LOL, thats good. Most guys get a little queezy the first day out, but are fine after that. Good luck to you.

 

well the recuiter did some research for me and gave the a list of jobs that are needed at the base near here so he's picking me up tomorrow (my car broke down ) and ill probably sign up there

 

COAST GUARD.........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WON'T BE SORRY....!!!!!!!!

 

i'm telling you man, don't count on that. there's a war on. we need people in the fleet.

AZCA, it's been the Navy since Oct 13, 1775. we just changed it from Continental Navy to United States Navy.

coming on 232 years of standing the watch.

 

Branch of service: USAF
Length of service: 26 Years
NEC or MOS: Helicopter Flight Engineer/Gunner
Last duty station or unit: Andrews AFB, MD
Best day served: Too many to list
Worst day served: September 1979
Last war or conflict: (If not still classified) Landed on a USMC Helicopter Carrier in the middle of the Ocean. Off the coast of a country that didn't know what was going to visit them in the morning, early.....

 

Man i hate recruiters.

Remember one little thing out of this.

Recruiter = Liar.

Oh he can look everything up and tell you there are a zillion jobs locally available, and that could be the gods honest truth yada yada yada...

However: there is no way, none, zero, zip, nada, that he can guarantee you will get one. He is full of shit if he says different, it is in no way, at all, ever, under his control or recommendation where you will go. Period. His job is to get you signed up. His promotion and pay grade depends on it. Recruiters are notorious for lying their collective asses off to get your name on that paper. There may be a few strays around that actually care, but they are nearly nonexistant.

You have a better chance of being struck by lightning a few dozen times and survivng it than being stationed in your home area on your first assignment. You may get it eventually, IF you are in the right field, and IF you are the correct rank at the time, and IF there is an opening for that exact job at that exact rank in that exact location for the exact amount of needed time (you in the service and the job at that location) etc. etc. etc.

I am not saying it doesnt happen, i am sure it has, once or twice. The chances of it are so astronomically small though that it is laughable.

Dont get me wrong, i am not saying dont go, by all means do! I never regretted going, but just be informed when you do, that is all.

All I wanted was to stay stateside when i went in and lo and behold they guaranteed it!, How cool is that?!?!?!???? I wanted conus just long enough to finish the college degree i had started at the time. Then i wanted to go overseas and they said it was doable! they guaranteed me my job, in my field, in the states so i could finish up one semester of college.

~ Right.

As i was standing (about a year later) leaning on a wall, sweating my ass off, in face paint, a two day pack and toting M4, In eastern Africa... finishing that degree was a distant memory. Still is. Never WAS stationed stateside. Take that for what it is worth.

and yes, i would do it all over again in less than a heartbeat. If i could have stayed, i would have been a lifer.

 

I thought so too. About a week and a half ago I stopped by the Army recruiter's office to get some new desk calanders for my unit at work. The Staff Sergeant told me that they didn't have any, but they were expecting some and he said he would call me to pick some up. Well I figured that he would never call, but yesterday he did and I went and picked up a handfull of desk calanders. This just goes to show that they don't lie about everything.

 

They only lie to possible recruits..........!!!!

Mine lied to me.. Maybe we ought to take a poll on that..!!!

 

Actually its a different crash. Man I would hate to be hanging there by my gunners belt like that. Its bad enough to forget to unlatch it before jumping out onto the deck. If you have ever seen someone do that ( I have done it ) its pretty funny but hurts a bit.

Anyway, back to the crash. It was in 1995 on the way from Okinawa to Singapore on the Belleau Wood, LHA-3. The XO was the pilot and he decided to do some single-engine work without testing it over the deck. They came in to land, slid in sideways like normal, but the right side of the rotors lost lift when they crossed over the hot deck. With only single-engine, they did not have enough power to correct for the loss of lift and aircraft rolled into the deck. The blades broke up into little pieces of shrapnel and flew down the deck, severly damaging at least ten other aircraft.

I was working in the hangar at the time and when I heard it happen I looked out the elevator door and saw the landing gear sticking up out of the water and floating towards the back of the ship.

Amazingly enough, no-one on board was killed and the LSO directing them in was not even hurt. The pilots got away with some minor injuries but the crewchief got pummeled pretty badly by loose equipment and the fact that a gunners belt doesn't really keep you in place like seatbelts do.

Well, thats my story.

 

well since the army denied me MP all my plans fell apart..coast guard is Coast lol...and i know the navy base here isnt guaranteed but its a higher possibility if i take one of the jobs they need thur