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L50B NEC

Afternoon brothers and sisters was just curious on the pipeline for the L50B NEC and what order opportunities come with it. I am currently up for orders and was told I would have to pick a NMRTC where they would then send me to a civilian Paramedic program to pick up the NEC and that being the only path but looking through CANTRACS I saw a Combat Paramedic schoolhouse in FT Sam and San Diego. Not sure if it’s the same thing or something different looking for clarification between the 2 if anyone knows.

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u/Existing-Quality-645 — 5 hours ago

HMTT Questions

hello! does anyone know how long it takes to hear back from the HMTT coordinators to see if you got accepted to go? is it super competitive to get into? I applied for the class that starts July 12th :) Honestly any info is great!! TYA

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u/Typical_Law_9241 — 19 hours ago
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I think I may have ruined my life.

I really need some advice. I am 34 years old, almost 35 years old. I enlisted today in the Navy because I was told it would be years before I was able to get a direct commission with a college degree. I am going back to school for a BSN and eventually a DNAP.

I initially wanted reserves and had zero interest in active duty. I got talked into TAR, then when I got to MEPS I got denied a TAR contract because they said that they were too unmanned to write those.

Ive been in a desperate situation since March when I fled my husband and domestic violence and despite having a civilian job as an operations manager, I am only making $22 bucks an hour. I have been sleeping in my car since mid-March and I am desperate as its getting hot. I didnt tell them this, but I figured I could use active duty to stabilize my life. I reluctantly got talked into Corpsman.

I have 13 years of nursing experience, but not a BSN. I left MEPS and instantly wanted to bawl when I saw essentially the job description is a CNA/EMT. Those are admirable professions, but in the opposite direction I am wanting to move. I have been reassured if I finish my BSN Program that I can apply for a nurse billet, but all the programs I've called do not have the flexibility to work with weekend clinicals only. This is the entire reason I joined was for:

  1. Stability

  2. To pay for school​​​​​

I am now wondering if I should back out of DEP and go to the Tennessee National Guard because I could get done with school faster, and just live like shit in a camper while I do. I would love advice on how to strategically get to my goal, if at all, with my current choice since I already joined, or if I should go ahead and back out.

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u/HotWingsMercedes91 — 3 days ago

Med bag recommendations

I’m gonna be going to 2nd MARDIV and I was told the med bags issued where kinda shitty and was recommended the Tasmanian tiger and or the eberlestock bag. Any input is greatly appreciated

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u/Equivalent-Floor-251 — 3 days ago

NSWTG

Anyone have any knowledge about NSW training group? Hopefully going there for next duty station and can’t seem to find much online.

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u/QuiteNotYet — 3 days ago

Making art for all the SOIDCs

So I'm making this (first image) homage piece to the SOIDC community and once it's finalized I'd like to make these into coins for them. Designing this on my phone so I'm trying to do what I can to boost the quality (i don't have a laptop lol)

This is largely inspired by the old SARC emblem (second image) and i feel like the SARC one is really iconic. However, I feel like it mainly only represented SARCs and that era of SOIDCs so I thought i'd try to come up with a design inspired by it and make sure it encompasses SOIDCs broadly as a whole instead of just the Recon IDCs.

• Anchor for NSW
• MARSOC Spade integrated into the Anchor
• Navy/USMC Parachutist Badge for Recon
• Caduceus for the HM rate (to really centralize the Corpsman identity with the emblem)
• Southern Cross from various different USMC imagery

I got input and opinions from two active duty SOIDCs and they were both very honest and helpful.

I showed the first (anonymous) SOIDC the first draft and he said he thought it looked really clean but it was off. Instead of the SARC motto at the bottom like I have now, I put "MARSOC • USMC Reconnaissance • NSW" and he said he thought it'd feel more authentic with the SARC motto instead. He also disapproved of the anchor but, as stated above, it does serve a purpose so I chose to sit on the decision to remove it entirely until i could come up with something else that represented NSW. He was very helpful and gave lots of other input but for the sake of shortening a long message, I won't put it here.

I took his criticism into account and added the motto to the bottom in place of naming the 3 orgs and I also added the Southern Cross constellation in the background (the yellow stars) to further push MARSOC representation in case the Spade wasn't visible enough.

The second (anonymous) SOIDC was busy so he said he'd put more thought into talking to me about it when he had the time but he left me with "Initial thought is it needs Marine Combatant Dive represented somewhere" which was ironically still insanely helpful. This was also another point that the first SOIDC i spoke with mentioned and it led me to the decision to replace the Parachutist Badge with Recon Jack.

For those of you who don't know, Recon Jack (third image) is somewhat of a mascot for the Marine Reconnaissance community. The left half of Recon Jack is the same exact parachutist badge, the right half is a skull in the centered and a diver/swimmer behind the skull. The same diver from the Recon Jack insignia is the same one on the Force Recon and SARC emblems, so it just seems like the perfect decision to add a bit of heritage to the logo while also adding representation to the Diver side of SOIDCs without sacrificing the Jumper side.

Sharing this with you all to share my process and progress. I'll come back with the finished product with the revisions here and there after I speak further with some more SOF Corpsmen to incorporate more of their vision into this homage piece.

u/BusEnvironmental1159 — 5 days ago

EMU?

Hello everyone I’m graduating from Corps School in June and I got assigned to an EMU in Camp Lejune. Any advice or information about what that entails would be great. Also how hard would it be to try and see if I can put in a package for FMTB while I’m there?

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u/Ok-Understanding5446 — 7 days ago