my life

[enming]

I've been entertaining some thoughts about quitting this whole ROTC thing before it's too late. There was once a time when I was very motivated and gung-ho about this program and my prospective future with the military, but lately I've been getting sick of it all. I don't even know where to begin. I could write about all my problems with this

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[tha_onlee_amara]

A very nice navy prior once reminded me that there were people exactly like me in the military: people who hated everything about it and wanted it to change. However, she said, things would not change unless I kept going, attained the position, and change what I wanted changed

Deja Vu, hunh?

[youradhere]

This is the same exact thing that happens in football.

Even where i stand today, as a coach, or rather, as the coach you can mess around with and have fun around, its hard to stay in touch with the rest of the team. Some hard workers never get recognized just like how some front-runners get all the glory and deserve none of it.

As for working your way up and changing things when your in a position of power, much of that goes out the window as well. There were a million things i said i would never do as a coach, and a million things i said i would change about football... and i have changed nothing. As you work your way up, it becomes very easy to lose touch with who you once were, and than can be applied to the armed forces, football, or even social stance.

When it comes down to it though, through thick and thin you still make some great memories, and it is those good memories, not the bad ones, that you'll correlate with when you think back about your hitch with the ROTC

Military life

[alucard007]

If you think thats bull shit and all you got to understand that bullshit come all shapes and size. Look at me as an active duty Marine in Okinawa, Japan. I know how much bullshit it can be and its just how you look at it. Everyone that you think shouldn't be a leader sooner or later wont be a leader. Like how Amara said its a process to weed out all the non hackers to not be an officer. I tell you I'm not officer matieral and I'm not into that political shit but thats what your in for Enming. Hopfully you'll make it and fullfil the position and be a great leader. If you think you got bullshit just think of me and soon enough I'll fight a war. A war that I will fully except and for some people its bull shit. I dont have that choice but I"m proud to be a Marine and thats why I do it. Not for the bullshit but to say I did my part and not stay back home and complain about Bush.