Why do black people serve in the military? If you served what made your decision?

[BrownTurd]

My Dad taught me when I was young that he would never let me serve. He told me no black man should ever put their life on the line for some crackas who would spit in their face the moment they are not in uniform anymore.

I got in an argument because I said my son would never serve. People said I was wrong for my thinking. I just can’t see dying for a weak as cracka fucked up agenda.

 

[4 Dimensional]

I got a homey who thought similar to you, until his oldest turned 18 and enlisted himself.

Now his son is living in LA, getting plenty of benefits to sustain. He may or may not be deployed, but that’s the risk of joining.

But his son is also very disciplined and has learned a lot. My homey was a very active father, too. But ultimately your kids will do as they please when they become adults.

They still have a solid relationship and respects his son’s decision.

 

[tallblacknyc]

The job market sucked in many states b4 the 2000s and nigs didn’t have the money to pay for college .. so it was the 2nd option if you didn’t get no scholarship, go to college, have a good plan b… literally the 2 most run commercials in the 80/90s during weekday cartoons was the American negro college fund “ with a mind is a terrible thing to waste” propaganda commercial where they would show if you didn’t go to college you’d become homeless, a crackhead, or some other negative thing.. than you had the other commercial be all you can be in the army commercial… pretty much saying hey you either go to college or become a loser in life or hey join the military to save you from becoming a loser… the propaganda commercials don’t nobody ever talks about

 

[tallblacknyc]

 

[God Dammit]

This land is more of ours than it is any white boy in this country.
We’ve been protecting, fighting for, and dying for this land way before the inception of the United States of America.
We’ve fought in and died in every war this country has ever had.
If this land is lost, where do we go? We didn’t migrate here during the great migration.
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[SmoothD]

The benefits you receive, after you get out,
are FAR greater than the ones you receive while serving.

Disability pay for life ( if you qualify)
Free medical and medication for life.
College tuition.
Hazelwood Act of you live in TX.
DV plates (free tolls, and airport parking in TX)
Military discounts

Plus many more.

 

[CPT Callamity]

I needed money to pay for school. Never was my first choice and if I did it all over again I would have ignored my grandfather and went Air Force. Found some good in it but regret not listening to my own gut. Made me a better man in lots of ways.

 

[blackbull1970]

I went into the ARMY during the late 1980s.

That was during the Reagan Administration and the country was getting Fucked with Reaganomics’.

The Black community was getting devastated with the Crack Cocaine Epidemic.

Majority of Federal Funding along with State Funding was extremely cut and reallocated into the Department of Defense.

The DoD was swamped with money to burn back in the 1980s.

So I, along with others went in if you didn’t have plans for college or jobs were not hiring.

I’m Gen X and we were bamboozled with probably the most effective Military Recruitment Propaganda Campaign in US history following WW2 in the 1980s.

We came home after school (along with Saturday morning cartoons) with boy’s watching ‘Transformers’, ‘GI Joe’, ‘Thundercats’ and girls watching ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ and ‘Care Bears’. The commercial breaks were full of toy/cereal commercials and military recruiting commercial’s. A lot of those recruiting commercials are iconic.

It was definitely a different era from what young people are living through today.

 

[blackbull1970]

1980s U.S. ARMY ‘Be All You Can Be’ Recruitment Campaign
Considered to be one of the best military recruitment campaigns in U.S. history

 

[blackbull1970]

1980s U.S. ARMY ‘We Were There’

They would have these video playing at recruitment centers, high school job fairs, state fairs, etc.

 

[BrownTurd]

I needed money to pay for school. Never was my first choice and if I did it all over again I would have ignored my grandfather and went Air Force. Found some good in it but regret not listening to my own gut. Made me a better man in lots of ways.

What makes the Airforce different?

 

[mcguyver]

My Dad taught me when I was young that he would never let me serve. He told me no black man should ever put their life on the line for some crackas who would spit in their face the moment they are not in uniform anymore.

I got in an argument because I said my son would never serve. People said I was wrong for my thinking. I just can’t see dying for a weak as cracka fucked up agenda.

Your father was not a strategic person. Not everyone that serves go to war. If you have a combat MOS there is a high probability you will. The airforce is also a low probability you will see combat unless you are a pilot or they bomb the base camp. Navy......
The military is a job like any other job and there are a ton of benefits. Yours and you dad's logic can apply to almost any job.

 

[tallblacknyc]

What makes the Airforce different?

It’s like the upper class of the military… they giving more privileges and treated well during their stint.. I remember my older brother telling me this .. from how they are housed, to the food they eat, etc

 

[mcguyver]

It’s like the upper class of the military… they giving more privileges and treated well during their stint.. I remember my older brother telling me this .. from how they are housed, to the food they eat, etc

Air force is the best kept secret.

