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thanks mac. I will give that a try. have you used it?
registered ages ago when it first started, but haven't used it personally since i came up in the age of scoail media and the internet I've been able to keep in contact with most of the people I've served with through Facebook and other means. Alas, no boot camp buddies, but people from MOS school forward.
good morning mac. how is life in the Corps nowadays? back in the 70s we used to get some long hair hippie ******* spitting at us, yelling baby killers and ho-ho ho-chi-miem. what a way to come home on leave. but one on one or even two hippes on one and the draft dodging **** just shut up. I really get pissed off when I hear men my age at the bar talking **** they don't know **** about! that's why I have vet lic. plates on my car. I ask the hero when were you in and they say I didn't have too serve but I would now. fata$$ puke! sorry to get off subject , just what is a 3043 ? I was MOTOR-T mech. and 2-1/2 1200gal. refueling driver for 1st. tank bn.
it's goign through a transition phase, that's for sure, after a decade of war. The Corps trying to prepare to back to a peacetime stance and way of doing business but there are about two generations of marines where their whole career has been OEF/OIF. Just came off of recruiting duty and there was real high regard for marines in the civilian populace thier, and this was in an Air force town. Currently at Lejeune, which is what I like to refer to as Marine Town, USA. 3043 is Supply.
any scuttle butt about what sesquation will do to our readiness in the near future? I know you may not be able to answer this and don't want to get you in a jam, loose lips sink ships is more true today than ever before. I just don't want to see our Corps drop below 170000 Marines. take care of yourself mac.
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Be in supply, which in the Marine Corps most often means fiscal as well (especially at my level), I'm seeing it all over place. Before I left recruiting duty hte missions were starting to increase. Cheaper to pay a private than Corporal. Tenure has changed from 13yrs to 10yrs for E5. From 8 to 6 for E4. Big push to get single Marines who are on BAH-own-right back into the barracks. Budget calls all over the place trying to identify redunandancies and palces money could be cut. being being put oout of the Corps for next to nothing. Corps only gets about 4% of the defense budget and the majority of that goes to personnel. In addition to thw COrps always being the most frugal of the branches doesn't paint a pretty short term picture. Sequestration aside Corps is dropping 20K troops in the next few years (which granted is still about 5K more troops at he end of the day than decade ago, prior to the wars.) Aviation programs sre taking a hit as well. The Marines saving grace will be the US focus in the Pacific and emphasis on maritime and amphibious operations (which has lapsed over the last decade). The Mariens are also looking at other innovative ways to save cost like solar energy, for field and garrison use.
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