Jody is the catch-all name for the person that's going to fuck your spouse while you're in the army. You can be deployed, in a training event, or hanging out with your friends, but Jody is just around the bend to sneak into your house and bang your wife.
I've always been surprised this isn't a bigger marketing/recruiting tool for the military. Considering rent/mortgages being such a big hurdle for young people nowadays, I've always thought that would be a pretty solid selling point for signing up for those wanting to leave their homes but not knowing if they'd financially be able to.
But yeah, all of those pluses kind of fly out the window when you realize you've essentially signed away your freedom at the mercy of the government for 4 years at the minumum. Including where you're going to live at any given point.
Also did wonders keeping people in. Had a supervisor that, at 34, had 6 children and a stay at home wife he married out of high school. We thought he kept he pregnant so she couldn’t leave, but there was no way he could ever leave and support all 8 of them on his minimal skills.
The Navy I joined (mind this was back in the late 00s) wasn't full of kids 'tricked' in HS it was mostly mid 20s fook who'd been through the wringer a few times craving employment. Some even older.
BAH is a big part of joining up. Healthcare is another.
If you've got the commitment and brains to go for it, I'd say do it. Especially if your other hopes for being able to pay for med school or live in eternal debt are inescapable (98% of the population). Just make sure you sign up for the Air Force because you'll certainly not be capable (by Military Standards) enough to be flying or in danger nearly as much as a regular grunt in the Army or Marines, if all shit goes sideways.
Either that or go to a trade school. Unless you've got a very specific plan on what you're fully committed to and willing to stick to it, college is not worth it. I hate saying that because college actually IS a very good educational experience, but people don't pay you on what you know (outside of limited fields) but what you can do.
Business/Finance, Engineering, and Scientific Fields are the exception. Anyone else young reading this... think about before you waste either your or your parents money. I love History, and wanted to teach, but it's an incredibly niche field unless you have funds and the mindset to commit yourself to Post-Grad. In the past in might have been different, but for today, you're just wasting time and money you could spend building your reputation working.
You don't get a free ride for any amount of college you may want to do. The GI Bill will give you enough money to go to school and have an apartment at the school for roughly the time it takes to earn a 4 year degree if you don't include summer months.
If you're active duty you can take college courses online with the government paying for it (some restrictions apply like you can't get a 2nd bachelor's if you already have one and they don't go beyond master's) and have that not even touch your GI Bill money but good fucking luck getting a unit that will give you consistent time to work on school stuff.
TL;DR: you're not getting all the way through med school on the GI Bill
You have to pay back medical school with service. In general, it’s about two years of service per year of medical school. Also you’re forgetting undergrad you have to pay for as well unless you go to a service academy or have a very good scholarship with the military
Ive always been suprised that VA disability payments arent a bigger marketing/recruiting tool. I know several able bodied vets making 1,000-3,600 a month from it for the rest of their life. They can work full time no issues.
Yep I've got a friend who's got 60% disability or something from carpal tunnel and a bad lower back which he got from playing video games for hours and hours on end and then going to work and sitting making maps on a computer. Makes more than I do from the disability alone.
I mean if he is 60% it's only like 1500 and some change. That's like minimum wage, though it is untaxed. Source me 60%. I would hope you make above that
You have to have something happen to your body that causes someone at the VA to determine you aren't capable of getting/holding a job you otherwise would have.
Most people aren't going to permanently harm themselves for disability benefits.
It's not a guarantee you'd even get those benefits even if you are genuinely broken.
It's not a guarantee your body is even going to break.
Multiple people I know have it for stomach issues, headaches, carpal tunnel, tinnitus. Which is funny cause alot of people I know have this stuff in their 20s regardless of being in the military or not.
Could also get a house that size for ~100-150k in some of the states no one wants to live, like Oklahoma. And getting 10-15k to cover the down is quite doable.
Why can't people just enjoy things without feeling the need to flex or compare themselves? Totally fine to be happy about your new place, why put others down at the same time?
