Going to meps in two days, and I'm swearing in for the navy

Going to meps in two days, and I'm swearing in for the navy.
Military fags give me tips and advice for meps/basic/military life.

>don't volunteer for anything at boot camp
>don't make friends with anyone at boot camp until you are 100% sure they're not going to piss you off at some point

And since you're navy I'll add some extra advice,

>use lots of lube and relax your entire body, not just your anus.

Did you work out and train your body before you started the process for swearing in?

Do you recommend another branch?

I'm doing this to get out of the small hell hole town i live in, deep south. Wanna travel and build a little something for myself.

No, but I'm not out of shape or anything. I'm 5'11 and 140 pounds. Just a skinny white guy honestly.

My brother was the same just a little shorter and he got stress fractures in his legs during boot camp so you might get the same

if you want rank, then volunteer for a job while there. if you dont want to get beet dont be a fuck up. niggers cant swim but if you laugh youll get in trouble. the niggers will dance and sing randomly be prepared for it. try to stay as clean as possiable boot is a den of disease

i aint no milfag but thanks for your service, good luck, dont drown or get shot.

My plan was to not volunteer for anything, do what I'm told, and keep my bunk made and organized and to just try to stay under the radar. Be a ghost. Don't want anyone to even remember I was there.

Dude, it's easy. Just follow orders. Don't ask questions, just DO. I've been in the navy for 14 years. That's really all the advice you need to get through basic.

showing leadership could lead to being arpoc which will guarentee a promotion. practice marching in step now your gonna be doing alot of it and if you look good doing it thats a good thing

Try to get a position called "Forward Hold PO." I got that shit and it was so cash. All I did was sit in there and read letters at night and hang out with my best friend there who was my assistant. Also, study your START guide. Like, no shit if you can do 60 pushups, 60 situps, and get a 1.5 mile run down in 12:00 AND pass the test, you've won E2. What rate (job) did you sign up to do?

You'll be yelled at and smoked* a lot, but don't quit. SERIOUSLY, DON'T FUCKING QUIT. If you do, it will haunt you for the rest of your life, and probably hinder future employment opportunities.

Also, since it's Navy and not batshit crazy Marines, you *may* get drilled by Marine TI's from time to time. It's normal, you'll still be a sailor.

*Smoked==="corrective discipline," meaning exercise.

Just be there for your fellow soldiers, show up, give 100%, and don't disappoint.

Join the airforce, they have better food and better conditions, if you join the navy you are going to be on a crammed ship with nothing to do for months at a time.

Take a shit and don't wipe your ass before you go.

Don't do it, do literally anything else.

Okay, Ted (Nugent).

See if you can get your contract looked over by a lawyer before signing if you really want the bonuses. I don't know how it is nowadays but back in 06-07 they looked for absolutely any loophole to deny everyone's signing bonuses, school completion bonuses, etc. You can't have your GI bill taken away, luckily. I dunno if that kind of stuff still happens nowadays, but better safe than sorry.

ex navyfag here. It's normal to feel anxious about it, OP. You're going to be making a big transition, but it's worth it. Go with the flow.

Don't do active duty. I did reserves for the Navy for IT and always got shit for it at basic. They're the losers now complaining they have to help sweep and mop the floors while I enjoy a nice comfy, high paying job in the civilian side. Get to play navy on the weekends. I also got a bonus btw

Navyfag here.
Been in about 3 years.
Shit is okay... The pay and benefits are good. I actually enjoy it. Boot camp sucks but that seems like a distant memory at this point. Barely remember shit from it.
Navy is the best branch. Fuck the air force. Fuck the army. Navy and the Marines are the only good branches, but don't join the marines unless your a glutton for punishment.
Ask me anything OP. I'm not good with blanket explanations of navy life. I need specific questions.
Also, what rate are you going for?

Don't fall for the first chick you meet outside the US, they want citizenship and anchor babies and will treat you like an absolute god until they get it, then ditch you, or rope you into paying them alimony and then ditching you.

One would think that's self explanatory but there's always some naive, female-attention-starved schmuck who falls for the first woman who feigns interest in him and winds up paying for it, literally, for the remainder of their lives.

Is it worth it?
For someone like me I guess. I don't want to be in debt and go to school. I'm able to take orders and follow instructions and will do whatever I'm asked to the best of my ability and I'll help anyone who needs/asks. I don't pick fights with people. I'm not gungho about the military, but I figure it's just 4 years of my life to build stability and maybe have some good experiences in it.
I haven't picked a job yet, I do that at meps. But I've been looking into intel specialists. I can't swim well but I'm not really worried about any of that too much.

