Don't thank him for his service until he has gotten to his first duty station. Please and thank you. Until then fare winds and following seas. Simpre fortis.
Good luck is all I can say because you aren't protecting this country's freedom, all our military is for now is to sink money into and bully the rest of the world but good luck.
This thread isn't for jokes and bullcrap. You're steering it off topic. Please keep it on topic, or leave.
War Tut is right. I'm not actively serving yet. I'm still in DEPS. I appreciate your support guys and thanks for all the words of wisdom. Some of you have been very helpful, others have given me hope and more mental strength. Thanks to all who HAVE served. I respect you.
Keep it on topic or leave please. It's not funny. Not even close. PIMD will be the LAST thing on my mind when that day comes. If you two had any sense of country or respect for life and freedom, you'd not make a mockery of this thread.
I never said I deserved thanks. Actually, I said I didn't deserve them because I'm not OFFICIALLY serving and am still in DEPS. I didn't ask for ass kissing and nobody here is doing such a thing. You're being obnoxious.
My dad was in the Navy, my paternal grandfather retired from the Air Force, and my maternal grandfather was an Army drill sergeant. They all were proud of it and found it enriching, only the drill sergeant ended up with PTSD and terrorizing his family and children. I mostly know about my Dad's experience from being in the Navy (not Seals though) during Vietnam. He got to travel the world, he mostly stayed in Germany and Japan. He thought it would be a good idea for my sister and I to join, but we are nerds and wanted to go straight to college. When he was dying of cancer, though, some of the awful medical treatments that he had to endure, he said that reminded him of some of the initiation and hazing he went through. I think my paternal grandfather had the best time in the Air Force. His family grew up on military bases all over the country and Germany, and they got to live a very nice and pampered life (though nothing extravagant). My grandmother never had to work, so she could raise the kids full time. When he retired, my grandmother is also taken care of and receives plenty of money monthly to live very comfortably. I seriously doubt though that the military takes as good of care of their people as they did back then. I have heard horror stories about people my age who joined (I'm 30 btw so at 18, my graduating class was getting hammered to go to Iraq). They have trouble getting their college paid for, the VA hospital is a nightmare and has long wait lists for medical treatments, and it seems like half of the guys I meet in bars were drinking there nightly and treating their PTSD with booze. I remember most of those guys being from the Army though, and as more drinks went in, more dark and disturbing stories came out. The Seals, from what I understand and have heard, is very intense (maybe intense is an understatement), most do not make it through. But hey, if you have it in you, go for it, and best of luck to you and your family.
Are you upset because you're not getting the attention you crave? You've single-handedly pushed this thread so far off topic it's unreal. You've no respect for anyone. If you had ever done anything in your life, other than sitting on an app all day everyday, you'd understand the commitment it takes to be able to get yourself physically and mentally to a point to serve an entire country. You'd understand the anxiety that comes with making such a decision, knowing you could very well leave your kids and fiancée forever, without a father and without a husband, without food and shelter and clothes. You have no sense of respect. You're the type of scum that joins ISIS and burns the world down and sits back and laughs. Get off my thread. For real.