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[size=-3]I mentioned the extra pay, and the prestige and responsibility that go with being an Officer. He asked me what kind of responsibility Officers have (actually, it was more like a rhetorical question). How can I argue with something like that? That's silly Enlisted animus against the Commissioned ranks. He asked how often do Officers interact with their subordinates? At this point, I was thinking that my recruiter would never advance in the business world, because he'd have a chip on his shoulder about management. He made some sort of ackward comparison with the Philadelphia Eagles, asking if I'd want to be the owner (I think he went off the deep end on that one), implying that only Jeff Laurie would be the Eagles' equivilant of an Officer. Sure, he said, I'd make more money, but I wouldn't interact with the men. Petty Officer A-hole's whole case was built on the supposition that responsibility is the same thing as "being in the trenches," so to speak. Like I said, silly anti-Officer animus. My recruiter was trying to sell me on the idea of Chiefs being more important (because of his definition of responsibility) than Officers, and compared Andy Reid, the Head Coach, to a Chief. I disagreed, saying that Reid is more like an Officer, and the many assistant and specialty coaches underneath him are equivilant to Chiefs.
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I didn't mind most of it. I didn't much like another man touching my "equipment," but it had to be done. Nor did I like the bending over part, but thank god he didn't touch anything. The urine analysis wasn't unpleasant, so much as it was weird (I've never peed in a cup). My least favorite part was the blood test. Remember, this was before I was in the Navy proper, before I'd experienced 3-4 shots per drill weekend, so I was still deathly afraid of needles. When you're like this, it's more of an anxious thing. The pain doesn't bother me so [/size]