Sea/Shore Duty

[Barret]

For all those Marines out there, What Kind of MOS's serve mostly on a ship, or do pretty much all Marines Serve alot of time on ships? So far, all I have a pretty good knowledge of is Boot Camp. I just don't really know what Marines do after that.

[Echo_Four_Bravo]

Sea duty is a thing of the past as far as Marine Detachments go. The MOS's that make up a MEU can easily spend time on a ship. An average infantryman will go on two 6 month deployments during a four year enlistment in peace time. Other than that, I think the air wing sends some people on carriers but I was never in that position, so I'm not sure.

[SemperFin]

My unit (Air Winger) did a 6 month tour on the Coral Sea when I first got in but after that we never went on another boat while I was in. We did do 2 WestPac tours in that time though. One was for 7 months and the other was for about 15 during Desert Shield/Storm. I think my old unit has rotated back into the sea duty billet. If you go Air Wing, expect to do some time on a ship.

[Wyoming]

(I)f you go Air Wing, expect to do some time on a ship.

And ... expect it to suck. It did in the late '60s.

[marinegreen]

For 6 mths I flew off ship(USS IWO JIMA) on dem dar whirlie birds.Of all my free rides we made 1 hard landing and it is a cage rattler,I got to sit in plane team commanders seat being sqd lder and I was watching the panel when on comes every redlight,and when you see the pilots heads going back and forth to one another you know your in a world a poop, they made a drastic swoop to the ground and when we got to within maybe 10-15 ft. we tanked out and hit hard and the crew chief is screming at us to get the f-u-q off,chit you didnt need to ask me or my guys TWICE.Dont know what it was but after they played around awhile they told us to get back on to which at first we thought fuq you,but we did and I guarantee there was some pukered arseholes all the way back.All in all it was a rush everytime I flew on one.SF

[Phantom Blooper]

Miss Sea duty?


If your longing for sea duty, here are 22 simple steps to simulating life on the ship.

1. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack".
2. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping.
3. Every time there's a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.
4. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".
5. Don't watch TV except movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie, then show a different one.
6. (Optional for ex-engineering types) Leave lawnmower running in your living room six hours a day for proper noise level.
7. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
8. Once a week blow compressed air up through your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across and onto your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
9. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
10. Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread, if anything. (Optional: Canned ravioli or cold soup).
11. Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator.
12. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your yard and break out the garden hose.
13. Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.
14. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5 or 6 hours before drinking.
15. Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months, and call them Marines.
16. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
17. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them.
18. Lockwire the lugnuts on your car.
19. When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is cooking. Then spread icing really thick on one side to level off the top.
20. Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "Man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off of the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".
21. Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go and stand in front of your stove. Say (to nobody in particular) "Stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3 or 4 hours. Say (once again to nobody in particular) "Stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put them away.
22. Wake up at 0-Dark-30, line up in the driveway in a light drizzle, and have your mother-in-law criticize your clothes and read you the newspaper.:banana:

[Wyoming]

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My Gawd and Day Yam Bloop - those hit the nail on the head.

#15 - and you'll get put forward with those 85 Marines, stacked 4 high. As I recall, most of us slept in our 46's and fought for mail call, when we would fly off and get the mail. We'd generally be on land a couple of hours. A decent shower and food without standing in line for over an hour was heaven.

Oh yeah, forget getting your clothes washed.

[Marine84]

They never would put me on a boat (running my bottom lip out)