Reply #21: Stick to the wing side if you can [View All]

[DS1]

otherwise get used to incredible amounts of cleaning, anally-retentive uniform inspections, pointless exercises, random acts of punishment, the usual stuff. I'm convinced, after serving on the grunt side of the corps, that they keep you at a certain level of pissed off, so when you are actually called off to some foreign land, you're friggin happy just to be getting out of the daily bullshit.

Spit-shine your boots every day and you'll be promoted faster, but you'll be rightfully resented.

MOSs are guaranteed, but fuck up in a high-tech school and they can and will drop you to grunt or cook in a heartbeat. Study your asvab, even if you think it's easy, that extra point could mean open opportunities later on. I was once offered a position doing court typing in D.C., but I realized I don't like being around punk leuitenants early on.

Besides, the corps isn't what it used to be, before if you screwed up you'd do a lot of pushups. Fine, no problem, you get a little sweaty and quite strong. Now, you get written up, because like in any organization experiencing down-sizing, the people that want to be there will screw over those that don't in a flash.

The end.