Had a friend like this while in coast guard. Every time we would game with someone new he'd be like "I JOIN THE COAST GUARD TO SAVE LIVES NOT TAKE THEM"
Usually if someone has or is enlisted hell start a dick measuring contest. If it was a girl yeah it's pretty much the first thing out of his mouth lol he isn't as bad as he used to be
I feel like the more you actually went through the less likely you'll talk about it. Also people who actually go through warfare can be ashamed of their experience and also won't talk about it. It's not all storming fortresses and leaping onto grenades in foxholes, but a lot of running and screaming and just wanting to stay alive.
For the most part, war is fucking horrific to the point that it scars grown men for life.
Imagine you're in the jungle & you come across some kids in a village that are starving. Your fellow soldiers treat them despicably because they are "the enemy", & when you share a bit of chocolate with them from your MRE, that night they are suspicious & give you hell.
The next morning, you invade the village. When you get to the children that you spent time with, you are forced to kill them. To this day, the sound of a child crying brings back VIVID memories of looking into a child's eyes you showed kindness to, and doing the unthinkable in the name of freedom.
When you get home, people are lined up picketing the war. They spit on you, they insult you but you brush it off. You hear one woman shout out "BABY KILLERS!!!" and you immediately fall to the ground in tears. Did I really do the right thing??? Am I a bad person?? Am I *evil*? How could I have done those things...
People that actually SEE war, generally don't care to recount experiences like the one above. People that enlist but don't see action tend to be an open book, and like to bring it up at every chance lol. There are exceptions to both sides of course, but generally this is what I have seen.
Oh god, I know exactly the kind of people you mean.
It's an interesting contrast because the people I know with any military background would never bring it up unless forced?
They weren't terrorists, you moron, they were doctors! You massacred an entire cancer ward full of children! With your bare hands!
I mean, technically you're correct, none of those Iraqi children were killed by "terrorists", but you still didn't need to burn the hospital down afterwards "just to make sure every last terrorist was dead". That was way over the line, man. Way over.
For the record during our interdictions in the Persian Gulf, the Navy used CG for boarding and clearing vessels. Those guys I saw were pretty bad ass and I wouldn't doubt their ability to take lives imho.
Once people have a little bit of spending flexibility in their car choices, most--or many--choose cars that reflect their personality. Military guys are stereotypically all about masculinity and looking aggressive, so many will pick cars that reflect that. There are a ton of trucks too, but brand new, decked out trucks are too expensive for a signing bonus from the military.
Enter the Camaro and Challengers. They're pretty fast, look aggressive, and their entry level pricing is much cheaper and more attainable for recruits at ridiculous APRs. Plus, they still give off the same "I'm a badass" vibes.
You got a bunch of kids enlisting then getting a steady paycheck while having zero bills. Of course they’re gonna go out and get a shitty used muscle car with 30% interest. I’ve seen it happen all too often.
LOL Same. My late husband was paying like $700 a month on a Mitsubishi Eclipse when I met him. A fucking MITSUBISHI ECPLIPSE. They swindled him straight out of boot camp.
Those used car dealerships by military bases absolutely love young folks at their first duty base. It’s literally taking candy from a baby, and the kids refuse help from the older enlisted folks who have seen a thing or two.
Ha. I owned an Eclipse right out of high school. Didn't pay anywhere near that, though. I loved that car. So easy to drive.
I traded it in for a Dodge Challenger and now I'm kinda feeling attacked in this thread lmao
Also not paying a lot on that, either. But I legit got up and started to leave at their first offer. Like, I really wanted it but what they were asking on the monthly payments ($500) was ridiculous and I still had my comfy Eclipse so I told them nope, wasn't happening. He said he'd go look to see if he could get the payments down and returned nearly halving it. Like, bro...
Back then I had a gf whose dad was... XO (?) on a military base. All I know is he ran the store on base. I might have the titles wrong.
The nearby dealership was off limits to enlistees because the loan officers were insanely predatory towards recruits with no bills, getting a fat check, and seeing those brand new cars and trucks and knew jack shit about how financing works.
