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Not much to elaborate on. They gave us the recruit dog tag like 2 days before reception ended. The kid started saying how he was a marine now and the DI heard it. Lit him up, and the kid swung on him. Instantly got swarmed by 3 DI's. Didn't even land a punch.
They restrained and carried him out of the squadbay. The next time I saw him was marine week and he was with the broke dick platoon cleaning the chapel.
I don’t remember what happened to set this off, but one dude ended up doing infinity pushups in the shower bay while the rest of us did regular PT in the main compartment. He might have been the guy that got caught stealing a mop.
A favorite joke of mine is whenever I meet someone in the military or a veteran I like to say “yyeaaaah I almost joined up back in highschool” and I see them begin mentally rolling their eyes and then I finish with “but I remembered I was fat and un athletic so figured I probably shouldn’t” gets a laugh about every time. Lol
I had mental health issues and didn't last. Thats on me. No excuses. But my Dad, told me, I wouldn't make it in the real world when I had to get a job ... I was admittedly, dogshit while I was in but I found it interesting that apparently the military as a whole was not a real job and I had been in daycare or something up to that point
When I was 21 years old in 1989 some burnout I was shooting pool with in a bar in upstate New York was going on about how the military is just another Mom, and people who join the military are afraid of making their own way in the world. You've still got someone giving you a place to live, cooking your meals, telling you what to do, etc.
I knew he was trying to start a fight, but he had a good point to which I had no good rebuttal, and anyway I'm not a fighter. So I just laughed and shrugged.
I know everyone has their own reasons for serving, but I know for myself and a ton of others I met while in, the military was my “oh shit I don’t know what to do with my life yet, so let me hit pause” button.
100%. Almost no one I served with joined for patriotic reasons or because they really wanted to run a reactor plant on a submarine. They joined because they didn't have any better options.
I was yelling at one of my soldiers the other day, and said "if this was a real job, you'd have been fired day one, and multiple times after." A senior NCO came out to laugh. When when I realized what I said, I had to correct myself lol.
There will come a day when you're like "help I need and adult and you realize you're the adult (NCO). Then it's I need an adultier adult (SNCO)." Then you make E7 and it's how much do I hate myself to go past E7 and 20 years? I was an E4 right before GWOT so I grew up in a different military, but the GWOT days were great. It was after that when it all went political bullshit.
I mean if the job sucks or you feel like it’s impacting your family life, you could always change direction and work towards finding a new job that is better for you and your family.
Don’t really get that option if you are in the military (especially junior enlisted).
Living vicariously through your children: A tradition shared by former beauty queen pageant moms and military (wannabe) dads for decades if not centuries at this point.
And medical coverage, housing, food, great experiences that kinda sucked ass sometimes, friends, and enough stories to tell his kid that would eventually grow up and do the same thing he did.
Sheeeet, if a DS yells at me, I'll start seeing red and would drop that mf. They are going to promote me to Super Mega Sergeant by the time I finished buds.
I was a Navy recruiter, the first three guys I signed up had pregnant girlfriends. Our chief recruiter sat down with each one and recommended getting married before leaving for boot camp. She said it would make it much easier for them. That was in 1990. Last summer I was with my wife and a guy called my name. I didn’t recognize him but he said “You were my recruiter.” He became a Construction Electrician in the SeaBees and did 8 years and was a lineman
That's crazy. I went in in 1988, but I'm not sure I would recognize my recruiter and I definitely don't remember his name. But he was a nuke MM chief, and his eyes lit up when my skinny math nerd ass walked in. I always figured y'all got double credit or something for a nuke? It was a pretty hard press so there had to be a reason.
No extra credit for a nuke, but a minority upper mental class female got you a serious attaboy from the Command. I enlisted a black female who was working at K-Mart. She started talking to me, her dad was a BM and she recognized the anchors. Two days later her and her dad came into my office. He told her that she was wasting time and she agreed to test. He told her to call him when they offered her jobs. She had a 93 on the ASVAB so our dumbass councelor offered her Storekeeper. I told her counselor her uncle was a retired QMCM and she was going to call him or her dad before going on. Then she offered her Avionics tech, Electronic Technician and Aerographers Mate, (Meterology) she called and took AG.
