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Stupid question....what's a bucket?

Guys, he said he's joining the Marines. Different criteria. As of the Spring, the Marine Corps still looked at the ASTB pretty much as a pass/fail thing. Get over a 5/6/6, don't worry about the OAR score, and run like a gazelle. PFT and the rest of your package matter way more than just how much...

And the question everybody is thinking....so how big's the head? Or is it still run for the muddy portapotties?

Hah, so helo drivers will have the last laugh. After the last fighter pilot has been replaced by a pimply faced teenager trained on hours playing Ace Combat in front of the PS2, helo drivers will still be bringing Marines into "the ****". Poetic, in a sense.

Huh, I could have sworn I posted my stats when I got selected for PLC last time OCC-193 pre-select Air Contract 21 years old B.A. Mathematics, 2006 Columbia U. 3.73 GPA PFT: 270: 20/93/21:43 ASTB: 9/9/9/72 No prior service, no private pilot's license LOR: Professors and employers, noone notable...

I think he means take a breather, because once you pass the security checkpoint the Marine Corps owns you and it's a whole new world. Then again....maybe he means finding a whole new world in the bathroom. Never can tell these days.

Doesn't the rumor go that a pilot got the callsign "Pump"?

Nobody bugged us while we were up in the middle of the night; staff would walk in and out of their office and the Company area but not usually walk down the squadbay to inquire into our activities (as long as we were reasonably quiet and discreet, of course). Our squadbay was pitch dark, too...

Your CO's motto is "the beatings will continue until morale improves", isn't it?

Hah, I was working on a humorous reply but it never worked out. I don't generally carry for self-defense; it's just a useful tool to have. It does make me feel much better when running in Riverside park at night (yea, I'm a nutcase).

Own a benchmade 710; was my daily carry for most of college. Solid knives; the axis lock is pretty reliable, too.

Usually by 5 or 6 in the afternoon. Duty platoon is tasked with work details around the base and barracks, so if he's on a work detail he may not be free until later in the night.

I looked into it a while back and it seemed pretty hard to get; so congrats!

Well..... I just lost my appetite. So that's what my OSO meant when he said it was "just like college". Reminds me of the one night a year I spend in the PSU dorms....staring at the waffle ceilings.

It's an angular measure, so yes, the choice of unit is arbitrary. Tough to compute fractionals on the fly, so we just pick the whole circle to equal something. We picked 360 since it has a lot of factors.

What do you need BUMED for? That's probably what's holding it up. The VA doc here cleared me for Active Duty (I was on NOE after NPQ'ing out of the summer session 2005) in September of 2005, I didn't get the go-ahead from BUMED until March, just barely made the April board. If you're applying...

Some thoughts: "Get a group of bored Marines together and all you will get is trouble." - Marine Sergeant. The Marine did nothing wrong in making the video - he's got a hell of a voice and it's a borderline funny song depending on your sense of humor and how bored you are. Cpl. Belile screwed...

We've had a guy MIA for 2 years now, Matt Mulpin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Maupin

While I went through under the last CO, probation could only escalate and could not be removed. However, the first level (platoon probation) is not that serious; just intended as a wake-up call. I was placed on platoon probation initially for failing the run, with no consequences on liberty...

I'm about 90% sure it's Star, and 90% sure it's a brazilian company that made them.....so 81% sure that Star's Brazilian Here's the TOC from the article: My back issues are with my parents but there's a nice pic in the link. http://www.smallarmsreview.com/images/Vol4No11index.jpg And yea, it...

Star, a brazilian firm, made a few full auto 1911's; there's a few underground Filipino gunsmiths that made mods too. This was in the 30's, Small Arms Review had two cool articles about a year ago.

Look into the CMP program: http://www.odcmp.com/ Service rifles for cheap.

The M1 is loaded from above, so the bolt has to be locked to the rear, and the clip pushed into the magazine, through the chamber. The clip seating will unlock the bolt, so then you fling your thumb out before the bolt slams home or you get "Garand thumb".

War ain't fair. We should be able to beat them with the odds stacked against us.

