Enlistment progress/update

[Kilted Heathen]

Son, you have already been warned about your mouth and attitude. I am not going to warn you. You are about to step into my world I am not trying to step into yours. I am not your buddy so address me by my full user name because this "Kilted" shit does not fly. I suggest you offer the other members the same courtesy.
I have read your intro and I am not impressed.

[IEDmagnet]

"You, this is me... adjust fire over."

...This is what I thought when I saw Purple's "zzzzzzzzzz".

On a side note Ginger, you have waffled more times than Waffle House. The best advise I can give you has already been given... two eyes, two ears, one mouth. Sort ya shit out Hammer... these are serious decisions for You and the people you are going to potentially serve with. You better be damn sure you know what you want and what it will take to get there and be effective. In this world, peoples lives depend on it...and generally speaking the being indecisive never gets the decision maker killed. It's the people he has around him that die.

[Ginger960]

I'm not asking anyone to be impressed. I'm not mouthing off to anyone. It must just be easier for everyone to decide on life decisions then me. All I hear about is, "Man I got fucking screwed by the military. I should have done (super long list of things) instead when I was signing up and I'd be so much better off."


Originally Posted by Ginger960
Exactly. Never fear, I refuseeeee to go to some comm job and even though the other jobs in the Big Green Machine have great purpose and maybe need bodies, I think I could be more valuable busting my ass in a field where physicality is a must. I feel like my recruiter is gonna want to punch me in the head for this, but I just don't want to bite off more then I can chew. The challenge that being a paratrooper represents feels like something I would literally enjoy, but the SF or Ranger challenges feel like they'd be too much for me and that I'd screw myself over and v.w. and get stuck doing something I don't want to do.



Become a fucking LEG or stay the fuck home.

That was all I said. I was repsonding to jeff82 and IEDMagnets' advice. I wasn't disrespectful and was glad to hear the opinions on it. I'm sorry if it came off that way. Right after I said it, you told me to be a leg which seems to be something no one here really likes so I asked ya why and you told me I didn't even deserve that. I still don't know why. I'm behaving and working out hard and doing whatever it takes to do what I want which is be a paratrooper and figured I should make a thread like other wannabes about my progress. What I'm asking is why you told me that I might as well not become anything I want to be. Hassling me for being a wannabe is expected and comes with the territory. Same with what everyone did to me for speaking out of line in the beginning of me being here. Just coming to the thread and saying, "Fuck you. You don't have any place wanting para," when I was reporting on enlistment progress and asking for advice seems out of place, Kilted Heathen.

[KS110]

1. Making little faces like :/ is fucking gay
2. Look at the length of your posts, and the length of posts by men who have actually accomplished the shit you're interested in doing (the users with all those little ribbons and tabs under their names). Like Mike said, "two eyes, two ears, one mouth". It means shut up and listen
3. I hope you realize how big of a favor MM11C did you. Having a recruiter who gives a shit can make or break a career

I'd say good luck but I don't believe in that shit. Decide what you want and go for it.

[KS110]

Holy fucking shit I just saw your new post. Dude, sometimes you need to just STFU and carry on.

KH is gonna eat your fucking brains.

[IEDmagnet]

Yet another reason Kevin is on the short list of Legs I like.... and yep... KH is going to kill him.

[Gato Rojo]

Ginger, check your PM.

[Bell]

You'd better listen. I already told ya your problem is you. Back up and think. awww fuck it. I'm done here.

[Kilted Heathen]

Well, seems I have been counseled.
Here's my last input. You feel you would be more "valuable" as a "para"...actually you want instant cool but dont feel the need to go another mile. You refuuuuse to take a more menial role such as commo? Those guys are walking patrols every day. LEG or not they are walking the walk. Now then, I can talk shit about LEGs and you cannot. That's the rules. You can talk back all you like on the internet but in our world that shit simply won't fly. I don't give a fuck what you do just fucking do it. I want Hadji to have more fucking targets than me and my boys.
One last thing....when you step into the world of Infantry you will most likely run into me somewhere.

You better have your game face on.

[Ops NCO]

Just coming to the thread and saying, "Fuck you. You don't have any place wanting para," when I was reporting on enlistment progress and asking for advice seems out of place, Kilted Heathen.

I know it doesn't look like it from your vantage point, but Mr. Heathen is actually giving you some valuable professional development here. You will, should you successfully enter our world, have to deal with more than one seemingly difficult drill instructor, Black Hat, team leader, training officer, etc. It comes with the territory, if you want to be in a high-calibre unit with soldiers at that level. It's all part of the assessment process to ensure you have what it takes.

Learning how to deal with people like him is as important as learning how to do a pushup, or to develop and execute an OpOrder.

Not all of us are nice guys.

[Purple]

Somebody wanna send Ginger the Chaplain's DSN so he can make an appointment to talk with someone who is paid to sit patiently and listen to such twaddle...

Purple

[Sprinter922]

Listen, Ginger960, take it from me. Less posting, more doing. I'm telling you this because I have been there before, in every imaginable aspect. One thing I've learned through 6 straight years of trying to get into SPECWAR is you simply need to listen more and do less; ask questions when they mean something *e.g. at a physical, at an exam, during a board, etc.*. These men, regardless of their profession, have been through shitty times before; so take what they say and move forward or you won't get anywhere.

[Mortarman11c]

Ginger...back the fuck up, regroup, and check yer fucking head space and timing. Worst of all, your making me look fucking bad!! That pisses me the fuck off! I fucking put my shit on the line for you and your whining like an ugly freshmen bitch who didn't get asked to the prom!

Your fucking up by the numbers and can't see the forest for the trees. I'd HIGHLY advise you to heed the advice already given. Don't tell me I made a mistake by trying to hook you up. If I think that, don't think I won't place another phone call and have the Staff Sergeant drop you like a hot fucking hot.

Your talking like a fucking LEG! We do not like that attitude here. We do not help LEGs.....unless they want Airborne School.

Had you actually fucking LISTENED to our phone conversation, I TOLD you the road to 18x was first by completing the 11X program at Benning. That way if you did BOLO selection, you'd find your ass in Division!

Sweet Jumping Jesus son, we are actually trying to help you.

Suck it the fuck up and drive on........

[Mortarman11c]

Tick Tock Ginger, what's yer status?

[Gato Rojo]

My guess is we hurt his feelings and he off licking his wounded pride.