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I mean it's obviously total bullshit as is, but the fucking link at the bottom really seals the deal... I'm totally convinced now...
I don't know if trying to recruit 4channers is a bottom of the barrel scraping, or just a clear view of how they see every recruit.
Dude should have just walked down to the local mechanic. Better pay and hours
People getting wise to the military. Many would defend their country, but don't want to die for an oil company to make an extra thousand. Guessing which is more likely is left as an exercise for the reader.
They're all over Reddit man
At least we're safe here on Lemmy.
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Join Yvan? You mean join Lemmygrad?
Lemmygrad, not even once
Have you considered that Glorious Leader Putin is invading Ukraine to restore the Soviet Union and fight Nazis, not because he's a fascist twatwaffle funding the rise of the global far right and murdering his neighbors for power and money?
They forget the part where the signing bonus doesn't exist after they finish BCT.
How so? Is it a flat out lie, or are there costs associated with BCT?
Very funny either way, as I was thinking about signing on as a last ditch effort to set myself up a few years ago, but I ended up getting forklift certification and a CDL, and have been doing just fine since.
I know that when I joined up in 1997 a lot of those bonuses simply disappeared if you didn't keep ahold of your original paperwork. Sometimes they had a lot of hidden clauses, so you could lose the bonus for a minor infraction. Or, the bonus was really part of your pay and the full amount would be paid out after if you actually completed 8 years instead of the 2-4 year commitment you started on.
All I know is I personally ended up permanently disabled at 18 and fought with the VA until 2019 to get my disability compensation. Which they only paid me back pay from 2009 instead of from the date of disability in 1997.
Getting money from the government takes a long time. The people downwind of the Atomic test sites have been fighting 50+ years for the full payments from being irradiated during the 50's.
But hey, joining the military is a good job if you aren't stupid and taking a combat MOS when you could have a steady non-combat job with perks. Right now the Commissary benefits for cheap food is worth it with how food prices have been going.
Yeah, it’s shit that they backdate stuff from your intent to file date. There was a lawsuit that made it to SCOTUS about equitable tolling, and to everyone’s non-surprise all nine judges voted against it. Can’t give a bunch of vets a windfall, need to keep up poor.
When I got out, I filed three times and every time it was “lost”. Sorry, dude, file again. Hahaha fuck you!
Was convinced to file again during Covid and the process had completely changed. Was all digital, no more lost paperwork. Took almost two years, got it all sorted out