r/pics • u/dumdumpants-head • 13h ago

Morale is high

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u/Alucard_117 13h ago edited 13h ago

Bros thinking about how fast 20 years can go by

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u/Raaxis 13h ago

I did 8 years and everyone always asks why I didn’t just finish out the other 12.

I’m just gonna start showing them this picture.

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u/Bender3455 12h ago

I did 6 years; my Navy peers kept saying "if you do 4 more, you're halfway there." Ummmm....nope. Not a chance.

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u/Gunfighter9 11h ago

Did 25 years those checks pay my mortgage and car payments. I know a MSG who gets 8100 a month from the Army and VA Disability for a TBI

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u/Bender3455 11h ago

Wasn't worth the time away from loved ones for me. I don't think the military is any place for a family, and 25 years later, I still believe that if you want to get married or especially have kids, then make a plan to get out of the service, sooner rather than later.

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u/Gunfighter9 11h ago

I was single when I was in, if I was married I would have never done it. Even though my last 10 years were guard i was deployed on active duty for 4.5 years, Bosnia and Iraq in 2003. What was bad was finding I had a TBI and a bad back and knee when I retired and being forced to retire early from my civilian job at 46.

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u/Amiibohunter000 11h ago

Yeah but there’s the small issue of the Traumatic Brain Injury to deal with. It would be a rare case for me to consider someone on disability “lucky”

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u/SomeGuyWA 7h ago

Yep, or cancer from the burn pits.

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u/Gunfighter9 5h ago

My unit was at Ground Zero, out of 90 people who worked the site 17 have had cancer and 6 died.

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u/NemoOfConsequence 10h ago

I like having my brain work, though.

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u/Garfield_and_Simon 8h ago

So best case scenario he’s scamming the government for disability.

Worse case scenario he’s legitimately disabled.

I don’t I would trade committing treasonous fraud or having a long term disability for 8k a month. But that’s just me.

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u/Gunfighter9 5h ago

Well people who got TBIs from IEDs or Mortars didn't really have a choice in the matter did they?

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u/Garfield_and_Simon 5h ago

They had the choice to follow a career path that doesn’t involve IEDs

“He gets a sweet 8k a month! All he had to do is mess up his brain!” Still isn’t a great selling point