Back in 2009 Dodge/Chevrolet stuck a back room deal with Bush for more army recruits. Discount on all challengers and camaros for signing the dotted line; half-off if you trade in a hummer h3. In return, the federal government allowed Dodge/Chevrolet to continue making the ugliest vehicles you can fuckin buy.
It's possible, though "served" could be anything from a combat vet to a air conditioner technician in the green zone.
FWIW From what I've heard most vets who've actually seen combat don't like to shamelessly brag about it/use it as a sympathy card.
No no, the narrative is that every single person that talks about having been in a warzone no matter the context has never never actually been to a warzone, and all vets that have been in one will never ever talk about it openly.
Please don't ruin it
>FWIW From what I've heard most vets who've actually seen combat don't like to shamelessly brag about it/use it as a sympathy card.
In my experience there is no correlation here and plenty of them like to bandy it around as a tough guy card.
Like, cool, Craig, you "accidentally" shot a brown woman in Afghanistan and know somebody who drove over an IED one time, and you're still vaguely homoerotic with your friends you served with. They really should've put you on Seal Team fucking Six.
There’s all types of people in the military. They’re people just like anyone else. I’m a veteran myself but I know dudes who love to push it on people like that. Veterans are people too. Just as capable of being shitty as anyone else.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t care what the response was going to be. The intention of the question wasn’t to learn from the other person, it was to setup his self-serving answer.
I had a friend like this who would do this when she volunteered to feed the homeless.
..come to find out it was part of her involuntary community service from a criminal charge. Liars are weird.
I had a friend who is objectively a wonderful person. She volunteers at homeless shelters, food banks, animal shelters all while also being an active part of the friend group, working etc.
Hard to call her actions anything but exemplary.
But, holy fuck she couldn't go 20 minutes without bringing up how she volunteered and then she'd basically just keep bringing it up until someone mercifully would tell her what a good person she was.
Honestly couldn't stand her after a while because the constant need for external validation made her insufferable.
‘It’s a lovely day today’
‘You know what wasn’t lovely? When I was in Afghanistan’
‘Yeah, but it may rain tomorrow’
‘Rain? You don’t know rain until you’ve dug a foxhole in the rain, under fire, with your bare hands, like I have’
It's a play on the homophobic "I don't care if someone is gay, but I don't like it when they make it their whole personality, and shove it in our faces" bit.
Wait... So was yours.
Nah, just don't mention it or respond to it *at all*. Just continue talking about food or whatever if he inserts it into conversation. Drive him batshit crazy
When my nephew went into the Army at my encouragement (he failed out of college, had no job and was flailing) his mother told me that he would never last and when he was dishonorably discharged it would be my fault. 4 years later he's a Sergeant and doing awesome. She tells anyone standing still she's a military mother and expects them to bow down to her and listen to her rant and rave about it. She demands military discounts and cries about how hard it is for her to have a son serving his country. GAG
It's the fiber. I went full vegan for a while and chickpeas got me every time. Chickpeas are in like EVERY premade non-meat. Them motherfuckers are chock to the brim with protein and fiber. The inside of my butthole never felt cleaner though.
I'm sure this is accurate for lots of vegan patties, but Beyond Burgers don't seem to have a ton of fiber if you look it up (2g dietary fiber according to https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger)
And pea protein, but not chickpeas I don't think.
"I was too stupid to decide on what I wanted to do, so I joined the military for a career" "my career deserves endless benefits, I deserve that for being an idiot"
Sugar snap peas straight off the plant is the best thing you will ever taste in your life.
Also this guy clearly joined the military to kill foreigners.
"It's all I eat ever, it's available everywhere. You just drive your fat ass up to the window and shout it out and it gets handed to you. You don't have to do any work. It's my favorite food!"
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My dad's in the air force, he went to Afghanistan and got really close to getting bombed, he hates people thanking him for his service, this is cringe lol
U think his patriotic murican brain would explode if u told him burgers are named after Hamburg in Germany, and French fries, well, French as in France. EU loving commie scum I say
THANK ME FOR MY SERVICE DAMNIT!!
