so thursday im taking the ASVAB

[rddcelica]

and oh man i hope to god i can remember what i learned in high school years ago :AF:. i wanna d good so i can persue a good job in the service. though they cant put me in boot camp till december anyway :mad:

for those that have NO idea what im talkin about its the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Batery. not something you pass or fail, just a test that lets ya know your strengths and weaknesses and gives you a good idea of what kinda jobs you qualify for, hence why i wanna do really well.

Im shootin for a career in the U.S. Coast Guard!! just thought id give y'all a heads up to where im trying to swing my life to :thumbup:

[KrysyGT]

Awesome good luck!!!!!

[evil eye]

Thats awesome Randy. Does it tell you civilian jobs you are qualified for, or just armed service jobs? Hope you get a good jobby job regardless. :)

[xtccrush]

Originally posted by rddcelica
and oh man i hope to god i can remember what i learned in high school years ago :AF:. i wanna d good so i can persue a good job in the service. though they cant put me in boot camp till december anyway :mad:

for those that have NO idea what im talkin about its the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Batery. not something you pass or fail, just a test that lets ya know your strengths and weaknesses and gives you a good idea of what kinda jobs you qualify for, hence why i wanna do really well.

Im shootin for a career in the U.S. Coast Guard!! just thought id give y'all a heads up to where im trying to swing my life to :thumbup:

Hey man. Im going to a recruiter today, just after I get out of the gym. Im just friggin bored with everything right now. College degree sitting here doing nothing for me. I figure, I'll use that to my advantage on getting in. It might boost me up a rank. Are you going full time or reservs. I still don't even know what branch I want to join.
I thought about the coast guard, but only if I was stationed down in Florida. I want to go after the drug runners.

[CelicaLT]

.Originally posted by xtccrush
Hey man. Im going to a recruiter today, just after I get out of the gym. Im just friggin bored with everything right now. College degree sitting here doing nothing for me. I figure, I'll use that to my advantage on getting in. It might boost me up a rank. Are you going full time or reservs. I still don't even know what branch I want to join.
I thought about the coast guard, but only if I was stationed down in Florida. I want to go after the drug runners.

From experience, try to go Air Force. I would say Army since that is what I am in but I see how the Air Force people have it and that is so much better than the way the Army treats us. They also do not do many "cool" things. For things that are "cool" so you can say I did this and will never do that anywhere else join the Army. Just think about the whole deployment thing. If you have any questions as far as the Army side or going enlisted vs officer side I would be glad to let you know.

[rddcelica]

Originally posted by xtccrush
Hey man. Im going to a recruiter today, just after I get out of the gym. Im just friggin bored with everything right now. College degree sitting here doing nothing for me. I figure, I'll use that to my advantage on getting in. It might boost me up a rank. Are you going full time or reservs. I still don't even know what branch I want to join.
I thought about the coast guard, but only if I was stationed down in Florida. I want to go after the drug runners.


good luck yourself!! myself im goin for active duty, but with he USCG right now there is a HUGE waiting list just to get in. like i said in my first post the earliest my recruiter could get me into boot camp will be december. Which for me is fine(not what i want, but fine) because its whats i want and i'll wait for it.

I know the marines ar STARVING for people, but personally not my taste.

for you with a college degree, i think you have the chance of being an officer right away, no boot camp, just a few weeks training depending what service you go in if im not mistaken

but for yo take LT's worrd, since he IS in the army and is teling you to do something else, id go with that, look into the air force :thumbup:

[xtccrush]

Well I just got back from the recruiter at the Air Force. I have a small problem getting in. I have two pins in my knee from a torn ligament 5 years ago. He said it's near impossible to get me in because the pins are still in my knee. If I had them removed, I would be in. He said if they took me, then they would be immediately responsible for my health care if my knee went bad.
He gave me the number of the Air Force National Guard and said they might be able to waive this for me. It's the problem with being on active duty right away. In the Guard your not immediately on active duty, so the knee wouldn't matter.
Those screws are staying in my damn knee. God that surgery hurt bad enough, why would I want them going back in. I didn't get to go to the Army because they weren't in there office. I'll keep trying though.

[evil eye]

Wouldn't any branch be responsible for your health with the pins still in? The army would accept you with that condition? If you were accepted by the Guard, and then they put you on active duty, would they make you remove the pins? Ouch.

[xtccrush]

He claimed that if I went in the guard I wouldn't be on active duty right away. So by chance, I may never be on active duty. I mean the screws were only in there to hold my ligament down while it strenghtened and my muscles did the same. I run, play basketball, vollyball. I figured they would just wait to see what type of job I go for. Hell what if I was a cook, who cares about my leg then. HEHEHE. The best part is. He told me the Guard is looking for people in computers. They want them to hack into the goverment computers to find flaws in there security. What a nice job that is. Hell I would love to do that.

