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No. Ruby Rhod is a caricature of the late-90s club scene. Hyper-masculine in an "I can get more pussy than you while dressing and acting *this* ridiculous" manner.

I was answering a question.

I have, many times. One is called Risk. The last time I played it was with a distant in-law cousin and their Navy colleagues who thought the ever escalating numbers of armies you get for your cards was unfair bullshit. They wanted to play with the 12/territory limit the PS2 version offered. I...

Sweetie, when I was your claimed age you were about two and still in diapers while I was chit-chatting with a Sergeant Major during our lunch breaks.

Or so you have been told.

Do you even know what brevet rank means? Its a temporary one that isn't permanent.

The 84 month time in service prerequisite says "no" unless it's a brevet rank or a Senate approved appointment.

Remember, @Zachowon says he's 23 and enlisted. He ain't even a Staff Sergeant if what he says about his age is true. Take whatever he says about the Army with a healthy dose of scepticism.

No, you don't. You are an absolute fool who drank the kool-aid if you think you do.

Two years in training before flying? Sweetie, if I could pass the physical I could get a private pilots licence in less than two months.

Yeah, getting a pilots licence is not cheap. It's $15-20k for a private pilots licence. Then there's the airplane once you've got the licence ... if you aren't renting one by the hour you're well into "I could buy a nice house for that" before ongoing stuff like maintenence, hanger space at an...

The US Army is not going anywhere overseas without the US Navy and Coast Guard escorting and protecting all of the shit the US Army says it needs.

That you don't know that a Midshipman outranks every NCO tells me that you don't know jack shit about the Navy and Marines. EDIT: A Midshipman commanding a ship is the Captain and don't you fucking forget it because he or she outranks practically everyone who isn't God.

Zach, that 18% of US service personnel have officer commissions indicates that the US military is hilariously top-heavy. That number should be more like 5% with about 3/4 of the officers having ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, Ensign, Cadet, or Midshipman.

I've heard variations of that in the past ... One of my HS history teachers was a retired Lieutenant Colonel who served during Vietnam and graduated from VMI. If you wanted to know how the US Army could fuck something up six ways to Sunday he was more than happy to explain it to you with...

To me @Zachowon's spelling errors look like he's trying to make mistakes on purpose because a lot of them aren't the kinds of typos someone capable of typing quickly and accurately with one hand while doing something else won't leave behind. I'll sometimes leave words I meant to edit out or...

From what I understand a college degree is a prerequisite for a comission and someone with a college degree who volunteers is almost certainly getting sent to OCS instead of basic.

I smoke cheap cigars and drink beer. Some righteous asshat telling me that I shouldn't drink beer might be met with my reply of "Sweety, an entire 6-pack of beer is healthier than than what you just added to your coffee." EDIT: There's a reason why I stick to decaf without cream or sugar.

The article addresses that concern too. Not everyone has a frontline role (most don't) and someone will also have to meet the fitness standards their role requires if they're higher.

The standards being right is another issue entirely ... If the Army wants, say, 90% of everyone they've got in any given age/sex group to pass the basic fitness test then the standards for a guy your age will be a lot more demanding than the one a general in her 60s has to meet.