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I really shouldn't talk about much of right now. It's nothing anyone will ever want to make a movie about (lol), but it's probably best not to mention anything specific.

Basically it entails...

That's a legitimate point. I'm not trying to make that distinction, but rather to indicate that out of this particular group we stood out. Perhaps the distinction is more trouble than it's worth...

Rifle Platoon REIN with some other MOS essential to being this far away.

Yes. I'm asking specifically about the reserves because if it reads "helped get plt mission selected for mission over 1000 miles away from parents command" a hiring manager reads that and says "ok,...

Has anyone ever heard of a reserve platoon conducting a disbursed operation at significant distance from parent command? I'm not calling it "distributed operations" because I don't think it applies...

DET 2 4MLG is out of MCLB Albany.

The whole plug in as a basic rifleman is a little more complicated than it sounds. When a unit has say 150 bodies and they need 160, they put together a...

Good luck with that bud. Reserve activations are drawing down. They just recently stood down a Bn from I wanna say 25th Marines just before it went to Afghanistan. Apparently higher has decided...

Alright fellas, thanks for the help.

I bounced all of this off my Plt Cdr (a SNCO) and he said that he talked to the XO (my RS) and that he will give me some counsel on it. He was kind of taken...

Thanks for that info, it clears a lot up.

However, when I bring it all together it doesn't seem to make sense.

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Despite being billeted above my grade, my RPT Avg is lower than the RS Avg on...

When looking at your OMPF under the MBS tab, there is a link for the PES MBS. Within that file, it breaks down all of your fitreps.

Can some one provide clarification as to the meaning of the...

That was the norm for us. You weren't allowed to look at your food. You had to sit at attention and stare directly ahead, and the drill instructors loved to come by and scream at you and make you...

The Corps is drawing down right now. It's just the reality of it, man. Perhaps in a few years if will open up, but now we are cutting numbers.

Have you ever considered serving in another...

I remember that my plt. won the range on average score.

We got back to the squad bay and we were hazed for it. I had a hard time understanding the incentive system in bootcamp.

If we lost an...

Why can't there be a cross between terminal lance and this site?

Terminal lance is full of 18 year olds that think it's cool to talk about how much the Corps sucks, while this forum is a little...

Reservists can deploy to anywhere, but often times get stuck with less glorious duties than AD. IE: If an AD company and Reserve Company are both in the same AO, reserves will probably do more FOB...

I used the wrong preposition. I meant "account for," not "account of." That's more of a brokers thing to bring in money that way, and not what I do at all.

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That's offensive on so many levels man. I'll look past the fact that you are calling me a "kid" despite being a married 24 year old meritorious Sergeant in the USMCR who has racked up a couple of...

While I can appreciate your word of caution and the experience from which it comes, I must say that I've been in for over 6 years now, in an infantry unit that is actually pretty damn good to go for...

The light thing will be covered by issue most likely, he probably has a K-bar, and probably has a pocket knife, but you could always use another MRE opener really and truly.

I've seen some guys...

I've given a lot of thought lately to something. Let's say hypothetically you had an opportunity to go on a deployment where for some portion of the time you might be training the military forces of...

Ahh French Creek. I seem to remember spending damn near a pay check trying to get out in town from there.

I would venture to stay that my buddies that were in back in 2006 and I have stood in...

Because some did. The pressure is coming from higher IMO. Some DI's I think still push the envelope off the cliff at the risk of their careers because they know it saves lives in the long run and...

I'm sure it was pretty hellish back in the day, but I can tell you as far back as 2005 a recruit that got aggressive got a gang whooping from some DIs and sent to the hospital. We had one get his...

It's funny you mention that. If the other NCOs and I are talking about some particularly crappy Marine we often say something like "PFC Smucatellee better get his head out of his ass" -- "Yeah, that...

I've been complaining about the quality of our boot drops for a couple years now and saying that the Corps isn't doing what it once did to indoctrinate young men.

I'm in a reserve 03 unit, and...