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Thanks, but I feel as I should give you Marines an update.

This whole topic started because I misread my contract. Whoops! For a while there, I thought for some reason a BX contract gave one a...

I didn't see myself as arguing. :P Sorry if that came across that way.

But this:


helped a lot. Thank you.

The problem is I don't think they check up on your information technology abilities in boot camp, which is the job field an 0651 gets into. I'm worried they'll stick me on radio or wire despite the...

Well, lately I've been hearing things about a three-MOS dream sheet that you get rather than just a contract for a field. Any information on that? Two Marines I talked to got that instead.

Oh ok. Thanks.

So there's no way to ask the Corps to assign you a MOS when you get to school, and you are just entirely at their mercy?

So how does one actually go about getting his specific MOS? I just got into the DEP program (could a mod change my account to a Poolee one, please?) and my recruiter handed me a BX contract...

Excellent. I expected I would have to work towards it by proving myself in the enlisted ranks, so that's fine by me. I'll do the best job I can. Thank you very much!

What? No edit button? :(
Anyway, I should probably add that I'm going to attempt to compete for MECEP as soon as two years in the Marine Corps and take a few college courses every semester in the...

Hello Marines,

I'm looking into enlisting first as a 0651 and later earning my commission through the MECEP program rather than going through NROTC. I hear Mustangs make better officers anyway, so...