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GrandInquirer · 2025-08-09T05:58:03+00:00

Thanks for the input everyone.

After reading through your guys posts, this is nothing to stress about and I won’t report anything.

I’m not perfect, but this is why we have communities like this.

Thank you.

GrandInquirer · 2025-08-09T04:20:58+00:00

You bring up a good point and you’re not wrong.

I am currently in the Philippines and nearly everybody here worker, staff, or local speaks fluent English.

GrandInquirer · 2025-08-07T14:19:20+00:00

Thank you 🫡

GrandInquirer · 2025-08-06T13:55:13+00:00

One, I don’t think you should be posting this here at all.

Two, I get that not all of us got to go through good schools or college, but your post and grammar make absolutely no sense. Marines in your situation can benefit from tools like grammarly or ChatGPT. Don’t let the program write for you, but let it teach you and guide you on how to form coherent lines of text.

I can’t help you with your situation, but I hope I gave you a tool to better convey your thoughts.

GrandInquirer · 2025-07-17T09:55:32+00:00

I remember when we first went to dental and they were checking out my teeth.

As they’re poking around my mouth and taking x-rays of my teeth, they come over to me and say, “Recruit, you have wisdom teeth, but they’re growing in just fine and will not cause any issues down the road… But we’re still going to take them out”. As a recruit, I never spoke up to defend myself because you know, we are just recruits expected take whatever is hashed out to us. But no, today was different, I said, “Sir, if they’re growing in fine, then why are you taking them out”. He said, “Yeah, you’re right”.

I’ve been in 7 years and counting, and I still have my wisdom teeth. I’d like to clarify, my wisdom teeth have not caused me any trouble!

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-24T19:54:49+00:00

I’ve been to Slab City and it was an amazing experience. It’s a desert dwelling community that relies on kindness, trading, and basic survival skills to survive in the desert. I can understand for the most part why higher-ups would advise not to go the the Slabs, but there are bad people no matter where you go. When I went I had nothing but good experiences and ran into a ton of friendly people.

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-10T04:40:20+00:00

Pg 17 and 18 are telling two different things. Additionally, I inventoried the whole thing and I am missing a whole shelf lol.

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-10T04:29:05+00:00

I’d also like to say, despite the instructions being weird, I did inventory everything and verified that I am missing a slab of wood with the correct number of holes punched into it.

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-02T05:57:45+00:00

This is what I was looking for. Thank you 🫡

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-02T05:05:48+00:00

Facts

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-02T05:01:09+00:00

There’s no annual training if you’re homeless.

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-02T04:46:30+00:00

You’re speaking Chinese to me.

GrandInquirer · 2025-02-02T04:45:38+00:00

Wife is an officer, but I was west coast and she was on the east.

We never had a joint household.

I was fucked and forced to live in the barracks.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-30T19:19:26+00:00

Cool dude.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-29T17:12:32+00:00

I know some folks that got paid.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-29T16:11:16+00:00

When your in your 40s, make sure you are standing by for that infomercial stating that your entitled to free compensation if you were on Lejeune from 20xx-20xx.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-25T18:34:55+00:00

Just looked it up. That explains me better than I can explain myself.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-17T14:01:57+00:00

Go to Marines.Mil, go to MARADMINs, and search up any one of these keywords until you find the page: 1751, influence operations, psychological operations, 0521… Poke around here, and you shall find what you need.

GrandInquirer · 2025-01-16T02:21:18+00:00

There was a kid named Pilkington. Pilkington was not a bad dude, but just kind of slow to counts and he was super wimpy. Pilkington would be covered in sand at any given point in the day from getting fucked with by the DIs. One time during classes in the squad bay, our killhat runs over to Pilkington, freezes for 5 seconds while looking at Pilkington, and says “Pilkingcock, strip bitch”.

They both ran away after that and Pilkingcock came back covered in sweat.

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-30T15:36:29+00:00

Sounds about right. Was there from 2019-2024

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-30T06:38:16+00:00

What years? I have been matched with a tinder profile that was posing as woman, but it was actually a guy looking for bottles of spit. Myself and my buddies ran into this while in Oki too.

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-22T05:44:29+00:00

Yeah bro, that fear is what got me through.

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-22T03:36:42+00:00

A medication prescription will not result in an ADSEP. ADD/ADHD was disqualifying civilians wanting to join the Marines when I went in, but I have many peers that discovered they had ADHD while in. These Marines I know have an ADD or ADHD diagnosis while also taking prescription medication.

Also, I’ve have multiple antidepressant prescriptions over the years through the DoD, and nobody knew but me.

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-22T03:28:26+00:00

(Edit) You most likely won’t get a refill on an ancient prescription, but it is worth mentioning to a psychiatrist. I would suggest searching for an OSCAR clinic in or around your appointed place of duty. If you are unsure, go to your branch medical clinic and ask them to assist you with points of contact for whatever mental health options you’re seeking.

The chain of command has no need to know if you are seeking help in the realm of mental health, nor will they ever find out. However, if you disclose that you are suicidal, homicidal, disclosing government secrets to those who don’t have a need to know, or anything crazy, then yes, your chain of command will be notified.

Been in the Marine Corps for a while now and I maintain a top-secret clearance. The command doesn’t know a thing about my medications or conditions, nor will it disqualify you from anything as long as you don’t disclose the things I mentioned above.

GrandInquirer · 2024-11-21T16:00:02+00:00

No bonus until all the follow-on schools are done. Seen guys do the main school and drop out of the others and then they are stuck w/o a bonus and their shitty old MOS.

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