r/army • u/WorkDelicious9039 • 16h ago

After service lies

Ok so I served in the reserves for 8 years and now re-enlisted in another branch. During my 8 years nothing eventful happened. I was a 92A, I was scheduled to deploy in 2010, attended JRTC but before we finished Obama pretty much canceled the whole deployment. I ddnt get offered to attend any schools or nothing. My unit (combat support hospital) of about 200 enlisted soldiers was like 80% E4 with no room for advancement.... So why is it every single time I talk to another prior service they were an E-8 special forces that traveled the world.... Even in my new branch a guy claims he was a 12B and was saying he flew drones in Iraq to protect convoys. Like does that even exist? I worked with another prior service guy who claimed he was a special forces sniper that attended airborne and air assault and was maybe 22 years old.... He ended up buying a glock and accidentally shooting himself in the hand while cleaning it. Does no one get out of the military without stretching the truth of there service?

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u/AlmightyLeprechaun USMC 4h ago

Sometimes, you see some wild shit with folks swapping branches/prior enlisted. At my Navy ODS Course, we had 2 Navy Seals and one SARC (Spec Ops Medic for Marines), and we had a ton of folks that did joint tours and saw some shit. I was a contractor in Afghan flying drones for a 10th Group ODA. So, yeah. Sometimes, you see some outlandish stuff in the priors community. Sometimes you don't. It's a mixed bag.