Which Branch of the Military Should I Join?

what's up guys welcome back to the channel today i'm going to be talking about which branch of the military you should join now this video i'm not going to cover every single topic because that would just be impossible there are so many different variables that go into joining the military i'm just going to be covering a very select few subjects that can kind of help you guys narrow down what direction you should go with choosing what branch you should serve it what each branch works with the living conditions of each branch the pride of service the travel opportunities educational opportunities and combat opportunities and also keep in mind this is primarily focused towards the active duty side this isn't covering garter reserves some of the things will be similar but this is heavily focused towards active duty now in the army it is the largest of the active duty branches covering about 472 000 people followed by the navy which has around 328 000 people and then very closely right behind that is the air force so 315 000 and then the marines have 182 000 and the coast guard comes in last as the smallest active branch with 41 000 people now keep in mind that over time these numbers slightly go up and down so these aren't 100 percent accurate to exactly how many people are serving i think it's also important to know how many job opportunities there are in each of these different branches the army has the most by far at 190 followed up by the marines at 180 jobs now the marines is the second smallest branch but they have the second most enlisted job opportunities now the navy has 80 enlisted job opportunities the air force has 122 job opportunities and then the coast guard has 23. so keep in mind that each branch has different ways of going about how they issue out those jobs so i sat down real quick to just jot out what exactly does each branch do or what do they work on so on this little diagram i have the army air force navy marines and coast guard now if you really really want to work on helicopters right every single one of these branches has helicopters if you want to work on planes every single branch has planes now if you want to work on fighter jets or with fighter jets the air force navy and marines are your only bet with that the army and the coast guard both do not have fighter jets now if you want to be on a ship then your best bet is to go navy or coast guard obviously but the army actually has ships as well they're transporters for vehicles so i actually did not know this until i was researching this that you can actually do stuff with ships while in the army and then if you want to work with tanks army and marines are going to be your two go-to things for that now i know i could break down this even more to administrative jobs and medical jobs and all these different things but most of the branches if not all are going to have general administration jobs so if you just want a straight up desk job you don't want to work with any of those things specifically all the branches are going to offer some of those administrative positions as well the whole purpose of this diagram is to help you eliminate which branches you definitely don't want to go into because after this i'm going to break down all these other topics i talked about earlier and you'll be able to calculate out what is the most important thing to you and that will help you choose which branch or which branches you should definitely look into the most so let's jump into some of these topics where we're going to be comparing all five branches and how they measure up to each other in these different categories so the first one i'm going to be talking about is pride and service i'm going to definitely say the marines i think everybody can agree with us that the once a marine always a marine is definitely the highest of pride in the military branches no other branch comes close to having that pride even after they get out now behind them i'm going to say that the navy is the second most prideful branch and then the army followed up by them now it's not that the coast guard and the air force aren't prideful i'm just awarding a first second and third place prize now at the end i'm going to actually have the first second third fourth and fifth place ratings for these different categories and that's what i'm gonna use to show you guys how you can best choose which branch is for you now let's talk about civilian job compatibility i know this is a huge concern that a lot of people have when joining the military is does this job actually transfer out of the military so i can do it afterwards and i would say that the air force is going to be your best option for jobs that transfer back into the civilian sector followed up by the coast guard because they primarily do security of our borders they do like law enforcement on the water so a lot of their stuff is actually going to transfer directly back into the civilian sector as well and then i would say the army behind them is also going to transfer fairly well other than the combat related jobs now living conditions is one of my most important things that i considered when i was joining the military and the air force by far is leading the way with living conditions i would say second that's followed up by the coast guard let's just be honest the navy and the marines the living conditions the marines by far is last and then the navy if you get stuck on ships i haven't heard nothing but bad things about the living conditions in those situations not that it's the most horrible thing in the world it's just more of very very small quarters and that can be really hard for some people to live in such a small confined area with other people so that's why the army comes in third in this category because it just simply beats out the navy and the marines when it comes to living conditions keep in mind that this is all entirely based off of my own opinions and my own research i'm just giving you guys a general guideline of how this stuff goes now let's talk about educational opportunities a lot of people join the military because they're looking for finance support when they go to school and a lot of people want to consider the educational benefits now all of the branches are still going to offer the same educational benefits it's a dod wide program but the amount of time that you're going to have to actually be able to take courses the amount of freedom you're going to have to be able to go to courses is going to be a lot different i would say the air force definitely focuses the most on providing people the opportunity to get an education go to school it's also the only branch that has its own accredited community college so you can actually get a degree in your job through the air force the other branches don't offer this kind of opportunity so they easily take number one i would say number two is going to be army just because of the fact that you're going to be able to possibly have more time