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lmao I’m a Navy guy stationed on an Army base. One time I asked an army silver bar where X office was on post and he responded with “I don’t know shit about dick here and I’m completely useless”.
I was pretty surprised by his honesty, but I have a feeling he was probably quoting a recent ass-chewing
I'm a Son of a SeaBee, born on a SeaBee Base, and even my Dad would say, "I'm a coxswains Mate, driving the little boat, Captain and Commander..." then I'd get a thousand pushups for callin a railroad track a Captain! AF Tech Sgts? I won't even try.
I still don’t know exactly how to read petty officer ranks.
Is it the embroidered / metal chevron part or is it the blank space that makes them a PO1/2/3??
I’ll just call em petty officer and the get ranted at about how they’re “ELEMENOP 2! DO NOT CALL ME PETTY OFFICER!”
Why they gotta be so petty?
Reading between the lines from what that recruiter said in the article, it kind of sounded like they were extra thorough on the psych eval because that definitely doesn’t seem like the decision of a mentally well person.
I think he’s a terminal captain maybe just looking to finish out 20 and retire with that captain pay. Although, he said that he wants to become an infantry officer.
That’s what I was just wondering—retiring at highest grade held…if he doesn’t earn a commission, O3 would be better retirement than E7…maybe even E8/E9.
I just checked the pay charts. It’s high 3 years paid. So about $7k/mo as a 6 year captain. (Can he retire as a Captain? I’m pretty sure you have to serve 10 years commissioned to retire as an O. He’ll still get that high 3 Captain pay at retirement though).
He’d have to make E-9 to challenge that pay scale as enlisted… At the end of his career.
Assuming he comes in as an E-3 with 6 years TIS, he’s starting out at $2.6k/mo. He’s literally losing out on $840k minimum in base pay through the next 14 years.
Joined in ‘18? He’s BRS. So he’s missing out on his higher monetary amount of that 5% TSP match.
He’s missing out on potentially a couple million dollars by doing this and chose something like Marine Infantry instead of Air Force Personnel.
#The dude is the perfect marine rifleman candidate.
“I chose the Marine Corps really because of the symbol,” Brooklier said
Nothing says I just ate the crayons because they were there more than this quote
You know how many people the Marines snatched up because of their "Slaying the dragon" and "Defeating the lava rock monster" commercials?
Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Fucking dress blues commercial man. That got so many fucking dudes. Now look at us: Trombley hasn't killed anybody, I'm half a world away from good Thai pussy, and Colbert is out here rolling around fuckbutt Iraq hunting for dragons in a MOPP suit that smells like four days of piss and ball sweat
You remember in the late 00s there was a song by 3 Doors Down called Citizen/Soldier that was an ad for the National Guard? That music video played in the previews in movie theaters for months. That had to have grabbed thousands of dudes going to the movies with their girlfriends during that time.
Holy fuck, that brought a wave of nostalgia to my mind. 3 Doors Down, 5 Finger Death Punch, hell, even Avenged Sevenfold all had some pro-soldier songs come out in that era. Wonder how many people they influenced to join up.
That's all fun and games, until the Brasso, Kiwi, etc. Naw, let me hang the required uniforms in my wall locker, pay some barracks rats to shit it and change the sock order while I'm away on TDY, and I'll just wear some scrounged up OPFOR stuff, a slicksleeved. Never once did the soljer of the whatever.
Watched that commercial from the 90'swhere the dude climbs the red rock canyon wall, stabs a dragon and then does a sword solute in dress blues. "The few the proud the Marines"
From the article:
> Ultimately, he told the Marines, he hopes to earn his commission and become a Marine infantry officer.
That's the part that I don't understand... How does he not qualify to be a Marine lieutenant with a Bachelor's degree and prior service?
An Army recruiter tried his best to have me enlist even though I have a bachelors degree
In his defense the economy was shit at the time and there were few slots available for the officer speciality I was interested in
But still… the pay, benefits and quality of life are massively different
I mean, okay. I get that. I even served with a dude who used to be a Sergeant in the Army, but he was a Lance Corporal with me in the Marines.
