Actually, the Marines require the highest ASVAB score of all the branches....regardless of the amount of ink on one's body. Also, I did five years of active duty, including Persian Gulf War Version 1.0, and came out with no ink. And that was even after time in Olongapo City, PI.

True. And if anyone is interested in anything besides making obvious jokes, at every Army school that Marines attend, the Marine students are required to make 80% to pass. Marines getting even .1% below that are automatically recycled. Army soldiers only need a 70% and those missing by a few points are routinely allowed to graduate despite missing the mark. And somehow, Marines are still the dumb ones.

And that tattoo is correct. That is how it is spelled.

These guys who advocate for tattoos might as well get a tattoo of a barcode stamped on them...

Because being a jarhead makes you that expendable.

Freakman: And that tattoo is correct. That is how it is spelled.

LMFAO! Please, I want to see your tattoos!

Paddy: Not bad. Only two typos. I hope it's not yours.

Then again, you wouldn't be where you are if you were able to read, so don't bother.

No, it's not mine.

As far as my ability to read goes, it really improved by the time I finished law school.

Go fark yourself.

Nothing says cooldaddy like a fratboy with the barbed wire around the bicep.

2007-03-29 01:11:28 AM Cliche Kitty


My 18 year old got a really high ASVAB score. He's talking Marines. I'm hoping he'll go AF - more traditional in our family.

My son went this route (in spite of being a Marine brat-father and stepfather both retired Marines). Tell him to take the DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery). The recruiters will set him up for it. If he's wicked smart he'll ace it, and linguists are getting a sweet deal right now in the Air Force. If he completes his technical school (a little over a year long at the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California) he'll get a 12K bonus, and a 30K bonus on re-enlisting. Also plenty of guaranteed promotion, etc. The Air Force is doing 100% tuition reimbursement right now as well for any college classes he takes on his own. The technical school alone will give him a 2 year degree (accredited-so the credits transfer).

Because he's also a math weenie, he went in as a linguistics/cryptology analyst.

The reason for tattooing your limbs is so they can identify them when they're seperated from your body.

Nothing I've ever seen beats lesbian tattoo sleeves. They can only charge you once for it.

Immaculate_Misconception: Go fark yourself.

Oh, you little rascal!

I want need tattoos. My teeth imprints will be enough to identitify my decomposed body should the right people be looking.

Some of these "pychopath Marines" remarks are disturbing and not at all a surprise to me.
I went in the Marines without any ink, came out the same way. It didn't take me "ten years to get over being a Marine", whatever that means and I scored in the high 90's on the ASVAB. They tried to get me into signal com or LAV's out of boot camp.

And by far most of the super gung ho, inked up, looked-like-a-nutcase Marines I saw were in support MOS's, the actual infantry types I was around looked like regular fit dudes with short hair. In fact, it was my experience that the Marines don't want overly muscular types, they want lean and agile types that can hike forever. I hated those hikes-broke my foot on one.

"The fact I can't put something on my body that I want - it's a big thing to tell me I can't do that."

Umm, someone should remind him that when he signed up with the armed forces, he waived all of his rights. The moment he joined, he ceased to be a free person who could do what he wants with his body.

Not being able to get a tatoo should be the least of his worries. Suppose -- just suppose -- we he was assigned to kill or be killed for a cause he didn't believe in? Not that that would ever happen, of course: That would require thinking for one's self, which is an act of treason.

All his body are belong to U.S.

Tattoos = bad

Killing in the name of freedom/g-d/capitalism = good??

I searched for a practice test for this military aptitude test:

1. General Science (GS) - includes 25 items that are to be completed in 11 min that measure general knowledge of biological and physical sciences.

Example:

Water is an example of a

A. crystal.
B. solid.
C. gas.
D. liquid.
2. Arithmetic Reasoning (AR) - includes 30 items that are to be completed in 36 min and the items are simple word problems with simple calculations.

Example:

If 12 men are needed to run four machines, how many men are needed to run 20 machines?

