Fleet Marine Life #100 – EAS Shitbag
When I told my command that I wanted to get out and as fast as possible through
VEERP and Terminal Leave, they got all bent out of shape. I could have gotten out 4 months early but my command wasn’t having none of that shit. They gave me duties and nearly endless shit to do. Most of the time, I wouldn’t be allowed to check out because there was always “shit that needed to be done.”
When the latest VEERP order came out, almost all of the NCOs in my company applied for VEERP. It was nuts. My gunny viewed us all as shitbags. Are we really shitbags? The guys who pretty much did all the work so that this lazy piece of shit gunny can put himself up for a NAM for the work that we all did?
I don’t know why our chain of command takes great lengths to prevent us from EASing. Short timers can’t deploy for there is too little time on their contract. So they’re instead left to rot in buildings doing nothing while their command plays stupid fuck-fuck games with them.
Higher ups tried to scare us into re-enlisting by telling us shit like “you’ll never find a job”, “you won’t amount to anything,” and “your mother is going to be on the street selling herself unless you re-enlist for money.” These higher ups are just bitter that they can’t do anything better. Re-enlisting is their best option. For THEY are scared of the civilian world and THEY would rather re-enlist than face the real world.
Great things don’t happen in the Corps. The Marine Corps is where intelligence and creativity go to die. You’re not going to get rich in the Corps. You’re not going to be famous in the Corps. You’re certainly not going to live a happy life in the Corps. Isn’t that what life is all about? The pursuit of happiness?
If you’re thinking of re-enlisting, just don’t do it. The grass on the civilian side of the fence is truly greener. I am only starting to regain my hope in humanity, my brains and my individuality.
It’s amazing that I’ve created 100 comics and blog entries so far. I give thanks to those who have continued to view my work. I thought I was alone in hating what the Corps has become but since the creation of this project, I know I am not.
Getting assigned the Duty MOS since 1779.
When my wife was getting out (medical retirement mind you) they still had this fucking attitude. A chaplain said, ‘oh man, you’re getting out? You’re going to get fat.” She had to explain to this piece of shit that that was a stereotype, and that obviously she wouldn’t get fat given that she’d maintained her weight for a year while not being allowed to exercise as her paperwork hung in limbo.
I have to say, no one gave me a hard time at all as I got out. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it was the always-misguided notion that high PFT scores = success. Seriously, they probably said, ‘this guy has a 290 PFT. He’ll be successful.’
In all honesty, my last command was a good one. None of my plans really worked out at all when I got out, but even after several years of being out, I remember thinking, ‘I’m so glad I’m not in the Marine Corps.’ And then had a similar experience after leaving an accounting firm I worked for in 2012.
As I was approaching my EAS as a Sergeant with almost 8 years in, my last CO asked me one day what I was going to do when I got out of the Corps and I said “Teach history” (Mind you that I had just completed a BA degree at night just to have that option). Is his arrogant voice he said “Why not stay in and MAKE history?” I was a fucking Accounting Tech (not my choice, BTW, a recruiter fuck-over)!! What kind of history was I making? The history of passing time until the next formation??
I knew a gunny with a wack ass flat top he’s know a master sgt and a tool none the less
here i sit, in okitraz, rotting away obtaining no trade, skill or experience. all i want is to move back home to my fine ass wife and go to college so i can get a freaking job. and to think that, before i joined, i was gonna learn a skill..bahahaha what a joke. does anyone know if the good lord will bless the year 2013 with the early out??
i like how the gunny was still trying to suck dick even in retirement lmfao.
another masterpiece
Masterpiece? Haha, I think that’s a bit much. Thanks though.
Your site helps get me through the day. Keep up the good work for another 100 K!
Don’t kill yourself, bro.
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The only motivation I got from the corps is the motivation to do well in college and be an excellent chemist so I can stay the hell out of that disorganization. I may end up working for the DOD as a civilian and won’t be subject to the UCMJ.
Congrats on number 100!