Basically, I am interested in finding out from the start of your contract to the end, what happens? Where do you go, when? etc. like boot then blah blah blah. I would appreaciate it, thank you!

This question is way too broad to answer....blah blah blah...
suggest you make some attempt to do some searching on your own...don't take the easy way out...

I wanna know like, in the 4 years that you serve as infantry, what usually happens, like after Boot, where do you go, where do you stay, how long after your schooling do you usually deploy afterwards, where do you stay when you are not deployed, pretty much i wanted a Time Line of what happens over the course of a grunts contract, from start to finish. I'm debating right now, and need an answer ASAP heh.

The only "average" time line would be: bootcamp, MOS training, then report to your unit and do what you're told. Deploy when the unit deploys (which depends on the optempo at the time; in peacetime when I was still in it was one 6-month float every year and a half, roughly - a lot quicker now, I'd wager).

While stateside you train - that's another nebulous area that's been covered before (see the "typical day in the life of a grunt" thread for details on that), but the ultra-generic version is that you go to the field on Monday, train, come back Friday and clean weapons, liberty on the weekend if you don't have duty. That's generally...if the optempo isn't different, i.e. the demands from higher up aren't different, the plans of your CO, Plt. Sgt., Squad leader, etc. aren't different, there aren't any special training exercises, schools, etc. Schools and whatnot has also been covered before, but as you progress in rank and responsibility, you should see opportunities to attend different schools - NCO school, etc. Should see them...if slots don't get taken by others, which happens.

Are you starting to see why this question is really unanswerable? There are so many variables to an "average" timeline that it's virtually impossible to answer unless you know what the exact unit is, when they returned from deployement and might be scheduled to go again (which doesn't mean a lot these days), and what everyuone in that unit's chain of command might possibly have planned for them in a 4-year period - not to mention whether or not they might get called to go somewhere without warning (I'm sure a war in Iraq or Afghanistan wasn't on the training schedule back on 09/10/2001 - see what I'm saying).

Bottom line is there's no set time line - you just need to be flexible.

Hmm, you think there is any actual time to visit my woman as infantry? or more of a chance as intel? Im hoping for extra time on weekends or something to be able to go to jersey and visit the woman heh.

Jesus!....Join the Army...

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Jesus!....Join the Army...

Very helpful. thanks.

Zeugirdor...GT gave you some very sound advice. I might add I sense you have all the qualifications of being a terrific airman. In the AF a person with your qualifications could have his cake and eat it to. You could just do you hiking, calisthentics, etc. when you wanted to or felt like it. That way it would give you more time to go to Jersey...blah, blah, blah, etc. heh. Also, go for an admin job. heh

OMG He is not serious is he?????

as for average in the infantry, I don't think the term can be applied.
There are just way too many career paths and opportunities to go in different areas than can be discussed.
As for time to see your woman, usually you have weekends off, and sometimes you don't.

Don't worry about it much, because no matter what branch you join, it more than likely won't last tthat long and she'll break up with you.
fear not though, because there is plenty of booty out there and Marines tend to get more than their fair share

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Hmm, you think there is any actual time to visit my woman as infantry? or more of a chance as intel? Im hoping for extra time on weekends or something to be able to go to jersey and visit the woman heh.

She is not going to be around forever, you need to realize that. A lot of my guys think about this, they talk about marriage and all sort of other ideas which are best left to a guy who has EASed or reenlisted. Once you leave to go to boot camp as an infantryman, you're entering the unknown. You'll go to recruit training, then Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Geiger. Once that is complete, no Marine infantryman has the same experience. Maybe you will deploy your first day in the fleet. You may go on two or three deployments to the Okinawa and do a lot of training. Maybe you will like it, stay in the Marine Corps and retire thirty years later. Maybe you will get out after four years. You may go to Afghanistan or Iraq your first month in the fleet and be killed or horribly maimed for the rest of your life. Your girlfriend, who isn't going to wait for you statistically, will be here back at home doing her own thing. Once you leave, you will be someone else.