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FNG
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| hey im still in high school and will be going to basic training soon in july so i just looked around the website n wanted to get any info on riggers or anything i should know btw ill be training in fort jackson, and fort benning as far as i know
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Stare Master
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| First, most of on this site are old fogeys and this is not text messaging. Capitalization, proper punctuation and spelling out your post is expected. We do use a few common shortcuts(btw, lol, etc.) Second, since you are new I know you don't realize it but multiple posting of the same topic in different forums is frowned on. You can be assured on this site that a new topic will be read and responded to properly. Third, there is a forum called recruiting info that already contains a lot of information. New enlistees and potential enlistees are expected to read some of the information there before asking questions. Finally, welcome to the site. On your 21st birthday you owe me a beer.
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American GI. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS
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Regular Joe
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Paratrooper
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Yeah, what they said
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Seasoned Vet
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Welcome to the DZ, and take the advice you have been given as a hint of things to come. The Army is not going to spoon feed you everything you need to know. Take it upon yourself to research and learn. Don't worry, it still remains that the only really dumb question is the one not asked, but you need to put in some effort too.
Attention to detail; learn, love it, live it... In your chosen job, many lives will depend on you knowing your shit, and not having to be watched over 24/7 to insure it is done right.
Abraham Lincoln (quiet, reserved and selfless): “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here” -Gettysburg Address
Obama (egotistical): “Now the world will watch and remember what we do here”
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Regular Joe
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AbnCrazy (4/25/2008)
Welcome to the DZ, and take the advice you have been given as a hint of things to come. The Army is not going to spoon feed you everything you need to know. Take it upon yourself to research and learn. Don't worry, it still remains that the only really dumb question is the one not asked, but you need to put in some effort too.
Attention to detail; learn, love it, live it... In your chosen job, many lives will depend on you knowing your shit, and not having to be watched over 24/7 to insure it is done right.Well Put....look and learn!
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Cherry
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Outstanding AbnCrazy. Nusk1, good luck in your endeavors. Don't forget that the Paratroops have a long history of being the best soldiers in the world. We earned that distinction by putting 110% and then some into every task we do -- no matter how trivial it might have seemed at the time. In basic, when they tell you the standard is 80 push-ups (I don't know what it is now, just a guess), set your mind, and train your body to do 100 -- and then do more. Do this in everything you do but don't be cocky about it. If your job is to clean the latrine, say a silent "Airborne" (bring the walls down when you earn your wings) and set your mind on being the best damn latrine cleaner that ever existed (no joke -- this is what it means to be Airborne -- doing every job faster and better than the last guy who did it -- even if it was you -- and then walking away like it was nothing but business as usual). Expect more from yourself in everything you do and set the example for other to follow. Do this and you won't ever have to brag about being the best -- others will brag about you. It is something you will always carry with you and something that will take you places you never imagined you could go. Like I said good luck. I always had a lot of respect for riggers. Holding another man's life in your hands is a heavy responsibility. Welcome to the DZ and send us a picture of those rigger wings when you get them (and a Guinness or two when you turn 21). Airborne!
Airborne Engineers: stoppers of the unstoppable; movers of the immovable.
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Regular Joe
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| Simply put, you cannot ever, ever, afford to have a bad day as a Rigger. A Soldiers' life depends on the chute you just packed. My Rigger shed routinely will grab a chute out of any pile from their detachment and jump it. In perfect faith...as it should be. And if you ever intent to make it past the rank of PFC, do what the people before me have told you to do. Written communication skills are as important as any others in the realm of the professional.
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