I huave spent the past few hours catching up on some Marine Corps news that I missed while I was in 29 Plams. I just read the Marine Corps Times dated 22 Sept and there is an article in it about Request Mast and how it has ruined careers. In fact 1 out of 3 [...]
For those of you unaware the SSgt selection board released and approved selections were posted. MARADMIN 515/08 was released on 12 Sept and there were more than 3600 Sergeants selected for the rank of Staff Sergeant. Promotions will begin on October 1st of this year and will continue over the next year. I would like to [...]
OK guys I just wanted to get a quick one out there and let everyone know that the field trip is over. I returned from 29 Palms today and finally made it back to the house around 330 or so this afternoon. I am glad to be back and even more grateful that I was [...]
Well today I actually have had some time to get on here and see what has been going on in the blog world. When I logged on to my blog I noticed a new link to my page about the milbloggie awards. I opened it to check it out and see what it is all [...]
On Wednesday of last week I had to go back into the camp to drop of some personnel that needed to leave the field. Unfortunately I was not one of them. One SSgt was going back to Pendleton so that he could finish preparing for his PCS move out to Hawaii (lucky bastard). The other [...]
The field (at least in 29 Palms right now) is a hot dirty sweaty place and after a few days you really start to become ripe. You get so stinky that you can’t even stand your own smell. There are no bathrooms and hygiene facilities are nn existant. When you need to answer nature’s call [...]
As you may or may not know I am stuck in 29 Palms right now doing a Regimental field op. The ast week has had moment of excitement as well as boredom. We rolled out early Sunday morning and made a 2 and a half hour drive over 5 hours long (only Marines and grandams [...]
One of my biggest pet peeves is a Marine that cannot take care of his money. The reason for this is that I have lost too much of my or my Marines time to unscrew a Marine’s money problems. I have also seen too many Marines get into trouble with the Marine Corps for failing to pay [...]
It really pisses me off when a Marine cannot live within his or her means. While the money that we make is not great, it is definitely enough to live on if you budget well and live with in your means. If you live in the barracks you have all your living expenses paid for. [...]
You can do a whole hell of a lot with $4500, you could buy a huge flat screen TV, buy a decent used car, put a decent down payment on a new car or you could go to college. You see $4500 is the amount that the Marine Corps will give you to go to [...]
