MOS confusion? Check out this great advice!

[bartone]

Recently, I have made several post to the Ask a Marine forum on this website pleading for information about picking my MOS and what the whole wish list thing is about. Thanks to several Marines, they convinced me to not get pushed into a job I do not want.

I leave in under a month for Boot Camp, and like many others on here I've noticed I am starting to get serious nerves about not having a job secured, I mean I've been in the Pool for like 10 months now.

Well recently I found some information sponsored by: Lance Corporal D.A. Richards, and essentially its everything thing other Marines on this site have been asking me and more, hopefully I save somebody the pain I've been having lately worrying none stop about what I'm going to do about my MOS.

Check it out, some GREAT advice here: http://futurejarheads.webs.com/mossjobs.htm

[Aitrus]

Thanks for posting this, however we did just have someone post the same thing two threads down.

[bartone]

Thanks for posting this, however we did just have someone post the same thing two threads down.

well now don't I feel like a dip****.... Oh well, twice the likelyhood Poolees will look at it and take the good advice.

[Aitrus]

I've done the same thing before man. Annoying how it would seem chance would have it that whenever you post a duplicate thread, it's RIGHT after the first person did theirs. Such is the way things go on forums.

But yeah, it's good enough advice that it's worth posting twice. I think anyone who reads it will have a serious advantage over the majority of other poolees who go into the USMC absolutely blindly.

-Poolee Pike

[ScarSniper]

Everyone of you poolees who double post and don't do the research are idiots and shouldn't be joining the Marine Corps. Take your dumb a5s down to the freaking Navy. For all you poolees who have been here long enough to know. Don't answer these idiots' questions, let them read one of the ten thousand posts about the same thing, or go to Bootcamp as a F*cking cook. (No offense to cooks.) I'm sick of logging on, and only being able to post in 2 or 3 threads because the rest of them are "Ask A Marine" about the same exact thing. Once again, you guys are IDIOTS. You know who you are, and if you don't and you keep asking the same freaking questions, I'll start posting first and last names. I'm sick of this B.S. It's making Leatherneck boring and annoying.

Idiots.

[ScarSniper]

Recently, I have made several post to the Ask a Marine forum on this website pleading for information about picking my MOS and what the whole wish list thing is about. Thanks to several Marines, they convinced me to not get pushed into a job I do not want.

I leave in under a month for Boot Camp, and like many others on here I've noticed I am starting to get serious nerves about not having a job secured, I mean I've been in the Pool for like 10 months now.

Well recently I found some information sponsored by: Lance Corporal D.A. Richards, and essentially its everything thing other Marines on this site have been asking me and more, hopefully I save somebody the pain I've been having lately worrying none stop about what I'm going to do about my MOS.

Check it out, some GREAT advice here: http://futurejarheads.webs.com/mossjobs.htm

And dude, how the hell are you leaving in a month , been in the pool for TEN months and you don't have a job secure? What are you? The biggest freaking push-over On the Planet? Or just a stupid a5s? You wan to be freaking babied go to the Navy and just ASK your recruiter over there to CHOOSE your MOS. Hell, while you're at it? Why don't you just ask him to give you a budget on how to spend your money once you earn it? You better start asking Marines and recruiters what kind of women you can date too. You guys suck.

aND i'M NOT CHANGING MY TONE OR APOLOGIZING IF THIS OFFENDS ANYONE. YOU DON'T LIKE IT? KISS MY A5S. THIS IS THE MARINE CORPS, RETARDS, suck it up!!

[ScarSniper]

AND Please, PLEASE, Marines, if you ladies and gentlemen are reading this, in all due respect, do the site, yourselves, and other poolees a favor and stop answering these retards! Please! I logged on this morning when I woke up and there are literally about 6 threads asking almost the exact same questions using different words! 6. Out of TEN threads.

[ADRobold]

And we have a winner.

[Aitrus]

And dude, how the hell are you leaving in a month , been in the pool for TEN months and you don't have a job secure? What are you? The biggest freaking push-over On the Planet? Or just a stupid a5s? You wan to be freaking babied go to the Navy and just ASK your recruiter over there to CHOOSE your MOS. Hell, while you're at it? Why don't you just ask him to give you a budget on how to spend your money once you earn it? You better start asking Marines and recruiters what kind of women you can date too. You guys suck.

aND i'M NOT CHANGING MY TONE OR APOLOGIZING IF THIS OFFENDS ANYONE. YOU DON'T LIKE IT? KISS MY A5S. THIS IS THE MARINE CORPS, RETARDS, suck it up!!

Stand down Pilgrim. Way out of line.

As far as Poolees posting multiple threads in the Ask a Marine forum, this has been extensively covered here, in this forum. Look down a few threads... Or, dare I say, you could have found it had you used the search function.

I agree with you that people should use the search function, use the Ask a Marine forum as a last measure of research, etc. Look at my post in the other thread if you doubt that.

As far as this poolee not having his job secured, guess what? None of your business. If someone wants to even ship out open contract (which obviously we would all STRONGLY recommend against), none of your business. It's their life, their career, not yours.

