21:18 These are so hard to watch. I'm glad people are getting them for faking it. Real military men and women lost their lives serving their countries. The big question is why.

Many of these things are common to all branches of the service. I retired from the Navy in 1995. On ship while in port duty varies from one day in three to one day in six. Guard duty can be rough depending on what you are guarding. 4 hours at night in a 4X8 foot room that you can’t leave even to whiz. And there is only a red light that provides just enough light to write in the log book. Short fuse events, a semi pulls on the pier 25 minutes before knock off and it takes 5 hours to strike the load below with a crane. Hurry up and wait, in line to eat, get paid, see medical, liberty boat, in Vietnam wait in line to get shot at (there wasn’t enough room for all three ships to go into Haiphong Harbor at one time and all three had to be there in case one got hit.). Do this 2-4 times a night for two weeks. Standing at quarters for entering port 2+ hours.

I found the real soldier quite easily on RU-vid video about military romance scsm Photos. Haha, he was the most handsome of all, that was a weakness for me but I overcame it 😅

Can you get a football scholarship into Westpoint?

We called the GCM the "Gotta- way Clean Medal;" One for each three years of undetected crimes!

The worst part is serving with dirty criminals and getting punished for what they do.

Omg, the army is full of snowflakes Get a real job and see how long you last Oh wait you did, that why you signed Uncle Sam wiping your ass

Biggest mistake ever, online dating, unless you want to date a bot or a scammer.

Our barracks in Germany were built in the 1930s during the German army buildup for WW2..had 3-4 man rooms..

I’ve always wondered exactly what the Army teaches you in Boot Camp as opposed to the Air Force. So many people in the Army regardless of whether they’re an E2 or E8 are blunt, unfiltered, no moral compass, berating subordinates, and spouting off one F-bomb after another. In the Air Force, this would be considered totally unacceptable behavior today.

That suicide rate though, smh

It seamed to me that when I pulled CQ when I was junior, and later as a NCO on Staff Duty, It always fell on Daylight Saving Time night. Turning back the clock at 0200 to 0100 really sucked. Love your videos. Retired E-8 1971-1992.👍👍

Great gig, but from what i hear slots are few and far between so good luck actually getting a 12m slot.

My dad was a marine and he said it is absolutely impossible for a 21 year old to be a major

I’m prior service I was discharged in boot camp with a RE-4 code and I still wanna serve I was told by a recruiter that I can submit a waiver but with me being discharged not even a month ago the chances are next to zero for being approved he said come back in 3 years after the diagnosis and submit the waiver when it’s easiest to be approved

Regarding some of the wrong reasons to commit yourself to a military service contract, the very worst reason in my opinion (Retired military [Navy and Army and Navy Reserve and Guard]) is using such a means to escape from a personal problem because you're then left with multiple years of extreme regret that can lead to a life of destructive behavior, such as bad conduct discharge behaviors, drug and/or alcohol abuse, and the very worst act of desperation: suicide. That's a lot of drama and trauma because you hastily joined the military immediately after a hard breakup from your girlfriend.

Don’t get stationed in South Korea. There’s a curfew. Absolutely ridiculous. We’re grown adults.

I want to do Cartography 🗺

Christopher, I am absolutely fascinated with your content. My pansy ass was never in the Military, but I found a lot of what you described in this video very relatable! Even the anxieties you mentioned make total sense to me. I actually feel a little validated as a human from this video. Thanks again for sharing your story! PS: my background is the energy industry and we are trailed to ALWAYS back into parking spots so that if there’s an emergency, our first movement of forward. I don’t think I could even drive forward into a parking stall now. 😂

Hey military guys, are non combat roles looked down upon? I don't know, someone has to do it, just wondering about that.

Medical personnel have a killer called - “on call.” You work all day and have to be available for emergencies all night. If you get assigned to a small shop and the other person is on leave you can be on call for two weeks, you work all day, everyday and on call all night. Your family knows they won’t see you when you’re on call.

I was in aviation. We always had flight ops 24 hrs a day. Our jobs,staff duty,cq etc all overlapped

It is available for reserves, Im about to be transferred to a cav scout unit

Mandatory fun, spoiler it's not fun just give em the day off.

