Posted on Apr 30, 2015
TSgt Joshua Copeland
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If being a Marine is so awesome (I am the son of 2 Marines), why is it that there are soooo many Marines that join the Army and Air Force?
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Sgt David Hutchinson
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It’s a quality of Life issue, I would never change my 8 years in the Marine Corps but had I not suffered a TBI and got medically retired I would have been looking to talk to the Air Force recruiter. At the end of the day think about the fact that If you are a Marine, you don’t have to attend any of the other Services bootcamps.

So if say you are an E-5 in the Marines and you can cross over and become an E-5 in the Air Force, you basically are getting the same pay and benefits for less stress and less chance of physical damage (understand there are exceptions)

One last thing to think about when you hear Marines talk to someone and they say “were you in the military?” The Marine usually replies “I’m a Marine or I was in the Marine Corps.” Not a simple yes because no matter what the other military services think, it’s not all the same.
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CPL Jack Nixon
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The answer, I believe, is if you like being in the military and the retirement package but you don't want some one ragging your ass all the time then the Air force is not a bad way to go.
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SFC Rick LaFace
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It's because the Marines don't take their own back if they ETS and decide to rejoin. The last I knew the Navy is the same. They (Marines) are the smallest branch numbers wise so they can afford to be selective. From what I've witnessed during my own career (retired Army) it's a lot harder to get promoted in other branches but also harder to lose rank where as in the Army you can climb fast in a given MOS but also lose rank for minor infractions.
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Sgt R Scott
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Sounds like Sgt B. Scott or should I say B.S. Scott couldn’t make it a real Bootcamp, Marine Corps Bootcamp! Don’t forget there BS what ARMY stands for,
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Cpl Bill Johnson
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Because the average Marine makes a superior soldier. ;)
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SSG Infantryman
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Are the board results out yet
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SSG Kevin K.
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Because even the Army and the Air force need Heros......
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SSG Kevin K.
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Now. being serious, I agree with Sgt Hale. I got out and Joined the NV ARNG (aviation unit) for extra $$$ until I could get hired with the FAA as an ATC. The Career planner seeing I was a USMC NCO let me know they had an OCS program and I could go Officer. Added bonus was that as an O I could fly even though I wore glasses as long as I was no worse than 20/60....WOs had to have 20/20. Everything else in Reserves or Guard were hours away from us....so it's was convenience.
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Sgt Roy Hale
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Army Reserve out of location
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SPC Edwin Lee
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As an Air Force Brat, I was already bad ass. My lifer dad, a Bataan Defender, and POW friend of Marine SGM Charles R. Jackson (read his book), told me that if Vietnam was still hot and heavy, to go Marines because I would know the man next to me could shoot. His two weeks of constant contact with Japanese seaborne infantry was proceeded with showing Air Corps mechanics how to operate bolt action rifles as they moved up to Quinauan Point. When I finished college he told me to do two years enlisted in the army, their choice as to MOS, so if I decided to go to OCS I would have a clue, which only enlisted could get. In AIT my nickname was Going Ho. My MOS was Nuclear Weapons Electronics Specialist. I thought being chosen for that meant I was mentally healthy, but that was not all what they wanted in nuclear weapons, they wanted "nuclear reliability" and "zero defects". They wanted men who would scare the Red Army, who would be sure that warheads would work and who would carry out emergency destruction of any spare warheads to prevent capture of the spares. I also volunteered to learn to jump T-10's, which was a step further, and I did. That made me more useful for inaccessible "broken arrows". After my ETS, I went to law school and also passed Foreign Service Exams, written, oral, then medical, and security clearance s. In the FSO entry class, when we had made the cut in class to continue, the Department of State advised us that for certain posts the Department had a preference for prior government employment--and by that they said "not the Post Office". To avoid the two slots for Tehran, this was the end of October '79, I put Yemen first and then safer places. The next morning the head of the course told me I was the first to know his assignment. Airborne may never jump operationally and Marines may never storm a defended beach, but there are other uses for people who will do such things.
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2LT Signal Officer
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I'm a Marine, 2007-2011. Got out cause my boat space filled up (waited too long to re-enlist). My home town had a Marine Reserve unit, which I did join on a voluntary basis, but shortly (6months) decided I didn't like doing the part-time Marine mentality thing so I joined the ANG as the same MOS I had in the Corps. Boom! I'm now Army. I did attempt to rejoin active Corps but they weren't accepting prior service at the time, which is when I went Army. No particular reason why I switched, just happened to be what worked out. Besides, I serve this Country, not just one particular Branch. Doesn't bother me being Army and prior Marine.
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