I still hit my friend with Uncle Rico's football line when we catch ourselves getting too nostalgic about how impressive we actually were in little league 30 years ago.
I once tried on a top hat. I was going to be Pitt the Younger, famed 18th century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But my mum said I had to go to the shop to get some milk. So it skipped me…
The military is literally a job and married members/parents get housing allowance automatically instead of needing to get tank/time in service to earn it. Like I know we all already knew it, but he was never actually going to join, he never even considered it back in the day
Or he tried and got rejected. I know a few who "almost joined and changed their mind" aka there was something so wrong with them the Marines wouldn't take them.
I have a friend who actually did that, they drafted his militant hippie ass and first chance he got he sucker punched a DI in the back of the head. He said he would serve his same prison time and more if he didn't have to go to Vietnam to fight for a government he believed failed the country even back then.
That's the main reason most parents push their kids into military service. They want all the social capital that comes with service - with none of the risk. Hell, it's hardly even a sacrifice since the only reason they had the kid was to ship them off.
A loving parent doesn't encourage their kid to try and get killed.
“Then why are you here?! Red is all you get overseas. The other colors are way too expensive and not military grade! Don’t be a maggot and eat your red soup!”
Or he just didn’t join. Every “I almost joined but…” story I’ve gotten is just people making excuses for why they couldn’t join. There’s waivers for nearly everything, and a lot of what people believe are disqualifiers actually aren’t (like flat feet).
In all fairness, you have to consider whether it's peacetime, wartime, or drawdown. During peacetime and drawdowns, they absolutely look for reasons to reject applicants.
People always say things like to me. I'm not in an unusual field but the amount of people who told me they were going to a lawyer but did not is astounding. Thanks for sharing bud
“My teachers always told me I should be a lawyer.” That just means you were an uncooperative and argumentative kid. The best lawyers I know are neither of those things, but I do work with a lot of lawyers who were clearly told by teachers they should be lawyers. They’re still just argumentative and judges do not like them.
As a veteran that went to war, after I got out and went back to my home town, I heard lines like this from soooo many people. Everyone would have joined and gone to war as well except something got in the way.
It's always either "I almost joined but..." or dude was a special forces sniper hand picked out of basic who lacks even the simplest of military knowledge. I've always wondered why I never bump into a truck driver, or a supply clerk.
I was a satellite operator, so I got a lot of, oh, so you never saw combat comments throughout the years. I have to explain to them that this isn't WWII Trench warfare, there are no front lines in a city you are occupying. Sure I wasn't busting down doors, but there were plenty of times my convoys got attacked and we had to return fire and of course the daily mortar attacks that would hit our base. Also, everyone but high ranking officers and very high ranking enlisted had to pull guard/gate/checkpoint duty.
Hey, I was also a 31R, turned into 25Q, and then reclassed into 25S before I got out in 2014. Also deployed twice. I was gate guard, convoy guard, PSD for the COIN Academy Director, I was stationed at BIAP and Tikrit and Mosul in Iraq and at Eggers, Phoenix, COIN Academy, the Embassy, and ISAF. Mostly I was bored.
I went to school with a marine who was in a satellite comm/intel unit in Iraq. Very small unit, their insignia was a rubber duckie that they, naturally, all got matching tattoos of.
Yeah when I was looking at the branches, the army was offering a larger bonus for satellite operators. Also, I was barely fit for the Army, I don't know how I would have done in the Marines!
or dude was a special forces sniper hand picked out of basic who lacks even the simplest of military knowledge.
I see we know the same guy. His work in Vietnam was so secret that Nixon ordered every record about him sealed or destroyed. And of course, after 911, Cheney remembered and had Bush specially briefed.
I mean I get what you’re saying, but being with your wife and kid is more important to some people than serving in the military. That’s a completely valid decision, and not an excuse. Ok, maybe it is an excuse for some, but it isn’t necessarily an excuse.
