Quote Originally Posted by DirtyB View Post
Mike,

First off, smoking other people's discarded cigarettes is a great way to catch something. If you're lucky, it will only be a cold or flu. Besides that, you're never going to get enough nicotine that way and you'll just spend every day in semi-withdrawal and pissed off about it. Obviously quitting smoking is going to be a pain in the ass right now, but you need to do it. Trying to smoke while in the Navy is going to be a huge pain in the ass too. You might as well quit now.

And just a heads up, the military is doing more and more translation work with computers. They will definitely be scaling back the number of translators over the next decade.
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http://www.army.mil/article/32679/tr...tion-problems/
first I have done my research and so far as I know there is 0 risk of catching anything smoking other people's cigs. second I normally get a nice catch, today for example I picked up roughly 4 whole cigs worth (20-30% at a time) and that's not great, not bad. normally I find at least 2-3 fullies or very close to it, and additionally a bunch of halfers. I sometimes use a clean filter and just tear off the tobacco ends off the stubs and smoke them one at a time to reduce lip burn and risk, but i've been at tihs a while and never had a problem. It still beats begging stealing etc.

bit concerned about your translation comment, if you think long term linguistics does not pan out, would you have a preference between corpsman vs IT? Your opinion is heavily weighted, I realize how intelligent and current you are, it's appreciated. I think the navy has a sweet bonus for linguistics, i am concerned about the transition to civ life and working but at the same time, I am MORE concerned about TODAY and that signing bonus seems sweet.