This is so cringe, a lesson to any parents or soon to be parents, never ever live vicariously through your children, it is never a good look. You can and should be proud of them but never live through them
Exactly. My son was a Marine (I wasn’t) and I never once contemplated trying on his cover. And certainly not posting it to social media. This makes me cringe so hard my face turned inside out.
Right!? If I saw my dad put my beret on his head LET ALONE TAKE PICTURES FOR THE FUCKING INTERNET I would lose my goddamn mind. Obviously he knows waaaayy better
Had a neighbor once tell me that he was going to join the army but was told he couldn’t by recruiter because all his siblings had already joined before him or something. Dude was a nut.
Sounds maybe something like Saving Private Ryan. Only family member to possibly continue the family name if went to war. Or yeah, he was just a nut and just making the shit up.
I looked this up and apparently the Sole Survivor policy only applies if there’s been a service-connected death in the family. It doesn’t prohibit siblings or an only child from enlisting. Anyway, he worked as a store security guard but with all the extra gear he’d wear you would think he was a SWAT officer lol.
Used to work with a guy who was Air Force but made up stories all the time. The funny thing is all his coworkers were former military so we all knew he was full of shit but it never stopped him.
Odd… most of the people I know that enlisted were because she said was pregnant.
Also, it’s great to steal your kid’s valor and tell him he was an accident at the same time. Glad that kid is finally getting some role models in his life.
Like, nothing wrong with wanting to Not go to war and wanting to be there for a pregnant girl and your newborn child instead of potentially gone all the time... but this is so much cringe.
Yeah you can't join the military with a kid on the way. Steady income, access to free healthcare for you and your family, stay in long enough and you actually get retirement pay, housing costs largely if not completely covered. Probably better to go down to the local factory and work there.
This the Giga Boot Final Boss! Not only is he doing lame ass poses for Facebook likes?(Really who still does this?), he is also a "I almost joined...", and just for good measure he is doing the "I'm living vicariously through my kid because I wasn't good enough in my prime"
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This might be the most “I almost joined but” guy I’ve ever seen
right. Usually, they're also r/iamverybadass candidates as well. "I would've beat up the DI" or other such nonsense.
This one sounds honest.
Yeah but they'd call him a drill sergeant.
We had a kid that actually tried towards the end of receiving week back in 2009. It was a pretty poor effort.
You can’t just not elaborate on that.
Not much to elaborate on. They gave us the recruit dog tag like 2 days before reception ended. The kid started saying how he was a marine now and the DI heard it. Lit him up, and the kid swung on him. Instantly got swarmed by 3 DI's. Didn't even land a punch.
No duck walk to the Brig?
They restrained and carried him out of the squadbay. The next time I saw him was marine week and he was with the broke dick platoon cleaning the chapel.
Maybe they were slow walking his separation papers. I bet he had a talk with a Colonel at some point.
I wouldn't be surprised if they broke his collar bone. He got dropped pretty quick
I don’t remember what happened to set this off, but one dude ended up doing infinity pushups in the shower bay while the rest of us did regular PT in the main compartment. He might have been the guy that got caught stealing a mop.
I woulda joined but I woulda kissed the DI on his lips if he ever got in my face like that
so join the navy?
Oh, so you've met my dad.
These drill sergeants are lucky. Cause they would have gotten beat up by dudes like this
I had someone all of 130 pounds tell me that and I couldn't help but snicker in his face.
Honest and proud tbh
Hell of a way to tell your son he cost you your dreams
Wouldn't joining be going to work too?
No forget about the free medical for him and the wife.
but woulda been the only guy in the Corps with a kid.
A favorite joke of mine is whenever I meet someone in the military or a veteran I like to say “yyeaaaah I almost joined up back in highschool” and I see them begin mentally rolling their eyes and then I finish with “but I remembered I was fat and un athletic so figured I probably shouldn’t” gets a laugh about every time. Lol
Most fucking cringe with the FOUR HEADSHOTS to choose from
Should've done JC Penney glamour shots
Thank you for your almost service
Take off that cover! You don’t rate! Damn!
“I almost pulled out but”
“So I went to work instead”, lol. Does he think the DoD does it for free?
I had mental health issues and didn't last. Thats on me. No excuses. But my Dad, told me, I wouldn't make it in the real world when I had to get a job ... I was admittedly, dogshit while I was in but I found it interesting that apparently the military as a whole was not a real job and I had been in daycare or something up to that point
Let be honest, there’s a lot of daycare going on as well. Tons of folks busting their asses, but a ton of daycare for grown adults too.
