• If you wish to attened the USMC you have to have either a G.E.D or a high school diploma.
• When you first come into the Marines you will first be sent to boot camp. What boot camp does is, it gets you ready for combat and you will condition. You will also learn how to shoot a variety of different guns and you will train to be the best of the best
• You will be pushed to your limits,you will learn many different kinds of martial arts. you will be trained and formed into a killing machine.You will defend your country with whatever it takes.
• The US Military uses a standard pay table that increases with rank and years served. It can be found on all military recruitment sites. As of 2007, a new officer will receive about $30,000 the first year. Also, military personnel receive benefits not shown in their pay. Things such as housing, food, insurance, and bonuses are paid in full or partial and must be calculated into the monetary income for a full idea of how much someone makes. A rough generalization is a $20,000-$30,000 value added due to the services
• Some good benefits such as Combined salary benefits also make Military Service an attractive place to make a living – and build a career. When you are finished with your service time you can go to college and go for almost free and when you are done with college, you can work almost anywhere you want because you served time in the army, and you got a good degree almost free.
• HERE IS A QUOTE FROM AN EX-MARINE

"The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine".

Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Marine in "This Kind of War"

Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach
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