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  • čas přidán 12. 10. 2021
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  • @christopherchaos
    @christopherchaos  Před 2 lety +6

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  • @truttman
    @truttman Před 2 lety +48

    I was an Air Force guy stationed at Ft Bragg. Had Army friends that lived in the barracks. Most would get a hotel room on the weekends to avoid being on post because of the "hey you" taskers in the barracks on Sat and Sun by the CQ and/or First Sergeant. Told me all I needed to know about being in the Army.

    • @golfery5119
      @golfery5119 Před 2 lety +1

      You didn't have upper ranks picking you to do random tasks in the air force?

    • @truttman
      @truttman Před 2 lety

      @@golfery5119 No.Not in 20 years. And that was even in the bad old days. For work related weekend stuff, there's an organized and scheduled weekend duty crew. For barracks related stuff on the weekends, their is an organized and scheduled bay orderly crew. The Air Force hasn't done that hey you stuff on the weekends since the 60s or 70s. Everything on weekends is covered by planned crews. It's a quality of life thing. That's why first term retention is higher than any other service.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +1

      @@truttman how is the Air Force? Been in the Army as a combat MOS for the last 6 years. Was armorer for my last 2 years, so that sucked. I'm debating either reclassing and going Reserves since the Guard for the state my wife and I want to live in has literally ZERO benefits for me, her, or our kids. So why help a state when it needs it when I get ZERO benefits from it, you know? That's why I'm debating Reserves. However, if I don't get my reclass for CID, I'm getting out - 6 years is good enough for me. E-5, got a pretty nice ribbon rack in my opinion for my kids to think highly of me, and I did more than just your "one termer."
      I won't lie to you when I say that I have looked into joining the Air Force to keep my TriCare. Is it worth it to make the switch coming from 6 years active Army in a combat MOS? I know it's not much. But seeing how I am the only one in my family to serve, it's good enough for me.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      @@truttman sorry, man. It seems like CZcams deleted your comment. I didn't get to read it all - just what was on my notifications. It cut off after you said the years you served for.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      @@truttman but that's ironic. My father-in-law was in the Army from '83-'04. He did 21. He hit 20, and in the Army, every 3 years you get a service stripe. He said screw it and went for that extra year to get his 7th service stripe lol. 😂

  • @darthkillhoon
    @darthkillhoon Před 2 lety +28

    In my basic training I went right as the covid lockdowns started (February 2020) so we got a lot of free time because Tradoc didn't know what do with us besides do the minimum requirements to graduate basic training. First 3 weeks was like 3 hours of sleep max after that it was between 6-8 and on a few days we were allowed to sleep in for like 10 hours. There was only one day I didn't wake up by watch alarm but by the morning sunlight after 8 hours of sleep, so my body was like WTF is this 8 hours of sleep, we also got our phones every Sunday for 10-40 minutes to call family. AIT was 8 weeks for 12N and we never got passes or PX. We were allowed any electronic during the weekend so I had my folks send my laptop to play some video games on.

    • @lelandgaunt9985
      @lelandgaunt9985 Před 2 lety +1

      Golden boy

    • @D00dman
      @D00dman Před 2 lety +3

      Every Sunday? Damn dude, I only got to call three times, and one of them was to tell my dad that I was fucking up in basic. Not getting onto you for that cause that's what the Army let you do, but damn they've really relaxed basic.

    • @Dbobcol
      @Dbobcol Před 2 lety +1

      I went October 2020, and they got it kinda back to normal by then. I never got to sleep in. But ait was completely different. 25b AIT I was allowed to have my phone,an Xbox, tv, as long as it could fit in my wall locker during school house hours. We also got to sleep in if it was raining overnight and they cancelled PT. But if it was dry our asses were up at 4:20 for PT formation and PT at 5:00. We could also wear civilian clothes starting at certain times if we went through the phase up process they had there.

  • @regularjmg
    @regularjmg Před 2 lety +8

    Weapon guarding when everyone was at church was the best. There were like 4 of us that didn’t go so we would guard weapon and no one would bother us. Drills would come out ask for the weapon count and go back to the office. So most Sundays I had the hole morning to write letters and just sit quietly somewhere.

