Can you request combat duty if you join the Marines?

[iGas]

Meh, dont listen to these pussies Dari. Once you get involved with the military you wont look back. I love my involvement.

Talk to tall bill. He was us army or a marine?

There is honour in wanting to defend your country.

I didn't know Iraq & Afghanistan are territories/states of the US.

 

[iGas]

Dari,

How old are you? Here's why I ask. You sound young, or at a minimum, immature.

What you're failing to understand about combat is this. Sometimes combat is the easy part. I haven't seen direct combat action, but I've served as an MP for years. In that time, I've seen dead children, battered women (and men), broken families, houses so filthy that even the pets were sick but there were the kids walking around barefoot kicking dog shit on the floor (we counted 82 piles of dog shit in the quarters that day before I got so pissed off I walked out for fear of shooting the soldier for allowing it to happen), meth addicted families, child pornography cases (nothing worse than seeing a 30+ year old man penetrating at three year old girl), and on and on.

Now, most of that shit just angers me, the two dead kids I've dealt with caused permanent damage. So did the child porn case. Now, maybe you won't be an MP and you won't have to deal with that shit, but you WILL see it in other countries. I firmly believe I can kill a motherfucker that's trying to take me or another soldier out in combat and suffer little ill effect. What I don't think I will be able to deal with is seeing a child dead, or the body parts of a child laying openly in the street. Especially now that I have kids. My brother agrees, he's had two combat tours in Iraq as an Infantryman and the thing he talks about the most is not the insurgents or fighters he blew to shit, but the kids who walked too close to an IED, or had grenades strapped to them and didn't understand why.

So, you go on and rush into something stupid because your father's, father did it, but remember this. They didn't all FIGHT in previous wars. One of my grandfathers died of cancer at age 58 with shrapnel in his back from assaulting a German bunker, the other one broke his leg training for the Normandy landing and spent the rest of his time in the war doing paperwork in England.

Simply put, you're an idiot for leaving a possibly pregnant wife behind to go rushing off into direct combat action for some assinine gesture of "family history" that no one will give two squirts of piss about at the end of the day. Now I'm not saying don't join, by all means, join. I've done it damn near my whole life, having been literally born into the Army. But, choose your career based on some common sense goals given your current situation, otherwise you're just another cliche fucktard trying to prove how big (or small as it were) his dick is out of some sense of insecurity in life.

There I said it, because it needed said.

What MarkXIX said is true.

I was a civilian in the Vietnam war and I have see enough horrors to last 2 life times. I still have reoccurring nightmares even those the war ended over 30 years ago.

 

[sandmanwake]

this place is so fucked up

I agree. I mean what sort of a world is it that a woman can make that sort of plan for her husband. Whatever bad karma the OP had from a past life is probably made up from dining at the Y while unknowningly slurping up some other guy's discards, but to cold heartedly plan to kill the OP by convincing him to sign up to go to a combat zone just so she can collect life insurance while banging his best friend in their marriage bed? That's just all sorts of fucked up.

 

[datalink7]

Go Army. They can guarantee you a job when you sign up (something I don't think the Marines do). Should be able to get Infantry.

 

[sandorski]

Dude, I know you said, "'til Death do us part..", just get a Divorce already.

 

[nick1985]

I didn't know Iraq & Afghanistan are territories/states of the US.

We got another one

 

[Train]

Go Army. They can guarantee you a job when you sign up (something I don't think the Marines do). Should be able to get Infantry.

^^ Something the Army recruiters tell everyone. You can get gaurentees on signing day no problem.

I've also heard them say you can't get the GI bill in the corps, or do split training (over summers while in college) Which are both BS.

 

[Dari]

I expected some of the posts here. Some good, some bad, some just plain stupid. I'm not doing this as a career. I'm doing this because it's expected in my family. My wife, who has been pregnant for 3 months now, knows about my family's tradition but made me promise her this. So long as I don't have to deal with family issues out there and can focus on my job, it'll be ok. I want combat duty because that's also expected and encouraged. MarkXIX, thanks for the heads up but I think I'll be fine. I don't care how bad it is, if I can't handle it, then I don't deserve to wear the uniform.

 

[Mo0o]

I expected some of the posts here. Some good, some bad, some just plain stupid. I'm not doing this as a career. I'm doing this because it's expected in my family. My wife, who has been pregnant for 3 months now, knows about my family's tradition but made me promise her this. So long as I don't have to deal with family issues out there and can focus on my job, it'll be ok. I want combat duty because that's also expected and encouraged. MarkXIX, thanks for the heads up but I think I'll be fine. I don't care how bad it is, if I can't handle it, then I don't deserve to wear the uniform.

Why dont you start your own family tradition of maximizing the chance you'll be there to see your kid graduate from HS

 

[TallBill]

^^ Something the Army recruiters tell everyone. You can get gaurentees on signing day no problem.

I've also heard them say you can't get the GI bill in the corps, or do split training (over summers while in college) Which are both BS.

