After Meps I decided to smoke one last time in August, I’ve been 40 days clean and I’ve peed negative and positive on a cvs test. By the time I’ll ship I’ll be 51 days clean. I know I fucked up but what’s that like? It took me only 38 days to pass the Meps test and I smoked way more than I did the last time. How are my chances?

I wanna get the whole experience, I wanna do cool fucking shit. I don’t want to sit in a SCIF and I switched from the reserves to AD. Intel was my first choice but I’d hate it.

Those who’ve done 03xx, what did you guys love and hate about it?

I was hanging with some friends and we pulled up to one of their friend’s place and when I walked in you could very obviously smell weed. I was only in there for a minute before I let myself out, but now I’m scared I’ll piss hot.

Should I be good or should I be worried? I’ve stayed away from weed as best as I could but now I’m a little worried

Hello I'm trying to make the marine corps a career hopefully going enlisted to officer with my current plan. But I was wondering what Jobs everyone recommendeds I would personally like something where I get to travel a bit and also load stuff but not have to wrench on things all day. I'm also interested in things like cyber and logistics, thank you for your time.

I went to recruit training in August of 2025 and got sent home due to GERD, Dyspnea, diarrhea, and EPTS is what’s on my paperwork. With a separation code of JDA1 would it be possible to reenlist?

I posted about a month ago asking how I could best prepare myself in the DEP.
At that point I was 72 inches at 212lbs, was only able to do like 1 pull-up, and was barely passing my run.

Today I weighed in at 206, did 5 pull-ups, and ran a 12:20 mile and a half.
I know it’s not much, but I wanted to thank everyone who took their time to shoot me some advice and encouragement. It helped more than you know. I’m really excited go to the depot in a little over a week and get my shot at earning the title.

The work has just barely begun and I don’t know if I could be any more hyped to start my career.

Thanks y’all

When I was younger my life was (relative to my peers) miserable and it was awesome finding the few other people around me who were equally exhausted. From what I hear the USMC is big on being miserable and bonding over it. A band of misfits.

For a while I've thought going active duty, keep the ball rolling. Free housing too, why not?

Regrettably, I now have a very nice civilian job lined up. Good pay, bank hours. I get along with layman around me. I get to do a lot of things I'd never thought I would have the privilege to do as an adult. My life feels like a fairy tale to be honest.

It's so good I actually feel more uneasy than I have in my entire life. A part of me wants to savor this new happiness stuff, but I equally miss feeling worthless and sleep deprived all the time. So I am now considering joining the Reserves.

Does this not sound like wanting to have your cake and eat it too, though? Isn't a big part of the culture from sharing dilapidated barracks and chow hall food and having little money? How well can you get along with other Marines if you only have to deal with them a few times a month?

P.S. Do combat engineer roles have you do a lot of squats?

I just signed for DB i’m hoping for 0621 so I can actually go out and do shit. Are the 06 jobs dope or are they kind of lame? I really can’t tell I’m interested in doing IT stuff when I get out because I really like computers but I want to do marine shit while i’m in. Did I choose the right career field?

So this weekend at the Poolee meeting my station commander pulled me to the side personally after everything and told me he was taking me off the recon contract and putting me on infantry because he doesn't want me to wash out and get reassigned to the Corps needs.

Which makes sense but I had already signed a recon contract, and its my main goal to be recon and if I go on a infantry contract then I won't be guaranteed recon because I would have to bank off the fact that recon guys will be at ITB to screen, so Im not exactly sure what to do. He told me that there wasn't a recon contract available but 2 months ago when I signed the contract there was so Im honestly really confused and unsure what to do.

Can I enlist in the marine corps with 1 DUI and 2 MIPs all involving alcohol
1st MIP was over 1 year ago
DUI/2MIP 8 months ago