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I'm willing to bet that as the economy continues to get worse you'll see more interest in the military.
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My service is a little different than most others on here, as I am with the California State Military Reserve. We're a component of the California National Guard, but we're 100% Title 32, and cannot be put on Title 10 active duty. You can think about it as the reserve, to the reserve, to the reserve. But, we do it all out of love and respect for those who serve in Title 10 active duty roles, and our main mission is to get them trained, and prepared for active duty missions, and back them up in their homeland security mission here in CA. To answer your questions...
1) For those calgunners who are in one of the branches of the military, what prompted you to sign on the dotted line? - Respect for the uniform, and for those who put their life on the line for their brothers and sisters in arms. 2) For those who are veterans, do you feel that your time in the service was worthwhile? - N/A 3) Have any of you seen combat? If so, did that change your view of military service? - No, the CSMR is not a combat arms branch...yet...? 4) What advice would you give to those who are thinking of enlisting? - Do it. Go federal, go active, and when you are done, email me. |
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Don't join if you think hailing from a broken home or poor upbringing somehow makes you part of an entitled class and free to mooch pizza off of me in the barracks.
Me and one of the recruiters at my office and I had a real man to man talk. Put it this way, I told him, "The best Marines are those who actually have something to lose and join not for any tangible benefit, but rather, do so out of a total sense of civic virtue and loyalty towards the state." Staff Sergeant who saw a tour in Iraq and went to the same MOS school as mine told me, "Yeah, but those are few and far between." I'll be hitting my 6 month milestone in the Marine Corps in 4 days. I sacrificed a spot of 100 for a business school's first undergraduate offering after beating out roughly 6000 applicants, as well as my youthful mentality (Months of recruit training and a personal look into FOB life in Iraq/Afghanistan developed a salty "get the hell over it" mindset towards myself and my fellow Marines.). Is it worth it so far? I can say yes, I would've been living a much more sedentary lifestyle even after college if I went straight in as a civilian. There's a certain perspective on civilians that's hard to understand until you cross over into the Green/Blue. For those who think about enlisting/pursuing a commission, look in yourself first. "but the facts are that we are getting hard pushed to find things for all the volunteers to do that aren't just glorified KP. You can't all be real military men; we don't need that many and most of the volunteers aren't number-one soldier material anyhow...We've had to think up a whole list of dirty, nasty, dangerous jobs that will...at the very least make them remember for the rest of their lives that their citizenship is valuable to them because they've paid a high price for it...A term of service is...either real military service, rough and dangerous even in peacetime...or a most unreasonable facsimile thereof." Going in trying to count down to your time to reap that GI Bill or wondering when you'll get to separate 3 months in does nothing good for yourself or your brothers in arms.
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