  • @rogersepeda
    @rogersepeda Před 2 lety +18

    When I got to my first duty station, I thought there was a formation on the weekend like we had in AIT and basic 😂 don’t judge 😆

  • @Mike-lh4wn
    @Mike-lh4wn Před 2 lety +4

    I was a signal intel collector. Pretty normal job, 8 hours per day, 5 days per week in the office.
    Signal operations are 24 hours around the clock, so I had to work 1st/2nd/or 3rd shift just like a lot civilian jobs.
    30 days of leave per year is pretty darn good.

  • @thomasedwards2754
    @thomasedwards2754 Před 2 lety +5

    In 89 in Germany my messhall was short of personal. Work day was 5am till 7:30pm for 30 days. Great training for the frist Gulf War 3 months of non stop action for me. I was with a group in the Gulf that we did our own KP. Long days. One other thing about the Gulf, I was up at the border and when we lost the sun our day was over if we needed light (blackout area) and that sucked.

    • @leokelly359
      @leokelly359 Před 2 lety +2

      same here after dark just used nods or stumbled around in dark

  • @tlh7717
    @tlh7717 Před 2 lety +6

    I thank everyone here for their service.

  • @scottjohnson2396
    @scottjohnson2396 Před 2 lety +5

    This goes out to any Vets and or Chris himself. I’m in my late 30 ‘s and I am considering joining the Army. I am a civilian EMT and just wanted your opinion/ advice-on joining this late in life. Like the info on your channel by the way. It’s real helpful.

  • @johntejeda6482
    @johntejeda6482 Před 2 lety +2

    My tour were in the 70s I had a lot of time when I became E4 mafia thru E6 and we learned from the best NCOs missed those days slamming and continued into civilian life love the education in the military.

  • @nwj03a
    @nwj03a Před 2 lety +4

    My AIT (2006-2007) was very long, like 8 months (98B then, 35F now). Got to go off post and stay in hotels every weekend after a couple months. Actually met my wife there, still married.

    • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 Před 2 lety

      😫 Because of COVID restrictions, I can't leave my base, here at Fort Lee!
      And I so badly wanted to visit (very) nearby Richmond!

    • @lelandgaunt9985
      @lelandgaunt9985 Před 2 lety

      Protect your assets.

  • @tony42898
    @tony42898 Před 2 lety +2

    There were two instances where I had A LOT of free time: Didn't work for almost a month from late March to late April last year because of COVID quarantine, minimal manning, and difficulties with my assigned position starting.
    Right now, I'm given over two weeks off to focus on unit boards. These days off are nice, but hopefully this brigade board will be the last one I'll do for a while. 😂

  • @tlh7717
    @tlh7717 Před 2 lety +10

    My son just finished bootcamp. He was allowed to call on Sundays for 30 minutes if the privileges weren't taken away which only happened once. He never step foot anywhere on base that was for entertainment until family day. He is now in a long term AIT training. He gets his phone but doesn't have free time to use it whenever he wants. He also has gaming a gaming counsel. How much time he gets to use it I don't know. But he says they wake up at 4M for PT every day.

    • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 Před 2 lety

      I finished boot camp (at Fort Leonard Wood) last month too and I also could only use my phone every week for only 30 minutes.
      Congrats on your son completing boot camp!

    • @prodsage2719
      @prodsage2719 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@marlonmoncrieffe072830 minutes in a week or in a day?

    • @Coryh-tf5zx
      @Coryh-tf5zx Před 2 měsíci

      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 I just graduated flw and it's still the same. We got 45 minutes on mother's day but the rest was 30.

  • @suprstng6
    @suprstng6 Před rokem

    Infantry basic tng, the only "downtime" was Sunday, if you wernt assigned to cleaning detail, so its always best to go to church to avoid that detail. Enlisted Infantry: once you arrive at your duty station dont expect much downtime during the week. For the wknd, if you live on post in the barracks, try not to be there so you can avoid the "hey you" details (ie. CQ, guard duty, common area cleaning). If you're an officer, say that you live far away and that it will take you a long time to get on post. This way you avoid being the CQ OD/COR and messing up your Saturday.

  • @Eaa-jz2wj
    @Eaa-jz2wj Před 28 dny

    Once in permanent party it gets better with free time.depending on unit and what they need you to do.from a few hours to a couple days with weekends and holidays. Just depends are you training or deployed ? It's not too bad . You will have time off to hangout with friends ,ECT sometimes we were busier eat shower sleep a couple hours .other times you could have a couple days to burn and do whatever.