I know quite a few Marines, quite a few had no guarantee whatsoever.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I expected some of the posts here. Some good, some bad, some just plain stupid. I'm not doing this as a career. I'm doing this because it's expected in my family. My wife, who has been pregnant for 3 months now, knows about my family's tradition but made me promise her this. So long as I don't have to deal with family issues out there and can focus on my job, it'll be ok. I want combat duty because that's also expected and encouraged. MarkXIX, thanks for the heads up but I think I'll be fine. I don't care how bad it is, if I can't handle it, then I don't deserve to wear the uniform.

You're going in for the worst possible reasons - "I don't want a career, I'm just doing it because it's expected of me". You're going to have a shitty time. GL.

 

[Dari]

You're going in for the worst possible reasons - "I don't want a career, I'm just doing it because it's expected of me". You're going to have a shitty time. GL.

The reasons are implicit. I love my country and I'm proud of our military.

 

[sandorski]

The reasons are implicit. I love my country and I'm proud of our military.

There are things more important.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Yeah... that's Dari.

way too funny...
So how is Dari`s wife going to get pregnant if Dari is off fighting a war for his soon to be commander in Chief?

You know once you join the corp your history of opposing everything Obama mor democrats do will come to a grinding halt?

If your in the military and somebody gets wind that you are dari it could be considered treason....

But comer to think of it who would tell...hmmm

 

[Printer Bandit]

pics of wife?

 

[Colt45]

This is tradition. Someone in my or my extended family has been in every single American war since the Revolutionary War. Maybe even before. However, I also like to keep promises. I'm also tired of office politics at my job.

I don't seem to recall anyone declaring war.

I'd holdout for WWIII, at least that one should be worth fighting.

 

[f4phantom2500]

honestly dude, you have a baby on the way. think about what that means before you decide to join the military, specifically the marines. i know it's something of a tradition, but do you really want your wife and child to have to worry about you like that? it's military duty first, family second. especially with the marines. i don't think your family will be at all disappointed if you decide not to enlist. after all, that's the freedom that your ancestors have fought for. people always want their children to lead a better life than they did, and the best thing you can do for your new family is to not enlist.

you said your dad fought in vietnam. i assume that you were conceived after the war, and i don't know if your dad was around a lot, but i mean even if he wasn't at least you didn't have to grow up worrying about whether or not he'd be coming home in a coffin, if at all. not to mention spending your early childhood with your mom in a constant state of fear. especially these days, it's not uncommon for people to go on 2~4 tours.

do you really want that for your wife and child? seems to me like this desire to join the military is a bit selfish, really. because really, you're much more valuable to your family than you'd ever be to the military. you have to put their needs first, not tradition.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

MarkXIX, that is some heavy stuff man. Probably the deepest post I have ever read on these forums. I hope the OP reads your post at least 10 times.

 

[geno]

Well shit son, I hope you're better at firing a rifle than you are at shooting your pecker.

fuckin lol

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Why do you want to get shot at and kill people?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

What's your wifes #, need pics of her, and when will you be deployed?

While you're overseas I'll make sure she is taken care of (if hot).

 

[BoomerD]

Why do you want to get shot at and kill people?

Du-ude....it's so fucking cool in Call of Duty...it must be just like that in real life...right?

 

[Pacfanweb]

This is tradition. Someone in my or my extended family has been in every single American war since the Revolutionary War. Maybe even before. However, I also like to keep promises. I'm also tired of office politics at my job.

Yeah....screw your family, right? Gotta keep that other family tradition up.

Seriously....the time for doing this was BEFORE joining the armed forces. You don't have a family first THEN leave them. That's stupid....beyond stupid.

Your duty now is to provide for that child, not uphold some imagined tradition. Should have thought of doing that before you got married.

I'm all for people joining the military, but in this case, no.

 

[stag3]

good luck sir, and when you go i hope you come back safe.

 

[Cattykit]

This is tradition. Someone in my or my extended family has been in every single American war since the Revolutionary War. Maybe even before. However, I also like to keep promises. I'm also tired of office politics at my job.

WTF?? This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard...and what's wrong with your wife as well?
You got her pregnant and you want to leave her for war and your wife is okay with it? Assuming you're white, I bet your, no, her baby is black or even green.
Anyway, I guess I'll have to leave everything to you; you're just so damn good at reasoning. I mean, you want to join the war for it's your FAMILY TRADIDION and you're tired of office politics!!! That's true, nothing is more valuable than damn family tradition and the worst thing in the world is not war but blood sucking office politics!!!

Well, at least, I'm glad your family didn't involve in child molesting. In that case, you would molested the child for it's damn FAMILY TRADITION???!!!

Man, I usually enjoy others' stupidity but I just can't do it on this one because it's just far stupider than all the stupidest things combined. Please don't join the Marines. Become a sucide bomber for Al-Qaeda. Last time I checked, a person like you belong there, not the U.S Marines.