Posted on Jul 18, 2015
Did your parents support your decision to join the Military? If so, did they support your branch choice?
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Joining the Military is not an easy choice. Some of us had no other options, but did you parents support your decision? Did they support your branch choice?
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Not only did they encourage it and signed the enlistment papers (I was 17) they said they would kick me out of the house when I turned 18 if I didn't join the Navy or find a job!
My dad was in the Navy too, so it's the only branch he wanted me to join.
Not only did they encourage it and signed the enlistment papers (I was 17) they said they would kick me out of the house when I turned 18 if I didn't join the Navy or find a job!
My dad was in the Navy too, so it's the only branch he wanted me to join.
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My parents were strong supporters of mine and my brother's decision to join. My brother joined the Navy a year before I joined the Army. I joined as an MP with plan of one term and done. Well, that didn't go as originally planned. I loved what I was doing, still do and I plan to continue for many years to come.
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Thanks for sharing Top. I'm glad that you had great support. There no better feeling then when your parents are behind you with love, support and understanding. I'm with you on the 1st enlistment and ETS part, I initially joined for 2 years but hear I am almost 17 years later still going strong.
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Kelly Lyons
My parents are supportive except foe joinimg army or marines but I'm joining the army what job do you have and why do you like it so much
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Kelly Lyons
My parents aren't supportive of me joining the army, youngest daughter, but I'm joining anyway, whats your job and why do you like it so much, and have you been able to get any schoolong done while enlisted?
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It's great that you had that support system. Many people in the Military joined with little to know support from their family members.
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Capt Seid Waddell
CW4 (Join to see), I grew up in a different age. My father and all of my uncles fought in WWII, and two of my uncles also fought in Korea and Viet Nam. The military was regarded as a very honorable calling in that generation; especially in time of war (Viet Nam in my case).
I would have loved to make it a career, but they called the war off and we had a deep RIF; pilots, doctors and chaplains were high priority; the rest of us not so much.
I would have loved to make it a career, but they called the war off and we had a deep RIF; pilots, doctors and chaplains were high priority; the rest of us not so much.
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