Can you easily make friends in basic or will you continue to be isolated if you're already an autistic loser? Asking for a friend.

>>63950479 (OP)
You'll have lots of butt buddies. Don't worry.

>>63950479 (OP)
>autistic
so you're joining marines then?

>>63950489
I am not gay.

>>63950479 (OP)
Help the guys that need it, even if you're retarded at talking that will help you make friends.

>>63950479 (OP)
If you're joining the military for fucking FRIENDS i would suggest you join a gym or a sports team first man

>>63950479 (OP)
If you're an unlikable dipshit that keeps obsessing over what other people think of him to the point of neurosis then nobody ANYWHERE will like you

It's not all about you. Be interested in people.

>>63950479 (OP)
I don't remember the name of a single person I met in basic. You're too busy getting run around doing shit and dragging the retards along with you to really make friends unless you end up with the same job/next duty station.

>>63950479 (OP)
Not a good reason to join the service

>>63950655
I remember a few. 1-81 AR January 2013 OSUT.
The most ridiculous was a guy named Barajas.
He stood at the edge of our bay's "killzone" one day, fists on his hips like a superhero, naked except for a sock on his dick.
I sneered at him.
He said, "Shut up [anon] I know you like it."
"Hell no. Nobody wants to see that shit."
He was some youth boxer, very big "tough guy." The Drills loved him. He aced pistol and won the BN-widevpugil stick tournament.
Within a year or two, he was in a long term relationship with a cougar 10+ years older than him. One of the 3 narcissists in the company.

We had a fuck-up MacNamata's Retard, literally named "Lemon," can't make that shit up. We had to literally TIE HIS BOOTS for him.

A literal semi-autistic Eagle Scout whom everyone hated to varying degrees.

A bratty, mouthy mulatto who said he wanted to be Special Forces. I made him cry towards the end, mocking all his fuckups while we were standing around in formation.

A blond cornfed Texan who was a wrestling god and actually did get tagged for Ranger batt because his PT was so excessively good.

My nickname was "Wikipedia" because I'm a well-read & obnoxious know-it-all. XD

Not enough space for all the stories. There were good times and good ppl too.
There's all kinds, anon. A true slice of America.

>>63950715
>someone who went to basic in 2013 is my age
god damn i'm old

>>63950479 (OP)
If you are older than 21, make friends with those older than 21. The 18 year olds will fuck themselves up. It's just a game. Just police what you can. Outside of that is bringing attention to yourself. Outside of basic and AIT, you can make friends. Just don't be retarded and make friends with retards. Simple as.

>>63950509
Well, then you're gonna have a hard time, I guess.

>>63950479 (OP)
Oh just fucking talk to people you fucking loser

>>63950479 (OP)
Can you find at least one friend in a crowd of 60 people your own age?

>>63950715
>My nickname was "Wikipedia" because I'm a well-read & obnoxious know-it-all. XD
You sound annoying

Women lie all the time and make things up to mis use the system. Are you retarded not to see that? 8th amendment all summer.

>>63950720
LOL... Tell me about it.. OSUT in 1986

>>63950479 (OP)
You'll make friends there, but you won't really keep in touch with 90% of them, the ones you'll go onto follow-on training with will likely be a lot closer over the years. Especially if you share duty stations.

>>63950479 (OP)
go FMJ

>>63950479 (OP)
I made some friends, most people didn't care about me one way or another, and some people obsessively hated me. anyone else have experience?

>>63951284
OP uses 4chan what do you think

>>63954185
you do too

>>63950479 (OP)
yeah

Everybody promises to stay friends forever. You'll get added to a group chat that slowly dies over the course of 2-3 months after graduation. Everybody then forgets about each other. I've only ever had one person from basic reach out to me and its because we got sent to the same duty station and he wanted to smoke DMT with me

hope this helps

>>63950643
>If you're joining the military for fucking FRIENDS
People have enlisted for reasons far worse.

>>63950509
>I am not gay.
Yet

Also this >>63950646

>>63950479 (OP)
you are banned from the US army for being a bottom FAGGOT

>>63950715
>My nickname was "Wikipedia" because I'm a well-read & obnoxious know-it-all. XD
Did you get beaten up as a kid much? You sound like it.

>>63950715
>A literal semi-autistic Eagle Scout whom everyone hated to varying degrees
That's obviously going to be OP.

>>63950479 (OP)
>an autistic loser
Just go navy nuke and you'll fit right in.

>>63950715
>We had a fuck-up MacNamata's Retard, literally named "Lemon," can't make that shit up. We had to literally TIE HIS BOOTS for him.
Did he get drummed out? What the fuck?
> A bratty, mouthy mulatto who said he wanted to be Special Forces.
Peak modern military

>>63950509
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYY9_k8zl74

>>63950715
LMAO I literally had the same nickname (or "Wiki" for short), and yeah I got beaten up as a kid.
Was in the german military though and reserves only, so most people in basic were government employees of every age, from 20 to 61.
Was far from the most retarded or annoying person in school or basic, and thats what counts since you don't wanna be stuck as that guy.

>>63954754
Kek this

>>63950715
>semi-autistic Eagle Scout whom everyone hated to varying degrees.
That sound about right. Every scout I've ever met was either two steps from needing a tard wrangler or was an insufferable faggot with a superiority complex due to his merit badges, kinda like how some jrotc kids can be to "civvies". I had one of the latter type literally say to me "be a scout or get out". I called him a fudge-packer and got detention for it.

>>63950715
OSUT summer 2012, Echo 2-58

My nickname was White Urkel because I was a scrawny nerd and overtucked my pt shorts so high I did in fact look like White Urkel.

>>63950479 (OP)
You get on a bus crammed with (40) retards, and go on an all expense paid (4) year field trip. Who cares if you make friends?

>>63959053
Commonwealth Scouts are quite a different culture.

>>63950633
>even if you're retarded at talking that will help you make friends.
Thx, Bubba Gump

>>63950479 (OP)
Do you want other people to like you, anon? It's actually very simple. Don't talk too much, but be interested in other people like >>63950646 said. Kind of like Anthony Bourdain. People liked him:
https://youtu.be/qEpXeTDwbk8

Watch how he does that. He just listens. People actually like to talk about themselves and the things they're interested in. So the trick is to be interested in them and let them do that, and ask them questions about it, and let that evolve naturally. Like if you're talking to a outlaw motorcycle gang member, seems scary, right? Actually they're mostly nice people who have a very individualistic Snake Plissken mentality and they love the nomadic thrill of the road and stuff like that, so ask them what that FEELS like because you're thinking hell yeah that owns. It's in the feels.

The genius is that you don't have to really do anything.

>>63959650
>pole reversal
Yeah, we're doomed. Better buy a case ofnl Bic lighters for barter goods.

>>63957784
what task did you do in basic? And if you want to be lovely, where? No need to be extra specific.