  • @rogersepeda
    @rogersepeda Před 2 lety +5

    FYI , if you’re just going to basic , there are 3 phases , red white and blue phase , with us we couldn’t use our phones on Sunday until we got into white phase , I will tell you this , EVERYONE I talked to about their basic training said their red phase got extended, so they’ll make it seem like this doesn’t happen often but it does , don’t let them fool you .

    • @qrow9332
      @qrow9332 Před 2 lety

      There's now a yellow phase

    • @rogersepeda
      @rogersepeda Před 2 lety

      Yellow ? When they start doing that ?

    • @qrow9332
      @qrow9332 Před 2 lety

      @@rogersepeda Yellow phase is the first 2 weeks of basic after reception where you are in quarantine due to covid, then its red, white, and blue phase

    • @rogersepeda
      @rogersepeda Před 2 lety +1

      @@qrow9332 oh ok I guess that makes sense . I forgot about COVID . I was like yellow phase , are they messing with me lol but I see why now .

    • @tlh7717
      @tlh7717 Před 2 lety

      My son said yellow phase is the most boring and awful part of basic since they can't really do anything but wait. Longest 2 weeks of his life besides the 1 week of reception.

  • @jimdebarr5616
    @jimdebarr5616 Před rokem

    I was Army 71-74. Basic no free time, AIT admin school Sunday off. Then Ft Carson, 1sgt's orderly 8-5 M/F no formation or PT for 5 months. Then Nam with a MACV HQ office job 7 to 7 seven days a week. Lasted 3 weeks (got on the wrong side of a one star),spent 11 weeks in the field no free time then ship to the delta where I was a courier for the airfield command at Can Tho seven days a week. Then Thailand for 15 months as NCOIC of personnel records. M/F 8/5 with an hour for lunch. One formation a month no PT. If the Thai's had a holiday we didn't work. I remember having a whole week off for the kings birthday.

  • @dustinclark6749
    @dustinclark6749 Před 2 lety +1

    One of the biggest factors in free time you get is any additonal duties you might have. Such as the UPL, SHARP/SARC, DS, and Recruiting just to name a few.

  • @lelandgaunt9985
    @lelandgaunt9985 Před 2 lety +7

    You got all the free time until 1430 on Friday when you find out the platoon sgts slept on bn mowing or motor pool clean up on Friday.

    • @rogersepeda
      @rogersepeda Před 2 lety +1

      From my experience they’ll tell us “ for now on we’re leaving at 1700 and 1500 on Fridays and no one better be here after that time .” That’ll last maybe 2 weeks lol

    • @lelandgaunt9985
      @lelandgaunt9985 Před 2 lety

      @@rogersepeda
      Ikr!

    • @rogersepeda
      @rogersepeda Před 2 lety

      @@lelandgaunt9985 you know what I’m talking about lol .

  • @patrick5.0
    @patrick5.0 Před 2 lety +2

    Lol. Just graduated as a 19D. Trust you find ways to sleep, I slept more in osut then I ever have at home.

  • @michaeljohnson2571
    @michaeljohnson2571 Před 2 lety +1

    in fort lee u get ur cell, laptop, can sleep in all day on weekends and get a lot of freetime especially in night class

  • @mortdemott5786
    @mortdemott5786 Před 2 lety +1

    Basic at Ft. Dix, no free time. AIT at Ft. Sam Houston, study time in the evening and weekends off. RVN, no free time in a medical unit.

  • @kalebquinn9365
    @kalebquinn9365 Před 2 lety +8

    Both times in Korea Had tons of time off and got to enjoy the country. For germany currently 0 time off for the most part. Just depends on what type of unit your in for the most part. Best job I ever had.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +2

      Bro, I hear Korea ALWAYS has time off. I'm a combat MOS (12B). All my NCOs that have been there say it sucks because of the cold. But you RARELY go to the field, train, or ranges. You're mainly there as a deterrence for North Korea. Is any of that factual? Because I'm slowly considering choosing to re-up there. Plus those two extra ribbons lmao (yes, I actually care about my ribbon rack). My father-in-law is stacked. He joined in '83, and got out in '04. So he's been to everything - Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Dude's STACKED (and he was an MP in the Guard)! Trying to somewhat compare when my kids see my ASUs, then look at their grandfather's ASUs when they get older lmao (even though I know I will NEVER compare to him. Dude's a BEAST)!

