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I heard talk like this all the time when I was at API, and it was so irritating. The Marines in our class had the highest average on almost every test...but we still had to listen to people getting shitty grades (at a time when they KNEW ahead of time that getting shitty grades would get them...

Hmmm, this totally defies the normal convention of: Brown Rifle = "Hunting" Rifle that is ok Black Rifle = "Assault" Rifle that is capable of slaughtering the entire population of a small town.

The most courageous thing I have ever done as a Marine was eating tacos from some stand in San Luis at 3AM. (The night started with me getting bumped into on the dance floor, turning around, and seeing two dudes going at it with knives) Oh yeah, AF lodging makes me irrationally angry. There...

I would answer your question, but I'd rather just make fun of baseball. Seriously, it's God-awful. Every "baseball highlight" on ESPN is the exact same. Either it's a home-run, which is much less impressive now that the guys are all juiced up, or a diving catch which is cool the first couple...

Eh, can't argue with that. Good point.

Uniformity doesn't meaning changing your uniform because you are in a joint environment...

It's bogus that they make the Marines wear a khaki cover...

Don't sweat the swimming. If you can do it with flc, flak, pack, rifle, etc..., you can do it with a flightsuit on. As for the wait time, it is what it is, as soon as you think it is going to go fast it will slow down. Nothing you can do about it, so don't even bother thinking about it...

I always wondered if the mods got alerted when I accidentally left AW running on my desktop and then logged in on my wife's laptop.

AFAIK Delta is just about finished classing up for API, and it is still ~~10 Marines a week. Corpus is starting to accept warm bodies again, and Whiting North is pushing studs at the cyclic rate, so things should continue moving swiftly forward. Of course, now that I wrote this everything...

T-35C's make you poo.

The Navy is cutting back on aviators right now, at least at the API stage. They are cutting dudes who passed IFS and finished API with a ~~93% average or so. Don't know if this would affect your chances at a recruiter, since current manning requirements =/= recruiting quota requirements all...

I am going to make a magic 8-ball prediction. TAD orders will be cut short and all SNA's will be gathered from around the nation and sent ASAP to Pensacola with firm API start dates. API will then slow back down to 3 per week. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Pensacola...

I thought it was easier to swim underwater with the boots. The added weight isn't much of a factor, and they push a lot more water than your feet do.

Jeez, I thought I was an old-timer with my 2400 baud modem logging onto BBS's....1200 is pretty ancient. I remember being jealous of my buddy who had both a 486 and a 14.4k modem. We also direct connected our computers one time to "chat." So who here played Tradewars on a BBS? Oh yeah...

We all know that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho gets the best reception.

How useful is a dump sheet in practice? I don't get why you would know a piece of information before the test and forget it during. As far as formulas, if you need to see one to manipulate it, why not write it down when you need it? Am I missing something?

They should just remaster it and add a few random scenes like they did with Star Wars. HD Picture, modernize the beach volleyball in jeans with dog tags scene to be a beach volleyball in board shorts with dog tags scene, re-edit the F-14's into -18's, and digitally reduce Val Kilmer's hair by...

"It only takes one maggot to upset your world." True Story.

With no circulatory system pumping through their cold corpses those zombies would freeze over quite quickly. It's all in here:

Not to be nitpicky, but there are several potential specifications under article 92. Knowledge is an element unless it is a general order. (eg: Col X could write an order saying "Don't smoke spice" [the latest designer drug] and it would have to be proven that a Marine KNEW he wasn't...

You implied, he inferred. English people!!

No, you would just take a nap out in the woods for a few hours, then write in the answers and pretend to be sweaty when you turn your card in.

Until we ban backpacks, our society will never be safe from backpack-bombs!!!! Won't somebody think of the children!!!!

Key word: Courage. Plenty of medals out there for that, in various degrees of awesomeness. Zzzzzzzzzz.

So that was you eh?

