Enlisted in the Marine Corps today!
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Yeah i already thought of the air force, but i really want to be a marine.
Electronics would make a good third choice. Don't worry if you don't know the difference between a diode and a transistor now, because if you get accepted into electronics training, you will learn. There's a lot of fields you can get into in civilian life with military eectronics training.
This is probably one the best pieces of advice in this thread. Folks who come in this thread, have never served in the Marine Corps and offer their opinion means exactly jack squat. Listen to the Marines as they offer the best advice. Good luck.
School is going to be less than 1 year for alot of aviation jobs. My job required me to go to school for 3 months.
my job (geospatial intelligence analyst.. a.k.a. TOPO), has a 9 mo. school in Washington D.C. area.. None of the horseshit being treated like a boot for 3-4 more months. You get treated more like an actual Marine there, I must say that I lucked out there.
Crewchief has an insanely long school IIRC, but unfortunately I didnt have good enough vision to take advantage of that MOS.. that was the one I really wanted.
Crewchief has an insanely long school IIRC, but unfortunately I didnt have good enough vision to take advantage of that MOS.. that was the one I really wanted.
School for crew cheifs is right around i year. A few weeks of swin training in Pensacola, 3 months of mech school, and 9 months of flight school. The training is worth it in the long run.
What mos did you have?
I'm a 6113, CH-53E flightline mechanic. Work on EVERYTHING except hydraulics, avionics, and airframe.
3 months really hmm. im gunna think into that one. I just really hate school ya know, i like doinh hands on stuff thats why i wanted a mechanic MOS. So far you like it?
If you can get into enlisted aircrew(crew chief), the flight school part of your training IS hands-on. Spent flying and learning the aircraft hands-on. Honestly I would go enlisted aircrew. You'll still learn the aircraft and perform the duties of a mechanic, since you HAVE to know ho to inspect, troubleshoot, and fix the aircraft. The plus is you also get to fly and fire machine guns on the aircraft. It's a great job. It is a fast paced job too that requires you to have your head on straight. On top of it you can still get a top secret clearance if you try to go to HMX-1 Presidential helicopter squadron. I would do some time in the fleet before that though.
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That would be an MOS Designator of 9999 IIRC.
I thought they were phasing out TOPO Marines. And your plan is the exact one, I actually fell into and recommend as well.
Don't get suckered in to doing any desk job. You'll end up two years into your enlistment feeling like a secretery. Air traffic control does net huge pay checks when you get out. Infantry lifestyle sucks (trust me I know) but it is the true Marine Corps. Airwing is way layed back and you can relax a little bit more. If you have any questions just ask, I'm a combat correspondent (journalist) and have done almost every job in the Marine Corps.
Nah, they doubled the size of our MOS recently.
We're a critical MOS, I cant even lat move to anything other than linguist or CI if i wanted to. No B billets, nothing. The monitor wont approve it. We support nearly every mission in the Corps, even if the guys on the ground dont get our maps, i can nearly guarantee one of our products was used in the planning.
0331 here, I love it...but if i had it to do over again, i would've gone Intel/ Mechanic on aircraft...due to the amount of jobs that will open up to you once your contract is up...not really many fields available to a resume "0331 machine gunner" "what did you do and what was your specialty" "i played with machine guns and shot people".....for some reason shooting people is very appealing ATC (after the Corps)
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