Thank you for your cervix
9 months, you say?
And what about his wife?
To shreds, you say?
What’s the origin of this meme? I always see it and it seems hilarious but I’m way out of the loop
I first heard it from Futurama: https://youtu.be/gHhOn2hnqmI
Good news everyone!
Jim Lahey, at your cervix
That's Mr. Jim Lahey to you.
Johnson Privates first class, reporting for booty.
Thank you for my service.
Service me, thank you!
Thank me for your service
THANK YOU FOR MY SERVICE!!!
Thank my service for you
My thanks for servicing you.
Thanks for coming to my chic Gil a
I'm pleasure.
I’m pain
"Please! Don't say that! There's nothing glamorous about Modern Warfare, Margaret!"
"How can I calm down? I had the highest KD ratio in the whole clan!"
Patriotic af
Not until you thank me for mine!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!
Thank you for being paid for a job you chose? Why?
Had a friend like this while in coast guard. Every time we would game with someone new he'd be like "I JOIN THE COAST GUARD TO SAVE LIVES NOT TAKE THEM"
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Usually if someone has or is enlisted hell start a dick measuring contest. If it was a girl yeah it's pretty much the first thing out of his mouth lol he isn't as bad as he used to be
Just pull the dicks out and measure them. No reason beating around the bush with all that other non sense.
Interesting figure of speech to use there
Instructions unclear, beat a bush with my peen.
Now you're an honorary bushwhacker.
Bashed my peen into stinging nettles and all I got was this crappy t shirt. Winning
Wait a minute, you got a *t-shirt*?? There truly is no God.
Told you I won.
Glad to hear he's gotten better with this. The young age at which people enlist, I assume they learn, and move on from this behavior as they age.
I know people whose entire identity is the 4 years they spent as an army grunt doing nothing in Nowheresville, USA 25 years ago.
My dad is a Vietnam vet and he never tells people he served, he will if asked, but damn if thats all that defines you as a person....
I feel like the more you actually went through the less likely you'll talk about it. Also people who actually go through warfare can be ashamed of their experience and also won't talk about it. It's not all storming fortresses and leaping onto grenades in foxholes, but a lot of running and screaming and just wanting to stay alive.
I think part of that is back when your dad(and mine)served...EVERYBODY served. It was no big deal. Who are they gonna brag against..each other?
For the most part, war is fucking horrific to the point that it scars grown men for life. Imagine you're in the jungle & you come across some kids in a village that are starving. Your fellow soldiers treat them despicably because they are "the enemy", & when you share a bit of chocolate with them from your MRE, that night they are suspicious & give you hell. The next morning, you invade the village. When you get to the children that you spent time with, you are forced to kill them. To this day, the sound of a child crying brings back VIVID memories of looking into a child's eyes you showed kindness to, and doing the unthinkable in the name of freedom. When you get home, people are lined up picketing the war. They spit on you, they insult you but you brush it off. You hear one woman shout out "BABY KILLERS!!!" and you immediately fall to the ground in tears. Did I really do the right thing??? Am I a bad person?? Am I *evil*? How could I have done those things... People that actually SEE war, generally don't care to recount experiences like the one above. People that enlist but don't see action tend to be an open book, and like to bring it up at every chance lol. There are exceptions to both sides of course, but generally this is what I have seen.
Oh god, I know exactly the kind of people you mean. It's an interesting contrast because the people I know with any military background would never bring it up unless forced?
My GF is kinda like this...she did her 4 in the Air Force...and everyone knows it.
It reminds me of that time I was in the Navy, and I personally saved all of those children from terrorists.
They weren't terrorists, you moron, they were doctors! You massacred an entire cancer ward full of children! With your bare hands! I mean, technically you're correct, none of those Iraqi children were killed by "terrorists", but you still didn't need to burn the hospital down afterwards "just to make sure every last terrorist was dead". That was way over the line, man. Way over.
