Well I'm going to be.....

[gyrene81]

I swear in and get my job next Tuesday, but I already know what my job is going to be, Aviation Support.

<S>

You will fly that rifle for more hours than you will fly anything with wings.

Don't let the nice recruiters or that nice Corporal at the civilian airport fool you. After you get on that bus, your butt belongs to the Corps!!! Pack very light, 1 change of clothes is all you're gonna need. Once you get to MCRD, you have 5 seconds to get your a s s off the bus and stand tall on the yellow footprints. Don't worry about getting a haircut before you get there...the Corps will give you a nice one when you arrive. Be sure you know exactly what size shoes and clothes you wear...you're gonna be stuck with that gear for 3 months. Start now learning how to shine boots and brass because that will be your primary "after hours" activity. Start learning how to eat a full meal in under 5 minutes and drink plenty of water. Everything else you will learn when you get there...oh yeah SIR YES SIR at the top of your lungs is a good exercise.

If you haven't watched the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket yet...do so now...Gunny Ermy had me shakin in my boots 2 yrs after I got out.



Welcome to Uncle Sams Misguided Children...Semper Fi




ROFL...so true.

My
Ass
Rides
In
Navy
Equipment

 

[Anaxogoras]

90% if not more of the Air Force doesn't fly planes.

Sure, but that's not a reason not to try.  He can vastly increase his chances if he enrolls at a University with ROTC.

[Selino631]

90% if not more of the Air Force doesn't fly planes.

I have a USAF recruitng brochure and it says only 4% of The Air Force are pilots, so u were pretty close lol


I am joining the Army as a Infantrymen then after a few years i am going to hopefully go Warrent Officer and maybe get to fly some helo's.

[Bosco123]

Why not Air Force?  You love flying, after all.  Good luck!

Air Force ASVAB Base score: 64
Mine: 56

Also they just had no means to talk to me what so ever. However, I'm looking to get into Aviation as a pilot (which I would love) at the same time I'll be tring for UAVs as well.

[Anaxogoras]

Bosco, really, consider ROTC before you jump in so hastily.  I've known a few people who joined the military, and the ones who went in as officers (and they weren't necessarily more intelligent) seem to be much better off (others ended up married to first girl that would talk to them and 3-4 kids before their 25th birthday).  I also met a guy from a State school who seemed to have the intelligence of a lemon, but because he did well in his ROTC program and got decent grades, secured an F-16 slot.  Passing the fighter training is another matter, of course.  I hear that a lot of very talented individuals wash out.

[AKP]

Start learning how to eat a full meal in under 5 minutes and drink plenty of water.

LOL...  "You will have 15 minutes and 15 minutes ONLY to eat your fine, FINE Navy chow!"  More than any other set of words I heard in boot camp... those still ring in my head to this day.  Well... those and "8 COUNT BODYBUILDERS.... FOREVER.... BEEEE-GIN!" 

I cant being to tell you how it irritates my wife that I am TO THIS DAY done with a meal before anyone else is finished getting their utensils in their hands.  The "5 minutes" gyrene said... yeah... thats about right... the 15 minutes we were given INCLUDED getting your food, eating it, and putting away your tray.

And if you get assigned to a MARDET on a Navy ship... dont be too irritated when you see how the sailors are.  Yeah, some of them have no idea how to iron their uniform, or even wash it... And yes, they can tell an officer "I'll get right on that sir", or "I'll fix it when the movie is over... sir" and get away with it.  But when you get to run your "Intruder Alert" drills... you will enjoy slamming those same sailors down on the deck and sticking your rifle in their face because they wanted to catch what you were doing on their videocam instead of dropping on the deck like you told them to!  Had a buddy that had that happen to him during a drill once... I couldn't stop laughing during the whole thing.

[Bosco123]

Bosco, really, consider ROTC before you jump in so hastily.  I've known a few people who joined the military, and the ones who went in as officers (and they weren't necessarily more intelligent) seem to be much better off (others ended up married to first girl that would talk to them and 3-4 kids before their 25th birthday).  I also met a guy from a State school who seemed to have the intelligence of a lemon, but because he did well in his ROTC program and got decent grades, secured an F-16 slot.  Passing the fighter training is another matter, of course.  I hear that a lot of very talented individuals wash out.

You know I did, but it just wasn't going to work out, the way things were.

[Selino631]

Bosco you know that the Army has a enlistment option where after you finish Basic Combat Training you'll go to Warrent Officer Flight Training (WOFT) and while you in WOFT you'll be paid at the rank of E-5 Sergeant. And when you done you a Warrent Officer and you might get to fly a AH-64 Apache Longbow, UH-60 Black Hawk or a Kiowa Warrior. And College is not required.

[gyrene81]

LMFAO AKP...you got 15 minutes? My last month in boot was "eat duck" 3 times a day...duck in, grab a tray, grab some chow, swallow what you can before you dump the tray into the garbage and put the dishes on the conveyor belt, duck back into formation at attention...last man out did bends and mf'ers for 10 minutes before we double timed it to the grinder.

After 20 years I finally figured out how to chew my food...it's taken another 10 to learn how to eat slow enough to taste it. 


Bosco...looks like Selino wants you in the Army...really bad. That little "guaranteed MOS" thing on your contract don't mean squat...not in any branch of service. Especially if there is a war going on...<hint>...<hint>... I can tell you this for sure though...do 4 yrs in the Corps, make it to at least E-4 and when they hand you your DD-124 with an honorable discharge...go straight to the Army recruiter and tell them you want to enlist for 6 straight with a guarantee to WO school as a chopper pile-it and you have a greater chance of getting it than a fresh kid off the street...they will even hand you E-5 stripes for your new uniform and no boot camp.

[Sandman]

Good for you Bosco. Best of luck.

[Selino631]

Bosco...looks like Selino wants you in the Army...really bad. That little "guaranteed MOS" thing on your contract don't mean squat...not in any branch of service. Especially if there is a war going on...<hint>...<hint>... I can tell you this for sure though...do 4 yrs in the Corps, make it to at least E-4 and when they hand you your DD-124 with an honorable discharge...go straight to the Army recruiter and tell them you want to enlist for 6 straight with a guarantee to WO school as a chopper pile-it and you have a greater chance of getting it than a fresh kid off the street...they will even hand you E-5 stripes for your new uniform and no boot camp.

lol, I was just throwing that option out there. I mean ultimatly its his choice.

[Buzzard7]

Sight alignment and sight picture. Get those right and you might out shoot my score from bootcamp.
By the way I missed 2 bullseye at 500 and that would be the only 2 I missed during qualifications.

Good luck in whatever MOS you end up with. You will always be a rifleman should they need more bodies up front.

Semper Fi bullet sponge.

[gyrene81]

Sight alignment and sight picture. Get those right and you might out shoot my score from bootcamp.
By the way I missed 2 bullseye at 500 and that would be the only 2 I missed during qualifications.

Nice Buzzard...I blew the 300 rapid in quals had 2 flyers at 2 oclock...friggin gas rings were aligned wrong...LOL

All head shots at 500 though... 

[RipChord929]

DD-124??? What the hell is that!!!

[gyrene81]

 

DD-124??? What the hell is that!!!

ROFLMAO...had my eyes crossed...cant' correct it now... 

DD-214 is what it should have been...