When I was 21 years old in 1989 some burnout I was shooting pool with in a bar in upstate New York was going on about how the military is just another Mom, and people who join the military are afraid of making their own way in the world. You've still got someone giving you a place to live, cooking your meals, telling you what to do, etc.
I knew he was trying to start a fight, but he had a good point to which I had no good rebuttal, and anyway I'm not a fighter. So I just laughed and shrugged.
I don’t really disagree with it to be honest.
I know everyone has their own reasons for serving, but I know for myself and a ton of others I met while in, the military was my “oh shit I don’t know what to do with my life yet, so let me hit pause” button.
100%. Almost no one I served with joined for patriotic reasons or because they really wanted to run a reactor plant on a submarine. They joined because they didn't have any better options.
I nearly joined the coast guard at one point. Luckily I got T boned riding my motorcycle. Thank Jeebus
ayup
Adult Daycare Department of War
Yeah, taking care of my Soldiers really does feel like daycare some days.
I was yelling at one of my soldiers the other day, and said "if this was a real job, you'd have been fired day one, and multiple times after." A senior NCO came out to laugh. When when I realized what I said, I had to correct myself lol.
There will come a day when you're like "help I need and adult and you realize you're the adult (NCO). Then it's I need an adultier adult (SNCO)." Then you make E7 and it's how much do I hate myself to go past E7 and 20 years? I was an E4 right before GWOT so I grew up in a different military, but the GWOT days were great. It was after that when it all went political bullshit.
22 years retired here.
nonono... he was pointing out that the military as a whole is not the real world.
You guys are getting paid??? I was told it was a volunteer gig for a free meal at Texas Roadhouse
I mean if the job sucks or you feel like it’s impacting your family life, you could always change direction and work towards finding a new job that is better for you and your family.
Don’t really get that option if you are in the military (especially junior enlisted).
Honestly I know people who joined the military BECAUSE of an unplanned pregnancy. The health care and stable paycheck were necessary.
His excuse makes no sense.
I mean, technically they were working for free there for a bit a little bit ago
The way some of these guys line up to gargle the Pres.'s balls, I'm sure some would do it just for their own pleasure.
It’s cool to not let your kid have his own thing, make it about you dude.
He conditioned his kid for it, it's always been about him
Briefly dated a National Guard girl like that. Her dad “almost joined” and was a big gun enthusiast, definitely conditioned her into an Army career.
Its even cooler to make sure your son doesnt choose his own path but chooses a path projected by your own perceived failures.
Living vicariously through your children: A tradition shared by former beauty queen pageant moms and military (wannabe) dads for decades if not centuries at this point.
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Ah fuck you’re right. … Ew.
If only the marines would’ve given him a paycheck for his service! Instead he had to go get a job 🤬
Seems like the Marines are fucking this up, if they just paid people then someone would finally join them. It honestly seems like a no brainer.
Like my recruiter told me, “you don’t join the navy for the job, you join it for the Navy”
I then reiterated if they don’t offer me an electrical rate, I’m walking.
Why should they??? It’s a VOLUNTEER force!
And medical coverage, housing, food, great experiences that kinda sucked ass sometimes, friends, and enough stories to tell his kid that would eventually grow up and do the same thing he did.
You don’t get it man. He had to get a JOB! He couldn’t just go playing with pew pews with his buddies anymore! This was serious
It was super cereal...
Nobody got cereal?
HE GOTA JAWB?!?!
None of that is worth not actually being around when your kid is growing up
He couldn’t have been THAT great of a dad, his sons a marine.
Daddy, what did you do during the oil wars?
I got a job, buddy. Now you go off and join the new oil wars my son.
You think a baby can only eat crayons? He needed more dammit
He should have said:
wait... is that styx on a codzilla (or whatever they call them where-ever this is) singing sail away?
brilliant.
Worst cop out ever. I met so many 18-19 year old small town Midwest kids in the Army that only joined because their gf said “I’m pregnant”
I almost joined too but if a Drill Sergeant got in my face, I'd punch him in the mouth. They said i was too dangerous for the military.
