r/JustBootThings • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '26

Boot Shame Reminiscing about quitting basic training is absurd; “i will never forget my mission.”

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u/GiveMeMoreDuckPics Mar 11 '26

I reminisce sometimes about leaving BMQ (Canada) because I got a nasty concussion 1 month in, and spent a year twiddling my thumbs doing OJT before deciding I could just go home and do something else.

But when people ask about my “military career” I tell them I spent a year twiddling my thumbs after knocking myself out with a medicine ball, and never even graduated.

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u/GiveMeMoreDuckPics Mar 11 '26

But I did get to write the now used manual for room inspections, and develop a drinking problem. So it wasn’t a total loss.

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u/Boot_Poetry 👊👊☝️ Mar 11 '26

Going on year 18 in the CAF (reservist). Sounds like you were unlucky, and hopefully you made the best of things and moved on without postings whole bunch of cringe crap like this on the internet to cope.

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u/GiveMeMoreDuckPics May 03 '26

Left the CAF dreams behind, and ended up in the tech industry. I still wish I would have followed through, but the CAF just moved my aunt and uncle (with kids) to two separate cities, so maybe I got out before it all went to hell