The Temptress
The Career Planner in any battalion has one job: keep Marines enlisted. Usually, as your EAS date looms, you are likely to be ...
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The Spirit of Christmas
The Ghost of Chesty Puller comes to us Marines in our most trying times. We never know when he will pop up to ...
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The Peanut Butter Shot
There are few experiences as universally despised and ubiquitous to Marine Corps bootcamp as the dreaded “peanut butter shot.” This penicillin cocktail is ...
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ASVAB Aptitude
Last year, the military at large missed its recruiting goals by a large margin. In 2022, the Army was down 25% of its ...
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Veterans Day Presentation
Those old OIF moto-videos really hit different. If you were in the Corps around that time, you were surely shown a variety of ...
Meanwhile, at the Birthday Ball…
As the Marine Corps celebrated its 248th birthday on Friday, Marines around the globe gathered for their battalion-mandated birthday balls and ate, drank, ...
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The Reenlistment Ceremony
It’s not unusual for Marines to be placed into some kind of miserable formation for a ceremony they’d rather not be at. Reenlistments ...
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Arrive Alive
Alcohol-related incidents are a serious problem in the Marine Corps community. I suppose that’s naturally what happens when you have a high-stress environment ...
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Alcohol-Induced Sobriety
If you’re anything like me (who is?), you’ve maybe seen the Old Corps Pro-Tip of avoiding the dreaded “recall from liberty” text by ...