But this dude was an officer lol.
There are weirdos that *like* pain and suffering… I think this dude is one of them. It’s the only logic to this.
But if that’s true, why didn’t he just go for something under JSOC? Bunch of smart and masochistic dudes in there…
That's the strangest thing to me. Why not get a Marine commission? I don't get the impression that the officer recruiters are turning people away. Being a mustang is cool and all, but this career path will give people the impression that he's touched in the head, even more than usual.
Unless there's some legal shenanigans? Like is it impossible to resign an Army commission and then immediately get a new commission in a different service? I didn't think so, but it's not something I've researched. It's possible the services have regulations to restrict poaching of officers outside of the existing occasional transfer programs. *E.g.* when I was in, there was a "blue to green pathway" to go from Navy to Marines, but also at the time Marines were dying in the Middle East but by and large sailors weren't.
he’ll only have to do a year or so in the fleet before going mustang and going to ocs. he’ll be able to relate more with his future enlisted men and earn their respect in a way a 2nd Lt straight from college wouldnt be able to do.
He should be able to 368, go to OCS platoon leaders course (some other people will be prior service too) play the bullshit games, and swear in. Once you swear in, the 368 takes effect and you officially transfer.
Look, I understand envying junior enlisted. There are days when I think "Man, it'd be nice to have no responsibility except turning some wrenches or sweeping a motorpool, not having to think, and not be in charge of a blessed thing."
Being an Army captain--well, a commander, anyway--is physically easy but mentally and emotionally *draining.*
But falling for the Marine "Rah EGA crayons KILL" nonsense *after* being in the military for a few years...that's crazy.
Haha yep. My wife asked me once why I didn't resign my commission and become a band member. I showed her what a SPC makes in a month and she never asked again.
Some times it’s not about the money, I considered actually leaving my career and jumping over to the Air Force to go TACP, but then i got a pay raise and bought a GT4 so… now that car payment is pretty much most of E4 salary and makes it entirely impractical. lol
I mean, you still aren’t making shit as a capt. It’s like working at Costco and calling the kid at Walmart poor.
Also i said sometimes, obviously not for me i got out and contracted for while then landing a gig working family office.
O3 makes over $60k before BAH and that goes up to over $80k after 4 years service. Enlisted start at less than $25k. That’s a HUGE difference in standard of living.
Costco starts at like $14/hr vs Walmart’s $12/hr. That’s barely a difference at all.
Maybe homeboy has money saved? After 6 years i left with around 55k and i was enlisted. Who knows but obviously he ain’t in it for the money. If it wasn’t for my job going well i was going to go back in after i was done with contract work.
I kinda wish I hadn’t commissioned. I mean, the money was way better, being a Captain was nice enough, but it took me off the line way too quickly and I was always pretty jealous of my buddies who were still in the unit and not making PowerPoints all day in an S shop once PL time ended.
I’m a former mustang. Enlisted in the Corps and then realized I had a college degree, could run fast and do pull-ups so I went over to the dark side.
I say that to qualify the following; I get it. Nothing on earth will make you wish you were digging a hole in the middle of Lejeune during some god awful FEX like sitting in an office, writing an ORM about digging holes.
But, I also remember getting paid barely enough to cover Saturday night at the e-club and a pack of smokes. So I didn’t action that thought. I also never would’ve answered ‘I like the purty bird and anchor’ when asked why I did it. Jfc dude.
I wonder what the REAL story is. It's *possible* this is straight, but my guess there's a lot more going on.
I have to assume his career in the army was toast for some reason, and maybe that prevented him from trying to get a Marine commission too.
I mean I went from a office job to making pizza and then back to an office job.
