Does Infantry travel alot?

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Just want to know if infantry Marines get to travel alot?

[Phantom Blooper]

It all depends on where the Marine Corps wants you to go. You can travel by plane,ship,helicopter,and by different modes of transportation. Mostly in the infantry you use your legs and feet. You will find yourself in some of the most exotic paradises in the world and you may also find yourself in some of the worlds worst. With the situation in the world today you may not get to go on a "Cruise" but if you do you can find yourself in the Med or the Orient and a number of countries in between.You may find yourself on MSG or Barracks Duty which will give you an op for traveling if you are not in a "hot" country. Rest assured if you are Marine material regardless of MOS you will get your fair share of traveling,unless you happen to pull your whole tour CONUS. Semper-Fi!! Chuck Hall :marine:

[cny95221]

Listen to the Hymn. Bill, Mike Co. 3/26

[Super Dave]

Kinda like...
Used to drive a Cadillac....Now I'm humping with a pack..

[Kalbo]

Super Dave,

That was my favorite. Do you remember more to it? Not trying to put the kid down, infantry sure as hell don't stay put.

Bill

[Super Dave]

Oww yes..i do have FOND memories of "humpin with a pack". It does depend on what unit you are with, but you do get a lot of time in the field..etc...

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Cool, thanks alot.

[Kelvin Quinonez]

How many countries have you been to? Marines.

[Super Dave]

Spain, Italy, France, Korea, Japan, Puerto Rico, Hounderus, Tunisia, Okinowa, Tunsia..I think that covers it...

[CPLRapoza]

Japan, Korea, Thailand, China, Austrailia, Uruguay, and Paraguay, tha pretty much covers it for me.

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Were all of these trips with the Corps? Missions? What MOS do you guys have?

[HardJedi]

Let's see, not that all of these are independent countris as such


Guam, Tinian, Saipan, Rota, Bali, Austrailia, Korea, Japan,
Haiti, Truk


Most were for one dyuty station or another, or training, with a couple for R&R and a Couple as deployments

[CPLRapoza]

Exact same reasons as Jedi, half were for 0311, the other my 8152 billet

[jryanjack]

With the Corps I've been to - in no particular order - Norway, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon (off the coast), Puerto Rico, Okinawa, and the Philippines.

[HardJedi]

good LORD! NORWAY!~ I Forgot NORWAY! course, when all there is is a big ass ice feild for 4 weeks, pretty easy to forget!

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by Kelvin Quinonez
Just want to know if infantry Marines get to travel alot?


From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli;

We have fought in ev'ry clime and place
Where we could take a gun;

In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;

You will find us always on the job--
The United States Marines.

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/marine.htm

[Kalbo]

Singapore, Somalia, Kenya, Burundi, Australia (down under) and Dugway, Utah (JK)

Bill

[Kelvin Quinonez]

thats cool

[Tom D]

I was on "THE ROCK" for six months,spent one week at Coronado,one month at Bridgeport(Mountain Warfare Training Center),6 months FAPat the Rifle Range,6 weeks at NCO School,and one week at Naval Gunfire School.

[leroy8541]

Phillipines, California, Panama, Honduras, Columbia, Okinawa, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Japan, Germany, Diego Garcia, Australia, Thailand, Guam, I can't remember the rest I'll have to go dig out my seabag I got it all wrote down there. Singapore U.A.E. 0300, 2west-pacs, and barracks duty in the P.I., Desert Storm, Jungle warfare training at Ft. Sherman Panama I guess we got to travel Quite alot I never really thought about it that much.

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Does every Infantry Marine go through jungle warfare training?

[cjwright90]

PISC, NC, Guam, Okinawa, MtFuji-All duty stations. Missed going to Subic Bay on liberty because the C130 lost one engine. Turned around and landed. That was from Guam. Rumoured to be going to Thailand, but it never came through.

[DSchmitke]

Okinawa, England. Korea, Norway, Germany, Italy, Greece, Thailand, Philippines, Austriland, Guam, Wake Island.

[arnoldyG/2/5]

Okinawa, Korea, China, Thailand, Bali, Australia, Kenya, UAE

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Any of you ever been to Guatemala?

[usmc03wannabe]

Originally posted by Kelvin Quinonez
Does every Infantry Marine go through jungle warfare training?

BUMP for ya I'm curious on this myself

[HardJedi]

no. at least we didn't used to. Went through alot of other crap though. Cold weather in Norway. Desert in 29 Palms. Believe me, if you get stationed at Lejune, in july, those swamps can be as bad as alot of jungles.

[mrbsox]

Originally posted by Kelvin Quinonez
Does every Infantry Marine go through jungle warfare training?

Probably luck of the draw. I did Jungle and cold weather (Fort Drumm), had budds that did 29 'stumps' twice. I never did desert.

PISC, ITS at Pendelton, 3/4 at Okinawa, WESPAC; (Phillipines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore), 3/6 at LeJeune, Ft. Drumm, MED (Italy, Greece, Sicily), Gitmo.

[SSgtOfMarines]

Okinawa, Korea, Thailand, australia, Phillipines, Hong Kong, Mainland Japan, California, Georgia, Cuba, Kuwait, Iraq, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ireland, Germany...... most as part of the BLT

[ROD_S.O.D.]

Yeah....by foot, it's called "humping"!

[MEU Marine]

Desert Storm (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain)
Med Float (Italy, Spain, Turkey, Bosnia, Greece)
Westpac Float (Hawaii, Singapore, Hong Kong, Somalia, Kenya, Burundi, Australia)
Westpac Again (Hawaii, Singapore, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Australia)
Tour in England (England, Germany, Belgium, Wales, Ireland, France, Holland, Scotland, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Iceland)
Bosnia Deployment (Bosnia, Serbia)
Kosovo Deployment (Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo)
Med Float (England, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Malta, Spain, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Pakistan, Iraq)
MTTs (Croatia, Azerbaijan)

What a long strange trip it's been....... and the hits keep coming.

Semper Fi.

[Namvet67]

Yea, but you love it Marine. Oorah Semper Fi ! Gary