 

[Z MONSTER]

My cousin joined the marines and I followed. My grandparents raised me and we were poor. I didn't have the grades to get into college. The final straw was when my girlfriend broke down and confessed that she let some dude on her job hit it. She was like the chick in this video.

 

[Mixd]

Personally had no idea what i was gonna do after high school, signed up Delayed Entry prior to graduating. Wanted to go Recon, but over time mentality changed that I didnt want to fight for these politicians corruption. But all the benefits, discipline and many other reasons molded me when I was just doing really nothing with myself at 17 and had no direction.

Semper Fi

 

[BrownTurd]

My cousin joined the marines and I followed. My grandparents raised me and we were poor. I didn't have the grades to get into college. The final straw was when my girlfriend broke down and confessed that she let some dude on her job hit it. She was like the chick in this video.

Did you make up for it by smashing a lot of military chicks?

 

[illdog]

Even though not a marine...leo - many of which are marine..often let that weird shit i did slide. Just assuming...because of my appearance/mannerisms..that i was a marine combat vet.

 

[Z MONSTER]

Did you make up for it by smashing a lot of military chicks?

LOL. Military chicks been ran through. I hit one in my 4 years in. I was mainly hitting the civilian hoodrats in town.

 

[RUDY RAYYY MO]

Been seeing more of thee why are Blacks in the military and Blacks in military are sell out comments a lot since the idiot started with Iran

 

[dolemite73]

I didn't want to die on the streets of Chicago and I was too immature at the time to go to college and succeed. So the day I turned 17, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps and went to boot camp after I graduated high school. It was sweet until 9/11 happened. Then I Deployed multiple times to combat and missed a lot of time with my kids, since I was a single dad the last half of my career. Some good, some bad, but I am better for the experience. Now that I am retired, those benefits are sweet.

 

[cap213]

I joined because after high school I saw a challenge with this navy seal in hawaii doing a 4 evolution circuit. Running, rappeling, swimming and rock climbing. Dude got smoked and I thought, " I can do better than this guy" so joined navy to be a seal. The navy was fun and for me gave me a lot most people will never see. By the time I was 21 I had been to nearly every continent, had been to the virgin islands and puerto rico so many times I didn't even leave my ship half the time. Had been all over France, Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey. Learned a skill I still use for work now and grew as a man.

Air force is the best kept secret.

I used to agree until I went to a school that had Coast Guard folk in there. Boy they are MAX chilling. If i had it to do all over again I would join the Coast Guard.

That said I told my kids they could not join the military because I did fight someone else's wars and move to someone else's beat. No biggie to me it helped me get what I have today, but for them I wanted more and better.

To each their own

 

[mcguyver]

I joined because after high school I saw a challenge with this navy seal in hawaii doing a 4 evolution circuit. Running, rappeling, swimming and rock climbing. Dude got smoked and I thought, " I can do better than this guy" so joined navy to be a seal. The navy was fun and for me gave me a lot most people will never see. By the time I was 21 I had been to nearly every continent, had been to the virgin islands and puerto rico so many time I didn't even leave my ship half the time. Had been all over France, Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey. Learned a skill I still use for work now and grew as a man.

I used to agree until I went to a school that had Coast Guard folk in there. Boy they are MAX chilling. If i had it to do all over again I would join the Coast Guard.

That said I told my kids they could not join the military because I did fight someone else's wars and move to someone else's beat. No biggie to me it helped me get what I have today, but for them I wanted more and better.

To each their own

I was gonna .mention the coast guard but I don't even consider them a branch of the military.

 

[catdaddy]

I went into the ARMY during the late 1980s.

That was during the Reagan Administration and the country was getting Fucked with Reaganomics’.

The Black community was getting devastated with the Crack Cocaine Epidemic.

Majority of Federal Funding along with State Funding was extremely cut and reallocated into the Department of Defense.

The DoD was swamped with money to burn back in the 1980s.

So I, along with others went in if you didn’t have plans for college or jobs were not hiring.

I’m Gen X and we were bamboozled with probably the most effective Military Recruitment Propaganda Campaign in US history following WW2 in the 1980s.

We came home after school (along with Saturday morning cartoons) with boy’s watching ‘Transformers’, ‘GI Joe’, ‘Thundercats’ and girls watching ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ and ‘Care Bears’. The commercial breaks were full of toy/cereal commercials and military recruiting commercial’s. A lot of those recruiting commercials are iconic.

It was definitely a different era from what young people are living through today.

This

 

[cap213]

I was gonna .mention the coast guard but I don't even consider them a branch of the military.

Hell until 2001 they were Dept of Homeland Security. There were not military. I had a friend go from Navy to Coast Guard and he loved it. By the time I was up to try I was already too senior and they wanted me to drop rank. I was like not a chance in hell.