I Leave October 22nd

any advice for basic training in Fort Moore

Well it may be great or it may suck or maybe in between to be honest. When I was active duty I was single and this may surprise you but you get treated like a kid, atleast I did anyways for the most part. Let me tell you what I mean because I saw it a lot with single soldiers, especially if you looked under 30 years old. For some reason if you join the active duty U.S. Army and live in the barracks your leadership feels a need to treat you like a 13 year old when you’re atleast 18, a legal adult, by inspecting your room every other day when married folk get checked like only twice a year, tell you to shower when you obviously shower without needing to be told, getting yelled at for following orders, and get yelled at for asking a question like where’s the battalion headquarters for a meeting there because you literally just there a month ago and don’t know where everything is yet because 30 days obviously isn’t long enough to know what’s on the entire huge army base. Also I knew a 36 year old but he looked young though, he only looked 23 so people who didn’t really know him thought he looked that young so he was also treated that way, because he lived in the barracks but he actually was a 36 year old man and older then most of those leaders who treated us that way and I also I knew a guy who claimed he was only 24 but legit looked 35 so he wasn’t quite as treated like a kid despite living in the barracks because he looked older.

One thing I hate is that many soldiers think Cam Newton is the best college football player in history when really JJ Mccarthy is the best college football player in history.

To be fair to you, you're more out of breath than your companion because you're doing a lot of talking. I'm the same, when I'm walking uphill and I'm talking, I get out of breath. I'm coming to Colorado end of this week (I'm from the UK), and intend to do this with my American partner :)

If you’re a single soldier do anything you can possibly do to not go to 2CR. There’s no USO, 1 gym 0 actual restaurants to go in. Everything worth a fuck is in Graf.

Think 30 years down the line. Get everything on your records.

Leadership having the company have MREs when there is a DFAC about half a click away. Theyd have us do this sometimes at Bullis.

Thought Benning was the only place where infantry were trained. I met an older gentleman once that told me he was a Vietnam vet. When i asked him about basic, he told me he did basic at Fort Polk. Still a bit confused about that one.

When you more than 200 days on profile which way they gonna use?

"Metal 0-1 is OFCOM to to you, over"

Hate to ask but could a non combat deployment become a combat deployment

It's the Army's own fault that I had zero desire to reenlist. Too much stupid crap for me to live with to list. A few things, mass punishment. Being put on lockdown for something someone did on the other side of base that you have no idea who or what. Having people dumber than you in charge of you. Parade duty for higher ups changing bases that you give zero cares about, typically on a sunny weekend. Being treated like a child at all times. Holding a leadership position without given the rank or pay. Being sent to Korea North of the Imjin for 1.5 years. Jody.

I recall a time back in 1991 when I had gotten in a bit of trouble and had been given extra duty. Top had messed up and scheduled someone for CQ who was on vacation. He came to me and said if I'd take over the CQ he'd take the last three days off of my extra duty, so I agreed. The only problem was it was a Friday to Saturday CQ duty and he neglected to inform the next CQ that I no longer had to report for extra duty. Here, I just got off of 24 hour watch and had to report for two more hours of extra duty. Of course, Top had gone on a fishing trip that weekend and could not be reached. Also, one time on bivouac, I had just gotten off of a 4 hour watch out in the foxhole guarding our base camp. I was returning to my tent when the "enemy" attacked. According to the SOP, when we're attacked we man our foxhole. My relief never showed up and I spent 10 hours in that foxhole watching the seasons go by. The sun was out in the morning, it rained in the afternoon and snowed in the evening as temperatures fell.

On the piss test could I have just pissed in a water bottle and held it till I get called.?

Think you could add chapter breaks to the vid for each section?

sup, Chaos.

The thing that pissed me off the most was when I was in Alaska. They called a alert on us went got our vehicles went out backgate to Air Force base and they spilled fuel on the runway. Meant more wait time!!!

I enlisted as an 88k (Watercraft Operator), haven’t shipped out yet, I have no idea if these are cons that could happen while aboard a ship or not. Anyone know?

I didn't serve, but my son is in the Army. I love your videos because they help me understand what he's going through. Thanks