People getting wise to the military. Many would defend their country, but don’t want to die for an oil company to make an extra thousand. Guessing which is more likely is left as an exercise for the reader.
Anon is a real 4channer and definitely not a fed
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Inucune@lemmy.world 11 months ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, catch me joining the army when we’re fighting actual nazis again. Til then I’m good at home
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“… til then I’m good at home.” Funny, that’s most likely where you’ll have to kill some Nazis next.
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And the good thing is you’ll have plenty of warning because your government is unlikely to join the war against the nazis for a good couple of years into the war against the nazis.
I jest…but kinda not really given current US foreign policy (or that of the past 100yrs tbh)
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Loonesota@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean it’s obviously total bullshit as is, but the fucking link at the bottom really seals the deal… I’m totally convinced now…
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 11 months ago
Weird, why would it be a .com link as opposed to .gov or .mil?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
Because the US government pays a private company to advertise for them
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Green text, green uniform
psmgx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re all over Reddit man
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 11 months ago
At least we’re safe here on Lemmy.
^γvɒn^ ^ǝʜɈ^ ^nioį^
RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For now
Gustephan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Be on site military contractor Told I’ll be making infinitemoney.jpg Actually make slightlymorethangs.jpg but with no pension Tfw ptsd from analyzing combat footage Tfw actively and daily shunned as “not one of us, just a dirty filthy contractor” Tfw you can’t get another engineering job because your entire portfolio is classified Tfw when there is no mental health support or support groups available for aforementioned “just a dirty filthy contractor” reasons Decide to go back to college instead of killing self Check brand new school email “Hi, my name is Sgt Fuckface! Here at the national guard we’re looking for promising young graduates like you”
CedarMadness@midwest.social 11 months ago
Tfw you can’t get another engineering job because your entire portfolio is classified
I once got a “redacted” resume from someone who used to work in defense. Basically they just had a bunch of line items like
- Developed back-end for ████████████████████ in Spring microservices, which is deployed in ██████████████████ used by ██████████ operations daily
It got the point across about their skills and honestly they got an interview from it
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I used to work for a company that contracted out programmers to a defense contractor (Northrup Grumman). It honestly never even occurred to me to redact out the stuff I worked on when I put it in my resume. Nobody said anything about that when I left the company, even though I’d gotten a security clearance to work at NG in the first place. I wonder if your “redacted” person just did it themselves to create a sense of mystery.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The way you get around it is discussing what is possible in person. You write a few bullets about your skills but not tied to the contracting. Don’t be specific, it’s not needed.
I don’t even put my military stuff on resumes anymore.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
be in military
get inconsolable trauma and my legs blown off for oil company
end up homeless anyways and die of a drug overdoseGod, I love this country. USA! USA!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
From the way you use backslashes instead of regular slashes, you already have brain damage so you may as well enlist
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I use backslashes because that’s how you create newlines with Markdown. I don’t know what your client is showing, but this is what it looks like on my end:
Crismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They forget the part where the signing bonus doesn’t exist after they finish BCT.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ball and cock torture?
neo@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Kind of yes. Wikipedia says: Basic Combat Training.
Crismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Basic Combat Training, which is about the same as what you said.
Loonesota@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How so? Is it a flat out lie, or are there costs associated with BCT?
Very funny either way, as I was thinking about signing on as a last ditch effort to set myself up a few years ago, but I ended up getting forklift certification and a CDL, and have been doing just fine since.
Crismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know that when I joined up in 1997 a lot of those bonuses simply disappeared if you didn’t keep ahold of your original paperwork. Sometimes they had a lot of hidden clauses, so you could lose the bonus for a minor infraction. Or, the bonus was really part of your pay and the full amount would be paid out after if you actually completed 8 years instead of the 2-4 year commitment you started on.
All I know is I personally ended up permanently disabled at 18 and fought with the VA until 2019 to get my disability compensation. Which they only paid me back pay from 2009 instead of from the date of disability in 1997.
Getting money from the government takes a long time. The people downwind of the Atomic test sites have been fighting 50+ years for the full payments from being irradiated during the 50’s.
But hey, joining the military is a good job if you aren’t stupid and taking a combat MOS when you could have a steady non-combat job with perks. Right now the Commissary benefits for cheap food is worth it with how food prices have been going.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
They forget to pay you as well? That was fun for me.
Mine was supposed to pay out after basic, then in two additional 1/3 installments. I got the first one, the other two never hit my account. Was told “that’s just how it is, soldier. Good luck finding someone who can make it right.”
