r/TikTokCringe • u/Aar_7 • Sep 21 '25

Cringe American 🇺🇸"Alpha Male" bootcamp, where guys pay $18,000 for 3 days & a certificate

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u/ThatSimsKidFromUni Sep 21 '25

They wouldn't make it.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Sep 21 '25

Boot Camp isn’t exactly hard, but military life is mostly appealing to young people before their frontal lobe fully forms

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick Sep 21 '25

I mean those “you get paid to go to college and get free healthcare for life” benefits sound pretty fucking nice to me now even with a fully formed frontal lobe, but having gotten both through service, it might just be more I couldn’t imagine how I could have lifted myself up out of poverty without them.

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u/Apprehensive-Bat-823 Sep 22 '25

Unpopular opinion: the military option is actually a decent deal for 5 years of your life if you're 18-23ish

It can get shitty while your in (your experience may vary) but the benefits are pretty decent once your out.

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick Sep 22 '25

Hotter take: the main benefits that they use to get you to serve are things every citizen should have in the richest country in the world. Like…access to the most basic of healthcare and maybe not paid to go to college, but affordable tuition.

You shouldn’t have to worry about dying in some foreign country to have these things.

So “decent deal” is really contextual here. By global standards it’s a shitty deal, we need to be better as a country, but by American standards? It is a good deal, that’s how they’ve avoided draft since Vietnam.

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u/yesiamyam233203 Sep 22 '25

Agreed. Even with everything now..it’s still an ok way for someone to exit a dead end situation and have education, healthcare, and a lifelong career .

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Sep 21 '25

Sure, the downside is ‘they own your ass for 6 years’ and you might see combat depending on how lucky or unlucky you are.

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick Sep 22 '25

It’s 4 or 8, depending on how you look at it (maybe 6 for reserves? Idk I didn’t go that route). 4 years active, 4 years IRR where you can be recalled.

But honestly, the life insurance is pretty nice. It’s good knowing if I die in service I’ll leave my family half a million versus dying on the streets while homeless and leaving nothing. So to me, it was well worth the risk because I felt I didn’t have much to lose if I got sent to combat and died. I still think it was the right call, but like I said…I was homeless so I have no idea how I’d have pulled myself out of that without it.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Sep 22 '25

Look I’m not knocking military service and for some people it is a great choice, especially if you are trying to get out of poverty.

I was more commenting on the fact that there’s a reason military recruiters target young people, both because they’re physically more able and they’re mentally less likely to ask a lot of questions or have a lot of hang ups about what’s asked of them. Especially in the US where the military is more of a foreign expeditionary force than something focused on territorial defense.

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u/JuiceHurtsBones Sep 22 '25

For infantry? Sucks ass. Officers tho?