I had a buddy back in the day who moved out far from family/support network and when he realized he needed to come back and didn’t have the resources, he joined the army and deliberately failed to finish training CW mental health/self harm
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(IIRC, he told his superiors that he was depressed and at risk of suicide)
Eventually he got discharged and they sent him home (home home, not the place he’d made a mistake by moving to). To be fair he was actually depressed most of the time, he might have been being honest with them. I just always thought it was badass that he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.
IIRC it’s pretty straightforward to bail on the military prior to completing basic training. I think it’s a “failure to adapt” designation or something. Kind of an “agree to disagree” kind of thing. It’s a lot harder to get a discharge after you get a permanent assignment
he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.
And they would have paid him for the time he was there, but they would have made him work for a certain amount of days picking up garbage and stuff before letting him leave.
I had a buddy back in the day who moved out far from family/support network and when he realized he needed to come back and didn’t have the resources, he joined the army and deliberately failed to finish training CW mental health/self harm
spoiler
(IIRC, he told his superiors that he was depressed and at risk of suicide)
Eventually he got discharged and they sent him home (home home, not the place he’d made a mistake by moving to). To be fair he was actually depressed most of the time, he might have been being honest with them. I just always thought it was badass that he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.
IIRC it’s pretty straightforward to bail on the military prior to completing basic training. I think it’s a “failure to adapt” designation or something. Kind of an “agree to disagree” kind of thing. It’s a lot harder to get a discharge after you get a permanent assignment
And they would have paid him for the time he was there, but they would have made him work for a certain amount of days picking up garbage and stuff before letting him leave.