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u/CaptianGeneralKitten Nov 19 '21
Yo dude I had a similar thing that happened to me too. Similar in a sense as I was already slated to go through command school but during training the doctors found out I had a condition and they had me removed from the course for safety reasons.
Now what they found shouldn't have been a problem but everyone was on edge as this was after an incident and so I got removed pretty abruptly.
I think the biggest problem for me was that I had was that my dad was an artillery captain and while he never had any like explicit expectations I think he always wanted me to become an officer like him. And when I got removed from the course I didn't really feel right about it all especially thinking about how my family would react.
I think the biggest thing was coming home and feeling like a failure ya know? Like even though it wasn't really my fault, you still have those regrets like what if I had lied to the doc and just soldiered on.
But the biggest thing about coming home was going to talk to my dad and family in general. But that's also the thing that helped the most, because your family is generally the ones who believe in your the most or supported you the most. So eventually I started talking to my parents about what happened and shit and I felt like a lot of that guilt and feelings of disappointment and failure kinda got lessened when my dad said he was fine with it.
Anyways 2 years later I'm in the process of getting my psychology bachelors. What I'm trying to say is shit's fucked but it really ain't your fault, if you got into westpoint I'd wager you did pretty good on your SATs and shit so you've still got a lot of options to go forward!
I know it feels like shit that everything you've worked for is gone but god damn, I believe you got this! Don't let life kick you down, maybe look at getting a degree or talk to your friends see what they're up to.
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u/Own_Bed2074 Nov 19 '21
Wow that sucks man, but you are right family does help a lot. Thanks for your kind words and good luck to you friend.
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u/CaptianGeneralKitten Nov 19 '21
Yeah, but what can you do? Shit happens ya know? I posted it here and a lot of people on this sub were the ones who suggested I talk to my family. There's a bunch of good people here I reckon.
But good luck to you too my dude.
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u/Own_Bed2074 Nov 20 '21
So basically I and my family thought about this and the reason they probably didn't arrive here is that there's a huge political conflict right now. Our former President, Who's a convicted criminal, ran out of our country in 2012, this year he was smuggled inside and was caught. Now, he claims that his arrest was unjust, so he and his political partners started a fake hunger strike. Because of his "condition" he had to be taken to a hospital. Now here is the thing, if they had taken him to a Private Hospital, his mob would easily rally the place, But they took him to a Military Hospital with dozens of guards. So the reason this is a big deal is that our former president was very well with Americans, and they are demanding that we free him, but he is literally a criminal, who destroyed many people's lives. Our country just looks really bad on a world political scale right now.
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