Sheeeet, if a DS yells at me, I'll start seeing red and would drop that mf. They are going to promote me to Super Mega Sergeant by the time I finished buds.
what if you punch a super mega sergeant?
Hot damn you're like civilian special forces. Do you want to fuck my wife?
Too late, beta.
Hands definitely registered as lethal weapons.
By not joining you saved the life of at least one drill sergeant. Does that make you a hero? Yes, yes it does.
This man doesn’t rate the title of boot. At least his son had the stones for it.
Maybe he'll have more women saying "I'm pregnant" than his cowardly father
This guy doesn’t even rate as a shower shoe. This guy a dirty sock
Definitely divorced dad vibes
So divorced
That beard screams it.
“She” said she was pregnant sounds detached
“I was gonna join the Army but they said my dick was too big… I just wanted to serve my country”
That’s stolen valor from my life story. How dare you.
I was gonna join the Army, but then I got high....
Ooooouuuuuoooooooo
Now I'm paying off student loans, and I know why, yeah yeah, because I got high, because I got high, because I got high!
I was a Navy recruiter, the first three guys I signed up had pregnant girlfriends. Our chief recruiter sat down with each one and recommended getting married before leaving for boot camp. She said it would make it much easier for them. That was in 1990. Last summer I was with my wife and a guy called my name. I didn’t recognize him but he said “You were my recruiter.” He became a Construction Electrician in the SeaBees and did 8 years and was a lineman
That's crazy. I went in in 1988, but I'm not sure I would recognize my recruiter and I definitely don't remember his name. But he was a nuke MM chief, and his eyes lit up when my skinny math nerd ass walked in. I always figured y'all got double credit or something for a nuke? It was a pretty hard press so there had to be a reason.
No extra credit for a nuke, but a minority upper mental class female got you a serious attaboy from the Command. I enlisted a black female who was working at K-Mart. She started talking to me, her dad was a BM and she recognized the anchors. Two days later her and her dad came into my office. He told her that she was wasting time and she agreed to test. He told her to call him when they offered her jobs. She had a 93 on the ASVAB so our dumbass councelor offered her Storekeeper. I told her counselor her uncle was a retired QMCM and she was going to call him or her dad before going on. Then she offered her Avionics tech, Electronic Technician and Aerographers Mate, (Meterology) she called and took AG.
He recognized the wife 👀
Username checks out.
This is so cringe, a lesson to any parents or soon to be parents, never ever live vicariously through your children, it is never a good look. You can and should be proud of them but never live through them
Exactly. My son was a Marine (I wasn’t) and I never once contemplated trying on his cover. And certainly not posting it to social media. This makes me cringe so hard my face turned inside out.
Right!? If I saw my dad put my beret on his head LET ALONE TAKE PICTURES FOR THE FUCKING INTERNET I would lose my goddamn mind. Obviously he knows waaaayy better
There’s something extra cringe about this that makes it visceral.
The 3rd pic
It’s very “tips my fedora” vibes
M'arine
It’s the beard
not the minecraft beard
DoD is the best family welfare you can get my dude
Ironic since people usually stay in because someone got knocked up
Bottom left pic made me irrationally angry
Secondhand boot
Had a neighbor once tell me that he was going to join the army but was told he couldn’t by recruiter because all his siblings had already joined before him or something. Dude was a nut.
Sounds maybe something like Saving Private Ryan. Only family member to possibly continue the family name if went to war. Or yeah, he was just a nut and just making the shit up.
I looked this up and apparently the Sole Survivor policy only applies if there’s been a service-connected death in the family. It doesn’t prohibit siblings or an only child from enlisting. Anyway, he worked as a store security guard but with all the extra gear he’d wear you would think he was a SWAT officer lol.
Used to work with a guy who was Air Force but made up stories all the time. The funny thing is all his coworkers were former military so we all knew he was full of shit but it never stopped him.
You know hes posted these pics on both Bumble and Tinder.
Grinder by the look of that tryhard beard.
Pretty sure being a Boy Scout is more impressive than a dude wearing someone else’s cover INDOORS
But please give me 4 separate pictures of the same face in a hat!
Plot twist, he’s about to do some bachelorette party 😂
Pretty sure the scouts teach you about community services and shit
exactly, you get my point lol
“Thank me for my son’s service”
You will address me as my sons rank.