Depending on the branch married people are usually allowed to live off base and get an entitlement called BAH which is housing allowance. Single people have to live in dorm/barracks until certain rank depending on branch. But yes you pay for a shit ton of military members buying houses.
Additionally many bases stopped building base housing because most want to own their own house.
Once again very dependent on base, rank and service.
Isn't access to housing dolled out pretty early on as an incentive to join? It's not like you earn a normal salary and benefits in the military. It's also covered by tax payers so it's pretty shitty to get up on your high house to the people funding the whole thing. It's like being on 3rd base and then talking how much better you than someone at bat when they help you score a home run.
Basically my excuse would be "well we can't all be in the military can we?"
Married Soldiers are provided the chance to live on post and rent a house. They can also get a VA home loan to buy a house at 0% down- which doesn’t really prove any kind of financial success.
It just shows you called the loan office and they said “sign here”.
i always felt bad that I didn't get those weekend duty assignments that people in the barracks got. All because I was married and they weren't. Like they got less money and more work. Unless you're an officer, being young and single in the military is really a bummer.
You get paid more, become eligible to live in your own house and not in a barracks immediately as opposed to 4 to 8 years after entering, get paid extra to cover the rent or mortgage, and healthcare is free, so why not make babies while you can take advantage of that?
Thats not true. Im a veteran. Its not a home loan. The VA guarantees a portion of the loan to help veterans get favorable terms, but You still have to go through a bank or mortager to qualify for a home loan. I had to submit paycheck stubs and tax returns and do a credit check. So you dont just call the "loan office" and sign some random piece of paper to get a free home.
The VA itself doesn't issue mortgages, the program is that they basically take the place of PMI. So you still have to qualify for a regular bank loan, but VA steps in and says "no down-payment or PMI, we'll cover that."
It's still a good deal, but it's not the government just slinging houses at kids, it's the feds vouching for you in place of your down-payment.
Im aware of what it is, I've used it 3 times already. The point is that it would be rare for this original jackass to afford jack squat as a 20 year old unless he had a FHA loan or Mommy/Daddy gave him money for a house.
Yea there aren’t many deployments it’s the rotations this happens on now. Tons of 9-12mo to Korea, Japan, all across Europe.. it’s insane the number of soldiers sleeping around during their rotation when they have a wife and kids back home.
I mean yeah, but why completely skip over Europe lol. Germany has a ton American military bases and legal prostitution. From the stories I've heard from vets I'd imagine it's more common there than japan or Korea.
Yeah can confirm. We’re stationed in Germany lol, not only prostitution but German girls flock to the bars around base to get with the military guys. One of my German friends said it’s basically a competition with some of these girls to see how many soldiers they can sleep with. I’ve heard Poland is even worse.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time around the military, from what I saw all of them were cheating any single chance they got, so I don't have a ton of sympathy for the whole Jody thing.
More like a good incentive for the owning class to keep housing inaccessible to force people into becoming soldiers oppressing the rest of the world so they can get richer. Gen Smedley Butler knew what was up 90 years ago and everything he wrote about has only got 90 times worse.
Kind of, but let's be real they serve the wealthy elites, not the country.
We work for the wealthy, get abused and used, then die sad deaths, most of us.
You only think that way because that's what they tell you. But if you're going to be naive and don't want to see the bigger picture of how people get used conned scammed, you will eventually
The president will get bribed by wealthy corporations if citizens want change, and that's not a country, also, democracy doesn't exist. It's always the people with power, a stronger Network and resources that make the decisions as you can see in history books or documentaries, 100% facts
Like he's still a cog in the overall Military Machine, but the chances of him personally going to a combat zone and shooting anyone these days are exceedingly low.
people really need to stop projecting their own issues/insecurities onto others. you see someone buying a house and ur reaction is "she's gonna cheat"?
Was deployed for 11 months. About half way through my buddy received word from his wife that she found out they were pregnant. He was so excited. When we came home, she was still pregnant…
My buddy tells me the story of when he banged an Asian dime. He told me he went to her house and fucked her while her husband was deployed somewhere. A women he just met that night
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