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Ah yes, the well known United States Marines and their iconic bullpup rifles.
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Oct 10, 2015 10:49
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http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/10/18/corps-seeks-prior-service-marines-some-specialties/74006570/ Im sorry for posting this. Truly I am. I have to make you all feel the pain I did when I saw this on facebook though.
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Oct 20, 2015 03:40
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MaxPowers posted:http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/10/18/corps-seeks-prior-service-marines-some-specialties/74006570/ LOL @ anyone who actually goes back in for whatever crappy bonus they are offering now. Next year is an election year and we will probably get new total force end strength goal. Then we can play the "kick everyone out, ohh poo poo not that many" game again. Also I can't imagine the fleet Marine Corps is very fun now that no one has any money for training anymore. Even I am riding my time out by hanging out with the Navy since MEUs are the only way anyone gets to do anything anymore.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:26
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They're only offering 56k to critical skills operators? Isn't that what one of them could make in like 6 months as a contractor?
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Oct 20, 2015 12:12
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Internet Wizard posted:They're only offering 56k to critical skills operators? Isn't that what one of them could make in like 6 months as a contractor? Not if they're not already making that as a contractor. A lot of cushy contract jobs have dried up with all the hiring freezes and budget cuts. This exists for guys who hosed up, got a worthless degree with their GI Bill and didn't have friends already working in the industry and are stuck holding their dicks . The DoD is starting to figure out you can make an E-4 to do the same job as a 6 figure GS/Contractor and get the same, if not slightly better results at a fraction of the cost. And then when the job is done, they can either retrain the bastard, or just drum them out for an inevitable DUI, Domestic, or just using the N-word on twitter. Booblord Zagats fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 18:01
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What I've never understood about bonuses is that over four years it doesn't amount to much. 15k over four years? Thats a temporary raise of less than 4k a year. I mean, unless your purpose is to entice grunts back in that can't do math.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:40
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quote:"To be eligible Marines must have ... a break in service that is at least 91 days but shorter than 4 years"
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Oct 20, 2015 18:50
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Reverand maynard posted:What I've never understood about bonuses is that over four years it doesn't amount to much. 15k over four years? Thats a temporary raise of less than 4k a year. Well I could use a 4k a year raise just saying. Also if you're smart with money (lol at that being anyone who does this), tossing that bonus into an investment portfolio will make the bonus a decent amount larger over the course of 4 years. Time value of money and all that.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:10
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The marine recruiting officer called me and was like "you should join the marines killer and be a dragon slayer." maybe not in those words but that's what came to my mind. I kinda wanna do it because I hate my life and feel that going to marine OCS and TBS is what I deserve for constant masturbating.
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Oct 20, 2015 21:25
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Booblord Zagats posted:Not if they're not already making that as a contractor. A lot of cushy contract jobs have dried up with all the hiring freezes and budget cuts. But isn't it the lobbyists job to convince the congressmen that control the DoD's budget that it's in their best interest to pay way too much for a contractor to do the same job?
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Oct 20, 2015 22:22
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MurderBot posted:The marine recruiting officer called me and was like "you should join the marines killer and be a dragon slayer." maybe not in those words but that's what came to my mind. do it faggit
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Oct 20, 2015 23:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dg3Us9ld2g
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Oct 20, 2015 23:53
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:do it faggit Don't internet bully me or I'll do it.. I'll go to MEPS god damnit and get fisted for the marines so help me...
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Oct 21, 2015 00:26
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MurderBot posted:Don't internet bully me or I'll do it.. I'll go to MEPS god damnit and get fisted for the marines so help me... 
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Oct 21, 2015 02:25
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Booblord Zagats posted:Same can be said of the Harrier but with an asterisk showing how many pilots it has killed
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Oct 21, 2015 16:25
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MurderBot posted:The marine recruiting officer called me and was like "you should join the marines killer and be a dragon slayer." maybe not in those words but that's what came to my mind. If you go as anything but a pilot... Also I heard 300 pfters are getting passed over for affirmative action cases. Any truth to this? Where is your OSO?
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Oct 21, 2015 16:33
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Africanus posted:If you go as anything but a pilot... I heard of 300 pfters getting passed over for people with good grades or leaderships skills. Any truth to this?