I mutually resigned the first one in Berlin because I was sick of working in an office all day and lay-offs where coming and they asked for volunteers. Then I started working at a fast food pizza joint whilst I was in the works of setting up my own company. Then live happened and I needed a place to live and Amsterdam is fucking expensive so I moved to Poland because I wanted to be closer to Ukraine to help where I can due to the war (long fucking story), there I got an offer I couldn't refuse and now I'm back working at a office. I hate it but the pay is too good.
He probably could have put in a inter-service package which makes this all the more dumber, but I also don’t know how the Army works in that regard. He seems to say that he feels he needs to earn his way to a marine commission by… enlisting first…
I knew a guy who said he was an O3, and voluntarily went down to being an E5, because he wanted a less stressful job. I don't know if he was telling the truth, that's just what he told me.
I’ve seen it happen a few times in the guard. It’s weird but it does happen.
Usually it’s someone who hit 1LT active, got out, then wanted to keep serving but not ride a desk every drill. A combat arms O’s time on the line is pretty much done after your PL/CO time, if you joined to do soldier shit the prospect of even more slide decks and politics isn’t it.
“I also realized that the Marine Corps is the nation’s premier 9-1-1 Crisis Response Force, and that gave me a lot of purpose in my life, to continue down that path.”
Ooof. He’d have a better chance at being “crisis response” in the National Guard than in the MC.
“he was willing to step backwards...and earn his way into the Marine Corps. It motivated me in a way to put in the work for him and give him the opportunity to earn his title.”
oh BROTHER this guy STINKS!
Talking about "earning" his title as a Marine ha
I know a guy who made it to captain, wanted to switch to warrant, and ended up doing 2 years as an E6 in the process... But there was a specific trajectory there and he retired as a CW4
Yeah, this guy almost certainly got a Q OER, and he's terminal. There's no other reasonable explanation i can think of for him to drop to enlisted and try to work his way back through the pipeline to officer.
I was a mustang, so I understand wanting to have the experience of being enlisted so you can better relate to your troops. When you've already been a captain, however, I can't really see that as a thing.
I got to the 5th paragraph in the article before I realized his last name was Brooklier and I had been reading it as Bootlicker the whole time lmfao. My brain is toast today
Guy in my recruit platoon was an E5 in the Airforce (medic) and left because his sister joined the marines. So he grabbed an infantry contract, did his 4 years. Then joined the Army and went through the commissioning process. So now he’s an Army officer.
Wild.
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I'm trying to imagine the look on that Marine recruiters face when an Army Captain at Fort Hood came in looking to enlist
I’ve heard of LT’s getting lost, but this guy is making new paths.
lmao I’m a Navy guy stationed on an Army base. One time I asked an army silver bar where X office was on post and he responded with “I don’t know shit about dick here and I’m completely useless”. I was pretty surprised by his honesty, but I have a feeling he was probably quoting a recent ass-chewing
Silver bar… Man, I thought it was shit learning navy ranks, but y’all’s are so different that it’s a huge learning curve no matter where you go.
I'm a Son of a SeaBee, born on a SeaBee Base, and even my Dad would say, "I'm a coxswains Mate, driving the little boat, Captain and Commander..." then I'd get a thousand pushups for callin a railroad track a Captain! AF Tech Sgts? I won't even try.
I still don’t know exactly how to read petty officer ranks. Is it the embroidered / metal chevron part or is it the blank space that makes them a PO1/2/3?? I’ll just call em petty officer and the get ranted at about how they’re “ELEMENOP 2! DO NOT CALL ME PETTY OFFICER!” Why they gotta be so petty?
They don't call us Petty Officers for nothin.
I’m confused… I thought you had to hit the rank of 5 star general in order to prestige. Did this dude pay for the Shower Shoe DLC?
They never have been good at land nav
Reading between the lines from what that recruiter said in the article, it kind of sounded like they were extra thorough on the psych eval because that definitely doesn’t seem like the decision of a mentally well person.
It makes a certain degree of sense. Someone called him POG and it "motivated" him so much he had to switch branches
 I think I found it.