    • @kalebquinn9365
      @kalebquinn9365 Před 2 lety

      @@DapperSapper515 i spent 2 tours over there a year my first assignment in 19th esc down in daegu and then my 3rd assignment i was 501st mi which was originally yongsan but we moved to Humphreys and I spent 3 years there my last time. Already trying to go back. As Chris says it's all about what you make of it. I love being over there food is amazing and everything is convenient, cheap and an overall good time. Both times between both times I was there I went to the field a total of 3 times. (That's because of what type of units I was attached to.) My wife is korean though so that helps as far as why I seem to have a good time there as well. Hope this helped!

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +1

      @@kalebquinn9365 it did. You just confirmed that over two times of being there, you went to the field 3 times. I have a newborn, so I'm trying to spend as much time with my daughter as I can and help out the wife, you know? So I was trying to see if it is as somewhat laxed as people were saying. Then go back to high speed places like Campbell or Bragg.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +1

      @@kalebquinn9365 thank you.

    • @kalebquinn9365
      @kalebquinn9365 Před 2 lety

      @@DapperSapper515 no problem! It seems that as long as you don't end up in 2ID you should be fine. Def enjoy! If you reup for it see if the HAP is still available then you should get choice of assignment after pcs from Korea!

  • @VGMRMissCoriel
    @VGMRMissCoriel Před 2 lety +6

    ADA has tons of free time in the rear, and a decent amount of free time in deployments depending on how useful you are.

    • @obsidainfury4185
      @obsidainfury4185 Před 2 lety +1

      True

    • @Deacon_20
      @Deacon_20 Před rokem

      Hooah. Also was ADA, 14E. No lie was a bit rough during COVID but was good to get relaxing time.

  • @patrickm2191
    @patrickm2191 Před rokem

    No phones until the very last week for us, and it was just once. Sundays were pretty chill, though.

  • @tatsuyashiba5911
    @tatsuyashiba5911 Před 2 lety

    When COVID hit we went to skeleton crew hours/days on and off so that was a lot of free time if you count not being able to go anywhere...on the plus side we didn't have CQ, staff duty or other tasks because of it, all of it went to the other soldiers in the battalion that didn't have to report to work which was like 90%. Other than that, we'd sometimes get off 19-2000 latest and earliest 17-1800 depending on which unit I was with during my time in.

  • @charleswheeler3689
    @charleswheeler3689 Před 2 lety

    US Army 1983-1986 16S. In garrison you were left alone on weekends unless you were on the duty roster or had been a bad boy. That doesn't apply in the field.

  • @MPerfect92
    @MPerfect92 Před 2 lety

    I got my phone twice for a grand total of 20 combined minutes. Sundays the drills would sorta disappear in the morning….so if you wanted to go back to sleep you could, you just didn’t wanna be the guy who got caught.

  • @bradthackston2323
    @bradthackston2323 Před 2 lety +1

    In 2015 we got our phone every 3 to 4 weeks on a couple Sunday’s we would get the day off and our drill sergeants told us we could sleep if they couldn’t see us what about the only time we had any free time because they were having to rush our class because we had such bad weather it was to dangerous to do certain events and they were trying to make us be done before Christmas

    • @D00dman
      @D00dman Před 2 lety

      Were you at Jackson? Lmao that sounds REALLY similar to my experience, except I did Basic from August to October, during which we had a really nasty flood that fucked a lot of the training schedule for us

  • @shimarrross504
    @shimarrross504 Před 2 lety +1

    I love watching your video you inspired me to join the army

  • @BruceWayne-fg1kk
    @BruceWayne-fg1kk Před 2 lety +1

    When my Dad was in the Army when he had nothing to do on the base he would always walk around the base to make it look like he was busy. Otherwise he got assigned stuff to do.

  • @jthavorn
    @jthavorn Před 2 lety +1

    Great video chris! 👍

  • @kevinwilliams5288
    @kevinwilliams5288 Před 2 lety +1

    I’ve been waiting on this video bro

  • @eop9969
    @eop9969 Před 2 lety

    My AIT was 6 months long lol at least I was assigned a room since hardly anyone was there.

