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08-05-2005, 10:29 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | You have plenty of time to figure out what you are good at. There is no need to rush. Your mind can and probably will change many times as to what you want to do over the years. I had many things that I thought about doing. I did have some great times in the AF. But the good times, while they stick with you, don't mess up your mind. They are good memories that help to counter the other stuff. If I had served about 2.5-3 years, it would have been a great enlistment. It was the last 12-18 months that were tough. There are many ways to serve. There are tons of jobs in the US military. I wanted something that would be good for me on the outside in case I decided not to make it a career. That was from probably the best piece of advice my recruiter gave me.
__________________  http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci |
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08-05-2005, 10:29 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kiev, Ukraine
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| Relax guys, he is only 13 years old.I think most us in his age wanted to be soldiers (policemen, firemen, astronauts etc.).In a couple of years he will remember this conversation with a smile on his face.And I'm sure his attitude to army will change drastically whatever choise he'll made. |
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08-05-2005, 11:44 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| I have a cousin Eric who Joined the RAF and ended up as a dental technician he eventually left and now he is making as wad of money in cosmetic dentistry. |
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08-05-2005, 12:21 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| That's a great success story. Pick the right job and you can really do well. Not a lot of call for a bomb loader in the civilian world. My first choice was aircraft electrical systems, which I didn't get. Wonder where I would be today if I had gotten that job. Who knows, I could have been working with FBJ.
__________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci |
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08-05-2005, 12:28 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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08-05-2005, 12:35 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| Bloody hell guys you would never get sod all done you'd be too busy discussing the merits of a ME109 against a P51  |
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08-05-2005, 12:37 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| While at the Pub drinking Beer and eating fish and chips!
__________________ "IF ITS RED OR DUSTY, DON'T TOUCH IT" |
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08-05-2005, 12:39 PM
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08-05-2005, 12:39 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| Yup. Ya never know!
__________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci |
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08-05-2005, 12:39 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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__________________  fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I] | |
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08-05-2005, 12:42 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| It's definitely something that changes you forever. Maybe I jumped into this discussion and revealed a bit too much. But after seeing enough youth wasted, I felt the need to tell it like it is.
__________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci |
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08-05-2005, 12:44 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| You are right, it is not hollywood.
__________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I] |
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08-05-2005, 01:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Auburn,Alabama; USA
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 | Marconi, i think you are very much wrong. Im going to 8th grade but when i get too 9th grade, im going to start being a Cadet in JROTC!
__________________  Its better to have an Army of deer being led by a lion, rather an Army of Lions being led by a deer... |
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08-05-2005, 02:47 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kiev, Ukraine
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| P38 Pilot,that gives you a whole year to change your mind  And actually I didn't mean that you wont go to army I said that you wont speak about army in the way you are doing it now. |
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08-05-2005, 02:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bristol, UK
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| OTC is fine though - gives you an introduction to military life, you won't get sent to Iraq (Gawd help us if that was the case) and you can have fun, speak to people who've done it all, and then if that's what you really want to do, go into it with a reasonable idea of what to expect and what's expected. |
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