Tag: marine_corps

MySpace Marine Corps

With all the new companies and businesses using the boom of Web 2.0 to their advantage, whats to say that certian corporations aren’t to benifit from it either? Like say, the Marine Corps? The Marine Corps has produced a recruiting tool out of MySpace with their profile at http://www.myspace.com/themarinecorps.
The website isn’t so much for recruiting [...]

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Iraq ‘n Traumatic Stress

Its been awhile since I’ve came back from Iraq and yet, somehow it hasn’t fully left me. I always read and hear about how people who come back from there have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but I didn’t understand what it really was until now. Since I have been out in the field training and [...]

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Ensnared

Alright, so you haven’t seen any new entries because why? Because I’ve been out in the field, getting training that I’ll probably not use because I’ll be out of the Marine Corps when this MEU ( fast deploying Marine Corps unit ) gets deployed to anywhere special.
Now you’d think being grown men and women, we’d [...]

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Encouragers 2

Let us take a trip back to Yuma, Arizona between the time periods of late September 2003 and early August 2004. Brand new to the Marine Corps’ fleet and now serving as a true Marine, you become quite open to ideas and theories placed at the dinner table, and trust me, there is plenty to [...]

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Encouragers 1

I talked about how I was going to post an entry about the people that I remember and inspired me to be who I am today. I was first going to just list them all out and how they inspired me, but now I am thinking I will just list them by a certian category. [...]

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Relocate

Alright, so I haven’t got an entry in within what? The last week? I’ve moved bases! I am no longer part of 3d MRB, now I am part of the 31-MEU and I am in the 31-MSSG. The MEU is a Marine Expeditionary Unit meaning it is a rapid deployment unit. We can be ANYWHERE [...]

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Apercu

From April’s blog…

These are supposedly 30 questions that no one would EVER think to ask. Answer them, with what comes to mind first.
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
Man, I haven’t shaven in days! I love it!

2. When is the next time you will have [...]

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Grey Belt

MCMAP is a synergy of mental, character, and physical disciplines with application across the full spectrum of violence.
-MCO 1500.54A, Paragraph 5-A
today was a day to remember in my military book. i’ve been training extra early in the morning for two hours a day and sometimes in the evening for a new color in my Marine [...]

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Tooled Again

pissed. still no laptop. i’m about to call up and get my freaking money back. fuck this. i can get a desktop quicker damn it. anyway, ok so lets see. ok yea, Hiromi. Ok she pulled a fast one on me. i was like looking thru some pictures that she was showing me and i [...]

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