  • @domozzz1584
    @domozzz1584 Před 2 lety

    Currently at JBSA for 68w we always got our weekends but it starts off needing to be at 3 formations a day for the weekend then after time you’ll show up to first formation then don’t have to be back until final formation later that night.

  • @83mikl1
    @83mikl1 Před 2 lety

    I got here to my first duty station 10 months ago, I HAVENT DONE ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL SINCE I GOT HERE

  • @Agustin-ce5is
    @Agustin-ce5is Před 2 lety +1

    These are the questions..

  • @commosection
    @commosection Před 2 lety

    I'm sure many things have changed since my days in the Army but I'm sure many things stay the same to lol. I'm just talking about the routine we had while back at the base (Not training or deployed) If you have a combat mos and your not deployed or on post out in the field training there is not much to do because once you got back from the field you have 72 hours to get all equipment cleaned and all equipment PMCS and fixed or put on deferred maint.lists. So our routine was PT formation 6am then clean barracks and go to breakfast 8:30 am work formation. Lunch for an hour or so then released at 5pm unless you have duty ( Guard or CQ) Very boring. In Germany during the winter our section had 3 Gamma goat trucks ( 6 wheels) and all we did was pop the hood and run the engine for an hour and just bullshitted all day long while someone would go to the PX for coffee runs. There were times after PT when after morning work formation our section ( Not entire company) would get released for the day. Happened once very few months. Bottom line being stationed overseas was always better then stateside back in the 80's anyway.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Yeah, it's definitely not like that now. Hawaii and Germany are awful duty stations. Always in the field, always doing BS taskings to keep busy, always doing some form of training, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love it. That's why I joined the Army. But when you're stateside, it is always a blast - unless you're at Lewis. More specifically, unless you're at Lewis as a Combat Engineer like I was. If that's the case, what's free time? Wake up at 0445 to get to work since there's only one highway that runs through the entire state. PT at 0600. Take a 5 minute break to salute the flag at 0630; then continue to do PT until 0800. Most of the time, there were BS taskings to do immediately after PT. But on the off chance there wasn't, you'd be off until 0930. Then come back to do more BS taskings until well after 1700. Just depends when your PSG becomes man enough to go home and face the wife and kids that he hates.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      I however, loved Schofield. Hawaii was a blast. Because even if I got home late, I'd open my backyard door, let the cool breeze hit my face, and listen to the oceans crashing on the surface. All the BS was worth it knowing I was still in Hawaii. Except for the fact that I spent more time in Louisiana over in JRTC than I did in Oahu - but I digress. I'm pretty sure you get the point lmao.... 😂

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +1

      Just to clear up the air with Lewis. It was my first duty station, and I got screwed into becoming the armorer for my last 2 years there. So that sucked lmao... 😂

  • @lelandgaunt9985
    @lelandgaunt9985 Před 2 lety +4

    Peter griffin laugh

  • @Mp7Mod
    @Mp7Mod Před 2 lety +1

    Born in the United States of America, i'm 25 year's old with no past experience in the Army. I have just a few questions. Based from your knowledge and participation, what unit would be the least difficult to achieve? Also, as far as medals goes (counting service) does anyone know the most common one 90% people could earn? Reason i ask this is because for the first time in my life i really want to be a part of the army i know its not easy, but i am willing to put in all the effort i got into accomplishing anything from this. I got nothing to loose. Any response would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

  • @randygutierrez7145
    @randygutierrez7145 Před 2 lety +2

    I’m going to bootcamp nov 1st as a 88m and wanna know what types of things do they do when they aren’t transporting anything

    • @raymondjoseph7177
      @raymondjoseph7177 Před 2 lety

      They do maintenance (pmcs= preventative maintenance checks and service) in the motor pool (army parking lot for their vehicles). In most cases if you keep stuff tight, clean and maintained by the book, you will be given early release. Don't count on it but it does happen. By the book means there is a manual in each vehicle that will tell you step by step (literally= unbolt 1/2 nut with a 1/2 wrench 2.5 turns to the left from the front of the vehicle engine) how to do it.
      Keep a low profile at basic. Don't stand out on purpose. Just do your best, dont give up on anything. If the drills see you're not a quitter they will help you when you're having hard time. They will give you motivation and advice. Remember they are not there as your enemy. They are there to train you in hopes of keeping you alive in combat by instilling basic military protocol and discipline. Good luck it will be over before you know it. They can't keep you there forever so no matter what they toss at ya, it will end. Again good luck.

