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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bosco123 on August 03, 2009, 10:20:24 AM
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...A Marine. It's been a long thought and that's were I believe that, that is were I should go.
Future Marine.
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Congrats Bosco. :salute
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Semper Fi! :salute
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Congrats on your choice Bosco... I look forward to being able to call you a brother Marine sir.
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Prepare to be brain-washed. :P
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bosco post that pic that u got in the newspaper , the shiny helmet :aok
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bosco post that pic that u got in the newspaper , the shiny helmet :aok
you mean this one? (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/incoming.jpg)
Just joking.... :lol Good choice Bosco. Marines get watermelon done. OOHRAAAAAAAAAAA :salute
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So, have ya signed on the dotted line yet? Have ya taken the oath?
They ARE more than just words, they WILL bind you for life...
You won't understand that yet, but you will if you go thru with it!!
And when you arrive at the recruit depot, and the big guy, with
all the stripes on his arms, says... "Good morning Ladies.. Welcome
to the first day, of the rest of your lives!!! NOW, GET THE HELL OFFA
MY BUSS!!!" Pushin and shovin all of ya, like a herd of cattle, out the door,
past another one, who's tellin ya to, "DROP YOUR BAGS, AND GET ON
THE LINE!!! MOVE MOVE MOVE!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKIN AT?!!!"
When ya see those red footprints painted on the ground, and you finally
stand on them... Think for a moment, about all of the guys who have stood
in that very spot before you... Generations of them!!! Living and dead!!!
And Remember, they're watching you!!! THEY are the ones who will judge
you, by your actions in rest of your life... They are the only debtors you owe!!!
And the price they exact takes a lifetime to pay!!!
:salute Hope you make it!!!
RC
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congratulations! Remember to roll with the punches. Here are some training videos for you to study as you wait for bootcamp. (NSFW Language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2FbNuwe1eM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6mMLEFmdI8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFsdeFHRjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfC6QvnXsyY
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Future Marine.
Muscles
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Intelligence
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Muscles
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A little update:
When to MEPS over in Miami on Friday, and the Marines have this wierd thing called "Frontload" which you take your physical and get all the way to doing fingerprints and then you go home.
I swear in and get my job next Tuesday, but I already know what my job is going to be, Aviation Support.
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but I already know what my job is going to be, Aviation Support.
Rifleman... Every Marine is a rifleman. :salute
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Why not Air Force? You love flying, after all. Good luck!
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Why not Air Force? You love flying, after all. Good luck!
90% if not more of the Air Force doesn't fly planes.
Bosco, congratulations on your upcoming entry into the USMC.
Thank you for your decision to serve this country. Best wishes for your success as a Marine.
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I swear in and get my job next Tuesday, but I already know what my job is going to be, Aviation Support.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :lol
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.
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Good for you Bosco. Best of luck.
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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.
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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.
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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... :D
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DD-124??? What the hell is that!!!
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DD-124??? What the hell is that!!!
ROFLMAO...had my eyes crossed...cant' correct it now... :huh
DD-214 is what it should have been...
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Just had to yank your chain a bit there!!! ;)
<Zalduta> Stay hard bro!!!
RC
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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. :lol
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.
Helicopters is not my thing, thought about that too.
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Looks like alot of us are going into the service.
I'm starting Army ROTC program this year as a Sophomore. Taking both MSI and MS II years concurrently to make up for last year, which I missed. Raring to go! :aok
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Bosco... go for it...
About a year ago my son enlisted in the Marine Corp out of the blue. I can not put it words how proud of him I was that day when he marched in front of us in San Diego at his graduation from boot. I tell you this, He want as a 19 year old with no plan or direction, What I got back was a "Marine". What I mean by that is nothing is a problem for him now, I ask him stuff like " how you going to do that" or how you going to get there?" and his answer is always the same " don't worry about it I'm a Marine I'll do it" :salute
F.Y.I He is a combat engineer loving every minute of it :x and will deploy to Iraq in Oct.
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Best of luck to you Bosco! :aok
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When are you leaving for boot camp Bosco? These other guys have given you some good advice and I can tell by gyrene's post that he went to MCRD Sand Diego (Hollywood), but hey we're not gonna get into that argument here hahahahahaha. Tell me when you're going and I can alter what I have to tell you about The Island.
wojo.....Tell your son Semper Fi from one engineer to another.
