And Now For Something Different: USMC Recruitment Standards

[dragoon500ly]

I always enjoy getting snail mail....I never get tired of seeing all of the things that I will win if only....

A bit of background about my self...I'm a 51 year old government employee, a veteran of the US Army and a disabled veteran complete with hearing loss and a peg leg and enjoying the need to use reading glasses for just about everything...

You can imagine my joy to receive a letter informing me that the United States Marine Corps wants me to enlist. A review of my ASVAB (from 1976!!!)confirms that I have the right skills to be a Marine and to please call my local recruiter to start the paperwork...

What the hell? Are they scrapping the bottom of the manpower pool aready!?!?!? What is this, Twilight 2000!!!!!

ROFLMAO!!!!!

[Panther Al]

Speaking from experience, there is waivers for *everything*, and remember, your years of service don't count against your age for enlistment! So subtract those years from your real age, and that's how old the military thinks you are!

[dragoon500ly]

Let's just say that I was not expecting the ole Mouldy Crotch to request my invaluable skills...my next door neighbor has to use an oxygen tank...think I should give them his name as well, he was a Sergeant during the Korean War?

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Thanks for the laughs dragoon500ly, I thought it was a bad enough joke that the Aussie Army asked me to come back for the adventure in East Timor after I had been out of the Army for 5 years (very out of shape and a bit overweight by then) but your story truly wins the prize.
I'm still chuckling to myself

[atiff]

Oh, good, so there is hope for me yet

[pmulcahy11b]

You should go down to the recruiting center and present yourself and the recruiting letter just to see the absolutely precious looks on their faces!

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Thanks for the laughs dragoon500ly, I thought it was a bad enough joke that the Aussie Army asked me to come back for the adventure in East Timor after I had been out of the Army for 5 years (very out of shape and a bit overweight by then) but your story truly wins the prize.
I'm still chuckling to myself

Not a prob SSC....the military truely has its own way of doing things. And what a mystery that method is!!!

[Sanjuro]

Two days before VE Day in 1945, my high school history teacher received his callup papers in the post (Britain had 100% conscription at the time). His mother told him to ignore them, and two days later the police arrived to ask why he had not reported.
The papers had arrived on his 8th birthday...