Can you request combat duty if you join the Marines?

[IEC]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U

 

[BoomerD]

Train indeed speaks the truth, although when I enlisted in January 1970, I told the recruiter that I'd ONLY sign if he could guarantee me infantry and Vietnam.

He laughed and said that was the easiest guarantee he'd ever been asked for...

I hit RSVN in October 1970.

 

[sandmanwake]

Your wife took out massive life insurance out on you. One more thing--that's not your kid growing in her uterus. You're shooting blanks and she's been banging your best friend. When you die in combat, your life insurance money will ensure neither of them will ever have to work again and their kids will be set for life.

 

[Farang]

Your wife took out massive life insurance out on you. One more thing--that's not your kid growing in her uterus. You're shooting blanks and she's been banging your best friend. When you die in combat, your life insurance money will ensure neither of them will ever have to work again and their kids will be set for life.

this place is so fucked up

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Your wife took out massive life insurance out on you. One more thing--that's not your kid growing in her uterus. You're shooting blanks and she's been banging your best friend. When you die in combat, your life insurance money will ensure neither of them will ever have to work again and their kids will be set for life.

Dari doesn't believe in faithfulness to one's spouse anyways, so she's probably supportive of it.

 

[Sea Moose]

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.

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.

 

[Sea Moose]

lol. You will just be trading in one set of politics for another. Don't think for a minute that human social foibles disappear once you wear a uniform. The circumstances are just different. Remember this when one night you are standing watch over a rock because someone thinks it's an important rock.

Haha, this has some truth.

But friends you make in the military are friends for life. Civilian friends arent on the same level as my military friends.

 

[jlee]

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.

Nobody is saying there's a problem with the military. However, just barely getting his wife pregnant and then wanting to go active duty? That's odd.

 

[ProgressiveAthe]

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.

Please reconsider, there is a good chance you could be deploid to Iraq, you do not want to go there. It is hell on earth, and there you would be a the bad where the locals think you murder women and children. Remember under bush our troops were ordered to shoot preggnant women in the belly during the masacare at fallujah, and Iraqis still remember this.

Trolling? Or retarded? -Admin DrPizza
edit: Good-bye.

 

[Train]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U

I didnt even click on it, yet I'd bet $20 it's a clip of Full Metal Jacket... "this is my rifle, this is my gun...."

too friggin predictable.

 

[Train]

Please reconsider, there is a good chance you could be deploid to Iraq

No there isn't

you do not want to go there.

Uhh, yes he does, that's sort of the point of the thread, he's REQUESTING a combat tour.

It is hell on earth

No it's not

and there you would be a the bad

WTF?

where the locals think you murder women and children.

No they don't.

 

[Miramonti]

The latter. She wanted to get pregnant. I never realized it would take so long to get someone pregnant.

Unfortunately many women find out the hard way that 15-20% of the time pregancy != child.

In other words, if your commitment is to give her a child, you might want to wait until she delivers a baby before joining the military, just to be certain (not to mention it often means a lot for the father to be there when in labor.)

 

[PrinceofWands]

Haha, this has some truth.

But friends you make in the military are friends for life. Civilian friends arent on the same level as my military friends.

I found the reverse to be true. Most of the people I met in the military were idiots, or what I would consider bad human beings. A handful of exceptions of course. Meanwhile I'm still very close to many friends I made since kindergarten up to a few years ago, who are intelligent, caring, etc. *shrug* I suppose it's a random draw.

Not saying anything against military service (though going right after getting your wife pregnant is either abandonment or a coinflip on widowing/orphaning in my opinion). I enjoyed my time, and would do it again if I had it to do over.

Unless, of course, it's a providing issue. If it's used as a means of support for the costs of pregnancy, I can see it...though it still makes it a coinflip on the kid growing up without a father, and the woman being psychologically damaged beyond repair.

 

[nick1985]

Remember under bush our troops were ordered to shoot preggnant women in the belly during the masacare at fallujah, and Iraqis still remember this.

Can you backup this outlandish claim? Or are you just a dumbass?

 

[Capt Caveman]

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.

Has to be another one of his troll posts. Who the hell would get married, get his wife pregnant then want to go into combat?

We're also talking about someone who's scared of kids taunting him when he goes jogging.

 

[ProgressiveAthe]

Can you backup this outlandish claim? Or are you just a dumbass?

Given the coverup of what happen there under bush, that isn't so easy.

 

[Brainonska511]

Given the coverup of what happen there under bush, that isn't so easy.

How convenient for you. Such a statement gives you the cover to make all sorts of outlandish claims without any proof what-so-ever.

 

[jlee]

Given the coverup of what happen there under bush, that isn't so easy.

lmao...

 

[nick1985]

Given the coverup of what happen there under bush, that isn't so easy.

So you are a dumbass. Gotcha.

 

[Train]

Remember under bush our troops were ordered to shoot preggnant women in the belly during the masacare at fallujah, and Iraqis still remember this.

Remember? Where the fuck were you? I remember. I spent 7 months in downtown fallujah you douche.

 

[TallBill]

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 was Army. I'm highly considering OCS once I graduate because I miss it.

 

[MedicBob]

Remember? Where the fuck were you? I remember. I spent 7 months in downtown fallujah you douche.

He is a moron and probably a returing banned member.

I spent a few months in the Anbar provice driving all of the place. Never got orders to run down children.

You want combat OP?

Go join a big city police dept. they see more combat then any of us did. They have it daily, we would occasionally see some.

 

[MarkXIX]

I was Army. I'm highly considering OCS once I graduate because I miss it.

I went officer, MP Branch back in 2007. Best thing I ever did. Made it to SSG, should have been SFC but neglected to put in my packet because I kept telling myself "any day now" on my Direct Commission.

If I were you, I would look into a Direct Commission, you skip OCS, something you will appreciate already having been through basic and combat tour(s). PM me if you have questions.

 

[MarkXIX]

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.

 

[iGas]

Sure you can, and cowboys are the ones that get their ass shot off or their unit into trouble.