Thanks ya'll!! I was happier then white on rice!! after i took the test and i claimed down from being under shock. Told the recuiter, If i can study for a week and triple my score. anything is possible!!

 

Congrats! Thank you for going into service! Hope your family is having "Christmas" early with you! Basic is gonna be hard! what should be your goal???? Making like a fly. DO NOTHING that gets you noticed.. pretend to be a ghost. Also, remember anything they say or do is to make you a marine. IT"S NOTHING PERSONAL!!!! and if you do take it personal..you are EFFED!

 

My goal, Im wanting to be a scout sniper one way or another. But if i have a choice, After my 5years in infantry, go into military police then from there go into scout sniper!! Im wanting to be squad leader at bootcamp because i wanting a promotion when i graduate. But i still got a few days to think about it.

 

ya ur recruiter should have all the things you need, my buddy and cousin just got outa marines, all i had ta do is sign the dotted line then they seen my medical record and said nope they wouldnt take me but best of luck ta ya man!!!!

 

I'm a former Marine (91 -95, recalled 97 - 99) so I'll give you some solid advice.

If you want to become a Scout Sniper, stay Infantry and look hard at the new Marines Special Operations Command and Force Recon. SpecOps is where you can make something of yourself in an Infantry MOS, and if you get some college while you're in (you better do it) then working for places like the FBI or a SWAT or HRT team after your first hitch on active duty could very well happen.

LAT moving to 5811 (Military Police) from an Infantry MOS (03xx) will take some work because you'll need to take some college courses on law enforcement. The other thing is MP's don't get promoted often, so if you can stand being a Lance Corporal for 6 years then go ahead and do it.




Kris

 

Good Luck! Just don't be hatin' when you see us Fly Boys we all volunteered to defend the same country

<-- 4 time Iraq/Afghanistan veteran. Every year from 2005-2010

 

That wasn't my point dear. I ment DURING basic, that should be your goal. Not while your serving!

 

They may have had that when you were in, but that's not the case any more, as far as the MP's go. No college required to get into the MP field, since they've been using FAP's and augments from other MOS's to support on base for several years now. The MP's have the biggest issue getting into civilian law enforcement, because they have no college credit/professional law enforcement training, and are usually not qualified for civilian employment as a LEO.

As far as being a scout sniper though, you're dead on the best route to go...stay infantry, and try out for Force Recon/MARSOC, and try and get into it that way. Good luck, and I'll probably run into you sometime whenever you hit the fleet.

 

I also want to thank you for serving!
Haha sorry but i would have to say, to give full heart and never quit!!
Thanks for the heads up too! Like with the college deal is, if you go get a degree. It shows to the corps or any military, that your willing to expand your education and future. Then in the long run, itll open alot of more doors then without any education (but we all know that)

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I want to thanks you for serveing!!
Now, what is your mos

 

I've held several MOS's, most of them have been combined into the new 06xx Communications field from the old 4000 field of Data Systems:

4063 & 4067 COBOL Programmer / Ada Programmer
4066 Small Computer Systems Specialist

Billet MOS 4025 Network Control Specialist

Before the consolidation, Computer Science School was at Quantico, which is where I went twice for training. In the late 90's or soon after it was moved to Twentynine Palms (aka The Stumps) since the other comms classes were being taught there and fit in with the consolidation.

Before NMCI, I used to work for the RASC (base side G6) which changed its name to CISD, and for CNSD, which was the networking side of the house of CISD. I ran the bench repair team for computers and dot matrix/laser printers, etc., and I was also on one of the road teams where we would try to fix systems at the user location before bringing them back for bench repair. I was also there to see the transition from Banyan VINES to Windows NT 4.0, and was a network administrator for both systems.




Kris