I want to address a few things in particular that you said:

Take your dumb a5s down to the freaking Navy.

You wan to be freaking babied go to the Navy and just ASK your recruiter over there to CHOOSE your MOS.

Guess what? Anyone in the Navy, has done something for their country. Every Sailor out their deserves your friggin respect. Why? Because they have done something for their country. They've served honorably. You have not. I have not. None of us poolees have. You think going to Pool Functions gets you some kind of respect? Nah. You don't get any respect until you graduate Boot, and hold the title of United States Marine. Stop acting like you've already gained it.

or go to Bootcamp as a F*cking cook. (No offense to cooks.)

What the heck do you mean "no offense to cooks"? What you just said IS in it's very nature offensive to cooks!

Look, if you think just because you have an 03** contract that that makes you in some way better than any other poolee, it doesn't. I to am going 03**. Doesn't make me freaking better than anyone else. I haven't done anything, you haven't done anything, every cook in the Marine Corps has. One of my recruiters was a cook. Another Seargent who helps out at the office and does PT with us was a cook. I have a whole lot of respect for those men. They do a good job at what they do, just like any other Marine does.

YOU DON'T LIKE IT? KISS MY A5S. THIS IS THE MARINE CORPS, RETARDS, suck it up!!

Wrong. This is not the Marine Corps. Again, we're just friggin poolees. However it would be a good idea to start acting like Marines, and gain some professional bearing and act like an adult.

Look, your posts on Leatherneck are usually a whole lot more thoughtful and intelligent than this Scar Sniper. So I'm going to assume this was just a post made at a bad time or something. You take back some of those ill informed comments and I won't hold any of it against you, and we'll all go back to posting regularly here on Leatherneck.

I'm not a mod. I'm not trying to act like a mod. Just a poolee who sees something screwed up on the forum and is trying to get it sorted out civilly before we HAVE to get a mod involved.

Let's all take a deep breath now, go back to our lives, go to some PT. Stay motivated.

-Poolee Pike

[younger223]

ScarSniper has a point. Regardless, that is a good article! Makes me kinda glad I didn't get infantry when picking my jobs.

[wilsontc11]

AND Please, PLEASE, Marines, if you ladies and gentlemen are reading this, in all due respect, do the site, yourselves, and other poolees a favor and stop answering these retards! Please! I logged on this morning when I woke up and there are literally about 6 threads asking almost the exact same questions using different words! 6. Out of TEN threads.

You just triple posted.... and you're ranting about people that double post? Not trying to start anything here, just saying....


and thanks to the thread poster for posting that link, I was looking all over the place for that lol. Saw it a while ago but I couldn't remember the name, thanks!

[BassPro0007]

Aitrus, don't bother. It would seem by the time he spent on that post that he does it to get a hard on. Scar, not necessary, but whatever gets you off I guess. (We can all be tough on the internet by the way)

[ScarSniper]

Stand down Pilgrim. Way out of line.

As far as Poolees posting multiple threads in the Ask a Marine forum, this has been extensively covered here, in this forum. Look down a few threads... Or, dare I say, you could have found it had you used the search function.

I agree with you that people should use the search function, use the Ask a Marine forum as a last measure of research, etc. Look at my post in the other thread if you doubt that.

As far as this poolee not having his job secured, guess what? None of your business. If someone wants to even ship out open contract (which obviously we would all STRONGLY recommend against), none of your business. It's their life, their career, not yours.

I want to address a few things in particular that you said:





Guess what? Anyone in the Navy, has done something for their country. Every Sailor out their deserves your friggin respect. Why? Because they have done something for their country. They've served honorably. You have not. I have not. None of us poolees have. You think going to Pool Functions gets you some kind of respect? Nah. You don't get any respect until you graduate Boot, and hold the title of United States Marine. Stop acting like you've already gained it.



What the heck do you mean "no offense to cooks"? What you just said IS in it's very nature offensive to cooks!

Look, if you think just because you have an 03** contract that that makes you in some way better than any other poolee, it doesn't. I to am going 03**. Doesn't make me freaking better than anyone else. I haven't done anything, you haven't done anything, every cook in the Marine Corps has. One of my recruiters was a cook. Another Seargent who helps out at the office and does PT with us was a cook. I have a whole lot of respect for those men. They do a good job at what they do, just like any other Marine does.

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Wrong. This is not the Marine Corps. Again, we're just friggin poolees. However it would be a good idea to start acting like Marines, and gain some professional bearing and act like an adult.

Look, your posts on Leatherneck are usually a whole lot more thoughtful and intelligent than this Scar Sniper. So I'm going to assume this was just a post made at a bad time or something. You take back some of those ill informed comments and I won't hold any of it against you, and we'll all go back to posting regularly here on Leatherneck.

I'm not a mod. I'm not trying to act like a mod. Just a poolee who sees something screwed up on the forum and is trying to get it sorted out civilly before we HAVE to get a mod involved.

