Military

>Reposting cause I put it up at like 2:30 last night while everyone was asleep. Actually looking for advice

Hey fags,

I'm a third year college student up in Toronto but I'm from Vermont. I don't like school, I came for business but it turns out I don't like it and can't see myself pursuing anything of meaning there. That being said, I've always been drawn to the military, I even wrote an essay in high school about how I was gonna join the Rangers after I graduated college.

Anyway, with there finally being an actual patriotic president in the WH and WW3 seemingly imminent, as well as my shit GPA, the military is looking like more of an option.

>Is anyone enlisted here? I'd rather be enlisted than an officer. Shooting bad guys.
>I've always wanted to go into the Rangers/SF. Any other suggestions?
>I'd also probably like to switch out of the service and join either police or FBI/CIA/NSA even though I don't really trust the CIA. Point is, I feel like this is my calling.

I'm fairly smart (33 ACT's) but I don't try here in college. I'm not gonna enlist until after I graduate cause I promised my parents. Any suggestions/tips/stories are much appreciated.

enlisting with a college degree is stupid
enlisting while being smart and having a college degree is even more stupid, you will hate your life and resent everyone around you because the military is full of literally the bottom of the barrel of society
I don't even advise being an officer, there's lots of downsides to that as well but I'm less experienced in that department because I wasn't one
but if you want to try to commission as an officer in the rangers I'm sure it can be a rewarding experience, being at least partially in command will offset how fucking stupid everyone around you is
just make sure you think everything through before committing years of your life to uncle sam, I wish I had

also being enlisted doesn't give you any more of a chance to enter combat so if that's your rationale it's flawed

You’d start at a higher pay grade. A lot of people do it. Honestly it’s been great for me so far. If you want to see action guaranteed, the only way to do that is either 1) go special forces or 2) enlist with the National Guard with a combat MOS and put yourself on the “seeking deployment” list. But the NG is very hard to get a spot in full time, so there’s that. There are a lot of guys in the Guard who spend more time in Afghanistan than USA, though, even now.

I enlisted with a degree in biology. I have 4 days left til my ETS date but I'm home already on terminal leave. I served for 3 years 19 weeks as infantry and was stationed with the 101st. Ask me anything

Why did you choose not to commission?

I'll start with these.
>>Is anyone enlisted here? I'd rather be enlisted than an officer. Shooting bad guys.
Both officers and enlisted shoot bad guys in the infantry. If you go officer route you'll do their basic training, some additional training and get to choose your 10 top picks for what you want to do but ultimately based on your skill set (leadership abilities, physical strength, etc) they will put you where they deem best fit. However almost all officers (male for now) get what is called "time on the line" meaning they lead a platoon of enlisted infantry. This is because as a 2LT and 1LT you need to get platoon leader time in order to advance in the ranks. I did not choose this route because at the time when I enlisted it was a minimum 5 year active and 3 year reserved commitment. I'm glad I went enlisted for other reason outside of the shorter commitment time.
>>I've always wanted to go into the Rangers/SF. Any other suggestions?
If you go officer you will almost always get a 100% chance after your basic training to do ranger school. My suggestion is if you are serious about it get physically fit. Ranger school and SF are more cardio than lifting big.
>>I'd also probably like to switch out of the service and join either police or FBI/CIA/NSA even though I don't really trust the CIA. Point is, I feel like this is my calling.
Transitioning to become an officer is easier than any 3 letter organization. Hopefully you get a deployment under your belt and you see combat because it gives you a higher chance to do the cool guy in the black suit job. Regardless, they give rank a lot of regard meaning enlisted side you at least have to become an e-5. Officer side it's whatever because you lead enlisted regardless of what you do (see what I said about time on the line).

When I signed the dotted line I didn't want to do the time commitment the officer side required. After getting in I'm glad I did enlisted instead of officer.

If I were Canadian I would enlist in the British military so I could get citizenship after 3 years.
America Commonwealth nation when?

that makes sense, officers in my rate were 8 year commitment vs 6 year for enlisted so that was less of an issue