The army is driving me nuts

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Caristra

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Every time I see I have one or two new e-mails I get all excited thinking I am complete at a school or have gotten a new interview. Then I open my mailbox to find the army is sending me yet another e-mail about how they will pay for my med school if I enlist. I would like to know who is going to pay for therapy after I go insane. :laugh:
 
yeah, i know. plus the emails are grammatically incorrect too. i mean, if you're gonna mass email people, at least make sure your email makes sense.
 
Hey those coffins don't fill themselves.

Sorry to be graphic, but it's true.

Caristra said:
Every time I see I have one or two new e-mails I get all excited thinking I am complete at a school or have gotten a new interview. Then I open my mailbox to find the army is sending me yet another e-mail about how they will pay for my med school if I enlist. I would like to know who is going to pay for therapy after I go insane. :laugh:
 
Schaden Freud said:
Hey those coffins don't fill themselves.

Sorry to be graphic, but it's true.

Are you saying that army docs die, or that they fill the coffins with the bodies of the other soldiers?
 
IbnSina said:
Are you saying that army docs die, or that they fill the coffins with the bodies of the other soldiers?

You probably won't be an army doc.
 
It's actually more likely to be a bag initially. There's a reason cadences are so morbid. "Airborne ranger, airborne ranger, how did you get back? In a body bag, big and black?
 
It's not a war. It's an occupation.

/back into shadows.
 
Sigh, there goes my nice thread about jumping every time you have an e-mail. I personally have nothing against army docs and I wish them all well. Especially since my chem 1 lab partner is currently deployed and I really hope he comes home OK.

I just wish they would send one e-mail and have done with it. I can't take seeing that I have mail only to discover it is another recruitment thing. I made a separate e-mail account for applications to avoid this sort of spam thing.
 
You think they are annoying? I served 6 years in the national guard, ended my enlistment as a NCO, had 2 mobilizations, and got out right before a third. Military enlistments are 8 years, whatever your enlistment is then the rest is served in the Inactive Reserve Ready, where you aren't actually in the military but they can call you and you have no choice but to report for duty. The Marine Corpes IRR is what they are talking about calling up right now. For the past two years I have recieved approximately 3-4 e-mails per day, from different retention and recruiting seargents all stating they are my career counselor and wanting me to re-enlist or extend. But as of Today, I am completely finished with my 8 year obligation but I bet I will continue to get e-mails.

Also, if you notice the Army is advertising pretty heavily on SDN.
 
I marked it as spam and that got rid of some.

I am IN med school now and still get email occasionally from them. What's funny, is that all this heavy recruitment is a huge turn-off as far as I'm concerned.
 
I swear I get an HPSP or whatever its called letter from the Air Force at least every other week. My only snail mail is med school stuff and its disheartening to find a dumb letter like that in my mail box instead of some real news!
 
and how fitting the Army's advertisement is right there as soon as I scrolled down to the bottom.

Seriously, if you worry that much about your email/mail, you need to stop. I don't begrudge others for trying to do their job -- just ignore them and be on your way. Come on now. It's just a harmless email/mail. It isn't like they're putting a gun in your hand, marching you outside and forcing you to line up hostages to shoot. Be glad they're not drafting you.
 
:laugh: I haven't been scouted by the Army yet. I feel kind of left out. Oh well. I have never had a problem finding a few good men. Hee.
 
MiesVanDerMom said:
There's a war on. Do the math.

Well, without getting too deep into this, there are a few things that need to be pointed out.
Army docs don't kill people. They aren't required to carry guns. They can, and are allowed to defend themselves. But they aren't out there just shooting away.
Army docs aren't dying in Iraq. They are behind the lines.
Army docs aren't filling body bags. They are practicing medicine trying to save the lives of people who are doing what they are told to do.

You don't want to join, I don't hold that against you. To each his own, and not everyone does it for the same reasons. However, you say bad things about the people that do, I will hold it against you.

Nobody makes anyone to read email or normal mail. You can see the title and delete it if you want, or throw away the envelope. I know how much energy the delete key takes, I hear my classmates whine incessantly about the emails we receive from our school (on average, 4 per day). Maybe they just read slow, but it is annoying that they whine about it.
 
LOL, I hear you on that one.
 
Military medicine is pretty sweet. Join a Navy flight wing and you can be a doctor AND a naval aviator!

Talk about a line:

Amazing Hottie #1: "So what do you do?"

Me: "Well I'm a surgeon and I fly F-14s"

Amazing Hottie: Passes out due to uncontrollable infatuation.
 
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