super usefull after you get out combined with your clerance

He plays with magic boxes

pretty much

My dad was an 18E. That’s how he described it

but at my current command i evaluate ships security postures

also replace that whole map with coco

coc chip camo

MC works well everywhere. MC arid in the desert

i have flectarn coco and nwu type 3 load outs

MCB for night gooning

but my fave is blue jeans and black shirt with coyote gear

real goon gear

👍🏻

I have more black t’s than anything else

same

Got a lot of camo t shirt

Lol

Alrighty then

I should search for a more "friendly civ job" in the military

Something that don't force me to live below a bridge

@Sir Harndes my best friend was a POG because he said he was too much of a pussy to carry the gear and do the forced marches lol

But I do not have problem with that

My problem is trying to find a job after

someone say they wanna be 11B

@Sir Harndes ?

I've been 11B for almost 8 years now

what you wanna know

He wants to change his mind

My cousin was a marine. He was infantry, and fought in Iraq

11B and Marines infantry are very similar jobs, all know, just saying

thats a bold statment

But after that, he got almost homeless, he couldn't find a job

You know what I mean

I know the differences between army infantry and marines

do you now?

uh

they're decently different in most everything

But following the logic of infantry, pay

Ok here's the magic trick to not being a retard following the military

regardless of MOS

use your GI bill

there

Yup

I know plenty of Intel weenies that are homeless and I know plenty of infantrymen that are in med school or engineers now

and vice versa

^^^ very true

You will only be homeless if you choose to be so

and don't use the benefits they give you

take advantage of all the programs they provide alot of people dont

With that being said the infantry isn't for everyone but if you want a fun(and sort of miserable) time I say it's worth it

i got a IT cert payed for by the reserves

I wouldn't change it for the world

But if you are going to join a branch do not join the marine corps

absolutely do not

Well that's good to hear

Why?

then used it to get a job and just kept doing that now i'm the head VM team lead for a PMC airforce contract

They are in a very very very bad shape as a branch right now

Huge identity crisis

leadership is worst mil wide

^^^

terrible funding

equipment

Heard bad things about leadership

training

doctrine

basically everything

As a whole the marine corps is a redundant branch that doesn't really need to exist as it does now but that's a rant i'll save for another day

with all that being said

if you wanna be combat arms in anyway go army

Otherwise go air force or go navy

Thanks for sharing the info

That's what we're here for chief

If you want my take on it tbh

Do something in the military you cannot do in the civilian world at all

I know the common advice is to do something that will translate into a civilian career

and that's very sound wisdom

but you're only in your 20's once

If you wanna go do cool adrenaline pumping high speed shit that you can't do anywhere else now is the time to do it

that being said again

It is still not a bad idea to join a technical job

If you're going to have that GI bill for things like college and trade school anyways then why not go blow some shit up while you can

and if your life sucks then just keep applying for cooler and cooler shit until you can't

my first line infantry unit was fucking garbage

I had to apply to get into my current task force in 2012

i'm still there and loved every second of it

Wow

Did you try to get to ranger school or something?

Yeah I went to ranger school

and airborne school

got tabbed

I'm part of a NORCOM/JSOC task force

we augment the 75th Rangers 3rd Bat

I got to do a lot of cool shit running drug raids in mexico with the mexican army and mexican national police

did a lot of federal LEO and FEMA schools/training for some missions

my leadership is all former rangers that wanted to recover

So I've had a great time with my command

Generally speaking in the military in the active duty there's always some packet MOS or some task force you can try to apply to

Civil Affairs/PSYOPS, WOFT(helicopter pilot), Special Forces, Army Rangers, Sapper Units, Diver, EOD, CID, etc

but you have to really try hard for stuff like that