Taking stuff personally

[MunkyVsRobot]

Trust me Munky......you would've gotten smoked for that.

Some Poolees get mad when I tell them what the Corps will do to my career in my job field but I'm going to use it and hopefully see a increase in my salary that I would've never seen if I didn't become a Marine but thats only the small portion of my Marine journey.

So you're "old" also huh? Sucks to see some of those kids blowing past you when you first start out but lord knows it will feel good when you blow past them.

Im not totally sure where Intel will lead but the possibilites are endless (speaking for myself with that) Im also looking to maybe do MCMAP and maybe open a dojo of my own later or maybe go Career that pension seems like a decent idea.

yeah dude I am also soon to be the oldest poolee at my RS I turn 27 at the end of the month and everyone totally blew by me my mile and a half was like 13:49 im trying to get back into some sort of training regimine.

[AlexJH]

I feel popular, everyone's talking about me

tee hee

and jesus you're old Munky, don't get hurt in boot camp...

I don't know if being older is better, as a youngin' it'll be easy for me to just accept the way the Corps is and assimilate, because I don't know any better. You on the other hand are a grown @$$ man about to be treated like a child.

[MunkyVsRobot]

I feel popular, everyone's talking about me

tee hee

and jesus you're old Munky, don't get hurt in boot camp...

I don't know if being older is better, as a youngin' it'll be easy for me to just accept the way the Corps is and assimilate, because I don't know any better. You on the other hand are a grown @$$ man about to be treated like a child.

eh I was just tryin to make it before the cut off **** a few months ago I wasnt even thinking about doing anything Military related. I also dont forsee me getting treated too much like a child, Ive got my PFC and I am also married while I am at Parris Island I will be still getting PFC pay as well as my housing allowances then when I hit Intel school I will possibly get off base housing same thing for when I hit fleet.

Assimilation isnt difficult either, most older people just see having someone younger than them being their senior as an insult i really dont give two ****s how old the person is that is my NCO SNCOIC. I think for other people its a Pride thing

[Domc]

I feel popular, everyone's talking about me

tee hee

and jesus you're old Munky, don't get hurt in boot camp...

I don't know if being older is better, as a youngin' it'll be easy for me to just accept the way the Corps is and assimilate, because I don't know any better. You on the other hand are a grown @$$ man about to be treated like a child.

Agreed, I thought I was old going in, at 22, but 27 props to you man.

[AlexJH]

wtf you don't ship until november? Well if I get RA and my ship date pushed back a little bit we may be in school at the same time, you'll have to hook it up with the off base housing if we're at the same duty station..

depending on if I'm going to Dam Neck or Corry though, have you heard any word on what MOS you're projected to get?

[MunkyVsRobot]

Not yet, Ive still got to take the DLAB. Also tell me about it for the November ship date but that at least gives me time to get back in shape and to have a kick ass summer. Ive got some drinking to do and some hanging out to do and stuff to shoot.

ETA: I assume youre heading to Cali with your 26xx

[AlexJH]

naw I'm DD, 02XX/26XX, got a 90 on the DLAB so it's a no go for DLI, which doesn't really matter because i don't want to be a linguist. Would be eligible if I was Army.

[MunkyVsRobot]

good game, im planning on heading to VA but it could change i first need to get myself a contract

[robbyj]

Not yet, Ive still got to take the DLAB. Also tell me about it for the November ship date but that at least gives me time to get back in shape and to have a kick ass summer. Ive got some drinking to do and some hanging out to do and stuff to shoot.

ETA: I assume youre heading to Cali with your 26xx

I wouldn't drink if I were you, if you need to get back into shape that should be that last thing on your mind.

[IHaveEGA843]

Munky youll get there and plus when new Poolees come in youll actually see how much you progressed because its like seeing yourself and where you were at some months ago.

Age has nothing to do it anything but gives you the amount of years you've been alive. Theres a Navy Chaplin that can run 13 miles like nothing in a amazing time and hes atleast 60 something.

Youll be good to go in a couple months

[achilles097]

naw I'm DD, 02XX/26XX, got a 90 on the DLAB so it's a no go for DLI, which doesn't really matter because i don't want to be a linguist. Would be eligible if I was Army.

Linguist is a tough ass job. I respect anybody that has to freaking take that dumb ass test. Let me tell you anyone who scores very high on the DLAB is a freakin genius. At one point my mom and cousin were working for the Defense Language Institute on contract with the Special Forces telling the SF how to teach local farmers how to disarm clay borne mines in a simplified version of their native tongue. Short version, the SF would set up mines around their OP and from what she told me these farmers needed to know how to disarm them just in case. Boy, that would suck waking up and walking into one of those LOL. Anyways, she said she worked with some linguists who had to take a test with the "Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center" to become proficient in a foreign language over the period of a year. It's supposed to be basically the best linguist school in the world, but super hard. It can be a VERY rewarding job once you're employed outside the military, but can also be a huge pain in the ass. It's my intention to sign up at a reserve unit in Quantico after I'm out of the Corps. Intelligence is just one of those MOS's that is extremely valuable after your time out.

[MunkyVsRobot]

Here is another thing that popped into my head it was something I read a while back when I was trying to get into college sounds harsh but it is true. (I am just copying this and pasting it from a web site but it should still help) It is Bill Gates 11 rules for life.

----------Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them up for failure in the real
world.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping
they
called it Opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.


RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as
you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.

[IHaveEGA843]

Here is another thing that popped into my head it was something I read a while back when I was trying to get into college sounds harsh but it is true. (I am just copying this and pasting it from a web site but it should still help) It is Bill Gates 11 rules for life.

----------Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them up for failure in the real
world.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping
they
called it Opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.


RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as
you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.

SMMFH....they need this posted up at the RS and around my current job

[DudefromDiego]

----------Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them up for failure in the real
world.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping
they
called it Opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.


RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as
you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.

+1. This is right on the money.

[USMC Infantry]

I'm gonna go take a ****.

******* I am so happy to hear this ******* has been banned. hope he doesn't make another account..