-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Lots of things can change by the time you plan on joining
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
What ever you do, dont give them your phone number untill you are sure because the recruiters are worse than bill collectors. They will block their number and say anything to get you to join. I had a recruiter ask me " Are you going to listen to your wuss of a dad for your whole life?" so i just laughed at him seeing how my dad was in the navy, and his dad was in the marines and all the recruiter has to do is sit at a desk and make phone calls, hes a manly man alright.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Quote:
Originally Posted by kms brown
I had a recruiter ask me " Are you going to listen to your wuss of a dad for your whole life?" so i just laughed at him seeing how my dad was in the navy
How great would this be if your dad retired at a higher rank than the recruiter...
Have Pops make a quick phone call the the recruiter...
"So... I heard what you told my son, did you refer to me as a wuss?"
"Uh..."
"That would be 'Uhh. SIR!"
:D
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
lol yeah that would have been great.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I did a few years in the army and I have a lot of mixed feelings. For me, it improved my life, but I still have dreams about the shit 12 years after retirement, and I didn't see near the shit these guys today are going thru. Go into the army or marines now and you're guaranteed a combat tour in some pretty harsh conditions. Just read the Baghdad weather report. It's probably tolerable right now, but in April it will be well over 100 (F).
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Its not a good time to join. So dont do it, i'll tell you when.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I guess if joining is what you want to do, have some fun now, but know that your life is gonna change, I smoked a couple occasions while I was in, normally when I went home for a month of leave. But when your in country theres no place for getting high, you gotta have your shit togather and your senses sharp, so be prepared to leave weed behind for awhile. Think of it this way, your gonna have guys in your unit whose life depends on you, so you don't want to get them killed just because your a little slow or stoned. So I say go for it but just say goodbye to getting high for awhile,
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I wouldnt do it in a time of war... youll be fighting and killing possibly even innocent people
besides you gotta realize that we're at war for all the wrong reasons
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I was in the Coast Guard for five years. I suggest the Coast Guard because you will probably stay in the U.S. away from harm. The war is bullshit anyway. I volunteered to go to Iraq, by the way, but they said I had the wrong qualification.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I agree, the Coast Guard is a wonderful choice. Their peacetime mission is important. I, too, was in the US Coast Guard and really ended up falling in love with the seafaring lifestyle. I'm so glad I had the chance to do that while I was younger.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
HAHA! My seafaring lifestyle..included some rides to Thailand on a LST (flat bottom ship)...lots of puking, shitty food and terrible sleep on small ass beds.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
I don't get seasick. :D
The next stage of my seafaring lifestyle included tiny bunks, fish guts, blood, deck ice, Bering Sea storms, being the only chick on a boat with 30 fishermen or whom on average half spoke passable English, tyrannical ship officers, and not seeing land for a month at a time.
But the food was surprisingly good.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
....I just dont understand why we give our lives in the name of allegiance to a government who wouldnt think twice to exchange our lives for money. I have the utmost respect for ANYONE fighting for the right reasons, I'm just not sure what the 'right' reasons are.
Carlos Mencia said it the best; 'It's like white people ran out of people to oppress, so they turned on themselves'
PS: You guys are freakin nuts! It was all I could muster to haul traps in international waters off the coast! You'll NEVER catch ME more than a couple hundred miles out!
FUNK DAT!:D
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chronisseur
....I just dont understand why we give our lives in the name of allegiance to a government who wouldnt think twice to exchange our lives for money. I have the utmost respect for ANYONE fighting for the right reasons, I'm just not sure what the 'right' reasons are.'
Very well put. Gone are the days when wars made any logical sense.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
I agree, the Coast Guard is a wonderful choice. Their peacetime mission is important. I, too, was in the US Coast Guard and really ended up falling in love with the seafaring lifestyle. I'm so glad I had the chance to do that while I was younger.
I did 22 years in the Coast Guard... When I think of all of the training, education, and lifes experiences that I obtained, I feel very blessed, because there is no way I would *EVER* have had the chance to do otherwise, then there was the added benifit of having them pay for my Masters Degree in mechanical engineering, with a minor in Environmental Science. FWIW, I highly recommend the engineering rates as they will keep you below decks when its really cold and nasty outside, and also consider the job oportunities when you get out.
Out of those 22 years, I spent 11 of them at sea. Not too many other people in the world can say they have sailed "Pole to Pole" on a ship that has wooden decks. As far as where I have been, it would probably be easier to list where I have not been.
One last point... in the Coast Guard, the emphisis is on *SAVING LIVES*, not taking them.
There is no high like that of having pulled somebody out of the water in breaking surf after their boat has sunk out from under them.
If it wasn't so dangerous, it would be the best carnival ride in the world.
Please keep in mind that no matter what vocation or service, your gonna start out by sweeping floors and cleaning commodes, then work your way up through the ranks.
did I forget to mention that the only difference between going to jail and going to sea, is that when you go to sea, you have the added risk of DROWNING.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
.
did I forget to mention that the only difference between going to jail and going to sea, is that when you go to sea, you have the added risk of DROWNING.
LMAO^^^^:D
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Ha ha, all you Coast Guard guys. Is he at least 6 feet? You have to be able to walk back to land to be in the Coast Guard right? :S3:
Just kidding. I have a bunch if friends in the CG. One if my best friends growing up went in the same time I went in the Navy. We bust each other but we're all on the same team in the end right?
Quote:
Originally Posted by geonagual
HAHA! My seafaring lifestyle..included some rides to Thailand on a LST (flat bottom ship)...lots of puking, shitty food and terrible sleep on small ass beds.
LST eh? I was on an LHD. Flat bottom rock and roller as well. North Atlantic storms rule. Sleep like a baby. I got sick for like the forst 3 or 4 hours on my first cruise but that was it. I haven't slept right since the day I moved off the ship. I didn't mind my rack. I figure death will be no big deal now. I'm already used to being in a coffin.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Navy simulator:
Paint a dumpster greay, and live in it for 9 months. Be sure to have all plumbing and wiring exposed. On the day you come out be sure to invite all your family and friends to be there so you can explain that you can't actually come out until tomorrow because you have duty.
-
Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Doctor Whoov
Ha ha, all you Coast Guard guys. Is he at least 6 feet? You have to be able to walk back to land to be in the Coast Guard right? :S3:
Just kidding. I have a bunch if friends in the CG. One if my best friends growing up went in the same time I went in the Navy. We bust each other but we're all on the same team in the end right?
LST eh? I was on an LHD. Flat bottom rock and roller as well. North Atlantic storms rule. Sleep like a baby. I got sick for like the forst 3 or 4 hours on my first cruise but that was it. I haven't slept right since the day I moved off the ship. I didn't mind my rack. I figure death will be no big deal now. I'm already used to being in a coffin.
Riding 378' high endurance cutters in the bearing sea and gulf of alaska could get pretty bad. When your making turns for 19 knots and only making good 3, you know its nasty out.
in navy speak, the 378' WHECs are classed as an FFG