If you reread the statement, it was not meant to make me sound like a tuff guy but to illustrate how the persons sitting across the table from me obviously lacked that mental ingredient that one would at least assume is necessary for the completion of any Special Operations training. Certainly, any form of self-mutilation requires no extraneous use of the mind, as the individual knows what's coming. Point standing, the gentlemen in question could be placed in the same boat as those who say, "Wow, that tattoo must have hurt."You actually put a cigarette out on your arm...Man if I could only be that tough..Im suprised they didnt hand you a pistol and trident right there.
Not completing AIT? I am classed as a NAVET. With all due respect to "this house"--if you feel I do not deserve that title then by all means delete my introduction from this section.Does not completing AIT make you a Veteran?, I think you should have posted under the DEP, Newt intro area.
Ranger Mitch, I think the reason for mentioning their astrological signs [etc.] was summed up in the statement, "too include the above mentioned buffed out candy-ass twinkie-twins." For the record, the information was offered to me after inquiring if they were brothers.With those kinds of signs maybe they should have played the fucking lotto. Who gives a fuck about astrological signs? Is that the standard line in the navy from one semen to another " Hey, sailor. What's your sign?" What relevance did their astrological signs have on any part of this story? Maybe there is a sign called "Fuckhead" sounds like it would fit better.
My apologies for my oversight Ranger Steadfast. My time in service was just under one year. The "biographical explanation" was given for its entertainment value--which it seems it is accomplishing.In all your preceeding posts not once did you answer my question. How long were you in the military?
Why can't you answer a simple question with a simple answer? The just in training amount of time. 2 months/ 4 months? Please no biographical explainations.
Ranger Ranger2, I do not recall making any such statements. To put things in perspective... If you started out as a Calvary Scout and ended up leaving to pursue Ranger status, would it be appropriate for anyone to say that you are a quitter because you didn't serve out your enlistment as a Calvary Scout and instead went to acquire your dream? Of course, in that example the occupation is in the same branch.I always wanted to be a "Ranger, SEAL, SF, Special OPs, pick whatever one fits for the moment" but my "whatever excuse works right now" wouldn't let me because "another excuse". Anyway I would have been a "whatever you are" but everything was against me.
Same old story. I could have, should have but I quit.
Guess what you will never end up anywhere if you continue to quit.
My whole PLDC class should have or could have been Rangers except for lame excues. I couldn't even wake half of them up in the morning for first call but they wanted to be Rangers.
There is a world of difference between people trying to convince you that you want something and actually wanting it.
I was in the wrong branch of service going after someone else's dream. It is as simple as that. If it entertains you to read into my statements to the degree that I am termed a quitter then by all means continue to do so.
If one's goal is to be a Ranger, then wouldn't the person already be demonstrating the necessary mindset to earn such a status if they do whatever it takes to head straight toward that goal?
Regards.