---
title: "13 GIFs That Explain Military Service, According To The Internet"
date: "2017-07-11"
modified: "2017-07-11"
authors:
  - name: "James Clark"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/13-gifs-explain-military-service-according-internet/"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "Humor"
---

# 13 GIFs That Explain Military Service, According To The Internet

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19041327-1.jpg>)

Military service can be a lot of things to a lot of people. Yes, we can all be proud of it, but it comes with a lot of bullshit, idiocy, and shenanigans. At times, it feels [*less like that*](<https://assets.rbl.ms/19041343/origin.gif>), and [*more like this.*](<https://assets.rbl.ms/19041346/origin.gif>) We at Task & Purpose asked [you to share the GIFs](<https://www.facebook.com/TaskandPurpose/photos/a.660044760710168.1073741828.628773943837250/1346827888698515/?type=3&theater>) that best capture your military service. You didn’t disappoint.

### Remember MEPS?

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-434.gif>)

### What I tell my family I do:

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-435.gif>)

### What I actually do:

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-436.gif>)

### ASVAB waivers.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-437.gif>)

### Military service is a calling: A police calling.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-438.gif>)

### Death by...

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-439.gif>)

### No, seriously, Powerpoint presentations are a war crime.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-440.gif>)

### When you’re left with an extra crate of 5.56 mm at the range.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-441.gif>)

### The passive aggressive lieutenant.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-442.gif>)

### “PUUUUSHHH.”

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-443.gif>)

### “Nah, I don’t need a haircut. Oh, hey...sergeant major. Shit.”

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-444.gif>)

### When you hear liberty’s cancelled because of those animals on the third deck.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-445.gif>)

### I have a tan belt in MCMAP, I’ve totally got this...

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/image-placeholder-title-446.gif>)

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## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

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