Funny, considering that one of the top reasons people join is to get a steady income to support their family.
Just say that you're proud of your kid and put down the phone, man. Trying to appropriate your fucking son's service is top tier cringe.
Could you imagine being his son, working your ass off to become a Marine, and then your dad posts this on Facebook
I would have joined but the drill instructors wouldn't have been able to handle my swag.
Ahoy Captain Cringe
What a fucking bellend.
I also almost went to sea like my father and his father and his father etc... but I needed to provide for my family! /s
I almost joined but decided it wasn't for me, so I didn't.
You did not earn the right to put that on
delete this nephew
What a bizarre grooming choice
Making the pouty face and everything. No one is going to want to sleep with you, buddy. Pitiful.
Went to work instead... Does he not realize it's a job?
"It skipped me"
Dude looks like a Tom of Finland drawing
Gross
good grief
Pure “please fuck my wife” energy.
If only he knew how many guys were in the military because they knocked someone up.
The picture is cringe, but outside of legit medical disqualification, this is probably one of the few legit "I would have joined."
Oh look. A narcissist making it all about him.
What a tool 😆
Fucking cosplayers...
"I would have joined but...."
"But you got lost on your way to the recruiter's office?"
Nah, had bone spurs
Muh lumbago
This is actually making me cringe. His stupid fucking groomed beard, you know he was feelin' himself.
Jesus, a dadpenda
Me and my grandpa both have matching OTHs. Guess it's our family tradition now lmao
Too dumb for the crayon eaters so he got a job instead
Way to make your son's accomplishments about yourself
Hey looks like he only eats the pink crayons.
So he’s playing dress up in his sons closet and taking these cringe ass pics like he’s about to make his musical debut in Cabaret?
This is sooo....weird. It's one thing to live vicariously through others but an entirely different thing to start cosplaying.
That beard and EGA hurts
I feel like one of the more common reasons to join is because your gf got pregnant
Wait until he finds out you can have a pregnant girlfriend and still join the Marines.
Yeah I don’t know that this is ‘boot,’ but it’s horribly fucking lame.
Thank you for your son's service...I guess?
Fucking gross
Stolen Valor ass
Most cringe thing I’ve seen all day
We're approaching levels of cringium we thought unfathomable!
My dad does this too, hate it
Why do they feel the need to do this? It’s so douchey
"I was going to join but was a pussy" FTFY.
You know how many junior enlisted I met that had kids in basic school?
Dude…. 🤮
Playgirl photo shoot
Odd… most of the people I know that enlisted were because she said was pregnant.
Also, it’s great to steal your kid’s valor and tell him he was an accident at the same time. Glad that kid is finally getting some role models in his life.
He could still do gay porn pretending to be a marine 🤷♂️
If this doesn’t look like some Bear-porn promo pics…
Damn stealing your sons valor is a new one
Nothing is more annoying to hear than “I was going to join but…”
I DON’T CARE!
Stolen valor is stolen valor.
Is this not stolen valor????
That's literally why I joined.
Dumbest reason not to join the military I’ve ever heard
I hope he's embarrassed. If not I'm definitely embarrassed for his cringey ass
Like, nothing wrong with wanting to Not go to war and wanting to be there for a pregnant girl and your newborn child instead of potentially gone all the time... but this is so much cringe.
Yuck thanks for not
This is what a hero looks like 🫡
Boner…..no need to post this shit. Fantasy Dorkus.
Honestly who cares we all went to fat camp and fought for BS lol
My mind won't accept the reality of this. It has to be a joke
Why does he shave his beard so thin lol
“I woulda joined but my lumbago acted up. Semper fi”
Yeah you can't join the military with a kid on the way. Steady income, access to free healthcare for you and your family, stay in long enough and you actually get retirement pay, housing costs largely if not completely covered. Probably better to go down to the local factory and work there.
Definitely “woulda been a boot”
My son kills brown people for oil. 🫡
I thought that was a random Duggar brother
It’s just a dad that’s proud of his son lmao
This the Giga Boot Final Boss! Not only is he doing lame ass poses for Facebook likes?(Really who still does this?), he is also a "I almost joined...", and just for good measure he is doing the "I'm living vicariously through my kid because I wasn't good enough in my prime"
He definitely tries to talk shit to service members in other branches about how great the marines are as a nobody.