Family claims to "disown" me if I join Marines... Family or military first?!?!?
At the end of the day it is your life and your decision. But I would hope you will take careful thought as to what your family wants. At this point you made a commitment (and yes, you can change it) to the Navy and you said "I love the Navy". FWIW I agree with your family, I pushed my son to get into the military for varius reasons but I never wanted him in the Marines for obvious reasons. It turns out he became a Navy Corpsman and was trained to deploy with Marines anyway. Fortunately he is OK now and will be getting out after ten years. Still the reality is that we are in a fighting war and people your age often don't think about the reality of combat. I go to the VA hospital regularly and see all the young men with canes and crutches and artificial limbs and know about my son's friends and others who are suffering PTSD and brain trauma. So you can and should decide what is best for you, and to the extent that it mattters to you, consider your family's feelings and reactions, that's an adult thing to do too. And I hope you will recognize that while being a Marine is admirable and maybe sounds exciting, the Navy will offer you the opportunity to serve as well.
When and where did Joe Biden serve in the armed forces of the US if he ever did?
Mr. Biden never served in the military. He received 5 draft deferments during the Vietnam War. He then received an exemption for having childhood asthma. He was elected into the Senate in 1973 and has served there ever since.
Why do marines claim superior training when their own brass says the army is more efficient?
did they invent a way to stop time or repeat it? a marine is not training in basic combat skills when he leaves boot camp. he has to attend MCT for a reason. I would assert that the army doesnt send all soldiers to OSUT for the same reason the usmc doesn't send all marines to ITB. He never claimed OSUT was 9 weeks. he stated that army basic is 9 weeks, which it is. There is not an 35 mile hump in ITB. Sorry, your inferiority complex is showing again. He never made a claim that more training is worse training. He does point out that shorter training days over more days created a better pass ratio. You're reading comprehension skills are atrocious. He never stated that standards should be increased because most marines can exceed them or even anything close to that. He argued that corps standards exist for a reason, and marines cannot arbitrarily invent their own. As far as "reducing" standards, in the army an 18 year old male has to run at less than an 8 minute mile
Girlfriend has kids, could i claim one as a dependent so we could receive bah and bas?
Me and my Girlfriend are planning to move in together. im in the military and she is not. but not planning to get married. she has kids but not mines. but i plan to take care of them out of my own pocket. so could i claim one of her kids so i could be eligible to receive government assistance such as bah and bas to better help us take care of housing and food.?
What is the 'special relationship' between America and Britain?
Why am I asking the question? Well, a few things have come to light which I find quite unusual about our 'special relationship'. Let me start with the Falklands; - Britain has the first recorded landing on the islands. - Britain has owned the islands for 180 years. - 99.8% of the islanders want to remain British. - Britain has taken the dispute to the ICJ courts three times in 1947,1948 and 1955 and on each occasion Argentina declined. - Argentina has invaded twice (1833 and 1982). - Each time Argentina has been the aggressor. - Argentina never owned the islands, Spain and France lay a better claim. Now despite these facts, America still insists that the islands are not British and that we should hand the islands back to the undemocratic, aggressive and fascist junta? Here's another interesting one; When WW2 begun America didn't join as an ally for over a year. At the end of WW2 America demanded that we give up our claim to most overseas territories, further diminishing the British empire. They also forced us to hand over our atomic project and advanced technology like Radar and the Jet engine for free. The USA has also back-stabbed the UK during the Suez Crisis. The USA invaded Grenada, then a commonwealth realm. So what exactly is this relationship, I mean- Britain have been to war for America twice, at the cost of many lives and billions of pounds. Despite this, America never helps us? And won't rebuff our claim to the islands when it's unquestionable...
Did the US really kill 20M civilians since WW2 through direct military actions and US sponsored proxy wars as some studies claim? Why doesn't the US media ever talk about the ~2M civilian deaths even in recent wars like in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Only if you do some insane math.The sources that say the U.S. killed 8-36 million since WWII often count everyone who died in a conflict the U.S. was involved in as "the U.S. killed them".For example a source such as The United States Has Killed At Least 8 Million People claims that the U.S. killed 120,000 Guatemalans, 4,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians, 3,000 Dominicans, 800,000 Indonesians, 250,000 East Timor people, 80,000 El Salvadorians, 1,000,000 Iraqis, and 700,000 others.In order to arrive at that number you have to ignore literally everyone else involved in those conflicts.For just one example it blames 100% of the deaths of 120,000 Guatemalans on America in the Guatemalan Civil War, when Chile, Taiwan, Argentina, Israel, Spain, Sweden, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Belgium, and the Guatemalan Military were all fighting on the U.S. side. The Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua, and FML were all fighting on the opposite side of the U.S.+dozen other countries.Is it fair to blame civilians killed by the Soviet allies on the U.S.? Is that any way to assign blame?For another example it blames 4 million Vietnamese deaths on the U.S. Is it fair to blame South Vietnamese civilians killed by North Vietnam, China, and the USSR, on the U.S.?If you go through any of those numbers you realize that they blame 100% of all deaths from every conflict the U.S. was involved in, including casualties inflicted by enemies of the U.S., on the U.S.2,000,000 deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan? No serious source claims the U.S. killed 1,000,000 people in Iraq. Even Wikileaks, which you can hardly call pro-American and most do not consider reputable, puts the figures at below 1/10th of that at 109,032 with 66,000 civilian deaths see Baghdad War Diary. This 66,000 figure includes civilians killed by insurgents.1,000,000 Iraqis died during the U.S. occupation yes, but that counts all Iraqis dying including Iraqis who died of old age, accidents, and other causes completely unrelated to the U.S. occupation.Sources that inflate the number as high as 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 often include "quasi wars" where the U.S. was not militarily involved at all and then blame 100% of the casualties on the U.S.Some blame 100% of the Afghan-Soviet war casualties on the United States, despite the fact it was Soviet soldiers inflicting most of the civilian casualties. The U.S. was backing the forces the Soviets were attacking.
What happens to a soldier/sailor who gets arrested?
My boyfriend got arrested last night after getting into a fight and causing criminal damage and is in jail. His buddy called to tell me - I haven't heard from him yet. I am worried about him if e has to stay in jail. He is an E1 and only joined last year. Anybody know what will happen to him?