CP203;8054092 said:Dave2one6;8054074 said:CP203;8054060 said:Dave2one6;8054027 said:Los216;8053917 said:I'm in the Marine Corps. I got less than 6 months left.
i got out the service 15 years ago. please, understand, u need a real exit plan. they dont give a fuck out here. it seems like that while youre in, but in reality, naw son. i know. i lived it. if u gonna do college, do that shit asap. know that u can file for unemployment. Try not to EVER go to the VA. that shit is nasty, and you gotta make an appointment just to go to the emergency room.
try to have a job lined up. 15 bucks a hr at the minimum. to start. make many more copies of your DD form 214. they run out fast. Try to stop drinking. mind ya attitude. KNOW THAT THE U.S IS GIVING FAKE LOVE WHEN THEY SAY THAT THEY SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!!!
u cleveland like me. if u coming back here, hit up temp services, and hope u coming back with a car cuz all the good jobs is on the outskirts of the city, but u know that.
six months is more than enough time to get ya ducks in a row. but please dont believe that you got a leg up cuz u served for this country. as a matter of fact, its a gift and a curse. alot of good jobs dont want real Black men working for them. it shows up the regular dudes. i learned that the hard way. i have a decent job now, after college, but i feel i got it because i didnt mention on my app, that i was prior military. all of a sudden, the struggle was over.
real talk.
Wtf, I got out in 2012 went to flight school gi bill paid for it, voc rehab through the VA paid for my flight uniforms and MacBook Air and ipad, and delta hired me straight out of flight school because I was a veteran, and the new VA Id cards you can go to any hospital in the country and the VA pays for it
guess we all have our different paths or nah? i was just spitting the simple shit. sometimes when we get out, we have a false reality of the world. be prepared. glad it worked out for u. didnt for me because i was a cop on the inside and refused to do it on the outside. best thing to do is go into the career field u did while in, right? while, i wasnt about to accept a job where i got paid to police my people. thats just how im built. and i struggled because of that stance. it all worked out. but they didnt make me need to become a cop just because i had the experience. but i feel ya post. no worries. goat from me.
Don't get me wrong when I was getting out the army didn't tell me shit that was available to me, had to find out everything on my own and companies just started fucking with vets because they get tax breaks for hiring vets
totally feel u. but im in the vet class thats forgotten. i got out before 911 and after the gulf war. no special benefits. ya gotta understand that. i worked it out too, but im venting, purposely, because we do get out blindly alot of times. i knew nothing getting out either. nothing. my first job was for seven bucks an hr within a month.