“The constant anxiety to be better…..”. Dude I have been trying to pinpoint why I loved the Army so much but hated it at the same time. That phrase resonates more than ever.

I spent 20 years in the Army infantryman / paratrooper Ranger with the 82ND ABN now I’m retired disabled veteran my knees wore out, I have bilateral knee replacement I’m in constant pain, he speaks 100.% correct.

Thank you for serving!! This guy deserves 100k subscribers already

It was a pleasure serving with you in the scout platoon sir. Even though it was for a short time with how quickly they move officers from platoon to platoon. Keep them gains coming you look awesome.

4 years was enough for me on the enlisted side and no shame in doing one contract and getting out. I'm much happier that I got out and I've found that I can achieve a lot more without the military. Thank you for your service

Thank you for your service brotha you're a BEAST 🔥🔥🔥

Don't blame you for getting out! Good luck and God bless you always!

great video! thank you for your service Sir!

Compared to the other "Getting Out" videos I've been watching lately, you have the best attitude. It was almost like watching a light hearted infomercial for why you should get out, but with tons of laughter and smiles. 😂🎉❤

Dude, I enjoyed those stories. Thank you for your service and best of luck on your future endeavors.

Thank you for your service David! 👊☺️

Thank you for your service oppa. And for the insight ❤

Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

Thank you for yours service, sir! Infantry Officer is tough life!

Thank you for serving! 🫶🏼

Good look to u man wish you all the best. Thank u for your service 🙏 🎉

Thanks for your service brother!

I am really Proud of you guys!

Thank you for your service

Bro, you hit the points spot on. Stay safe brother and keep up the good fight. The Army gave me a lot but also took a lot. The constant want to improve and be better was a double edge sword because i wracked up tons of injuries trying to get into every elite program I could, volunteer for deployements, ect. RLTW!

Thanks for giving me advice early on in my career!!!

Thank you for your service. If you were chasing achievements like a "combat deployment", you probably got out at the right time. If we end up going to war with China, it'll be like Bakhmut. I hope we can avoid having our young kids experience that flavor of hell.

Damn , this just showed up in my suggested videos. A troop 5-15 cav, never forget lol. Glad you’re doing well bro!

Chang for president! RVM, hope you’re doing well.

Very well said and likely what a lot of our brothers think as well 🔥

I subscribed because everything you said was spot on. It took me 13 years to realize what i was missing outside the Army. I joined when I was 18 and knew nothing but the Army life. Drank the kool aid and got the shirts. I didnt realize i was stressed out until i got out and was exposed to what vacation days and sick days were lol. 13 damn years damn it. Slow learner, but learned nevertheless. Great times, no regrets.

Started as enlisted and later transitioned to officer corps; best decision after 25 YOS as an O4. It was tough; but worth the ride. All the best!

I was in the infantry, I guess you can tell based on my name and I was in the legendary Easy company from the show band of brothers....anyway, every point you touched on, is very true and it's refreshing to see someone tell the honest truth, especially coming from a rank such as yours, it gives insight to the fact that officers are human as well and truly understand the struggles of a junior enlisted soldier....I really love the fact that you touched on the unfairness of the pay of a infantry guy vs someone who sits in an office all day, I believe if they could somehow fix that issue, you would have more people wanting to join the infantry, so in hindsight it does seem like a dumb thing to do, by getting paid equally as someone who doesn't have the everyday stressors we have/had.....it's no shade like you said, it just makes no sense at all really.

Med boarding been in 5 years army broke me mentally and physically ready for the next chapter of my life

Thanks for your service 🇺🇸 Where is that western store located?

This guy is an absolute beast. Enjoy the content big dawg and your rats were definitely the best part about VMI 😏

Thank you for your service brother

That’s crazy!!! In the Australian Army we get $100 for every day out in the field and to top it off, most of our positions must have portable toilets so it’s actually ok… But yeah I always have to be mindful when working with Americans or British when we talk about pay..

i got 20 years in and everything that you said translates across the board. 100%

7yrs later your boy still in miss ya glad to see you person your fitness goals

These guys that seem to have their sh*t together in their late teens, into their early 20s blow my mind. I'm twice his age and still don't have my 'ish together. Dude is going places.

