Fuckin woot

Nice, my buddy is due for Marine bootcamp in 9 days.

He must be feeling anxious, last days as a civilian.

If you think too much about it you freak

Not everybody of course

But if you think it as “Shit 9 days to do what ever I want because then I’ll be government property” you’ll get a little anxious

I wanna do reserves. Change to active duty if I want to. I like the civilian life an the money that comes with it

True, the good part of being active is the full healthcare and dental, and you have absolute job security as long as you don't violate UCMJ.

With reserves you get your health care benefits once you do so many days

I can’t remember what the recruiter said but as an example: After you do a total of 200 days of work, drill days, you get your benefits

Ah.

So the only difference is you gotta wait longer, but I’m on tricare anyway soooo I don’t really care

Also I can see myself easily doing 20 years reserves. Active duty, without pension for 20 years doesn’t seem worth it

True, I got full healthcare, and partial dentalcare coverage through my mother's work before I turned 18, I will have it until 27 even though I live on my own now.

If I do 20 reserves I get Tricare, GI Bill, retired ID card, the loan thing

Nice man

Tricare is very weirdp#

Once I’m 21 I think I have to get Tricare young adult

And that expires once I’m 26

I have to pay for Tricare young adult because I’m not a full time student

I was looking at active reserves, (babysitting the reserve Marines) but ehh, if going active, might aswell do regular active.

My sister is covered under my mom still because she’s a full time student

I’d say do your full 4 year enlistment then go reserves.

The only other benefits you can obtain will come once you reach 20

Without pension there’s no fucking point

Yeah, alot of people do Marines for 4 years, then jump over to another branch.

I’m so pissed there’s no pension

I literally want to become president so I can put everything back the way it was.

Hang the fucker who decided to get rid of pension

Your 20 years stack, so if you did 10 Army and 10 Navy, it counts as 20.

Yeah

I wouldn’t wanna swap though

Unless I find out I’m extremely sea sick or something lmao

My roommate did 6 Navy, and 14 Army

Swapping like that is hard

Because the ranks are SO DIFFERENT

I know army and marines because they’re basically the same. But Air Force and navy/ coast guard have me confused time to time. I know a little more Air Force though

Yeah, you usually only get dropped down 1 rank equivalent, or if you get a waiver, you get to keep your rank and become the equivalent.

The one thing I really hate about the army is that their ranks are Velcro

I prefer real ranks like the marines