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03-12-10, 02:36 PM #16
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03-16-10, 05:14 AM #17
If anyone is thinking of Lat Moving, my advice to you is, talk to some one that is currently in that MOS to get a jist of it. My mistake was I didn't do that. Just like the saying, the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
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03-16-10, 08:56 AM #18
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03-16-10, 08:33 PM #19
Okay, the people replying to this thread don't know jack **** about the Marine Corps apparently.
I've got a battalion level NJP. Guess what I did 6 months later? Deploy to Afghanistan as a Squad Leader. Guess what happened when I got back? Picked up Corporal. And now i'm picking up SGT on May 1st and i'm still not even at my 4 year mark yet. An NJP doesn't mean ANYTHING and anyone who tells you otherwise is a ****ing idiot. As long as it's not alcohol related, NJP's are inconsequential.
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03-17-10, 08:46 AM #20
I would re-read all the responses in this thread before you make a stupid comment like that. Most of us have said it shouldn't be a problem, but it might hold up the process and I don't think very many Marines that replied said anything about promotion. NJP's do count for your entire career, if you think they won't take into account a prioir UA charge if that same Marine goes UA again, than you don't know jacksh!t about the Marine Corps apparently.
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03-17-10, 08:59 AM #21
Don't forget, you are talking to Accord -- he knows everything about everything, since the first day he logged into this site as a round little fat body. He likes to throw in HIS bragging points when discussing other points that have nothing to do with HIS bragging points. Hey Accord, please tell us how your azz-pack stopped a 7.62 round again, please. That was my favorite.
Semper Fi -- Keep it real.
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03-17-10, 09:16 AM #22
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03-17-10, 09:17 AM #23
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03-17-10, 12:49 PM #24
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03-19-10, 12:39 AM #25
Just want to respectfully clarify something.
I do not in any way feel that my Corps somehow owes me something, or that I deserve anything more than the opportunity to do my duty.
I am a humble and dutiful Marine. I was raised right by my father who is a retired Naval officer. My Senior Drill Instructor instilled in me an understanding of the core values of our service, and beat civilian selfishness out of my old mindset. I could be assigned to burn excrement for the rest of my career and still would be proud to wear my uniform.
I've made some mistakes early in my career that will certainly set me back somewhat. I have fully acknowledged that and take full responsibility for my actions. The past two years have been a period where I've had to do a significant amount of growing up.
Regardless of what happens I will continue to work as hard as I am able and continue to excel in my assigned MOS.
My intentions with this inquiry, however, are to see if the option is feasible to be put to better use. I feel like the contribution I could be making is wasted in my assignment currently.
It frustrates me that:
-Despite having emphatically volunteered multiple times to deploy, I have not been selected to serve when those I went to boot camp with are in many cases returning from their second deployment. I enlisted with deploying being a primary motivation and am currently assigned as station personnel in CONUS with no opportunity to do anything else apparent within my current MOS.
-I know I possess the aptitude and skills to be making a much more valuable contribution to my Corps and the war effort, and do not have any outlet in my current situation to bring them to bear.
-The US Government has already invested a significant amount of resources ($200k if my understanding is correct) on certifying me for the clearance level that I currently possess. Right now, that investment is being wasted.
-On a personal level, I have several close friends either currently engaged in combat operations, or who will be going into harm's way in the near future, and I worry that I will not be capable of doing anything more important for them than sending them off with a hot meal and my prayers. Every evening I read the updates on the ongoing conflict and the DOD releases of the names of those who have fallen casualty to it, and am struck by a sense of helplessness. With Iraq effectively over for the USMC operationally, I worry that Afghanistan may be over too before I am given the opportunity to make a difference.
Maybe I'm naive but I am a Marine and an American and I believe in the importance of the work we are doing. I did not join for the college benefits or the free T-shirt or because I had no real prospects in the civilian world.
I hope you'll forgive me the self-indulgence of searching for an alternative to the position I have found myself in. Perhaps you are right and I should just accept my lot and wait out my remaining years of my extended contract and then EAS and forget about all the reasons why I became a United States Marine in the first place.
I'm embarrassed that you got the impression you did about my motivations. I apologize if my OP failed to represent me as well as it should have. I want to assure you that my intentions are not the selfish ones that you believed them to be.
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03-19-10, 12:43 AM #26
I don't blame my recruiter. He was crashfire rescue and undoubtedly gave me his recommendation in ignorance rather than malicious intent. I was the first person the recruiting station had seen that qualified for the job at all, so there was no doubt top-down pressure on him to get me a contract for the more specialized MOS rather than the one I had asked for, which it would be easier to place other people in contracts for.
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03-26-10, 04:32 PM #27
Just an update:
My name got submitted for special recognition by my chain of command, and me and one other junior enlisted Marine from my (pretty big) section were congratulated by our Squadron CO in person and got a challenge coin from him. It's not a lot, but it's something. It's not everybody that can break the barrier of going from the "New-join PVT coming to us already with an NJP", to "Marine we submit for special recognition and awards".
Oh and they told me they wanted to put me up for Marine of the Quarter, but I was ineligible because my rifle score wasn't updated. (I haven't qual'ed since '08, and I made my chain of command aware of it when I first PCSed here and have been on the waiting list for months. I finally get to go shoot April 5-9th and pick up my orders on Tuesday.)
Meanwhile, I just got word the other day that the MSG recruiters are coming to Cherry Point on April 19th!
Hopefully this might just be the opportunity I've been waiting for. Wish me luck.
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03-29-10, 07:38 AM #28
Good Luck Bro.
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03-31-10, 06:44 PM #29
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