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Which branch would you joing?

  • Marines

    Votes: 16 20.8%

  • Army

    Votes: 27 35.1%

  • Navy

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • Coast Guard

    Votes: 10 13.0%

  • Air Force

    Votes: 11 14.3%

  • None. No military. Never. No

    Votes: 7 9.1%
  • Total voters
    77
But it does have an "m" and an "e".....me.
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Yep it sure does and anyone who has worked for me and pointed it out has had the pleasure of doing all of the "team me" details. You know the jobs that require a team of one........taking out the garbage, sweeping, mopping, sorting brass (too bad they started contracting the grass cutting). I don't ask for much, but I demand team loyalty and integrity. If you're on "team me" you don't have either so if the only way I can get you to contribute to the team is increasing team morale by having you clean up after the men are done working I have no problem with that. I can always find a sh*& detail, but I've found it gets harder to find a sh*& head to do it once people realize working as a team, playing as a team and cleaning up as a team is alot more enjoyable than being on "team me".
 
GLP Standard,

DO NOT JOIN ANY BRANCH OF THE MILITARY!!!!!!! Stay at home and go to college. I do not think you would make a good LEO either at least I would not want you as my partner. When the chips are down you want a level headed ready for combat person next to you, Not someone who might not be able to face the panic and danger and return fire. Go gather some berries and let the hunters hunt.
Ed
EPR105
USMC 1989 - 1991 Gulf War 1
LEO 1994 - ?
 
GLP, I'd like to slap your back for your comments. Here, stand on this gunwale while I do that. Don't worry, its only 1200 miles to land.
Really, if you join ANY seafaring service you dishonor those who have died in that service, even in peace time. Why don't you read the stories of the U.S.S. Forestall fire and think how you would act. Would you run and hide? Abandon ship without orders? Or would you grab a hose and crawl into a smoking hole to fight it? I bet when the alarm for fire sounds we could find you by following your piss trail, AWAY FROM THE FIRE!! What you would do in the face of an NBC type alarm I don't even want to guess.
In my time in the Navy I fought several fires, up close and personal with them. I saw my best friend incinerated. I didn't run, hide and cower, NOBODY DID!! From your comments I'd say you would make one sorry A## sailor and you wouldn't last long in any command I served in.
Do me a favor; STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY SHIPS!! WE NIETHER WANT NOR NEED YOUR SORRY A##!!
( To the rest of you guys, sorry, bit of a flash back)
 
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garryc, I hear that. The Navy is consistently dangerous to be in, in times of war and peace. Fires, missiles, jets constantly taking off, hatches that can take off fingers, moving parts that can take off limbs, engines that can suck in whole people, and one slip puts you overboard in near freezing temperatures etc... And thats in peacetime. Anyone looking to join thinking its the "easy" branch of the military, better realise that if you don't have your wits about you every second you're going to end up getting hurt! Especially in today's Navy.
 
Especially when the swabbies keep messing with the A/C in the Marine's berthing area....
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can't say I havent been involved in that a few times.

Of course the famous one I did was when I was TDY to an old LSD. It had an oriental toilet in the marine berthing area. I went to the inlet end, at about 0630 after chow, wadded up a big pile of toilet paper, put it in and lit it on fire. Down the line it went!! Now that was funny
 
About serving... Service isn't about learning how to do a job. It's about doing what needs to be done so your kids can live in a free country, and their kids can, and so on...

About the military (and the real world in general)... In school, the teachers were your bosses. They'd hold your hand and sing a song. As soon as you're out of school, you'll find your bosses signifigantly less accomodating.

And finally...

About war... It's in human nature. Deal with it.

Wolfe... (Oh right... About "team me"... If you see the "me" in "team", you're obviously backwards. ;))
 
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Of course the famous one I did was when I was TDY to an old LSD. It had an oriental toilet in the marine berthing area. I went to the inlet end, at about 0630 after chow, wadded up a big pile of toilet paper, put it in and lit it on fire. Down the line it went!! Now that was funny
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I hate you. :cool:

We once sought to pay back our Naval tormentors by sneaking through their berthing areas and shutting off their vents at about 0200. We felt pretty good about then when they all started bit&$ing until we got hit with 5 (yes, FIVE) fire drills in the Marines' berthing. GQ for each one, and we got smoked for two of them. The ship's firemen were having a good chuckle as they tore through our area putting out the "fire"....

Good times.
 
GLP, go to military.com and go to the Coast Guard forum, ask all the questions you have, they will be nice to you and you will get good and accurate answers from people in the CG.

If you think you were flamed here, go to the Marine Corps forum at military.com and post your original post. LOL those guys eat people alive over there. :D

Semper Fi and a salute to all my military brethren, past and present, yes, Coasties too.
 
