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Edited by Big Poke:
1/5/2015 2:45:06 PM
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1) Your ultimate job is NOT to die for your country. It is to make someone else die for theirs. HOWEVER, by joining you accept the possibility you may make the ultimate sacrifice
2) Not every job requires you to come in contact with an IED. There are administrative jobs or in my case (6257) an F-18 mechanic. If a single jet costs 40 million tax dollars, they are going to put it as far away from combat as possible when not used. Since I only fixed them when broken, and did not use them for what they are for, I was not in a combat situation
3) Correct, but again, not every job has a combat roll
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Your 1) We can lightheartedly agree to split hairs on that one Your 2) Assuming that you transit directly into your assigned duty station by aircraft (and aren't convoyed in after landing somewhere else), then don't leave that base going anywhere by any other method than by direct, point-to-point air transport (of one form or another) then yes, you can avoid IEDs. Any over-the-road transit however, by foot or vehicle could possibly lead to an encounter with an IED. Your 3) I'm 54; unless things have changed, every Marine's PRIMARY job is that of rifleman. Yes, that usually applies specifically to the base being completely overrun by hostile forces, but even that is possible; why every Marine (including admin personnel and mechanics) is trained to use their weapon. By the way, thank you for your service.
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Edited by Big Poke: 1/5/2015 4:01:17 PMLot of hypotheticals in there. Not to get into a pissing match on a video game forum, but: I could get hit by a car today picking up my garbage cans in front of my house Yes every marine a rifleman first but I will say this. After landing in Kuwait and getting to al-jabar air base the absolute FIRST stop was the armory to turn in our rifles. A week later we turned in our bayonets. Sure there was da nang during Vietnam but todays military, and enemy for that matter is very different. I say let the kid do what he wants. He will gain a life skill and be a better person for it.
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No attempt to start a pissing contest; if it seemed that way, my apologies. As a former member of the armed forces myself, I completely agree with everything you said. But you hope for the best and plan for the worst; looking at the worst possible case scenarios gives him an opportunity to make a better informed / thought out decision.
