I want to become an officer in the Marine Corps, but I also want to be a "hands on" leader, and be able to go where my marines go. Is becoming an officer a bad choice? I've heard that lieutenants are most often platoon leaders...does that mean i'll be with my marines in the field? What about Captains?
2007-09-08 12:31:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
As a Lt in a combat arms field you will most likely have a plt for a short while. You will not be as close to your men as the plt sgt or the other nco's. That just isn't your job. By the time you pick up 1st Lt you might become company XO or move on. From there on you will have commands, but you will not be close to your Marines.
2007-09-08 13:59:50 · answer #1 · answered by guns155mm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y E S , all officers go into combat. 2nd Lieutenants and 1st Lieutenants are Platoon Leaders, Captains are usually Company Commanders!!
Becoming an officer IS NOT a bad choice.
You will definitely be with your men and women
in the US Marine Corps!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-08 19:45:42 · answer #2 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Captains, 1st lieutenants, 2nd lieutenants, are all company grade officers. Captains are normally company commanders whereas 1st and 2nd lieutenants are platoon leaders, as are senior NCO's.
Platoon leaders are often in the field with their platoons and get killed or wounded, just as easily as the grunts, but not in the numbers that grunts get killed.
So, if it's exposure to combat you crave, this is the proper path.
2007-09-08 20:13:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marine officers are usually the top 10% of the Navy grads. Just because you want this, doesn't mean you can get it. I've heard that there are no non-combatents in the Marine Corps. Non-combatent posts are held by the Navy personel.
2007-09-08 20:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and yes. Lieutenants and Captains are in the field with the troops. Major and above do not usually maneuver with the troops unless an entire battalion is engaged.
2007-09-08 19:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by Smartassus 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Lieutenants are usually the first to get blown away because they know too much (or so they think) and become a victim of their own knowledge (or lack thereof), in answer to your question, they do go into combat. Any officer worth his salt goes everywhere with his/her men/women.
2007-09-08 19:40:41 · answer #6 · answered by Sgt Little Keefe 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
yea of course just because you become an officer dont mean you are not going into combat
2007-09-12 13:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by marines_sweetie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you'll have to be doing a lot more research before you are accepted in to the Marine Corps as an officer if you have no idea what they do or what their role it
lol "my marine". .... child
2007-09-08 19:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by The Landlord 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
yeah of course they do; it just depends on your occupation in the marine core
2007-09-08 19:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by jamesfreerocker 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