Going thru Army Basic Training again at the age of 47 probably would have killed me, but to do it at 59 definitely would have removed me from the living!
Army Times article - Never Too Old
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I wonder once in awhile if going through basic training and AIT would get me back in shape. Just what I said "WONDER".
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That was pretty cool.
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You're only as old as you think you are... 😉
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Age is only a number - and mine’s unlisted…
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Screw that...been there done that and have my honorable paperwork and disability check monthly to show for it...lol
Lot of respect to him, could I do it, sure. There is just zero interest in doing that again, especially with the "new army". Used to be don't ask don't tell when I was in, my brother out two years now and shared a lot of stories on how it was getting weird. Alternative PT tests (walking), the respect isn't there anymore but the entitlement generation is... Sad to see really.
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Age is only a number - and mine’s unlisted…
The best part about being dyslexic is being able to say that you're only 37 years old
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I'm glad I joined the Army and stayed my 20 years and get my retirement check and my disability check in my account each month. I'm a fabricator for the Army now and I could not go through todays army basic training. Its a joke and a cakewalk. There are more soldiers today getting discharged because they hurt them selves or chaptered because they can not pass the new army PT test. Which is on hold because to many women can not pass it.
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I don't think I would make it now. It would be so hard to call these young officers SIR. That was getting hard to do before I retired. Most of them you just respect the uniform they are wearing.
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Todays army you dont have to pass a pt test to graduate