Know its shite for most but I had my dad who was a Royal marine tell me not to join and a long term partner say if you join i can't see it working out. Joined the fire service instead. Its not like outside influences dont affect peoples job choices in life. I do think the military prays a lot on young naive guys to join as I got older I realised id made the right choice as I agreed less and less with what was being done and the loss of life and limb and for what? Lost family and friends in Afghanistan and look how that worked out so it does feel like an absolute waste of life.
In his defence, people don’t want to take jobs where they may be away from their life months/years at a time when they got a kid. My friend’s dad used to work on merchant ships for 7 years being away months at a time when his wife got pregnant he gave that career up and got an office job.
OR, or. Maybe there was an active war when he was going to go in and his wife didn’t want him to potentially die while she was pregnant with their child? Not sure why you guys are so snarky about this shit. Especially when most people want a stable life where they don’t move every year
I think it's very sound logic to not join if you're going to be a parent. Few jobs is less suited for parenthood if we're not talking purely economics. Your kid will grow up worrying if they'll see you again every time you leave and the schedule isn't good for being a supportive parent either as your away for so long periods. It better for the kid if the parents have a schedule that allows them to see them everyday.
People don't have to join and they shouldn't join if they arent fully in it.
That being said. My kids haven't grown up worrying when they will see their dad again, my husband is a great parent and while they aren't able to see him everyday, communication has come a long way now. If someone wants to be a good parent they will be, my kids don't know anything different, our schedule is the non schedule. The only reason this lifestyle is looked down upon or negatively is because you're comparing it to a family that operates on a 9-5. There are many ways that families operate and thrive. Everyone's experience is different though, but the sweeping generalizations that kids grow up worried all the time is...not true.
Of course every family is different than the other and if everyone is intent on making it work it will work. With that said I'd definitely still think that kids growing up with a parent in the military is more likely to be worried about their parent safe being than a kid with a parent that works in an office.
The only reason this lifestyle is looked down upon or negatively is because you're comparing it to a family that operates on a 9-5.
I'm curious are your saying that the 9-5 is better for the kids?
Im not saying that every family should be alike just that it's a good logic to avoid the military if you just got the news that your going to be a father. You mention that communications have come a long way it's still much better for the kids to see and feel the touch of their parents everyday than see them on a screen. It's better than 30 years ago but still worse than the others alternatives.
Yup. The only reason I joined the military was because my wife became pregnant and the military is the best way for an unskilled, uneducated, 22 year old to support a family
To be fair, 18/19 years ago we were fresh off that whole ‘mission accomplished’ thing. Up to 40% of those vets have a service-connected disability now all for the global for-profit energy companies to have access to oil. However corrupt the reason for it all, we the taxpayer, who fronted all of the cost, got nothing for it.
I would somewhat rather we had a WPA style national service where graduates could sign on, make service pay, and help with all the Boomer-era deferred maintenance in our country. I live in a state right now with so many landslides that 1/3 of the state is almost cut off from the rest…but uhh, Venezuela.
I disagree, it’s all atrocious. There’s so much effort put into the coy smiles, the angles he probably feels makes his jawline look hawt… it’s like a vapid 12 year old girl
Putting on any servicemembers uniform when you never served will always be fucking loser behavior. Stolen valor will get your ass beat, his son is gonna catch hell if anyone finds this
This is why I don’t tell strangers that I am a (former) Marine. I can’t handle the bullshit stories that follow - even from actual veterans of other services. “I was going to join the Marine Corps, but ….”
Everybody has the right to wear whatever they want if a marine gets upset by that perhaps they should re-examine their actual role which is supposed to be to preserve those rights.
Whining and getting wound up when somebody wears their costume is ridiculous
Well back when I joined the navy( my wife was also pregnant) they actually paid me. Not sure why the government stopped paying recruits to join when this dude was ready to sign up.
The last part is me being a smartass just incase.
lmao this reminds me so much of my “father” who I no longer speak to. He NEVER served (not disabled) but was soooo obsessed with the military. He tried running the house like a boot camp or something, he was just so cringey to me even as a kid. Kids absolutely pick up on the weirdness when grownups didn‘t serve in the military, but are still obsessed with it and basically pretend to have served.
If I knocked someone up before I had a real job, the military would have been a good option. I joined the military at 20 because I was poor and couldn't go to college and didn't have enough connections in any of the union halls to go into the trades.
