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So theres another Marine Forum out there and they told me that this site is full of a bunch of old motards. Two questions

1. Whats a motard?
2. Why don't they like this site?

Thank you Marines for helping me out.

I hope that someday I will exemplify the qualities you pointed out.

So I'm leaving in a week to go to Orientation week for NROTC at the University of Nebraska. I went in to the recruiters office to tell him for sure that I was dropping out of the DEP as they were...

Message received loud and clear Corporal.

Sorry about that Sir, I wasn't trying to question or ignore what you told me. I missed seeing your post, don't know how it happened, but lack of attention to detail I guess.

By waiting do you mean...

Ya I was pretty sure that anything visible in uniform would be a bad idea since officers are supposed to be "gentlemen" and such. But like something on my chest or back? I know anything USMC related...

Is the policy any different?

Its looking more and more like I'm gonna be going to college with an NROTC Scholarship (got the scholarship, waiting on an astigmatism waiver). But I have always...

I hate to bring up a long dead thread but I'd just thought I would point out to any Poolies in the Des Moines RS (Iowa, Nebraska, and a little Chunk of South Dakota) that the Wounded Marine in the...

So I guess I was for an NROTC scholarship. I have to wait for some waivers to come through so I am kind of in a limbo right now between going to boot camp and the whole ROTC thing. I really don't...

No More cupcakes and ho-hos for you. I believe you can sign into the DEP, but you don't want to go to bootcamp until you can pass that IST. Or at least that is what I've been told.

We did the CFT today at my Pool Function. My 880 time wasn't anything too special. Did 110 ammo can lifts and got 2:09 on the course.

This was also done after doing an IST. Challenging yet...

hey Poolie, we ain't done nothing except sign a piece of paper. The fellas in the National Guard want to serve their country just like us. So until we have come back with the title, lay off the...

My family had quite a military history that dates back to the Revolution going all the way until Korea. No on since then before myself has served.

The Captain that I did my PFT with told my recruiter, my recruiter told me. I also got an email from the NRTOC website. I signed some documents during my interview with the Captain, but it was mostly...

Sorry, I got the titles mixed up. The Captain that observed my PFT is the XO of the recruiting district. I have only been selected for the NRTOC scholarship based on my PFT and my HS transcripts,...

I was eighteen at the time I did the PFT in November for NROTC. I was seventeen when I took the enlistment physical. I have yet to take the NROTC physical. My shipdate is July 6th. I am still in HS,...

But I should add that I just want to be a Marine, whether it be officer or enlisted

Well my brother did the NROTC thing but he was in it for the money and dropped out after his freshman year, so thats how my parents knew about and wouldn't sign my papers until I agreed to apply for...

On my PFT I was just a few points below a first class. When I took it I was in the middle of football season and I was an offensive lineman, not the best build for running a PFT. But I passed the...

Staff Sergeant,

I talked to both a Enlistment recruiter and an officer selection recruiter. My enlistment recruiter encouraged me to try for NROTC as well because he tried for it but didn't get...

Problem solved, the Captain in charge of the NROTC of the recruiting area said that they are not going to screw people over who have showed enough of a desire to be a Marine that they both enlisted...

I enlisted into the DEP when I was seventeen so I needed my parents consent. Part of the deal I cut with them, well mostly my mom, was that I would apply for the NROTC scholarship with the Marine...

The Senior Drill Instructor was just like, "No mam, that is why they are called civilian clothes." Also, another kid told his parents that he was going reserves, so his parents were asking questions...

We just had our family night last Monday night, it wasn't too bad, except for the fact that there were a lot of parents asking questions like "So, do the Marines provide the civilian clothes for the...

I guess I really didn't think it all the way through. I got the idea from a teacher that I have who is a Vietnam vet who asked me to do that for him.