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I won't leave until next June. So you have all the time to kill me as many times as you can, if you can ;)
<S> Can't wait already :)
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Let's see, June at Parris Island......oh boy, you're gonna have fun. It's going to be rather warm but nothing you can't handle. Just keep in mind, DO NOT SCRATCH AT SAND FLEAS. You're going to and others are and you're going to see why, it's inevitable. And don't think you can be slick and scratch without someone noticing, your DI's will tell you that it's noticeable and it is. gyrene will tell you whenever you're in front of a formation you can see everything. People think they can blend in, but they can't
Be loud, be intense, do what you're told when you're told and you won't have any problems. What you hear about it being somewhere around 75% or more mental is true, it really is. So, go ahead and start getting ready. Start having someone come into your room at 0545 and scream "15 MINUTES TO LIGHTS" and have them do that every 5 minutes until 0600 when they scream "LIGHTS LIGHTS LIGHTS" and you instantly jump out of your rack and make it in about 10 seconds and get on the line still sleepy eyed. Then give yourself about 20 seconds to get dressed sitting on a footlocker with another bald headed moron bumping elbows and getting in each others way until you're dressed ready to form up outside. Then march down to the kitchen still sleepy eyed and wait in line for about 10 minutes just to have 2 or less minutes to eat, dump your trash which consists of over half of what you were given which wasn't much to start with and drop your tray in the galley, then run outside with speed and intensity and form up again. All this is after you went to sleep, well tried to around 2200. Then you had to wake up for fire watch at 0100 which meant at 1250 someone came and woke you up after you have only had a good hour or so of sleep. Then you didn't get back to sleep until around 0230 if you're lucky because the moron you woke up for your relief for fire watch took his sweet time waking up and getting ready and of course you weren't sleepy anymore.
This is just the first lesson which covers probably your first 30 minutes of the day, we will conduct follow up lessons at a time and place to be determined later.
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ROFLMAO!!! Low...that had me scared... :O
Being right next to the San Diego airport...sleep didn't happen until day 6. I'm pretty sure my D.I.'s had someone send them sand fleas in the mail from P.I. Never had an issue with them until second phase then for some reason the sand pits around our barracks were full.
Between P.I. and S.D. - I'll take the beach towel and sunglasses over the mosquito infested swamp any day. Besides, where else would you have the privilege of marching under the same arch as Gomer Pyle USMC? MCRD San Diego. :P :D :lol
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:rofl :rofl
I know, I used to give my buddies that went to SD a hard time. Most of us that were together graduated the same day, went to MOS school together and went everywhere in the fleet together. Most of us were promoted to EVERYTHING at the same time and when it came down to time in grade we were tied so it goes to time in service. I constantly reminded them that my official day in the Corps started on the east coast 3 hours ahead of them so I had 3 hours more time in service than they did. They might have shipped some over, those are nasty little boogers.
I'd take the beach towel, sunglasses, going to watch baseball games, and popcorn and movies any day over the swamp because that's all PI is. One way in, one way out, one of the guys in my platoon found that out the hard way when he tried to run away from the range....idiot. Nothing but gator infested swamp around that place. As for the sand fleas, when we were at the range one DI went beserk when one guy scratched so we went out into the thick grass where those things seem to breed and mark timed for about 30 minutes. We left out of there with polka dots all over us.
Bosco, be lucky I'm not going to boot camp with you, I was bad luck. My good buddy and rack mate who was from the same city in FL as my grandma laid down in a fire ant pile at the range and found out quickly he was allergic to them. The range is a waysssssss away from mainside where the hospital is. He almost didn't make it. Then one of my good buddies I rode down on the bus with was hurt when we were on the hump out for BWT. We were going along and I heard a loud pop and snap right beside me and he went down crying.....shattered the ball on the top of his femur where it goes to the hip socket. This was about 2 or 3 weeks before graduation, needless to say, he didn't graduate.
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Helicopters is not my thing, thought about that too.
yea man, i was just saying that cause i wasnt sure if you looked into it or not, good luck with your decison :salute
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I've been lucky so far, and I have a friend that is in the Marines, and he is telling me all of the "good stuff" in Boot camp.