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Oct 21, 2015 17:28
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Africanus posted:If you go as anything but a pilot... Also I heard 300 pfters don't necessarily make great leaders 
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Oct 21, 2015 18:23
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Africanus posted:If you go as anything but a pilot... I have a meeting with him, very impromptu meeting early next week, he's out of Albuquerque NM. I'm gonna sit down, continue to weigh my options over everything. I have a masters *in public health* and being a nurse is like sucking the dick but not from the back, from the front which isn't very titilating. While a Masters degree is "ooh ahh" public health entities make probably equivalent to any bachelors degree holding chum who gets an entry level job in their field for most situations, but also used as the degree to pursue a PhD in. Whoever the rep down in southern NM is, my estimated PFT is roughly 275 *lacking pull-ups but maxing the run/crunches* and thinks that for selection come the summer OCS shouldn't be difficult to put me in. I'd be going in at the age of 29 but with 6.5 years of prior military said that an age wavier wouldn't be a big deal. The only thing that seems somewhat worthwhile is maybe doing Marine Reserves as an officer, but I literally know jack poo poo about how that all works. One had mentioned that my MOS and billeting is based upon the needs of the marines, so whatever I get is where I drill, or I can choose where I want to "live" but then my MOS is based upon the surrounding area, and one said that you choose your MOS but then you're forced to move wherever that reserve unit is, etc etc etc. Nice and hot piss fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 18:36
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MurderBot posted:
Worked for Rob Riggle, I guess
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Oct 21, 2015 18:37
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Booblord Zagats posted:Worked for Rob Riggle, I guess Maybe when I achieve the rank of Lt.Col I can get a job at Comedy Central?
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MurderBot posted:Maybe when I achieve the rank of Lt.Col I can get a job at Comedy Central? Fox Sports and Holiday Inn Express
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Oct 21, 2015 18:42
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I'll take what I can get I suppose.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:42
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MurderBot posted:I'll take what I can get I suppose. Nah, thats what he got. You'll probably end up with a PBS filler show and living in a Super 8
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Oct 21, 2015 18:49
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Can I negotiate for maybe TBS and La Quinta Inn?
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Oct 21, 2015 18:51
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MurderBot posted:Can I negotiate for maybe TBS and La Quinta Inn? You have to be a fall guy for an arms deal first.
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Oct 21, 2015 18:57
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MurderBot posted:Can I negotiate for maybe TBS and La Quinta Inn? Those are both upgrades over Rob and lets be honest, he's got charisma and a great voice. Your best hope is the CW and getting paid in gift certificates for Best Western
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Oct 21, 2015 19:07
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I can probably suck a mean dick, haven't tried but I mean if we're talking career goals and better places to stay at night....
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Oct 21, 2015 19:18
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joat mon posted:I heard of 300 pfters getting passed over for people with good grades or leaderships skills. Any truth to this? Good grades? You need a 2.0 to be a ground officer. Let's face it if you rocked college with a technical degree what do you want to be a Marine Officer for? Patriotism? 5 years into a 12 year commitment let me know how that goes.
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Oct 21, 2015 19:21
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can you imagine getting out of the marine corpse then being like, nah gently caress it ill come back in. loving lol
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Oct 21, 2015 21:19
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I'm thinking I may just wait until the next conflict happens where I can shoot *insert colored person here* and go back in. Especially if it's like the last one when were vastly unprepared I'm sure I can get in somewhere at whatever age to do whatever.
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Oct 21, 2015 22:17
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no infantryman wants to re-enlist in the fiercest fighting force in the world let that sink in AHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Oct 21, 2015 23:01
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With regards to the reserves, officers and senior enlisted often live a ways away from their duty stations. If you live far enough away they have to pay you a stipend to help with travel. Not a blank check or provided a ticket or anything like that. I drill in NY and we had guys coming in from Minnesota, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, etc. I can't speak to specifics about how reserve officers get assigned, but the distance thing is universal to my understanding.
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Oct 22, 2015 04:38
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DaNerd posted:With regards to the reserves, officers and senior enlisted often live a ways away from their duty stations. If you live far enough away they have to pay you a stipend to help with travel. Not a blank check or provided a ticket or anything like that. Yeah I have a family friend who was a reserve major. He lived in Southern California and worked as a high patrolman but drilled outside of Pittsburgh as a company commander and later XO. It was weird seeing this dude fly across the country every month for drill.
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Oct 22, 2015 04:48
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Pretty much every single reservist pilot does this, but like 80% of them work for the airlines as their day job so they get free flights.
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overdesigned posted:Pretty much every single reservist pilot does this, but like 80% of them work for the airlines as their day job so they get free flights. Yeah. We had one pilot in our squadron, based in Southern California, fly in from the Florida pan-handle every month. He flew Cessnas for UPS
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Yeah I have a family friend who was a reserve major. He lived in Southern California and worked as a high patrolman but drilled outside of Pittsburgh as a company commander and later XO. It was weird seeing this dude fly across the country every month for drill. I've always wondered if cop reservists ever wind up in situations where their police chief is under their command in the reserves or something.
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Reverand maynard posted:I've always wondered if cop reservists ever wind up in situations where their police chief is under their command in the reserves or something. That would be very unlikely because those careers usually parallel each other closely as they tend to get hired to the PD when they get back from MOS school. So the police chief with 15 years in the force also has 15 years in the reserves. What can happen, and does happen often, is large disparities in income/status. You can have SNCOs who are living around the poverty line in charge of LCpls who own their own businesses and make 6 figures. So that gets weird if you stop to think about it. However, the real world mostly ceases to exist during drill and then you go your own way until next month.
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