A. 20.
B. 48.
C. 60.
D. 80.
3. Word Knowledge (WK) - includes 35 items that are to be completed in 11 min where the applicant must select the correct meaning, or synonym of a given word.

Example:

Small most nearly means

A. sturdy.
B. round.
C. cheap.
D. little.



God, that thing is harder than the LSAT..

I can't help but hope Paddy mouths off to an active duty Marine one day and gets hit teeth shoved down his throat.

I have no problem with huge tattoos but there are a lot of regulations you must abide by when in the Corps. This is just another one. If it causes you that much of a problem to follow the regulations then don't join or don't re-up at the end of your enlistment.

Already in and planned on staying until retirement but this new reg. causes you to get out? Then you weren't very dedicated to your career choice or the Corps in the first place.

/got 1 while in and 2 more after getting out. None would be visible in PT gear.

but when you smoke the ASVAB and the NFQT, you get to play with reactors instead of diesels.

The Navy asked my to go into their nuclear program and the Army wanted me in their language program, but 1. I didn't want to wear the sailor suit, and 2. well, the army is the army. All service members are kin, so no disrespect intended. In-fighting for fun is all part of it. Those who serve and served know this.

Maybe the test score requirements have changed since I went in. I remember the Marines requiring a higher score.

D

Rhetorical question:

Q. What deparment of the Navy are the Marines in?

A. The Mens Department!

Ooooh Raaaah!

That little snotnose who "isn't sure" whether he'll re-enlist in the Corps because they won't let him get a sleeve tattoo almost certainly will not re-enlist...and then he'll go get that sleeve tattoo...and it'll be a big-ass "Semper Fi"...and he won't appreciate the irony so delicious you can poach it with pears.

"I have to agree it's all the hippies and pantywaisted ninnies who have infiltrated our militarys"

Oh dear. I'm a hippie. I have 4 tatoos and about to get another. I was widowed by Desert Storm. Putting people into cookie-cutter catagories is just wrong.
/and it's "militaries"

Personally I don't get the whole tattoo thing. I think they are ugly and in most cases where there are excessive ones, the people are screaming for attention. I especially think they are worse looking on women. They reek "trailer trash". The older you get the more stupid they look too. Basically I think they are for insecure people trying to look cool or something. To me, they've always resembled "low class" and my parents didn't give me enough attention.

cyberlayde

I feel the same thing about people who eat Ranch Dresing on stuff. Thats as white trash as you can get..

dditionally, it's "tattoos." My bad...typing that is.

Wow. A headline that insults me twice. Thanks!

/lots of big 'ugly-ass' tattoos
//love a live wrestling match

Amazingly, this tattoo is still acceptable.

Paddy just a question on German translation (I have lost most my ability from years of little use).

Teufelshunde = Devil's Dog?

Teufel Hunden = Devil Dog(s)

Isnt it a matter of the possessive? Not a flame just a question on the gramar of the implied translation.

This will not stand since it will get in the way of the new "what, only one felony?" liberalized ex-con program.

Big Red...
I went to DLI in 93. Completed both Basic and Intermediate Russian courses. Best time of my life. Didn't get a 12k bonus, but we weren't in Iraq-nam at the time. Worked the DirSup shop in Misawa, Japan....also known as the great white north.

/PSF forever!
/mnye nravitsya bolshie siski! khuy vsem v zhopu!

This has been going on for some time at the company level. One of my squad leaders got a nekkid lady tattooed on his forearm probably around 92 or 93. The company CO (or more likely 1stSgt) made him go back and get a bikini tattooed on her.

Semper Fi, Marine Farkers

/That guy was an idiot
//Wish I could remember his name

Jeager76: Paddy just a question on German translation

Well, it's like that:
Devil: Teufel
Dog: Hund
Devil's dog: Teufelshund
Devil's dogs: Teufelshunde

When you put together the words "Teufel" (devil) and "Hund" you need to include a so-called Fugen-s, a linking element, so no matter what you do with the word later on, you will start with Teufelshund.