 

[dolemite73]

1980s U.S. ARMY ‘Be All You Can Be’ Recruitment Campaign
Considered to be one of the best military recruitment campaigns in U.S. history

These commercials are right up there with any of those campaigns. The Marine Corps met their recruiting goals for decades due to commercials like these:

 

[mcguyver]

I went into the ARMY during the late 1980s.

That was during the Reagan Administration and the country was getting Fucked with Reaganomics’.

The Black community was getting devastated with the Crack Cocaine Epidemic.

Majority of Federal Funding along with State Funding was extremely cut and reallocated into the Department of Defense.

The DoD was swamped with money to burn back in the 1980s.

So I, along with others went in if you didn’t have plans for college or jobs were not hiring.

I’m Gen X and we were bamboozled with probably the most effective Military Recruitment Propaganda Campaign in US history following WW2 in the 1980s.

We came home after school (along with Saturday morning cartoons) with boy’s watching ‘Transformers’, ‘GI Joe’, ‘Thundercats’ and girls watching ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ and ‘Care Bears’. The commercial breaks were full of toy/cereal commercials and military recruiting commercial’s. A lot of those recruiting commercials are iconic.

It was definitely a different era from what young people are living through today.

You forgot the recruiters coming to the schools.

 

[cap213]

These commercials are right up there with any of those campaigns. The Marine Corps met their recruiting goals for decades due to commercials like these:

I remember back in high school at least in New Orleans where I grew up, they used to make us take the asvab in 11th grade. Back then they told us unless you plan on joining the military don't do too well but also don't tank it in case shit goes left and you need to join. So I did just enough to get upper percentile but didn't go all the way in.

Long story long the Marine recruiter was at my door the Saturday after that and "convinced" me to sign up for their dep program. I was like shit the marines look cool so why not. Fast forward to dude talking slick so I was like nah I am not doing this if they are all like you bruh. He got pissed and left after canceling my dep program.

Then he found out I joined the Navy the next year. Dude was type pissed.

 

[dolemite73]

I remember back in high school at least in New Orleans where I grew up, they used to make us take the asvab in 11th grade. Back then they told us unless you plan on joining the military don't do too well but also don't tank it in case shit goes left and you need to join. So I did just enough to get upper percentile but didn't go all the way in.

Long story long the Marine recruiter was at my door the Saturday after that and "convinced" me to sign up for their dep program. I was like shit the marines look cool so why not. Fast forward to dude talking slick so I was like nah I am not doing this if they are all like you bruh. He got pissed and left after canceling my dep program.

Then he found out I joined the Navy the next year. Dude was type pissed.

Man, I could write a book about fucked up Marine recruiter stories.

 

[mcguyver]

I remember back in high school at least in New Orleans where I grew up, they used to make us take the asvab in 11th grade. Back then they told us unless you plan on joining the military don't do too well but also don't tank it in case shit goes left and you need to join. So I did just enough to get upper percentile but didn't go all the way in.

Long story long the Marine recruiter was at my door the Saturday after that and "convinced" me to sign up for their dep program. I was like shit the marines look cool so why not. Fast forward to dude talking slick so I was like nah I am not doing this if they are all like you bruh. He got pissed and left after canceling my dep program.

Then he found out I joined the Navy the next year. Dude was type pissed.

"The marines"? Bruh you got lucky. Lol

 

[cap213]

"The marines"? Bruh you got lucky. Lol

Yeah, my dad and uncles were marines and they looked at me sideways until I came back from SF school and was like y'all wanna go for a run or something? Mofos were like nope and we been good ever since.

 

[mcguyver]

Yeah, my dad and uncles were marines and they looked at me sideways until I came back from SF school and was like y'all wanna go for a run or something? Mofos were like nope and we been good ever since.

Yea, but that marines was almost a guaranteed deployment.

 

[cap213]

Oh, most definitely. ESPECIALLY back then...I joined in 1995 so we had like 4 "wars" going on. Plus other conflicts. It was a great time for sure. NOT!

 

[Autobot8655]

This is a crazy ass question.

Black Americans...the American Negro...has been serving in the military since the revolutionary war.

My damn grandfather served in WW2 and I have multiple great uncles/cousins as well. I could probably find more folks if I looked further back.

Shit, at my family reunion a couple years back, there was a dedication to the troops and they had pictures of everyone who served.

There were enough people to fill up a page.

My point is that cats have served well before any of us could when race relations were much worse in comparison.

I used to give the troops a hard time back in the day for the same reason as OP, but I have no smoke for them anymore.

I only have lots of respect for all brothas who serve.

 

[BrownTurd]

LOL. Military chicks been ran through. I hit one in my 4 years in. I was mainly hitting the civilian hoodrats in town.

lol, I always thought that military pussy would be easy work