I plan on enlisting in the next week or two since I've kept all my promises to my wife.
What does this mean? You promised your wife you would enlist in the Marines? Or she's letting you enlist in the Marines because you've kept all of your promises?
The latter. She wanted to get pregnant. I never realized it would take so long to get someone pregnant.
I'm glad someone said it.so your wife wanted to get pregnant and is, now you're joining the marines and requesting combat duty? and she actually agrees with this? if this isn't the most ass backwards thing i've heard then i don't know what is.
so your wife wanted to get pregnant and is, now you're joining the marines and requesting combat duty? and she actually agrees with this? if this isn't the most ass backwards thing i've heard then i don't know what is.
so your wife wanted to get pregnant and is, now you're joining the marines and requesting combat duty? and she actually agrees with this? if this isn't the most ass backwards thing i've heard then i don't know what is.
I don't want to ask my father, who fought in Vietnam, since he and my mother share everything. I plan on enlisting in the next week or two since I've kept all my promises to my wife. However, I do not want to guard some embassy or work in the United States.
so your wife wanted to get pregnant and is, now you're joining the marines and requesting combat duty? And she actually agrees with this? If this isn't the most ass backwards thing i've heard then i don't know what is.
The latter. She wanted to get pregnant. I never realized it would take so long to get someone pregnant.
If you're in a hurry to get to war, you better be patient.
93 days in bootcamp. 10 days boot leave, ~9 weeks in Infantry School, then the latest you can join a unit that is getting ready to deploy is usually 60 days out, and thats cutting it thin, most units want you at least 6 months before they trust taking you overseas. If you are LUCKY you can be deployed within 7 months of joining, but thats unheard of, maybe 9 months more like it.
But thats assuming you do a good job and keep requesting a deploying unit. But they could just as well stick you on West Pac MEU (western pacific readiness group) and youll spend 12 more months training, then 6 months floating around the phillipines, australia, etc. doing humanitarian missions.
They could also just ignore your requests and stick you into a unit that just got back, and you sit on your thumbs for 2 years doing the same training over and over, wanting to rip your hair out, while they get refitted with gear and re-manned.
As you will soon become aware "The needs of the Corps outweight the needs of the Marine."
After your first enlistment though (4 years), you will likely be in a much better position to volunteer for cool shit, and switch to deploying units. But your first few years, you're basically a commodity.
Lt. Dan, is that you?This is tradition. Someone in my or my extended family has been in every single American war since the Revolutionary War. Maybe even before.
so your wife wanted to get pregnant and is, now you're joining the marines and requesting combat duty? and she actually agrees with this? if this isn't the most ass backwards thing i've heard then i don't know what is.
Most of the Marines are pulling out of Iraq apparently, so I guess you would more likely see action in Afghanistan depending on how the surge goes.
http://cbs5.com/national/troops.exit.Iraq.2.1432795.html
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.