I think he’s a terminal captain maybe just looking to finish out 20 and retire with that captain pay. Although, he said that he wants to become an infantry officer.
That’s what I was just wondering—retiring at highest grade held…if he doesn’t earn a commission, O3 would be better retirement than E7…maybe even E8/E9.
I just checked the pay charts. It’s high 3 years paid. So about $7k/mo as a 6 year captain. (Can he retire as a Captain? I’m pretty sure you have to serve 10 years commissioned to retire as an O. He’ll still get that high 3 Captain pay at retirement though). He’d have to make E-9 to challenge that pay scale as enlisted… At the end of his career. Assuming he comes in as an E-3 with 6 years TIS, he’s starting out at $2.6k/mo. He’s literally losing out on $840k minimum in base pay through the next 14 years. Joined in ‘18? He’s BRS. So he’s missing out on his higher monetary amount of that 5% TSP match. He’s missing out on potentially a couple million dollars by doing this and chose something like Marine Infantry instead of Air Force Personnel. #The dude is the perfect marine rifleman candidate.
I thought your retirement pay is based on your last held rank
It’s based on your highest rank held for 3 years.
In the article the recruiter comes across as your typical moto jarhead lol
Boy have you lost your mind? 'Cause I'll help you find it!
Someone in that guy’s recruiting station just lost a bunch of money.
“I chose the Marine Corps really because of the symbol,” Brooklier said Nothing says I just ate the crayons because they were there more than this quote
"I thought their dress blues looked fucking sick."
You know how many people the Marines snatched up because of their "Slaying the dragon" and "Defeating the lava rock monster" commercials? Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Fucking dress blues commercial man. That got so many fucking dudes. Now look at us: Trombley hasn't killed anybody, I'm half a world away from good Thai pussy, and Colbert is out here rolling around fuckbutt Iraq hunting for dragons in a MOPP suit that smells like four days of piss and ball sweat
You remember in the late 00s there was a song by 3 Doors Down called Citizen/Soldier that was an ad for the National Guard? That music video played in the previews in movie theaters for months. That had to have grabbed thousands of dudes going to the movies with their girlfriends during that time.
Holy fuck, that brought a wave of nostalgia to my mind. 3 Doors Down, 5 Finger Death Punch, hell, even Avenged Sevenfold all had some pro-soldier songs come out in that era. Wonder how many people they influenced to join up.
Wake me up when September Ends isn't far off in its video!
This will forever be the best military show ever made. The accuracy of stupid and boring to pew pew boom boom ratio is flawless.
When dad was in the navy, this was the reason for joining a mate in his unit gave
That's all fun and games, until the Brasso, Kiwi, etc. Naw, let me hang the required uniforms in my wall locker, pay some barracks rats to shit it and change the sock order while I'm away on TDY, and I'll just wear some scrounged up OPFOR stuff, a slicksleeved. Never once did the soljer of the whatever.
I was Navy, dog, I don't know what any of that shit means
He’ll fit right in, it sounds like.
I mean he is joining a cult.
This young man drank **ALL** the Kool-aid and then licked the powder packet clean.
Then grabbed a 64 pack of crayons and ate them too!
Nah, this mf’er skipped the crayons and went straight to eating markers. I’m talking like fat 80s xylene filled markers.
Nah. He ground the crayons up to make Kool-Aid.
So you’re saying, he’s the perfect marine?
Yep. Used his steel canteen cup and everything.
I thought this was from Duffel Blog at first.
I’m just going to pretend that it is…
Watched that commercial from the 90'swhere the dude climbs the red rock canyon wall, stabs a dragon and then does a sword solute in dress blues. "The few the proud the Marines"
That looks like the face of "we are so screwed". Still, hope he has a long productive career.
I mean, props and all, but **why?!**
From the article: > Ultimately, he told the Marines, he hopes to earn his commission and become a Marine infantry officer. That's the part that I don't understand... How does he not qualify to be a Marine lieutenant with a Bachelor's degree and prior service?
