Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
Say your six years are up. You generally see your enlistment as a positive experience you're grateful you had the opportunity to have, and you don't have anything like negative performance reports or a disciplinary record, but you just don't really want to continue doing what you're doing. You want to start with a clean slate somewhere new and see what else life has to offer. None of your training or skills are transferable and contracting is too close to what you're trying to get away from and hard to get your foot in the door anyway so you decide to start small and head to the local Huddle House for an application. The questions are easy enough. You can do the arithmetic test perfectly just like you could at 16. You know what all the big words mean. Then you go to the next question to see it's directly asking if you have a military background. You really, really want to avoid any investigation into your military history, not for any legal reasons or because you need to hide anything, but a major point of getting out was to close that chapter of your life and open a brand new one. Prying would not be conducive to that. You leave it blank. Is that in any way a crime? I could see how saying no would be.
It's just a question btw. It's not my current situation or anything. Some friends and myself have been trying to argue this out, and I've wondered since I was a teenager anyway. We don't work with anyone who might know so I figured it was worth a shot to ask here. There seem to be enough former members around.
It's just a question btw. It's not my current situation or anything. Some friends and myself have been trying to argue this out, and I've wondered since I was a teenager anyway. We don't work with anyone who might know so I figured it was worth a shot to ask here. There seem to be enough former members around.
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