Marines DEP

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Originally Posted by Shane Klar as far as the 4yr thing, it's a mandatory 4yrs active and 4 inactive reserve....meaning, if there is any reason (shit hits the fan) they can call you back in....ur obligated to go if need be...highly doubt but it does happen every now and then.....as far as the pilot thing, brandon85 is dead on...alot of people think its a job you can just pick, sorry to burst ur bubble, but it's not... you have to be an officer and on top of that, there are about 4 more yrs of just classes and training on top of the 4 u already sign up for....long story short, pilots are usually capt or above, which is about 8yrs at least...and if you do get in, you don't get to pick what you wanna fly...you could fly helo, jet, kc135 (the big cargo mother fucker) or you could even fly a Osprey, which is the worst and scariest POS in the military...lol...just sayin.... if you want to just be on one (don't care if you fly or not), then be a gunner for one, it's an mos that you can pick.....on to the next thing, which is not believing ur recruiter....fuck him and fuck all recruiters...they will say anything, hell, they might even suck ur dick to get you in...make sure you know ur MOS before you do anything or go anywhere...i can't even count how many people went in with open contracts and ended up being a com guy or cook or sum bullshit like that, get it in writing...I did 5yrs in the infantry 0311/0313 (which i picked) in 29 palms CA, and i'm currently going to school and getting paid from the post 9/11 gi bill and it's nice...it's gonna be hard to do school and training at the same time, depending on ur mos...i deployed 3 diff times....granted, there's some down time in Iraq, but everyone spends it watchin porn or stunt vids cuz it's so sporadic....and it sounds like you don't wanna just sit behind a desk so it's prob gonna be diff for you...after the marines, when you enroll into school, they usually take military as credits towards ur degree...i had a buddy that enrolled and they took 16 credits toward school (a whole semester), that's awesome.... sorry this was so long, just tryin to fill you in some things....marines is the best way bro...you'll get a lot out of it...if you have any questions at all, let us know. oh yea, ur first duty station after ur job school prob won't be in black and white cuz that changes so much...i was slated to go to lejune and it changed when i was walkin on the bus and they took 5 of us and sent us to 29 palms, so don't expect that in writing...shouldn't be a deal breaker anyway

most of this info is true except for the fact that it is a kc-130 and the osprey is now a decent aircraft it had its problems in the beginning...oh and most pilots are either a 1st or 2nd LT some captains.....you can say im wrong but for your info i was 6276 if you wanna look it up you can but it means i was a crewchief and i was a crewchief on kc-130's and was in for 5 years because almost every aviation contract is 5 years so i know a lil bit about the airwing........if you got questions man and wanna know more about certain jobs just call me 817-721-5838