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Don't stress any training you are going to do. Someone who is weaker than you has done it before, and someone who is dumber than you has done it before, and if those weak, dumb, sons of bitches are making it through, you should be fine.

Here is HQMC logic: "Our Marines have to purchase new uniforms regularly, so we will give them an additional once a year bonus to help defray the costs of said uniforms, and everything adds up." Here is PFC logic: "My sweats are barely even ripped at all...Beer money it is!" Edit: Not that...

But I thought all Marines were automatically fearless by virtue of being Marines, and all soldiers were spineless whimps? Your explanation doesn't seem to factor Branch of Service into the bodies stress response mechanisms, therefore I reject it in full.

I told the guys around me at OCS: "I'm not telling you to unblouse your trousers...but if they happen to come undone as you are running out of the Quigley, hey, you aren't gonna stop to fix them..."

Sorry, K-Bay, I was busy putting myself on auto-thrash at PT. I think this is the wiki you were looking for?

Say it ain't so... Man - I really believed them this time too! Frowney Face :( :( :(

Left handed pilots have an advantage in the Huey, because when you are hands off (not flying) your smoking hand is much closer to the ashtray. Righties will have to reach around the cyclic to reach flavor country with their dominant hand.

Hillary in Quotes from pro-war hawk to anti-war activist. I think this is one of my biggest beefs with Democrats lately. Many of them voted for the war, but now they are against the war??? Last year they said "The President is a dumbass because he didn't have a plan to send in enough...

Hmmm...somehow I posted a crap load of info and managed to close the browser. http://www.wxumac.demon.co.uk/]Nitric Oxide Website From this site: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1524-475X.2003.11605.x/full/ L-arginine, even when it is not an essential amino acid as...

It is not a prohibited substance that will "pop" on a piss test. If it was, half the Marine Corps would be getting hit on it probably. Article on L-Arginine (the principle ingredient in NO2 products such as NO2, NOXplode, etc...) Creatine does not have any negative side-effects. It is found...

Islamic Extremists in Iran: Yet another reason why I am such a fan of Jimmy Carter.

I was in that Company that got our libbo canked. I know in my heart of hearts that I am "harder" for it though. I wrote my girlfriend a letter during the night land nav course. Finished up pretty quickly, then I just went out into the middle of the woods after I got my last box and laid out...

Correct me if I am wrong, but won't the UH-1Y be able to take up a lot of the work in the CASEVAC role? The "new" hotrod T-700's (According to Bell = 125% more payload and 50% more range) should allow it to actually put PAX in the back and STILL do stuff (like clear the hills around MCAS...

Brooks Adrenaline GTS or ASICS 2120 for moderate overpronators Brooks Beast if you have no arch at all Running shoes make all the difference in the world - replace regularly, esp. if you are a bigger guy. IMO, wouldn't go with Nikes unless you have good arches, have had bad experience with...

Went to a local Air Museum this weekend (one of the largest), thought I would throw out a few pictures of some planes they had on display Spruce Goose: To get a feel for it's sheer size, notice the aluminum tail section on the right side - that is a DC-3. B-17 (Flying Fortress)...

Assuming you are talking about Thermopylae, there were 300 Spartans (and other fighters from various assorted Greek city-states, as well as their respective slaves, and of course the baggage train). Herodotus put the count at about 8 million Persians as I recall. History 1 Modern Drunkard 0

Great, the Navy is spending billions of dollars to make a Ford? I'll sell them my F-150 for cheap. Fix Or Repair Daily.

We missed the night IMC after over 1/4 of our the candidates in our Company were medevac'd at some point during the night hike/SULE II evolution.

Pffft, that's nothing. Try riding the stub wings on a Huey!

The difference between this and bootcamp (especially as a MECEP) is that in bootcamp you want to go home and they won't let you, and at OCS you want to graduate and they keep telling you they are going to kick you out. That was the only thing that got me was the mindfark. I got put on platoon...

Heh, such a huge difference between "Candidate Interviews" and "Recruit Interviews."

Good God man, Are you seriously prepared to make such a life altering decision based on a few cookie cutter stereotypes from a diverse sampling of two people (The Naval Officer said join the Navy, the Marine said join the Marines, didn't see that coming). 1. You will get better accommodations...

I used to be a uniform whore. Spent an hour a night on cammies and would reiron the blouse at lunch (when I was actually wearing cammies that is), spit shined every night (including safety boots). New cammies I don't do shiat too. I used to glue my pockets down, and was going to have all...