Let's all take a deep breath now, go back to our lives, go to some PT. Stay motivated.

-Poolee Pike

All right buddy, first of all, I have an uncle who's been in the Navy for 18 years plus, and is retiring shortly, and I was originally going to enlist in the Navy before I decided to go Marine. So I'm in no way trying to disrespect the Navy. That being said? If you want to be babied? Go to the Navy. This is the Marine Corps. It's rough, it's tough, it's fueled by men and women who would really just like to kick a mule but can't, because it might offend the Mr. Softees who tear up and say things like "Dude, don't yell at me. Not cool." Poolees are the future of the Marine Corps and don't you forget it. You take away poolees and the Marine Corps will eventually join the ranks of the dinosaurs. Sure, they'll live immortal through forever warriors like Chesty and John Mackie but without us poolees, there would be no physical future of the Marine Corps. So spare me the whole "we're just poolees, we haven't done anything" speech. It's true, we haven't earned the title Marine and we're turds, slugs and the sh!t at the bottom of a DI's boot until we do and I for one am not entitled to anything except an as5-whooping at bootcamp but don't you say we haven't done anything. We took an Oath. In my opinion, that's more then most Americans do. Now about your "We need to start acting like poolees" skit...what are poolees exactly? Are we not a future extension of U.S.M.C? What do you think is going to happen at the fleet? You think some Lance Corporal or NCO is going to gently ask you to do something all the time? Especially if it's been asked over and over? No, buddy, and if you do, like I said, the Navy beckons you. Marines will eventually shove their boot up your candy as5 if you go there asking for them to show you "professionalism". We tried "professionalism" we've asked gently not to double post. We've begged. Marines have instructed it. It's still happening. 6 posts. About the same thing. If you think the Marines are REALLY going to stand for this sort of thing (lack of initiative, simple instructions) you're wrong. I'm not going to continue to speak professionally to a bunch of idiots. In the civilian world, maybe, but this is a Marine Corps website, civilians are GUESTS here. If they don't like it, they can get out. I'm a civilian, but I know what to expect, and I'm NOT afraid of being chewed out. I encourage it and expect it, even though I don't like it. I'm not taking back ANY of my comments and you holding it against me will not cost me even a night of sleep, for in the end I'll still be shipping out to bootcamp and earning my title. If a MOD gets involved, maybe he or she will close down one of these repetitive threads...and if they don't get involved, I can only assume they, like many other poolees on this site, agree with me. I was civil. Devildogson was civil (kinda. lol) Marines have been civil. It's still happening. I can't find a post without the words MOS in it. This isn't a recruiting website.

Once again: If ANYONE FINDS MY WORDS OFFENSIVE YOU CAN KISS MY AS5. This is the MARINE CORPS.

I'm not trying to be a hardas5 online either. Any poolee who knows me physically knows I speak my mind entirely too much and would say this to anyone's face. And no one worth anything got anywhere without making a few enemies, so if a few people choose to not like me over my words, so be it. I'm not here to agree with every warm-body in the world. I'm here because I love the Marine Corps, and this is a Marine Corps website with future brothers and sisters who are joining the same fraternity as I am and it's great to exchange ideas and learn more about other poolees. The Marine Corps is a warrior breed. Professional yes, but I've seen even recruiters get angry at civilians when their buttons get pushed too far. You're dealing with the Marine Corps, not the Oscars, with a bunch of fake performances and golf-claps. So Once again, future morons/idiots of the Marine Corps? STOP DOUBLE POSTING!!

As to the reference of being a cook. I'll give you that. Maybe that was out of line, after all, without cooks Marines wouldn't be able to eat (or would they? would the Marines become paralyzed without Marine cooks? What about without infantry? Think about that one.) Still, every job IS important, and to all future cooks out there, I certainly wouldn't look down on any of you, especially since I'm sure a bunch of you would be able to kick my as5.

Stop 10x posting.

[ScarSniper]

You just triple posted.... and you're ranting about people that double post? Not trying to start anything here, just saying....


and thanks to the thread poster for posting that link, I was looking all over the place for that lol. Saw it a while ago but I couldn't remember the name, thanks!

Ok. You want to be a smart ass. lol. No. I mean CREATING NEW THREADS. I don't mean posting one or more times on ONE thread. I MEAN creating 6 OR 7 THREADS that overwhelm the poolee section.

[ScarSniper]

Aitrus, don't bother. It would seem by the time he spent on that post that he does it to get a hard on. Scar, not necessary, but whatever gets you off I guess. (We can all be tough on the internet by the way)

Aw. What's wrong? Offended? Dude. I wish you were at my recruiting station.

And yes, I'm turned on. Thoroughly. Is that what you're wanting to hear? Seriously though, bro, I don't like having to post these kind of threads. It makes me seem like I have no compassion (which I do) and like I'm a complete jackass (which I'm not) You're all my future brothers and sisters and I for one am all for the brotherhood and taking care of each other. But enough is enough. Look at the poolee Forums. How many MOS questions do you see now?