I don't give a shit about politics but will be enlisting in the Marine Corps at age 26(infantry) under Trump...

I don't give a shit about politics but will be enlisting in the Marine Corps at age 26(infantry) under Trump. Want to see what you hardcore Trump and Shillary supporters think about that

ur gay lmao

lol

You're too old to start in the Corps. I don't mean it in a physical way but in a mental way. Going to bootcamp from 18-21 is whatever but after that you really realize how fucking dumb it is and resent being treated like a baby because you've spent enough time taking care of yourself.

Do it OP! What MOS do ya want?

Good luck and Godspeed. Don't puss out.

>I don't give a shit about politics

Then why would you join the Corps? Just join the fucking AF or something.

t. Recruiter

>enlisting
>26

Wow, enlisting when so old? Dude, you are gonna be called "greybush" for your entire enlistment.

Did nobody tell you that soldiers/marines/squids tend to be way younger than you when they start? You are literally going to be bossed around by a guy 6 years younger than you, and all you will be able to do about it is smile.

Good luck OP. Prepare to be the old man in boot though

>will be enlisting in the Marine Corps at age 26(infantry) under Trump

Don't do it.

If you must, then I strongly advise you to avoid injury while you are serving, because non-physical job prospects for combat arms veterans are hard to get.

This society believes that infantrymen are only qualified to be cops, security guards, and general laborers when they finally leave the service.

If you manage to get disabled physically while serving as an infantryman, then you will experience a kind of discrimination as a civilian that you never thought possible.

Almost every door will be closed to you, and you will be treated like a bum whose only recourse is to live off the GI Bill and compete with fresh college graduates for a desk job.

Good luck.

Hahahaha why don't you get on the waitlist for air force and get a real career? Trust me, we all regret not doing it.

this

the thing is you will be commanded by 22 year old fresh out the college officers

this is what it will be like"

your 22 year old commanding officers yelling at you all day
you, 26
your squad, 18 year olds

you will be a "loser" among your peer to be honest and won't earn any respect from anyone

Well, lets give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he is far more of a badass and in much better shape than his 18 year old peers will be.

>not becoming a private contractor

Faggot

>Mfw i make 400k when i do a contract in iraq

feels good man

...

The point is that the physical part does not matter. I joined at 18 and had people up to 30 years old in my boot. They were stronger than me but you can just see how it killed them every single day being bossed around and lumped into the same group as us. Unless he gets guarantee E-4 out of boot or NCO stay the fuck away. Enlisting is a young mans game.

I am too brother.

I'm 18. I almost joined the National Guard when I was 17, but my parents wouldn't sign the papers. Thank god. I get to be a Unites States MARINE now.

FUCK YEAH. KILL THE FUCKING TERRORISTS. KILL KILL KILL

he's enlisting... at 26 year old

enlisting is a sign of not knowing what to do in life, that's why they baby the kids

if he's already successful in life, he could've gone for a commission officer path, or as a civilian contractor

You can't pick MOS in the Marines.

If you dont go infantry youre a piece of shit

Lol yes u can u faggot

Yeah, but you can want one. Doesn't mean you're gonna get it.

I'm in grad school and dun goof'd didn't enlist earlier. Is there any point in going in now? I'm proficient in speaking Hindi/Urdu and want to enlist but would rather not paint rocks

I think you are a retarded cuck.

Boot af

you are too fat to fit in the tank

captcha related

So don't enlist retard, go in as an officer

You can be an officer. There is no reason a graduate should be a grunt in the Corps. DO NOT FUCKING ENLIST

>muhreens

Motherfucker yes you can i did 2 enlistments and a b billet as a recruiter... you can get any base mos with your enlistment contract

Sdfu you boot wannabe dirty civ

I guess I should've reworded properly. If I join the military(Marines specific) even as an officer, with things having slowed down than say late 2000's, I don't want to end up supervising guys painting rocks should I go the officer route. Are they're good exciting non infantry jobs that allow you to do some cool guy shit?

If youre in decent shape youll be fine and if youre as proficient as you say in those youll pull an extra 1k a month

No no point at all

I did chemical engineering and considered the Navy nuclear NUPOC program but didn't make the cut. (my 3.3 gpa and interview with the admiral killed me ... shot too much spaghetti) it was a fun experience to be honest. Officer programs are heavily competitive like being in a top-tier med school. This was in 2009 when the Iraq war wind down and all the officers were being cut due to the fiscal year budget and recession.

If you in a STEM grad school and doing research, you can definitely look for DoD jobs and they will fast track you to an officer position if you have solid credentials.

Don't enlist unless you're young and only using it to pay for college as the next step


Look into the Reserves

>A fucking Corporal

>Deployed to A-stan

>Highest medal is a good cookie

Jesus Christ.

