MunkeyMuck All American 4427 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "My name is 1st Lt Mark Allen. I am the Marine Corps Officer Selection Officer for North Carolina State University. The reason that I am contacting you is because I want you to be aware of an awesome training opportunity with the Marine Corps Officer Programs called the Officer Candidate Course (OCC)." |
SOUNDS AWESOME11/26/2007 5:52:24 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
I JUST GOT IT TOO
SHOULD I LET HIM KNOW I'M GOING TO BE A NAVAL OFFICER IN A COUPLE MONTHS? 11/26/2007 5:53:09 PM |
XSMP All American 16674 Posts user info edit post |
no, but you might could say you're gonna be a MARINE soon.
learn to fucking read. ]] 11/26/2007 5:53:09 PM |
DiamondAce Suspended 12937 Posts user info edit post |
A chance to travel abroad! 11/26/2007 5:53:16 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
nobody invited me 11/26/2007 5:54:03 PM |
DiamondAce Suspended 12937 Posts user info edit post |
You must have told. 11/26/2007 5:54:26 PM |
Yoshiemaster Suspended 9388 Posts user info edit post |
tell him your uncle was a a fighter in Iraq that got killed but you can't go see him because your family lives off the tigris river 11/26/2007 5:55:31 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "no, but you might could say you're gonna be a MARINE soon.
learn to fucking read." |
well, I am in Navy ROTC, Navy Option 11/26/2007 5:56:24 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
Navy rules: 1. Go to sea 2. Deploy marines 3. Drink coffee 11/26/2007 5:59:31 PM |
seedless All American 27142 Posts user info edit post |
i have always thought about being an officer but i dun think i am cut out for it 11/26/2007 6:00:52 PM |
Kodiak All American 7067 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Thunderbird thinks this message is junk." |
11/26/2007 6:05:29 PM |
XSMP All American 16674 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "well, I am in Navy ROTC, Navy Option " |
oh. carry on.11/26/2007 6:05:36 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!111/26/2007 6:26:10 PM |
ALkatraz All American 11299 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Navy rules: 1. Go to sea 2. Deploy marines 3. Drink coffee" |
11/26/2007 6:47:46 PM |
Kurtis636 All American 14984 Posts user info edit post |
I think if I was going to join the military I would choose the branch that would be least likely to get me killed. Navy is pretty safe, non-flight airforce would be ok, but I'd be ashamed to join the coast guard.
I think if I was going army or marines I would want to be in a tank because:
1. Tanks are about the coolest motherfucking things ever. 2. The Abrams is damn near indestructible. 11/26/2007 6:51:00 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "but I'd be ashamed to join the coast guard." | I'd fly for the Coast Guard in a heartbeat if they'd let me.
For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission. I've talked to an undercover Coastie who watched a drug dealer's partner get whacked with an AK because the dealer thought his partner was the narc.11/26/2007 6:53:51 PM |
bethaleigh All American 18902 Posts user info edit post |
I just got one too. 11/26/2007 6:53:55 PM |
Kurtis636 All American 14984 Posts user info edit post |
^^ Yes but the coast guards every day real world work is anathema to my ideals. For me it would be like working for the FCC or the DEA. 11/26/2007 6:54:57 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
fair enough on the drug part, I'm not a fan myself.
but the rest of their mission is pretty damn sweet. 11/26/2007 6:56:02 PM |
DiamondAce Suspended 12937 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission." |
11/26/2007 6:56:06 PM |
Wraith All American 27256 Posts user info edit post |
I was under the impression that the USCG's search and rescue pilots and divers go through some pretty hardcore stuff. 11/26/2007 7:08:44 PM |
nothing22 All American 21537 Posts user info edit post |
ah ha
i made this thread about 4 years ago 11/26/2007 7:36:35 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I'd fly for the Coast Guard in a heartbeat if they'd let me.