This is like my MIL. When my daughters were small, MIL had a habit of telling me “I was going to buy (cute outfits/cute toys) for your kids, but then I told myself ‘No’.” I never knew what to say. “Thank you for almost doing something nice for my girls”?
I will bet they are divorced or are together for the kids and he has forever made her regret even sleeping with him because he cosplays and dreams vs doing a damn thing.
So embarrassing. The assumption being that he would have passed the entry requirements, boot camp, and all additional training with flying colors. Ugh.
Reminds me of my uncle who made my cousin joining his entire personality. Dudes never even thought of joining the military and now he tries to throw terminology around like he served 20 years.
idk I did try to join when I was 16 and it was right after 9/11, the recruiter came to my house to try to convince my mom and dad and they refused. They said go to at least 1 year of college than decide. I partied so hard that first year all thoughts of the marines vanished plus by then Iraq was all over tv and partying in dirty basements was far more interesting than getting blown up in Fallujah
I kinda see where he's coming from. Maybe not with the service though...a lot of service members have children and it works about as well for them as everyone else. But i definitely had plans that changed when my wife got pregnant.
Just because I wear University of Michigan or occasionally a NY Knicks hat doesn’t mean I went to school there or wanted to play for them respectively.
I don’t like people like this. Caught a dude once trying to pull a veterans discount at an auto zone and I shut that shit down.
I'm an extremely critical person but I'm struggling to see what's so cringe about this aside from the fact he didn't need an entire photoshoot when 1 picture would have done the job. This dude is just proud that his son was able to accomplish a dream he gave up to provide for his family. It's not like it's stolen valor or something. It's a cover, he's not frollicing around & playing shoot 'em up in his son's cammies.
How is this different than pictures graduates share of their parents wearing their mortarboard or holding their diploma & talking about what they sacrificed in order to make their kid's dreams come true? Are those cringe, too?
I still hit my friend with Uncle Rico's football line when we catch ourselves getting too nostalgic about how impressive we actually were in little league 30 years ago.
How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains.
Stop staring at me like that Napo-Leon
I often wear a Cincinnati Reds hat. I was going to be a professional baseball player but I wasn’t good enough, so I did some other things instead.
Thank you for your sacrifice
my great uncle was on track to join the Reds but he got drafted
I was going to cure cancer, but after a day or two I realised it was going to be quite tricky so I worked in a warehouse for 42 years.
Was gonna be in the mlb but i decided to do sports instead
Hopefully, they were good sports about it.
I once tried on a top hat. I was going to be Pitt the Younger, famed 18th century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But my mum said I had to go to the shop to get some milk. So it skipped me…
“So you went to work instead” lol
“Ya I thought about joining the marines but if some drill sergeant got in my face I’d end up knocking him out”
Impeccable use of this gif kind sir
.....or crying
Both. Same time.
"I went to work instead"
The military is literally a job and married members/parents get housing allowance automatically instead of needing to get tank/time in service to earn it. Like I know we all already knew it, but he was never actually going to join, he never even considered it back in the day
Or he tried and got rejected. I know a few who "almost joined and changed their mind" aka there was something so wrong with them the Marines wouldn't take them.
He gives off big “I would’a punched a drill in the face” vibes.
I have a friend who actually did that, they drafted his militant hippie ass and first chance he got he sucker punched a DI in the back of the head. He said he would serve his same prison time and more if he didn't have to go to Vietnam to fight for a government he believed failed the country even back then.
Imagine stealing your own kids valor.
That's the main reason most parents push their kids into military service. They want all the social capital that comes with service - with none of the risk. Hell, it's hardly even a sacrifice since the only reason they had the kid was to ship them off.
A loving parent doesn't encourage their kid to try and get killed.
Flunked the crayon taste test.
“No. That’s not the right flavor. It’s red, John. RED. You amateur, you just ate the orange one!”
“But the red ones is too spicy.”
“Then why are you here?! Red is all you get overseas. The other colors are way too expensive and not military grade! Don’t be a maggot and eat your red soup!”
