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Post by SpeaksInShadows on Apr 24, 2016 18:44:16 GMT
I was just wondering if any of you all are in the military and how do you deal with your therianthropy?
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G.D.
- Otherkin - Extraterrestrial or Metaphysical
Vampiric Black Shuck
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Post by G.D. on Apr 25, 2016 0:05:15 GMT
There's a few of us that have served and are planning to serve. I'd imagine you'd deal with it like anywhere else, given that the environment you are in while in service is not appropriate to be acting any 'different' than your average human being. Though, I have to yet to serve myself. I'm sure someone else could add to this, if they see it.
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Post by SpeaksInShadows on Apr 25, 2016 3:02:36 GMT
There's a few of us that have served and are planning to serve. I'd imagine you'd deal with it like anywhere else, given that the environment you are in while in service is not appropriate to be acting any 'different' than your average human being. Though, I have to yet to serve myself. I'm sure someone else could add to this, if they see it. If you're looking for advice, information regarding Therianthropy/Otherkinity, or just a community to connect with you should consider signing up to the forum. Thank you. I actually just recently discovered my therianthropy. I'm 16 and next year I have to start thinking if I want to join the Air Force. I've always wanted to serve and I'm hoping to go to the Air Force Academy. I know plenty about it and what I need to do to get in. I am a standard wolf therian, and though it's been recent, I've thought long and hard, and I'm truly a wolf. I'll join the forum, soon. Thanks again.
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Kasumi Noxumbra
- Otherkin - Animal Mix
Mythical Beast Spectral Draconic Wolf Hybrid
Just don't know what to do........every effort almost feels wasted
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Post by Kasumi Noxumbra on Apr 25, 2016 19:27:50 GMT
Well I noticed that you had joined the forum and I look forward to getting to talk with you. n_n As far as the Air Force goes, if you really want to go in then that's totally fine, but just fyi, they'll tell you that you get to work with all the newest state-of-the-art equipment, but depending on what job they stick you in, you could be working with 25+ year old equipment and nothing newer than that. Anyways, like I said, looking forward to chatting with you and getting to know you. n_n
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Post by Varg the Wanderer on Jun 29, 2016 9:27:24 GMT
I served five years in the Marine Corps. Like you, OP, I am a wolf therian, and my MOS was an aircraft mechanic. There were things that part of me loved about the Corps, and parts that felt like they would surely suffocate me.
And so much of it depends on your unit and duty station. I loved small unit aspects of the Marines. My shop was close-knit, to the point of even when I was sick of every last one of those cocky jerks I never questioned if I wouldn't die defending them. I loved it, and I loved the mission. It was like being on the hunt, with everyone (well... there was always that one Marine, but we usually sent him to go do something that kept him away) working together to accomplish whatever it was, come hell or high water.
Larger units depend largely on the unit. I had good squadrons and bad squadrons. Good ones felt like my shop did, only bigger. Bad ones felt like it was just your shop fending for themselves, or worse, defending and making due with what was dealt from the command.
Duty station can be important if space, wilderness and alone time are things you need. They are to me, and so when I had to spend 2 1/2 years on MCAS Iwakuni, in the middle of a city in Japan, the lack of forest or any natural place I could go to alone (We often weren't even allowed off base alone), really wore on me. Towards the end of my tour there I had slipped into depression, and I fell to the point were I no longer cared if I lived or died. I would often cross the street in traffic without looking, hoping I would get creamed. (Despite being timid, those Japanese drivers can stop on a dime... lucky for me.)
Later I was on a detachment sent to Eielson AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska. It was like drowning and finally getting a breath of fresh air. To be stationed there would have been wonderful.
The military is also where I really learned to keep my wolfy side to myself. Some things I could indulge in without trouble or was even encouraged on. Few people thought twice when I decided to sleep on the floor because I liked it better: Marines on deployment can and will sleep anywhere... and I mean anywhere. Using my sense of smell more than others, as long as I wasn't weird about my sniffing, was seen as both useful and benign. Hiding and stalking were considered normal and healthy warrior activities, as was rough play (which we dubbed "Martial Arts Training").
I hope this helps, as late as I'm posting this.
Now to go read the forum rules before I get myself in trouble...
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Ruinous
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Werebeast
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Post by Ruinous on Oct 2, 2017 3:05:49 GMT
At the risk of necroposting, I saw this and thought I'd chime in because it's one of those rare things I have experience with: I'm werewolf-kin and in the Air Force. It's... not much different than any other job, as far as being kin goes. Occasionally for me, the rank dynamics sometimes crosses some wires with instinctive behaviors -- someone higher ranking than me starts throwing their weight around and my body language just naturally turns submissive, and some people take that as lack of military bearing, which is annoying. Or the opposite, wanting to growl at someone who's invading my space or being too forward. But that's all behavioral stuff we should have control over in general anyway, as long as we're living in human bodies. FWIW, there is a certain amount of acceptance for "personality quirks" if you get your work done well and stay out of trouble. Though, even with that, I don't think I'd tell my coworkers I'm Otherkin. It's really none of their business and is more likely to have an negative effect than a positive one.
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Post by selroth on Oct 15, 2017 17:44:46 GMT
12 years US Air Force here, goin' the full 20 at least. Enlisted.
Guess I might not fit into the target audience, as I don't really identify as otherkin. I don't go showing off any aspect of it, but I don't hide it either. As I said in my intro post, it's not necessarily what you believe, it's how you believe it.
As for what one may end up doing in the Air Force and the job, that's much too varied to say. I've seen quite a lot of it, and sometimes you are doing some pretty f'n awesome ****, and sometimes you aren't.
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