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Registered: 19 February 2006
Posts: 1240
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Because im not a troll and I have more posts than you do. You know I make great points but admitting that would require you to rethink what you believe.
"There is no "overkill." There is only "Open fire" and "Time to reload.""
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Registered: 31 July 2006
Posts: 106
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jeez, I go camping for the weekend and come back to this...

rppearso, number of posts do not make the troll, rather the cumulative content of all the posts made. Every regular member here knows your stance on the military and your sob story about how you were mistreated. We don't need you here to rag on the military every time we get some noob in here asking questions about joining. We're perfectly capable of issuing warnings to noobs ourselves and evaluating whether they should join or not. See this link to see what I'm talking about.

Please, do us all a favor and do one of two things:
1. grow up, take responsibility for your actions (ALL OF THEM), quit trying to "pass the buck", and offer more rounded conversation on this website, and maybe you'll get taken off of people's ignore lists and be treated like a regular member.

If you can't do 1, then I strongly suggest you do 2 below.

2. Leave and don't come back.

giblackjack out.


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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
"There is no "overkill." There is only "Open fire" and "Time to reload.""
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Registered: 31 July 2006
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iampink84,

Having been to a MEPS center not too long ago, I will tell you now that if you are too heavy for your height, they will tell you to come back and enlist when you've lost X amount of pounds. My suggestion to you would be to get yourself down to the weights listed in the websites mentioned previously before you enlist. As far as do you need to able to do pushups, climb over walls, do sit-ups, and run 2 miles, the short answer is YES.

good luck to you and your family,
giblackjack


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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
Registered: 19 February 2006
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I have never tried to pass the buck, I admitted I made a mistake in joining in the first place and that what I did was really stupid but that does not alleviate the abuse that the military creates. Im just being real about what is going to happen to her, I seen women (and men) have mental break downs in BCT and they dident graduate with us but they dident go home either, they likely went to the PTRP, and the military does not talk much about the PTRP it seems to be a taboo subject among military members, the only info you can get on it is from people who were in it and any one in it has nothing be negitive things to say about it and that it was even more negitive than BCT itself. When it really boils down to it I would have to say that is my major beef with the military, if they appropriatly weeded people out and followed the regs there are suppost to all would be well but that does not happen.

In fact I think the PTRP deserves its own thread and anyone considering joining needs to be fully aware of this.
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Registered: 24 January 2005
Posts: 2874
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If recruits had mental breakdowns in basic, then they were already defective. You can't survive even basic training, how the hell do you think you could survive in a wartime situation with bullets aimed at you?

The military isn't cub scout camp you know.


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Registered: 19 February 2006
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I dont disagree but this still does not address the issue of the PTRP. If people are already defective they should be flat out dischraged but thats not what happens you go to the PTRP for an undetermined amount of time thats the issue.
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Registered: 20 May 2005
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I spent 21 years in the army and I have never heard ofPTRP. I spent over 5 years working with trainees in basic and ait but I guess the troll knows all again.


Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes it worth living.

-Juvenal
c.50-c.130
"There is no "overkill." There is only "Open fire" and "Time to reload.""
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Registered: 31 July 2006
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can't believe I'm doing this but...

It would seem that there is a PTRP program, and that it has had problems in the past. From what I could gather, PTRP was designed for people who were injured during basic to allow them to heal before they continued in Basic training, but apparently some bases' PTRP programs suffered from mis-administration and sadistic Drill Instructors placed over recruits who were supposed to be healing. Supposedly most of the "problem" programs are fixed up now, but I couldn't find much on that one way or the other.

Anyway, just thought I'd post a summary of what I'd found whilst searching the internet to investigate rppearso's claims.


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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
"Retired SFC, USArmy"
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Location: KY
Registered: 20 May 2005
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I can't believe I am saying this but when we recycled soldiers from basic I never knew where they went so I never knew about PTRP, I wish now that I followed up on them. I did some searching and found it. Sorry I never knew about it.


Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes it worth living.

-Juvenal
c.50-c.130
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