Anything non infantry go to another branch .. better schools and experince and better treatment

have fun getting treated like shit

t. air force

Honestly man if you're going in at 26 to the infantry you will be hating your life.

I went in at 19 and my knees are all fucked up (0341) I can only imagine how shitty it would be for someone past their fighting prime. Plus there's no reason to go infantry without a war, if I did it again I would go POG and get a job skill

90% of the usmc is pogs ... only 10% are combat roles.... most people that went to the middle east never left the main bases ... thats why there are so many issues with the va and benifits cause yiu have q bunch of welfare queens abusing a system thqt only 1/10 actually rate... really sad

>people up to 30 years old in my boot
Did these men pass boot? Do you know what kind of jobs they got? Are these old guys eligible for combat roles?

Thanks for the info, anons. Sounds like I fucked up and should've enlisted and gone to undergrad later on or officer right after graduation.

Yes yes yes ... boot is easy as fuck just annoying ...you can pretty much get a waiver till 34 ...

Theres plenty of jobs where you can earn medals. I don't expect every NCO to have a fucking CAR or Navy Comm, but jesus christ you deploy to GET medals. He must've done jack shit the entire time he was at Camp Leatherneck or Bagram.

Be a real man. Join the Navy and go for SEALs or SWCC

no one gives a shit

t. vet

I know grunts that have been in 5 years and only done shit like black sew rotation and only have 4 ribbons...some deployments really are pointless

Ndr, gwot, good cookie and sea service

When did you have your D.C. interview? I did mine in August of this year and got the position I applied for.

Wtf are you telling me recruiter lied to me Romanian nigger?

You can choose the branch like "Infantry" or "Intelligence", but you can't pick the specific MOS. Only Reservists can.

They specifically told me I can be 0300 infantry, but I can't choose if I'll end up a 0311 or 0341 etc etc. They tell you at the end of bootcamp.

Only the Army gets to pick their MOS that I know. The Marines do not as of October 2016.

The Falklands is rightfully British clay.

>2009
nevermind

Nah, my brother's wife is a super petite vietnamese lady in her 30s

She was a cardiologist researcher
Now she's an 6-figures US Army Captain (with all dat welfare benefits) working in DC doing research in the hospitals (basically tech lab work as she describes)

You can still make it, if your current research skills can be applied to government jobs. Just treat the military like another job search post grad

>Marines
What was your ASVAB?

That's a recent change then. In 2007 when I enlisted I got to choose the 0200 field, then in boot camp while my clearance was still going through they asked me where in the 0200 field I wanted to go.

Also 95% of recruiters are retarded.

>trusting a recruiter
>being this retarded

you better learn quick boy or you're in for a whole new world of hurt

Haha my dude recruiters lie about literally everything when they're trying to make mission

They said you pick your top 3 and then go to the needs of the Corps.

That's why some people want to be a combat engineer and then they end up burning shit the next 4 years because the Marines didn't want you to be an combat engineer.

Also I won't go open contract because I'm not fucking stupid and end up a cook.

>Only the Army gets to pick their MOS that I know. The Marines do not as of October 2016.
Navy does now that they "got rid of" rates

I'm jealous. I served in the USMC under Obama, we didn't do shit and I never felt proud, hated every second of it. I would love to redo it under the command of Trump.

Pic relevance, please.

All I want is to go infantry.

What difference does it make if I'll end up a Rifleman or Mortarman? It's not like they're gonna make me a cook or something gay..

All I want to do is slay bodies

>whole new world of hurt

Women and fags do that shit now.

>Also I won't go open contract because I'm not fucking stupid and end up a cook.

That sounds like an open contract to me homie. Only time the Marine Corps gave me three choices was my duty station and they picked the last place I wanted.

>It's not like they're gonna make me a cook or something gay

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha

Enjoy sitting in your barracks all day waiting to get fucked with. Then when you do deploy it will probably be with a MEU. So you sit aboard ship all day doing jack shit apart from taking up space in the gym and mess deck.

Going infantry in peace time like this is asking to have a bad time.

Where are you?

Let me guess Canberra or Darwin?

Also I've said more "boot" things to the AF recruiter. That's why he told me to go check out the Marines.

Obama's big legacy with the military was neutering it, filling brass with liberal yes men, and letting women get shoehorned into combat roles while withdrawing around the world and being cucked in general

can't do much worse than that

nice did you go for subs or surface or teacher?

>peacetime
>trump as prez
>Mattis as SECDEF

Kek. We're gonna start killing again. Maybe even Iran. That should be fun.

