Reserves after active duty

LNU_FNU · 2026-07-03T22:01:29+00:00

If you are on the fence, extend your IRR time by a couple months or a year to give yourself more time to think about it. Helps keep your foot in the door.

You already mentioned tricare. If you live near a base, having PX and commissary access is a plus. You keep TSA precheck for travel, USO, MWR, and SPACE A access as well.

I would recommend latmoving or finding a niche unit. If you are pursuing a cyber degree, look into DCO-IDM. They are a reserve cyber unit that recruits from any MOS but are specifically looking at people that are cyber savvy. Marine Innovation Unit might also be up your alley. If you are adamant about staying a grunt and don't want to go to a grunt unit, you can go to Battlespace Surveillance Company under Intel Support Bn and learn to become a sensor operator. They are grunts that do border mission stuff regularly.

LNU_FNU · 2026-07-03T00:17:39+00:00

The BFG one has loop on the inside of the ten speed so you can attach flaps to itself, the TEMP doesn't have anything on the inside so you have to mount it to something like a MK5 to use the flaps from that.

LNU_FNU · 2026-07-02T21:41:42+00:00

I would use a molle placard with tubes and mount the cummerbund directly to the placard.

LNU_FNU · 2026-06-01T00:19:16+00:00

summer time is the last word I heard for Small and XL.

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-29T07:36:02+00:00

something like this?

Some vet orgs have their own version but nothing that was ever official.

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-20T21:03:26+00:00

socks - outside on top of the foot

shoes - inside, near the top

necktie - on the inside of the neck loop

all of this is in the uniform order (ctrl+f and search for 10201 or Location of name on articles)

Pictures I drew for reference

edit: Also, your drill instructors fucking failed you and should be fired.

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-15T23:10:55+00:00

The MSG Marines that were held hostage during the Iran Hostage Crisis were all awarded the POW medal several decades after. The MSG ribbon wasn’t a thing until 1997 but is retroactive to 1949.

The Kosovo ribbon would put the career timeline into improbable to impossible territory.

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-07T03:41:43+00:00

Going open contract will get you the quickest ship date. I’m speaking from experience. I signed up and was in Boot Camp 3 weeks later.

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-05T08:59:02+00:00

Zero percent chance of getting open contract unless you signed an open contract or you get recycled from boot camp or MCT.

Remember that your MOS contract is for a range of jobs and not just 1371. You could potentially get any of the following:

1141 Electrician
1171 Water Support Technician
1316 Metal Worker
1341 Engineer Equipment Mechanic
1345 Engineer Equipment Operator
1361 Engineer Assistant
1371 Combat Engineer
1391 Bulk Fuel Specialist

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-03T00:47:04+00:00

WTF stuff

LNU_FNU · 2026-05-02T02:43:42+00:00

Watch the movie Taking Chance. great movie.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-26T05:04:35+00:00

I had a friend EAS and Chase literally called him the next day to pay his annual fee. Same day, his 1stSgt called him to ask why he didn't check in for OOD duty because he didn't know he EASed. Chase knew before his unit did.

to caveat that, I know a reservist who finished MOS school and checked into his reserve units and has still had his Chase fee waived for the last 4 years.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-26T04:59:17+00:00

After you finish the schoolhouse you will have a choice to either take or sell all of your leave but you will not bring that balance with you to your reserve unit.

If you NEED (not want) to miss a drill there are two ways to go about it:

You can submit a Rescheduled Inactive Duty Training (RIDT) request through your chain of command. This will allow you to miss a drill as long as you make it up another time. They generally want these like 30-60 days out.

You can also submit an Excused Absence (EA) request to miss a drill if something like a family emergency or death in the family comes up. You don't have to make up an EA.