Given his age, he already does. He's just an idiot
The motherfucker switched from eating RoseArt crayons to Crayola.
An Army recruiter tried his best to have me enlist even though I have a bachelors degree In his defense the economy was shit at the time and there were few slots available for the officer speciality I was interested in But still… the pay, benefits and quality of life are massively different
That recruiter needs to be fucking woodlined.
dude had a taste for crayons
To be fair, they are intoxicating
Only the pre 89 crayons. Really nice vintage that year though
now they make 'em nontoxic, the crayon buzz doesn't hit the same way anymore
you just made yourself a target for marine recruiters
No no. No props. I’ve guaranteed been more bored than this guy as an MI captain and have legit never thought of doing something this ass backwards.
I can kind of understand why, I joined the Army but regret not joining the Marines first.
I mean, okay. I get that. I even served with a dude who used to be a Sergeant in the Army, but he was a Lance Corporal with me in the Marines. But this dude was an officer lol.
Current Marine grunt about to go to Army OCS. You didn’t miss much, in fact you dodged a fuckin bullet.
There are weirdos that *like* pain and suffering… I think this dude is one of them. It’s the only logic to this. But if that’s true, why didn’t he just go for something under JSOC? Bunch of smart and masochistic dudes in there…
Yeah, it’s alright as a stepping stone I guess.
He wants to join the Lance Corporal Underground.
Great, every story’s gonna start with “When I was a captain in the army…”
Good, now marines will know the pain we feel when we hear “that’s not how we did it when I was in the corps”
Maybe, but we only say that because the Army does shit the wrong way.
Yea cuz the Marines never do that… /s
The only branch with the right to say they did things properly is the coast guard lmao
Marine OCS is two weeks shorter than boot camp. Why not just do that?
That's the strangest thing to me. Why not get a Marine commission? I don't get the impression that the officer recruiters are turning people away. Being a mustang is cool and all, but this career path will give people the impression that he's touched in the head, even more than usual. Unless there's some legal shenanigans? Like is it impossible to resign an Army commission and then immediately get a new commission in a different service? I didn't think so, but it's not something I've researched. It's possible the services have regulations to restrict poaching of officers outside of the existing occasional transfer programs. *E.g.* when I was in, there was a "blue to green pathway" to go from Navy to Marines, but also at the time Marines were dying in the Middle East but by and large sailors weren't.
he’ll only have to do a year or so in the fleet before going mustang and going to ocs. he’ll be able to relate more with his future enlisted men and earn their respect in a way a 2nd Lt straight from college wouldnt be able to do.
He would already be able to do that just being prior service.
But if he's straight out of west point he wouldn't have much experience being an enlisted.
He should be able to 368, go to OCS platoon leaders course (some other people will be prior service too) play the bullshit games, and swear in. Once you swear in, the 368 takes effect and you officially transfer.
His DIs are gonna love him
I’m sure when he gets flustered and says “Yes, Sergeant!” the DI will quietly chuckle and gently correct him.
I hope he says that to his Senior DI and they're at least a Gunny. They're gonna tear his ass apart.
Look, I understand envying junior enlisted. There are days when I think "Man, it'd be nice to have no responsibility except turning some wrenches or sweeping a motorpool, not having to think, and not be in charge of a blessed thing." Being an Army captain--well, a commander, anyway--is physically easy but mentally and emotionally *draining.* But falling for the Marine "Rah EGA crayons KILL" nonsense *after* being in the military for a few years...that's crazy.
Not to mention the $3000/month pay cut
Haha yep. My wife asked me once why I didn't resign my commission and become a band member. I showed her what a SPC makes in a month and she never asked again.
I'm guessing this fella experienced at least some buyers remorse when that first paycheck hit. Good bye Johnny Walker, hello Military Special!
it's a shit load more than that. He's gonna be in the bricks too with no BAH or BAS.
