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Q, don't leave me, no really don't.

/selfish

It's the same boot camp as Army, so I either 11 - 13.

No, Marine Boot Camp goes 13 weeks, and I think it's the longest, so therefore Army must be about 11...

Army is like 11 - 12, Navy is 8. xd

Anyway I've asked 3 different Guard people about the whole job thing, they all say they can guarantee it, but then three totally different people who aren't guard but are in the armed forces say they can't.

It's like... Baw, who to believe?

Sib: It says right on the Navy's page they can't guarantee you the job you want.
In the National Guard, you chose from a list of available jobs and get the job you want from that list before you even go into basic. Like it's on your paperwork and everything.

But in the rest of the branches, you have to go through basic first, and then pick from the list of opened jobs, but they'll still push you toward maybe a more needed job... Or so I hear.

I know there's more ways to this, but as a civilian I obviously don't know completely what's going on.

As far as "seeing the world" being water, well.
1.) There are land-based jobs.
2.) Who said I didn't like water? =P

If it's possible to send mail, then sure.

Update:

So today it's becoming rather clear that the Guard doesn't seem to have such a guarantee over what type of job I can get.
If I have time today I'll go to the Navy Recuiter and talk to them personally, and see what they say about the Guard (and themselves).

I've been talking to an ex-navyman and he's not saying anything bad about the navy and jobs, however my family has a personal friend who was ******** over in his job (but he got it 2 years later, finally).

Still really not sure what to think at this point.
But I'm looking forward to going and watching some people in boot camp tomorrow. smile

i did not expect this.

i vote navy, but that's probably just because the national guard commercials annoy me. xD

LOL Thanks ks.

OK, so a big story update for you guys!!

I woke up at 6am today to meet with my recruiter (Ironically - "Nations") at 6:50am, to go to dobbins Air force Base (really it's a base for all the armed forces) to watch National Guard peeps train.

I brought my dad, but that's no big detail.

So I went, and watched, and all I can say is it was boring. Imagine a big PE class on Physical testing day.
That was it.

Regardless, we stayed until 11:30am, at which time we broke for lunch/breakfast, because I didn't eat anything for breakfast. But it was almost lunchtime for the cadets(?), Privates? Iunno, 90% of them hadn't even been to basic yet.

Anyway, we broke for lunch/breakfast, while Nations did her hair(at some salon place - more info on that later). We were supposed to meet back up at 1pm to go watch more PT tests, or "the fun stuff" as Nations called it. Her version of fun and mine are already entirely different at this point.

We(my dad and I) went to waffle house, but we had a good hour and a half left so we went to the Navy recruiter before 1pm.
We talked about stuff, and it was about 12:40ish PM when Nations called me, while I was in the navy recruitment office, and she asked...

N(ations) : Are you still meeting up with me at 1?
Me: Why?
N: Because I didn't realize I wouldn't have enough time between then and to go to my wedding (she's a bridesmaid for her cousin, which is why she was getting her hair done) so I was just going to drop you off there so you could watch the PT.

I took my chance to get out of this and tried to argue out of going to the AFB again. She kept asking "What changed?" "What's wrong? You weren't talking like this before" and I kept saying nothing changed, and I told her I was bored and our definitons of fun were different. She says I could participate if that would be less boring, and me being in no physical condition to do so said I didn't want to do that, and that she should go to her wedding.

We argue for what seems like 10 minutes before she orders me to give my dad the phone, where she tries to convince him to convince me to still go to the AFB rolleyes
After this failed attempt, she hangs up, and I continue to talk to the Navy recruiter, and to get my set up to take the ASVAB (career test, basically) and get paperwork and such...

Not even 5 minutes rolls by before Nations calls me back and informs me that she told her cousin she wasn't going to the wedding because she had to show around a new recruit, and mercilessly tries to guilt me into going to the AFB again.

I told her that was a dumb decision and that I'm not going to go back to the AFB, we argue for 10 more minutes, I tell her to call her cousin back and go to the damn wedding because the stupid recruit changed his mind.
She preceeded to say "Oh I know you just don't want to go so I can go to the wedding and it's fine" and I said "It doesn't matter if you had a prior engadgement or not, I do not want to go back to the AFB for another 4 hours."

Needless to say that:
1.) She had to be lying, because who the ******** would cancel a wedding to watch PT for four hours with some guys he hardly knew and
2.) If for some reason she wasn't lying, she was 1 of 3 bridesmaids and that's just stupid to say you're not going to a wedding for some bullshit reason like this 7 hours before the wedding happens.

Nations is a very nice person and I'd love to have her as a friend; but because of this little escapade it makes me wonder if she's only nice to me because she wants me to add some fluff to her paycheck by joining.

SHE'S A DAMN PIRANHA.

I also left my driver's license at the Navy Reruiter's, but that wasn't as big of a deal. I have it back now.


I will probably take the ASVAB next week. Thinking thursday... Then we'll see what jobs I can apply for.

And for FURTHER PONDERING:
- Most navy people these days never get on a ship
- you get a sign up bonus for simply having a degree
- navy has the easiest basic training out of all the branches
- you can be a female expert marksman in the Navy, whereas in all other branches it is a male-only position
- in the navy, females never go to warzones (which could be a bad or good thing, depending).