3381 units, how exactly do they work?

[josephd]

go away

[Draco771]

8 hours of PT a day? In the reserves? They don't even PT 8 hours a day in the MARSOC or Recon communities, so I doubt the reservist food service specialists do it. Much of the training schedule in the reserves is dedicated to basic requirements like annual training, PFT, CFT, etc. Then you have the rifle ranges, swim quals, etc. You shouldn't post anymore until you actually graduate bootcamp.

Unit in question does the 8hr PT drills for those trying out to compete for slots in it, after further communication and information about the Detachment it's a CST soon to get organic indirect fire capabilities, which is why they have senior 03 series NCOs as their job was to set up infrastructure for the unit to support its own mortar section as in theater indirect fire assets are needed for the CST mission when they aren't playing "Pretty Boy Marine" (not my words).

As far as their usual drill weekends, if they aren't cooking etc. They are dominantly doing MOUT with the M4s and Mk 46. As a daily breakdown of Marines in the unit they spend 3 drill weekends a year on the "basics" for qualifications and the other drill weekends and annual training are based on combat drills and cook offs time to time.

But most of the time they are 6 months on drill status, 6 months deployed as per what they called "Unit Rotation".

what you just said in the last 3 posts sounds nothing like the Marine Corps(active or reserves).

Airborne is an Army term, this unit is NOT "airborne"...they may be an active jump status unit.

tryout drill weekends?.....never heard of that

PT for 8 hours a day?.....ummm I doubt it, that isn't even good for you.

I am having a hard time believing any of this to be honest

Just what I've been told and have gone through, done two Drill Weekends now at Ft. Lewis in tryouts. Saturday is arms and abs and Sunday is legs and back shoulders. Everything from flutter kicks, to climb mountain, to jogging in place, to running laps around an obstacle course and then we did the obstacle course last drill weekend. I sucked on the monkey bars, and the "reaper" but did great on all of the climbing obstacles and towers. Then Sunday we spent 2 hours low crawling, two hours high crawling, lunch and then we went on a bus to the on base pool to swim laps and do flotation exorcises.

[silveradomick]

A Poolee poser? That's a new one. Hey OP...go screw.

[LCPL1341]

Holy sh*t.... you're STILL HERE? I know reservists get priority for bootcamp/MCT/MOS school slots since their units are paying for them to get their AD training. How are you STILL here dude? Are you shipping anytime soon? Or are you just sitting at home pulling military acronyms and terms from all the pubs you can find to sound knowledgeable? How is your IST? Are you within height/weight standards? Are you in the DEP? Hve you even passed MEPS yet? These are the questions I have. Oh, and HOW ARE YOU STILL HERE?

[josephd]

CST(cultural support teams)aka(FET) or CST(critical skills training), both fall under SOCOM/MARSOC which is not available in the reserves. Even if it was there was, I have an extremely hard time believing they would let some wannabe or poolee come "try out" for liability reasons.

2 hours of low crawling?..2 hours high crawling?......i don't think so

You need to come up with some proof or cold hard facts about what you're doing exactly otherwise you're completely full of $hit

[josephd]

oh and I just did a bit of digging on this unit you claim....I don't see it anywhere in MARFORRES's, 4th MLG's, CLR-4's, or CLB-23's table of organization....does that mean it doesn't exist?...no but again until you can come up with some facts or proof I am going to continue to call you out

[Marine1011]

I'm actually disappointed that the op is not going to be a recon cook, because that involves stealing recipes from the enemy, by use of a small recon force. A very little known activity in combat, but I know the op would know about it. Now I won't find out thanks to skepticism within the ranks here.

[josephd]

I'm actually disappointed that the op is not going to be a recon cook, because that involves stealing recipes from the enemy, by use of a small recon force. A very little known activity in combat, but I know the op would know about it. Now I won't find out thanks to skepticism within the ranks here.

sorry...i know you were looking forward to getting your hands on that secret spicy thai tofu spaghetti recipe

[MunkyVsRobot]

Probably just some bored Lance stuck in Med plt at MCT or something like that. Already wasting too much time on this thread as it is.

[LCPL1341]

He must've been on hold forever. This dude's been posting this sort of nonsense for well over a year. He laces all his posts with plenty of acronyms, numbers, and terms that sound like they came out of MCRP 5-12D.