Tag: Humorous reasons to re-inlist

Quotes June 22, 2018

US Military Careers Reasons to re-inlist
By Rod Powers
 
 
 
 
Yesterday sucked, today sucked, tomorrow is going to suck, and this seems to be a pretty solid forecast for the rest of my enlistment.
 
 
 
 
Spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year training for something that there is a 99.9% chance that we will never do.
 
 
 
 
WWWDWOA? (what would we do without acronyms?)
 
 
 
 
Taking simple daily tasks and breaking them down into nuclear physics before doing them.
 
 
 
 
If I got out, I would surely miss the idea of waking up every morning for a “meeting”.
 
 
 
 
Getting to eat meat that comes in boxes labeled ” not fit for human consumption” and “for institutional use only.”
 
 
 
 
Waking up every morning and going to “staff meeting” where a piece of paper is read to me even though it is posted on the wall and on the offices internet, both of which I have access to. I guess I can’t read.
 
 
 
 
Going to medical complaining of severe heart and chest pain and being told to come back during “sick-call” the next day.
 
 
 
 
I love the fact that my opinion has about as much influence as my sister’s pet iguana’s.
 
 
 
 
You do not have to respect the person, you have to respect what they wear on their collar or sleeve.
 
 
 
 
I love the fact that the military wonders why we have so many people around the world that hate our country. I am sure that us being bullies and telling the world what they can and cannot do, then ignoring those rules ourselves has nothing to do with it.
 
 
 
 
When you get out you will only be 38-40. You still have your entire life ahead of you. Yeah, okay, I want my life to start at 38.
 
 
 
 
Is that local time or Zulu?
 
 
 
 
Why did our parents even bother giving us first names?
 
 
 
 
IN what other job can you do things NOT the RIGHT WAY, but the “MILITARY WAY”?
 
 
 
 
Who really wants to have any control over their life anyway?
 
 
 
 
Because only during magic shows and military working hours are the rules of logic suspended.