"Sweet Deals" for us cost money for the Marine Corps, and by extension the Navy and the taxpayers... We are already meeting officer demands through current, cheaper, alternatives, and can spend an already limited budget on things like training and equipment, which don't buy pizzas or xboxs...

DI's do alot of stuff that is out of regs IOT look better. Not supposed to starch cammies or tailor khaki shirts to be formfitting, shaved heads are eccentric, not supposed to use chevrons or other pinning devices on the back of your shirt to hold the creases, not supposed to "tack" your...

Glock gives a big discount to active duty military, go to your local gunshop that sells LEO firearms and they will give it to you. I own a glock 17. Took awhile to get over the external safety hangup, but I like that pistol a lot now. Obviously the 17 is fullsize, so not a great conceal carry...

In the summer course we were told to expect PFT score to drop about 20 points, dunno what the winter course "score drop" (if any) is.

My school sent two midshipmen to seniors this summer who had PFT's in the 230-range, both failed the initial PFT miserably. You get something like 3 hours of sleep before the PFT, and it is hot and humid as hell. Also the instructors are pretty hard on the pullups. I would not want to ship...

How did that make your list? I understand the HH-1N isn't exactly the most common bird out there (I was an HH-1N Plane Captain btw), but the UH-1N??? Come on, Hueys are pretty much symbolic of the Vietnam War and they are still incredibly common. I mean the whole H-1 community is in the midst...

At Yuma SAR our Corpsmen carried their medical scissors in that pocket. The rest of the pockets need to be free so that you can stick tools and aircraft parts in them...;)

My favorite: [Topic X] is important for United States Marine Corps Marine Officer Candidates at United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School located on Marine Corps Combat Development Command Quantico in Quantico Virginia on Brown Field... (That is 26 words right there) I would throw...

Misspelling "Airwarriors" ???? Oh man, if we had rep points back I'd give you such a thrashing!!

What % get NCC?

No, but I do love lamp...and I love carpet.

Went to OCS with a guy this summer who had 3 NJP's. I forget if he was boost or if he just got out and went to OCS, I wanna say boost though. Also, Marine boost has different options now. There is a 3 month, 6 month, and 9 month deal, but I don't know too much about it.

I have. NJP'd Feb 2002, applied for and accepted for MECEP in 2004.

But without reputation points, I have no incentive to make witty, insightful commen---oh wait...that never really happened before either.

Mine went from 8 to approximately 10 million or so Rep schmep. Edit: By "approximately 10 million or so" I meant: 18621.

Well I can tell from your vast experience in the Marine Corps and ability to make assumptions based on what you heard that you are certainly in a place to comment on the fitness of that particular Staff Sergeant. Your "SSGT F" sure did nail it on the head. I guess my buddy just "forgot where...

We lost ~26 on the hump. By the 1st stop (3 mile marker) we had to stop for an hour because we didn't have any medical support left. People were going down with low temps, but I think a big part of it was Hyponutrimia. We had people in our platoon STARTING the hike w/ it. (I was the Plt...

If you are talking about a candidate from Golf Company, then go fornicate yourself. That 110 heat case was a outstanding Marine Staff NCO, who will be back next year. I would like to see you hang with that "weak candidate." Zilch: After the second week they instituted an "8 hours" of...

Loud Rock Music can make ANYTHING seem exciting though. For example: 99.9% of being a grunt is pretty boring. Cleaning weapons, sitting in a fighting hole looking at the desert, etc... But it's cool when you are a grunt...with loud rock music.

How did they manage to make a night flight under NVG's with loud rock music in the background seem so boring????

2nd increment Golf Company's SULE II hike was the hardest (9 miler). ~26 medevacs. We ran out of ambulances/medical facilities by the first stop (3rd mile). Had to wait for about an hour IOT get going again. A lot of people were going down with low temps, but it turned out that Hyponutrimia...

Everyone knows that all the cool guys go to -303.

Surprised that no one on here is a Glock fan, I absolutely love mine. Never had a single problem with it. I think it is a pretty damn fine looking firearm as well.

is super popular in Japan. WTFO

We had a candidate get a blowup doll in the mail, which may or may not have ended up in: A wall-locker, the company gunny's office, and another Sgt. Instructor's wall-locker and a few other places...may or may not have... "[Candidate Name] YOU LOOK LIKE A SEA BAG WITH LIPS!" SNC was prior...

4th Recon Battalion is a reserve unit.

What reserve unit are you going to? What do you mean "trained to work the systems of the cobra?"