MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

reenlist

MurderBot posted:

come to OCS with me we'll be bunk mates and tell ghost stories at night*



*anal fisting

Victor Vermis posted:

Cutting score for Corporal was higher when I was trying to pick up in 09-10 than it is right now.

Jesus christ even 0351 is in the 1600s.

Y'all are dumb.


semper my fi from the sight black

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

I have less than one enlistment until I retire.

Reverand maynard posted:

Do you get a shorter last enlistment of do you just have to grin and take those extra years past 20?

Internet Wizard posted:

I've been telling you the negatives here because a lot of people aren't going to tell you them. Either they're some official person like a recruiter or a kool-aid drinker that thinks serving Corps and Country is the best thing anybody could ever do and, or they're victim to an institutional cowardice where everybody is afraid of being the guy that complains about the actual things that suck and are wrong. Sure, everybody will complain about sleeping in cold mud and eating MREs all the time, or how much rucks suck, but most Marines are terrified of being the guy that complains about an NCO being an unprofessional rear end or how base policies at a schoolhouse command don't make sense. "It couldn't possibly be changed before you leave, why bother complaining?" is something I've been told a lot.

Yarville posted:

When I was in MOS school, we were a few days from graduating and we were told to get online and fill out an evaluation. Despite knowing I was graduating top of my class, I was pretty disenchanted with my experience at MOS school and the Marine Corps in general. When we were actually training and learnign how to do our (very hands-on) job, I enjoyed it but at least half of our time was spent doing absolutely jack poo poo. There was a two week period where, instead of getting our humvee license (because it rained during our night drive so two weeks of training was cancelled) we sat in a thunder dome and PTed three times a day. We were still getting up at 0400 and not being released until 1800 despite the fact that absolutely nothing was going on. This is all at a detachment where we routinely told how garbage we were, where there was a draconian libo policy (there was essentially a 700 yard square area where we could go by ourselves, anywhere else we had to sign out and have a libo buddy), where we watched the base commander make a 18 year old PFC cry and call his little sister and tell her he was getting NJPed because he went into town without a buddy. On Memorial Day, they wouldn't tell us whether or not we were actually getting a 96 until the night before, so no one could go home or make plans with family.

So I wrote all that. How it was a waste of time and only helped lessen our morale. Despite this supposedly being anonymous I was somehow found out and I was belittled in front of the company by our Master Sergeant for being a pussy and a complainer. I was nearly stripped of being honor grad despite earning it fair and square. Thankfully things got a lot better when I hit the fleet and I'm in a pretty chill unit but that one moment ruined the Marine Corps for me. Three years ago and I'm still salty.

Yarville posted:

When I was in MOS school, we were a few days from graduating and we were told to get online and fill out an evaluation. Despite knowing I was graduating top of my class, I was pretty disenchanted with my experience at MOS school and the Marine Corps in general. When we were actually training and learnign how to do our (very hands-on) job, I enjoyed it but at least half of our time was spent doing absolutely jack poo poo. There was a two week period where, instead of getting our humvee license (because it rained during our night drive so two weeks of training was cancelled) we sat in a thunder dome and PTed three times a day. We were still getting up at 0400 and not being released until 1800 despite the fact that absolutely nothing was going on. This is all at a detachment where we routinely told how garbage we were, where there was a draconian libo policy (there was essentially a 700 yard square area where we could go by ourselves, anywhere else we had to sign out and have a libo buddy), where we watched the base commander make a 18 year old PFC cry and call his little sister and tell her he was getting NJPed because he went into town without a buddy. On Memorial Day, they wouldn't tell us whether or not we were actually getting a 96 until the night before, so no one could go home or make plans with family.

So I wrote all that. How it was a waste of time and only helped lessen our morale. Despite this supposedly being anonymous I was somehow found out and I was belittled in front of the company by our Master Sergeant for being a pussy and a complainer. I was nearly stripped of being honor grad despite earning it fair and square. Thankfully things got a lot better when I hit the fleet and I'm in a pretty chill unit but that one moment ruined the Marine Corps for me. Three years ago and I'm still salty.

Victor Vermis posted:

I didn't get to be the honor grad or whatever despite being the section guide through most of SOI because one guy outscored me on the tests.

He also got Corporal ahead of me in the fleet and was my squad leader on our second pump. He thought "HVT" meant "kill on sight".

He shares Trump2016 stuff on Facebook now.

Do your pull ups, devils.

Yarville posted:

There was a two week period where, instead of getting our humvee license (because it rained during our night drive so two weeks of training was cancelled)

Comfortably Numb posted:

what. Our instructors thought it was good training to low crawl through storm drain runoff ditches and 2 guys literally got hospitalized because fire watch found them near death in the rack and the EMT's came and took them to the ER. cause 03's ruh

Comfortably Numb posted:

what. Our instructors thought it was good training to low crawl through storm drain runoff ditches and 2 guys literally got hospitalized because fire watch found them near death in the rack and the EMT's came and took them to the ER. cause 03's ruh

Thump! posted:

Sounds like some solid training tbh

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

someone was drunk and or retarded when punching in the numbers for that year

Handsome Ralph posted:

Probably the most random question I'll ever ask in these forums but here it goes....


I work with statistical data for a living and right now I'm looking over the numbers of personnel in each branch by rank, gender, etc.

Anyhow, at the end of FY2010, there were about 802 Female CWO-2's in the Marines (up from 39 the previous year), only to drop down to 42 the year after that. I cannot find anything anywhere that explains why there was a sudden surge of female CWO's for a year only to see the number drop very rapidly the next year. It's a long shot, but does anyone have any possible insight into why that number jumped up and then crashed down?

The only explanation my civilian brain can think of is that it maybe had something to do with the Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan. Or DoD/SecNav is just doing some weird accounting trick for that particular year.

Even if no one can answer my question, at least I got the joy of reading the OPs "Duty" story...

Deathy McDeath posted:

According to the Military OneSource report on DoD demographics for FY 2010, there were a little over 840 total W2s in the Marine Corps on active duty for that year (page 13). Additionally, there were only 110 female warrant officers. They probably just input the total number in the female block for some reason.

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

Mike-o posted:

Probably a woman.

MurderBot posted:

My wife was joking about if we end up in Quantico she wants to be the most prominent Dependa on base. His boots her flip flop decals, "marine wife, hardest job in the military" shirt, no job and use my rank to establish where she fits with other dependas.

It's a joke, but I now have nightmares.

Deathy McDeath posted:

Yo. I just read The White Donkey by the guy who does Terminal Lance.

That book is HEAVY. gently caress.

Really good read, but...goddamn.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Matterhorn was the last book I read about Marines that was any good.

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

matterhorn and fields of fire were weird to read. you hear about dudes living on remote pbs in afghanistan; eating 2 mres/day if they're lucky, never showing, washing their clothes in a bucket, 4hrs on/4hrs off/4 ever, redipping the same can for a week, etc and think 'gently caress im glad im not there' but all those guys in vietnam lived like loving animals. drank parasite infested water, never bathed, never slept, wore their uniform until it rotted off their bodies, wondered seemingly aimlessly around their ao for their entire enlistment.

i cant imagine what it was like.