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    Noooooooooooo - it's..............


    OOHRAH!


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    "I have to say I did not expect, at all, this type of camaraderie and love from all of you; I do not deserve any of this."

    jm4magic-
    I don't love you. Besides...we just met and I can't see a future for us. LMAO. But you do deserve proper responses to any questions or inquiries that you ask in a respectful manner. It took some moxie to tell us your situation and your feelings. Continued success to you, no matter what transpires.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tkmac58
    Or they could of had a good recuiter who sold them nothing but the intangibles of the Corps, and when they got in the Fleet they had a ****ed up NCO, SNCO or OFFICER giving them a hard time or *****ing, it isnt always the recruiter there devildog. A recruiter is the first line of excuses, they are told at every level of the process, ie NCOIC breif, Meps, Operations, Moment of truth x 2 the hard facts od Matine life and what really happens, a recruiter becomes out of sight out of mind..

    TKMAC58
    My apologies Top. Those too could've happened. It wasn't my intention to offend you at all. I do know recruiters that sell the Technical Aspects instead of the real deal. When I have asked them to have their Poolies come to the board and join I'm told they don't want them contaminated with misinformation. This is no reflection on the moral majority in the Recruiting field. These are lone individuals only. I appreciated my Recruiter cause he gave me the true scoop straight up. I always went back to the RSS when I was on leave and helped. I actually enjoyed it.

    My apologies again.


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    OhhRah!

    Quote Originally Posted by Poskew
    wooot

    What is this???


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    JM4magic, I don't know if you are pulling our leg or not about your father saying he would be embarassed to be a Marine and that all Marines are poor. I suspect you are just trying to ruffle a few feathers.

    Just in case you are serious, I was far from poor when I voluntarily joined the Marines (the finest force to ever be assembled) just out of college back in 1966. If, in fact, he did say that, he is a very ungrateful man and one stupid son-of -a-*****.

    You will be much better off in life if you do not try to pay too much attention to his advise.

    best wishes to you and to hell with you dad.

    J. Robert Lee


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    Speaking of important Marines...... how about Lee Marvin, Capt. Kangaroo and Mister Rogers!!


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    yeah and the spanish women you think about when listening to Boys of Summer by Don Henley and the Eagles.


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    That is not very patriotic of your father. He should be proud of you...Marines are the best and the military keeps our country free so that your dad can be CEO of that big company and have money. I come from a wealthy family and I am joing...my parents are proud...and maybe your father will be too on graduation day when you become a Marine!!!!


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    For Richer or Poorer

    Marines are Marines whether rich or poor.
    Semper Fi:


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    your daddy sounds like an a-hole to me tell him cpl mac USMC said so


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    Quote Originally Posted by jm4magic
    I want to know what some of the criticism you poolies are receiving from so called friends and family. I’ll start first. My father is a rich man; he is the owner and CEO of a corporation. He told me, he would be embarrassed to show his face to the public because his son enlisted in the Marine Corps. When asked why, he said only poor people join the military
    Tell your dad to suck the fart outta my ass!




  12. #72
    YEAH what the Marine said above me


  13. #73
    I got one brewing.. tell him to get his jogging pants on.. I can't hold on too much longer for him!


    Listen, brother.. FORGET what you're father says.. EARN THAT TITLE.. and if he still don't support you and be proud of you.. you have the CORPS!

    STAY MOTO god-damnit!!



    MOTIVATED,

    -Jon





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    My parents don't want me killed in a modern day reenactment of the Vietnam War. My entire family is against the way the 'war on terrorism' is being persued by George W. Bush, including my ex-navy grandfather who ran for congress as a goldwater republican at the height of the Vietnam conflict. I share, to a large extent, the liberal outlook of my family; but I believe in service to country, and I feel that since I come from an upper middle-class background, I should be doing my bit like all the others serving in our military to help us pull out of these turbulent times.


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    I believe this woman has hit on what bothers your father...the loss of some high moral ground and why the rich and famous avoid serving...less than one percent of their group even thinks about serving...
    We're in a world of chit...
    And we are not even aware...

    Absence Of America's Upper Classes From The Military

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2270473&page=1
    Some exceprts from that long article/story...

    When the deciders are disconnected from the doers,
    self-government can't work as it should.
    Those who opine, argue, publish, fund and decide courses of
    action for our country rarely see members of their families
    doing the deeds these leaders would send them to do, deeds which
    have such moment in the world. These deeds hardly begin and end
    with the Iraq War — 200,000 U.S. troops are deployed in 130
    other countries around the world, keeping it "flat," in Thomas
    Friedman's phrase. They train other nation's security forces,
    help keep the peace, provide humanitarian assistance, rescuing
    Americans from Lebanon, standing ready to go to Darfur if sent,
    to go wherever the country calls on them for assistance — in
    short they do the complex work of the world's sole superpower.

    Yet these doers are strangers to most of us, and the very
    missions they do are mysterious.

    A study by the eminent military sociologist Charles Moskos
    shows that the population of a democracy is not willing to sustain
    military engagements over time if the leadership class does not
    also serve in the armed forces. Its lack of service sends a signal
    that the conflict is not vital, or worthwhile. Since we don't know
    what conflicts will come — or which party will be in power when
    they do — these findings should matter to all of us.

    In past wars — even long-haul wars like the Cold War — the
    Kennedys, the Bushes, the Sulzbergers of The New York Times
    served. Sure, there were always shirkers, but many did join their
    middle-class and working-class compatriots. Today narrow
    self-interest, a sense of "other priorities" or a misguided sense
    of moral preference means most of the upper class never
    considers military service.

    An idea expressed by many, including many in the upper classes, that it is somehow more moral to refrain from military
    service than to serve, because that way one can avoid an "immoral" war.
    But service members also know that Americans will be sent to do
    the nation's bidding. And we want those who are sent to act with
    skill, judgment and integrity. Many of those who serve see that
    Americans are being sent to act in agency of our country and
    say, as the famous sage Rabbi Hillel said, "If not me, who?"

    Military service is not a political statement. Democrats did not
    rush to sign up when Clinton became president, and wealthy
    Republicans didn't suddenly join when Bush was elected. Military
    service is service to the country, and even more perhaps, service
    to your fellows.

    But how can we expect privileged young people to do
    military work? Military work is dangerous. You could be asked
    to kill or be killed. It is fraught with the risk of being sent into
    an unpopular conflict, as many now understand Iraq to be. Why
    should the children of our leadership classes or those ambitious
    for leadership chose such a path, when there are so many better
    options available to them?
    As a country we have stopped presenting military service as a
    principled statement. We sell it instead as a job opportunity, one
    from which those with "better options" are excused. We need to
    revisit our stance on who should serve, and why. All members of
    our elites need not serve, just a representative number, enough to
    bring the leadership in line with the rest of the country, to bring
    the wisdom and perspective that in the aggregate can come with
    experience and responsibility. With such leaders, with such a
    military, we will be a stronger, fairer, better country. With such
    leaders, the enlistment plans of young Jimmy McCain need not
    seem so surprising.

    Semper Fidelis
    Ricardo


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