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..and here I am...I blew the ASVAB out of the water (I've always been a good test taker)...and I enlisted and went 11B.
 
lawguy said:
..and here I am...I blew the ASVAB out of the water (I've always been a good test taker)...and I enlisted and went 11B.
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Yep...98 here....

And I went 13B /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
Marines look at different numbers... for my MOS (2171) they looked at the GT score (I had 130+), 100 was the minimum for the MOS.
 
You were going to say that you have to get more than all of them right to be a Marine? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nonod.gif

Personally....If I had it to do over....
I'd go Air Force.....
They get to sleep on real beds & and eat until they are full. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
w.t. noise, when my son was about to graduate h.s. he came and told me how some recruters had been calling him day and night trying to get him to sign up i told him thed get the message that he wasnt willing at that time to commit, then they started calling me, i just told them it was my sons call to join or not it got so bad i had to go see a couple of em personally to "splane it better" not till then did they stop, my brother joined the marines 67-68 and got a written guarantee hed go into aviation (dont know if they can still do that) they told him he could go into pilot training if hed like, but all he ever wanted to do at that time was work on f-4 phantoms and he did, plus two tours in nam. turns out all the great schools he went to in the military did little or nothing to help him achieve his civilian a.& p. license once he was out of the military he had to go back to the academy of aeronautics for 18 months to gualify just to take the exams ive always felt that was a kick in the pants, on the other hand some of the guys i grew up with in the "hood" joined in groups and despite the dangers associated with being in nam doing that probably was the single most important event in saving their lives.
 
WhatsThatNoise said:
You were going to say that you have to get more than all of them right to be a Marine? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/nonod.gif

Personally....If I had it to do over....
I'd go Air Force.....
They get to sleep on real beds & and eat until they are full. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
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See you won’t hear too many Marines make such a statement. While many of us might recommend other branches of the militay for one reason or another - if you talk to most of them after the fact - most every one I know have said they would do it again.

Its not just a job – it’s a life style. No way you can quantify a choice like that by mere test scores. Oh sure lots of guys leave one branch and re-tread into others and yes even Marines leave the Corps & go into other branches of the military. But regardless of what branch of the military they migrated from or to, when asked most will talk about still being a Marine even decades later.

There’s much to the old maxim: “Once a Marine Always a Marine”.

This is one of the main reasons I've always taken kind of a hands off approach with my sons about the idea of joining the Military. While I’ve always encouraged the advantages of joining the Armed Forces when I was asked – I never ever endorsed or encouraged any of them to join the Marine Corps. That is a personal choice.

Joining the Corps is NOT for everyone – if it was, it wouldn’t be what it is. When a young person decides to join the Marines 99.999% of them are looking for something more than just the educational benefits or how their job will serve them in their career choices after they leave the service when they get out. It’s a decision not to be taken lightly and I know that sounds arrogant & I guess in a way it is (when looking at it from the outside in) – but them be the facts.
 
I had PLENTY of time on the 'floor'. Went "camping" all over th' 'nam. Sometimes even with YOUSE guys. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif If the zoomies were involved in an operation, it was periodically custom for a photographer to be assigned to document. But it ~was~ nice to be able to leave and sleep in a bed and eat from a plate... mostly it was the option of showering wot made it for me.
And I HATE leeches. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Occasionally Army & Marines would conduct training exercises in the same general area.

We'd see how they were treated by their command and feel sorry for them.

Several times we gave them food, water and other things.

I still don't get it.

(The Air Force guys thought the same thing about us)
 
Yea, Marines have a knack for making the most out of a situation with the least. SNAFU as I recall.

I can remember being stationed on a couple of Navy bases (training etc.) and was amazed at the stuff they'd throwaway. A regular routine for us Marines at NAS Memphis while in basic helicopter school, was to go dumpster diving in the Navy's dumpsters the day before trash collection.

We'd find almost new tables, desks & chairs and chalkboards etc that the Navy'd just tossed. We where almost always totally flabbergasted by what they'd toss out.

But as crummy as it got at times - most guys never seemed to complain much or get all upset. Never felt neglected or abused.

As for my interactions with other branches of the Military:

ARMY:
The times my unit worked with or trained with the Army where too few to really get a feel for what it was probably really like. But I do remember one time we where at a Ranger training came in the mountains of North Carolina (Mosby field I think?) and they got all bent out'a shape because we drank the e-club dry in two nights. Rangers returned to camp on day three of the training ops and needless to say they weren't amused by all us Jarheads moaning about having hangovers and not a cold beer to be had for twenty miles in any direction. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Air Force:
My short time with the Air Force was amusing too. The best was while in route to Pensacola FL we stopped at the A-10 Air Force base outside of Myrtle Beach SC. Needed a splash of JP5 and some chow. The officers whent over to check in at the ops center and bring back some sandwiches, while I waited for the fuel truck to arrive. When it pulled next to my bird I naturally attached the ground straps and started to reach for the fuel nozzle when I got yelled at by the driver inquiring as to “Just what the F---, I thought I was doing?!?!”

He told me that I had to wait for one of the fuel’ers (can’t remember what they called them) to come over and top off the bird. I said what’s your job then? “I just drive the truck” he said and got back in the cab. When I asked where the guy is who is supposed to do the fueling is he told me he didn’t know and that we’re just going to have to wait. Boy did I feel unwelcome.

Anyway about a half hour later my pilots returned with the sandwiches (tasty too, as I recall) the fuel’er guy showed and we sat back & ate, while they fueled our thirsty bird. As I singed the requisition forms for the fuel, I couldn’t help but say - “God help us if’n this’d been a combat situation – fer we’d all’ve been dead for sure”.
 
You mean you didn't have reservations?!? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
“God help us if’n this’d been a combat situation – fer we’d all’ve been dead for sure”.

But if it had been a combat situation surely the Air Force wouldn't have been there in the fist place? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Steve said:
“God help us if’n this’d been a combat situation – fer we’d all’ve been dead for sure”.

But if it had been a combat situation surely the Air Force wouldn't have been there in the fist place? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
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Ouch! Bet that one's gon'a leave a mark. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Whoa! Waitaminnit there, boyO... I'll 'ave ya know them fly-boys put some VERY forward air bases down at the drop of a hat. A-10's 'n SAR bases, JOC's... go wash yer gob wif soap. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

Aside: Just learning (BBC News) the English are trying to "preserve" the "Industrial dialects" of the north-east... I guess Manchesterian is now safe. Herself will be chuffed. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Mancunian, not Manchesterian you heathen.
Besides I thought 'er indoors was from the other side of the M60...
 
mehheh. I sit corrected!


..and as you've noticed, she speaks now dominantly in "pissburghese". No trace of Oldham left. More's th' pity. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Burghese.....I know that!....

I'll be a translator /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Oh wait.....Translate to what?
 
Da burgh... yins red up yer rooms, pick th' clothes an' at. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
Nah! gwin duntun 'sted!! Yuins comn? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

Back to the thread...Proud to say my youn'un just re-upped in the Corps (He's got a good DC job I'm relieved to add!!) And if I,m a little scarce around these parts for the next few days, my eldest is home on leave from the AF for 10 days!!Whoo Hoo! Home for the first time in 18 months!! Boy does he look good! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grouphug.gif
 
yuins... heh... me gramps uses that word a lot /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
He must be from the more eastern side of PA. In dah Burgh it's a distinct "yins".
 
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