    • @D00dman
      @D00dman Před 2 lety

      I have a buddy who's an 88M and he hates how much down-time they have on the job. Supposedly it gets REALLY boring and there's jack to do at the motor-pool

  • @ParkBongSig
    @ParkBongSig Před 2 lety +2

    My AIT was prison. 7 months on the AO only.

    • @jettdyer7688
      @jettdyer7688 Před 2 lety

      Currently experiencing this as a medical hold, lost my airborne, and I've been in a 16 week AIT for 26 weeks. Soul crushing.

  • @RedJerk5
    @RedJerk5 Před rokem

    I usually get about 6-9 hours of sleep per day. I would hope that I could get 6-8 in the army

    • @christopherchaos
      @christopherchaos  Před rokem

      Depends on the environment. Not in the field or deployed then ya. You could get 6-12 even. In The field or deployed is when it might be crazy on some days and great on others.

  • @oldreliable40
    @oldreliable40 Před 2 lety +2

    as a 94b 80's we had a saying " all day every day"! i had 11b's tell me they would never want my job!!!!!

    • @golfery5119
      @golfery5119 Před 2 lety

      Two of the worst jobs in the army. I'm so glad I'm almost in my reenlistment window.

    • @truttman
      @truttman Před 2 lety

      @@golfery5119 Come over to the Blue.

    • @golfery5119
      @golfery5119 Před 2 lety

      @@truttman wow. I'm four years too late. I did have one person telling me AF might be a better idea instead of army, especially since I was joining in my thirties but I figured it was all about the physical aspect and I was in pretty good shape so I didn't listen and went army. I did see after I join some of the things about the mental aspect, that AF doesn't do quite as many nonsensical things as the army does (I'm not married so I have to stay in the barracks. I found out after the fact that AF let's its people move out of the barracks way sooner than Army does). It is what it is though. I won't be the first and won't be the last.

    • @truttman
      @truttman Před 2 lety

      @@golfery5119 Since you're in the Army to stay and you are mature, go warrant or commissioned as soon as you can manage. You'll do better for yourself and you'll do better for the Army. Win-win.

  • @nicolasasta134
    @nicolasasta134 Před 2 lety

    I thought free time was generally at least nearly limited in combat deployments as in basic training

  • @SirMysticRob
    @SirMysticRob Před 2 lety

    That's my favorite shirt so far lol
    I want one

  • @DapperSapper515
    @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety +1

    You want free time? Don't do a combat MOS or maintenance. Oh, and don't be me - armorer in a combat MOS stationed with a unit that uses their weapons on a weekly basis. LTT, ranges, PT, fields, training, etc.
    Combat MOS' never have free time in garrison. Why? Because of all the stuff we have. Nothing but layouts, dumb taskings like gate guard, motorpool guard, CQ, staff duty, base beautification, inspections, etc. We can't do our job in garrison when you're a combat MOS. So they fill it with dumb taskings... And maintenance is just maintenance lol. That should pretty much sum it up.

  • @bigmurkk909
    @bigmurkk909 Před 2 lety

    Can you do a video on mos 15p

    • @golfery5119
      @golfery5119 Před 2 lety

      Not in 15 series but it seems like 15 series (according to the aviation people I deployed with) had it more chill than some other mos do. At the same time it seems like it's an automatic six year contract which might not seem like such a good idea in the military and especially army

  • @kevinrivera40
    @kevinrivera40 Před 2 lety

    Fuck yea brigade staff duty tomorrow on a Friday but hey i get Saturday off at least

    • @christopherchaos
      @christopherchaos  Před 2 lety

      That sucks but it's still better than having it on a Saturday.

  • @Overlord3420
    @Overlord3420 Před 2 lety +3

    Notification Platoon

  • @mattmcgourty7971
    @mattmcgourty7971 Před 2 lety

    I saw your DQ video. I'm in college and I really don't think it's for me anymore after a year an a half. I currently have a medical marijuana card in NY but it will expire in January. Can I still join after it expires?