Around 4:22 the last w the 2 kids in front of her was definitely sneaking peaks 🤣they can’t help it when they see a muscled up dude man it never fails

The mental aspect is the trap. There is always someone that has done more (schools or combat). If you’re constantly trying to prove yourself, there is always someone ‘better’

The anxiety to be accomplished feels so real.

I retired after 28 years active duty in the Army in 2014 (82nd 505th PIR, Observer Controller too many deployments etc...), in the end I would not change a thing, I remember driving out the Main gate and was like wow what next (no more emails, no more getting some joe out jail etc....) just relax surround yourself with like minded folks and enjoy life and best of all Grand kids for me which currently is fireteam size and awesome.....stay healthy, focused and have a good attitude.

Getting out of the army and being out is hard man it makes you feel like you should Be doing even more things

Thank you brother for your service - enjoy your retirement.

The reason I got out after 12 years and went into federal Law Enforcement. I was able to buy my time back and roll it into my Federal retirement, plus, they paid overtime beyond 8 hours.

I got out because being an enlisted infantryman fucking sucked. College afterwards was so much fun though!

I'm in the process of applying to be an officer in the British Army and I love the video! I assume management is one of the career aspects for officers leaving the Army, what did you do?

Glad you got out entirely, versus letting them talk you into transferring to a REMF community. No status, no unit cohesion, love triangles, and the list goes on. 🤠

i just got accepted to army ocs and shipping out come august 12th!

I feel like someone who is sitting in the office all day shouldn't be paid more or the same as someone like you who has to be out in the field a lot more and stressing your body to the point of it breaking. Yes, it's all on rank and location but i wished the army would look at it differently and how much pain the infantry goes through in suffering mentally and physically and give them more. A headache from paperwork in the office is a lot different from a headache from out in the field all day rucking, shooting, running constantly.

My question for you is, did you deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan? I will say something similar to myself: I medically retired after two deployments, OIF and OEF. I never really bought anything permanent on active duty. It never felt like home, so I kept the bare minimum.

I flew in Hueys pretty regular. as a young LT. I don't like heights but no big deal. Until I had to fly sitting in a chair on the exterior of the helicopter it was all good. I hated it but had to volunteer to take that seat. I didn't mind the field too much. Didn't care for having to pay for all the meals I never got because I ate last and there was nothing left. Just thought, damn, I should have branched Transportation or Medical Services. I'm an idiot. BTW, my spine and knees suck ass.

I'm honestly really surprised how finances is one of your low points for leaving. As an Enlisted E5 I was putting away basically 70% of my paycheck (or whatever the max contribution was for the year) into TSP and was able to make my TSP reach 100k USD in about 3 years while still being able to do what I wanted (which wasn't much to be honest) I guess the biggest difference is you had debt to pay off.

time to move on and experience another stage of life.

I grew tired of worrying aboutnranges, ACFTS, height/weight, etc.

It's called service for a reason.

Active duty marine here , RAHH.

Dude the military isn’t for everyone. You can do a few years but it still doesn’t mean you were cut out for it. The biggest determining factor is that the higher up you go, the more responsibility and experience you are REQUIRED to have. Welcome to the profession of war fighting.

Gonna hard disagree on the financial aspect. That all boils down to financial management. I spent ten years as a normal civilian before joining the Guard and lived paycheck to paycheck that entire time. Then spent five years M-Day before going full-time and it’s been the biggest financial boom to my family ever.

It’s the better choice.

I’m planing on joining maybe I’m 28 I really don’t care or Bragg about the pay just want to experience the military life lol😅people just sign up for the pay and they ain’t really glad of themselves of serving the nation.

