does the average 0311 see combat?
i hear all the time about how bored Marines are over seas because there is rarely any fighting. is this true? i understand that a marine is in no way guaranteed to even go to the middle east, but overall, on average do most grunts ever see combat?
i'm not saying "i want to sign up for the Marines but am too scared to go to combat", nor im i joining to "kill all those F***ING ragheads!". but if given the choice i would definitely choose to to see combat.
i know this isn't WWII, or a video game, i'm not expecting to be fighting an army of enemies or to easily be able to tell enemy from civilians. i know that there are no enemy uniforms and most attacks are "indirect fire". i read a quote from a marine (he goes by "lava dog" online if that helps) that said "Infantry work is 99 percent boredom and 1 percent excitement that can kill or maim you."
what i want to know is: do most grunts ever experience that last one percent?