Comment on Paid Leave Olympics

• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I suppose. I’m far more likely to die in a helicopter crash. Never been shot at, nor have just about anybody I’ve worked with. The only people who have gone to a war zone in the past couple decades were people who specifically requested it.

  Though I have worked with a few who survived helicopter crashes (five, between two crashes), so definitely not without its dangers. That’s the specific job I chose, though. Plenty of jobs in the Coast Guard with paper cuts or oven-related burns as the most danger they’ll experience.

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  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good high school friend of mine was career Coast guard. He was a flight commander for one of those big helicopters and retired with some high falutin’ upper level officer rank.

    He told me that there were a lot of details he couldn’t tell me but that he’d lost several of his colleagues in crashes.

    He also implied that there were some bullets flying out of fast boats coming from the south.

    Poor guy took up regional jet piloting right after he retired and almost immediately got the Parkinson’s. To conclude and show his character, he self reported himself out of a job long before the symptoms were externally visible.

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  • Doxatek@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s true! There can definitely be really good opportunities there. I just like to be contrarian

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• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’d be cool except the non zero chance of catching a bullet

  In the coast guard? I think you’d have a higher risk just walking in many cities.

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  • Doxatek@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well more just the military in general. It’s mostly just free college roulette. My uncle got free college but also he was almost blown up in a rocket attack. His friends from the same rocket attack didn’t make it to college…

    I mostly hear military people from where I am say “there is free education! You pansies just have to earn it” idk just seems problematic to me haha

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well there’s a lot of roles you can join for with basically no risk of being shot…

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