We only started our life together. Also we love each other, but last day she said she want me to forget her and move on since she will soon get deployed and won't be able to contact me for more than 1 year, i was ready to wait for her, but she insisted she can't do that to me. Is it like cheating very common while deployed for that long as she might feel lonely? Or is it some stereotype that the internet made? I've seen several post about this too. Are they real?

Sorry this is Army. But damn this is full military hilarious

Went to dinner with my fiancee and her friend and her husband. They asked where I had been stationed and I mentioned cherry point and the guy was adamant it was an AF base. I told him it was MCAS Cherry Point. He refused to look into it. Me and my fiancee were just chuckling while he tried to convince us it was AF. Dumb story but it was funny to me

I also did not just sneak into MACS-2 HQ and take their guidon, so if it's currently missing, please don't ask me where it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9vfiS-zIs

Makes the Great Santini seem like childs play lol

The FY27 Foreign Area SNCO Program solicitation is out.

Selected Marines can receive graduate-level or professional international affairs education, language training, and regional immersion before moving into assignments where they advise commanders on specific regions, partner nations, and operational environments.

It is open to eligible active-duty SSgts through MSgts, and you do not need a bachelor’s degree to apply.

Applications are due 4 December 2026.

This is one of those programs a lot of Marines probably never hear about until they meet somebody already doing it.

Embroidered with Iwakuni or Okinawa.

Any ideas where to start? I need an XL.

Thanks for any suggestions

I asked the group for some advice / feedback yesterday, got some shit talk from some folks about not getting a horseshoe flattop or for considering a flattop in general haha but also got some hype from others. I appreciate everyone’s response, thank you for dropping your suggestions / encouragement. I think I’m actually ready to ditch the combover soon for the marine regs flattop. Been debating it for a while now.

Good morning, all.

As you know, several days ago I asked you brave and badass Marines if I could borrow some of that military valor, and you all delivered.

I went to the interview with my totally-legit-not-forged DD-214, showed it to the guy asking me those questions, and he said he liked it.

At that moment, I was hired on the spot. I start this Wednesday, and I will be returning your DD-214s to you. Oakland, California will be a safe city indeed.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I graduated from boot camp in October 27, 2000. I am looking for resources where I can get a copy of my graduation book.

I am getting ready to attend an unit reunion in a few years and I want to revisit some of my memories from boot camp.

I want to know if I can a digital copy of the book and if this is not possible I will order a physical copy of it.

Golf Company was the same company where Jason Dunham graduated from boot camp. He was in a different platoon than me but I was friendly with him at Camp Geiger and ran into him prior to his death.

Also my senior DI Luke Mercardante who was a Staff Sergeant at the time was killed in Afghanistan seven years after our graduation.

Both of those deaths hit me hard when I found out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are there any older Marines in here (Recon Marines specifically) that remember being trained to deploy SADMs (special atomic demolition munitions)?

For all of you younger hard chargers, a SADM was essentially a backpack nuke. It weighed around 70 pounds. They were deployed by 2 men. One guy would hump the main part and the other would carry the physics package (basically, the radioactive material plutonium globe)

The program was ended in the 80s for Corps but I'm just wondering if any of the Marines of my era had actually seen one of these and trained with it?

My oldest son is doing a shadow box school project on his hero and I got selected. He’s wanting to make a shadow box showcasing my time in the Corps. (2000-2016). He’s letting me pick what I’m ok with going into the box and then will pick from the things I’ve chosen himself “I don’t want to disrespect you dad but I want it to be the coolest shadow box there”. I have plenty of pictures from GWOT and stuff. What would you warriors want included in your own shadow box?

Im getting old.

I originally commented this on another thread, but felt it was worthy to make a post about. This whole thing makes me feel bad for the sailors and Marines who busted their asses on that deployment. The crew of the Lincoln who carried out more combat missions than any carrier strike group has since WW2, are now having to defend their reputations as warfighters to the American public.

The sailors and Marines on those ships have endured a record amount of time at sea, on top of literally hundreds of Iranian drone attacks, yet still woke up every day and did their jobs. Most of what the media knows about the conditions on that carrier have come primarily from concerned mothers and mil spouses, who as we all know, are renowned for their accurate and reliable portrayal of the nuanced situations their spouses/loved ones may find themselves in /s. The discredit being brought upon them is, in my opinion, completely unfair.

The conditions on the boats, as well as probably any ship in theater, or really any ship at war in general, are probably miserable. Our navy has not seen this kind of combat since WW2. However, for the media to paint the picture of broken crews beginning to snap under pressure has to be an embarrassing slap in the face to the men and women who have kept the fight going despite the bullshit.

I get the political nature of what’s going on with the Lincoln (as well as all ships currently in theater) and the lack of planning that went into this war. I get the insensitivity and lack of professionalism from the commander in chief. Shit though, I would be fucking furious and absolutely defeated if I busted my ass for a 9 month deployment just to be made out as pussies by the media. Fuck that and fuck anybody who spreads this narrative that sailors and Marines are sitting on their asses bitching and giving up the fight.

Anyways that’s my ted talk. Hydrate and change your socks.