TOP HABITS TO GIVE UP BEFORE JOINING THE MILITARY.

Hi reader. You might be planning to join your country military or you are already on the verge of joining your nation armed force or paramilitary. Check out this tip to help you.

Here are the habits you should do away with before joining the military.

1. DISOBEDIENCE: When we were kids, we love this attitude whereby our parents warn us  from doing certain things but out of sheer curiosity, we defy orders so resulting to disobedience. The idea of grumbling due to so many house chores directed for us to do, a young lad can do his house chores gracefully but grumbling set in when the lad discovered that he is being cheated because his elder or younger sibling is not given the same level of task as he was given, so he begins to grumble and refuse to do the chore. In the military total obedience will be enforced without objection so you are likely not going to be opportune to escape orders by defying or else you face deadly consequence. Enforced obedience is a critical theme especially among the NCO (non-commissioned officers) where they have to obey the administrative power. So I urge you today to start giving absolute obedience from whosoever is in charge of you, maybe teacher, parent, and guardian. If you refuse this advice, I can guarantee you that you will be taking orders from People that are not up to your parents’ age.

2. CARELESSNESS AND HYPERACTIVENESS: If you happen to be somebody that often misplace things, forget things or over do things, you’ve got to do away with this phenomenon for now, can you imagine a person in a bomb disposal unit to be hyperactive, he would wreak havoc instead of prevent havoc. Don’t start a race before the trigger is pulled a cliché goes, many soldiers have died at warfronts due to carelessness and mediocrity at the frontlines, we have heard of stories of a soldier mistakenly pull of the pin of its grenade, or airstrikes performed on friendly forces due to the carelessness of the drone operator, we have heard of accidents like that of a soldier in charge of the armoury that smoke cigarettes close to the gas plants. If you are careless person and you join the military you will die for nothing and newspaper might honour you as a hero, you are a damn failure, it’s honourable to die by enemy fire than by one’s foolishness. Train yourself now to be careful and moderate in what you do.

3. SLUGGISHNESS: If you fall into this category, you better hustle up or you will get knocked out by fast moving activities, being sluggish is not a good attitude it waste time and frustrate superior officers. Imagine how it look like if a state house is being raided by terrorist so special force agents were called in to intervene but sluggishness kept them at bay for 1 hour for the terrorist to have honeymoon with the poor statesmen. Any way nobody with sluggishness can make his/ her way into any country special force. A sniper so damn sluggish in reloading his rifle will get killed by the enemy sniper that is as fast as snipe, imagine an infantry man against an incoming tank, the infantry man out of ammo but with an unloaded anti-tank missile, the only solution the infantry man needs beside accuracy is not being sluggish. You are a man not a snail or tortoise common you are a potential soldier, a super solder so you should act like one.

4. WAKING UP LATE: In the sole of business, punctuality is key. In the civilian world many youths are used to staying late at night watching films and playing video games therefore waking up late, many youths have developed the attitude of waking up at no specific time, anytime is a time for them to wake up which is mostly beyond normal time to wake up. In basic military training candidates rarely have sleep, you close your eyes the moment and the next moment you are up to face strenuous activity. Even after military training punctuality still play a key role, NCO wake up as early as 4 or 5 am to do start duties after workouts. Start setting your alarm as early as 4 am and sleeps early for you have a heavy day ahead.

5. UNTIDINESS AND UNHEALTHY PRACTICE: The military is an abode of amazing neat and orderly men; pigs are an exception. When you see a naval officer in his awesome uniform, you feel dazzled by the sparkling white attire he is clothed in and the shining shoes. If you take time to ask the guy few questions, you will discover the routine he adhere to attain this neat status. You hate to iron press your clothes every day and you are going into the military! Polishing boots is not your habits! Your room always in total mess and you want to join the military; you have to start learning to be tidy. You may visit war veterans home go to their libraries and you will see that tidiness is a gene they inherited from the military even after leaving the military behind, their books are arranged orderly, their wardrobe line up like a battalion on a parade ground. Some military aspirants most especially in Africa have this kind of selfish attitude where they believe they would join the military as a commissioned officer either by attending a military academy or obtaining a degree so that they can be in a position to make NCO do their dirty jobs majorly the laundry of their clothes and other menial duty required. That’s a privilege but your eyes shouldn’t be there if you are untidy yourself, you haven’t even join the military and you having such opinion, cool! But remember the way to the top is rough. Start being Tidy right now.

          Talking about health you should avoid alcohol, cigarettes, stimulants and abusive drugs before going for a medical screening because it obvious you are going to get screened out due to health conditions. Stop consuming too much sugar, focus on natural food and exercise if you are suffering from obesity. Stop harmful things that would disqualify from medical screening.

6. DISLOYALTY: That attitude you develop as a civilian that can date 3 to 5 boyfriends/ girlfriends at once and appearing as if you are loyal to one. That attitude should stop now because you can’t take it to the military. At least a saying goes “You can’t serve two masters at the same time”. If you pledge allegiance to your nation military, make sure your yes is YES! And your no be NO! Imagine pledging allegiance to 5 separate armed forces of different nations, you are plying with death that will be called spying you will be charged with Treason!!! No wander those military bad eggs misguided by greed find themselves working for gangs and feeding vital information to armed robbers. They end up being court-martialed and face the consequence. In the rules of aide-DE-camp your senior is your lord, you should serve him wholeheartedly, before he dies make sure you are dead first though your own initiative is demanded in some situation. Maybe I should test you: in any religion you find yourself try 1 month of absolute loyalty to your holy book rules and let’s see how you can fare.

7. LAZINESS AND FEAR:No lazy man is in the military if not life is hell for him. What you are aspiring for as a military man demand serious hard work that   shouldn’t be mixed with indolent attitude. It requires extreme Physical demands to keep you through tough times, mental demands to let you make decisions during peril moments. At training camp instructors make sure they push you to your extreme limits. They give you 150%/100% to make you a tough dude, they make sure you reach the muscle failure stage and still continue, do you think the lazy will keep up with process like this. You will go through reiterated hazardous training that deserting will be almost be wise option for you. Standing all day at parade ground isn’t pleasant to you, even a drone operator that sits all day performing his duty ran all the race of his life before he got to that position. You better stop being lazy now for you have a tough time ahead of you.

            Do you hate being in the dark or you hate confrontations, you are even scared to the point that you can’t fight for your life from a skilled psycho that’s want to kill you, you are scared of talking to someone superior than you. That’s funny because in the military fear is your closest neighbour that you must learn to face it. Fear have killed many soldiers before the enemy fire even reach them, fear kill faster than weapon. If you are applying to be in the combat unit or its obvious that you will be transferred to a combat zone you better start learning how to deal with fear.  Watch horror movie and check maybe you will flinch, participate in activities that will induce fear in you but you better use your initiative.

Well thank you for reading but if you happen to bring the opposite of those points above into the military, you will either be thrown out of the window or the military will throw the crap! Out of you.

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