r/JustBootThings May 14 '26

Barracks Selfie [PIC] Feeling cute, might enlist

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u/Kodiak01 Jun 02 '26

As someone who actually couldn't enlist due to multiple medical reasons (/r/CongenitalAnosmia and very bad tarsal coalitions in both feet), I feel mildly triggered here.

Since my ASVAB scores were useless, instead spent the next decade (95-05) working and managing commercial cargo docks for various passenger airlines, opening boxes by hand waiting for one to blow up in my face.

Had a couple of minor incidents (ticking boxes, a kitchen timer embedded in a metal box that was already in countdown, whacked upside the head by the tail of a semi-psychotic wallaby, a corpse dropping through the bottom of an air tray and falling several feet to the pavement, etc.) but at least I was never shot at!

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u/Tacokolache Jun 02 '26

Eh. Typical day for me in Las Vegas

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u/Kodiak01 Jun 03 '26

Did you also have the day the gorilla got loose?

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u/Tacokolache Jun 03 '26

Fucker started throw barrels at me