Should You Join The Military? 

I keep thinking about this German soldier's diary I listened to a reading of. He joined the Luftwaffe thinking he was going to flight training. He showed up to flight school only to be put onto a truck with his fellow new students, given a rifle, and sent to the eastern front. That's where the diary ended.

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As a veteran the answer is absolutely NO.

I enlisted in 75, entered active duty in 76, and retired in 97. I got a good job skill, lots of experience at hard work, got married, raised two adults with my wife and enjoyed a good life for the most part. You'd better have "thick skin", courage to run your own life, and motivation to excel on your own. Lacking any of these personal aspects will seriously disappoint you, it won't deliver more than you choose to accept. We've never had a more broken system in my lifetime, it was pretty broken in the seventies, well run, solid in the eighties, and falling apart in the nineties. These things are always cyclical, don't join unless you are willing to dedicate your time regardless of "the times" or you will be quite unhappy. One can easily get a good education because of service, in or out, but it's no magic carpet ride, you will pay in blood and pain. Semper Fi, John McClain, GySgt, USMC, ret.

Thanks for sharing this! I have been battling with myself with the exact logic. I expected not to agree, but I COMPLETELY agree with you 100%

I joined in ‘03 and I’m about 5 months from retiring and I can’t put into words how great it was for me especially now that I’m retiring. With that said seeing how it’s changed and is politically driven if I currently was at 6 or 8 years I wouldn’t stay me personally, and the physical and mental toll is real my knees are destroyed, bad back, hearing, etc.

Thank you for being honest.

Great video! Thank you for your service. I’m very glad to have joined the military. It taught me lessons about life I took for granted before. Deep lesson like freedom, opportunity and being with the best group of people.

Thank you for expressing this. I saw enough when I dipped my toes in as a contractor and heard enough from my vet relatives, to where I swore off enlisting long ago. However, as a warrior, this has created a conflict of interest in my life where I've felt like a nomad everywhere else. You outlined my own philosophy on things in a way that grants it dignity. It gets really old hearing veterans completely disregard your experiences and hardships immediately with the "You never served so you have no right to speak." No, I've been through enough to know better than to get involved with Unkie Sam at this point in history. Even as just a contractor, what you said about the emotional strain and ruin of relationships hit home. Thanks for what you do Chadd.

Great information, honest and straight forward. I agree with your opinion on the "threat from within". WE ARE ALWAYS GROWING

NOT UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION! They have showed us they don't care about OUR SOLDIERS or AMERICANS by their actions. (AFGANISTAN WITHDRAWEL) is one example! fjb!

Excellent video. Thank you.

Wow.. stunning amount of truth.. your making it so that we can't live without you.. my Christian heart grieves most days for lack of truth.. but not today..

Great advice!

Don’t join the military if you are looking for adventure. Join a hotshot crew and fight wildfires.

All our kids should be made to serve some branch our services. My son had so many positive things going on & there was a few bad things. All in all i told him if he didn't try he would regret it the rest of his life because he had what it takes and did nothing, it would haunt him later in life. It has made him a very rounded individual, im proud of my 25th inf.div. Cav. Scout. Now its the firefighter academy. God Bless you and yours, thanks for what you do

Great and honest advice! 👏🇺🇸

Dude, this is awesome perspective!

Interesting and sounds like a lot of good advice. Realistic view of the present situation.

Thank you for your information. I have done a little bit of research and asking close friends if I should join. A lot of people say no. Thanks for the information.

Couldn't agree more with this. Follow your ❤.

Excellent talk and insights. 'Nuff said.

I was blessed in my military to military marriage. There were a few times I deployed shortly after she got back from her deployments. The hardest was deploying a few weeks after our daughter was born. We got through it though and now we are both enjoying our retirement.

Great talk brother

Did 6 years in the Army reserves 2013-2019. Going back into the Army but active duty. Doing a different MOS. Being reserves I've had many different jobs in the real world but I didn't feel like I got the full Army experience since I was in the reserves. This time around I'm really striving to do everything I can. Will I make a career out of it? Who knows but the civilian life has it's downsides too. I am greatful to have learned skills now that I can use in the military the 2nd time around. Just general life skills that also come with being a little bit older. Worked many different types of jobs for the purpose of adding tools to my tool belt however those jobs never really gave me a sense of greater purpose. I got 1 life to live and I'm not wasting it anymore.

2000-2012 11B....... There is absolutely no way I would ever join this woke military!

The hearing issue is no lie, after 24 years of working on the flight line I cant hear with my left ear and I am 60% deaf in the other. As a Navy brat I tried working as a civilian for a couple of years before joining. I just wasn’t cut out for that life. Once I enlisted it just felt right. My Dad retired as a Master Chief. I can take an ass chewing. He prepared my whole life for the military.

Absolutely on target as always 👍

Good morning brother . Great video . I have the privilege of living close to Fort Knox Kentucky . I ride bicycles almost daily with many military guys . Most of them are retired and they are great guys living and enjoying their lives to the fullest . You are so spot on about this country rotting from the inside . My favorite thing about retirement and living close to a large military base is most of the people you meet and deal with on a day to day basis are outstanding upright people and military families are same . You can generally pick out military kids very quickly on how they address you and carry themselves .

