Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I was 22 when I left. I left as a Petty Officer, although not a fully qualified one as I still needed to finish a couple of presentations. If I had done, I'd have had to serve another year. I was one of the youngest male PO's in the fleet air arm at the time.
Sometimes I do wish I'd stayed in tbh. I miss my mates, but not really the job. Too much time being messed about. Also, as I've discovered, as an aircraft engineer, the money is ridiculous as a civilian. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was making £2-3000 a week after tax! I certainly didn't earn it either. Turn up to work, work for an hour, spend another 2 hours fixing some stupid Saudi's mistake, then go home and sit by the pool. Easy life, but you can only really do it as a single person. The compound in Riyadh was full of nurses, so you can imagine what that was like!
Last edited by Dean York; 05-06-2016 at 01:35 PM..
I was 22 when I left. I left as a Petty Officer, although not a fully qualified one as I still needed to finish a couple of presentations. If I had done, I'd have had to serve another year. I was one of the youngest male PO's in the fleet air arm at the time.
Sometimes I do wish I'd stayed in tbh. I miss my mates, but not really the job. Too much time being messed about. Also, as I've discovered, as an aircraft engineer, the money is ridiculous as a civilian. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was making £2-3000 a week after tax! I certainly didn't earn it either. Turn up to work, work for an hour, spend another 2 hours fixing some stupid Saudi's mistake, then go home and sit by the pool. Easy life, but you can only really do it as a single person. The compound in Riyadh was full of nurse's, so you can imagine what that was like!
Oh so you enlisted immediately when you were 18? I miss my mates too, but due to our conscription policy it's ultimately impossible to stick together. Most of us met in 2009 at a rehersal, but our company has been disbanded since. You saw a lot of foreign service, and that must've been quite cool!
My sister's ex BF was a UN peacekeeper in Kosovo, and he told me that it was his greatest experience of his life. Veterans coming from Afghanistan tell another story and only this year the terminology of "peacekeeping veteran" was acknowledged by the Government and the Ministry of Health, as so many suffers from PTSD.
I got a letter a year ago that my new assembly point is Lahti and my duty is a supply Sergeant in a supply company (I was moved from the Navy into the Military in the process, though I have a maritime education). And it's apparently an APC brigade (which is nice - not first wave).
I was 22 when I left. I left as a Petty Officer, although not a fully qualified one as I still needed to finish a couple of presentations. If I had done, I'd have had to serve another year. I was one of the youngest male PO's in the fleet air arm at the time.
Sometimes I do wish I'd stayed in tbh. I miss my mates, but not really the job. Too much time being messed about. Also, as I've discovered, as an aircraft engineer, the money is ridiculous as a civilian. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I was making £2-3000 a week after tax! I certainly didn't earn it either. Turn up to work, work for an hour, spend another 2 hours fixing some stupid Saudi's mistake, then go home and sit by the pool. Easy life, but you can only really do it as a single person. The compound in Riyadh was full of nurse's, so you can imagine what that was like!
We had two female volunteers in the MP company, they were really good-looking. And they took all advantage of it. But figure, 2 nice looking females and 1000-2000 horny males. Rumour has it that one of those MP's took full advantage, and was quite the town bicycle, lol.
We had one girl in our coastal infantry line at the NCO school, the first woman ever. She was a really tough SOB, but the physical differences between the sexes was just too heavy for her. She completely collapsed during a march and started crying hysterically. We were all tired and worn out, but she could continue only when somebody else carried her gear. I'm a skinny guy, but I had all the energy in the world when she collapsed.
Ultimately the coastal infantry line was becoming too boring, annoying, exhausting and morale-dropping. Endless island-hopping, attacking on rocky coasts, always unnecessary forced deprivation of food and sleep, not getting motorised or mechanised transport just because we had to be so tough, sometimes even unnecessary hazing. I decided this is enough, and I'll try to get transferred into the medical NCO school in Lahti. I scored the highest points of the ones volunteered, and left that nazi boot camp. (Our lieutenant was openly a sadist and a national socialist.)
I'm not a picky sleeper, If I'm tired I'll fall asleep on a bed of rocks if I have to....
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
