got my score.

97!!

WOW, that means you get to man the latrines !

0313 - LAV Crewman GT=90

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marines/l/blusmcasvab.htm

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latrines !

0313 - LAV Crewman GT=90

Light Armored Vehicle

Nice score! That basically opens up the opportunity to get any job in the Marines, actually getting that position is up to you.

Congratulation, well done!

and as an Eagle Scout, that opens up even MORE opportunities!

true that they love scouts

edit* that didn't come out right

im leaving in a couple hours.
just saying goodbye to my fellow racers before i pack.

See you guys when i get out of boot camp!!

(probably mid September)
USA!!

Good luck! If you got the time, write every now and then here and tell us how it is, I am curious

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Good luck! If you got the time, write every now and then here and tell us how it is, I am curious

your request is honored. I am using my phone to talk to you guys. My DI is a carbon copy of Sergeant Hartman! We're at the mess hall now, and the food is yellow rice and chicken. no seconds, or we do pushups. The other recruits here are awesome, a couple of them fellow Eagle Scouts, one of them also likes to hunt & fish, and every free time we get we get into discussions about sports, and they always yell out a random year (yesterday somebody yelled "1996!" and i said "New York Yankees!") and i give them the World Series champ that year. Turns out that the Chef there is an old friend from grade school, and he inconspicuously slipped me extra yellow rice (because we used to have eating competitions back in 5th grade and we always used yellow rice, and i won all but 3 of the contests) when the DI wasnt looking. Its great, and whenever the other guys get full and they still have food on their plates, the DI just says "Give your scraps to Hazen, he'll clean the plates." I asked him why he said that when if you try to get seconds, you do push ups, he just said "Im not like Sergeant Hartman, Jake, i can let things slip now and again."
He's a nice guy when you get on his good side. I offhandedly mentioned NASCAR when i was talking to the others, and he just waltzed over and said "NASCAR is a true american sport, recruits. Let me tell you about king Richard Petty." I said "With all due respect Sir, I already know all there is to know about NASCAR, but if the others don't, i can help you talk about him." I was expecting to get his copiously loud yelling in my face, but he just laughed, said "Sit down, Hazen, and tell me what you know." We talked about NASCAR until meal time was over. There are so many more things i can tell you about, but its time to leave the mess hall, so bye bye for now!!

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USMC Recruit J.Hazen.

The recruit periode I see How long does it last, the recruit periode?
You will find a lot of new friends there!

Have you done some interesting trainings / field training / extercises yet, or is it the ordinary pushups, situps and hangups til' you die attitute over there?

pretty much the standard things, but they had a Civil War reenactment this morning, and we used real muzzleloaders!

Tomorrow we gotta run the obstacle course.

The recruit period lasts till mid September, then we get 2 weeks leave of absence, then in early October we go back to boot camp to finish our training.

I jelly

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pretty much the standard things, but they had a Civil War reenactment this morning, and we used real muzzleloaders!

Tomorrow we gotta run the obstacle course.

The recruit period lasts till mid September, then we get 2 weeks leave of absence, then in early October we go back to boot camp to finish our training.

It's after the reqruit periode you know what service you will get the rest of the year yes? Or is it a course after the reqruit periode aswell, before the new service?

For me it was reqruit for two months, course for 5 weeks and then the rest of the time I work and educated myself while beeing on the airport in the firemen service. Little military over it tho :/

Guys im done in boot camp.

due to get shipped out to i think Kabul in about 2 or 3 days. supposed to be alot of activity going on over there. ill keep you guys updated.
heres hoping i dont get wasted.
lol


PFC J.Hazen

(being an Eagle Scout i am a private first class while the others are just privates)

Damn, they sending you out to a other country allready? That's damn fast..
Congratulation with finishing the boot camp with good ... what they call it.. mereits?

Walk tall!

Good luck man, don't die. I've finished my IDF service almost a year ago. That's why American soldiers get killed so often, short training and big guns.

Training in the Israeli elite combat units lasts anywhere from 10 months (5 months boot camp + 5 months combat training) to 2 years (+1 year of specialized combat training), only then said soldiers are deployed into real operations.

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Guys im done in boot camp.

due to get shipped out to i think Kabul in about 2 or 3 days.

Congrats, now you are a real man!


Good luck man!

handing over all notion of having free will to the military and most likely getting killed in the process makes you a real man? good god im genuinely terrified to share the planet with people like you

Death is inevitable. I don't care if it happens sooner or later. But if you manage to survive there - all the difficulties you wen't trough, all the horrors you see there changes you to the better side. You start to value your family more, become physically and more important mentally stronger and that's not the end. There are some things which cannot be taught, you need to feel it by yourself.

And yeah, war sucks, but neither you or me can do anything about it.

I think army should be mandatory everywhere.


And there is no god!

And i don't claim anything i say to be the truth. It's just my miserable opinion.

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more important mentally stronger

if you were mentally strong to begin with you wouldnt fall for any join the army bs

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And yeah, war sucks, but neither you or me can do anything about it.

yes we can... not blindly follow some idiot into one

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I think army should be mandatory everywhere.

i think education and if necessary executions on everyone who thinks like that should be mandatory

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Death is inevitable. I don't care if it happens sooner or later.

Nothing wrong with that.

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But if you manage to survive there - all the difficulties you wen't trough, all the horrors you see there changes you to the better side.

Are you sure about that ? Complex post-traumatic stress disorder... springs to my mind. and if you are being shot or blown up and still survive - not so cool.

Well of course many bad things can also happen if you just cross the street or drive a racing car. Life sucks.

No risk no fun.

3 months of training and you get to kill people.

I really don't expect a thoughtful answer but why are you there?, to 'save' the locals or just to steal their resources ?

I strongly suggest you forget your video games and remember two very important points.
1: The locals will try to kill you, it is their country remember, not yours, how would you behave if a country invaded the US ?
2: You can't reset when it turns to crap !

War is NOT a game, it's for real and this is something youll very quickly learn, or die.

Try to remember that the People of Afghanistan are humans, not rag heads and you've invaded their country illegally.

I don't expect many people to agree with me but my advice may keep you alive, but hey, I'm sure your bulletproof and marines always win...........

Well, if this is his goal and dream to pursuit the ranks in the military, why not be happy for him instead of the discussion lol?

I understand the part that people look on the military as a killing service, and then have something against it. But at same time the military does great things for it's own countries (and others) that might not be in your mind and the first thought. I know it might sound like I have been brainwashed, but I have not. At least for the norwegian army we are used a lot in sivile situations. First aid, rescue, seek (lost people) and various other situations the military can be used to help the sivilian.

Alltho I don't agree with the dessision for the USA to go to war, it does not make the solidiers ****s either They are just following their orders.