[glopomcyte]

Congratulations Alby!!! Awesome news!

[k1ePRlda]

Does it pay better than your bellhop job?

[toopyimport]

Having a job

[Suvaxal]

Nice!

[anconueys]

What Az says.

Also, move to Wilmington toot sweet!

[nicktender]

[ZIZITOPER]

Use this opportunity to learn to swim, drive, bicycle, and screw before you go after the marine thingie.

[lXvtm0ox]

Yeah, I figured I'd list them in order from easy to hard.

[itaspCatCriny]

Did I start a thread when I became vice president? No, so why should I care you are counting money? Why am I the most modest poster here?

[ThzinChang]

? I'd say bicycling is the easiest of those four.

Don't kill the joke. I'm sure that three of those are so easy that almost everyone here can do them, and the last one......at least 75%.

[AngelinaLip]

Asking a women back to your room and not being afraid of ending up in prison for rape IS pretty hard.

Sorry, I already used up my thanks for the day.

[Adfcvkdg]

Al wants to join the marines so he can suck marine ****.

[Unoloknovagog]

Do Pennsylvania/Delaware Army National Guard. It's a much better idea than Marines.

[MyLeva]

Do Pennsylvania/Delaware Army National Guard. It's a much better idea than Marines.

No. It's not.

[adverwork]

I thought you graduated college. Why would anybody care what your SAT was? That would be like if I applied for a job and they asked to see the Great Gatsby book report that I wrote in ninth grade.

The Marine Corps doesn't have an officer aptitude test like the Navy and Air Force do. They use SAT scores as a proxy.

But yes, my SAT scores are a decade old now. Most people who sign up to be an officer are still in college, though (doing PLC over two summers while in college). It makes a lot of sense for them.

Judging by the other applicants, another knock on me is I didn't go to grad school. A lot of applicants have MBA's, MSc's, and JD's, I'm noticing (even Ground with JD's).

[VowJoyday]

YES IT IS. The Army has more money and is bigger so you have a much better chance. It needs more people so there are bonuses available for certain jobs. What you should be looking to get out of your reserve duty is, above all else, money. The money is not insubstantial for someone of your pay grade. Go for what you can get now.

No money differential is worth the difference between wearing an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and not. That's fine for the Army bubbas and all respect to them but it's not fine for me.

[HQTheodore]

No money differential is worth the difference between wearing an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and not. That's fine for the Army bubbas and all respect to them but it's not fine for me.

You think the Army is any worse than the Marines? Look, I realize this goes against all the Marines propaganda they feed you but they are, when you get straight down to it, basically the same. The only difference is that one will take you and one won't.

[TSVIDeo]

You are past the point in your life at which it is reasonable to set high goals for yourself.

Are you talking to me?

[ChexEcodece]

No money differential is worth the difference between wearing an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and not. That's fine for the Army bubbas and all respect to them but it's not fine for me.

Doesn't matter what some expert said, the Marines are a cult.

[tpdirorg]

He needs to stick to here and now, small steps, manageable goals for the short term: getting employed (check), getting out of the ghetto (not check). If he wants to get into the military, he should do it in a way that doesn't interfere with other parts of his life by being a reservist (check) in a service that will take him sooner rather than later if at all (not check).