Is Infantry still a fulfilling choice?

It’s a choice you have to make with eyes wide open...

It’s the hardest, most difficult physically and mentally demanding-especially when you are paying your dues in the beginning. it’s a thankless and challenging job choice that will re-make you into the best you can be. It’s being varsity football on a state championship team; there are other sports like basketball, soccer track; but it’s the full contact sport that others envy and covet; andnin the end in the darkest recesses of their hearts wish they would have chosen if they had the fortitude and metal to be the tip of the spear.

Other jobs can be fun, interesting and developing for the future-but The Infantry is the branch that all others support even if they don’t want to admit it ;)

Good luck and Inhope you have that spark and potential inside to be Infantry!

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Let me respond to this question with the advantage of age,mine being old,Infantry for me was a short time in my life,three years to be exact,I was trained Infantry,went to war Infantry,and then trained other guys in Infantry,what I found after I left that it was the hardest, most difficult ,demanding thing I’ve ever done and if I could go back I wouldn’t change one thing,

Infantry is not for everyone. All the comments made on the topic are correct. It is tough and never gets easier. You have to maintain tip-top shape and responsibilities increases with rank. You either love it, hate it or can not handle it physically. The rewards are Brotherhood. The dangers are either being cripled for life or death. Combat participation which Brothers are killed or wounded as an infantryman stays with you for life. Lastly, you have to be able to kill the enemy and live with yourself.