Instant NCO promotion right there tbh
Or he just didn’t join. Every “I almost joined but…” story I’ve gotten is just people making excuses for why they couldn’t join. There’s waivers for nearly everything, and a lot of what people believe are disqualifiers actually aren’t (like flat feet).
In all fairness, you have to consider whether it's peacetime, wartime, or drawdown. During peacetime and drawdowns, they absolutely look for reasons to reject applicants.
Not really. I joined as a grunt in the peacetime and waivers were being handed out like candy. Fair enough when it comes to draw downs though.
People always say things like to me. I'm not in an unusual field but the amount of people who told me they were going to a lawyer but did not is astounding. Thanks for sharing bud
“My teachers always told me I should be a lawyer.” That just means you were an uncooperative and argumentative kid. The best lawyers I know are neither of those things, but I do work with a lot of lawyers who were clearly told by teachers they should be lawyers. They’re still just argumentative and judges do not like them.
I knew a guy who enlisted in the marines but his ship date kept getting changed. Then I heard he got arrested for shoplifting and that was that
I was all set to go to the navy and they found out about my ADHD diagnosis. I was planning on med school and going career navy doctor.
I'm still salty about it.
Gotta be a preeeeeety big fuckup to not have Uncle Sam's Misguided Children not take you.
They don't like hip injuries. My waiver got denied, but life moves on.
"They wouldn't give me sniper MOS so I told Gunny to fuck himself and walked out" 🙄
What could that even be at 18?
Same energy as you can't fire me, I quit
As a veteran that went to war, after I got out and went back to my home town, I heard lines like this from soooo many people. Everyone would have joined and gone to war as well except something got in the way.
It's always either "I almost joined but..." or dude was a special forces sniper hand picked out of basic who lacks even the simplest of military knowledge. I've always wondered why I never bump into a truck driver, or a supply clerk.
I was a satellite operator, so I got a lot of, oh, so you never saw combat comments throughout the years. I have to explain to them that this isn't WWII Trench warfare, there are no front lines in a city you are occupying. Sure I wasn't busting down doors, but there were plenty of times my convoys got attacked and we had to return fire and of course the daily mortar attacks that would hit our base. Also, everyone but high ranking officers and very high ranking enlisted had to pull guard/gate/checkpoint duty.
Hello fellow 25S.
Signal mos's were still 31 when I joined. I think they changed sometime in my last year.
Same; started 31 series but got out 25.
Hey, I was also a 31R, turned into 25Q, and then reclassed into 25S before I got out in 2014. Also deployed twice. I was gate guard, convoy guard, PSD for the COIN Academy Director, I was stationed at BIAP and Tikrit and Mosul in Iraq and at Eggers, Phoenix, COIN Academy, the Embassy, and ISAF. Mostly I was bored.
31R, reclassed to 74B here
ww1 trench warfare
to be fair there was still quite a lot of trench warfare in ww2 but it may not have been the defining feature.
USMC, I assume?
No, Army.
I went to school with a marine who was in a satellite comm/intel unit in Iraq. Very small unit, their insignia was a rubber duckie that they, naturally, all got matching tattoos of.
Yeah when I was looking at the branches, the army was offering a larger bonus for satellite operators. Also, I was barely fit for the Army, I don't know how I would have done in the Marines!
I see we know the same guy. His work in Vietnam was so secret that Nixon ordered every record about him sealed or destroyed. And of course, after 911, Cheney remembered and had Bush specially briefed.
My Valor is on back order
People are bummed when I tell them I retired after 24 years, and they ask what I did and I reply "admin".
It's the classic "I woulda joined the war, but then the war actually happened..."
I mean I get what you’re saying, but being with your wife and kid is more important to some people than serving in the military. That’s a completely valid decision, and not an excuse. Ok, maybe it is an excuse for some, but it isn’t necessarily an excuse.
Certainly wasn’t their balls that got in the way.