I just wanna know if someone like me who's kinda indifferent to it and doesn't hate it or like it think's its alright. Manageable i guess. There isn't a single profession I'm passionate about so I have nothing to follow.

Yeah fuck that. I'll stick to hooking up or if I meet someone I think is worth it just keeping it boyfriend/girlfriend. If they can't do long distance then they aren't right for someone in the military anyway.

Also I don't completely know how meps is. I'm there for two days and the first day I'm just doing my asvab since my last score expired. After the test, I'm assuming you can't leave the hotel. Is it acceptable to just hangout in your room? Was going to bring like my laptop or something.

Except all the buggery.

It's worth it. I'm gonna do 20 years because that pension tho. I'm only 21 and I live ina 2 story beachfront house in hawaii. They treat their people very well. I'm also not all murica fuck yeah. I'm just a whore that sold myself to the highest bidder. Whatever job gives me and my wife the best life we possibly can live. I'm on shore duty right now which is why shit is pretty easy. I'm going to ship next year... I guess I'll see what that's like.
I'm also in intel. Intel jobs have the highest chance of back to back shore duties. Which is gold in the navy.

>Whatever job gives me and my wife the best life we possibly can live. I'm on shore duty right now which is why shit is pretty easy. I'm going to ship next year... I guess I'll see what that's like.

Wew lad. What it's gonna be like is your wife's going to have more trains run on her than Grand Central Station. Hey, what's her number?

Kek
Dumb shits like you thinking ever military wife is a whore. Can't blame you. Most are. I'm not like the other 99.99999% of service members who marry some bitch they met at a 18+ club 3 months before tying the knot at a courthouse in Biloxi, Mississippi
My wife and I have been together since high school. I'm not some dumbass who marries a girl he hardly knows. But sadly... what you described happens a lot. Which is why OP should steer clear of the countless thots that try to marry service members with the sole intent of ripping them off.

I'm 20. I'm single though so I won't be living off base. I'll be doing the barracks life. So I'm sure that's a completely different experience

I lived in the barracks for a while. It can be really bad depending on the actually facilities themselves. The first barracks I was in back in Pensacola, Florida where okay. Then I was in pearl harbor barracks for about 8 months and it sucked ass. It's a coin toss really.
Intel ranks up quick and once you make E5 you get to live off base. I made e5 in 2 1/2 years.
I'd be living off base even if I wasn't married.

>My wife and I have been together since high school

It's cute that you think that makes it less likely that she'll cheat.

"Oh, honey, I'm so sorry. It's just that we got married so young, and I was so lonely when you were gone, and I was confused and it just happened abloo abloo".

It's not the 1950s. Women have no sense of shame anymore because society won't shame them. Never marry your high school sweetheart in a society that thinks it's good for women to spend their 20s fucking around before settling down at 30+.

Good luck, though, m80.

Will I be able to just do my job, and go home wether that be barracks or whatever and just sit on my computer or play some video games or watch a movie for a couple of hours. As long as I can do that I'm fucking fine lmao. That's my me time. What about off days, is that a thing?

Yeah dude, That's what it is. Go to work, do your shit, go home.
Unless it's a duty day
you're underway (think of it like a short deployment, your ship goes out for anywhere between a day to a month)
or your on deployment (5-9 months).
I went TAD (temporary assignment of duty) to a destroyer (coolest ship to be on) for a brief week-long underway so I could get some extra sea experience. It's pretty cool. You don't have all the luxuries of dry land but you get to know the other guys and build a bond. It's a cool experience. I don't have the insight for full fucking deployments tho.
I go to work from 7-4 and then come back home and play vidya, walk the dog, eat dinner with my wife, etc.
It's like having a normal job.

Forget to mention i work M-F
weekends are off and they're all mine. I leave on friday and do zero military anything till monday when I show back up to work.

What do you do on a typical work day? What's your work area like? Is the job difficult? What's it like?

Well i'm an IT
I deal with both intel shit and fixing fucking printers. I got to work and fix computers and make sure our intel shit is good. Just making sure all of our information systems are up and running and work well.
I like to think I'm good at my job. So good that our information systems rarely require maintenance. Some days everything breaks and I'm working hard all fucking day and some days everything is working fine and I'm watching youtube videos and looking at memes all day. It just depends.

Go Air Force if you can. Meps is one hell of a wait. You'll be waiting a lot. Try not to fall asleep. Just get through what you have to, and there should be a USO (game room) available for you.