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[at-l] OT- Fun Site



Really? I wasn't aware of that. OTOH I only explored joining the Army, Air 
Force and the Navy. I did not approach the Marines so that could explain my 
lack of awareness there. The AF and Navy would only guarantee that they 
would take up 4 years of my life. I'm glad it worked out for you. In 
reality I'd have probably been better off economically (post military) had 
I taken the training they wanted me to for the Army Security Agency.

At 11:54 AM 1/12/2005 -0500, David Hicks wrote:
>Not totally true, in my experience.
>
>I joined the USMC with a "guarantee" of an MOS plus admission to a very good
>school, the navy aviation school at Memphis, not just OJT.
>
>After nearly a year of schooling, w/ very high marks, they explained that
>there "guarantee" was fulfilled -- I had that MOS and had attended the school
>of my choice.  Then they sent me to another set of schools and deployed me
>where they had decided they wanted me, doing what they decided the wanted me
>to do.  I was never assigned to a regular squadron.
>
>Not that I have any great complaint.  The whole experience (both set of
>schools) lead to a civilian career, for which I was well suited and which I
>would have never sought on my own.
>
>Chainsaw
>
>BTW -- I am also part of the lucky generation.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
>To: <pmags@yahoo.com>; "AT MailingList" <at-l@backcountry.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] OT- Fun Site
>
>
> >>
>I'm sure but at that time if you enlisted they would
>*guarantee* either an MOS (military occupational specialty) or the place
>you would serve. Not wanting to end up in the infantry I enlisted to be a
>photographer. They wanted to send me to OCS but as some folks are learning
>now, when you accept a commission they own your soul (slight exaggeration)
>and OCS 2nd Lieutenants were all headed for "Nam, so I said "NO". The
>promises were, as it turned out, a bit of a farce.
><<
> >> Only the Army was making such
>*guarantees* BTW. The other branches were getting adequate recruits at that
>time without such incentives although a small number of draftees were being
>sent to the Marines and Navy. <<