Did you guys serve in the armed forces?

If you have an interest, don't look at the branch (army, navy) look at the type of things that really peak your interest. Internet cyber securiry, law enforcement, or would like to be a helicopter pilot or mechanic. Find the kind of work that really is not work. More like a hobby.

I mean in the navy should be better for females seeing how there isnt a lot of physical requirements to join. It's mainly how much you can fallow orders. Of course theres always that one female that gets pregnant to avoid deployment.

Ah yes. As a fresh engineering graduate, I cut my teeth on the software development for the Ohio class Trident boomers. It was a good career with lots of travel. When peace broke out in 1995, I was assigned to a commercial contract working the fail-safe floor trading systems at the New York Stock Exchange. Career wise, I absolutely would never have done anything differently.

Currently in process. Still got more paperwork to do! Entering takes forever with a pile of crap to sign!

Fine, but it's a long post. I'll gloss over what happened before me, cause the story is really long and it's best to discuss in person over a bottle of whiskey, but the long story short is my great grandfather was a general of the Bulgarian army, friend of the king of Bulgaria and manager of his private security. A highly decorated military man, loving father and a very successful businessman.
Communism came, he was murdered for being an enemy of the state and having ties with the nazis. Both of my grandfathers served jail time and narrowly avoided execution for having ties with the "nazi" royal family and being against the soviet regime. They were only released, cause the reds made a deal. Their lives for their owned land and businesses.

My father served in the navy, before switching to the merchant fleet for better pay and career options. As communism fell, he could start making serious money and start his own business.

Communism took everything my family had and nearly drove it to the breaking point, but we still stand. We may have lost money, property, land and influence, but at least we are here today.
Unlike many others that were brutally murdered for being "enemies of the state" of the "glorious" red bastards.

Anyway, fast forward some more and we get to my military career...

The summer of 2010, just finishing school. I wanted to honor the family tradition and history and leave my mark in the Bulgarian army. Tho when I went to base, I quickly realized things had changed... The stories I've heard from my dad about basic training and the military in general were quite different now... My story is not glamorous.

Half of the day, you could slack off in civilian clothing, there was a pub on base grounds, girls were allowed to be in the military, so everyone was trying to hook up with everyone half of the time...
Getting out of base on evenings was quite easy, especially if your dad was a decorated navy captain. They even let me park my Mercedes in one of the hangars, cause I didn't want to leave it on the street.
True, we did train, we did shoot at targets, we had exercises, drills and I felt like a badass doing those. I hated the running! I loathed it with a passion! But because of lack of government funding, everything felt a bit half-assed, thankfully the running sessions were half-assed too...

Still, I enjoyed my time in the Bulgarian Army and quickly got a few promotions, just because I liked to drive and would shuttle high ranking officers around with a military G500 Mercedes they had. The last two months of my time in the army, I spent in Novo Selo. A Bulgarian-American joint base. At that point I was a senior sergeant, so my job was mostly to follow schedules I've been handed and bark orders at other soldiers. And to hang out with the Americans and teach the inexperienced drinkers how to drink Rakia. I made new friends, got to drive cool American military vehicles, ranging from jeeps, to amphibious transporters and tanks!

I left the army as a Senior Sergeant and felt that the time I actually put effort into was worth it and honored the family history and heritage. So after a total of 8 months and 1 week, I left the Army, as I was accepted into university in Germany and went to study economics.

See what happened? next time maybe you will keep your mouth shut instead of provoking megadriver to make some super long post.

Testosterone injections? Tell me more! How much? How often? How old are you? Were they perscribed?

I know a guy that got kicked out of the army for smoking weed after he came back from Afghanistan and had off duty at home with family. They don't play about that stuff.

I cant handle bullshit. I breakdown and cry like the emotional woman I am.

I have genuinely thought about joining, but I have too many health problems that would exempt me

Its the same. 2018 it got changed but 2 days later trump starting posing everywhere so to speak. And its good don't ask dont tell isnt around anymore. And I know with time. So I'm glad those in the future will be able to join. Rumor has it the national guard will take you but I really have zero interest in that

Why do you say only 10 percent. Where you get that statistic?

Physically I'm fit, maybe a hair underweight. I'm 6'1 etc point being in the basics I'm there. Mentally who knows. But the very fact I exist makes me ineligible is what pisses me off.

Thank you, sweetie! 😉

Yeah, and now at almost 50 I look back on my life, and feel a sense of loss for what might have been. I have to be honest with you in saying that the main reason I wanted to join the Army was to be like my father. It's a kind of juvenile sensibility I had, and sometimes still feel.

I was at the MEPS center.