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01-14-2016, 12:42 AM
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I enlisted because I was at a point in my life where it was do something or never do anything. I chose to try to better my situation.
Sure it was worth it. I have a skillset now that I wouldn't have gotten without it. I mean I can take an MRE, eat it, turn parts of it into weapons to include fragmentation or something similar to CS gas, have a timer, take a dump with the ability to wipe. That's just with the MRE. Much less how I can turn clothes into medical supplies, I can make a litter to carry a wounded person using only our ACU tops, choke the hell outta people in various ways to include with their shirt that they are wearing, have a sense of how to do land navigation without tools, how to properly clear rooms and buildings, how to call in some cool shit, and that list just goes on. There are risks, sure, but you are trained so that you have a pretty good chance of survival.
I had absolutely no medical training other than 10th grade biology and some health classes in grade school. I chose to do medical because it was my worst score on my ASVAB, however I scored high enough to choose any job that doesn't require a degree, without a high school diploma. I want to say my score was 91, I could look through old paperwork if I want to be exact.
I used to think we were fighting the Afghan people. I used to think that the Taliban was one group. Boy was I wrong. To elaborate, the people attacking troops in Afghanistan are typically Pakistani Taliban who are trying to destablize the area in hopes that they can take over the place after we finish smashing it to bits. Another fun fact I learned. No one in the history of ever, has ever conquered Afghanistan. I stood at the highest point of Alexander the Great's furthest reaching castle. It's in the Zabul Province, Qalat, Southern Afghanistan. Even Gengis Khan avoided Afghanistan when he led the Mongol Hoard to take over the world. He said that trying to take Afghanistan would be his downfall, that those people will fight to the very last person and never allow itself to be subjugated. He was right too. They held off Russia for about ten years, when they pulled out, everyone else when in, they are still standing. The natural untapped resources there will blow your mind. They don't want them touched, as they feel they belong there and will fight harder than anyone to defend them, yet they refuse to use the resources themselves. I remember hearing a humorous but true intelligence report where the enemy were claiming we were attempting to steal the sun using our helicopters. They view the sun completely differently than we do. It's not so much an object as an entity to them. I used to think they were all just lazy, suicide bombers. Not one thing about their bombers include suicide, they prefer to set the trap and wait for you to kill yourself on it, I mean how else would you laugh about it with your friends? They are some of the worlds most impressive farmers, growing grapes, tomatoes, and other high water fruits and vegetables in the middle of nothing, with nearly no rainfall most of the year. They are also very very good at spacial awareness and their ability to stack. I have seen rocks stacked from top to bottom, biggest at the top and smallest at the bottom. I've also seen a travel style bus, full of people, all lower compartments full, with 3 cars on the roof, 6 motorbikes (both dirt and street) and a pile of luggage that was nearly as tall as the bus. Sure, it's dangerous and could probably fall over taking a turn, it still made it from point A to point B without doing it, and I saw them so often, like 6-10 a day on mission. That's just on our routes, and we aren't even on main roads most the time. They are a resilient people who really want to just be left alone.
Hope this helps.
Sure it was worth it. I have a skillset now that I wouldn't have gotten without it. I mean I can take an MRE, eat it, turn parts of it into weapons to include fragmentation or something similar to CS gas, have a timer, take a dump with the ability to wipe. That's just with the MRE. Much less how I can turn clothes into medical supplies, I can make a litter to carry a wounded person using only our ACU tops, choke the hell outta people in various ways to include with their shirt that they are wearing, have a sense of how to do land navigation without tools, how to properly clear rooms and buildings, how to call in some cool shit, and that list just goes on. There are risks, sure, but you are trained so that you have a pretty good chance of survival.
I had absolutely no medical training other than 10th grade biology and some health classes in grade school. I chose to do medical because it was my worst score on my ASVAB, however I scored high enough to choose any job that doesn't require a degree, without a high school diploma. I want to say my score was 91, I could look through old paperwork if I want to be exact.
I used to think we were fighting the Afghan people. I used to think that the Taliban was one group. Boy was I wrong. To elaborate, the people attacking troops in Afghanistan are typically Pakistani Taliban who are trying to destablize the area in hopes that they can take over the place after we finish smashing it to bits. Another fun fact I learned. No one in the history of ever, has ever conquered Afghanistan. I stood at the highest point of Alexander the Great's furthest reaching castle. It's in the Zabul Province, Qalat, Southern Afghanistan. Even Gengis Khan avoided Afghanistan when he led the Mongol Hoard to take over the world. He said that trying to take Afghanistan would be his downfall, that those people will fight to the very last person and never allow itself to be subjugated. He was right too. They held off Russia for about ten years, when they pulled out, everyone else when in, they are still standing. The natural untapped resources there will blow your mind. They don't want them touched, as they feel they belong there and will fight harder than anyone to defend them, yet they refuse to use the resources themselves. I remember hearing a humorous but true intelligence report where the enemy were claiming we were attempting to steal the sun using our helicopters. They view the sun completely differently than we do. It's not so much an object as an entity to them. I used to think they were all just lazy, suicide bombers. Not one thing about their bombers include suicide, they prefer to set the trap and wait for you to kill yourself on it, I mean how else would you laugh about it with your friends? They are some of the worlds most impressive farmers, growing grapes, tomatoes, and other high water fruits and vegetables in the middle of nothing, with nearly no rainfall most of the year. They are also very very good at spacial awareness and their ability to stack. I have seen rocks stacked from top to bottom, biggest at the top and smallest at the bottom. I've also seen a travel style bus, full of people, all lower compartments full, with 3 cars on the roof, 6 motorbikes (both dirt and street) and a pile of luggage that was nearly as tall as the bus. Sure, it's dangerous and could probably fall over taking a turn, it still made it from point A to point B without doing it, and I saw them so often, like 6-10 a day on mission. That's just on our routes, and we aren't even on main roads most the time. They are a resilient people who really want to just be left alone.
Hope this helps.