Then you have the four different cases of the German language and the declension, which means the forming of the noun depending of case and number:

Nominative case: der Teufelshund; die Teufelshunde
Genitive or possessive case: des Teufelshundes; der Teufelshunde
Dative case: dem Teufelshund; den Teufelshunden
Accusative case: den Teufelshund; die Teufelshunde

BTW, the female devil's dog would be "die Teufelshündin" and all the articles and endings would a bit different:

Nominative case: die Teufelshündin; die Teufelshündinnen
Genitive or possessive case: der Teufelshündin; der Teufelshündinnen
Dative case: der Teufelshündin; den Teufelshündinnen
Accusative case: die Teufelshündin; die Teufelshündinnen

Hope I could help you with that.

I_Make_Jebus_Cry: I can't help but hope Paddy mouths off to an active duty Marine one day and gets hit teeth shoved down his throat.

Well, don't we all?

If there's a draft I could see ink getting really, really popular again.

Well, here's you key to avoid getting drafted (by the marines anyway)if the draft is ever brought back.

Eh, I lived in Germany for a few years, and I can't pretend to think I would have noticed that at first glance. Creating compound words isn't something I ever got very good at, so I find it hard to blame someone in WWI for making the same mistake. Besides, by now the misspelling has kind of taken on it's own meaning.

2007-03-29 03:42:23 PM Furinkazan


Big Red...
I went to DLI in 93. Completed both Basic and Intermediate Russian courses. Best time of my life. Didn't get a 12k bonus, but we weren't in Iraq-nam at the time. Worked the DirSup shop in Misawa, Japan....also known as the great white north.

/PSF forever!
/mnye nravitsya bolshie siski! khuy vsem v zhopu!

While stationed in England had the pleasure of traveling in the then-USSR. Go, Neva River Raiders! Learned enough to keep me out of trouble, mostly. 'Twas at the height of the "Clayton Lonetree" scandal, so they revoked my husband's visa right before the trip. I sure missed him lol.

We were lucky enough to be stationed in Okinawa vs. Misawa. Although the hubs had an unusual talent for being up at Camp Fuji (or in Norway) every freaking time a typhoon came through, leaving me home alone with the 4 kids. Bastid.

Didn't take much to find the correct spelling, even when using the misspelling in Google:

http://german.about.com/od/culture/a/germyth13.htm

Did German soldiers give the U.S. Marines the nickname "Teufelshunde"?

Do the Marines Have It Right?

No one can question the bravery and valor of the U.S. Marines. But is the legend about their "Devil Dogs" nickname based on fact? Every Leatherneck is indocrinated with the tale of how Marines came to be called "Devil Dogs." If you visit Marine recruiting sites on the Web you'll find this World War I legend also used as a tool to encourage young people to join the Marine Corps today. There's even an old recruiting poster (see photo) that was created by artist Charles B. Falls around 1918. Emblazoned with the words "Teufel Hunden, German Nickname for U.S. Marines - Devil Dog Recruiting Station," the poster is one of the earliest known references to the legend, said to have come about as the result of fierce fighting in 1918 by the Marines in France's Belleau Wood (Bois Belleau in French, "woods of beautful water").
But the poster commits the same error that almost all versions of the legend do: it gets the German wrong.

The first thing any good student of German should notice about the poster is that the German word for "Devil Dogs" is misspelled. In German the term would not be two words, but one. The plural of Hund is Hunde, not "Hunden." So the poster and any Marine references to the German nickname should read Teufelshunde-one word with a connecting s. Most of the references I have found on the Web have the German incorrect in one way or another. Even the Marine Corps' own Parris Island Museum has it wrong. Since the museum's founding in 1975, the sign on display there has read "Teuelhunden" rather than the correct "Teufelshunde."

Close up of mine. All they guys at my unit that are getting called up (47 of them) to go with a baton rouge unit are all getting inked up.