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I've been in the Marine Corps for almost 11 years, commissioned from a service academy, and spent two years as the squadron Uniformed Victims Advocate (UVA, who is responsible for training personnel on Sexual Assault Awareness/Prevention and ensuring victims in the unit are taken care of). I am...

Huey pilot here. Most of your questions I agree with Hotdogs. Love flying the Huey, despite challenges coming down the pipe for the HMLA. For me, the best parts are: 1. Flying with Crew Chiefs: Awesome people, keep you honest, and are never afraid to call you out on your bullshit. The...

Request aviator wings. Winged out of South Field back in February.

I hate the trend towards gender-neutralizing dress uniforms. It seems like it's there to "fix" a problem that doesn't exist, as a cheap and lazy way to appease outsiders who want "gender equality" in the military. No female in the military that I know is clamoring for this shit. The current...

As someone finally leaving Milton after a year-plus here....don't live in Milton. It's nice to be close for the 0445/0515 brief mornings and that's about it. If you're dead set on Milton, there are a couple decent housing complexes (you'll need roommates) but the dudes I know who live in...

Disagree... From a constructive criticism standpoint: it took all of five minutes and zero dollars to load the pubs from the CD we got issued from TRAWING 5 onto my Kindle. There's tons of EP/Limits quizzes on (free) quizlet as well. While it may be nice to have all that stuff in one spot...

I'm not invested in this either way (though in all fairness I would probably find it lame if USNA changed their female plebe hair policy), I'm just assuming that the Navy's using some kind of logic here aside from wanting the female candidates to feel like pretty pretty princesses.

I doubt it'd go over well to make women completely shave their heads and you can't make us shave our faces, so there's not a whole lot you can do to us. If you want to make females look and feel undignified and gross in solidarity with the males, chopping off a bunch of hair in the most hideous...

I bought my sword through Marlow White without complaint (aside from, you know, I've used it zero times). I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but if you have friends commissioning around the same time of you in need of swords and you buy them all together they'll bump the price down a...

After...take leave, go home, and enjoy yourself. Depending on where you live, it also just makes more sense (to me at least) to to go Quantico->Christmas->Florida than Quantico->Florida->Christmas->Florida. Like an idiot, I was all moto and checked in about three days after TBS graduation...

A couple months, give or take. Supposedly they're trying to keep wait times under two months but it all depends on the size of the pool and how many Marines they can send a week. Almost everyone from my TBS class waited around three months to start training, IFS validator or not.

JT, neither me nor my roommate got summer seminar and both made it into the Academy first try. Every case is a little different, I wouldn't worry too hard about it.