Looking To Join US Military/Marines, help! (not sure where else to put this)

[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.

[stinkyattic]

I don't get seasick.
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.

[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.

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!

[stinkyattic]

....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.

[Mississippi Steve]

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.

[Chronisseur]

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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^^^^

[Pathfinder]

Don't do it.

[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?

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.

[Doctor Whoov]

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.

[Mississippi Steve]

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