Title says it all. I'm going to be a senior this next year and am not sure which branch of the military I want to enter. My buddy just left for the USMC a week ago so I am looking forward to picking his brain when he gets back. I figured I could ask my hunting brothers what they think!
A little bit about myself, my average GPA over the years has been a 3.5 +. I'm doing "Running Start" so I will graduate highschool with my AA DONE! I am athletic and scored an 82 on the ASVAB when I was 15 two years ago.
I want to go in for infantry. I want to be up on the front lines with my buddies that I go through bootcamp with. I don't enjoy the thought of them being on the front lines and myself sitting at some desk somewhere. Since I will be entered as an E3 (because of the AA degree), I have no doubt that I will be on the fasttrack in whatever branch I enter. Something that I've also given A LOT of thought (4-5 months) into is applying for Sniper School. I want to be on the front lines, but I want to be doing something a little more "high profile" than going door to door or disarming IED's.
My PolyScience teacher told me to join the USMC (Try for the Marine Recon Unit instead of a Army Special Forces Unit), as they are less political in their missions/objectives. For that reason I'm leaning towards the Core. Ever read Oliver North's book "Mission Compromised"? Try it, you wouldn't want to be a "Political Soldier" either after reading that book.
So, whats your advice? I can't wait to leave this town and get out and feel like I'm doing something (Wenatchee WA). I love it here, but it's full of "Has Been's, and "Never Will Be's" and it's a good place to come back to but you got to get out of here and go do something with your life (military or college seems about the only two options). I see some guys at our parties that are living the exact same way they were when they were my age.
Michael
"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces
A little bit about myself, my average GPA over the years has been a 3.5 +. I'm doing "Running Start" so I will graduate highschool with my AA DONE! I am athletic and scored an 82 on the ASVAB when I was 15 two years ago.
I want to go in for infantry. I want to be up on the front lines with my buddies that I go through bootcamp with. I don't enjoy the thought of them being on the front lines and myself sitting at some desk somewhere. Since I will be entered as an E3 (because of the AA degree), I have no doubt that I will be on the fasttrack in whatever branch I enter. Something that I've also given A LOT of thought (4-5 months) into is applying for Sniper School. I want to be on the front lines, but I want to be doing something a little more "high profile" than going door to door or disarming IED's.
My PolyScience teacher told me to join the USMC (Try for the Marine Recon Unit instead of a Army Special Forces Unit), as they are less political in their missions/objectives. For that reason I'm leaning towards the Core. Ever read Oliver North's book "Mission Compromised"? Try it, you wouldn't want to be a "Political Soldier" either after reading that book.
So, whats your advice? I can't wait to leave this town and get out and feel like I'm doing something (Wenatchee WA). I love it here, but it's full of "Has Been's, and "Never Will Be's" and it's a good place to come back to but you got to get out of here and go do something with your life (military or college seems about the only two options). I see some guys at our parties that are living the exact same way they were when they were my age.
Michael
"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces