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Navy receives more school time training than the other 3, but it doesn't make them "better." In the Navy training pipeline, they receive the standard course of instruction, but then receive training...

Fear is natural and having some is healthy, it is when someone cannot control it and lets it debilitate them that it becomes dangerous.

Being able to understand the emotion, harness it, and move...

Look at yourself in the mirror and honestly ask yourself if the Marine Corps is worth sacrificing your family or life as you know it for. If you can without hesitation answer "yes" to that question...

From what I understood while I was there, you need to be an NCO (we had a couple married guys that were not allowed to bring their wives over because they were not NCOs) for accompanied and should...

You could also try and become an MAI. It will get you out of the shop to haze some BLT's for a week when they are doing tan belt work.

Ahhh yes, another Okinawa Marine headed for the dreaded 078 TBS Instructor Battalion. That is where I am, although I am with a different company that what you will be. I can ask some of the RO's...

Your Sgt is well...off. A lot of Marines first duty station is Okinawa.

depending on where on MCB-Q your going to. I have orders to TBS so I should be off the flag pole, but from what I understand if your on main side, be squared away...moto style. That and affix your...

If you want a job that transfers over to the civilian world, out of the ones you listed, Aircraft Maintenance is by far the most marketable.

I never have anything worth saying...

I'm a combat engineer, I've seen combat.

I walked point through IED infested areas...and I'm a POG. You wanna wear a ribbon so that people know your a grunt, that's fine, whatever man. I know what I've done while deployed, I lived,...

Duff is right, in Afghan we used first initial, last initial, last 4, blood

Stayed there for the month of Jan while coming back from Afghan with 2/6. The MWR isn't bad if you don't feel like paying for internet access. The PX is good considering the size, the chicken...

why?

On a division level, we are FOB *****es. We do force protection and find bombs.

I'm an older guy and joined at 25. The older guys in boot camp were normally the ones that go unnoticed because they would do what they're told, when they're told. Like has been stated, we have...

It's probably one of the best courses I've been through in the Corps. We went through the 2 week package in Oki before we headed downrange. The observation stuff is basic, all the stuff you learned...

I used Pmag's for my last deployment and never had one fail on me. Lightweight and can take some abuse. As far as windows, some guys like some don't notice them. I always switched out if I felt I...

Watched the documentary and have to say it was done very well. The thing that struck me the most was the audio, it is spot on. I recommend it although for those of us that have been there, it's...

interesting to see what the place was like 3 months before I got there as well as seeing the ground I tromped around on again.

not everyone is meant for the frontlines...good on you for being a cog in the machine

we walk in front with a metal detector praying we don't becoming a triggering device tester, but rather it be us hurt than a fellow Marine.
we build stuff.
we destroy stuff.
we are FOB *****es...

Yelling and profanity is all part of the combat arms world. The only ones who have an issue with it are the non-combat arms Marines, because they don't understand.

The use for it in a...

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OEF does not directly effect people's lives so they view it as unnecessary and void. In
all honesty, if you join in an combat arms job right now, it's because you...