What languages are they offering? Oh yeah, I thought I was "close to flight school" when I was finishing up TBS too...7 months later and the closest I have gotten is when the Blue Angels use my office as a landmark for their tight-formation-of-four turns at low altitude.

I (a Marine) have always heard it called a 'wet down." More importantly though, who the hell is out there "correcting people" for improperly using some made-up apparently strictly-enforced-service-specific lingo for a promotion party? Bottom line: Don't invite that guy to your wet down...he...

Don't fuck with me man...I've come to far!! Seriously, if this is true it's great news. Hopefully I will not have to partake in a post-API pool of some sort. My buddy up in Helo-land was saying that he is also flying through the pipeline because they are getting so few students from the VT's...

No...I did not go to the Naval Academy. Actually, the amount of shit we had to put up with collectively made finding out we got a MUC like 6 months after the fact pretty damn nice. Also nice because I didn't get an end-of-tour NAM like everyone else on a B-Billet because I went MECEP.

Whew, good thing too because I am weak, uneducated, and entirely too incompetent to ever be awarded. I do have a MUC though, that counts for something right?

If I wasn't married I would think about it, but the wife isn't too keen on moving again so soon. FWIW the rumor mill is saying you have to go to Vance if you are pre-API.

I think I heard about this, all the guys who are wanting to get into the airlines later in life are eating this up.

I convinced half my platoon during one of the rifle range weeks that we weren't humping back because we were going to get helo-extracted back to Camp Barrett. Bottom line is that when they turn the faucet back on full (presumably after the MX issues are resolved), they are going to need bodies...

They are making that whole area of the base down by the Coast Guard station the spot for the oil-cleanup. Don't worry though, proud volunteers, I saw the coca-cola truck coming in to drop off cases of soda to aid in the oil cleaning effort.

I thought those Army guys were being pretty gay...then I looked at the actual music video for that song and I was greeted with some sort of androgynous transvestite looking creature which I later found out is what Lady Gaga looks like when she isn't dressed in glitter and bullshit like normal.

*sigh* Last Nov when I graduated TBS I saw the writing on the wall, walked into my SPC's office, and said "Hey sir, there is a long fucking wait in P-Cola, who do I need to talk to to try and work out an IA or something?" and I got told to "Get the fuck out [his] office."

I am pretty surprised about how many people are willing to pick up pitchforks and torches over stuff they have minimal e-knowledge of. (Or accuse non-married Marines of beating up their non-existent wives which is probably the internet equivalent) Then of course there are the Marines (and...

The fact that it went to an Article 32 (vice a Grand Jury in the civilian world) is in-and-of itself proof of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. In the civilian world a closed session would decide if there was enough evidence to go to trial, in the military your lawyer got to...

How does the funding work? Is it something worth pursuing in the new post-API, pre-Primary pool?

If your neighborhood is filled with sketchy people, then there is a good chance they are already carrying concealed weapons without a permit. Also, keep in mind that in Arizona you can open carry a firearm already, so your comparison to drivers licenses is a little skewed, IMO.

Irony at it's finest.

Where's the joke?

Speaking in general terms, he wouldn't have submitted a resignation. He would have submitted a request to resign, effectively waiving his ad-sep board. This saves the Marine Corps time and money. HQMC can still reject this if they want. This wouldn't affect the characterization of service...

Gayer. Than. AIDS.

Is that a choking the chicken joke? Well played sir

I'm keeping my lips sealed on this one, but please trust me: swing and a miss on the domestic violence piece.

If this picture doesn't settle things for you, then nothing will.

I saw you guys in your holes on FEX3 in the mud, it looked pretty miserable. Good thing I didn't have to touch a shovel for that evolution. IFS got a helluva lot more fun after the first solo. IMO they should let you do a beach solo as well (this would only add one flight). In places where...

Because they are two completely different branches which have independently determined required OCS curriculum's which are of different lengths?