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Topic: Things to be afraid of.
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Subject: Things to be afraid of.
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 12:38pm
Rooms with three Colonels and three Majors in them.

I headed downtown to take my PFT this morning, and when I walk into the office there are a dozen or so Marines, including the above.  I just about crapped my pants.

One of the Colonels rowed against my coach in college, so he grilled me for a couple minutes about it.  It was an all new level of awkward.

Anyway, beautiful day out, PFT went OK, and I made it through a room of people who have more years in the Corps than I have alive, so I think it's a good day.


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BU Engineering 2012



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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 1:04pm
what was your PFT score? Start getting nervous when it is a Sgt Major grilling you...


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Innocence proves nothing
FUAC!!!!!




Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 1:36pm
Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:


Rooms with three Colonels and three Majors in them.


Back when I was in boot (lol 13 weeks) I was in sick call for my knee injury, just waiting to see the doc. I look down the hall and here comes Brig. General Salinas, followed by what seemed like an endless group of every brass in existence, Lts, Captains, Majors, Lt Colonels and Colonels. One Colonel walked up to me and asked how I was doing. I was scared ****less of doing something wrong in front of all the officers.

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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 2:21pm
Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

what was your PFT score? Start getting nervous when it is a Sgt Major grilling you...


221, which is alright since I don't ship till July 8th.  We had an insane amount of wind, I'd bet that added around 1:30 to our time (apparently it's a good idea to run along the bay, where it's the windiest...hrmmm).  Gonna do another one before the board looks at my application.

Yeah, it wasn't that stressful, more like just stressful enough.  The Colonel was pretty nice, honestly, it was just that it was in front of a group of senior officers and recruiters.


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BU Engineering 2012


Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 2:31pm
Here is a rule, an un-written rule of the Corps.  If it has gold on it's collar, it's an asshat.  221 is not bad at all for your first of many PFT's.

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Innocence proves nothing
FUAC!!!!!




Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 3:17pm
That goes away real fast...
 
Once you realize how trivial and how much they don't really affect you, you won't care much about them at all.  All colonels and majors do is show up and let people who suck up to them suck up to them.


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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."



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