Know its shite for most but I had my dad who was a Royal marine tell me not to join and a long term partner say if you join i can't see it working out. Joined the fire service instead. Its not like outside influences dont affect peoples job choices in life. I do think the military prays a lot on young naive guys to join as I got older I realised id made the right choice as I agreed less and less with what was being done and the loss of life and limb and for what? Lost family and friends in Afghanistan and look how that worked out so it does feel like an absolute waste of life.
-I…I’m not sure what to do here. What do you even want Michael?
“I’ll be honest David. I want all of the credit and none of the responsibility.”
-M. Scott
Or Yano… wanting a job where you don’t get deployed or miss a shit ton of time with your new family. Also you can’t quit the military.
Edit: this guy is clearly a tool. But not wanting to join the military because your wife just got pregnant actually has some validity.
In his defence, people don’t want to take jobs where they may be away from their life months/years at a time when they got a kid. My friend’s dad used to work on merchant ships for 7 years being away months at a time when his wife got pregnant he gave that career up and got an office job.
We had multiple guys in our basic with a baby on the way so.....
OR, or. Maybe there was an active war when he was going to go in and his wife didn’t want him to potentially die while she was pregnant with their child? Not sure why you guys are so snarky about this shit. Especially when most people want a stable life where they don’t move every year
Yeah but how about the weeks/ months he would be away? Dude is definitely a knob but i understand the idea
I think it's very sound logic to not join if you're going to be a parent. Few jobs is less suited for parenthood if we're not talking purely economics. Your kid will grow up worrying if they'll see you again every time you leave and the schedule isn't good for being a supportive parent either as your away for so long periods. It better for the kid if the parents have a schedule that allows them to see them everyday.
People don't have to join and they shouldn't join if they arent fully in it.
That being said. My kids haven't grown up worrying when they will see their dad again, my husband is a great parent and while they aren't able to see him everyday, communication has come a long way now. If someone wants to be a good parent they will be, my kids don't know anything different, our schedule is the non schedule. The only reason this lifestyle is looked down upon or negatively is because you're comparing it to a family that operates on a 9-5. There are many ways that families operate and thrive. Everyone's experience is different though, but the sweeping generalizations that kids grow up worried all the time is...not true.
Of course every family is different than the other and if everyone is intent on making it work it will work. With that said I'd definitely still think that kids growing up with a parent in the military is more likely to be worried about their parent safe being than a kid with a parent that works in an office.
I'm curious are your saying that the 9-5 is better for the kids?
Im not saying that every family should be alike just that it's a good logic to avoid the military if you just got the news that your going to be a father. You mention that communications have come a long way it's still much better for the kids to see and feel the touch of their parents everyday than see them on a screen. It's better than 30 years ago but still worse than the others alternatives.
Stolen valor. Take the cover off.
Yup. The only reason I joined the military was because my wife became pregnant and the military is the best way for an unskilled, uneducated, 22 year old to support a family
Did you there are NO troops with pregnant wives in the military? lol.
To be fair, 18/19 years ago we were fresh off that whole ‘mission accomplished’ thing. Up to 40% of those vets have a service-connected disability now all for the global for-profit energy companies to have access to oil. However corrupt the reason for it all, we the taxpayer, who fronted all of the cost, got nothing for it.
I would somewhat rather we had a WPA style national service where graduates could sign on, make service pay, and help with all the Boomer-era deferred maintenance in our country. I live in a state right now with so many landslides that 1/3 of the state is almost cut off from the rest…but uhh, Venezuela.
Maybe he got a job that paid more money. US military isn't exactly super high pay.
If his son is 18ish, he is probably late 30s. I can see rethinking joining in the middle of the Iraq war but he looks more like a Jody than GI.
This dude thinks he’s so fucking cute
The jaunty angles, like he’s The Captain and Tennille.
He's suffering from Muskrat Love.
It makes me cringe so hard from secondhand embarrassment when you can tell from someone's poses how much they love their own reflection
Honestly he’s not bad.
If he had played it off as “too bad I never joined, my son gets to be the man in uniform”
It would have worked. But his framing makes it cringey.
I disagree, it’s all atrocious. There’s so much effort put into the coy smiles, the angles he probably feels makes his jawline look hawt… it’s like a vapid 12 year old girl
It’s so creepy
I agree. The multiple angles and bad choice of words make this 10x cringier than it needed to be.
