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"My name is 1st Lt Mark Allen. I am the Marine Corps Officer Selection Officer for North Carolina State University. The reason that I am contacting you is because I want you to be aware of an awesome training opportunity with the Marine Corps Officer Programs called the Officer Candidate Course (OCC)."

SOUNDS AWESOME

11/26/2007 5:52:24 PM

I JUST GOT IT TOO

SHOULD I LET HIM KNOW I'M GOING TO BE A NAVAL OFFICER IN A COUPLE MONTHS?

11/26/2007 5:53:09 PM

no, but you might could say you're gonna be a MARINE soon.

learn to fucking read.

11/26/2007 5:53:09 PM

A chance to travel abroad!

11/26/2007 5:53:16 PM

nobody invited me

11/26/2007 5:54:03 PM

You must have told.

11/26/2007 5:54:26 PM

tell him your uncle was a a fighter in Iraq that got killed but you can't go see him because your family lives off the tigris river

11/26/2007 5:55:31 PM

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"no, but you might could say you're gonna be a MARINE soon. learn to fucking read."

well, I am in Navy ROTC, Navy Option

11/26/2007 5:56:24 PM

Navy rules:
1. Go to sea
2. Deploy marines
3. Drink coffee

11/26/2007 5:59:31 PM

i have always thought about being an officer but i dun think i am cut out for it

11/26/2007 6:00:52 PM

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"Thunderbird thinks this message is junk."

11/26/2007 6:05:29 PM

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"well, I am in Navy ROTC, Navy Option "

oh. carry on.

11/26/2007 6:05:36 PM

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!1

11/26/2007 6:26:10 PM

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"Navy rules: 1. Go to sea 2. Deploy marines 3. Drink coffee"

11/26/2007 6:47:46 PM

I think if I was going to join the military I would choose the branch that would be least likely to get me killed. Navy is pretty safe, non-flight airforce would be ok, but I'd be ashamed to join the coast guard.

I think if I was going army or marines I would want to be in a tank because:

1. Tanks are about the coolest motherfucking things ever.
2. The Abrams is damn near indestructible.

11/26/2007 6:51:00 PM

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"but I'd be ashamed to join the coast guard."

I'd fly for the Coast Guard in a heartbeat if they'd let me.

For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission. I've talked to an undercover Coastie who watched a drug dealer's partner get whacked with an AK because the dealer thought his partner was the narc.

11/26/2007 6:53:51 PM

I just got one too.

11/26/2007 6:53:55 PM

^^ Yes but the coast guards every day real world work is anathema to my ideals. For me it would be like working for the FCC or the DEA.

11/26/2007 6:54:57 PM

fair enough on the drug part, I'm not a fan myself.

but the rest of their mission is pretty damn sweet.

11/26/2007 6:56:02 PM

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"For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission."

11/26/2007 6:56:06 PM

I was under the impression that the USCG's search and rescue pilots and divers go through some pretty hardcore stuff.

11/26/2007 7:08:44 PM

ah ha

i made this thread about 4 years ago

11/26/2007 7:36:35 PM

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"I'd fly for the Coast Guard in a heartbeat if they'd let me. For all the shit they get, they're the only branch with an every-day real-world mission. "

that makes absolutely no sense

11/26/2007 7:52:29 PM

so whats the best branch of military

11/26/2007 7:54:10 PM

noaa

11/26/2007 7:55:09 PM

nah it has to be one of the main ones...like navy, army, usmc

11/26/2007 7:57:49 PM

haha, i know--depends on what sense you mean

11/26/2007 7:59:22 PM

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"so whats the best branch of military"

thats easy

11/26/2007 7:59:40 PM

i guess i mean it in that "who is the most vital to the us military

11/26/2007 8:01:20 PM

probably the navy...but who wants to sit around a ship pushing buttons and putting out make-believe fires all day?

11/26/2007 8:03:15 PM

yeah, the navy and air force have nuclear weapons, so i would say one of them

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 8:04 PM. Reason : sp]

11/26/2007 8:04:32 PM

yeah i guess i never thought of it like that

11/26/2007 8:05:33 PM

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"that makes absolutely no sense"

Why not?

Marine Corps and the Army are the two most essential. Without ground forces you cannot hold ground. Period. The Navy has the best sustainable force projection ability, but thats largely because of their ability to combine a credible ground threat (Marines) and air superiority (Naval Aviation).

That being said, the Army is the only of the 5 that can have a brigade sized force anywhere in the world in 72 hours.

They've all got a pretty critical skill.

11/26/2007 8:50:39 PM

^either way, marines will be the first in anywhere before the army goes somewhere

11/26/2007 9:08:31 PM

ground forces are out, missiles are in.

11/26/2007 9:09:47 PM

Well if you want to get in a dick-waving contest. The Army conducted more amphibious assaults in WWII than the Marines. The largest amphibious assault in world history? June 6th 1944. Not a Marine in sight. Panama? 82nd Airborne. Desert Storm? 82nd Airborne. Afghanistan? 75th Ranger Regiment.

But you know, its cool.


Me? I'm not remotely a bad-ass and I don't pretend to be. But don't go shitting on my branch.

11/26/2007 9:11:03 PM

Here we go again.

My thread was longer.

11/26/2007 10:08:00 PM

^^^^^ you were talking about the coast guard, not the army/marines

11/26/2007 10:41:46 PM

Right. If the Army / Marines aren't deployed, they're training. The USCG has a real world mission every day.

Semper Paratus, Always Ready Bitch.

Besides the Coastguardsman's creed includes the phrase: "I shall live joyously" and "I shall sell life dearly to an enemy of my country, but give it freely to rescue those in peril." I mean, it's not quite, "This is my rifle" but its cool in its own way.

11/26/2007 10:45:52 PM

Ah yes, but it's the Navy that doesn't see home for months on end.

11/26/2007 10:47:16 PM

True, but the Coast Guard doesn't have quite the latent homosexuality as the Navy. No offense chembob but I couldn't help noticing shittons of it in the exhibits the last time I toured the USS NC.



[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 10:56 PM. Reason : and right now, the Navy isn't winning the "time away from home" award.]

11/26/2007 10:53:58 PM

Well you spend these months on end packed in like sardines with you and a few hundred of your closest male comrades, and yes, latent homosexuality is there

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 10:57 PM. Reason : well, yea, right now. but on the whole average across the 232 years, yes we win that ]

11/26/2007 10:56:53 PM

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"Right. If the Army / Marines aren't deployed, they're training. The USCG has a real world mission every day. "

negative ghostrider. not being deployed = training only for certain units. i thought you are in the military?

11/26/2007 11:07:45 PM

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"True, but the Coast Guard doesn't have quite the latent homosexuality as the Navy."

TreeTwista10

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"After 4 months on a boat, 1st Seamen John starts looking more attractive everyday"

11/26/2007 11:11:05 PM

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"not being deployed = training only for certain units"

Technically, you're correct. But I'm not breaking down Red Cycle / Amber Cycle / Green Cycle, DRB etc. on TWW.

11/26/2007 11:18:42 PM

theres no "technically" about it. there are many units in each of the branches who have a "real world mission every day."

11/26/2007 11:27:34 PM

Just like your mom.

11/26/2007 11:29:22 PM