Message from @P I L L A R M A N
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Go raider or recon then
Maybe this is just me being a soldier but man the marine corps doesn't have much to offer anymore
it's a mess from all angles from what i've seen and heard
You're not wrong
They replace or get rid of a fuckton of jobs as of late
I have a lot of respect for some individual marines but as whole the branch is in deep shit
Their doctrine is outdated to crap
they don't know what they wanna be
and just about the only thing they're good for is having a solid PR machine
See the thing is in the marines "we're better than you and we know it" kinda mentality ruins a lot of it.
I trained with a lot of foreign militaries during my first enlistment and I have got to say that like if it wasn't for the technology difference, the Columbian and Peruvian armies could probably beat the marine corps infantrywise
So marine corps infantry doctrine essentially boils down to "there is a brick wall ahead of us, we are going to keep bashing our heads against the wall until it breaks or falls down, when it eventually does we'll claim that we were successful"
that stubbornness is good in some scenarios but it's what got a hell of a lot of them killed in Iraq
Marines are basically the Slavs of america atm
yeah brute forcing shit doesn't work out so well irl
The army isn't all amazing either but we have our shit together relatively speaking
Honestly if the corps would get it's shit squared away, it wouldn't be so bad.
Their biggest issue is lack of focus branchwise
But with things going the way they are, I doubt they will
I think the Navy is doing the best atm
Idk man I have friends in the 7th fleet
And they paint a different picture about the navy
I.e undermanned, overworked, shits falling apart, Chiefs are half shitty etc
Turning into the brits
I mean that same complaint can be extended mil wide but you squids got it rough sometimes
Ya we are under manned but it depends on command really
Military in general is in some bad times
Honestly joining in peacetime is kinda stupid unless you do a very technical role
And at that point just go air force and have it easy
Or coast guard and go do something useful
My step brother is a coastie
It's underrated
Doesn’t do shit but fish all day
Everyone shits on it but they're a cool branch
I have only had interactions with him and honestly those are pretty few and far between. But they do some cool drug interdiction stuff.
Lol yeah that's more than you can say for the rest of us
That whole not getting paid during government shutdown is pretty fucked though.
I did some fun stuff in the army but like damn most of it was just waiting around
Saaaaaaame
Yeah that part was shitty