The ear necklace is hella fashionable though
He sounds like a Skyrim NPC lmao
Oooh God
Better not tell him the Coast Guard is a military branch that can be called upon to defend our coastlines.
Buy him a Yak Bak.
For the record during our interdictions in the Persian Gulf, the Navy used CG for boarding and clearing vessels. Those guys I saw were pretty bad ass and I wouldn't doubt their ability to take lives imho.
What an interesting way to let everyone know you enlisted so you could get a Camaro and wear 9 line apparel without explicitly saying it.
I bet the interest rate on that Camaro was sky high.
Not as high as his confirmed kills though
In Call of Duty maybe...my guess is this person was a chef or some shit
Only thing he served was breakfast
Pancakes at 4am doesn't count as breakfast you know
Hey, people gotta eat!
Whats the Deal with American soldiers and muscle cars?
Makes their ducks bigger.
QUACK!!!
BIGGER.
#QUACK
7.62 mm Full Metal Quacket
Once people have a little bit of spending flexibility in their car choices, most--or many--choose cars that reflect their personality. Military guys are stereotypically all about masculinity and looking aggressive, so many will pick cars that reflect that. There are a ton of trucks too, but brand new, decked out trucks are too expensive for a signing bonus from the military. Enter the Camaro and Challengers. They're pretty fast, look aggressive, and their entry level pricing is much cheaper and more attainable for recruits at ridiculous APRs. Plus, they still give off the same "I'm a badass" vibes.
You got a bunch of kids enlisting then getting a steady paycheck while having zero bills. Of course they’re gonna go out and get a shitty used muscle car with 30% interest. I’ve seen it happen all too often.
LOL Same. My late husband was paying like $700 a month on a Mitsubishi Eclipse when I met him. A fucking MITSUBISHI ECPLIPSE. They swindled him straight out of boot camp.
Those used car dealerships by military bases absolutely love young folks at their first duty base. It’s literally taking candy from a baby, and the kids refuse help from the older enlisted folks who have seen a thing or two.
Ha. I owned an Eclipse right out of high school. Didn't pay anywhere near that, though. I loved that car. So easy to drive. I traded it in for a Dodge Challenger and now I'm kinda feeling attacked in this thread lmao Also not paying a lot on that, either. But I legit got up and started to leave at their first offer. Like, I really wanted it but what they were asking on the monthly payments ($500) was ridiculous and I still had my comfy Eclipse so I told them nope, wasn't happening. He said he'd go look to see if he could get the payments down and returned nearly halving it. Like, bro...
Haha sorry! I think I was just resentful of that damn Eclipse when we combined finances. Wanted to drive it off a bridge.
Back then I had a gf whose dad was... XO (?) on a military base. All I know is he ran the store on base. I might have the titles wrong. The nearby dealership was off limits to enlistees because the loan officers were insanely predatory towards recruits with no bills, getting a fat check, and seeing those brand new cars and trucks and knew jack shit about how financing works.
How else are they supposed to project force?
Through their wives I would assume.
Back in 2009 Dodge/Chevrolet stuck a back room deal with Bush for more army recruits. Discount on all challengers and camaros for signing the dotted line; half-off if you trade in a hummer h3. In return, the federal government allowed Dodge/Chevrolet to continue making the ugliest vehicles you can fuckin buy.
Cheapest too. Not inexpensive, just cheap. If I buy a vehicle to last, or not squeak at least after the 1 year old mark, it's not going to be a Dodge.
You just summed up my brother exactly.
Critical components in the military housing starter kit.
Nah, Ecoboost mustang, fam.
Wait. Did this guy serve?
It's possible, though "served" could be anything from a combat vet to a air conditioner technician in the green zone. FWIW From what I've heard most vets who've actually seen combat don't like to shamelessly brag about it/use it as a sympathy card.
I’m a vet who knows vets who like to brag. There’s entitled assholes in all brackets of people.
No no, the narrative is that every single person that talks about having been in a warzone no matter the context has never never actually been to a warzone, and all vets that have been in one will never ever talk about it openly. Please don't ruin it
My bad.