Putting on any servicemembers uniform when you never served will always be fucking loser behavior. Stolen valor will get your ass beat, his son is gonna catch hell if anyone finds this
He'd get way better engagement with a Navy cap with the filter he's using.
I honestly thought it was the comedian Drew Lynch until I read the captions.
Thank you for considering almost serving.
The dad is a loser.
Imagine your kid joins the Marines and you make it all about yourself.
Does he think being a Marine isn’t working?
Eating crayons is not really really work, though.
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
I think that but I also wouldn’t post pictures in that hat.
There is absolutely a way to make almost this identical post but not be a narcissistic douche.
"I always wanted to be a Marine, but I never did it."
"My son did it, and I'm so proud of him."
(take a picture of the cover, not douchebag wearing the cover)
Solved! But no, he needs us to see how he would look in said hat.
Don’t most men join the military when they unexpectedly become fathers? I’m almost pretty sure that’s how it’s been.
As a junior Marine your income is basically double and you live out in town instead of in the barracks.
Kinda pathetic using your son as an excuse to not join up
His expression in the bottom left pic makes me mad.
Very neckbeaed m'lady
That stupid shape of the beard makes it even worse
Sons mom pregnant? Just say he got someone pregnant instead of whatever that was.
baby mama
Even that's more acceptable.
My mom’s grandson’s mom
I’m my aunt’s sister’s husband’s son and I think that’s special.
Or just not be weird about it. Say I wanted to join but started a family instead lmao
So I am guessing OP is about 40ish....
Wonder if the whole active war had anything to do with him not signing up
Take that fucking cover off
Guarantee his son didn’t know
TIL it’s called a cover.
Didn’t know the Marines were like a rockband that you have to give up to raise a family.
Stealing valor is always funny and doing it from your son is a great bit.
I was going to join until I took an arrow to the knee.
Still could have joined.
This is why I don’t tell strangers that I am a (former) Marine. I can’t handle the bullshit stories that follow - even from actual veterans of other services. “I was going to join the Marine Corps, but ….”
Don't actual marines find this sort of thing highly offensive?
I find it hilarious.
Who gives a shit frankly
Me lol. This is like stealing a letterman jacket in school and posting pics of you wearing it like some dweeb but somehow this is even worse.
Probably people who have the right to wear it
Everybody has the right to wear whatever they want if a marine gets upset by that perhaps they should re-examine their actual role which is supposed to be to preserve those rights.
Whining and getting wound up when somebody wears their costume is ridiculous
All I was doing was answering a question, not trying to get your panties in a twist
Well back when I joined the navy( my wife was also pregnant) they actually paid me. Not sure why the government stopped paying recruits to join when this dude was ready to sign up. The last part is me being a smartass just incase.
https://preview.redd.it/j9b2tdhx778g1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73c796725f32541698b013c57946a0818e600ccf
I don't know what this means. Can someone break it down?
He thought about joining the marines, but he got a woman pregnant so he never joined. His son has now joined and he’s wearing his hat.
“I was pretty sure I couldn’t hack the Marine Corps like my dad, so I used the excuse of my wife getting pregnant to avoid having to sign up.”
Either way, who shaves their face like that, and who keeps a look on their face that they just did a doody and you have to find it.
lol a lot of people enlist because of an unexpected pregnancy
lmao this reminds me so much of my “father” who I no longer speak to. He NEVER served (not disabled) but was soooo obsessed with the military. He tried running the house like a boot camp or something, he was just so cringey to me even as a kid. Kids absolutely pick up on the weirdness when grownups didn‘t serve in the military, but are still obsessed with it and basically pretend to have served.
Ever single guy I was in the military with had a football full ride scholarship but they hurt their knee.
😂
No need to post your Grindr profile
I love hearing a guy say that...then I say "oh you must have been a real tuff guy..."
Female USMC VET
I thought this was the hobosexual David r/teenmom
It does look like David Eason. And Lurch would 100% use this excuse even though all he truly is, is a lazy ass abusive felon.
