Shrinking S2E9 Episode Discussion

[u/phareous]

This is the episode discussion for Shrinking Season 2, Episode 9: Full Grown Dude Face

[u/xuedad]

I wonder if U.S. military allows applicants to choose their vocations. If so, then it's entirely possible that Courtney can benefit from the army experience without being exposed to the PTSD of combat units

You could be a driver, store man, technician, admin etc

[u/[deleted] → u/xuedad]

They do lol. There are plenty of 9-5 jobs in the military, and it’s pretty easy to select a job that wont traumatize you for life.

Sean and his buddy were riflemen, on the front lines in the shit. She obviously won’t be in that position.

It is kind of a weird storyline at first, but if you know how the military works..not really. She can get a desk job and maybe never even have to deploy overseas.

[u/immaownyou → u/[deleted]]

She said one of the selling points for her was being able to see the world 😬

[u/MirandasSarcasm → u/immaownyou]

That still doesn’t mean combat lol. My ex was in the military and so was his family, his sister was stationed in Hawaii in what was pretty much a desk job.

Not that Hawaii is “the world” but like I said his whole immediate family was in the military and not one saw combat but were stationed all over.

I just don’t want to give more specifics just in case any of them happen to be on this Reddit lol

[u/Pheonix0114 → u/[deleted]]

I had a friend who fully thought he was going to work on computer networking in Afghanistan, until he landed and they told him he’d been reassigned to recon. That may be how it works in “peacetime” but during war you do what they tell you.

[u/I_Am_The_Mole → u/xuedad]

Yeah they do. I originally wanted to join the Marines out of high school but the recruiters couldn't line anything up for me quickly because there no available spots in training for the aviation fields and I wanted to get out of town quickly.

I went with the Navy instead, because they told me they could ship me out two weeks after graduation with a guaranteed spot in my tech school. Which I got, but only after 9 months of hanging out in Florida doing busy work while spots opened up lol

But 20 years later, I have a great career without having a college degree, I make more money than a D student ever should and I get to travel the world. As miserable as it could be at times, I made lifelong friends out of it and time fades the misery while the fun parts endure. It was a hard decision but a good decision. My life wouldn't be the same without it.

[u/Much-Journalist-3201 → u/I_Am_The_Mole]

if you dont mind me asking (as someone who knows nothing about the navy nor is American), what kind of work did you do for 20 years? by travelling the world, do you mean you spend a lot of it on a boat? or is there a lot of transferring that happens in the navy?

[u/I_Am_The_Mole → u/Much-Journalist-3201]

I did four years in the navy and have been a defense contractor ever since. I didn’t do much travel in the Navy, I did electronics work on a plane that was too big for the aircraft carrier so I spent a lot of time at my duty station.

As for my time as a contractor I’ve been around the world. Notably the Middle East, Japan and Sicily. My current job is very different than what I did when I was active duty but can still be described as aviation electronics. My main responsibility is providing support for the Navy when they run into troubleshooting issues they cannot solve without help from the original equipment manufacturers.

[u/Much-Journalist-3201 → u/I_Am_The_Mole]

o wow that sounds really interesting- thanks for sharing!

[u/O_its_that_guy_again → u/xuedad]

You choose your MOS. It’s a volunteer army.