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Only if you don't pop hot.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Do yourself a favor and join the Air Force, Space Force, or Coast Guard. You'll love it so much more!

  • @cristianarzu1770
    @cristianarzu1770 Před 2 lety

    Completely unrelated question to the video…. Do you have any information as to what MOS get to pcs to Soto cano Honduras? I don’t think 12N are needed there but just wondering.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Are you a 12N? If so, you should know the answer to that. If you're not in, then nobody. It's an Air Force Base. You want to go to all of the cool places? Join the Navy or Air/Space Force. In terms of doing it with the Army, you only get Korea, Germany, and Italy (Poland as a rotation). However, 68R and 68T are the only MOS' that are for those specific jobs in the ENTIRE military. So they are needed EVERYWHERE! Therefore, you can PCS to literally ANY Army, Navy, Air/Space Force, Marine, or Coast Guard Base. But there is a downside. Due to how easy and cush they are, and the benefits that they get (the ones I just mentioned), they're a unicorn MOS. Assuming you're not in, that means they're SUPER RARE - you almost virtually NEVER see them available since EVERYONE wants those jobs. And when people are in those jobs, they never get out of the Army, or reclass to a different MOS. Because if you're in one of those MOS', and you go to a NON ARMY Base, NOBODY messes with you. You essentially make your own hours. So yeah, they're SUPER RARE!
      Anyways
      68T: Veterinarian (duh, you work on animals)
      68R: Food Tech (you literally inspect food to see if they're expired, safe, and healthy. You're also the one that people go to when they want to complain about their DFAC. You have literally ALL THE POWER to shut that DFAC down if you wanted to.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Just join the Air/Space Force or the Navy. They have all the cool bases like Scotland, the UK, Australia, Norway, Honduras, Guam, etc - the list goes on.
      One last thing: the Army also has Guam and some other countries. But the "other countries" are for the Guard. And those are SUPER HARD to get an AGR slot for. Yes, the Army is the ONLY branch that allows you to pick where you go (the other branches have you make a wish list; and you rarely ever get what's on your wishlist). But you have a better chance at rolling your dice with the Air/Space Force or the Navy than if you were to attempt anything I just told you. If you do, congrats, you're now a unicorn!

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Oh, and CID! They can also virtually go ANYWHERE except a Navy Base. The Navy has NCIS - so why would they need CID, you know?

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Again, assuming you're not in and have never seen the shows, CID (Army) and NCIS (Navy) is essentially the "FBI" version of MP's in those branches.

    • @DapperSapper515
      @DapperSapper515 Před 2 lety

      Actually, they're more of detectives than they are FBI. Regardless, they also live very kush and easy lives. Unless dealing with the types of cases (that I can't mention because CZcams will remove this comment) that they deal with bothers you. Then it's hard. Other than that, they work long hours. But they also come into work at like 1000 because they don't have to do PT. CID is run by civilians but you yourself are still in the Army. So no PT, or coming in at 0500. So it's pretty kush. I have NUMEROUS friends (and my father-in-law) in/were in CID. I'm also reclassing to CID - so I did my homework.
      Anyways, that's the last of my paragraph comments. Hope this helped. Message me if you have anymore questions that I can help you answer.

  • @jurban611
    @jurban611 Před 2 lety +1

    Notification platoon

  • @devonvelazquez7882
    @devonvelazquez7882 Před 2 lety

    I just hope i get to use my phone at least once a month so i can pay bills😳

    • @christopherchaos
      @christopherchaos  Před 2 lety +2

      For initial training I would not count on that and you might need to set up auto payments or give information to someone you trust to be able to make payments for you. When you are done with initial training you should be good though.

  • @ronj8000
    @ronj8000 Před 2 lety

    Do you ever go back and listen to yourself? You repeat everything you say 3 or 4 times

  • @tylerlawlerDEVGRU
    @tylerlawlerDEVGRU Před 11 měsíci

    Did you un-wittingly sign a life contract Nick?

  • @tlh7717
    @tlh7717 Před 2 lety

    He felt so uncomfortable going from solider life to civilian life for a day. He didn't know how to act lol.