Recruitment for Non-Americans

[Celtic Tiger]

And why haven't you spent that year getting on a waiting list to get to America? Seems to me that a year has been wasted because you have not taken the bull by the horns yet!!!

There is no waiting list, theres the random lottery program as i mentioned, applications open October, winners announced around April of the following year.

I do not qualify for any of the other options, the lottery is my only option.

Thus its simply a waiting game and crossing your fingers every year Camper51, nothing more and nothing less.

But like i said in my previous post, im still exploring other options, or atleast the possability that there actually are other options.

[Echo_Four_Bravo]

Celtic Tiger, you could always learn a skill that would make you a needed worker, which can speed up the process of getting a visa.

[Shrike]

Celtic Tiger, hi to yoy, fellow foreign wannaby . I'm from Russia and I will get my GC through employment. If you'll loose a lottery it will be only option exept marriage . As far as I got to know - bachelor degree is a big plus. Without bachelor you will wait GC for years. Anyway, you'll need a lowyer.

So good luck with lottery and godspeed.

[Celtic Tiger]

All of that is so damn long term.

I'm so tempted sometimes to just say screw it and join the irish army full time.

[Shrike]

Celtic Tiger

I choosed this long way because I want to fight and become a warrior. With Irish army you will quite probably get a good job and good friends, bit it will nothing to compare with life of Marine. So if you don't want to regret in future you should take your chances.

[Celtic Tiger]

Well thats the catch isn't it.

If i am going to actually take the plunge finally and join the military I want to have as many oppertunities as possible when it comes to careers, equipment, training and so forth.
The irish army is great if you want a balanced military life and family life as once you get past basic training your pretty much doing bank security van escorts for the rest of your years besides the odd exercise and U.N mission if your selected.

With the American Armed forces they have bases all over the world, the best equipment and countless training programmes and much better oppertunities for advancement if you want it enough.

Its a tough decision to make, going through all the waiting and hassle just to join the U.S Armed forces, do it all and get the t-shirt, when possibly i could join the irish army right now and go through it all and come out with possibly the same qualifications.

So... a few years of headaches for the Marines?

Or right now for the Irish Army?


Either way though, im gonna be here at home and working for the next year atleast, as for a start i need to get back into shape, but also i need to save up some cash for laser eye surgery and im hoping to go on a sky diving course for my birthday comming up, either way im going to be waiting so i might as well keep pursueing the American Armed Forces ambition.

[jinelson]

CelticTiger you may want to communicate by PM with Shrike I know as a fact that he has researched this inside and out.

Jim

[Echo_Four_Bravo]

Celtic Tiger, I say this as nicly as I possibly can.

I don't think you have the right motivation or enough drive to be a US Marine. This speed bump in your path isn't really that difficult to overcome. If you want to be a Marine, you will find a way to make it happen. Thousands of people manage to get green cards and come to the US each year. If they can do it, so can you.

Why don't you look closer to home? The British Royal Marine would likely be an option for you. The French Foreign Legion would clearly be a possibility. And both of those would present fewer problems for you.

[Celtic Tiger]

Echo with all due respect I'd advise you to look up the Legal Residency visa requirements and match it to my current skills and qualifications before judging my motivation and drive.
I could have applied to the Irish Army Cadets (Irish OTC) two years ago and I know for a fact i would have been accepted. I could have applied to the Royal Irish Regiment two years ago and I know for a fact I would have been accepted. I am a young lad of 20 years of age and I was the only recruit in the history of the Irish Army Reserves to become a Corporal right out of Basic Training, which i later lost when i went to Study War and Security Studies in College in England, but which im trying to get back now that im out of College.
I spent two years studying International Relations, the above course and Arabic language skills. I spent my whole life surrounded by politics being in region of Ireland smothered by it and living in a family with a father heavily involved, developing strategys for him in campaigns. I read old surplus military manuals when i was a young boy when others my age were playing with their Action Men and G.I Joes.

The purpose of me telling you all this isn't arrogance, Its simply for you all to finally realise that I am not here because I am bored. I am here because I have built my life around being the best.
I built my life around the Military, I have always been the best and I want the best career possible in the best Military as possible.

My life and history is my motivation, nothing else.








Overall excuse the rant, not my intention. Echo's comments simply insulted me to the core of my nation nevermind person and being.

[DWG]

Echo is right-you offer more excuses than solutions. There is nothing wrong with the Royal Marines (aside from being Brits)

[Celtic Tiger]

Echo is right-you offer more excuses than solutions. There is nothing wrong with the Royal Marines (aside from being Brits)

I enjoy having kneecaps.

And thank you so much for your pre-judgement.

I speak what i am thinking whether people like what i think or not and I try to be as realistic as possible.

Its all nice for you lads being borin in the states and having gone through the corps now. So please do try not to judge the same is so easy for others to do. Different people are in different situations.

Anyways i got many constructive replies and i thank you all for that, it looks like that is as far as the support i will get now judging from the more recent replies.

Thank you all while it has lasted.

[DWG]

And thank you so much for your pre-judgement.

Just another service I offer!

You have been given a lot of advice on this thread and other areas to check into. Maybe it is now time for you to start checking these avenues-you might luck out and get into something sooner than expected. I think some feel that you are more interested in complaining about your plight than in attempting to overcome it. Marines have very little compassion for that kind of thinking. If we are wrong, then you will eventually find a way to earn your EGA; then you can come back and rub all our noses in it! I don't think there is a Jarhead here that would resent it if you did. Good Luck!

[yellowwing]

...And that concludes this episode. Six pages is enough for Celtic Tiger to work with.