Chadd speaks truth!

Joined the Army in the 80s at 17 and it made me a better man. Overall viewed it as a positive experience but agree it can take a toll on you mentally and physically that you will never completely heal from. Don't recommend joining military now because of all the reason that Chadd lays out.

I bet 13 years in a fast moving life was a challenge bud and I thank you for your time and service to our country CW .

Preach brother.

Absolutely great advice. Thank you.

Amen brother.

Great message Chad! Thanks for your service and sharing brother.

Well spoken brother

I served over 20 years ago and the first point about making mistakes has another benefit. Yes you are held accountable for mistakes, but there’s also mistakes you can make in the military that have less consequences than in the civilian world (for example being too blunt with coworkers).

Very informative and eye opening video coming from a Navy Seal. I thought about joining at the age of 40 as an officer in USAF. It would be really cool if you could also do a video about older people joining as well. This was a great video. Specially the last section.

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very wise advice!

Well put

Great video

Not unless you wanna take the MARK.

Just found your channel and I find it enjoyable. I wasn't in the military but I was a first responder on 9 11. That gave me a skill set that is unique to a situation like that. I often ask myself if I would risk my life and my health responding to another attack if God forbid that happens. I'm not sure. The innocents need to be helped but the government is as you sad rotted. Hopefully I never have to make the choice because it wouldn't be a easy one

I wouldn't advise going in today

I really appreciate the message here, thank you Chadd!!

I graduated USAF pilot training and had 2 years in Vietnam, not consecutively. Fulfilled my 4 year commitment. Pay was ok, plus combat and flight pay. I had made the decision to leave the service, so there was no going back, and since the war was over I knew things would change in the USAF. It was a tumultuous time in our country's history and I had to put it behind me and move on. My life has worked out pretty successfully since then. I'd do it all over again if we were at war, but I wouldn't want to do any job other than a pilot or some special operations positions. My advice to anyone considering the military is to get your college degree and go in as an officer. But, you have to consider the political environment and the woke bullshit going on now. It would suck and I'd probably get kicked out for not being able to put up with it.

Amen brother

Good morning!

Agreed 100%

I would encourage people to do it, especially if they are young and single, and things aren’t great. Most people don’t get to or are not cut out for special operations, but if you want, you can serve in one of the many many positions available which will translate to civilian jobs very well. Not able to be in a really physical role? No college? You can become a radiologist, or a dental technician, you can work in financial fields, food service, air traffic control, you can earn your airframe and powerplant license and become a aircraft mechanic in the civilian world like I did, become a firefighter, and it’s not just the g.I. Bill. You can spend your active duty time going to say, the community college of the Air Force, and earn a degree in essentially anything you want, and then take that, or a degree in say engineering from university of Maryland and go on to try to become an officer or take the degree outside the military. If you do it, I would encourage you to make it your focus. 30 years ago I met so many folks in the military who treated their lives there like prison sentences, not taking advantage of their opportunities to grow and acting like they had not started life yet. They never got anything that translated to life after the military. If you have the ability to dedicate yourself to something and you have the mindset that you’re going to spend that time enriching yourself while you’re giving of yourself, you can turn a life where you’re lacking prospects into a real success.

This is absolutely the worst time to be joining any military branch in the USA. Brandon and our administration has ruined everything and it is dangerous enough being lead by people like them and the higher ups within the branches. I 100% would not join today.

I served 23 years with four tours and I was thankfully able to talk my sons out of joining. It broke my heart but the military is an fing dumpster fire currently. Rangers lead the way!

I did 24 years Navy 1980-2004, submarine service. When asked my answer is always the same: if you want to join, it is much better to join in as an officer, with a BS degree or the ROTC route, if you can't get into an academy.

Almost every single male and a few females in my family have served since immigrating here in the early 1900s. We all used to recommend it to pretty much everyone. Given everything that’s happened over the last 20 years, and the last 5 ish especially, not one more member of my family will ever join again. We advise everyone to stay far far away from it now. Most other vets are doing the same.

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I just finished up my 20, I say no. Go to trade school, learn HVAC, pipe fitting, welding etc, live below your means, buy land in a red state, build a house off grid and raise a family under God. Eat most of your own grown/raised food and as your money grows, buy land around you. I say that too say this, I dropped out of computer school because of 9/11 in 2001. I joined, deployed a bunch and loved that era...2009/2010 DoD turned into a social experiment and started spiraling out of control, fast.

100% agree

so Yes

The military pretty much sucks. I was an airborne infantryman for several years and was honorably discharged. I can say it was one of the least satisfying and most demeaning experiences of my life. Rewards such as promotions and medals aren't given based on experience or performance, but according to gender and how good one is at making others look good. I earned a perfect PT (fitness test) score the whole time I was in. I was The soldier of the quarter for the entire U.S. Army Europe. I had combat deployments. People in my chain of command held these things against me and I wasn't the only one. Thjere's a reason why so few people reenlist. When I first joined the food was ok, but then they turned it into Macdonand's. The whole environment became toxic with everyone afraid to speak any kind of truth for fear of offending someone and having their career destroyed. They often punish you emotionally and physically just because they don't like you personally. There is no trust. No cameradery, no honor. To put it more clearly, It sucks in pretty much every way. DON'T DO IT!!!

