Whytwokay
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Telling the re-up guy a ridiculous list of conditions to reenlist is a fond memory.
Jul 16, 2017 3:50 AM
Whytwokay
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Telling the re-up guy a ridiculous list of conditions to reenlist is a fond memory.
NotExistor
Anyone have the simpsons gif where the army recruiter says to Skinner "how about you reenlist" and he says "how about you bite me"
Piccalife
This is sad and disgusting, what are we doing? These are our children
cmontygman
For some it's a way to get away from it all and start new and get payed to do it. Also free college.
SanityAsylum
He'll all I asked was to change my job to anything else. They said no, I said cya!
YOUREALLSOGODDAMNPATHETIC290
Hahahahahahaha!!! Now you're too good to be owned by the govt? What happened?
Whytwokay
Not much. I still pay taxes and shit.
YOUREALLSOGODDAMNPATHETIC290
Has nothing to do with my question. You joined and gave away every single right you had. Why now are you not happy?
Whytwokay
Pretty sure you just answered your question there.
YOUREALLSOGODDAMNPATHETIC290
So you admit it was a very very very stupid choice and you bolted as soon as you possibly could correct?
Whytwokay
Considering I reenlisted before, I wouldn't agree. I hope you get the help you need, dude.
ProfessorIndieCred
Doesn't matter what they promise. I was supposed to have a guaranteed choice of base, signed the papers, ended up stop-lossed instead.
ChaosRappyMaster
*tries
ThumbDunkTheDirtstar
Don't forget getting promoted to PFC... Personal Fucking Civilian
tyrfin
Career planner be like "with these scores, you should have been counter-intel or Wing or some shit, but you can always reinlist into it!"
Minivanv
They can tell you anything you wanna hear but if it ain't on your paperwork it's not gonna happen.
Oseirus
Re-enlisted specifically because I thought I was getting a new AFSC. Lost the retraining, got ZERO benefits for re-up. Stuck 4 more years.
DafoeorDafriend
syntaxxor
Ha, my rate in the Navy has a 0.5 SRB, I started laughing when the CCC asked me if I'm gonna reup
cogs
"Choose your rate, choose your fate." I wanted to be an AW, they made me an OS: "It's just the same."
throwawayacct1951
usernameczecksout
Idk. I re-re-re-enlisted - did 26 years, am 46 now & fully retired. Like, sit on my ass don't have to work retired. The benefits are real
ilovecatsiloveeverykindacat
I just reenlisted another 4, that'll bring me to 10 years. They've been completely paying for my schooling, so it'll be worth it soon.
modsquad0
Same. 49. Done, would highly recommend
Whytwokay
Not knocking that. Going through to retirement just isn't for everyone. I'm happy for you.
Racealistic
Living the dream. Enjoy your well deserved retirement.
Tankdoggy
Now you need to marry someone on active duty, become the Dependa.
cogs
No need to, lifetime benefits & access. We retirees are the second-most hated people at the Exchange and Commissary.
followthesyllabus
There are things I would've reenlisted for, but I just couldn't trust them to give them to me.
ArdentSlacker
Yeah, with this administration, they'd vote to make you pay for your bullets.
THEThadJarvis
Read that book The Forever War. I loved the realism of how the military just constantly fucked the people. The reenlist was too real in it.
BlkRnbw
One of my favorite books.
Whytwokay
I hear you.
yolobrolo
As an ex linguist, they offered to send me to Yonsei University to study for a year. Asked for a garuntee and the assignment got pulled.
CigaretteMan
Care to elaborate? What did you ask for and why didn't you think that you'd get it?
DrYoloMcSwagmasterIIIEsq
I just asked for the armory to accept my weapon on the first pass...
jshawd40
DrYoloMcSwagMaster... best name ever lol
THEThadJarvis
And they didn't keep their word. Armorer in my old unit only accepted 1 weapon first pass. The chick he was banging.
followthesyllabus
Another deployment. They said they could line it up, but they fucked me out of 1/2 my 1st deployment and fucked other guys out of theirs 1/2
followthesyllabus
2/3 entirely. Everything else (MTOE required schools, equipment for deployment, etc) we were promised either never materialized or had to be
followthesyllabus
3/3 fought for tooth and nail. Shit was just too stupid and irresponsible. I loved my mission. I wish I could've stayed.
