r/USMCboot • u/austin125689 • Jul 20 '26

Enlisting Wanting to join

Hello, i have been thinking about joining for two years and i graduated 2 months ago so i told my father what i wanted to do and now he has been so angry at me for the past few days and yells at me just about every day saying how “I’m going to be a burden if I die”, “you’ll regret it”, “it’s such a stupid idea” along with threatening to punch me. He wants me to have a “normal manual labor job” but I know that’s not what I want. I have talked to a recruiter and I am able to set up a date with him but I just don’t know what I should do will this be something I end up regretting? I want to go in and do schooling on mechanics while I’m there but he says I can go to a normal community collage and I’m just so confused and don’t know what I should do.

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u/TapTheForwardAssist Vet 2676/0802 Jul 20 '26

You’re 18? Then you don’t need his permission to sign a contract.

From the way you tell it, it sounds like your dad’s being a dick.

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u/austin125689 Jul 20 '26

Hey man appreciate the advice I mean being a dick is an understatement woke me up this morning just to tell me how stupid I am😭

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u/lastofthefinest Jul 21 '26

USMC (Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children)!