What have been the hardest times for you?

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Your answers here will be different per person based off their cultural and independent values. Some will say training, some family, others cultural adjustments. Additionally answers will be different based on locations and units they’re assigned to. For me the largest difficulty was becoming apart of the Army culture and mastering the ability to navigate spaces. I rarely had leadership truly dedicated to making me a better person or advocating for me once I matured. So I had to find my way.

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The hardest thing is waking up every morning at 5am to do PRT and trying to convince myself that joining the army was somehow a good idea.

The hardest thing for me in the military was the lack of common sense. I always found the easiest way to do things and for some reason that would piss of both my NCOs and officers. They wanted us to do things the hardest way possible, and I was not about that life. I was about finding the safest and easiest way possible to do things. I was not about wasting my soldiers or my time.

Yeah getting yelled at for "not running fast enough" by a PSG who's on a permanent walking profile never really sits right with me either.

Leaders are supposed to lead from the front buddy not set standards they can’t achieve themselves because they’re fat and out of shape. LOL

The hardest times for me were the training exercises that seemed to only test the endurance of one being able to stay awake for 48 hours.

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