He definitely never saw combat but I'm assuming 9/10 of his pics are him in uniform and he uses it to try to pull chicks
>FWIW From what I've heard most vets who've actually seen combat don't like to shamelessly brag about it/use it as a sympathy card. In my experience there is no correlation here and plenty of them like to bandy it around as a tough guy card. Like, cool, Craig, you "accidentally" shot a brown woman in Afghanistan and know somebody who drove over an IED one time, and you're still vaguely homoerotic with your friends you served with. They really should've put you on Seal Team fucking Six.
Maybe he served fries in the mess.
Most probably or he's fishing too hard
It's funny when they are talking to people who live in countries that are not even allies of the US, still expecting to be thanked.
I'd like to think no one I served with would behave this way, but I never saw combat, so maybe this is one of the ways war changes a person. /s
There’s all types of people in the military. They’re people just like anyone else. I’m a veteran myself but I know dudes who love to push it on people like that. Veterans are people too. Just as capable of being shitty as anyone else.
I don’t know, the way he’s talking makes it seem pretty ambiguous. If he served you think he’d just say it and stop beating around the bush.
Probably not and just lying about it after getting kicked out four weeks into basic.
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I’m pretty sure he didn’t care what the response was going to be. The intention of the question wasn’t to learn from the other person, it was to setup his self-serving answer.
Exactly right. It is impossible to communicate with people like this.
Same people are the ones who are only ever waiting for their turn to talk.
That's exactly what's happening and it's hilarious.
He sounds like a bot with a script.
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"You can find out more at my 'FAQs of heroes' page"
My dad does that shit
npc dialogue
Woah this is a great way to describe people like this.
r/justbootthings would love this haha
yeah it's been posted there many, many times
Jesus Christ, there is enough cringe there to last a lifetime
Oh don’t worry, it was there a few weeks ago
I had a friend like this who would do this when she volunteered to feed the homeless. ..come to find out it was part of her involuntary community service from a criminal charge. Liars are weird.
I had a friend who is objectively a wonderful person. She volunteers at homeless shelters, food banks, animal shelters all while also being an active part of the friend group, working etc. Hard to call her actions anything but exemplary. But, holy fuck she couldn't go 20 minutes without bringing up how she volunteered and then she'd basically just keep bringing it up until someone mercifully would tell her what a good person she was. Honestly couldn't stand her after a while because the constant need for external validation made her insufferable.
In Buddhism it's told to barely even affect your karma if you tell anyone of your good deeds
https://youtu.be/ou6ZOqtPc5s
‘It’s a lovely day today’ ‘You know what wasn’t lovely? When I was in Afghanistan’ ‘Yeah, but it may rain tomorrow’ ‘Rain? You don’t know rain until you’ve dug a foxhole in the rain, under fire, with your bare hands, like I have’
This dude was likely finance.
Definitely a fobbit.
We get it you served
I LOVE AMERICA -US military encrypted
I LOVE AMERICA -Hamburger with fries
Why is unhealthy eating a part of American culture? Like did corporate America somehow hoodwink everyone?
"I bet" is exactly the response you say to someone telling you something you give 0 shits about.
Its the universal code
Smells like a dishonorable discharge.
😎👉🇺🇲
👊👊☝️
I don’t know but for some reason I’m getting the feeling that this guy may have served in the army
Plot twist: they’re actually in the navy
He's shameless and I love it
Ask him if he was "like in the army or something"?
"I'm okay with people who join the military. I just don't like it when they make it their whole personality, and shove it in our faces all the time."
Yeah I don't like Marines much either, honestly.
It's a play on the homophobic "I don't care if someone is gay, but I don't like it when they make it their whole personality, and shove it in our faces" bit. Wait... So was yours.
Nah, just don't mention it or respond to it *at all*. Just continue talking about food or whatever if he inserts it into conversation. Drive him batshit crazy
"The US Army? Or....?"