and the living conditions the ability to take classes coast guard comes in third because yes you are going to be on ships sometimes or doing certain duties that might require you to be gone for a few weeks at a time out on the water with no internet so the marines and the navy again come in last in this opportunity because it's going to be a lot harder to be stuck on a ship or be stuck in certain situations or be deployed all the time and i would say that the navy and the marines are going to be two of the higher tempo deployment branches so it's going to be a lot harder to maintain going to school while you're constantly going all over the place you constantly don't have internet now let's talk about travel opportunities yes all the branches are going to offer opportunity to travel but which ones are most likely to travel and travel more often and i would definitely say that the navy is going to take first place with this one i have heard from so many people in the navy that they go all over the place they go to so many different countries they visited all these different places next i would say that the marines are followed behind them marines can travel with the navy quite often they are a part of the department of the navy so the navy technically owns the marine corps in a way so a lot of times the marines will travel with the navy certain places and you also have the opportunity to get stationed overseas unlike the coast guard the coast guard did not score in this because you are limited to the united states the marines do all sorts of different types of trainings as well so they go on all sorts of we call them tdys or temporary duties but the marines i would definitely say travel more than the army now these travel opportunities in the marines and the army specifically might include more deployments to hostile environments but you are looking at being able to travel and see more places yes you still do have the opportunity to travel in the air force same with the coast guard all the branches you're gonna have the opportunity to travel i was just rating this on in six to ten years of serving who's going to be able to say that they've been to more countries lastly i compared combat opportunities now for some people this might not be their cup of tea they might want to be in the safest branch that they can be in and then for other people they might say you know what i want to serve i want to be deployed i want to be in these high danger situations i would say that the marines is going to be the number one option for you because you're looking at the first in last out is usually how their motto can go so i would follow that up by the army because they also deploy to a lot of hostile environments and just like the marines they're on the ground on foot so you will definitely get your fair share of combat opportunities if you have a job in either of those branches that allows you to experience combat next i would say the navy because with all the conflicts going on overseas our navy ships tend to be there and present when this stuff is going on so not that you are going to be on ground fighting but you might be in a ship that is protecting a certain thing or a certain area and that is why i left out the air force and the coast guard because the combat opportunities are going to be very very minimal there are not many jobs in the air force that actually put you in harm's way or where you're doing direct combat related activities same with the coast guard the coast guard is primarily just for doing the security of our borders and the law enforcement of the waters around the united states all right guys i just broke down all of those different subjects and categories to help you understand how to select the right branch for you so what i actually did on a sheet was create this exact same thing but i scored everything from one to five one being the best five being the worst so you guys can actually pull what categories you want total them up and figure out what possibly will be the best opportunity for you when joining the military now like we said in the very beginning if you wanted to work on fighter jets right you can already go ahead and eliminate the army and the coast guard so that would leave you with the navy air force and marines basically what you have to do is select which of these categories are the most important to you but what i would suggest is you pick your top two or three things that mean the absolute most to you the things that would be a deal breaker for you and tally that up and see how all the branches compete with each other this isn't going to be the highest score wins because the highest score means it is the worst it means it had more fives or fours which mean it was not for second or third so what you're going to be doing is calculating out the lowest score out of these categories so i personally cared the most about travel transferability to the civilian sector and living conditions if i didn't care about what type of equipment i would be working on though i didn't eliminate any of the branches then let me go to the category so travel living and civilian transferability as you can see on this the air force's total comes out to six because they rank number one in living conditions and number one in transferability to civilian sector they ranked fourth when it came to travel but the overall score was a six so based off of this my other two options that would have been best for me would have been most likely the army or the coast guard now again this isn't to solidify yes i am doing this branch this is more so just to give you guys a heads up of where you should be looking and researching into if you answered all of this stuff honestly and the answers are showing you that you should maybe look into the navy or the coast guard but you thought you wanted to be in the army go ahead and just research a little bit you still may find that there is a certain job in the army that you just want as you can see this isn't to fully say what you should do this is just to give you guys a general guideline of how to figure out where you should start researching from here you guys watch this video all the way through i would love it if you guys commented in the comment section down below this emoji right here letting me know that you watched the entire video i really do appreciate it when you guys watch the entire video also if you guys found this video helpful or you know any friends or family or whatever it would be totally dope of you guys if you wanted to share this video on your facebook wall or on your twitter feed with anybody else that you might think is interested in joining it really helps the channel out when you guys spread the word of the videos i put out so before you x out of this video be sure to like subscribe and comment and i hope to see you guys in my next video peace out

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Length: 14min 11sec (851 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 19 2019