Agree mostly with Waqqle. Explore the Coast Guard, then Air Force, but put the Army ahead of the Navy. And unless you have some deep seated, unmet need in your life for brotherhood and an obsession with uniforms, you probably want to skip the Marines too.
Whatever your friend may know about being red pilled (knowing what women are capable of - hopefully he does), he needs to triple that outlook in the military services and watch his step. There are all kinds of pitfalls and it gets worse every year. Both of those career fields that he has in mind are coed, so he will experience some of these threats first hand, he will witness how females are treated differently, given a pass for bad behavior and generally are cost ineffective, unmotivated participants in what they see as a camouflaged welfare system. But I digress.
As to his line of thinking:
It sounds like your friend is being fed a line from an Army recruiter about what slots are open in the next couple of months.
Why Chemical corps? Chemical on active duty is not a highly sought after branch, so he might want to ask himself why he really is being fed this choice. Recruiters have goals to meet - don't be just a number for them.
Why MP? It's ok as a job but he should also think twice about how it could set him up to be a civilian cop. If that's what he is after he may be surprised to learn that some departments don't like to hire former MPs because they are trained completely differently. There are some interesting jobs in MP branch, but many will not be available to him as a reservist - he should do more research and understand this before signing anything.
He should understand that the steady paycheck for one weekend isn't all that much money - has he looked at the pay tables lately? There are probably other ways to make $425.13 over the weekend. A large part of the appeal of the volunteer services nowadays is to those with few other economic options - like your friend, apparently. Remember too, if he only makes that as an O1, imagine the kind of person who puts up with a weekend of busy work for somewhere between $244.11-$292.61. Yeah, those would be the privates (E1-E4) he's going to be responsible for as a newly minted 2LT. If he's never led anything in his life or isn't at least the eldest brother of a couple of mischievous younger siblings, he's got no idea what's coming. Chemical Corps isn't exactly rocket science or high on the esprit de corp factor so it attracts a lot of sponges looking for benefits.
Speaking of sponges, as an officer he will be expected to do some more. If he expects any long term benefits, part time only won't get him very far.
Whatever your friend may know about being red pilled (knowing what women are capable of - hopefully he does), he needs to triple that outlook in the military services and watch his step. There are all kinds of pitfalls and it gets worse every year. Both of those career fields that he has in mind are coed, so he will experience some of these threats first hand, he will witness how females are treated differently, given a pass for bad behavior and generally are cost ineffective, unmotivated participants in what they see as a camouflaged welfare system. But I digress.
As to his line of thinking:
It sounds like your friend is being fed a line from an Army recruiter about what slots are open in the next couple of months.
Why Chemical corps? Chemical on active duty is not a highly sought after branch, so he might want to ask himself why he really is being fed this choice. Recruiters have goals to meet - don't be just a number for them.
Why MP? It's ok as a job but he should also think twice about how it could set him up to be a civilian cop. If that's what he is after he may be surprised to learn that some departments don't like to hire former MPs because they are trained completely differently. There are some interesting jobs in MP branch, but many will not be available to him as a reservist - he should do more research and understand this before signing anything.
He should understand that the steady paycheck for one weekend isn't all that much money - has he looked at the pay tables lately? There are probably other ways to make $425.13 over the weekend. A large part of the appeal of the volunteer services nowadays is to those with few other economic options - like your friend, apparently. Remember too, if he only makes that as an O1, imagine the kind of person who puts up with a weekend of busy work for somewhere between $244.11-$292.61. Yeah, those would be the privates (E1-E4) he's going to be responsible for as a newly minted 2LT. If he's never led anything in his life or isn't at least the eldest brother of a couple of mischievous younger siblings, he's got no idea what's coming. Chemical Corps isn't exactly rocket science or high on the esprit de corp factor so it attracts a lot of sponges looking for benefits.
Speaking of sponges, as an officer he will be expected to do some more. If he expects any long term benefits, part time only won't get him very far.