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FNG
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Greetings, my name is Brian, I'm a 29 year old American looking to fulfill a longtime goal of serving my country in one of the Army Airborne units. A little background: currently unemployed due to the economy helping close my old job, I am single with no particular ties in California where I currently reside. I have always wanted to do something for my country and find myself in a rare position of having many more reasons for than against.
I am a little older than your average recruit (I would assume) and as such have set aside the next month to get my physical conditioning up to par before taking the fitness assessment. My goal is to be ready physically and mentally by June 16th and hopefully be out of California by the end of June. I have the utmost respect for all those that serve (or have served) our country and I look forward to joining them soon.
I should probably clarify the somewhat odd period of time for joining, I recently quit smoking and am working on my lung capacity and muscle conditioning for longer runs. Too many years in an office, I haven't consistently spent time running in quite a while.
Anyway, I have been reading a bit here the last few days and I just wanted to post a hello and a thank you.
-Brian/Leks
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Regular Joe
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Congrats on your decision to join up. I hope you will find it to be as rewarding an experience for you as it was for those of use who were in or are currently in.
As for as the conditioning, just be consistent with the running and if you have not begun one, start a basic weight training program that works your chest, back, arms, legs. Cause in basic training you will be doing lots of push ups and there will be lots of running and walking with gear.
Good luck.
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Stare Master
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Welcome to the site and thank you for your willingness to serve our Country. What MOS are you looking at? On getting yourself in shape, remember you don't have to be able to max the PT test when you go in, although it wouldn't hurt. By the time you finish basic your scores should be up there, though.
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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509Trooper (5/15/2008)
Welcome to the site and thank you for your willingness to serve our Country. What MOS are you looking at? On getting yourself in shape, remember you don't have to be able to max the PT test when you go in, although it wouldn't hurt. By the time you finish basic your scores should be up there, though.
Thank you for your support, to both of you. On the MOS, I will most likely be looking at 11x but I haven't gotten a full understanding yet of all the available options so I don't feel like I can swear by that just yet. (For instance combat engineer sounds intriguing but my first priority is airborne, and God willing 82nd, so I will take whatever MOS gives me the best shot of being there, which seems to be 11...)
I would much rather be able to to max out the PT test going in so I don't feel like I am holding anyone else back. A decade of smoking is going to take a while to clear out and that aside, I want to be the best I can be from the start. So now is a good time as I'm currently only obligated to myself.
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Engineers are in every Airborne brigade in the Army. There are a number of former combat engineers on this site who can advise you about that. Outside of the 82nd there are two other Airborne Infantry brigades, the 173rd in Vicenza and the 4th Brigade of the 25th Division in Alaska, plus the 1-509th in Ft. Polk. So there are options as far as MOS and units.
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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Welcome and thank you for deciding to join the ranks. As previously mentioned, there are numerous Airborne units other than 82nd. The thing that I will stress to you is make sure you get what you want before you sign. I didn't get what I wanted, so I went to my second choice, which I am regretting. But that's me, so good luck!
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Regular Joe
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KneesInTheBreeze (5/15/2008)
Welcome and thank you for deciding to join the ranks. As previously mentioned, there are numerous Airborne units other than 82nd. The thing that I will stress to you is make sure you get what you want before you sign. I didn't get what I wanted, so I went to my second choice, which I am regretting. But that's me, so good luck!
Amen, great advice. Take as long as you need to make sure you know all your options before you sign your name. And ask alot of questions. If they don't know the answer, wait while they find out.
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Welcome to P.net
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