USMC 2017: All of the Cool Marines Died or Stopped Posting

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Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Discount_Bees posted:

I finally got out a few months ago. Gonna miss shooting guns out of helicopters but definitely no regrets.

Welcome to Freedom

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 12:07

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 22:29

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

All the cool marines may have died or stopped posting but y'all got the first gold rated service thread of 2017

1stSgt threatened NJP if we didn't vote 5

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 23:56

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Victor Vermis posted:

Whoever got mine is in luck: my spunk crusts to a Level III ballistic rating. Drop that lame nut-flap in your company's designated K-bar seabag, Cpl Vermis' unrealized heirs will shield your delicate nethers from frag & SAF.

jk i didnt return poo poo

I was wondering where you went

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 08:52

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Yeah that sounds pretty implausible.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 09:21

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

I hope that in the future we can load actual people into cannon shells as a form of living artillery so I can experience the pure visceral thrill of some GED mouthbreather sending me to my shrieking doom.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 18:22

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

I don't know bout y'all but I don't want to die and head to a place where you fight and die for all eternity. Is there some Nordic equivalent of an afterlife where you get drunk, eat pizza, peep butts and pet dogs all day? Because that sounds like my thing.

EDIT: That kinda sounds like an eternal barracks TBH

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 19:17

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

elite_garbage_man posted:

if you die like a pog (not in combat) then you don't go

something to ponder before self-terminating or coming down with cancer of the anus

what if you
like
are on a QRF sent to
help some guys in combat
and
your mrap rolls over
into a poo poo canal
and you drown in poo?

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 00:27

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Internet Wizard posted:

b-but I wanna go to Valhalla too

Bunch of entitled pukes in my Marine Corps Thread, I tell you what. Don't wanna earn their eternal reward.

Shut the gently caress up boot

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 09:09

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

It's a word that people use to make Marines feel bad

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 13:52

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

OORAH MARINE CORPS

*clap clap*

KILL

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 18:20

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

New marine commercial is...good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q5R8cNbYJQ

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 19:32

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

oorah derbil

# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 05:46

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

its not like any of you retards had anything better to do

actually very true

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 00:51

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

MaxPowers posted:

You have to one up that sgt yelling at cops. drat that video has 23 million views on the youtubes.

Shamar Thomas. I served with that guy. He was a really cool, and I'd never seen him get aggressive like he did in that video.

The last I heard of him, he went on a speaking tour after that video, was a contestant on Survivor, and now does advocacy work of some sort.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 01:05

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

MassivelyBuckNegro posted:

the only honest man in gip

if you asked him his cock size, he'd say: within a standard deviation of the average length/thickness for white men in america

TW: a small sprinkling of motivation

Realtalk: I was a huge fuckup as a kid and all the way up through high school. Fat, lazy, with no real sense of purpose or direction. My greatest aspiration after high school was to go to community college to study computer science (something that, knowing the math requirements for now, I would have surely failed out of) and play video games. Had I not enlisted, I would probably still be living somewhere near my hometown, probably still incredibly fat and very depressed. I probably would have been a brony too :barf:

The Marine Corps kicked my rear end in just the way that I needed. It taught me that even though I was a piece of poo poo, I could stop being a piece of poo poo if I tried really, really hard. And so I tried harder than I've ever tried at anything before. I actually started to care about things, including myself. I realized that instead of seeing a goal and thinking "Man, if I weren't such a sack of poo poo I could totally do that thing", I could actually, you know, try to do that thing.

I'm still kind of a piece of poo poo, but I've kept the weight off for almost 15 years now and I'm far more mature and worldly than I was back then. I go to a very good school, and my job prospects are looking good. I also started settings goals and achieving them, like learning an instrument, or learning a language. I've won a few prestigious scholarships, which is something that would've sounded ludicrous if you told me back in high school. All in all, I'm doing pretty good.

Granted, I almost offed myself a few times because the adjustment really loving sucked, but thankfully I never went through with it. While I can't claim to be one of those hilarious brokebrain dudes who writes everything in all lowercase and is all wacky and zany, the service did gently caress with my head a little bit, but thankfully the school's counseling service is surprisingly good at handling service-related issues. With graduation coming up next month, I'm reminded that I really got a good deal out of the whole thing, and even though I would change a few things if I had to do it over again, I'm very glad that I did it.

So yeah. Enlisting was a net positive for me. Sorry for taking up your time, but thanks for listening anyway.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 01:30

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

Devils (esp. gunny Hekk)

I shouldn't care about this, but a new MOS (0571) was approved about two years after I finished a particular course, and I think I qualify for it. I've been out for almost five years now and have no idea how to apply for this and/or get an updated DD-214. Here's the applicable MARADMIN http://www.marines.mil/News/Message...nel-announceme/

Anyone have any ideas?

# ¿ May 5, 2017 00:05

Time Crisis Actor: Apr 28, 2002; by Hand Knit

I tried that, but my CAC is incredibly expired so I can't use the web form. In the end, I message to garcia'd and contacted the civilian POC listed on there.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 18:59