Wow. Oh wow. Again, "I thought I knew what ridiculous was...until this day." I think almost every sentence of that was wrong in some way. I don't know if I'll have time to tackle it all, but I'll try...
I've seen lots of promotion for PLC and Marine Corps in general, and NOTHING I've ever seen has described it in such a fashion. Shoot things, live in barracks, and they underscore no commitments? Ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. I will agree, though, that ALL of your information should not come form a recruiter. If you don't want a recruiter bothering you, tell them you want information but you aren't sure yet. Nobody will beg you to become an officer, there are enough people out there who WANT to do it and aren't ashamed of waving flags and marching and singing songs that if you change your mind, no one will notice. If you do decide you want to become a Marine (an officer, no less) you will find out that you work around what the Marine Corps wants, not the opposite. "I'll be busy". Aren't we all? I don't know of anybody (officer or enlisted) who just walked into any office anywhere, signed a couple of forms and shipped anytime soon. If you don't like to talk, why are you "talking" on this board asking questions? Realize that (not knocking anybody here by any means) but things change periodically, and some of the information you get here may be dated. So if you go to a recruiter's office and just act like "Yeah, I'm the man, got all I know from a website and I know it all" you really don't and you're probably misinformed. Recruiters (and I use that term to apply to OSO's, too) can give you the most up to date information. TALK to one. Now, when I started college full time, I called admissions more times than I can count. Also called the VA office, the NROTC office, and other students. There's always somebody willing to talk and answer questions. They can point you in the right direction. As far as being high school kids not elibible to be officers, well, at one point, yes, all of us (even you) were high school kids. Most of us have moved on. You are a US citizen? I will worry, because if you think flag waving is bureaucratic, wow, I don't even know how to field that one...
If you pull your head out from wherever it is buried and decide to apply for a commissioning program, you will have to write an essay about why you want to be a Marine officer. If you haven't heard of it yet, you have now. Doesn't matter, does it? I can't say for sure seeing as I've never sat on a board to select future officers, but I can say for sure that I put every ounce of effort into every essay I wrote (been apply for a commission since you were in elementary school probably) and it finally paid off. Don't discount the essay. And take everything you've posted on this site and make sure you don't mention it. If you dont want to talk to a recruiter, how do you know what is a suitable GPA and PFT? Have you even taken a PFT yet? How do you know what is good and what isn't? And just because you BELIEVE you have certain qualities to make you a better pilot doesn't say diddly about your ability to be a Marine. If you like to insult people face to face and then fight, join the Hell's Angels. Marines don't run around beating each other up when they get mad. It just don't happen.
You can keep Canada. I'm happy here surrounded by the Stars and Stripes. Go to marines.com and or do a search and find out about PLC. You've been heinously misinformed. HEINOUSLY.
Just so you know, in a Marine sort of way, this is a POSITIVE response. If you learn from it, it's positive. So we'll see if your bad science major of a self can learn anything from it.
I've seen lots of promotion for PLC and Marine Corps in general, and NOTHING I've ever seen has described it in such a fashion. Shoot things, live in barracks, and they underscore no commitments? Ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. I will agree, though, that ALL of your information should not come form a recruiter. If you don't want a recruiter bothering you, tell them you want information but you aren't sure yet. Nobody will beg you to become an officer, there are enough people out there who WANT to do it and aren't ashamed of waving flags and marching and singing songs that if you change your mind, no one will notice. If you do decide you want to become a Marine (an officer, no less) you will find out that you work around what the Marine Corps wants, not the opposite. "I'll be busy". Aren't we all? I don't know of anybody (officer or enlisted) who just walked into any office anywhere, signed a couple of forms and shipped anytime soon. If you don't like to talk, why are you "talking" on this board asking questions? Realize that (not knocking anybody here by any means) but things change periodically, and some of the information you get here may be dated. So if you go to a recruiter's office and just act like "Yeah, I'm the man, got all I know from a website and I know it all" you really don't and you're probably misinformed. Recruiters (and I use that term to apply to OSO's, too) can give you the most up to date information. TALK to one. Now, when I started college full time, I called admissions more times than I can count. Also called the VA office, the NROTC office, and other students. There's always somebody willing to talk and answer questions. They can point you in the right direction. As far as being high school kids not elibible to be officers, well, at one point, yes, all of us (even you) were high school kids. Most of us have moved on. You are a US citizen? I will worry, because if you think flag waving is bureaucratic, wow, I don't even know how to field that one...
If you pull your head out from wherever it is buried and decide to apply for a commissioning program, you will have to write an essay about why you want to be a Marine officer. If you haven't heard of it yet, you have now. Doesn't matter, does it? I can't say for sure seeing as I've never sat on a board to select future officers, but I can say for sure that I put every ounce of effort into every essay I wrote (been apply for a commission since you were in elementary school probably) and it finally paid off. Don't discount the essay. And take everything you've posted on this site and make sure you don't mention it. If you dont want to talk to a recruiter, how do you know what is a suitable GPA and PFT? Have you even taken a PFT yet? How do you know what is good and what isn't? And just because you BELIEVE you have certain qualities to make you a better pilot doesn't say diddly about your ability to be a Marine. If you like to insult people face to face and then fight, join the Hell's Angels. Marines don't run around beating each other up when they get mad. It just don't happen.
You can keep Canada. I'm happy here surrounded by the Stars and Stripes. Go to marines.com and or do a search and find out about PLC. You've been heinously misinformed. HEINOUSLY.
Just so you know, in a Marine sort of way, this is a POSITIVE response. If you learn from it, it's positive. So we'll see if your bad science major of a self can learn anything from it.