I'm going to be real with you. I'm a mortarman, I've been out for a year just about and the only bodies you will slay without a war on is your own. If you really want to be an infantryman more power to you, but my advice still stands. Infantry with no war is a pointless affair of hikes, buddy rush ranges, weapons cleaning and drill. Yeah ranges are fun, yeah getting fuck off drunk with the crew at the barracks is fun. But your future with the infantry after you get out is security or a contractorship (if you're lucky enough to find someone who takes people with no combat experience)


By all means be an infantryman if you want to, but you only get one set of knees. 4 years and the coolest things I did was brutalize some Thai retards during the coup and blow up a buffalo with 81s

Not likely, the Marines will just be force protectors with the MEUs just like in the 80s. Trumps entire foreign policy platform is getting us out of the middle east and stupid wars.

I think you're retarded, because no sane individual would put themselves in INFANTRY in the MARINE CORPS at 26.

Who do you think Trump is gonna send to kill ISIS?

Plus I get free college.

I'll go Infantry because I would regret doing something else. This is all I wanted to do.

You're saying we're like you're already in. By the sound of it you're not even a poolee, not even rating the title of shower shoe. And we won't do dick to Iran if Trump is softening his stance toward Russia, their staunchest ally. Take General Mattis' advice and look at the big picture.


Also no war is fun

He's gonna send LHDs and CVNs to have their plans bomb ISIS. The grunts aboard the ships are just sitting sit in their racks beating off to porn and annoying the fuck out of the people aboard who work 12 hours a day.

Iraqis and MARSOC which I'm pretty sure by the time you are ready for them ISIS will have disappeared into any number of nebulous places

I applied for surface. About half the people there were going subs though.

They always tell you the percentage of people that pass all their interviews is around 90%. Oddly enough, when I went there was 29 of us and only 22 made it.

Muscles
Are
Required
Intelagence
Not
Expected

Fuck it you're perfect for the Corps to throw anywhere they want. If you don't want the advice of people that have served then good luck figuring this out on your own

being a DILDO would be the fucking cushiest job ever

>Intelagence

Thank you for your service

Infantry life in peace time is shocking. I really mean that. It'll be slightly better in the USA, because you look after your guys better, but by and large it's terrible.

My advice is to get yourself loaded onto every course, cadre, event and exchange you can. Get everything you can out of it, because it sure as hell isn't going to give you anything back.

Forget people knocking you for your age. You'll be older than most of the guys but not the oldest.

That's the thing. I'm not really interested in any research type work. I'd rather be doing something combat or intelligence related but with shit not like it was, seems pointless.

He'll probably send special forces and drones BRO

No he isn't, he has nowhere near the mindset to be a fighter. This dude is talking like some motivated retard who watched Generation Kill and though it was sooooooooo cool. Not the type of boot I'd have on my gunline

Nobody would want him. But some retard has to clean the shit and this guy is it.

If you get to be Army Special Forces, Rangers, Naval Special Warfare, or MARSOC, then you will get to do coolguy stuff even as an Officer. EVERY OTHER BRANCH does either gay shit or nothing but babysit a bunch of retards. The latter being the job of Infantry, Armor, and Field Artillery Officers.
T
t. Army Signal Officer. It's pretty gay.

Yeah, his motivation will disappear the first time he gets woken up at 3:30am to police call cigarette butts around his barracks.

haha good luck, have fun mate, and maga!

Thank you in advance for your service.

Actually I might go back too

I'm 27 and said I'd never go back but nothing beats getting paid to play army man with your buddies and jerk off for 12 hours straight on firewatch.

I wonder if reenlisting with a college degree would make me look like a tool

Or rearrange the rocks to say 81'S after the CAAT boots changed it to CAAT

Or run to touch the Tree of Knowledge

>but...bbbut...but I don't smoke?!

God damn do I wish i could be there when this guy gets a dose of reality

Don't do it. I enlisted at 28, right at the last possible minute that Ibwas able to join.and only made it to week 4 at Parris Island. I didn't quit because I couldn't handle it phyically. I quit because after the first two weeks, I realized that I didn't really belong their. Really shouldn't jon after age 25. There really isn't a reason to. You will wind up wanting to leave training. I am kind of diassapointed I never got to become a marine, but you should realize you don't belong their after a certain age.

this is gay as fuck and im a marine

I'm a little older and I think my maturity and language skills would be a plus in something like SF or MARSOC but I also realize those are jobs you don't waltz into.

Yeah.

I just turned 18 like 2 weeks ago so I just talked to the recruiter. I didn't sign shit until I know for sure Hillary isn't gonna be president.

Plus I had to finish school early because I go to the alternative high school for "troubled". They said to come back when I finished up.

I think you're a massive attention seek faggot.

Then listen to the advice of the other Marines in this thread. If you look up to us you'll learn from our experience, which is the hallmark of the Marine Corps

Pick related, fuck you Camp Horno

Lol you can get contract 0311 or 0331... it depends on how much your recruiter pushes for you... most are just lazy trying to fill numbers...if you come straight to their face with knowledge then they will work for you , but if you show up a retarded 17yr old then theyll take advantage of your ass

>I'm going to enlist in the most difficult service of all 8 years past my prime.

Have fun, idiot.