Thanks for the info Wookie. I have been retired for 35 years now and the Corps has changed a lot in that time. Back then as I stated we secured anything and everything.
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i have sucessfully made it through BSG and now i am being stationed in Rota Spain as permanent personnel anyone have any insight to what it is like?
well the thing is i am married, im wanting to know what am i going to be doing there and what things i am going to need to take care of before me or my family goes over there
Well I was up at MCSFCO Bangor and although its a lot like kingsbay you will have the time of your life up in washington, you are 45 min out of seattle, 30 min outside of tacoma, and you will have lots of good training with many chances to go to a lot of good schools such as martial arts instructor, Marine combat instructor of water survival, coaches course and many more. The Security forces in the marine corps is very good at making your SRB look good for boards and the most squarded away marines do in fact come from Security forces due to the way they are run. I was a squad leader at bangor and had 22 marines under me and left bangor with a NAM for my accomplishments at bangor, it was a lot of fun and i would go back in a heartbeat
you have to admit security forces are a whole hell of a lot more squarded away than a lot of units in the marine corps and no apples bee is no fun lol you have to go to seattle lol
I am currently looking to reenlist and to do MCSF. If you are married, are the tours accompanied? Is there enough time to take classes or anything like that?
Well, first of all are you a Lance Corporal or are you a Corporal, your avatar lists one thing -- but your profile lists another.
To your first question -- I'd check with the monitor on that one, or the career planners for the latest gouge. I bet each duty station is different. Back in my day most married people got accompanied tours except for Greece where I was because it was only a year long rotation/duty station. Most tours are two - three years and I'd assume those ones are accompanied.
As an NCO - you should have time to take classes, at least on-line, and with a somewhat "set" schedule you should even be able to take them on-ground also.
Are you still at Kings Bay? I'm putting in for there (my packet just left the BN for headquarters) I know theres not much around there, my wife and I are from Jacksonville,FL so thats pretty much my whole reason for going..if she didn't have her job there she would have moved up to Lejeune with me. I mainly just want to know what the daily routine would be like for a NCO. So far I've heard the schedule is something like 4 days on 5 days off? Do NCO's get stuck standing post or are they usually COG/SOG?
Hey I finally got my MCSF packet sent up and I'm trying to get Kings Bay (my wife & I are from jax. , FL) is there anyone that is still stationed there or just recently left that could tell me about the schedule? I've heard it's like 3 days on 4 days off? Do NCO's get stuck standing post often or are they mostly COGs/SOG's? and whats a good apt area off base around $700 or so.. please message me instead of replying to the thread. thanks Semper Fi
I'll answer this in the open in case it answers another Marines question.
NCO's do not stand a typical post/duty, they do the COG/SOG thing.
I don't know about rent prices/apartment info around there, but the Kings Bay area is very nice and 700 bucks might not get you much -- I went there for a few weeks back in 98 to do a MTT for their DM's and CQB guys.