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OCS video

On the DOR video, did that clown actually say "The Marine Corps is the only branch that doesn't guarantee law contracts to practice law"? He was whispering, maybe I just heard it wrong.
 
Interesting to note that of all the people they follow in that story / videos only two are still in the Marine Corps...
 
NO, Crowbar, I think you heard right. I was wondering about that myself. Don't they gaurantee Law and Aviation?
 
OVERCOME said:
I don't feel so bad anymore.......which two? curiosity being the reason.
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Not to give out names, but one is in flight training right now and the other is a lawyer. There were a couple of DUIs in those who where interviewed...
 
Baalzebub said:
NO, Crowbar, I think you heard right. I was wondering about that myself. Don't they gaurantee Law and Aviation?
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This is speculation on my part, but I think they guarantee the 4402 MOS (or at least the MOS school), but not necessarily that you will have a billet within the MOS. Since there are so few 4402 billets, a lawyer might get assigned to some other non-MOS-specific billet if there are more lawyers than billets. The other thing he might have been talking about is that for PLC-law, if you don't pass the bar exam right after graduating from law school you get sent to TBS as an unrestricted ground contract.

Still, from the context of the video, I kind of doubt that was what the candidate was really thinking about he was asking to DOR in week 4 of OCS. Some BS about not getting guaranteed to practice law sounds a lot better (at least in that candidate's mind) than explaining to a Sergeant Instructor that OCS is more difficult than you expected it to be and you don't like getting yelled at. I remember one law contract in my squad at OCS turning to me during a field day in the first couple of weeks and saying "they make us do a lot of work just to be lawyers, don't they?" That guy was gone pretty quickly.
 
wait a minute...of ALL the guys that they interviewed only *2* are still Marines? How many DUIs were there? They interviewed like 6 guys who graduated.
 
motiv8r said:
wait a minute...of ALL the guys that they interviewed only *2* are still Marines? How many DUIs were there? They interviewed like 6 guys who graduated.
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well lets see, a couple...and I think another one was dropped at TBS but not sure on that one...

At least 2 of the 4 remaining are now out of the Marine Corps because of DUIs...
 
jamnww said:
Not to give out names, but one is in flight training right now and the other is a lawyer. There were a couple of DUIs in those who where interviewed...
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Wow..... to go through all of that and then blow your chance by doing something stupid.
 
Crowbar said:
On the DOR video, did that clown actually say "The Marine Corps is the only branch that doesn't guarantee law contracts to practice law"? He was whispering, maybe I just heard it wrong.
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I thought he might be referring to the fact that he had to attend OCS to be a Marine Lawyer, where as if he had gone Navy, AIr Force or Army they would have sent him to a short course on military courtesies and then sent him to practice law.
 
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