Is it hard to go on active duty?

i am in the US Army (regular) serving in korea. its not easy but if you apply yourself its not unbearable. the ROKA is very different, they have a KATUSA (Korean Augment To United States Army) program and some of their soldiers are mixed into US Army units. i have a KATUSA in my section and am friends with many of the KATUSAs in my unit.

The US army is in Korea???????

Wow, 2 years?! That's like, long, compared to Malaysian NS, which is just 2 months, and just a big, gay, supercamp where trainers rape trainees and you're brainwashed to vote Barisan Nasional (the ruling party). ROK NS is much more meaningful

two years isnt long at all, i have served a total of six in the US Army (regular and national guard)

Yeah, but you're talking to one of the locals who go to international school. And all of us are educated enough to realize our country's shit right now (read the papers) and my generation is hardly patriotic and the philosophy among us is "This country sucks, if we stay here our intellect will be wasted. As soon as you can leave overseas for the US or Europe and eventually gain citizenship" sad as it may be, but the educated (not brainwashed) teens of my generation all agree that this country sucks, it's going to the dogs and are all setting goals for moving overseas. Plus, we could be in college for those 2 months.

good shit hooah, but if enough "intellect" comes back at the same time things can change for the better. not likely to happen though :\

Yeah, very true cuz where's an Aerospace Engineer gonna find work in Malaysia? I'd have to work for Lockheed, Boeing or IAI to make that work. Though dream would be to work for F1 Team *drools*

an anime mascot for an army? lolz ^^

there are separate ones for their marines (wolf), navy (dolphin), and air force (some weird lookin dude)

kewl...that#s why we loosed the war, we did not have a mascot (besides Göring)

blarg? lost what war?

that pretty big one, against your folks, the UDSSR and Britain and another hundred, not so important countries. Guess after some years, the inspiration was gone.

oh, the cold war. yeah, suck it commies xþ

I mean the goddam II BIG WW

lol, oh. blarg honk :Þ

the marines don't have wolves as the mascot. it's actually jindo dog :)

I like the animated K9 Thunder SPG there. :D