deployed, often and when its its time for you to actually go home it never happens – or it happens two years later, even though you are promised otherwise.
Mothers and fathers, do NOT send your daughter’s to the armed forces. There is more sex going on between male and female soldiers than there is at the “Chicken Ranch”. Please stop blaming the superiors because while some of them do harass young female soldiers, most of the younger female soldiers are throwing themselves at their superiors and every other male soldier. You would be better off sending your daughter to Freak Fest/Spring Break and Cancun all at once.
Did I hear someone say sign-up bonus? They fail to tell you that the “sign-up bonuses” are divided into small increments throughout your term – that $10,000 dollars you thought you were getting upfront essentially winds up being about 2,000 a year or every other year.
Of course there’s more, but I’d like to hear your story.