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I have a friend that's a Retired Navy Commander (Reserve) That started in Camp Pendelton at a boot.
First enlistment he was a Crypto Ratio operator in an intelligence platoon in Vietnam (left 'Nam in 67). Took his GI Bill and got an Engineering degree, Went OCS and became a Marine Officer in the 5th Marines. After he got his second engineering degree, switched to Navy and climbed up to full Commander with 13 deployments ending in 2018.
While on his last deployment (Bagdad) a Marine Captain took offence at my friends wearing an 8-point cover, and "Respectfully Reminded" him those were reserved for Marine use. The response was to the effect of. "I was a Lance Corporal in Nam before your dad ever (had relations with) your mom!"!
I have several friends and family that served in war and in peace as Marines. The truest statement ever is: Once a Marine, always a Marine!
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The Navy wears the same Cammie/Utility Cover as the Marines. Just without the emblem.
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A friend of mine rose to the rank of major in the Corps. He resigned his commission to become an active duty Army National Guard warrant officer.
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I had an Air Force shop chief that was prior Marine. No, he was still Marine, and we gave him grief continuously for it. A few of us went on a 7-mile hike up to an alpine lake in eastern WA and let him come with us. On the return trip, we filled his backpack with rocks. His wife, when she unloaded it when he got home, asked him why he brought all the rocks back. Dummy never realized his backpack gained about 40 pounds when we stopped for a break.
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At least he was able to do it.
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During my time in the Army I served with three guys who had been former Marines. After one enlistment in the Marine Corps they all went Army and as long as I knew them in the Army all they ever talked about was how wonderful the Marines were.
At one point I asked each of them if the Marines were so great why are you in the Army? All I got in response was a lot of Blah. Blah, Blah
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During my time in the Army I served with three guys who had been former Marines. After one enlistment in the Marine Corps they all went Army and as long as I knew them in the Army all they ever talked about was how wonderful the Marines were.
At one point I asked each of them if the Marines were so great why are you in the Army? All I got in response was a lot of Blah. Blah, Blah
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Those that you refer to probably could not cut it in the Corps. So they went where they could.
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carefully going through the article, i gets the feeling that he was pretty much about to get the boot out of the army. And hence went for the marines.
All the officers i have heard of who swapped branches, always STAYED officers if they had the ability to advance in rank again in their original branch of service.
The best company drill sergeant i had in benning in 2008 was a DI with 4 years of DI work, starting immediately after he left the marines after 20 years.
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He made captain in 4 years, so I doubt he was fixing to get the boot.
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He made captain in 4 years, so I doubt he was fixing to get the boot.
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I am not sure how they do it now and how it is done in the Army. But in the Corps all officers start out as Reserves. About the time they have been selected as an O-3, the Augmentation List comes out. Some are selected as Regulars and some stay as Reservist's.
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Those that you refer to probably could not cut it in the Corps. So they went where they could.
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That was the inference I made but I never said that to any of them.
I was a driver for a Second Lieutenant at Fort Lewis who had been an E6 in the Marines and then went Army officer.
Given he was a senior NCO I can't say that he was a failure in the Marine Corps. I asked him one day why he went from NCO to officer. His answer was simple as a second lieutenant in the Army he made more than an E6 in the Marine Corps. I presume a marine E6 makes as much Base Pay as an Army E6. He also said the retirement as an officer would be better even if he never made it above captain.
He was one of the better officers I ever served with and I can't even remember his name
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That was the inference I made but I never said that to any of them.
I was a driver for a Second Lieutenant at Fort Lewis who had been an E6 in the Marines and then went Army officer.
Given he was a senior NCO I can't say that he was a failure in the Marine Corps. I asked him one day why he went from NCO to officer. His answer was simple as a second lieutenant in the Army he made more than an E6 in the Marine Corps. I presume a marine E6 makes as much Base Pay as an Army E6. He also said the retirement as an officer would be better even if he never made it above captain.
He was one of the better officers I ever served with and I can't even remember his name
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A friend of mine was a S/Sgt. in the Corps. He got a private pilot's license on his own. He joined the Army as a WO[1 and became a helicopter pilot. In the Corps this would not have happened. In the Corps, he would have had to become an officer and then be selected for flight school. He stayed in the Army and retired as a CWO-5.
It has been my experience that officers that had been prior service enlisted were good to their troops and cared a bit more about them.
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