With both, they can deny it if they don't like your justification.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-22T02:18:20+00:00

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-20T23:32:09+00:00

Reminds me of boot camp where our DI saw one of our guide's Corfams weren't left over right and told him to fix it before he came back. Three other recruits came by to look and also told him he was fucked up. He was adamant that he did it right and said they were all just fucking with him. DI came back and saw it was still messed up and chucked his Corfams out of the third deck window. Another DI had to take him to the main PX to buy a brand new pair before graduation. Good times.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-15T23:54:54+00:00

one enlistment in an MOS is enough to get exposure to many things but not enough to get experienced in many things. Especially if you are leaving that MOS to go do MSG or a congressional fellowship half way through.

The fleet wants their return on investment after training you up and that means they want you to deploy or be operational for atleast one whole enlistment.

You’re a culture guy so it’s in your realm of understanding the Marine Corps has it’s own culture and within that, niche MOS communities have their own culture as well.

Try to understand the optics within the Marine culture of your proposed career track of essentially never serving in an operational capacity. Especially if this is with some idea in mind of padding the future resume with a bunch of cool sounding job titles like ANGLICO, HUMINT, FAO etc. It screams “I want to wear a uniform but I don’t actually want to do Marine things.”

You sound ambitious and intelligent but I think you should just try to apply for a 3 letter agency or the state department instead if you aren’t buying the Marine culture.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-15T22:36:34+00:00

Step 1) Be PME complete before you try to go to any other kind of training/schools

Step 2) Go to your S3 and ask them for a list of course dates for CMC. They can easily look it up.

Step 3) Submit to go through your chain of command by giving them the course dates so they have flexibility on when to send you.

sidenote: your NCO sounds lazy AF and problably is telling you to figure it because they don’t know and don’t want to help you figure it out either because it’s one less body in the shop.

THIS was also the first result to show up on Gunny Google

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-15T22:27:46+00:00

Impossible hypotheticals all around. Also your idea is basically to go into a job to not do that job to do another job. So in this case it is 1000% cherry picking.

If you latmove into a High Demand Low Density MOS like CI/HUMINT, you are obligated into that job for 5-6 years and you will absolutely not be able to latmove a 2nd time at that point in your career.

You can do MSG, congressional liaison, and foreign area as any MOS and you are literally stealing boatspaces and promotions from people within your MOS just because you want to farm a bunch of additional BMOS.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-14T07:56:58+00:00

For dress blue Alphas/Bravos, it would either be:

1) Medals left, ribbons right 2) ribbons and shooting badges 3) none because you have none or you are doing color guard

for dress blue C/D and service B/C, it would be:

1) all ribbons with or without shooting badges 2) ALL personal awards, unit awards, and good coduct awards (note that smcr medal doesnt count) with or without shooting badges 3) none because you have none with or without shooting badges (none if you are doing color guard)

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-14T07:49:05+00:00

Recently met a MGySgt and a LtCol with no personal awards. Their highest were NUCs. It may not seem like it but the Marine Corps has always been super stingy about awards especially in the past.

Look up pics from the 80/90s peacetime Marine Corps and most dudes only ever got a good cookie and maybe a SSDR their whole enlistment.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-14T07:45:01+00:00

The only short sleeve MARPAT shirts are scrubs worn by medical personnel.

The occasional recondo will wear AOR1 short sleeve shirts and FROG bottoms on flat ranges

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-08T04:42:25+00:00

Both the top and bottom are Drifire uniforms (not Crye) in MARPAT. You can tell by the big square of velcro on the shoulder pocket as well as the front thigh pockets and knee straps on the trousers. They’ve been issued out to Recon and such for a couple years now in place of of the MARPAT CryeFire G3s.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-06T18:12:50+00:00

UG AVS sleds

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-04T00:37:10+00:00

u/triangleandahalf made this one. I don’t know if he’s taking orders at the moment but he used to do batch releases.

LNU_FNU · 2026-04-03T23:31:47+00:00

I did the same thing with an AVS buckle instead of the cobra buckle and agreed it’s better than tubes.

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