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I got out of high school [n 1967.I went to diesel mech school for 2 years and then started working pn big trucks and bulldozers.I got married in 1971 and joined the Marine Corps in 1972 at age 24.When I got out I stayed at Camp Lejeune N.C. I went to work on the base for the next 30 years It worked out for me. James

Yes sir Chadd, when I got out in 89, people just don't care. I here ya bro. I just loved serving, and still am a patriot....what's your thought on Toby Kieths service to us? HOOAH.... Love ya bro....

Great talk brother!!! I couldn’t agree more with everything you said and you clearly though deeply on this subject.

I do not know about spec ops, that wasn't my thing, but I do know that most who serve in the combat arms: infantry, armor etc... will pay a price of some sort as they, along with spec ops, carry the load. Your service will come at a cost if you serve in a time of war, whatever war that may be. It may not be an immediate price, but the bill will come due at some point.

Thank you brother, this video was very timely. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for speaking.

Tough question, after 30 years of government service I can’t even bring myself to tell anyone what I did. When asked I simply say I worked for a living and that’s all.

Your stories are required listening Mr Wright ... more please ... nuff said

Roger that. I appreciate you, Chadd. Glad I made the right choice a few years ago to not go back.

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Mornin brother

NO, HELL NO. Get trained by former spec/ops yes. And then train and prep like a madman. 1/75

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915-1934 United States occupation of Haiti. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering. The work is divided into five chapters: War is a racket Who makes the profits? Who pays the bills? How to smash this racket! To hell with war! It contains this summary: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. Butler confesses that during his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

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Actively search out a person/group that are prior mil and train with them. We will be fighting some of the “military” before too long.

Hey chadd, active duty USMC sergeant here. I get out in 5 days after a 5 year contract. The military has become the softest, most tolerable organization as of recent because of this political climate. I’ve done multiple detachments, I engage in excruciatingly hard PT 5-6 days a week on my own time, I still hold myself to the same standard I was taught when I was a boot and I am now a leader of over 50 Marines in my shop. What my 5 years has taught me was 1) no one is going to put in the work for you. 2) integrity and discipline are the only 2 characteristics that will set you apart from your peers and 3) self accountability is the only way to better yourself. How this all comes together? Those 3 strict principles do NOT get followed by newer Marines today and leadership had essentially castrated any sort of authority that the E4(corporal)-E7(gunnery sergeant) was able to administer to correct and teach young Marines. In my squadron, over the last 2 years since E.O. Complaints have become more wide spread, we are not allowed to raise our voices, we cannot make our Marines run, we cannot keep them longer than their designated work hours to correct deficiencies and we are not allowed to informally counsel or handle things our own way any longer. We are raising a force that will implode on itself because of the lack of grit and mental toughness we are able to enforce on our subordinates. Cheers from NC

Not until Potato Joe is gone.

I went in at 17 in 1984 got out in 98 ,I would mind going back in at 57 ,I'm still in good shape .

Outstanding dissertation

I wish i had the answer.

F no not with the corrupt government

Nailed it...army vet

Cool

During the desert storm my dad told me it was all about saving the Bush family oil wells. I almost joined the Navy but got into trades apprenticeship instead.

Thanks Chad, for the honest perspective.

Join only to get technical training then get out .

NOT UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION HELL NO

Good advice, one thing I would add . When you join the Military , your signing a Blank Check made payable to the United States of America.

I'm from a long line of military in my family, and I was proud to serve. At this time however, I will not recommend the military for my younger boys unless things drastically change.

If you have no plans and dk what you want NO. Do some research there’s more than just combat roles, more than just sitting in a Joe room or having to inspect the broken equipment we have. definitely can benefit from the military.

I wouldn’t right now

I learned real quik if ur gonna be stupid u better be tough

Well said Chadd ! AIRBORNE - 84 All The Way

My 18 year old son sitting next to me is listening to you and said, " why would I join an organization that celebrates gay pride month".

If I was young man and wanted to join the Military, I would join the Coast Guard. I like being on the water and doing patrols guarding our sea coast would be interesting. I like being around ships, but would not like serving on a large ship with hundreds of people.

Hooyah, sir.

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My family has served this country from the American Revolution, the second war of independence, both world war's, my dad in the frozen hell of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan including myself in the Marine Corp. No way in hell would I ever serve today nor recommend it unless our shores are actually attacked and then it would be by citizen milita. Our greatest danger today is in Washington DC and it's corrupt bloated government. China is our greatest foreign threat and always has been yet because of greed be continue to do business with the devil. Thank's for all you do Chadd.

I wanted to do my part for my country, but realized that joining the military would both not be the greatest use of my skillset nor would it be the best benefit to the country. I decided to join as a DoD civilian and support the warfighter. We interface with them regularly, and I love my job making a difference in the lives of thousands of our warfighters.