We felt pretty good about then when they all started bit&$ing until we got hit with 5 (yes, FIVE) fire drills in the Marines' berthing. GQ for each one, and we got smoked for two of them. The ship's firemen were having a good chuckle as they tore through our area putting out the "fire
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I was a Hull Tech. Firefighting and damage control was one of my jobs. Yes, we were in a position to torment you guys, LOVED IT!!! Like shutting down 3/4 of your head during heavy weather. Or leaning back on your water pressure in the showers so there would be more for us. I like this one;
Tell a young PFC that he'd better chow down at breakfast because the mess would be closed for the next meal and he would only get a bag lunch. Doing that when we knew we would be headed into heavy seas. He-he-he-he!!! :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:

Ever ride heavy seas in a LST? 21 ft draft makes it a puke boat. All this was on one TDY I did, from Guam to Diego Garcia. A smart a$$ marine thought that it would be funny to clog a main drain with rags. RULE 1; Never mess with the other guys equipment
 
A smart a$$ marine thought that it would be funny to clog a main drain with rags. RULE 1; Never mess with the other guys equipment
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I went to the inlet end, at about 0630 after chow, wadded up a big pile of toilet paper, put it in and lit it on fire. Down the line it went!! Now that was funny
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I'm sensing a tiny double-standard..hmm... :cool:

I spent the better part of a cat 3 typhoon on the USS Juneau, I think the worst we got were several 30-degree pitches.
The only thing worse was diving out of the well deck in the AAV's in choppy water... :barf:
Once one goes, they ALL go :)
 
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+1 "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein. Easily one of the most influential books in my life. I read it once a year or so. Some of the stuff I read in there helped me out (mentally) in boot camp.

+1 Navy = constant danger.
As a Gunner's Mate, I'm constantly in danger of: Accidental or Unintentional discharges on firing lines and during weapons turnovers, falling ordnance, dangerous (read: White Phosphorous, Black Powder, and electrically primed) ordnance, hurting myself while lifting heavy loads (sure, one box of 50 9mm roudns is light...one CRATE of 2000 weighs around sixty or seventy pounds!), magazine sprinkler system glitches, and that's not to mention the other Navy standard hazards such as door/hatch/scuttle knife edges, fires, freezing water, nonskid decks, forklift operations, helo/harrier ops, transiting the flight deck or walkways at night while the ship is rolling...And all of these apply just as equally to the Coast Guard.
 
I DO NOT want to join the Marines or the Army, so those are out. I can't see risking my life, and more than likely getting shot and killed over something I dont agree with in the first place. However just to see what people would say, I added those as choices in the poll.
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Well my young lad, all branches of the armed services have risks. Sounds like you are not up to it. If you don't believe in war, then don't try to be a warrior. (LEO = War on Crime, opposed to that one too?)

Thought about being a lawyer? They "fight" for things they don't believe in all the time just for the money, but don't risk their lives doing it.

Or maybe you could become a Scoutmaster.

I need to get a nice easy job like a Librarian? Come on now.... thats the most ignorant thing Ive ever heard.
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Nope, your comments are the ignorant ones.

U.S. Army 1963-1972, VietNam 1970-1971--I didn't vote in your silly poll.
 
Steelheart,
Go to college instead; you can get training there, and you will be surrounded by other parasites who think like you.
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Your other statements didn't really mitigate this one.
 
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To GLP: who wants to join the Coast Guard because he doesn't want to be in the "real military".

I was in the Coast Guard. It is the military. Several of my friends are in the Persian Gulf right now. Believe me, we don't want you. It's even more ironic that you were attracted to the Port Security rating, which is one of the most "military" oriented ratings in the Guard. When I got out two years ago, there was at least one PSU deployed to the sandbox.

Serving in the Coast Guard isn't some easy ride ticket into an LE job, either. The great thing about the Coast Guard is because it's so small and the cutters are so old, it's really, really hard to coast for a four year enlistment. You end up on a 210 doing an LE patrol in the caribean and you will work your little butt off.

On a lighter note, I am greatly amused that more people said they'd want to be Coasties than Squidies. ;) That's because the navy sucks.

Just joking. I've got nothing but love for my less nautical brethen.
 
"Second, when I said I dont want to die for something I dont agree with in the first place, I was referring to War."

Give you a clue here. In LE you're going to have to do a lot of stuff you don't agree with, just like in the military. You'll be dealing with a lot of people you don't agree with, having to jump and run to handle things you disagree with.
If you think the Coasties aren't real military then you'll be in for an awakening too. And they have to do a lot of things you probably wouldn't agree with either.
Take the advice given by most. Find a different line of work. You aren't cut out for either the military or LE.
BTW, I spent over 35 yrs as a LEO and 26.5 yrs in the military. I'd as soon have someone with a different attitude in either of my former professions. You won't be doing either job a service nor will you be welcome by those in those professions who are there because they have their heart and head in the right place.
 
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