Any of my fellow Marines get jealous on here?

cruises and Embassy duty do what you have to do

All I wanted to do was go to war, and that's all I did haha. So no, not really jealous. Don't get me wrong, it'd be cool to go to some places, but honestly the fun would be severely hampered I think by being there as a military member and not just a tourist.

I wasn't a Marine, but I have fond memories of Okinawa and the 6922nd RGM at Kadena Air Base.

But you guys get to vist all these wonderful ports while on liberty.

Well I hit two of the Paradise spots. 18 months on one and 9 months on the other. Service life was good.

I am more envious of the other branches opportunities to go to schools (Sapper, Airborne, etc) than duty stations. I know some people in the Army and they are envious of our duty stations because they are on the coast and in some instances my barracks room was a few hundred yards from the beach. While I do think that being stationed in Europe would be cool, nothing will beat my ship board time due to the fact that I felt linked to our history as Marines.

Yeah that is the ONLY downside to being a Marine is that Marine bases are usually built on land nobody else wanted, and our overseas posts suck compared to the other branches.

I spent 10 years in the Navy. Volunteered for everything that sinks, swims, or flies. Had shore duty my whole career. Farthest the Navy sent me was Puerto Rico.

Jealous? What’s is there to be jealous about? Do other branches have a better supply of crayons?
Oh sure the Air Force has great chow halls and the Army gets new equipment not hand me downs oh and the Navy has all those pretty boats but what’s there to be jealous of?
We are an elite fighting machine, we don’t need good chow halls because we are in the field and on the front. We don’t need fancy new equipment because we destroy EVERYthing except our weapons and we damn sure don’t need big boats we have the Navy for that.
Jealous of forces in other countries? Negative ghost rider because and night when they close their eyes and fade off to there safe places they either dream about being Marines or have nightmares about Marines coming for them.
Nope I have zero reasons to be jealous, we are the best trained, have the best dress uniforms, and can out drink, out shoot, and fight better than any other force ever.
We are By God United States Marines and don’t ever cheapen that by saying your jealous!
Semper Fi!!!

What are the requirements for and duration of Embassy Duty? That's something none of the others get.