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I got lost on the way to college.

General grade officers...but the trousers are actually (well I should say "technically") dark blue, not black. If you see a picture of a General in dress blues, you'll notice that the trousers are...

The Mameluke is the oldest, the NCO sword is the oldest in continuous use...The Mameluke wasn't used for a while during the Civil War.



Unless I'm missing something myself and having a...

As far as I know, you can't even ship to boot unless you graduate high school anyway.

I kind of had the best of both worlds...I've been hunting/shooting since I was about 6 or 7...but my old man was a PMI at one point too, so he taught me to shoot the same way you get taught at boot....

I actually ran into one of my DIs at Pendleton about 3 years after I graduated boot. Suprisingly, he remembered me well. At first he gave me a kind of "who the hell are you?" look when I first...

Perhaps these are questions better suited for a recruiter...and you might have been wise to ask them before you enlisted in the DEP.

Bingo. While it's a possibility, your chances are slim to nill in my experience. Generally speaking, the best operators from Battalion Recon are the ones most likely to be get into Force. There used...

Apparently "the lights are on, but nobody's home" with the Lt. Gov. I've read about her being...well, borderline senile in recent years. This isn't exactly an isolated incident.

Where's big Tom...

1stSgt Mell, I know that all too well, I was only kidding. I would have gladly accepted a promotion (who doesn't like to make more money, you know?), but as it happened, I had to retire because of an...

Hahaha...that's great!

And oh so true...


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I love being a Gunny so much that I had to leave active duty just because of the fact that I was so damn good they would have made me take a promotion to E-8!:cool:


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Yes we do...and don't you forget it or I'll stick my size 13 foot so far up your ass you'll be tasting toe jam for a year!

That hasn't totally disappeared Grunt...although it's nowhere near as common as it used to be, I've known quite a few Marines who chose The Corps as an alternative to prison...and then reenlisted 4...

If they're gonna prevent the Pentagon from accessing this kind of information, no college or any other institution should be allowed access to it either....This is ridiculous.

Don't pretty much all colleges and universities throughout the country have the same kind of information?

Now there's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one!

Like others are saying, it wasn't uncommon for enlisted men to make the jump to O during your time in...I was active much later than you so I didn't see any (at least to my recollection).

But I've...

Hahaha, that's classic.


Couldn't have said it better myself.

I don't think so because even all the Mustangers I've known graduated college...and were almost always better officers.

I'm kind of in the middle of this issue.

One on hand, seeing a burning flag would bring a tear to my eye. And make me want to stomp the guts out of whoever was burning it.

On the other, I do...

I'd put on the Smokey Bear again and do it myself if I could!

Like I said, he's a good kid and I'd like to see him succeed if/when he ships.

I talked to him last night, and he said the DEP discharge letter he got said "Refusal to enlist" I talked to his father as well, and I can sort of understand why it happened. He, like most little...

That's pretty crazy. My nephew is over at Al Asad now, and he sent me some picutures of a sandstorm (quite possibly could have been the same one, he sent them to me in early May).

I've seen my...

Thanks for your responses GunnyL and THATFEMALE.


I'm not sure exactly what reason he gave to get discharged from the DEP, I'll have to ask him. But as far as I know, he was otherwise qualified...