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You want to join the army?!?!?

♥Andrea♥♥Andrea♥
edited June 2009 in Vent
<span style="font-size:75">So my boyfriend and I are like really close, as in we've been best friends since 1999 and just recently (haha, more like 18 mos. ago) decided we were so fond of each other that we would like to "take it to the next level" if you will, so about a year ago he brings up that one day he wanted to join the army....I honestly didn't think he was really SERIOUS serious...I thought he was just semi-serious. ^^ So I was supportive and played the good girlfriend, pack-his-bags type and went along with it...well, this month he turned 18 and registered for the army. I am scared *that is still regarded as masked swearing. Don't do it ~ Staff* but I'm trying to be strong and supportive his sake because he feels this is something he needs to do. So anywho, he leaves for bootcamp on the...20th...and I have no idea how the -hades- I'm going to cope with this. I just know how supportive ya'll are so apart from my family, you are the first I've told about this.</span>
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  • KelseyKelsey
    75.187.179.52
    Aww poor Andi<br>The 20th is my birthday :O :(<br><br>Good luck <3
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  • ♥Andrea♥♥Andrea♥
    173.64.122.96
    <span style="font-size:75">Thanks dear ♥<br>I'll try to make it through.<br>Happy -early- Birthday!! ^^</span>
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  • BuffyBoardingBuffyBoarding
    208.66.144.10
    A friend of mine just left for the Navy today... his brother and i are really close and he left a year ago...<br>I was really close with another guy who joined the Marines and my "brother" is in the Navy...<br><br>All i can say is... Try to be with him when he's around and be ready for major changes. he might not even come back the same person as when he left. Just be ready for that :wink:
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  • ♥Andrea♥♥Andrea♥
    173.64.122.96
    <span style="font-size:75">Ahg, yeah, my cousin and uncle are in the Navy. My cousin just got back after having his submarine sunk by those stupid pirates and he's totally PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). He was probably one of the most mentally stable people I knew. But I just don't think Joey sees it for what it is. He's treating it almost as a right of passage and that worries me...I don't think he knows what he's really going to experience over there. (Not that can honestly say "<span style="font-style:italic">I</span> do." either) I just know that if I was about to leave for someplace where I was going to have to fear for my life everyday that I would be doing some serious mental preparation and Joey seems as though he's heading off to camp with his grade school buddies. Meh, I just need him to come back in one piece, the emotional stuff I can deal with (been there, done that), but seeing him blasted apart...not so much.</span>
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  • dachshund girldachshund girl
    71.63.170.227
    My brother did the same thing. Without telling anyone he signed up for the national guard 2 days after turning 18. He was shipped off to boot camp then to Iraq. At first we were all angry that he did it and thought he made a stupid choice but the year and a half he was in Iraq was the best thing for him. Yea it was crap conditions but he made tons of new friends, made a lot of money, and went up a couple level things (sorry don't know what their called) in the military. When he came back he tried going to a couple schools and dropped out of all of them. He tried getting a job but he could never stick with it and is now thinking of going full time military. We think this is a good idea because it is the only thing he has been successful at so far. And I don't mean that in a bad way but it is what he truley enjoys and would stick with willingly.<br><br>Anyway sorry about the extremely long post but my point is the military isn't all that bad. Our country needs people to serve and for some people the military is a good choice for them. But I know what you feel like. It stinks having to worry about them all the time and wondering if they made a good choice and if their okay but you will get through it. Good luck to you!
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  • Sea OatsSea Oats
    66.20.176.115
    <span style="font-size:92">Aww, I know how you feel. :( My boyfriend of 15 months is leaving for basic for the US Navy in November. It's really rough, and I don't know what I'm going to do without him.<br><br>He'll be fine though, and if he wants to do it, just be supportive. That's really all you can do. :(</span>
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  • ♥Andrea♥♥Andrea♥
    173.64.122.96
    <span style="font-size:75">Thanks everyone, I'll keep you updated on his progress...<br>Meh. Progress...?</span>
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  • KazukoKazuko
    72.222.218.57
    My boyfriend of two and a half years is off into the Navy. Basic Training starts in October or so. *facepalm* I too am trying to be the supportive type.<br><br>As he tells me: It's alright to be upset, but don't act like he's gone already.
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