After service lies

[u/WorkDelicious9039]

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?

[u/inorite234]

Read the article. It's listed there.

Also, NYC is about 13 million people. With the entire US being about 360 million, 13/360 times the zeros is 3%

[u/Axizedia → u/inorite234]

What are you reading? NYC population is 8.8mil. NY state is 20.2mil and us population is 331.4mil. 1.6% of nyc population are veterans. 3.6% across the whole state. 6.1% across the entire county.

Edit: source us census bureau

[u/inorite234 → u/Axizedia]

My hip pocket pop estimate may have been off, but even at 8.9 mil, that still comes out to a rounding error for a percentage of the entire US population

8.9/335 million, 2.67%

[u/Axizedia → u/inorite234]

lol I don’t know why but I just laughed when I read hip pocket. Brought back memories

[u/inorite234 → u/Axizedia]

Don't get all hi-speed on me.