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how's your swimming

Not bad

look for AWO or AIRR rates

They'll teach you regardless lol

alternatively look at Navy Diver or EOD

air crew is cancer from what i hear

if i were you i'd just do the most badass thing i could physically qual for

Already processing as a Marine tho

Nah aircrew is gay but aircrewman is different

the guys that actually fly on helos have great lives

the guys that maintain helos have shit lives

i'd go combat cam if possible

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Their doctrine is outdated to crap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

They don't know what they want to be as a force

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