Hollywood depicts many types of soldiers. Soldiers driving tanks, soldiers brandishing binoculars, soldiers with bolt action rifles scoring headshots, and soldiers running about wielding heavy assault weaponry.
What hollywood fails to explain is, who gets what?
How is one placed in military service? I'd assume it's done according to where your natural skills lie, but how is this determined, if indeed it is determined?
Knowing my luck an automatic assignment would land me a pile of rocks and a sling 
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Waisztarroz had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
but if you do well at firing range, you may become a sniper.
Shooting a gun is actually the very last thing a sniper does.
They're not there to fire at anything, they're there to use the two most devestating weapons an army has: a scope and a radio.
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Comrade_Snoota had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Shooting a gun is actually the very last thing a sniper does.They're not there to fire at anything, they're there to use the two most devestating weapons an army has: a scope and a radio.
Oh, right, sorry.
They're also there to sit there and be very quiet/still...heh.
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Waisztarroz painfully thought these words up:
Oh, right, sorry.They're also there to sit there and be very quiet/still...heh.
DOES theY HAEVS ot PEE INA CUPE?!?!?/1/1
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj had this to say about (_|_):
DOES theY HAEVS ot PEE INA CUPE?!?!?/1/1
To noisy.
I'm great at staying in the same position for extended periods of time 
yes yes I know it entails more than that. note the smily
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Comrade_Snoota painfully thought these words up:
You idiot. You need to do more than just sit still for hours at a time.
The smily AND the disclaimer!
That's TWO chances he missed to understand that I was joking!
Next time I'll try for three!
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So quoth Comrade_Snoota:
COMRADE_SERIOUS_SNOOTA
Potential for the best Serious Sam mod. ever.
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Maradön? had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Is it bad that I don't know if he's being sarcastic or not?
Don't think if he's being sarcastic. Think if he's being serious. Remember this is a guy that wants to have sex with Deli and works at McDonalds. I think the only way I would want to live is if I was always sarcastic.
And Vorbis is a hot chick.
Call it a lack of confidence in my combat abilities
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Maradön?'s unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
I still think I'd wind up at the very front of the most dangerous position the army has to offer. I'd be the guy they push along with sticks to pre-detonate landmines.Call it a lack of confidence in my combat abilities
Nah, they'd have you as the guy who works the target practice area.
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Comrade_Snoota attempted to be funny by writing:
Deli is the last guy I would have sex with.And Vorbis is a hot chick.
Would you still have sex with me then?
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Maradön? had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Ok, admittely, I know next to nothing about military recruitment and infrastructure. What I do know comes from Hollywood.Hollywood depicts many types of soldiers. Soldiers driving tanks, soldiers brandishing binoculars, soldiers with bolt action rifles scoring headshots, and soldiers running about wielding heavy assault weaponry.
What hollywood fails to explain is, who gets what?
How is one placed in military service? I'd assume it's done according to where your natural skills lie, but how is this determined, if indeed it is determined?
Knowing my luck an automatic assignment would land me a pile of rocks and a sling
First, it depends upon how many of what specialties the service needs. Next, it depends upon aptitude and qualification of the applicant. After that's sorted out, the applicant's desires may be taken into consideration.
Now, they're not going to promise you a specific job, like Sniper, up front. What they may do is provide you th opportunity to enter the training program--then it's up to you how well you do.
That's how flight training works. You're given a chance to train, but which aircraft you get depends both upon how well you do, and what becomes available when you graduate.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Otherwise you get a nice desk job or maintence job!
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Ninok had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
The guys with the guns are usually Army infantry, Air Force Paratroopers (special unit), marines etc.Otherwise you get a nice desk job or maintence job!
Desk jobs aren't too big of a thing in Army/Marines. They are out there of course, but nearly as abundant as in Air Force and the Navy. Thats practically the only jobs available. I know it takes some rediculous high amount of people to take care of an aircraft, somewhere around 30 or so. And that is something piloted by only 1 or 2 people.
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Alaan had this to say about Cuba:
Desk jobs aren't too big of a thing in Army/Marines. They are out there of course, but nearly as abundant as in Air Force and the Navy. Thats practically the only jobs available. I know it takes some rediculous high amount of people to take care of an aircraft, somewhere around 30 or so. And that is something piloted by only 1 or 2 people.
That's not even remotely true. The Army has just as many "desk jobs" as the other services--perhaps more, since they have the most people.
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And there are no paratroopers in the Air Force.
We have a very small group of ParaRescue, and some Combat Controllers who parachute as part of their jobs, but we have no paratroopers.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage was naked while typing this:
That's not even remotely true. The Army has just as many "desk jobs" as the other services--perhaps more, since they have the most people.~~~
And there are no paratroopers in the Air Force.
We have a very small group of ParaRescue, and some Combat Controllers who parachute as part of their jobs, but we have no paratroopers.
And those ParaRescue guys are some mean Motherfuckers, them and that police force (Nighthawks/blackhawks hawk something) are like the special forces for the Airforce.
As for the Navy, Their are less deskjobs, most Officers and NCO's fill a "Desk" postion plus what ever thier normal job is.
