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Marines vs. Navy
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Everyplace filled with jet wannabes. Pop in Apocalypse Now, and tell me that helos are not the coolest!
Playing video games at 30K' is prety neat, but coming in at 100' on the goggles, blacked out, with 13 grunts and two .50 cals out the windows, that's the s@@t!
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Playing video games at 30K' is prety neat, but coming in at 100' on the goggles, blacked out, with 13 grunts and two .50 cals out the windows, that's the s@@t!
Phrogs phorever
Our 53s were there at the same time!
Phrogs phorever
Phrogs phorever
They're (Helo's, jets, 130s) all baddasses to me, so none and all of you win according to my poll <sniker>.
The Navy gets the new equipment as far as jets go, so if you're a "I have to have a jet" kind of person go Navy and be the best in your class. I think it's both difficult.
I may be wrong, but Navy puts emphasis toward acedemics, and Marine Corps toward physical. Don't get me wrong you gotta have a degree in both cases and pass all the tests. Both also require PT just a little less stringent in the Navy as opposed to Marines.
Also, if you got arrested for something when you were a kid (ie. assault with a deadly weapon) the Marines are more likely to waive it than the Navy. This is just my speculation since I never applied Navy.
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Semper Fi
The Navy gets the new equipment as far as jets go, so if you're a "I have to have a jet" kind of person go Navy and be the best in your class. I think it's both difficult.
I may be wrong, but Navy puts emphasis toward acedemics, and Marine Corps toward physical. Don't get me wrong you gotta have a degree in both cases and pass all the tests. Both also require PT just a little less stringent in the Navy as opposed to Marines.
Also, if you got arrested for something when you were a kid (ie. assault with a deadly weapon) the Marines are more likely to waive it than the Navy. This is just my speculation since I never applied Navy.
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Semper Fi
yeah I had done it when I was 12, and I had to get an "exeption to policy" I got letters from my OSO, my OSO's CO, a Col. and a general. I got a final clearance from a major general at HQ from DC.
It was a dumb BB gun accident, and I know a few Marines that did the same thing when they were little boys. I just got the shaft from a legal standpoint.
The Col told me, "who didn't do that when they were growing up?"...the major also had a childhood bb gun story he shared with me.
In short, I did get the waiver
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It was a dumb BB gun accident, and I know a few Marines that did the same thing when they were little boys. I just got the shaft from a legal standpoint.
The Col told me, "who didn't do that when they were growing up?"...the major also had a childhood bb gun story he shared with me.
In short, I did get the waiver
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Semper Fi
my point exactly Stace~
but i guess you had to have been there. I unintentionally shot this boy in the face with a malfuctioning bb-gun, and his mom called 911, and told the 911 operator, "My son got shot!!"
so the whole LAPD rampart division was swarming the area...fire trucks, paramedics, 2 helos, black and whites all over...i got scared and slipped away. When I came home it was off to juvi-halls.
I guess I could laugh about it now, but it wasn't fun at the time.
BTW I had to add this...the boy was treated on the scene. It was minor injury. Woo hoo some deadly weapon.
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but i guess you had to have been there. I unintentionally shot this boy in the face with a malfuctioning bb-gun, and his mom called 911, and told the 911 operator, "My son got shot!!"
so the whole LAPD rampart division was swarming the area...fire trucks, paramedics, 2 helos, black and whites all over...i got scared and slipped away. When I came home it was off to juvi-halls.
BTW I had to add this...the boy was treated on the scene. It was minor injury. Woo hoo some deadly weapon.
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Semper Fi
esday1
He'll dazzle you with terms like "Code Red."
My parents wouldn't let me have a BB gun when I was a kid because they're pacifists. Maybe by helping me avoid having to deal with one of those BB gun incidents, they might have helped my chances of becoming a Marine. It's funny how those things work out. Those 20-mile off-trail nature appreciation walks my dad dragged me on will probably come in handy in the Quantico highlands someday, too.
"Peace on earth to men of goodwill. All others stand by."
"Peace on earth to men of goodwill. All others stand by."
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