It's just a light jacketed bullet. The crap about it "sensing the temperature" of a human and expanding is complete bull****.

If you want a plastic FN spacegun to play with, look at the FS2000; the first reports of people receiving theirs are coming in. Shoots the common .223, uses M16 mags.

Probably just to avoid trampling some poor folk who happens to be on the bridge when 300 candidates screaming pack! pack! board the bridge.

Ack, I keep running into people excited over this book's rewriting of history and am skeptical of its claims of over 100 kills and kill-rates well over 50%. Did they even have a stock of 100 phoenix missiles? What do you think of the first review on amazon (by a Mr. Forzyk)...

What happened to the 1 mile swim that an EA-6 pilot told us we'd have to do? Or is that a Marine thing? Okay....just to clarify, at API, do you pass a Navy certification or a Marine certification and are those different?

tag. Thx for the info, gentlemen. Let's keep it UNCLASS so plebes like me can listen and learn.

What? No. Maybe they plan on using the candidates as part of the new construction crew. Or maybe we'll be on 6 weeks of MRE's to further "enrich" the process.

Delta Hornets too? So no more fast-mover FAC(A)'s?

I brought a pair and they're good for marking names and the front, but a pain for the back.

Spray painting/shoe polishing a big fat letter and number to denote your Company/Platoon because all your other PT shirts are dirty or stolen.

http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1808360.php

I heard at marineocs.com that the H&S barracks were torn down and a new one constructed (i believe part of the new construction was also BEQ's), and the same poster said something about Bobo being possibly demolished. Never heard more about it, though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4762803.stm

Midway through the book, so I'm not sure which airframes he's referring to. War will do that - eat up equipment (and men) at prodigious rates. We've got replacements here for the light and medium helicopters - new airframes for Cobra/Hueys and a new platform to replace the 46. Everything else...

I brought a large seabag about 70% full to drag my stuff. I was able to put my linens in there (unlucky buggers without space had to use the blanket as a makeshift bag) but had the drag the laundry bags. I'm probably going back with a sea bag for my civilian junk and a duffel bag for the issue...

Bus or Fly to OCS, you mean? We were flown to PLC-Combined. As OCC you have the option of bringing a car and most folks recommend it.

Fair enough. I was demurring from making a straight comparison, anyway. I'm just repeating what I've heard from defense contractors that if we were to replace the -46 with a conventional helo, it would be something like the US101, and moreover, a fair comparison of the -22's capacities would not...

Yes, it could. The US-101 is in approximately the size and weight class for our Medium airlift capacity and, being a modern helo, is a significant improvement over the CH-46 - makes a lot of the performance gap between the helo and the -22 go away (comparing the -22 to a 40 year old airframe...

It's a uniform item; it's supposed to have the EGA. Your cover's going to have the EGA on it (as well as your cammies). Just don't wear any civvie gear that says USMC (even shirts your OSO gave you).

Juniors or Seniors? You'll be spending a lot of time PT'ing in the woods, and expect to spend some time in the field - at a minimum, conditioning hikes, fire team maneuver, and land navigation. You'll shoot blanks through the M16 during fire team maneuver, but no marksmanship.

I sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day, so that makes pretty close to a silo operator. Hell, I just finished 14 hours straight writing up my final.

:icon_rage Wow, I'm speechless.

That's Greenwich, Connecticut, not Greenwich Village, NYC

A pre-med needs to weigh in, but I believe there's a sinus there. That was my problem. I had headaches in the back of my head - same symptoms, after 5 pullups, never while lifting or running. Went to the doc after a month and he said it was probably clogged sinuses from a cold I had just...

Edsay is spot on. To parrot my Limited Wars/Low-Intensity Conflicts final that I'm writing up tonight, WWII was rather an oddity as the Germans understood that once the Furher fell, it was time to turn over a new leaf and start afresh. The Japanese went along willingly with the peace because...

I'm reserving my full response to the article until I have some time to digest...I feel that he's projecting his own attitudes about white guilt domestically onto the low intensity conflict in Iraq. There are many (good and bad) reasons we're in a low-intensity conflict; the attitudes and biases...