dudeondacouch Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 US Army SSG M777A2 Howitzer Section Chief 3-321 FA Fort Bragg, NC Currently deployed to Afghanistan overdue update: SSG(P) Gunnery Sergeant now and back in the US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE RZA Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Yeah I saw you posted you did 2 tours of iraq, how was that? When I was in HS (02-06) my german teacher did 2 tours of iraq with the army and he was saying how amazing it is that about 75% of the stuff going on over there is good and the media chooses not to talk about it here. I have 2 friends right now in the marines over in afghanistan and another over in iraq, he's been to both afghanistan and iraq and he was sayin compared to afghanistan Iraq is a vacation at this point. I have nothin against the marines tons of respect because they bust their ass more than anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew.anderson Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I did 4 years in the Marines. Everyone makes bad choices. I am assuming the marine recruiter got to you before you made it to the Army one??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andrew.anderson Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 blakout...I am just messign with ya. Thanks for y our service. I almost joined the Marines...but I didn't. Decided on the Army while I was in College. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakout Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Yeah I saw you posted you did 2 tours of iraq, how was that? When I was in HS (02-06) my german teacher did 2 tours of iraq with the army and he was saying how amazing it is that about 75% of the stuff going on over there is good and the media chooses not to talk about it here. I have 2 friends right now in the marines over in afghanistan and another over in iraq, he's been to both afghanistan and iraq and he was sayin compared to afghanistan Iraq is a vacation at this point. I have nothin against the marines tons of respect because they bust their ass more than anyone...just I felt the CG fit me better I was just bustin your balls. Yeah, I was in Iraq twice. Second time was a joke though. While I was in, I was with 9th Communications BN as a Construction Wireman (Installed switches, copper comm cable, and fiber optics). First deployment I was attached to an Army Infantry unit (311B's) and for some reason they thought that since I was comm I knew how to work a radio...dumbassess... but I had the most fun on that deployment because with my actual MOS, there was no way I would have ever been able to do what we did. I am actually able to say that I fought in the "war" because of that unit. After that said, it was hilarious though watching them, they seriously ran around as if they never had a day of training and I thank god for my combat training. Second time I did my actual job and ran the entire cable structure in Fallujah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakout Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 blakout...I am just messign with ya. Thanks for y our service. I almost joined the Marines...but I didn't. Decided on the Army while I was in College. its all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote_Lips Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Second time I did my actual job and ran the entire cable structure in Fallujah. Fallujah was always one of my favorite camps to stop at when I was doing convoys. The A/C was colder and the DFAC was nicer than BIAP. I'm sure the IA is enjoying all your hard work. I was there when we turned it over to them. Yup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakout Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Hell yeah, I was there to take all the phone systems down while we shut the base down. If you ever had a phone issue while you were there during the last 5 months of that bases existense, I guarantee you delt with me. There were about 12 of us all together to work on it, but I was the one that new the most and actually worked on the line issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexwagon Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Army 12B/21B 2003-2005 Iraq 2005-2006 Iraq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 A side note: If you are about to post about your career it may be a good idea to not be detailed about the present for security reasons. What you did/where you were a few years back may not be that interesting unless you were doing special things. For the record - I did work with some people from the paranoid department (however not US) a long time ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE RZA Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 bump, belated 4th of july for all your past/current members. update, USCG fell through for me there was too long of a waiting list for boot camp(over a 18 month wait for ship out). Instead I will be joining the Marine Corps and my ship out date for MCRD Parris Island is September 26th, MOS 1141 Electrician @ Camp Lejeune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeondacouch Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 that's a pretty extreme swing. couldn't find any middle ground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE RZA Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Those were the 2 choices I had in mind to begin with, also considered the Navy as well but I wanted to break from that tradition In my family, 2 of my uncles were in the navy and 3 of my cousins are currently in the navy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midslik Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 1. WV ARNG 2. SPC 3. DEC 2006 to current 4. MEDCOM Coonskin Armory Charleston WV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeondacouch Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Those were the 2 choices I had in mind to begin with, also considered the Navy as well but I wanted to break from that tradition In my family, 2 of my uncles were in the navy and 3 of my cousins are currently in the navy shoulda went Chairforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Those were the 2 choices I had in mind to begin with, also considered the Navy as well but I wanted to break from that tradition In my family, 2 of my uncles were in the navy and 3 of my cousins are currently in the navy Well you managed to stick with the family tradition, you just don't realize it yet. The USMC (my branch of service 0351 Iraq 2004) is under the Department of the Navy even though we Marines are loathe to admit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE RZA Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I know it is I just wanted to one up them so I know Twenty Nine Palms sucks, but is Lejeune as bad as you said it was? My recruiters tried to avoid sending me to Twenty Nine Palms at all costs, luckily there was an opening at Lejeune for my MOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudeondacouch Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I hope you like sweltering heat and bugs the size of pterodactyls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Lejune licks the sweat off of a dead man's balls, and the surrounding towns also suck it hard. Twenty Nine Palms is a love it or hate it base. Some guys really like it, and others despise it. There were some things I liked about the stumps, like the really good training areas, and remote night skies. Other things I didn't like being in the desert in the summer is freaking HOT. Fortunately I was never there much longer than two or three weeks at a stretch for CAX. Pendleton is a hilly bastard that if you're a grunt like I was can be a pain in the ass to hump around on, but at least sunny SoCal lurks right off post for your entertainment on liberty or when off duty. If you like SoCal that is. Quantico is full of officer types and is not my favorite place either. Weather is hot, muggy, and crappy just like Lejune. Basically the USMC tries their very best to have the least desirable base locations, with the worst living facilities and fewest amenities of any service. They do this to ensure that Marines are always mildly to highly pissed off at all times, making their natural human aversion to killing other humans far reduced or completely absent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteBL Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 RZA Are you gaurunteed a MOS or job field? Make sure you see that in your contract or PSOU/REOP (program statement of understanding/reserve enlistment option program) unless your going reserves, then you are gaurunteed a MOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Basically the USMC tries their very best to have the least desirable base locations, with the worst living facilities and fewest amenities of any service. They do this to ensure that Marines are always mildly to highly pissed off at all times, making their natural human aversion to killing other humans far reduced or completely absent. Another aspect is that if you experience challenges of nature during education you will also be prepared for what nature can throw at you. If you always exercise in sunny to mildly cloudy days at temperatures between 10 and 20C you won't cope when it's even raining or even less when it's winter or a hotter than hell desert day. I wonder how many "gangsta" that can stand a night out in the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote_Lips Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I wonder how many "gangsta" that can stand a night out in the woods. :lol: Yup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE RZA Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 WhiteBL, yeah I'm going reserves, I saw you're a recruiter in NJ, which RSS do you recruit out of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasone Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 After 10 years in the military I have thought to myself, if I had to do it over again I would look hard at the coast guard. They have some pretty awesome jobs and locations. After 9 years in the Coast Guard I wish I would have joined the Air Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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