>>123633It’s not an issue with my peers, I generally get along with them. The issue is leadership - you think of the military as a clear chain of command, with movies showing officers and NCOs leading troops directly, often yelling in their face like a drill instructor. In reality, the military is a pretty unfeeling bureaucracy, with incredibly distant and unfathomable leaders, and your more direct leadership is essentially a peer just as confused as you are.
I joined up with a contract to do cool airplane shit, but I have been jerked around so much. I spent literally months just waiting around because of paperwork bullshit, and after being reclassified I now have a job filling out excel spreadsheets in front of a computer. I could have got an office job where I did the exact same thing, but with shorter hours, better pay, and being allowed to dress and style my hair any way that I want. So I just want out, I’m not doing this shit for twenty fucking years, fuck that. One contract and I’m done.
To answer your second question: yeah, we do a lot of training. That’s pretty much it.
Sorry I’m being so negative, but the experience just hasn’t been what I expected or wanted. Like I said earlier, I don’t hate it so much that I would try forcing an early admin separation or anything like that - I want to just serve out my contract and get discharged, and then live in Japan for the rest of my life
