I actually wanted to join the military fresh out of high school but I was informed by my recruiter that they don’t take autistic people
It’s a loss to their logistics supply corps.
Well that’s a damn lie but hey, bullets dodged
No lies
There are medical waivers that are almost always granted if you’re willing and able to ask in the first place.
Wish I knew that back then. Can’t sign up for the military now. Trans, and now I have a medical history of suicidal ideation.
I hate it break this to you but joining the military wouldn’t have helped you not want to kill yourself.
The recruiter lied. We believe you. But they lied to you.
i’m certain the military has its share of undiagnosed autists, tho
Shit tons. Mostly in the nerdier jobs.
I assume everyone has heard the Arlo Guthrie thanksgiving song. “I wanna kill, kill, kill, kill!” “You’re our boy.”
Our bestest ally and only democracy in the Middle East needs wall lickers to usher in their bizarre delusions.
Want to know more?
The bar has been low for at least 30 years. Marine recruiter wouldn’t leave me alone even after I started hitting on him.
If you’d have joined then you’d realize your mistake. They just assumed you already had the same sense of humor somehow.
It was during DADT and I wasn’t joking. Though since then I have met more gay marines than any other branch (I guess if you want to prove your manliness to the world…).
Yeah. The humor in the military back then and now is best described as “It’s not gay if you say no homo!” And yet somehow also very homophobic. (Less so now than when I was in the army) It wouldn’t be hard at all to find a private flirting as a joke.
The bar has been low for at least 30 years.
It was comically easy to get enlisted during Korea if you were under 18. You could just walk up to the office and lie. They’d take you.
Do military recruiters actually just cold call (well, text) you like that in the US?
Yes, and of course they’re allowed to lie to children as well
That’s crazy but not really surprising to me anymore for the States I guess. I think I’ve only ever seen an army recruiter once in my life and it was a booth at a convention semi recently
From the UK and I’ve ever seen one when actively went to the recruitment office, before I wised up and noped out of that idea.
The Army came to my highschool my senior year and put on an exhibition. They had Humvees and APCs and a massive wall of speakers that would make a passerby deaf at 40 yards. You were able to get out of class if you went to the event and listened to their pitch. I was one of like 4 kids who didn’t go. Parents weren’t told about this in advance, and there were recruiters there with pens waiting.
TBF, my school did have JROTC program but still… I think thats what set off my long history of being anti-that.
Yes. Before cell phones were common they called my parents land line asking for me.
Also like any ‘sales’ job metrics matter, so they’ll take a meeting with kids like this even if it doesn’t convert to a recruit in the end.
They even come to your highschool class during lesson time to talk with everyone about why military is awesome and you should totally join.
There was also a few month duration each year where army members would setup a table in your school cafetaria and give snacks for talking about military or taking surveys etc.
That’s actually fucking absurd wow. I was in the Canadian Air Cadets as a kid and even then I didn’t see that level of recruiting. Like even when doing Cadet basic training on an actual air base, it was always just learning drill, shooting, and about how planes worked. I’ve never in my life been asked or had it suggested to me that I join the military
Fun fact: the United States hasn’t signed the international agreement banning child soldiers because the military allows 17-year-olds to enlist (although they don’t actually start their service until they’re 18).
I turned 18 in basic training. You can ship to basic while you’re 17. And then go to a unit. You are not deployable to a contingency zone (the widest definition of “place you could be injured by enemy fire”) until you’re 18.
Later on we got a private who actually made it all the way to the unit and had to wait until his 18th birthday to join us on deployment.
Yeah, I got a call when I was sixteen or so several years ago. They strung me along for quite a while just acting like they knew me. I was trying to figure out how I knew them and finally they said they were a recruiter and I told them I wasn’t interested. I wish I told him to fuck off, but that’s not the kind of kind I was.
“Are you saying I can take skulls and spill blood? If so, sign me up! I gotta make Daddy Khorne pleased.”
“Have you considered applying for ICE?”
“Sure! How big is the ICE machine? Oh, you mean that ICE?”
Can I drive a Zamboni? Or or … do I get free icees?
at least the SSG still has his sense of humor
Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people, kill them
Join the army,
see the world, meet interesting people, kill themclean toilets for 4 years.
Soooooo, at what day do you get your own grenades?
I only need one
Sooner than you’d think.
And they’ll remove the shipping pin for you before handing it over.
That reply alone should’ve been the end of the conversation 😭
When I was working retail, stocking shelves, one of those scumbags walked up to me and asked “so is this what you want to do for your life, are you happy here?”
Like what the fuck.
I hope you told them to go pound sand. Scumbags.
It was so long ago, I don’t remember.
I do remember that they were saying that bullshit to every employee in sight
I wonder what the response would be if you said something like: I’m already in the Navy.
“More like the Gay-vy, amirite? But seriously, just come in and talk. I need at least three other people to fill out a form or they send me to the front.”
“Fuck… I’m sorry. I’m so… so so sorry.”
So you have a heartbeat? Please meet me outside
incels and military have a lot in common!
Incels (like actual incels, not just dudes that hate women having rights) are actually incredibly picky and shallow, that’s one of their problems.
You don’t know what Incel means, do you?
You can’t be picky and shallow while also complaining you’re Involuntary celibate.
That’s like saying someone who’s unemployed complaining they can’t find a job because they haven’t applied to any.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but that’s part of the problem. They complain a lot but refuse to either fix their own baggage that makes them unattractive or refuse to lower their own standards… It’s EXACTLY like someone complaining about not finding a job, while not applying.
