I ask you this because although I do not have much of a history handling guns

the short amount of exposure to being a marksman in training has lead me to believe that I am more capable then most at handling rifles and sidearms then most civilians and some military personnel, I have a better aim and faster reaction time then my uncle who used to be parted of the armed forces and I have been praised on my skill with some thinking that I may have an extensive history handling weaponry

this to me makes me feel that I would make an excellent rifleman and along with my technological nohow I could become a valuable asset

so is it worth it? should I follow such a career choice? does anyone have any experience they could share and opinions on the matter?

Hmmm. Seriously life choice that's for sure but in the end like what hei said it always comes down to what you want. I'll be going in the Military once high school is finished. Who knows maybe if you choose to go in we'll meet each other and never know it. :3

Uhhhh Well it's sumer vaca here. It's been decided i'll be a softmore school term. So.... no. :3

. 95 ASVAB, bitches!.

Ooh- another thing

A guy at my unit said that he hid contraband in the dryer exhaust, then put an "out of order" sign on the dryer.
If you feel the need to have contraband, be smart with it.

I never had any in basic, though, and wouldn't suggest it either. Basic has way more snitches than AIT does, because people stop caring by AIT. Heard it's a very good way to make money though. One guy bought a bag of skittles (this wasn't even in the barracks, so it wasn't contraband) for $30, so imagine what a tin of chew would sell for with all the desperate rednecks.

Another good way to make money is being paid to take over other people's fireguard shifts.
One guy I went to basic with, from a combination of selling ****, taking fireguard shifts, and betting- not from his actual pay at all, made enough to buy himself an xbone and a TV with it when all was said and done.

Why would you want to risk your life for the financial gain of people who couldn't care less about you or you're loved ones?

ASVAB that's the next thing I have to pass....

yea but at the time they believed in what they were doing.. from 1965-1967 morale was high. they sold them vietnam by telling them we were going there to stop communist aggressors... it seemed right to their generation at the time.. bear in mind USA pop culture was more innocent back their, easier to persuade.

the problem was we didnt capture and hold anything, the whole strategy was based on body count which was often not accurate.. it didnt matter that USA killed an estimated 6 million communists because even their civilians were militarized to repair roads and what not.. ho chi min knew that he could not fight the americans conventionally- US air power and artillery.. he had to wear out the american public with a drawn out campaign and not commit his forces to a battle. he tried a fixed battle in 1965, the movie we were soldiers once shows this battle.

after he lost that he committed to a very long campaign of routinely harrassing the americans. the americans were just as badass as their WWII fathers and were pissed off that they could not get the reinforcements neccesary to launch a massive offense, the american public was already protesting and westmoreland was denied about 250000 additional troops. we beat them when they launched the tet offense but we lost a lot of guys in the process and american public went ape sht after tet,

the reporters were filming the carnage and we were loosing hundreds of guys a day. many of the troops were pissed off because they wanted blood but were not allowed to pursue into cambodia where the viet cong would flee to refuge after they would strike. why many vietnam vets refuse to talk about it.

vietnam really fuct up the french in the 50s when french forces tried to win by building a defensive complex in a valley, the viet min set up artillery on the backside of the mountains and just pounded them before finally over running the garrison.. it took weeks but it almost happened at khe sahn in 1968 but the assault on it never came. they over ran a smaller base nearby and viet cong was actually using a russian tank for that, the only time an enemy tank was seen that far south, they totally fuct that base up and was one of the few battles they won coventionally.

the americans won almost every battle but without a policy of capture and hold they would just retake the ground they lost after the americans left whatever ground they took.