i took the ASVAB at school one day because it was a chance to get out of class for a couple hours. i never thought it would actually open any doors for me.within a week i was getting phone calls from all the branches.
the Marines impressed me the most because the other recruiters weren't selling the service as much as they were selling the off duty time. the Navy recruiter was talking about shore leave in the far east, the Army recruiter was telling me about German girls, etc. only the Marines were actually telling me what to expect and how hard it would be.
no regrets whatsoever. everything i have in this world is related either directly or indirectly to my time in the Corps.
21 I was an Army brat and until that age I did not want anything to do with the military, then realized that I could one up the old man by joining the Marines . He told me that they would kick my azz in bootcamp, man was he right. But when I graduated from MCRD San Diego he was the first one to come up to me and tell me that I was now a man. Without the Corps I would never have had the fortitude to finish college.
18 ....Journeyman produce wharehouseman, w/ own apartment, making good money ....and in college just long enough to meet my present (and only) wife.
No regrets. Like it's been noted: "no regrets whatsoever. everything i have in this world is related either directly or indirectly to my time in the Corps."
Originally posted by gsemarine94: Without the Corps I would never have had the fortitude to finish college.
+1
I decided to join when I was seventeen. That same year I DEP'd, then I shipped off five days after I graduated from H.S. (which was eighteen years ago today!).
I went on to serve ten years.
I don't regret it for a second! If I didn't join the Corps I would be stuck in my hometown of San Diego, CA w/o any real direction in my mid-thirties. I would not be where I am now (phyically which happens to be the Middle East! )
Really as far as I can remember. My dad, his brother and there father are all Marine's. Once I turned 18 the only question I had was what MOS I wanted to try and get. Interesting side note, when I went in to the office I found out the station's SNCOIC served with my uncle. Funny how small the Marine Corps is.
"It isn't the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error. It's the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." R.H. Parker
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, National Guard or Reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand that - Author unknown.
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