Total b.s. My son was a Tanker. He got stuck in California at the NTC his whole 3 years and didn't even get to drive a real tank. They were always dealing with inadequate broken down equipment. The higher ups never led by example. They never held the lazy suck ups accountable for doing nothing. The few and I mean few people that did do there job got dumped on constantly. My son being one of them. When they went on rotation in the desert there was never enough food for everyone. The pay sucks and the barracks are not all up to working order 100%. Requests for repairs go unanswered and they cater to families and not the single soldiers. Please don't fall for the bs they are trying to sell. The Army has gotten too soft and its leadership lazy to nonexistant. If you want a career that pays better go to a technical school and learn a trade.
The price of being a tanker is that you have to put up with all kinds of BS from every direction. Sure, go to trade school and make something of yourself, if that's what you want to do. But if you want to hurl 120mm projectiles downrange and tear up the landscape, then you gotta be a tanker to do that. Of course, if the idea of tank gunnery doesn't thrill you to begin with, then yeah, go get a soft job that pays well.
The leadership is there, but unfortunately living quarters aren’t the best. It depends base to base. America need young men to fight for them, so if you aren’t patriotic enough to do your service then don’t join. It honestly sounds like you only heard the bad parts of military life, you are forgetting the people and the experience.
@@gavinoreilly1501 My son said he liked boot camp better than his duty station if that says anything. They were more strict with the rules and the leadership was stronger than at Ft. Irwin. He encountered a lot of lazy suck ups playing the game to get out of doing the work. My son did what he was told and got shit on constantly because of it. After 3 years you get a little bitter that the people who don't do anything are getting promoted or getting special privileges because of who they know and who they suck up to. Soldiers being promoted that don't know the job well enough to lead and the lower ranks basically having to teach them what they do on a daily basis. The leadership at Ft. Irwin was almost non existent. No body to lead by example. It's very sad because my son had wanted to be a soldier since he was a little boy and went straight in after graduation. He was so discusted and embarrassed by the time he finished his contract he doesnt even want to be reminded of his time in the military.
Fort Irwin is notoriously a shit hole. Recent charges came out for someone who threatened to shoot up the base, there was a corruption scandal there. It is literally known by soldiers as “Satan’s Asshole”. There is a ton of fraternization (probably the suck ups your referencing), but the one upside I guess is that you get to be OPFOR.
Awesome!
General, get real. I miss the tank!
all these slick sleeved NCOs... smh and and CSM w/o a CAB... where were y'all hiding ?
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Total b.s. My son was a Tanker. He got stuck in California at the NTC his whole 3 years and didn't even get to drive a real tank. They were always dealing with inadequate broken down equipment. The higher ups never led by example. They never held the lazy suck ups accountable for doing nothing. The few and I mean few people that did do there job got dumped on constantly. My son being one of them. When they went on rotation in the desert there was never enough food for everyone. The pay sucks and the barracks are not all up to working order 100%. Requests for repairs go unanswered and they cater to families and not the single soldiers.
Please don't fall for the bs they are trying to sell. The Army has gotten too soft and its leadership lazy to nonexistant. If you want a career that pays better go to a technical school and learn a trade.
The price of being a tanker is that you have to put up with all kinds of BS from every direction. Sure, go to trade school and make something of yourself, if that's what you want to do. But if you want to hurl 120mm projectiles downrange and tear up the landscape, then you gotta be a tanker to do that. Of course, if the idea of tank gunnery doesn't thrill you to begin with, then yeah, go get a soft job that pays well.
The leadership is there, but unfortunately living quarters aren’t the best. It depends base to base. America need young men to fight for them, so if you aren’t patriotic enough to do your service then don’t join. It honestly sounds like you only heard the bad parts of military life, you are forgetting the people and the experience.
@@gavinoreilly1501 My son said he liked boot camp better than his duty station if that says anything. They were more strict with the rules and the leadership was stronger than at Ft. Irwin. He encountered a lot of lazy suck ups playing the game to get out of doing the work. My son did what he was told and got shit on constantly because of it. After 3 years you get a little bitter that the people who don't do anything are getting promoted or getting special privileges because of who they know and who they suck up to. Soldiers being promoted that don't know the job well enough to lead and the lower ranks basically having to teach them what they do on a daily basis. The leadership at Ft. Irwin was almost non existent. No body to lead by example. It's very sad because my son had wanted to be a soldier since he was a little boy and went straight in after graduation. He was so discusted and embarrassed by the time he finished his contract he doesnt even want to be reminded of his time in the military.
Fort Irwin is notoriously a shit hole. Recent charges came out for someone who threatened to shoot up the base, there was a corruption scandal there. It is literally known by soldiers as “Satan’s Asshole”. There is a ton of fraternization (probably the suck ups your referencing), but the one upside I guess is that you get to be OPFOR.
What rank and MOS was your son?