Army captain sees the light: Update in post #41

[Muley Gil]

Chesty Puller said it best: "I'd rather be a private in the Marine Corps than a general in any army in the world!"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...S&cvid=f81946b69a464f438ff6654715cab7ab&ei=69

Update in post #41. Captain to PFC.

 

[Llance]

This will rise the hackles: I have two (2) brothers in the Marine Corps; only two fools my mother raised.

Mind you; they don't talk to that dang idiot what spent twenty (20) years in the Coast Guard.

We've been teasing each other like this since 16 May 1969. They started it.

 

[steelslaver]

Semper Fi Doggie LOL

 

[Retired W4]

Semper Fi Doggie LOL

Doggie? I thought that was Coastie. Oh well, same thing,.

 

[Retired W4]

My father was and my son is in the Air Force. I guess the hands in the pockets thing skipped a generation. Sorry Dad, sorry Son. I could not help myself.

 

[326MOD10]

My Dad used to say of course we need the Marine Corp.

Someone has to guard the Navy's ammunition.

 

[WR Moore]

Interesting. The Marines recruit officer candidates separately from the regular recruiters. I'd have expected if he'd found one of them, they'd have placed him into an OCS slot.

Have to wonder if the recruiter is snickering at how he suckered the Army officer. Or maybe he needed to make quota.

 

[steelslaver]

Doggie? I thought that was Coastie. Oh well, same thing,.

Back in my day we refereed to soldiers as Doggies. Come from the term Dog face

 

[Sistema1927]

I wonder what rank he will have after graduation. E-3? E-4? Certainly being a prior service O-3 counts for something.

 

[CalifEd]

Back in my day we refereed to soldiers as Doggies. Come from the term Dog face

Not to be confused with Devil Dogs or Jar Heads.

 

[MaxKimber]

You mean to tell me there are other armed services besides the Marines, huh, who knew...

Semper Fi.

 

[AJ]

I wonder what rank he will have after graduation. E-3? E-4? Certainly being a prior service O-3 counts for something.

If he was the Honor Man in his Platoon, he would be a PFC on graduation. If not he will be in the regular promotion cycle. Yes, the prior service will help a bit. His best bet is once he gets to the Fleet, then try for a commission as a WO, then go the LDO route. Or at least that is how it use to be. Nowadays it is possibly different.

 

[Golddollar]

Back in my day we refereed to soldiers as Doggies.

Why is the dachshund the state dog of Texas?


Because all the cowboys sing "Get ALong Little Doggie."

Don't forget to tip your waitresses.

 

[steelslaver]

I think he will get PFC automatic. Plus, wouldn't his time in service count towards his cutting score for more promotions.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I wonder what rank he will have after graduation. E-3? E-4? Certainly being a prior service O-3 counts for something.

When I was in basic, two Marines were E-3 (Lance Corporals) out of boot camp. We had a lot of contract PFCs (E-2).

Chances are he'll be a squad leader or a guide in basic and leave as an E-3 and will pick up rank fairly quickly due to his experience. I expect he'll be at least an E-4 Corporal within a year and a half.

 

[31FordA]

I was a contract E-2 based on the number of college credits I had when I enlisted, so I guess being a prior service Army officer should get at least that much. My recruit platoon had a prior service Army NCO among the recruits, he was our platoon guide by the end of first phase. He was a contract E-2, and got a well deserved meritorious promotion to E-3 at graduation. My platoon also had a CPA who enlisted because he decided he hated paperwork. He was made our platoon scribe.

I think over half our platoon were contract E-2's, between the college student reservists like me and the special cases like the NCO, the CPA and a few others who selected hard to fill MOS's.

 

[Muley Gil]

Interesting. The Marines recruit officer candidates separately from the regular recruiters. I'd have expected if he'd found one of them, they'd have placed him into an OCS slot.

Have to wonder if the recruiter is snickering at how he suckered the Army officer. Or maybe he needed to make quota.

The way I read the article, he wanted to go enlisted first for the challenge.

 

[RobertJ.]

My dad was a Marine, so naturally we had lots of fun discussions.

One of my favorite things he said to me was, "Did you know that the security force on an aircraft carrier is made up of the Marine Corps? The Navy can't even guard their own ships!"

 

[CH4]

Chesty Puller said it best: "I'd rather be a private in the Marine Corps than a general in any army in the world!"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...S&cvid=f81946b69a464f438ff6654715cab7ab&ei=69

Apparently didn't score high enough on the ASVAB to get in the Air Force.

 

[Llance]

Have any of you Marines heard of a place called Camp Stuart Mesa? Its where I learned to shoot an M-16, and also where I earned my Expert Rifleman Medel.

When I was stationed in Alexandria, VA I would drive down to the Q on select weekends and shoot at the range. One day I had taken my Peruvian Mauser down to shoot. There was a corporal working with the range master, and he didn't laugh but there was some serious grin on his face. The sergeant in charge was not even smiling. Back then if you brought a civilian rifle on base it had to be inspected at the range by one of the duty range personal. I was thinking the sergeant had seen one before. The Corporal was not smiling when I returned to the range shack with a group that could be covered by a regulation glass coffee cup.

100 yds, open sights and standard 7.65 X 53 ball ammo. That was a bit big, but they were all in the black. That would have been 1980 to 1983. I was transferred to Rhode Island in June of 83.

After that he didn't smile when I brought my M-1 down to shoot, or any of my other rifles.