I know someone like this. His entire personality became his son's service. Dude is a bum otherwise, I guess he's gotta have something to cling to.
If I knocked someone up before I had a real job, the military would have been a good option. I joined the military at 20 because I was poor and couldn't go to college and didn't have enough connections in any of the union halls to go into the trades.
He forgot to mention the felon part that kept him from enlisting.
Divorced dad vibes trolling for desperate women.
Wow bottom left face needs a little pop.
https://preview.redd.it/pgc7gzy0my7g1.jpeg?width=619&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b00b186c31f044af9d75aad8bfb196f254238b5
I know who he voted for and what he’s like on the highway
This is like my MIL. When my daughters were small, MIL had a habit of telling me “I was going to buy (cute outfits/cute toys) for your kids, but then I told myself ‘No’.” I never knew what to say. “Thank you for almost doing something nice for my girls”?
I will bet they are divorced or are together for the kids and he has forever made her regret even sleeping with him because he cosplays and dreams vs doing a damn thing.
So embarrassing. The assumption being that he would have passed the entry requirements, boot camp, and all additional training with flying colors. Ugh.
I feel like his kids gonna have a real bad time if his platoon finds out his dad was posting these picks with his cover.
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
That’s IT. Get your coat, we’re leaving
What a stupid mfer
Gotta be a real piece of shit to grift stolen valor with your own kid’s dress blues.
Reminds me of my uncle who made my cousin joining his entire personality. Dudes never even thought of joining the military and now he tries to throw terminology around like he served 20 years.
I didn’t know the marines wore their hats at such a jaunty angle. Semper slay!
idk I did try to join when I was 16 and it was right after 9/11, the recruiter came to my house to try to convince my mom and dad and they refused. They said go to at least 1 year of college than decide. I partied so hard that first year all thoughts of the marines vanished plus by then Iraq was all over tv and partying in dirty basements was far more interesting than getting blown up in Fallujah
It's a major regret of mine
Hat that's a hat
Marines refer to hats as "covers".
Yeah, but he’s not a marine now is he?
He is a douche in a hat ?
Some may disagree.
I hope someone who knows him called his ass out on it.
Name and shame
I kinda see where he's coming from. Maybe not with the service though...a lot of service members have children and it works about as well for them as everyone else. But i definitely had plans that changed when my wife got pregnant.
Why is he wearing it like a woman would show off sunglasses at a mall kiosk?
This guy Snapchats younger women behind his wife's back.
In his 20's lol. What were you doing when you signed up for the draft, dolt? Getting ANOTHER girl pregnant?
What a pick me
Is this world of t shirts?
Don't ask don't tell
Idk. I see 🏳️🌈 face
Man I’ve seen this everywhere, I bet this dude is getting so much shame in his personal life each and every day.
Oh man im about to set a few through the roof with this one
I don't think I've ever actually seen someone smile while wearing one of those.
Just because I wear University of Michigan or occasionally a NY Knicks hat doesn’t mean I went to school there or wanted to play for them respectively.
I don’t like people like this. Caught a dude once trying to pull a veterans discount at an auto zone and I shut that shit down.
College sweatshirts are definitely the same as a military uniform item.
Those "I was going to join..." people are the worst
That's more the reason to JOIN... smh this guy is definitely a tool, not even a good one at that..
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....huh? I mean yeah, obviously this dude would have never enlisted. A lot of people enlist BECAUSE of an unexpected pregnancy.
But idg the rest of your comment....is it an "lol he's gay" joke?
Dude, if he was gay I can tell you the Marines are the PEFECT place for him 😂😂😂😂
I'm an extremely critical person but I'm struggling to see what's so cringe about this aside from the fact he didn't need an entire photoshoot when 1 picture would have done the job. This dude is just proud that his son was able to accomplish a dream he gave up to provide for his family. It's not like it's stolen valor or something. It's a cover, he's not frollicing around & playing shoot 'em up in his son's cammies.
How is this different than pictures graduates share of their parents wearing their mortarboard or holding their diploma & talking about what they sacrificed in order to make their kid's dreams come true? Are those cringe, too?