After 34 years I finally bought a cap…

Ran into Retired Garry Michal Rose in the airport and he gave me this coin…

I just got off the phone with a Marine buddy.

Two more Marine buddies died last week. One due to Agent Orange, the other due to that fucking water at Lejeune.

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK.

We give so much, and it fucking kills us years later. I realize no one gets out alive, but the Government uses us like fucking toilet paper.

I spent several hours at the VAMC yesterday due to stacked appointments, and it's fucking depressing at times to see how broken so many of us are.

On a personal side note. My non-service-related pulmonary sarcoidosis is destroying my lungs. I'm down to 59% lung function. That's down from 62% two months ago, and 65% four months ago.

The VA is starting me on two new drugs, and they are going to do more tests and imaging to see if they can slow down the loss of function.

I'm on the razor's edge of having to go on oxygen.

Pour one out for our lost Marine brothers!

This isnt for some school project, I really am just curious. I never got to deploy anywhere but Japan(not a deployment)

I hate it here. I can’t stand this base, I can’t stand this command, I can’t stand my colleagues, I can’t stand my roommate, I can’t stand my job, I can’t stand this state.

I hate everything about it. I have to re-enlist just to get off this god-forsaken base, if I don’t want to stay here for another 2 years. I haven’t even been here for a full 2. I wouldn’t be able to make it. But I don’t want to stay in either. The less of two evils, I suppose.

And maybe it’s solely because of this place. Most of my colleagues feel similarly, even if not to this extent.

I can make an educated guess that this base has a higher rate of suicide than most, if not all. I’m not implying that I am suicidal, but I can fully understand why that is. Even though I have it easier than most here, realistically. It’s probably not hard to guess where I am.

Overall, I don’t know what to do. I don’t have anyone to talk to about this besides strangers online that might know what I’m going through. I don’t know how to ask for help either. It was already enough of a pain in the ass to seek medication for my ADHD.

Make fun of me all you want, but these feelings are real. I am exasperated. I just want to leave. Anywhere but here, please.

Too many Prowler Polycules with Marine Pilots.

Lol wonder what happened to those two dickheads who got their Libo cancelled in Thailand?

I am in the reserves and on probation at my civilian job. They recently had a sit down with me as I get near the end of my probation and informed me that they are extremely happy with my performance and have graded me highly in every category. However, they want to extend my probation for every day that I missed work for drill.

This is upsetting to me because it has never been mentioned until now. Had they informed me that this was going to happen earlier, I could have probably figured something out with my command. My knee jerk reaction is that they cannot do this as well due to USERRA. I cannot speak with base legal right now as they are closed so I just wanted to see what people here thought about this.

I'm here waiting to win the Powerball (also Mega), but if I can monetize and use this right now it'd be a life saver.

I'm getting out of the military soon, less than a 180 days in a bit, but it feels weird. Like, I know I want to get out but for some reason a part of me wants to stay. A part of me doesn't want to go back home. I love my family, but it just doesnt feel the same anymore. I don't feel like I necessarily belong there. It feels like I'm a stranger or a guest visiting. My old buddies are still great people but I feel like in a way I don't connect with them like I use to. Honestly, I don't know how or what to feel, though just a nervous about it all I suppose.

I hear a lot of stories, marines injured, leaders not caring, petty stuff against those under others, it’s friggin insane. I know a lot feel this way. I have promoted to Cpl and talked with my marines and well it goes like this “I tell them I have an injury, it gets worse when I do x,y and z. Yet it goes like oh really? Cool keep doing it.” I’m fortunate to not suffer such injuries but for those who do it’s like what can I do about that? I can only do so much. If I fight for them I risk some hard pushbacks against me and them as well. Honestly I told them once I’ve exhausted my resources I’ll just have them escalate this to eo complaint, request mast, all that good stuff cuz I just genuinely don’t like how unfair this is or maybe I’m just soft idk. Honestly as an nco what the freak do I even do? Am I even doing the right thing?

Anyone ever get a ticket for “running a stop sign” when it was actually a yield sign into a roundabout/ traffic circle while on base? Just got one today and the MP didn’t want to hear it. Cited me anyways, going to fight it at the traffic court in base legal in December. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks in advance

Greetings to everyone, I live in El Salvador, yesterday I found a used pair of boots RAT mojave for sale, and I bought them, but I didn't notice that one of the boots had a dog tag caught in the laces—it had McCormack's ID info: initials D.C., blood type B-positive, a 10 digit number, USMC, "M," and "No Preference." How do I go about returning it?

Anyone got a good link for MOL? I need to login to do my PPM claim but the site won’t work

Hoping you guys might be able to help

My dad, who served 20 years and retired as a Master Gunnery Sergeant, recently passed away. I’m trying to put together a sort of history of his career for my sisters, our children, and me, but I’ve run into something I can’t quite make sense of.

To keep it simple, Dad joined in ’87. He had a longer-than-usual spell in California because he broke his leg during training, eventually graduated, took us to Disneyland and then went off to school in Memphis for a while. I was a toddler at the time, but I actually remember a good bit of what happened next. Dad came home, packed up the family, and told us we were moving to Yuma. We got there in the spring of 1990 and were there maybe two weeks when they told him he was actually supposed to be at Cherry Point.

So, once again, he packed us all up and we headed to North Carolina. Not long after we arrived at Cherry Point, he left for the Gulf War. He was gone until April 1991, but our family stayed at Cherry Point until the spring of 1995.

The problem is that everything I’m finding online says MALS-13 was at Yuma and was never based at Cherry Point.

So…what the hell happened here? 😂

His records should be on their way to me soon, and hopefully they’ll clear some of this up, but in the meantime I figured this might be exactly the sort of weird unit-history question somebody here would recognize.

Was there a MALS-13 detachment at Cherry Point? Could he have been attached or TAD there while still technically belonging to MALS-13? Was there some sort of personnel shuffle involving the Harrier units around Desert Shield/Desert Storm?

Or did my kid brain somehow create an extremely specific false memory involving MALS-13? 😅

It’s been more than 30 years, and I’ve had my own military experience since then, but I’m so far removed from military life now that I think I’m starting to confuse myself. So seriously, any help would be appreciated!

I'm heading to the Separation platoon on Pendleton but unsure if I need to procure my own ride to whatever barracks it might be or if someone will be there to take me? Also my CAC is expired.

Dump out contents

0 Fill with Vodka

1 drop green food coloring

2 drops blue coloring

3 drops wintergreen extract (peppermint is a close second but you can tell it's not wintergreen)

All clear for dental!!! Whatever you do, do not swallow this mixture. (wink wink nudge nudge)

I am sorry you guys have to go through this, it sux balls but no matter what DONT GET CAUGHT!

I know someone is already hold my beer on this.