Thread 81820450 - /r9k/ [Archived: 384 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:28:48 AM No.81820450
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What's your single greatest regret (preferably legal)? Mine is getting kicked out of the military for a second time, this time during AIT.
>no, this is not a recruiter thread
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:31:06 AM No.81820479
Regret? Lol. I don't have regrets. I can perceive the reason for everything that happened.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:33:58 AM No.81820507
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>>81820479
You gotta have at lease one (1). Something you wish you could change or have done differently, but can't, so you just keep moving on and use it as a sort of 'fuel.'
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:38:09 AM No.81820549
>>81820450 (OP)
Why did u get kicked out bud
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:39:25 AM No.81820561
>>81820450 (OP)
Literally asking for *ego death* . Omfg is this hard.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:39:33 AM No.81820563
>>81820450 (OP)
> preferably legal
Aw man I wanted to hear the fun ones
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:40:10 AM No.81820570
mine was joining the military actually
i was having an episode or something and spontaneously one day decided itd be a good idea to throw away 4 years of my youth doing some boring shit
it is what it is i guess
ford mustang
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:44:10 AM No.81820610
>>81820507
But why does there have to be a greatest one? Seems a bit excessive and like you just want to milk us for maximum controversy
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:52:20 AM No.81820676
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>>81820549
I said the wrong things (suicidal thoughts, ideation, etc) and was separated as a result. Having a civilian track record of psych visits only further cemented that I had no place in there.

>>81820610
penultimate, if that is too great
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:18:04 AM No.81820878
>>81820450 (OP)
Same, but once.
>the ride never ends
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:13:16 AM No.81821734
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>>81820450 (OP)
How do you fail out of AIT? I was literally a malingering shitbag and got through.
Also you honestly didn't miss much by not staying in. It's a mind numbing joyless corporate bureaucracy unless you work your way into "small army" (special forces units).
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:16:09 AM No.81821749
>>81821734
What did you do in the Army, I'm thinking of joining (for money and so I have the cred to do PMC work 4 years)
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:01:47 AM No.81822043
>>81821749
>What did you do in the Army
I'll tell you my story since I'm waiting for a girl (I think I got ghosted me lol)
>be me, 19yo weeb NEET (at the time)
>parents decide to kick me out, apply to like 50 jobs, can't get one, friends/extended relatives won't take me
>out of desperation go to recruiter
>Chose cell-phone operator job (MOS=25N), recruiter promises me that MOS is to valuable to the army to waste sending to a war.
>Do basic at Fort Benning (no women thank fuck), do AIT at Fort Gordon, get assigned to an airborne unit.
>not two weeks into my new unit I get "temporary orders" to go to Syria and do convoy security missions (as an an MRAP/humvee driver)
>Arrived February 11th. ISIS proceeded to bomb/shoot-at our little base (made of hesco barriers) 30-40 times a day until May and then they just quit trying.
>it rained and everything turned to mud and flies covered every inch of everything. It snowed one day, that was shocking.
>then it got really hot and the fighting basically stopped. Then the deployment ended and we left.
>next few years of my army life were spent on base doing endless inventories and "field" exercises
and that's my Army story. It's not much of war story but it's a war story.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:30:19 AM No.81822170
>>81820450 (OP)
My best friend's mom had an affair with me, even got pregnant, but no one ever found out and believes the kid is her husband's
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:35:05 AM No.81822198
>>81820570
what other career path is there? military can pay for education. you got the smart outcome. tedious but smart
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:39:01 AM No.81822547
I would have never dated my first gf.
Dragged me down a path I shouldn't have walked, ended up with her getting pregnant and then an abortion (which I regret the most; only happened because I panicked at the time and was the one who suggested it. She was convinced, and later when I came to my senses it was too late (she had already decided)).
This directly led to me getting more depressed and trying to seek solace which ended up with me dating a second girl trying to "save" her. I don't regret dating her, but it didn't work out and was a large time investment and, upon hindsight, I think she would have been better off without me.
>just love shit?!
Well, yes, but I also altered career goals to try to make that work for both of them, which was a bad choice.
Now I'm burned out and without a proper career path and a NEET.