MaryNoonan1967
Even worse is when they realize they're in zones where poison & radiation has been deployed & now your offspring are mutants like TMNT.
Jomini001
$50-90k reups for language, cyber, and certain sof jobs... sounds good to me...
ilovecatsiloveeverykindacat
They stopped most of the bonuses for the Air Force in February. Booooo
cmontygman
except for Aircraft mechanics
Doggos4Life
Hahahaha... no...
Jomini001
Hahahhaa, yes. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/07/needing-troops-army-offers-90k-bonuses-re-enlist.html
Doggos4Life
Actually* no I am in that career field and I can promise you that's completely dependent on timing,rate, language, year group
Jomini001
Didn't say it wasn't, but those bonuses are out there if you qualify. Are you saying it's totally made up?
Doggos4Life
It's literally what I do and I can tell you first hand the incentives are overblown in that article
Doggos4Life
Also army officers make up a ridiculously small percentage of the IC
Snuffalufagore
*laughs in Marine*
DayWalk3r1998
Current marine laughing in marine
Whytwokay
Well, you guys get free crayons and glue. Hard to turn down that deal.
Demegilio
True, but we never get the new crayons and glue. Only the hand downs after the Army is done using them. :)
ImJustALittleHusky
Damn right otherwise I see the Army take that out on my LES.
GHOST101010101
The only acronym for LES I know is Lower Esophageal Sphincter lol
infiniteblaze
Leave and Earnings Statement
Jomini001
If I recall right, there were E4's getting like $70k reups in the mid 2000's
ImJustALittleHusky
Shit brother they are getting 10-20k re-ups right now for an additional 12 months. Trumpppplpol haha
IAmTheGorilla
That was during the golden Bush era. Current presidents demand just as much as he did, but with fewer bonuses:
Jomini001
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/07/needing-troops-army-offers-90k-bonuses-re-enlist.html I live in Okinawa right now and
Jomini001
Play rugby with a couple marines. One of my buds is a commo guy getting like a $40k reup. Obama years are over bro. It ain't the golden
Evanrudeplz
I got a cool 50K in 2015. But I'm Air Force, so we're kind of spoiled that way.
Jomini001
Years, but there's a big push to retain officers and NCO's as well as bring in more new enlisted. Every service is expected to grow for
DocVolt
As an European.. What?
LurkerOfDarkness
In the US serving in the armed forces can be the only way for a lot of people to get away from a poor background, like getting college.
DocVolt
Uh..
magundi
And the recruiter makes his paycheck by talking people into enlisting..so they make promises they don't keep.
LurkerOfDarkness
Highly immoral, I suppose you shuld get their promises in writing, and get it in writing that they forfeit all rights to interpret it.
ToxicPineapple
It wouldn't matter. Recruiters promises hold no ground.
LurkerOfDarkness
A signed contract is still something they have to honour, it's not voluntary.
Sidelinert
Defence is NL is broke. No working equipment, clothes, helmets, bullets, rifles etc. Please invade us!
ToxicPineapple
Do you have oil?
Julle5
Good thing I can't re-enlist since I'm in the civil service. Not that it was any better than the army
dexteroexplosion
The re-enlistment bonus for my rate was 100k when I got out. I never felt tempted to take it.
cmontygman
I believe mine was 60k or something like that on terminal leave and being judged for not taking the money is great.(1/2)
cmontygman
(2/2)It is a bribe that's all it is.
Whytwokay
18 series? I remember seeing that somewhere.
dexteroexplosion
Nah, I was actually a navy nuke ET. Nothing that badass. Lol
Whytwokay
Fair enough. Why didn't you take it?
dexteroexplosion
I was on the Enterprise. It was notorious for being a terrible command. Worst 4 years of my life. Couldn't pay me enough to stay. Lol
Whytwokay
Touché