Just can't get over the "Silver bullet" lol, that will NOT happen to me.
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The "good stuff in boot camp"??? :huh :eek:
Oh yeah...green eggs...watching Iwo Jima and The Halls of Montezuma every single weekend...free haircuts...endless hours of P.T., rifle disassembly/reassembly and cleaning...endless hours of boot and brass polishing...endless hours of close order drills...foot locker drills...did I miss something?
If they don't have all that...you're in the squid boot camp...time to jump the fence and go back where you belong before they realize you're missing.
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Ment to be sarcastic but ok.
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Congratulations! :)
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Bosco, Im on the Navy side of maintenance on MH-60s (navy version of a blackhawk). Any questions feel free to ask.
The Navy plans on opening a rate just for UAVs in the next few years. I have a first class who did 3 tours in Iraq flying UAVs. Its a opening door for enlisted to "fly" again. And I intend to get into it.
The Marine Corp has always been under the idea that your a riflemen first. But now a days even other servicemen and women are being surprised to find themselves pounding sand with a M16 when that was the last place they expected to be. It was a reality check for me when I found myself in the sand with a m16 being shot at when my job in the Navy is fixing helos on a boat chasing down pirates. :D
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Even though you have less regard for me than I of you I'm going to add something to this post.
Not everyone is straights "A's", bright, articulate on the road to higher education and a megga bucks carrier. Me included.....could hardly read and write when I left school.
For folk like us quick thinking and brute strength or often the primary tools of our trade. Unless you attain a trade or a skill you'll be competing with many in the same boat. To clarify that it's manual or menial work at the lower end of the pay scale.
So whats this to do with being a kick arse Marine? Not everyone becomes a carrier soldier. Some do and it may be right up your street but the stats prove the majority come back to civilian life.....the everday work force.
Here's some examples of friends and relatives before my closing statement.
1) friend.. the second battalion Para's left as a Colour Seargent. (Falklands vet) Now a one man band self employed printer. Gets by but by no means "loaded"
2) friend..Royal Fusiliers was convinced he was going to be a helicopter pilot as a boy soldier. Did 2 terms (6 yrs). Now an unskilled worker in a factory.
3) Friend... Cold Stream Guards failed selection for the SAS (attitude problem) did years as a door to door salesman. Now a self employed block paver. That's laying fancy patten drive ways. Heavy graft and by no means loaded.
4) friend... Royal Fusiliers did 6 yrs. Has 6 kids (Catholic wife) and hasn't worked (officially) for 10 years. He earns more from state benefits than he could in the work force.
5) friend...Royal Engineers. now he's a trucker.
6) friend.. Royal Fusiliers qualified as a butcher. Hard to say what he does now. He's had more jobs than I've had hot dinners.
7) Cousin.. Royal Signals (Falklands vet) left as a Seargent. Is now a retired Police Seargent.
The Marins will kick the kid outta ya. You'll grow up quick. This won't necessarily make you a man but you will mature quicker than the kids you went to school with. However and this is what I consider the important bit. You'll get out of this life experience what you put in. Once you've passed out you'll find it ever so easy to settle into routines. Easy just to get in the rut for a quiet life within the forces. ......Don't.
Unskilled, uneducated people are ten a penny out here in the real world. Grab every opportunity. Push for those opportunities. Learn as much as you can. Motivate yourself and others around you. If your any good at it they'll promote you leading to other opportunities....grab em. Because you ain't educated you'll have to graft. After basic training the graft may be more mental than physical but you'll have to graft (work hard) to be recognised for these opportunities..... Do it.
Feel free to dismiss my words but pay attention to what others may say about this.
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Glad to hear you've decided to serve.
And don't forget, the Marines have aviation (its true!) and TANKS. Don't just have to be a rifle toting leatherneck. Can also be a flying or tank-driving leatherneck. :t
Our local Marine Reserve unit around here is the 8th Tank Battalion down in Mattydale. Something about Marines in Abramses that makes me feel safer. :)
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Swore in today, projected date is June 1st, before my graduation.
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Rifleman... Every Marine is a rifleman. :salute
Every Marine is a marksman... Not a rifleman... ARMY troops are Riflemen, Marines, they are Marksmen.