Advise Needed

[ebiaihi]

Nick100, you're only 17. You aren't going to need an age waiver for a PJ contract if you've to wait a little while for it. If being a PJ is really what you want to do why not just hold out for it? As another wannabe I'd also be sure to pay more attention to what the vetted guys tell you, they've been there and done it. I got pretty caught up in PT too but like the vetted guys say, enjoy your life. Once you sign that contract it's pass or fail and you might get stuck with a MOS that you hate for the next four years of your life. If you really want to be there PT will get done anyway.

I'm 24 so I probably seem old to you, I thought 24 was old when I was your age. Then I got into my 20s and time started flying by, 21 seems like it's six months ago. Enjoy the fact that dating a girl at your age is 50% sex and 50% having fun and get some positive life experiences.

 

[1345]

Younger folks who decide to take on the 18X program typically don't make it (not all, but most). At 18 you don't understand what it is in life that you really want, let alone the fact that you are only 17 (not that a year would make a difference). It wasn't until I was 28 that I decided to enlist after a successful career in policing. Two years and some change later, I'm pushing 31, and got me that green hat. I'm not going to say it was easy, but the level of maturity and life experience I possessed made it "easier." If you're looking to get into some door kicking, gain some experience, and be a well rounded soldier, why not go in as an infantryman with an option 40 to attend RASP? If I could do it all over again, I would have gone to the 75th at 18, did my maturing there rather than in the civilian law enforcement world (though I gained some valuable people skills by doing so), then dropped an SF packet. Even that is difficult to say with accuracy due to the common phrase "You don't know what you don't know." It would be a great place for you to "grow up." There you will find out what it is you want out of a career in the military.

 

[TLDR20]

Younger folks who decide to take on the 18X program typically don't make it (not all, but most). At 18 you don't understand what it is in life that you really want, let alone the fact that you are only 17 (not that a year would make a difference). It wasn't until I was 28 that I decided to enlist after a successful career in policing. Two years and some change later, I'm pushing 31, and got me that green hat. I'm not going to say it was easy, but the level of maturity and life experience I possessed made it "easier." If you're looking to get into some door kicking, gain some experience, and be a well rounded soldier, why not go in as an infantryman with an option 40 to attend RASP? If I could do it all over again, I would have gone to the 75th at 18, did my maturing there rather than in the civilian law enforcement world (though I gained some valuable people skills by doing so), then dropped an SF packet. Even that is difficult to say with accuracy due to the common phrase "You don't know what you don't know." It would be a great place for you to "grow up." There you will find out what it is you want out of a career in the military.

Well said.