Posted on Oct 26, 2016
What is it like to switch branches from Marines to other branches, specifically USAF?
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I have recruiters calling and asking me for my interest in their branch. I don't have experience in any branch besides the Marines. A little bit of information regarding the culture and customs of each branch would be extremely helpful. I'm interested in the USAF because they are well funded, have better mess facilities, have ample job opportunities and other perks.
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I went from active USMC to army guard so the transition was not to bad but then I went air guard and that was a major shock that I really never got over. The politics in the guard are pretty bad but the USAF seemed worse and the attitude of 8 and the gate worse the hardest to get used to.
And yes the willingness to just through paperwork out instead of trying help the person is pervasive. Just my take
And yes the willingness to just through paperwork out instead of trying help the person is pervasive. Just my take
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the marines AF and navy work pretty close together aside from tech school probably not that difficult.
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I will say in the Air Force discipline depends on the career field. I served 11 years as an NCO in the Telecommunications career field. I was then commissioned and became a cop (Security Police no of course called Security Forces). I saw airmen being given LOR's for being late to work one time. In my telecommunications experience they would have been told not to show up late and then given progressive discipline if they didn't improve. So discipline depends on the job or it did when I was on active duty.
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Why would you want to? Take what you've done and learned in USMC and put it to work for you. If that means going active, going to school, lateral move, whatever. Plenty of opportunities and you've already got your foot in the door. You're likely going to lose rank otherwise and it's like starting all over. Whereas you could be a Sergeant in a short while, SNCO before too much longer. Go B billet and bust ass, pick up meritorious rank. Go WO, or MECEP. If not, blink an eye and you'll be respectably retiring as a Senior SNCO of Marines, and that's top notch in anybody's book. Point being you already got a lot going for you so make it happen. Good luck with whatever you choose.
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Lots of marines have made the transition from Marine to soldier and seemed to like it. Going from marine to chair force is going to be hard
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PFC Ronald Maddox
Sgt i don't do political correctness so no take your panties and unknot them. The chair force offered me a 4 yr scholarship which I regret not taking but you know what thats life .
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Wearing a different uniform can be life changing. Does the AF have less deployments compared to Marines (aside from MEUs or rotations)?
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PFC Ronald Maddox
The Mission for the Marine Corp Army AF and Navy are almost entirely different so asking about deployment rrotation is really an apples to oranges question. Deployment is based on MOS not everyone is a grunt kicking down doors and Not everyone is an SP ISSUING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS ON A FOB
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Going from the Marine Corps to any other military branch is like being Raise a St. Louis Cardinals fan, Then moving to chicago and rooting for the Chicago Cubs. It's blasphemy sacrilege an abomination against nature itself. Me as a cardinals fan putting on a cubs Jersey I will be better off shooting myself in the foot.
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The Air Force tried to convince me there is no I in team. What they didn't tell me was most of the time I was the entire team.
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As I read about people leaving the Marine Corps to join another military branch. One has to wonder what is the real reason they want to leave the Marine Corps, This is only my opinion but I think most people can't handle the strict discipline and regimen of the United States Marine Corps. You have to stay on your game 100% of the time were as you see and hear stories about other branches how they get laxed in their expectations of their enlisted people. If I were any other branch and I see a marine wanted to join me I would be insulted because really what that Marine is saying, is you guys are not as hard as from where I come from. I know I can make it in your branch vs the Marine Corps. And to tell the truth they are probably right. But that also says something about the individual marine That wants to make the switch, Mentally they have given up and once you start to give up in one area you will slowly give up in other areas not a good way to go through life. I'm just saying
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