Becoming/Life as a Marine Officer

[Surround]

While you consider, play some AA.

But seriously. I know the we all pr players fancy amry and stuff. But war is never fun (except the adrealine rush) and you should really hard consider that do you want to be part of it.

Why not instead go to red cross or someting similir and go help people abroad. Thats way more hard than being a soldier.

[[R-DEV]OkitaMakoto]

Originally Posted by Thermis

Okita,

My first piece of advice would be to join the Army not the Marines. No offense to any Marines out there I'm just biased towards my own branch.

Second, I have a good friend who enlisted and went through OCS. He wanted to be an Engineer Officer and he was able to do that through OCS. Marines may be different but I'm just trying to give you something rough to go on here.

Third, talk to your recruiter when you get back to the States, ask all the questions you can and get as much info as possible then before you sign anything. Come back here and run it by those of us that are/have been in the Military. I'm sure I speak for all of us in saying we'll be happy to help you make you're decision. I think you know this but your recruiter may be less that 100% truthful with you.

Best of luck with your decision if you need any help feel free to PM me.

Thanks for the insight. Gee, I guess Ill go Army then :P

And yeah, I value the input of a lot of people on these forums, which is why I made this thread. Ive also got a post on a Marine forum, but the PR forums are much more comfortable.

I just looked up the score for perfect in OCS's physical fitness test:
18:00 3 mile, 20 pullups, and 100 crunches

Haha, though thats a PERFECT 300... Ill try to work and get as close as I can. Pullups are nearly achievable. Can do 16~17 but thats also after doing a lot of bicep work beforehand. Running will be a bitch, but Im not fat or anything, and I ran crosscountry in highschool.

Im more worried about the leadership part of it all more than the physical part. I have the problem of knowing things well,

*edit* whoah, my post got screwed up massively...

Ill try to fix it, but I lost the last half here for some weird reason... it just cut it off mid sentence

[[R-DEV]Thermis]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]OkitaMakoto

Im more worried about the leadership part of it all more than the physical part. I have the problem of knowing things well

Well being fit as an officer is a big part of it too. It just one more way you gain you're soldiers respect.
When it come to leadership, once again coming from an Army prospective, you are not going to be tested on how well you memorized a field manual or how well you can give a operations order. What's important is being able to make quick decisive decisions and having you're mens confidence throughout that process. As long as you can get a point across, have it understood, and remembered by your men you'll be golden. Everything else that you need to know they will teach you.

[[R-DEV]OkitaMakoto]

Originally Posted by Thermis

Well being fit as an officer is a big part of it too. It just one more way you gain you're soldiers respect.
When it come to leadership, once again coming from an Army prospective, you are not going to be tested on how well you memorized a field manual or how well you can give a operations order. What's important is being able to make quick decisive decisions and having you're mens confidence throughout that process. As long as you can get a point across, have it understood, and remembered by your men you'll be golden. Everything else that you need to know they will teach you.

That's good to hear. Id just be worried about a mutiny or something during OCS :P
Off to bed, thanks for all the replies guys

[[R-DEV]Dunehunter]

Since I've been talking to Okita about doing the same thing, I'll be following this here too. However, unlike Okita I won't flood the moderator e-mailadres with subscription mails.

Does anyone know how a foreigner would go about joining the US armed forces? Apply to them first, then they handle your visa, or do you need a visa first?

[Scot]

Okita, I have a story that gaining respect isn't horribly hard. It can come down to the simplest thing ever. My grandfather is fully greek(making me a 1/4) and joined the Greek Army before WW2. Now in his basic(he's still alive, 86 now I think ) he was training, and he wasn't some gruff farmer, he had been to school, done quite well, but compared to all the other people doing his basic, he was a well off bloke, considering most of them were farmers sons or similar and had little to no education.

However, he gained there respect in two ways; he drank black coffee, which was an easy one. The other one was, there were only 1 set of hot showers in the camp he was in. These were on the other side to where he was staying, but there were cold showers right next to it. Now he couldn't be bothered to go to the hot showers so just went to the cold ones. This earned him the respect of all the gruff big farmers, for these 2 simple reasons.

I guess what I'm trying to say is you have to do extraordinary things to command respect if you go down the officer route. Sometimes, the simplest things will do it

Whatever you choose in your career path, I hope it works out for the best

(However I fear Thermis might kill me if I don't say go Army, so join the Army )

[hiberNative]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]OkitaMakoto

I just looked up the score for perfect in OCS's physical fitness test:
18:00 3 mile, 20 pullups, and 100 crunches

20? i remember being able to do 10 when i was like... 13 years old
3 miles in 18 minutes is a lot worse ;x

[Spaz]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]OkitaMakoto

I just looked up the score for perfect in OCS's physical fitness test:
18:00 3 mile, 20 pullups, and 100 crunches

I'm not sure but 3 miles is like 5 kilometres right?

I really thought it would be harder to get a perfect fitness score, don't get me wrong its really hard and I wouldn't get perfect, at least not on the running but still.

[[R-DEV]Dunehunter]

Well, I'm pretty sure that that's just the start After that the training begins.

[Spaz]

True.