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Can you just keep getting paternity leave because you keep getting these women pregnant? This is an important question

so basically me and the boys were at armadillos in Annapolis celebrating passing our swim quals (barely, marine option baby OORAH) and long story short i ended up on a dock and there was this HUGE metal tube named like SSN 774 block v or whatever with a big lump in the middle called a virginia payload module i think?? anyway the door was open so i went inside to look for a head and now we are NOT AT THE DOCK ANYMORE.

i hit a giant red lever cause i thought it was the flush valve for the toilet and now the whole thing is making this WHOOSH sound and making funny beep boop noises and all the water outside the little window is getting really really dark guys. like pitch black. i tried to turn it around but there is no steering wheel just 5000 buttons and a laptop screen that says DEPTH: 800 FT and going DOWN FAST.

i found a mic and shouted OOHRAH MARINE CORPS into it but some guy over a speaker started screaming about "UNAUTHORIZED DIVE" and "CRITICAL PRESSURE LIMITS" and i panicked and spilled my natty light all over a panel with a bunch of switches labeled BALAST or something. now every light in here is flashing RED and the ship is tilted like 45 degrees down. my feet are sliding across the floor and i am currently trapped under a swivel chair in what looks like the submarine command room.

HOW DO YOU PUT THIS THING IN REVERSE???? IS THERE A HANDBRAKE??? the metal walls are literally CREAKING like an old floorboard. my phone barely has one bar of wifi left from the shore station please hurry my name is Buck Hardman MIDN 3/C if I die tell Major Miller I actually did 15 pullups not 12 on the last PFT.

EDIT: ok i pushed another button with a missile icon on it to try and anchor us to the sea floor and now a huge hatch on the payload module opened and water is sloshing everywhere downstairs. PLEASE RESPOND QUICK

Moved here almost two years ago. No friends save for my girlfriend I tried to go to a Marine Corps League meeting but nobody was there. Womp womp

I entered MCRD San Diego in January 1995. I believe during phase 1, I was instructed to go to a conference room for some test. I got there and there were already a few recruits (4-5 total) sitting in random seats. It was very surreal and these recruits were all in sister platoons I think.

I remember there being 3 different sections of the test:

The one was Morse code where you were given a set number of letters to memorize for 5 minutes, I think it was around 4 letters, but it's all fuzzy at this point. After the 5 minute timer went off, we were instructed to put headphones on and to decode the incoming Morse code message. It started so fast and I was trying not to panic because I couldn't keep up with that deluge of information.

The second test was a foreign language test where we were told a few words of the language of the dialogue that we were about to listen to. Memorize for 5 minutes and then listen to a very lengthy phone call where a woman was reading a man the riot act in what sounded like a cranky Russian woman. Didn't have a clue what she said, but I believe the male on the other side of that call was absolutely thankful it was by phone. She sounded not nice at all.

I'm trying to remember test 3. I remember doing three parts, but what it was is lost to my ADHD terrible memory.

Don't know why I'm reminiscing about something trivial, but I recently asked another Marine vet and he had absolutely no idea what TF I was referring to.

Also, 15 years later when I was applying for a job at dod, I was denied a security clearance for failure to disclose a prior failure. I never had a security clearance before so I was floored when he asked me about it. Apparently I failed a security clearance screening in April 1995. 1 month after boot camp. I certainly didn't apply for that on my own accord. Right?

Does anyone else have this experience? If so, can you let me know what the hell it was for.

Every guide in my company essentially peaked at bootcamp. I remember we got to MCT, and all the guides looked miserable as they stood in the same line as everyone else. No one gave a fuck. None of these guys became motivating hard chargers in the fleet. They essentially peaked at bootcamp.

Meanwhile dudes getting promoted quickly and winning boards were just the average recruit in bootcamp.