For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission. " |
that makes absolutely no sense11/26/2007 7:52:29 PM |
drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
so whats the best branch of military 11/26/2007 7:54:10 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
noaa 11/26/2007 7:55:09 PM |
drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
nah it has to be one of the main ones...like navy, army, usmc 11/26/2007 7:57:49 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
haha, i know--depends on what sense you mean 11/26/2007 7:59:22 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "so whats the best branch of military" |
thats easy
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drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
i guess i mean it in that "who is the most vital to the us military 11/26/2007 8:01:20 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
probably the navy...but who wants to sit around a ship pushing buttons and putting out make-believe fires all day? ] 11/26/2007 8:03:15 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
yeah, the navy and air force have nuclear weapons, so i would say one of them
[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 8:04 PM. Reason : sp] 11/26/2007 8:04:32 PM |
drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
yeah i guess i never thought of it like that 11/26/2007 8:05:33 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "that makes absolutely no sense" | Why not?
Marine Corps and the Army are the two most essential. Without ground forces you cannot hold ground. Period. The Navy has the best sustainable force projection ability, but thats largely because of their ability to combine a credible ground threat (Marines) and air superiority (Naval Aviation).
That being said, the Army is the only of the 5 that can have a brigade sized force anywhere in the world in 72 hours.
They've all got a pretty critical skill.]11/26/2007 8:50:39 PM |
datman All American 4812 Posts user info edit post |
^either way, marines will be the first in anywhere before the army goes somewhere 11/26/2007 9:08:31 PM |
simonn best gottfriend 28968 Posts user info edit post |
ground forces are out, missiles are in. 11/26/2007 9:09:47 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
Well if you want to get in a dick-waving contest. The Army conducted more amphibious assaults in WWII than the Marines. The largest amphibious assault in world history? June 6th 1944. Not a Marine in sight. Panama? 82nd Airborne. Desert Storm? 82nd Airborne. Afghanistan? 75th Ranger Regiment.
But you know, its cool.
Me? I'm not remotely a bad-ass and I don't pretend to be. But don't go shitting on my branch. 11/26/2007 9:11:03 PM |
cddweller All American 20699 Posts user info edit post |
Here we go again.
My thread was longer. 11/26/2007 10:08:00 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
^^^^^ you were talking about the coast guard, not the army/marines 11/26/2007 10:41:46 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
Right. If the Army / Marines aren't deployed, they're training. The USCG has a real world mission every day.
Semper Paratus, Always Ready Bitch.
Besides the Coastguardsman's creed includes the phrase: "I shall live joyously" and "I shall sell life dearly to an enemy of my country, but give it freely to rescue those in peril." I mean, it's not quite, "This is my rifle" but its cool in its own way. 11/26/2007 10:45:52 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
Ah yes, but it's the Navy that doesn't see home for months on end. 11/26/2007 10:47:16 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
True, but the Coast Guard doesn't have quite the latent homosexuality as the Navy. No offense chembob but I couldn't help noticing shittons of it in the exhibits the last time I toured the USS NC.
[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 10:56 PM. Reason : and right now, the Navy isn't winning the "time away from home" award.] 11/26/2007 10:53:58 PM |
chembob Yankee Cowboy 27011 Posts user info edit post |
Well you spend these months on end packed in like sardines with you and a few hundred of your closest male comrades, and yes, latent homosexuality is there
[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 10:57 PM. Reason : well, yea, right now. but on the whole average across the 232 years, yes we win that ] 11/26/2007 10:56:53 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Right. If the Army / Marines aren't deployed, they're training. The USCG has a real world mission every day. " |
negative ghostrider. not being deployed = training only for certain units. i thought you are in the military?11/26/2007 11:07:45 PM |
HUR All American 17732 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "True, but the Coast Guard doesn't have quite the latent homosexuality as the Navy." |
TreeTwista10 Quote : | "After 4 months on a boat, 1st Seamen John starts looking more attractive everyday" |
11/26/2007 11:11:05 PM |
JCASHFAN All American 13916 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "not being deployed = training only for certain units" | Technically, you're correct. But I'm not breaking down Red Cycle / Amber Cycle / Green Cycle, DRB etc. on TWW.11/26/2007 11:18:42 PM |
synapse play so hard 60935 Posts user info edit post |
theres no "technically" about it. there are many units in each of the branches who have a "real world mission every day." 11/26/2007 11:27:34 PM |
ALkatraz All American 11299 Posts user info edit post |
Just like your mom. 11/26/2007 11:29:22 PM |