I was replying to the original poster, who seems to have gotten lost in this thread who is a 17 year old thinking about enlisting who is hearing from people that Christians can not be in the Army and putting doubts in his mind regarding that. I am showing him that Christians can be in the Army.
rrpearso, you are going to find people in all walks of life, military and civilian, who are going to treat you bad, heavy handed and with malice. People sin and do things everyday that they shouldn't do. I am thinking that you were taken by surprise of some of the harshness in BCT or that you were just not use to it in your life. Could we consider you a pacifist and that is why you could not handle BCT?
You have warned the OP that the military is not all rosey. Why are you debating? Your intent to let others know the hard side of the Army goes beyond that that it seems like you won't stop until the OP says he is not enlisting. He has heard what you have to say, it is his and his parents decision, not yours. If you want to debate on the grounds that the military is the worse place anyone can find themselves based on your, and your's alone, experience, start your own thread. Your experience was horrible and many others have had nothing but good experiences. I think most would fall in the middle towards good experiences.
__________________ God Bless,
Jane
Make me to know your ways, O, Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Psalm 25:4-5 (ESV)
I'm on the top with GREAT experiences. I wouldn't trade this job for the world. My wife, for that matter, wouldn't want me to trade this job for the world. Even my oldest (4) goes to school telling his friends how Daddy is a Soldier. Hooah!
__________________ "I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future." -NIV
How many times have you been deployed and how long was each deployment? Did your wife enjoy thoes deployments?
What does this have to do with the original poster's question?
__________________ God Bless,
Jane
Make me to know your ways, O, Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Psalm 25:4-5 (ESV)
Bace,
G-d found me in the Marine Corps, never once did He ask or direct me to leave the service of my country. In fact, He led me quite a merry chase through my career...
Chaplains are indeed great people, but no matter what branch or MOS you choose, you will be challenged...but those challenges build character, values, honor and a mental discipline that will do you well in live...
Whether you choose a combat MOS, or a support MOS you will still receive training and live in a structure of internal discipline.
It's served me well in my civilian life and it's an experience that I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Men should be judged, not by the tint of their skin, the Gods they serve, the Vintage that they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
--Laurence Hope
Warriors dance along a knife edge, maintaining the balance of their totality...celebrating strength while keeping it rigidly under control, only bringing it to bear when it is appropriate and unavoidable.
Bace,
G-d found me in the Marine Corps, never once did He ask or direct me to leave the service of my country. In fact, He led me quite a merry chase through my career...
Chaplains are indeed great people, but no matter what branch or MOS you choose, you will be challenged...but those challenges build character, values, honor and a mental discipline that will do you well in live...
Whether you choose a combat MOS, or a support MOS you will still receive training and live in a structure of internal discipline.
It's served me well in my civilian life and it's an experience that I wouldn't trade for anything.
Thoes are definatly tools God uses to tenderize us to be like him, hard times build perserverance and it is not nessicarily the devil or God punishing us but just God working to make us like him and its much easier if you fall on the cap stone rather than the cap stone fall on you (cap stone being Jesus). I just seen way to many things in the military inconsistant with christian life, God delivered me out of basic but I was not going to tempt fate a second time in OCS when I made it through basic by the skin of my teeth.
oh please...stuff a sock in it rppearso..we're all sick and tired of your "victimization" line...
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Men should be judged, not by the tint of their skin, the Gods they serve, the Vintage that they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
--Laurence Hope
Warriors dance along a knife edge, maintaining the balance of their totality...celebrating strength while keeping it rigidly under control, only bringing it to bear when it is appropriate and unavoidable.
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