Today, I got my posting orders for the Air Force. After spending four years training and studying to become an aerospace engineer, I am getting sent to the only base without aircraft. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, after moving 1,400 miles across the country, quitting my full-time job, and selling most of my furniture to attend flight school, I got a call a month before my start date saying that they are closing my location. FML
Today, while all the other marines got to fly around the island on a helicopter, I got stuck on gear guard. What was I guarding? The staff sergeant's parking spot. FML
Today, to add to the pointlessness of my existence, not only have I been rejected from the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy, I received a rejection notice from the Army Reserves. FML
Today, in my college class, our teacher asked us what we wanted to do when we get out of college. I guess being a U.S. Marine gets you a lecture for the whole class to hear that I'm a war hungry pig, and should get a real job that requires a brain. My job field is Aircraft repair. FML
Today, I told my girlfriend that one of my intellectually challenged friends now holds an engineering position at an aircraft company. She wasn't a fan of flying before, and now refuses to set foot anywhere near any aircraft of any kind. FML
Today, I caught a flight to see my boyfriend, who is stationed in the army 300 miles away. When I was just 15 minutes from the base he called to say that we should break up. Now I'm heading back to California, single and broke. FML
Today, I finally get to go home after a 16 day training event in Colorado. The plane has been sitting in the runway for over three hours due to lightning storms and we're not allowed to leave. We've spent more time on the ground waiting than the flight itself would take. FML
Today, I found out I didn't get the promotion I applied for. Then I was told I was the only one who applied for the job. FML
Today, I'm seven months into a twelve month deployment. I called my fiancée, and she dumped me. The worst part is that two days ago, I re-enlisted to go to a unit an hour away from her house. FML
Today, I found out that instead of being stationed in Afghanistan, my husband of 9 years has been "stationed" at his other girlfriend's house. FML
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mrahhhhh 21
Buddy America has government inefficiency too. If you don't believe me go to the DMV. Now please stop saying America is the greatest place ever. You're making Americans look bad.
Chunchunchun 3
Bit of a shit system really.
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Gadomski87 2
Sucks. I was in the AF and got sent to Minot, ND. Now that was a horrible base.
Zebidee 9
Ooh - Minot. Famous for all the wrong reasons...
ArthursLifeSucks 2
Yeah, unless you are lucky enough to be working with physical prototypes, being an engineer doesn't lend itself to actually working on aircraft. You will be designing things in CAD and doing computer simulation of stresses/forces/flows/whatever. Hopefully they'll let you see the test flights of the hardware you help design though.
MGSPOP 1
i hope u make the best of it
UnicornsDoExist 0
Damn, sucks to be you.
The_Earth 0
systems fail. so does your life.
juturnaamo 29
Sorry man, I feel your pain. I'm an Army generator mechanic for a non deployable unit in Germany. We have 5 generators which all run, 4 generator mechanics. I just did a service on a generator that ran 12 hours last year...it only ran 12 hours because it is turned on for 15 minutes a week while I make sure that 'yes, this useless piece of equipment still works.' The bad news for you my friend, is that the less legitimate use you have in the military, the more you have to clean your boots, and have perfect class A uniform, and stand at parade for assholes who are younger than you, never lived alone, and maybe have one rank on you. Have fun!
shakenbake93 0
Aerospace engineers don't work on any planes anyway. They just design them.
Zebidee 9
OK, that's pretty much wildly inaccurate. They don't hands-on maintain aircraft, but they design modifications, repairs, analyze damage, develop maintenance systems, approve role changes and a bunch of other stuff too extensive to list here. Not everything on that list requires the physical presence of a plane, but it certainly makes a big difference in the type of work OP would be undertaking. The RAAF recruits engineers by telling them they'll be working on the cutting edge of the latest technology, so the difference between what you're told and reality is a bit of a shock. I think this applies to all branches of all militaries though.
shakenbake93 0
So I was right. There don't need to be aircraft there for him to be an aerospace engineer. He'll still get to use what he learned in his training and studies.
biggecko 4
If you are complaining you abviusly shouldn't be in the army
sdh715 6
He's not in the army.
horizonflyer9 0
that really sucks. i wanted to be an engineer but decided i would be in your position so i want to be a pilot in the navy
Zebidee 9
As a tip - don't refer to the job as being a 'pilot' when you apply! In the US Navy, a pilot is someone that guides a ship into port. Someone that flies is a Naval Aviator.
Marvin_Android 0
Sounds terrible. Just think: all that effort of the past few years is for naught. That is but a smaller version of what life is really like: everything you do ends up being for nothing. Depressing, isn't it? I know it depresses me. Everything depresses me. Life. Don't talk to me about life.