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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Comments (135)
marinewifey010 0
exactly why Marines Corps is the way...Ooh-Rah Marines.
Zebidee 9
Does the USMC always send people where they want to go?
marinewifey010 0
I live in Hawaii..so i would guess (:
Zebidee 9
Nice one. Those sort of postings are great, and actually live up to the recruiting hype. In Australia, the Air Force and Navy have the advantage that almost all of their bases are near cities and the coast. The Army - not so much. The one thing that is universal though, is that the postings always seem to be almost random. If you're not a person that can make the best of an unusual situation, then military (or military family) life is not for you!
zenpanda 0
Welcome to Malmstrom AFB!
tiggeruno 2
wright-patt doesnt have any active duty aircraft. maybe you did so well you get to go to R&D?
CoachLlama 5
It is what it is.* *Yeah, I hate that phrase too.
usmcwiff 0
That's what you get for joining the chair force. I mean air force...
Souners 3
Sorry you couldn't score high enough to get into the better branch.
Ancarnia 0
I'm in for aerospace engineering with aspirations to join the US Air Force - a post to a base with no planes, after all that effort, is a time to reflect on why the hell things like this happen.
Doc_Holliday 0
My guess is that you have a boss with a sense of humor and everytime you screw up he can say " Look, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out!" An American expression.
yeahyeah172 3
engineers design em not drive em. loser.
jack787 0
Planes and flown, not driven. Also, not all engineers design planes...the ones in the military usually just maintain them. Also, many aerospace engineering courses also train you to fly as well, if you want to take that route. Engineer pilots are very common. Get your facts right, loser.
JEizme 0
Core Value: Service Before Self. The needs of the Air Force come before personal needs. Do your time then put in for BOP.
jack787 0
It's very unfortunate the that's the nature of the military. That's one reason I'd never consider joining any branch of the military. If you value personal freedom then you should not have signed your freedoms away by joining the military. I know the Australian military has lots of ads saying how great it would be in the military, but it's mostly hype. Don't get me wrong, we need people in the military, but it's not for everyone.