When I met with my psychiatrist on Tuesday he told me that I have some unresolved issues...I want to resolve this issue and Ill explain why afterwards...I enlisted in the Marine Corps as an infantryman and served as a TOW gunner with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. During our deployment to Japan they held a Marine Reconnaissance Indoctrination Test so I took it and passed...only seven of the eighty four people that took it passed. Marine Reconnaissance is different from the SEALS in the sense that you get accepted in and you get put in a RIP platoon at Reconnaissance Battalion and you train and wait for the schools to come around. So thats what I did I was a rope for about three weeks and then I just realized Id rather be drinking with the guys in my 1/8 platoon so I just requested a transfer back to 1/8...The reason I told that was because passing that test is something Im really proud of...Reconnaissance Marines, SEALS, Delta Force are all pretty much professional athletes in combat but I would never be able to tell my sons that I was CWSQ qualified in swimming or ran with a zodiac boat above my head or did a two mile pack swim in the New River, but my friends could...on those weekends when were all camping and your telling your friends sons stories about them.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:57:55 +0000