Tell me about the marines i want to know all about it?

Question

Tell me about the marines i want to know all about it?

Answer 1

as a former marine, i will tell you  they get the worst funding and everything else follows suit.  bases, meals, occupations. clearly the toughest and most disciplined. but consider the air force and the occupational opportunities. good luck.

Answer 2

The marines are one tough group.  They pretty much train you to be around A LOT of water.  Due to the name "marines" they do most of their fighting from aircraft carriers and I may be wrong but sometimes they are aboard submarines to get to a destination.  They are usually the first to fight and sometimes the last to come out.  Their training is rigorious but with enough determination a person would have they can achieve the title of marine after basic.  I would be all for the marines...as soon as Bush gets out of office haha.  

Answer 3

If you plan on enlisting with the marines, just one thing...remember what you wish for. Marines are the toughest of the branches and are the first to fight and last to leave. From what i seen with working with the marines, they get the worst of life. They rarely get to choose where to be stationed, only marine combat units get good equipment otherwise they get what we navy dont use anymore ie. our aircraft.

However on a positive note, they are the toughest fighters and bond into family with each other. you can always count on a marine to watch your back.

Answer 4

Everything you need to know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines

Answer 5

Go and talk to your local Marine Corps Recruiters. They'll tell you everything you want to know.  

Answer 6

www.marines.com  will tell you everything you ever wanted to know.  

Answer 7

hardcore s****.amp;#039;s.just ask my husband and my father in law!

Answer 8

how about going to the marines website? i thinks its www.marines.com

Answer 9

what do you want to know lol. why dont you just join and see for yourself the next 4 years

Answer 10

Well, the life of the marines are so bad that now people say living in jail is better than the marines.

Answer 11

Ok first if you want to enlist in the Marine Corps you need to be able to pass two tests, IST (Initial Strength Test) and the PFT (Physical Fittness Test). To get 100% on these tests you must be able to do the following. For the IST you must be ale to run 1 - 1/2 mile in 15:00 for the minimum, Flexed Arm Hand for 12 seconds, and be able to do 44 crunches. For the PFT you must be able to run 3 miles in 31:00 for minium, Flexed arm hand for 15 seconds mininum, and 50 crunches mininum. Now to get 100% on the PFt you run must be able to run 3 miles in 21:00 Flexed Arm Hand for 70 Seconds, and 100 crunches. If you pass both of these tests you will be sent to bootcamp where you will be for aproximitly 12 weeks. After which you will recieve 10 days off, then you will be sent to school for your speciality (ex: Infantry school). You recieve 30 days of paid vacation per year. For more information I would recommend you talk to a recruiter, they will be more than happy to answer any of your questions.

Answer 12

There's really too much to say about it for this type of Q&A setup.

Basically, there are azzholes everywhere in life and in the Corps, sometimes it sucks and sometimes it doesn't.  

Answer 13

OH MY GODD!

I take ROTC at my school, it's a military course so I know about it.

They always wear a furnished uniform. they have like 3 different styles of uniforms.

they have to remember this thing called the phonetic alphabet. It's like a code they use in wars and it changes every few years so enemies can't catch on to the code words.

They have to remember 11 General orders to the Sentry.

you can look them up; they're long!

You have to salute with you're right hand when in uniform.

You have to be able to run a lot, do many push ups, chin ups on the bar, sit ups, everything!

You have to remeber "pain is weakness leaving the body."

The Few. The Proud. THE MARINES!!!

Answer 14

You go to war and have 50 percent chance to live... Go to college...

Answer 15

mmontgomery - you "used" to be right. unfortunately with Iraq and Afghanistan, there hasn't been alot of training like that in the past 3-5 years. I joined looking forward to that kind of training, however, haven't done a thing aboard ship. Just been deployed or doing deployment work-ups for the past three years. There still are Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU's) that do that kind of work, but it used to be all Marines. The Marine are basically a second land-Army right now. And that is unfortunate. And not to knock the Army, but the reason it is like that right now is because the Army doesn't have the manpower and they can't get the job done.