This was from an O5 in the IG’s office.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hey man… recruiting’s fucking hard. it’s harder than ever for them to make their numbers. I feel bad for 'em because it’s fucking hopeless. but also, fuck recruiters lol, because when they stop giving fucks, you end up with someone really neet on your squad
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I hate recruiters because they encourage naive teenagers to become professional killers at an age and level of experience where they cannot understand what that means.
Half the point of basic training is to break or subvert the part of the brain that questions authority and objects to doing violence. Psychologically, humans are not designed for killing other humans. Taking a life is difficult for a good fucking reason, and bypassing that instinct is dangerous.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Half the point of basic training is to break or subvert the part of the brain that questions authority and objects to doing violence. Psychologically, humans are not designed for killing other humans. Taking a life is difficult for a good fucking reason, and bypassing that instinct is dangerous.
Valid point. I do worry, though, without the training you describe - which I went through - is reverting to pre-ww2 training where soldiers would freeze up in combat instead of reverting to their training (hopefully). At the end of the day, soldiers are trained for combat, and I wouldn’t want to put people into those situations without as realistic a training regime as we can devise; you train as you fight so you don’t have to sacrifice soldiers to gain the proficiency to operate in a combat environment.
Ideally we’d get rid of war.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
He’ll be married to a stripper in no time
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And the proud owner of a Mustang with a 28% APR loan.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
V6 Mustang with only 167,000 miles.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t forget his brand new sportscar that his stripper wife’s boyfriend totalled while he was deployed
morrowind@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Do army recruiters fall under “fed”
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Don’t they work for the federal government?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think “fed” is typically used to refer to the 3 letter alphabet agencies, but as you are technically correct (the best kind of correct, I’ll accept it
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
I don’t know if trying to recruit 4channers is a bottom of the barrel scraping, or just a clear view of how they see every recruit.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
realest 4chan post
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
On one hand this is totally just an ad. On the other hand being a suicidal neet is not sustainable.
adj16@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On the third, radioactive hand, there are 15000 ways to not be a suicidal neet that don’t involve being a shill for the orphan (and adult) crushing machine
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you be a NEET?
Do you live with your parents and they just don’t give a shit?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe not fed, just fod
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Dude should have just walked down to the local mechanic. Better pay and hours
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Would a local mechanic train a stranger who had zero knowledge?
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The Army doesn’t either. He scored highly on the test for that.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes. More often than you think. If you can tell a 1/2 inch wrench from a pair of pliers you are already ahead of some applicants.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a buddy who went from smoking crack to making more money than me in a year working as a mechanic being trained basically from scratch. Now that’s obviously anecdotal but it does happen.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You get a job as an oil tech sweeping floors and if you aren’t an idiot, you will learn on the job and study. Eventually you take the ASE certification tests and are then a mechanic. If you are looking to get into a performance shop, this is the best route to go because you will learn specialty knowledge and can eventually be paid well, but those jobs are hard to get and you have to really make an effort and put up with a lot of shit to get to a great place in your career.
You can do college courses to get a degree and then pass ASE certs. You can then get a job in a shop and will have to prove you aren’t just someone who can pass a test before you are actually a mechanic.
There are trade schools, which you can get scholarships for or be sponsored to go to. The sponsorships usually come from working in a dealer shop, some sponsorships are for secondary trade schooling(like diesel tech) and they pay for the secondary schooling and will give you a job for a certain number of years after under contract. I know a few people who had Ford pay for their diesel program, one is doing really well for himself and the other failed out because of a girl and was on the hook for thousands to pay back Ford.
If you want to make great money, you will have to work for 5+ years in an Audi dealer and then can try to work for an exotic car dealership. You can work for an exotic dealer with experience from a brand like Toyota with a degree or the right trade school, but you are less likely to get the job.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You can go to collage on budget
Halosheep@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Idk man, friend of mine works as a mechanic for the airforce and makes ~78k/yr, gets a large housing bonus, and has access to military loans that have really good terms, comparatively.
Ignoring the whole military lifestyle bs that he has to go through, it’s not that bad for someone who really doesn’t know what to do with themselves.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The US army uses basic socialist policies (we will help you if you’re dying from cancer etc) to recruit. It only works because the US state refuses to take care of its subjects. The moment people are no longer desperate, the recruitment numbers will fall.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s not terrible, but the housing allowance is because they force you to move wherever they want. And that salary is within the normal range:
www.salary.com/…/aircraft-mechanic-salary
You are looking at the “pros” without really seeing the “cons”.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I just looked at the enlisted pay table charts. Unless he lives somewhere with his COLA payments and has kids, he probably isn’t making 78k/yr.
If there is one thing we love in the military, it’s telling big fish stories.