Just to be SURE the whole world hates us.

[tombogan03884]

if there were true there would be another headline.  "marines kill gay marine"

                                             

[TAB]

Tell me you would not at the very least beat the crap out of the guy if he was in your platoon.

  He would be swiming home if he was a coastie. 

[Fatman]

How long was the average swim from your boat to shore?

[Walter45Auto]

Anybody else think the letter was written under a fake name, possibly as a result of a drunken bar bet???

[fightingquaker13]

Must be from ROTC

Just to horrify you beyond the telling Tom, I almost did ROTC in your beloved Corps. The only thing that stopped me and caused me to go Army, (I had scholarships from both in my hands and was leaning Marine), was that the Marines, for reasons known but to God, had a pretty inflexible set of math/science requirements that the Army didn't. It would have stopped me from graduating a year early with a double major. Otherwise Tom, I wouldn't have gotten my "peace dividend buy out" and been an Officer of Marines. Yes me, at Basic School at Quantico, bad hair cut and dress Blues. You may scoff, but Marine ROTC had the same rep as Harvard. Damn hard to get into, but once you were in, it was hard to wash out. The Army was the opposite. They'd give anyone a shot, but kick you to the curb in a heart beat.
FQ13 who giggles knowing that but for two physics and a 4 math classes , I would be signing my posts "Semper Fi" and causing you to have apolplexy

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[tombogan03884]

 That's because the Marines are looking for GOOD MEN, not any chump that can score a scholarship.
Bear in mind FQ, it's hard to get washed out, but they make it easy for you to quit.

[fightingquaker13]

That's because the Marines are looking for GOOD MEN, not any chump that can score a scholarship.
Bear in mind FQ, it's hard to get washed out, but they make it easy for you to quit.

As it should be. Robert Heinlien had it right in "Starship Troopers". You don't serve, you don't vote. More than that, there's no draft, and you can quit any time you want up until deployment. Beyond that, you're in. That's what made me lean Marine more than Army. Hell, I never wanted to be Rambo, my MOS peference for both was the same, intel, ordinance and transport in that order. I just wanted to serve, get my scholarship, and get out. But, the tail is as important as the teeth, . I liked the ethos of the Marines, particularly on the enlisted side, but not enough to spend an extra year in school taking math classes I'd never use. Army it was, but we were, in all honesty, a flabby bunch, at least among the lower classmen who hadn't been given the two year "get the f@ck off my obstacle Pyle" eval. Upper classman to upper classman, we were fine, but feshman to freshman, the Marines kicked our ass.
FQ13

[crusader rabbit]

Perhaps it was an honest error.  Perhaps the writer got the service branch wrong.  Perhaps he meant to say an Air Force Officer.  I'n not sayin'... I'm just sayin'

[ratcatcher55]

Marine officers attend Annapolis as well!

 

Yes I know some poor folks can't afford a REAL education and go to the federal trade school on the bay.
That line would set my old boss ass on fire!

[Timothy]

Yes I know some poor folks can't afford a REAL education and go to the federal trade school on the bay.
That line would set my old boss ass on fire!

I never had the experience of any Annapolis grads.  All of the officers I served with were either NROTC, OCS or just college grads with no purpose in life.  Most weren't much older than I was when I seperated.  Had things been different, I may have made the Navy a career.

According to statistics on colleges and universities, the most difficult colleges nationally for academics are West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force Academy and the Coast Guard Academy......