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You will be fine, just do what they tell you, and don't freak out. But if you think it will be easy to shoot marksman or shapshooter, go ask someone who unq'd how easy it is. You need a 25 to...

He didn't accomplish his REAL goal, getting Bush out of the white house. Thank God!!!!
If all these people (on both ends of the political spectrum) would put all this energy and effort toward...

You may want to talk to your recruiter about going back in. I put a few people back in after leaving boot medically, and it was a 2 year wait for anyone who was an MCRD discharge. And those people...

In my 12 years of service to our beloved Corps, I got screwed too many times to even start to recall. But the rewards far out weighed all of the necessary bulls**t that you have to put up with. In...

No, these are considered "B" billets and are open to any qualified Marine, regardless of MOS. By sea duty, which I am assuming you are talking about security forces assigned to Navy Vessels? While...

Yeah, I know as a recruiter I had to make a few "deals" with judges, etc to make Marines. The funny thing is the absolute BEST Marine I ever enlisted was a double felon. (totally disqualified by...

No offense to you, Grunt, as these statements you make were probably true when you enlisted. However, if you have watched the news you have seen that the services are all failing in the recruiting...

AMEN, Brother!

In the modern militery? Not at all. During times of war, such as Viet Nam and earlier, it was not uncommon for an enlisted man, normally an NCO but not always, to be given a battlefield commission...

If you are truly "Squared Away" you will not be a PFC after 1 year TIS. You will have been meritoriously promoted to Lcpl before that. But all that aside, the reason they require a Marine to have 1...

The best thing you can do to get referrals is to get those people in front of your recruiter. Don't try to sell the Marine Corps to your friends. You only have 2nd hand knowledge of the product. ...

Look, don't volunteer any information to the people at MEPS, their sole job is to Disqualify you, to "screen you out". If it were something like asthma, or a heart murmer, then I would say you need...

First of all, you will NEVER be "way ahead" physically in boot camp. Ahead of what? A DI who is standing over you on a quarterdeck, while you are drowning in your own puddle of sweat? And all he...

Or Riddick Bowe!! What a joke!

What kind of stuff do you think you might want to know? It's a hard thing for someone else to determine what you want to know. But what I would do is talk to your parents and find out what they...

Now I was only an 8411, but I came across that in my RSS on 2 different occasions. It absolutely does not disqualify them to voluntarily drop from DEP. Our solution was to re-sign them and direct...

Yeah, they guarantee the field, provided you complete all of the qualifications to do the job (pass the schools, ship to and graduate from boot camp on time, etc.) I did some deployments with a tank...

One more note....If I remember correctly, the new standards went into effect in 1995. I had a guy that stood in front of me in formation and he had a huge USMC across the back of his neck/head. ...

I enlisted in 91 also, and they didn't have the same set of tatoo rules back then. At that time the only restrictions were for MSG, none visible in a "C" shirt. But as you said, times have changed,...

Kazi, you are going to 3rd BN!!! You better step up your PT now!!! They will be runnin your d1ck in the dirt!!

Who said you can't have tatoos? And yes, having the kind of tatoos they are talking about can make a UNIT less able to fight. By causing anamosity between fellow Marines. If you have some kind of...

Being a smarta$$ is not disqualifying!! And the people who do these interviews understand that there are people who may not have liked you. They don't take everything they hear as gospel. But if...

Yeah, the only requirement is that you ship within 365 days of your enlistment date, or you will be discharged from the dep. That however can also be waived as I had to do it for a couple of...

I've got to offer a correction to the common misconception I've been hearing here. It is true that if you enlist into MCSF you are actually enlisting as an 03, and being sent to a 2 year tour as...

Yeah, that is accurate. The HMX Marines stay with the helo, Presidential guard Marines are stationed at places like Camp David and the White House.