I knew exactly why he left when, six seconds in, he said "I was an infantry officer..."

5:20 I was driving like 50 minutes both ways just for some chipotle 🤣

America 🇺🇸 thank you for your service battle 🫡

I did 26yrs, no regrets` I retired in 2010, and returned as a civilian. I worked along side military (young, older), and all they did was complain, whine, etc. Military is exactly that, military, its work~it requires mental/physical stamina. No one should go in thinking its fun (it can be if your fun person). Yes, I can sit here and write a "laundry list" of cons, but I would be complaining, and I dont complain!

Yup. I decided to get out because I could just never live in the moment. I thank the Army for everything and will do it all over again, but I just wanted to be normal again. 20 years would’ve turned me into an animal lol

Then what’s next?

2:55 VA sez...NOT service related

You're out. VA percentage?

I think as a leader, in trying to lead by example, you should be getting injuries looked at by medical, leading by example is not exacerbating a culture of forcing people to do shit while injured. You should be telling your troops that if you are injured see Medical get it looked at, get it fixed, so that you aren't creating a liability in the unit, and worse a potential liability in combat. Its a leader's and and officer's job to challenge bad cultural practices within a unit, not keep them going.

How old were you when you completed Ranger school?

How is the Asian bullying at the officer level? Anywhere as bad as at the enlisted level?

I know that unit crest. We're you in 3-69AR 3ID Fort Stewart?

Money - officers get pretty decent money and no one said you would be Warren Buffet by being in the military. I lived ok with a wife and kid. If nothing else I learned how to manage money really well and at 75 am well off

I mean. I agree, but that 1700 every 2 weeks as LT not being enough? You are crazy lol

Look up Within Heaven's Gates by Rebecca Springer. Page 64 😇

You don’t pay for rent or any living expenses in the army. How you felt as if you was living paycheck to paycheck

so what do you do for a living now?

You left buffed!

RVM!

Reason number one to leave the US military; GTFO foreign entanglements for corporate profits and kickbacks to politicians who don't care about you or even directly disrespect you while declaring we need more war. Defend the homeland? Sure! Deploy to McPoopenstan' for God-knows-why and political/corporate profits? No. (Combat Vet; OEF 2011-2012)

4:12 you mentioned you only got 1500-1700 every paycheck as an Army Officer? Bro you definitely got cheated out of your money

Nice, but now go get a GS-14 job in the Army as a CIV

You only look 29

Anyone else saw that hot mamma at 06:00? 👀 she was checking you out

Having entered the Navy as enlisted in the late 1960's, this "man" shows me just how lame and lazy , er , entitled, todays "youth" are.

gimme a break, this dude was an officer, didnt do shit and like all officers probably took credit for someone else's hard work, COA's for all and an ARCOM for himself. He did the military a favor by leaving!

Military careers are NOT for civilians, 😂

I noticed these people are very evils

I would assume it’s because you’re a quitter. Why does anyone QUIT anything?

You left because the Army became too ghey. It’s so bad now any war that these “soldiers” end up in will prove how far the USA military standards have fallen. Good on you, Sir, for getting out.

alot of potential with your personality and video style to get alot of subs

The worst bit I saw as a foreigner of the US Army was the badge chasing and evaluating on badges. It was totally false

You did the bare minimum, missed the war, and quit. Tell it like it is bro.

US Army Field Artilleryman here. Always always Always lead by example. Be the leader that they deserve and that you would want to have. Now granted I'm from a different era (OSUT in 1983, Ft. Sill) so a lot has changed. I didn't purchase a home until I was about 2 years out from ETS'ing which turned out to be a good move on my part. I get it and your points are valid Sir. My knees aren't too bad and surprisingly my hearing is very good. But I was the crewmember that always had his E.P. in on the firing line up until I made Gunner then Section Chief (right ear E.P.) and from Gunny on up no E.P. as I wasn't directly on the Line. You done what you feel is right for you and that's exactly what you were supposed to do. 🎖🪖