I have a question about the marine corps!!?

Question

I hear you get to select job preference In bootcamp and not during MEPS. is that true? and I also heard the marines don't guarantee you a job in what you want. so for instance if you select admin they might make you be a grunt? any truth to that?

Answer 1

If you are more worried about not being a GRUNT than anything ells the Corps is not for you. But I will tell you right now, I've had way too much fun being a GRUNT, so it's not a bad thing at all. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Neither of those are true. You can select you job with your recruiter, most of the time this happens once you return from MEPS, since you have to be found physically, morally, and mentally qualified. Once you DEP in, you will sit down with your recruiter and choose a program that you want based on your qualifications (ASVAB score, color blind or not) then you will fill out a contract guarantee. This program will have a few jobs under it you do not pick the specific job but the program you want, but there is no way that if you pick admin you will be a grunt.

Answer 3

The first thing to do is realize that the Corps' modus operandi is "Every man a rifleman". You will be expected to complete the same basic training as every other Marine before you. If you select your job within the Corps before you are sworn in, you will be sent to school to learn how to do that job AFTER your life-changing experience on "The Island". The only reason to deny you that choice is if you flunk out of that school or if you screw up so badly that the Corps decides it's better off without you and gives you a General or a Dishonorable Discharge.

Answer 4

Well, the former Marines who've posted are correct. My son joined via DEP, and chose an aviation electronics Career Field. Within that career field are probably something like 150 specific MOS designations... but everybody with that same Career Field started out at the same A-school. So, they start you out in A-school, and as they reach their maximum potential, training-wise, they get assigned to their permanent MOS. Guys who barely made it through A-school ended up changing lightbulbs.... guys who made it further in the training entered C-schools that met their aptitudes and skills and the needs of the Corps.

Make sense? It's just like any other employer... you start folks out at entry level jobs, then promote and reassign as you gain a sense for what their skills are.

While every Marine IS a rifleman, if you go in to a non-infantry MOS, you will not go to the lengthy Infantry School training, so unless you buy in to being re-assigned to the infantry, that's not likely. Also, once they've invested a lot in your schooling, they're much less likely to re-assign you to an MOS that doesn't return their investment.

Answer 5

There are no guarantees of anything when you join the Military - especially the Marine Corp. The military is a fighting force. You will work at the job they tell you to do - go where they want you to go when they want you to do it.

The Marine Corp is a highly trained sea and land based fighting machine - that is what they do. You will become a fighting machine too.

You are not going to college, you are going into the fiercest fighting force in the world.

Answer 6

The military, and I mean any branch, will put you where they want you. Just because you are a cook, that doesn't mean that they cany cut a set of orders changing your MOS to infantryman.There is an old saying regarding jobs in the military, you can ask for and get the training you desire, but don't count on working at that job for too long.

Answer 7

It is of little importance, since all Marines are first riflemen with a speciality. Believe me, if you join the Corps you will learn how to grunt.Semper Fi!

Answer 8

WELL IT DEPENDS ON YOUR AFQT TEST.