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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
1. You have the option to sign up to go overseas, so unless there is a military catastrophe there is little chance of you being forced to go overseas.
2. You do the vast majority of PT on your own time and if you don't you are screwed for PT when you do it with your unit.
3. Great teamwork skills are built and you meet some great people.... that being said you also meet some ######bags as well.
4.I personally wouldn't think of it as a side job, because you won't earn much money relative to any other job you could get, but rather look at it as personal development with a paycheque.
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Great summary, overseas deployment and regional deployment and training were all optional, but I made sure that I did as much of that as possible in the summer time. If you go Navy, I believe you can get ship board deployments as well.
On number 2, the only time that you focus on PT is during your basic training, when your the lowest of the low and a disgusting sub human fat body, when I was in, the mornings focuses around some form of PT or another where they would run you into the ground, then the afternoons were spent in class room or field training except for the last two weeks where it was out in the field with little to no sleep and a lot of scenario training (best part of basic for me). Once you get through basic if you stay in then you go to the one day a week and some weekend stuff, then yeah your on your own for physical training.
On number 3, a lot of my closest friends to this day were people that I either trained with, or trained, most of the ######s usually found a way to filter out or they lost interest. you'll find a way to get along, and god help your liver by the way.
I always found a way to make pretty decent money because I pretty well volunteered for anything and everything. One of the best reserve experiences of my life was working as a trainer for basic training. There's nothing better then killing some disgusting sub human fat body (which I probably am now)