I want to be in the army, and go into motor pooling

Question

i want to go into motor pool because i've been around mechanics all my life but my dad tells me I'm to stupid and I'm not army material to be a mechanic in the army .what should i do?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as "motor pooling."  You must mean going into the motor pool.  Everybody has to go in one sometime in their career because their vehicles are there.  As a mechanic you will go there just as much as the driver of the Bradley or the loader of the Paladin.  You will just be the one fixing the problems that are above 10 level.

If this is what YOU want to do then tell your dad you made your decision.  He can either support you or he can disown you but if he loves you I'm sure he will support you.  Did you ever consider he is making that up as an excuse because he doesn't want you to deploy?  Mechanics are in almost as much demand in Iraq as medics right now, especially with how brutal the heat and sand are to the vehicles over there.

Answer 2

Join the Army if its something you want to do. Keep in mind your first enlistment you can usually choose where you can be stationed, get airbore school in your contract, ect.

You could be a light wheel vehicle mechanic, heavy, work on tracks, but something that could pay really well in the civilian sector may be a helicopter mechanic. My cousin did that and is now making bank in the civilian sector.

Take care and do what you want to do and forget your dad.  

Answer 3

Join the army and prove him wrong. That wasn't a very nice thing to say.  

Answer 4

omg! dont listen to your dad. they make u learn the material regardless of what branch u join. it depends on what your score on ur asvab test that really tells you what jobs you can do and what jobs you can't. if your like me and u suck at mechanics and u score low on the mechanics section then u will have a harder time trying to get into any mechanics program. but i scored high in math and english so they wanted me to be a computer programmer. but i did score very high on other things also not just computer program

Answer 5

Finish High School and see a recruiter.

Answer 6

just pursue your dreams, if you do well in it, people will respect your choices, prove your dad wrong

Answer 7

Don't!!!  Don't do anything because of negative comments like your dad stated to you. If you have a knack for mechanics, then speak to the recruiter, but make sure you are getting the job you want. I know of a young man that joined the Marines because his dad was one, and told him he didn't have the guts do the same. So he did, went to Viet Nam and was killed.