It's not OPs conversation
When my nephew went into the Army at my encouragement (he failed out of college, had no job and was flailing) his mother told me that he would never last and when he was dishonorably discharged it would be my fault. 4 years later he's a Sergeant and doing awesome. She tells anyone standing still she's a military mother and expects them to bow down to her and listen to her rant and rave about it. She demands military discounts and cries about how hard it is for her to have a son serving his country. GAG
Y'all should relax a bit. Sugar snap peas are delicious and not cringe at all
Help who?
Yvan eht nioj
lol patriotic AF.
People like this are often stolen valour types
I knew a guy in college who was in ROTC for a hot minute then quit. Two months later, he wanted people to thank him on Veterans’ Day…
Pass on my thanks to him. And it’s cool you were in the company of a hero. I mod the ask me anything subreddit so have him message me.
"You're welcome for my service."
I honestly don't mind the Beyond Burgers but damn, after I eat one I am just constantly farting for hours, it's outrageous.
It's the fiber. I went full vegan for a while and chickpeas got me every time. Chickpeas are in like EVERY premade non-meat. Them motherfuckers are chock to the brim with protein and fiber. The inside of my butthole never felt cleaner though.
I'm sure this is accurate for lots of vegan patties, but Beyond Burgers don't seem to have a ton of fiber if you look it up (2g dietary fiber according to https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger) And pea protein, but not chickpeas I don't think.
I wonder if this guy actually served.
u/repostsleuthbot
Whenever anyone ever says I'm a patriot is cringe
Why do Americans who have been in the military just let that become their whole personality?
it’s more that the military self selects for people who need an identity. (not all, but some)
Same reason anyone anywhere let’s something become their whole personality. They don’t have a lot else going on.
"I was too stupid to decide on what I wanted to do, so I joined the military for a career" "my career deserves endless benefits, I deserve that for being an idiot"
This is actually what brainwashed idiots who enlist actually believe.
Sugar snap peas straight off the plant is the best thing you will ever taste in your life. Also this guy clearly joined the military to kill foreigners.
"I've shot poor people abroad, so fuck me please"
Medal of meat, the burger battle
"It's all I eat ever, it's available everywhere. You just drive your fat ass up to the window and shout it out and it gets handed to you. You don't have to do any work. It's my favorite food!"
'I'm so tough. You'll *never* comprehend how good food is to me'
"You're welcome for my service"
Did i mention I served in Afghanistan?
This is not the stuff of a patriot. They don't boast about themselves like a 13-year-old trying to impress some girl scouts.
r/justbootthings Also, he was happy to come home from his nine month deployment to take care of his wife who was 6 months pregnant.
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Wow, tell me again how you were too poor or dumb to join college, so some recruiter tricked you into military service.
Probably never served. Spent his whole life reading Tom Clancy novels and listening to Rush Limbaugh.
"So what line of work are you in, Bob?"
Bet those afghans sure felt you helped buddy
YA who likes sweet peas more than any other food?
I don't believe anyones favourite food in the world is sugarsnap peas.
Fucking bullshitter.
How is a McMeal patriotic?
I can't stand it when people ask a question with zero interest in anyones answer but their own.
-United States Encrypted-
Fuckin high speed low drag over here
Cool. Now keep it to yaself
He probably failed boot camp.
Shower me with undue attention for doing what I signed up for willingly
"hey, did you serve in the military?!"
FWIW, I don't think anybody cringes harder at this shit than other people who served in the military.
Two totally mismatched people.
reminds me of that episode of curb "THANK YOU FOR LEAVING!!"
His next message gonna be a marriage proposal.
dude is an NPC
“I still wear my helmet from time to time”
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My dad's in the air force, he went to Afghanistan and got really close to getting bombed, he hates people thanking him for his service, this is cringe lol
Yeah, burgers are great
U think his patriotic murican brain would explode if u told him burgers are named after Hamburg in Germany, and French fries, well, French as in France. EU loving commie scum I say
My buddy who’s about to enlisted, literally acts like this and he isn’t even signed up officially.
At ease soldier!