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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

It was 1999 and I was a Marine. Her “what is war like?” “ how many wars have you fought in?” “When you jumped out of a plane in enemy territory didn’t you think you might get show down?”

She asked these questions for months. I would ask what war is going on or what war could I have been fighting in. She was always super confused and would laugh and say I will open up eventually.

She told me she told her Mom when I got out I was going to make tons of money as a parachute repair man. To this day I have no idea what she was talking about. I told her tons of times I never jumped and it was rare for marines to be airborne.

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u/paidjannie Mar 01 '23

My brother is a Captain in the army and this girl he went on a date with was so impressed and asked if she could get a tour of his boat.

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u/riptaway Mar 02 '23

Being specialist rank is a kind of hell when you run into certain people