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Pity the poor Marine whose vehicle was parked next to a LZ in garrison. They often got sand blasted.
 
Pity the poor Marine "on security video" who hit Daughter's car while she was parked in her Company Commanders slot. OOPS.
 
AF6872 said:
Tell me when the Draft has ever been popular. Starting with the Draft Riots of 1863 going forward to the present day. Necessary at times but never popular and vehemently opposed by segments of the population. I remember Marines being drafted in 1968. Bet they didn't know when they followed that yellow line down the hallway the next stop was Paris Island. Probably thought they were going to be a clerk typist and part of Remington's Raiders CONUS.
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The only draftee I knew personally that ended up in the USMC, walked off the plane at Danang , and when a recon nco was at the bottom of the stairs asking——“ any vols for recon ?”

That draftee raised his hand.

He was later badly gut shot when he went back on one extra mission, after being taken off line and awaiting his trip home, because he thought the team short handed on field experience.

Most enlisted or commissioned Marines would not have made the same decision. Some would opt for clerk typist. Many would.
 
A1Janitor said:
We haven’t won one in 70 years. I would like to see a few victories before we went to this.

With our military and weapons, you’d think we would have done better. Unless the goal isn’t winning.
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You aren't allowed to win wars anymore because it takes a lot of dead civilians to win a war. Wars are supposed to be clean with only military deaths allowed if that. That was only possible when the two armies stood on opposite sides of a field and started marching and firing at each other. Lets ut it this way, Ukraine was accused by Amnesty International or one of the other of human organizations of human right violations or war crimes because it stationed Ukrainian troops in cities in order to defend the city from Russian attacks.
 
Ivy22 said:
Not everyone has to be a STEM major going into the military. Non-STEM majors bring valuable perspectives as well.

maybe I'm a little biased considering I'm not a STEM major 😂
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My son is an aero major 1C. I suspect he could have been better served with a little less stem and a little more humanities. ;)
 
The school/sports team picture industry is the biggest racket out there. Preying on emotional parents and charging just absolutely whatever they want! Three kids in three separate schools and 4 sports between them, plus they take photos twice a year. Stupid me started a pattern of buying a specific size for each thing long ago and now I’m stuck succumbing to this scam to satisfy my ocd 😩. Paid $60 sitting fee for DS to have the tux senior yearbook photo and a couple others. $229 more to get ONE digital download of ONE image. WHaaaaat?! Just because they attached senior to the title.
 
Gnarlygoat27 said:
The school/sports team picture industry is the biggest racket out there. Preying on emotional parents and charging just absolutely whatever they want! Three kids in three separate schools and 4 sports between them, plus they take photos twice a year. Stupid me started a pattern of buying a specific size for each thing long ago and now I’m stuck succumbing to this scam to satisfy my ocd 😩. Paid $60 sitting fee for DS to have the tux senior yearbook photo and a couple others. $229 more to get ONE digital download of ONE image. WHaaaaat?! Just because they attached senior to the title.
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Never purchased a single photo of any of our kids, except once at SAs. They aren't as ugly as this implies. Knew we were saving money:biggrin: but didn't realize how much. Always get a laugh out of the shrines people have to their kids.
 
We got a copy of my son's junior year student ID picture from the school and used that for his senior portrait. I'll be the first to own my cheap, cheap, cheap nature, but it was a really good picture.
 
SA-parent said:
Never purchased a single photo of any of our kids, except once at SAs. They aren't as ugly as this implies. Knew we were saving money:biggrin: but didn't realize how much. Always get a laugh out of the shrines people have to their kids.
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I think this will be my new advice for new parents when I go to a baby shower and they say fill out this card or whatever .... don't start buying the class photos en mass! 😂 I definitely don't do the shrine though, it's all tucked into albums lol
 
Marines have a great football team potentially next year. Oh wait! They're still apart of the Navy. ;-)
 
Hold onto your SA appointments and scholarships / acceptances until the last moment, they are yours to do with as you please ! Hate this one …… crap or get off the pot!
 
TBVADAD said:
Marines have a great football team potentially next year. Oh wait! They're still apart of the Navy. ;-)
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And I am old enough to have seen USMC football team, there were two very serious college playing teams Q and SD, play the U of Detroit team in a regular season game.

Now neither the USMC or UofD have a football team. I always thought the jesuits and the corps had a bit in common :)
 

Recruitment continues to be down . Now called a national security problem.

3 reasons given by one authority——the fear of getting hurt, ptsd, and being away from family.

And yet during this recruiting crisis we still don’t recruit those that drink booze. OK I got that one a bit off——we don’t recruit pot smokers.

Kind of same same pot heads and boozers, two groups that like to relax with two types of substances once illegal now totally legal or mostly legal.

I served in combat with one of the elite USMC units in history (one among many) if we had banned all the pot smokers from patrols we would have never had full teams to send out on missions

Time to address reality and realize that a large % of productive Americans toke. And if we can recruit and commission boozers it makes little sense to have a blanket ban on tokers.

Free the tokers many would serve and do quite well. As well as the drinkers Or those that do neither IMO.
 
"two types of substances once illegal now totally legal or mostly legal."

One of those two is completely and totally illegal per federal law, which governs the military. Until that changes, you won't see much leniency in the process.

I find it fascinating, in a VERY bad way, how hypocritical most of the country is on this topic. The "left" says "Legalize pot." The "right" (even those that don't agree with banning) say "no" mostly, IMHO, to counter their opposition party. The same way the "left" will say "no" to things the right proposes, just to be contrary.

Stupid.

But here's the catch, and yes it hurts recruitment. When the party of legalization held the Presidency and BOTH houses of Congress, did anyone sponsor a federal law legalizing it? I actually dug into the Congressional record and the answer is: no.
 
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