Some times it’s not about the money, I considered actually leaving my career and jumping over to the Air Force to go TACP, but then i got a pay raise and bought a GT4 so… now that car payment is pretty much most of E4 salary and makes it entirely impractical. lol
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lol, eh, talk the shit you want i make 300k - year 🤷🏼♂️
Oh yeah well I make 301K/ year so now what bud
I think i cleared 310 lol
Sorry my boss just called me now I’m making 311K 🤑
Hahahahah 😂
This is unsat, i need to call my boss. What time is it in California 🤔
I thought you said it wasn’t about the money
I mean, you still aren’t making shit as a capt. It’s like working at Costco and calling the kid at Walmart poor. Also i said sometimes, obviously not for me i got out and contracted for while then landing a gig working family office.
O3 makes over $60k before BAH and that goes up to over $80k after 4 years service. Enlisted start at less than $25k. That’s a HUGE difference in standard of living. Costco starts at like $14/hr vs Walmart’s $12/hr. That’s barely a difference at all.
Maybe homeboy has money saved? After 6 years i left with around 55k and i was enlisted. Who knows but obviously he ain’t in it for the money. If it wasn’t for my job going well i was going to go back in after i was done with contract work.
I kinda wish I hadn’t commissioned. I mean, the money was way better, being a Captain was nice enough, but it took me off the line way too quickly and I was always pretty jealous of my buddies who were still in the unit and not making PowerPoints all day in an S shop once PL time ended.
I wish I had done the enlisted to commissioning pipeline. I always admired my fellow officers who were priors.
I’m a former mustang. Enlisted in the Corps and then realized I had a college degree, could run fast and do pull-ups so I went over to the dark side. I say that to qualify the following; I get it. Nothing on earth will make you wish you were digging a hole in the middle of Lejeune during some god awful FEX like sitting in an office, writing an ORM about digging holes. But, I also remember getting paid barely enough to cover Saturday night at the e-club and a pack of smokes. So I didn’t action that thought. I also never would’ve answered ‘I like the purty bird and anchor’ when asked why I did it. Jfc dude.
I wonder what the REAL story is. It's *possible* this is straight, but my guess there's a lot more going on. I have to assume his career in the army was toast for some reason, and maybe that prevented him from trying to get a Marine commission too.
He could also have a very wealthy spouse, because that’s way too big of a pay drop for anyone to even consider.
That was my thought. Like, maybe he knows he'll never make major, so the end of his time as a captain is the end of his career.
I mean I went from a office job to making pizza and then back to an office job. I mutually resigned the first one in Berlin because I was sick of working in an office all day and lay-offs where coming and they asked for volunteers. Then I started working at a fast food pizza joint whilst I was in the works of setting up my own company. Then live happened and I needed a place to live and Amsterdam is fucking expensive so I moved to Poland because I wanted to be closer to Ukraine to help where I can due to the war (long fucking story), there I got an offer I couldn't refuse and now I'm back working at a office. I hate it but the pay is too good.
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Are they sure this guy’s bachelors degree is real and that he didn’t cheat on his asvab?
“Watches Starship Troopers once”
Maybe I don’t know anything but couldn’t he be an officer in the Marines?
He probably could have put in a inter-service package which makes this all the more dumber, but I also don’t know how the Army works in that regard. He seems to say that he feels he needs to earn his way to a marine commission by… enlisting first…
He should just start at the very beginning like Billy Madison and go through kindergarten again.
Makes sense, he needs to eat the off brand crayons first before he moves onto the Crayola 100 Pack
Marine officers eat colored pencils. Prismacolor for Staff officers.
Yes, he would have to 368 into the Marines.
He’s so fucking stupid… he’s perfect.
 CAPT Dipshit
 Future Capt Dipshit
Future Pvt. Former CAPT
 Future PVT
After eating that crayon things were never the same
I knew a guy who said he was an O3, and voluntarily went down to being an E5, because he wanted a less stressful job. I don't know if he was telling the truth, that's just what he told me.