[TRD StreetRacing]

Originally posted by rddcelica
and oh man i hope to god i can remember what i learned in high school years ago :AF:. i wanna d good so i can persue a good job in the service. though they cant put me in boot camp till december anyway :mad:

for those that have NO idea what im talkin about its the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Batery. not something you pass or fail, just a test that lets ya know your strengths and weaknesses and gives you a good idea of what kinda jobs you qualify for, hence why i wanna do really well.

Im shootin for a career in the U.S. Coast Guard!! just thought id give y'all a heads up to where im trying to swing my life to :thumbup:

hey randy, you are finaly going to do something useful with ur life huh :D

[rddcelica]

yah pretty much :gap:

but id hafta fawkin wait till december to start :mad:

i can already see it....boot camp in NJ in the midle of winter....BRRRRRRR

[TRD StreetRacing]

winter bootcamp would suck ass :AF:

[rddcelica]

yah it would...sucks enough as it is in good weather...

ill be sooo proud of myself to push through it in the dead of a NE winter though :gap:

[TRD StreetRacing]

i can see u being the ****head that will get the whole group (what ever group ur in) another 100 pushup's, for some dumb remark you make :D

[rddcelica]

oh dayum im not that fawkin stoopid man...its one thing to fawk around with you gus on an internet car forum....but i KNOW when to keep my mouth shut and do what im told, and for 8 weeks i wont say a dayum thing

[TRD StreetRacing]

u will slip up 1 time (atleast) and when u do, can you say "ASS WHIIPPIN" :D

[rddcelica]

meh....its only 8 weeks of hell...its all a mind game(and a physical one) and i know they will get to me,i know ill fawk up. it'll be the worst 8 weeks of my life. but i also know that when i complete those 8 weeks, ill say they were the best 8 weeks ever, and ill be proud knowing what i accomplished and ill be in the USCG!

[specz]

i took the ASVAB junior year of high school. they told me i should be a museum curator....

[TRD StreetRacing]

a museum curator :wtf:

[rddcelica]

are you sure your talkin about the same test here??

[speedeeGTS]

good luck randay and jamie!

[evil eye]

Originally posted by xtccrush
He claimed that if I went in the guard I wouldn't be on active duty right away. So by chance, I may never be on active duty. I mean the screws were only in there to hold my ligament down while it strenghtened and my muscles did the same. I run, play basketball, vollyball. I figured they would just wait to see what type of job I go for. Hell what if I was a cook, who cares about my leg then. HEHEHE. The best part is. He told me the Guard is looking for people in computers. They want them to hack into the goverment computers to find flaws in there security. What a nice job that is. Hell I would love to do that.

wow that would be an awesome job. not the cook one, the hacking one. :D

Originally posted by specz
i took the ASVAB junior year of high school. they told me i should be a museum curator....
:rofl: what the fawk is that? that sounds boring as hell!

Originally posted by rddcelica
meh....its only 8 weeks of hell...its all a mind game(and a physical one) and i know they will get to me,i know ill fawk up. it'll be the worst 8 weeks of my life. but i also know that when i complete those 8 weeks, ill say they were the best 8 weeks ever, and ill be proud knowing what i accomplished and ill be in the USCG!
hehehe, you sound like a commercial! :D just playing, it is something to be proud of. Make us proud Randy

[rddcelica]

well after a wake up call at 4a.m., and being poked, prauded, pissing in a cup, giving blood, and being orthopedically tested, by noon today i was declared fit for military service :gap:

so now its just a waiting game till december so i can get it all started and go to boot camp, sooner if a few people woos out and back out :thumbup:

[speedeeGTS]

wow kid. done already? are you sure you want to do this? do you get to keep the jeep?

[rddcelica]

of course i wanna do this.....ive been thinkin about it for 2 years

the CG is different though....i can drop it anytime up till 4 days before boot camp with no ties. im not sworn in or anything, just in the delayed entry program. i just had to gp thrugh the physical/ASVAB no mater what at somepoint, so i got it done and over with today

right now it all depends if i am qualified for the job/s i want, which i know i am cause i did VERY well on the ASVAB :gap:

so truly i am excited and cant wait....9 months is a longwait, but itll come quick


as far as the jeep, all depends. could i afford it, YES. but i dont wanna be stationed here in MA, i wanna go to other parts of the country FAR away, so therefore i would really have no need to waste money on car payments and insurance for something i could only use less than a month a year. so id sell it CHEAP, take a $3k hit prolly, but id rather owe $3k than $12k.