Calling ALL Marines - Past and Present

Service Dates: 2002-2006
Rank: SGT
MOS: 1371 Combat Engineer
Deployments: Afganistan 04, Iraq 05-06
Unit: 2nd CEB

 

A bad chuckle?

 

Yeah...like the green weenie is going to pop another cherry lol

 

My apologies for missing this thread for so long.

USMCR 1986-1994 (8 years)
MOS: 2145/2146 (2145-M60 MBT repair Technician, 2146 M1 Abrams MBT repair technician, turret qualified)
Rank: CPL (Yes, after 8 years I was a Corporal, funny how the promotion board doesn't go well when you tell a Captain he doesn't know his job)
Highest rank: Sgt (see above comment)
Deployment: Our unit was 50% deployed during Desert Storm. I was unlucky enough to stay stateside.
Unit: 4th Maint Btn, 4th FSSG, Co (-), Waco, Texas.

Proud to have served with my Brothers in Arms!


My mom told me that ever since I saw my first Marine in real life when I was about 5, all I could talk about was being one. My dad was a Captain in the Air Force, and I was proud of him and what he did. My brother tried to join the Marines out of high school but was declined (not sure why) and in 1986 I walked into the recruiter office and simply asked "Where do I sign?" I went through MEPS in Dallas and signed my contract on November 10th, 1986. (Yep, the birthday of the Marines) It wasn't until July 1987 that I went to MCRD San Diego for boot camp. Why so long? Well in 1986, when I signed my contract, I was a Junior. I had to finish my Senior year in HS first!
After Basic I went back home for a couple of months while waiting on a slot for MOS school (Remember, I was in the reserve) So I would drill with my new unit every month until then. January of 1988 I went to Aberdeen Proving Grounds where the US Army trained us how to work on and recover the M60 MBT. At that time there were no Marine instructors for this course. After that it was back to my unit for the remainder of my time. I eventually ended up as Tank Commander for our M88 retriever. I wanted to deploy when Desert Storm came out, but after 5 requests to be deployed, and getting denied each time, I was eventually told that they needed someone qualified to stay behind with the unit and maintain everything back home. Well some of my really good friends did get deployed, and thank God they all came back in one piece. My M88 did not fare so well. It took a lot of small arms fire while in Desert Storm, and both of the boom extender pistons required replacement, as well as a lot of other items required maintenance or repair. I may have only been a CPL, but even the Staff Sgts showed me a lot of respect because of my time and knowledge. (Some would even congratulate me on telling the Captain he was an idiot)

In October of 1994 my wife at the time gave me two options: The Marines, or my family. I love the Marines, but I was not going to lose my family over it, so I decided not to reenlist.

So there is my story. lol. Hope it was entertaining to someone.

 

Thanks to all you guys for serving.

 

Graduated from Boot in late April, at Camp Pendleton waiting in Lima Company for the next ITB company to pick up, which is Charlie and it doesn't pick up for another 4 weeks.

Was waiting in line for chow and saw a expedtion/overland build. Believe it was a White DC, 3inch lift? bumper in the front, rear plate bumper I think, soft top in the back, and a tire gate. Belong to any of you guys?

 

Yep, that's MrGrimm

 

Haha right on, I thought I recognized the truck but couldn't remember a name. It's on B/A truck.

 

OK, So how do I play this little fuck fuck game y'all started

Service Dates: 2002-2012
Rank: Pvt, LCpl, Cpl, Sgt, SSgt
MOS: 0311, 0341, 8411, 0369
Deployments: Iraq, Iraq, and Iraq
Unit: 3/7 Kilo Weapons - 4th Plt, CSTS Combat Skills Training School, RS San Diego RSS Imperial Beach, & WWBn West Alpha Co

Present: Civilian

 

With all of the Marines I see posting, I should have known there would be a circle-jerk like this somewhere on TW.

1982-2009
MGySgt (Retired)
5831, 8511, 2336
Desert Storm, Somalia, Iraq, and a list of other non-combat vacations.

Mike

 

Service Dates: 1986-1991
Rank: Cpl
MOS: 0331
Deployments: Oki 90, Desert Shield/Storm 90-91
Unit: Marine Barracks Guam, WPNS Co. 3/5, Kilo Co. 3/5 1 Mar Div FMF.

Welcome to the suck boys.

 

Service Dates: 09-Present
Rank: 2ndLt, 1stLt, selected for Capt
MOS: 1802 - Tank Officer
Deployments: Afghanistan
Unit: 2d Tank Battalion. Served as Tank Plt Cdr, Anti-Tank Plt Cdr (shout out to all the 0352s!), and now Tank Company XO.

Present: XO

 

Service Dates: 2006-present
Rank: Sgt
MOS: 0231
Deployments: Afghanistan 2008 and 2010
Units: HMM-365, VMM-365, MCIA, up for orders shortly....

 

Service dates:2002-2011

Rank:SSGT

MOS:0331- than I went to sniper school in 03' so I was only a machine gunner for about 6 months

Deployments: Fallujah-2004, Ramadi-2006, and TQ-2009

SEMPER FI BROTHERS

 

Thanks for your service. Semper.

 

Service Dates: 86-94
Rank: Sgt
MOS: 7212 Stinger missile gunner (when it was shoulder fired)
Deployments: 4th LAAD (reserve); 3rd LAAD Desert Storm

 

Hey Spartan, you know a private Evan Lutz? He's my cousin's son. He was down at CP with Lima Co. Graduated in Feb. 13 from PI, and finished SOI, waiting for MOS school. He gave up his force recon contract and went regular 0311. He was just transferred last month to 29 Palms and last Friday (7/5/13), the crazy kid went and got married.

 

I'll be reporting to you in December/January

 

Lucky for you I'm done being a hat and now enjoying life outside the corps...have fun getting slayed I still have a lot of friends down there. I hope you make it and I really mean that.

 

What company where you with in recruit training and who were your drill instructors? The corps is a small ass world and the hat world is even smaller...