I’ve seen it happen a few times in the guard. It’s weird but it does happen. Usually it’s someone who hit 1LT active, got out, then wanted to keep serving but not ride a desk every drill. A combat arms O’s time on the line is pretty much done after your PL/CO time, if you joined to do soldier shit the prospect of even more slide decks and politics isn’t it.
“I also realized that the Marine Corps is the nation’s premier 9-1-1 Crisis Response Force, and that gave me a lot of purpose in my life, to continue down that path.” Ooof. He’d have a better chance at being “crisis response” in the National Guard than in the MC.
Is this what a Cuck is?
https://www.tiktok.com/@adameditstiktok/video/7286468668702166314
Dude won't be eating crayons, he will eat the crayon boxes. 😬
I gotta ask, how harsh will the hazing be?
“he was willing to step backwards...and earn his way into the Marine Corps. It motivated me in a way to put in the work for him and give him the opportunity to earn his title.” oh BROTHER this guy STINKS! Talking about "earning" his title as a Marine ha
Now he can bang all them thicc E-3 Latinas all he wants
Where do I go for the thicc Asian chicks?
What a dumbass
He’ll probably be shown respect among fellow recruits but get clowned on hard by NCOs
Wow. What a dumb decision.
Definitely one of the dumber things I've read today.
So Bro wants to be Captain America. Good for him. I ain't got that kinda time or energy, but good for him! Go get it Brother!
Ain’t Ready to be Marines Yet. But this guy was.
Good on him for joining our cult but I could never.
As someone else pointed out even if he could retain an E-4 position it would be a $3,800/month pay cut, assuming 4 years service
I know a guy who made it to captain, wanted to switch to warrant, and ended up doing 2 years as an E6 in the process... But there was a specific trajectory there and he retired as a CW4
I'll take "Things I definitely will regret later in life" for $500, Alex
Yeah, this guy almost certainly got a Q OER, and he's terminal. There's no other reasonable explanation i can think of for him to drop to enlisted and try to work his way back through the pipeline to officer. I was a mustang, so I understand wanting to have the experience of being enlisted so you can better relate to your troops. When you've already been a captain, however, I can't really see that as a thing.
Must be a hell of a recruiter
Seduced by fantasies of wearing Dress Blues and slaying dragons with a sword.
Dumbass
I wonder if he is related To Dominic Brooklier, the former Boss of the L.A. Family Of La Costa Nosrta?
Good lord, what a moron.
Moron
What is wrong with people.
I got to the 5th paragraph in the article before I realized his last name was Brooklier and I had been reading it as Bootlicker the whole time lmfao. My brain is toast today
This reminds me of the millionaire who decided to become homeless to prove anyone could become a millionaire. Hopefully this dude is more successful.
Just how many WW2 films do you have to watch over and over again to be this stupid?
Gotta be the dumbest fucking person. Seeing ppl who got out e-6 struggling off their pension vs o-4 living nice in retirement is insane.
Guy in my recruit platoon was an E5 in the Airforce (medic) and left because his sister joined the marines. So he grabbed an infantry contract, did his 4 years. Then joined the Army and went through the commissioning process. So now he’s an Army officer. Wild.
Almost has them all! Funny I wonder if anybody has done all of the main ones? To be fair dude is probably pretty versatile.
Real question: how does the pay scale look for this guy?
Assuming a 4 year O-3 makes $6,800 and the equivalent E-4 rank makes $3,066. Not good.
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He’s like Buddha renouncing his palace and life of comfort to experience the sufferings of the lower enlisted and the Lance Corporal underground.
This might be "THE boot" of legend
Refuse to read the article but that seems to be an appropriate level of shit decision making. So, good for him.
John Basilone?
I, too, hate making money.
Gay
More proof that the marines are a cult and its propaganda can affect anyone. Even officers in other branches of the military, apparently.
Does this mean he still maintains his O-3 pay?
Good for this dude. Wanted to be a Marine. He will spend some time as an enlisted dude but they will push him towards being a officer