I want to join army infantry and need advice?

June 2nd, 2008 | by admin |
Dean H asked:


Hi I want to join infantry but people keep telling me I will get killed and shot and bombed, and that I should pick a job like personnel and finance. Any advice on this as people are saying Iraq is all violence and everyone gets killed, is this true????

Are the chances of deployment to Afghanistan more likely than Iraq for the British? Thanks.

  1. 5 Responses to “I want to join army infantry and need advice?”

  2. By olando505 on Jun 5, 2008 | Reply

    I can understand your concerns, I joined the Army as Infantry.

    nobody likes to be in danger, fact of the matter is this:

    About 70% of the casualties in war are support personel (in Iraq it is truck drivers) because they are in a static place. normally they stay in the same place doing paperwork, and also tend to have a lot of Iraqi nationals working with them. it is easy to attact a position if it is always there, and the peole inside are sitting around typing or drinking coffee or what ever.

    Think of it like this:

    if you had to fight somebody, and you saw a little skinny kid, and you saw a big guy with a kung-fu suit on, who are you going to fight?

    Afghanistan has turned more into a special operations mission, so the chance of going there as regular infantry is getting smaller and smaller

  3. By artilleryman89 on Jun 6, 2008 | Reply

    Ok if you go infantry there is an almost certantly that you are going to get deployed. Here’s something to think about though, the chance of dying in a car accident or being murdered in Detroit are higher than in Iraq. Infantry is infantry and they get all the glory, because they do the s*** face job. I would have joined the infantry but can’t for 2 years. Just do what YOU want. Everyone else can go screw themselves.

  4. By trazel187 on Jun 9, 2008 | Reply

    Airborne, Instructor, Straight Leg). I am now a paralegal do to being wounded, but I wouldn’t trade the experience. Because even now I am always asked to help with anything dealing with leadership, counseling, the field, or training.

    The infantry sets a certain standard. along the Ranger, airborne and SF community. I have been part of two of the 3. Many great people have been infantry so don’t believe the old civvie transistion theory. Ask GEN Colin Powell or President Dwight Esienhower (if he was alive) that.

    You can do ANYTHING you set your mind to it because you will have the drive to do it. If you want to be the a cop (which everyone thinks we are good for) go for it or a contractor with a PMC (private military company like Triple Canopy or Blackwater) or private security firms (big bucks too!) go for it. But your not limited to a job with a gun regardless what you think. After you endure the life of a grunt, you change it up and do something totally different. Why do you think Samurais used to write poetry and plant flowers? Can’t be charging though swamps and shooting people all the time. Most of the grunts are sharper anyway that the admin types I work with now. You have to be or your dead on the battlefield.

    You can and might deploy, so? You will be trained and be surrounded by those who are trained too. I would NOT suggest deploying with admin folks like I did. You can get killed just going to college by a stupid college nerd or by a drunk driver on I-95.

    Sign up and be “A man amongst men”

  5. By Army wife and ready to serve on Jun 10, 2008 | Reply

    my husband is an infantryman and he is serving in iraq at the moment … he hasn’t got shot at or bombed at either … so i think you’ll be ok … he’s enjoying what he’s doing … and he’s coming back home safe

  6. By Kellie D on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply

    My husband is infantry and had a very risky job over there , but all 79 guys came home last week safe and sound. One guy didn’t come home , he was sent to Walter Reed because he had lung cancer … So it shows anything can happen.

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