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I have a few questions I would like to ask, so if you have any input, please help me out. Thanks.
1. If one were to apply and get accepted for an NROTC four-year scholarship with the plan to switch to Marine Option, when would be the soonest time one could switch to Marine Option and is it guaranteed that one could switch?
2. If one were to join the Marines and put 20 consecutive active duty years in service then join the Reserves after the 20-year marker would/could that person collect his/her retirement while being in the Reserves? It sounds like a stupid question and I think the answer is no, but its never hurts to be sure. And if someone did do that, had 20 years active duty then went into the Reserves for lets say 10 years, when the person finally retired could he/her collect retirement right away or does he/her have to wait until he/her is 65? Also, how would that work anyhow? Would it be a combination of your 20 years active duty and 10 reserves?
3. If one were to be in the Reserves for 20 years, he/her get his/her pension at the age of 65, correct? Is it based on how many drills you put in? Or, say if you retired as a Staff Sergeant, would you get as much as a staff sergeant who served 20 years active would get?
4. In Recon and Force Recon, do 2nd and 1st LTs. lead platoons, Capts.-companies just like Lts. and Capts. would in the regular FMF?
5. Intel Officers-they lead Recon and Force Recon platoons, correct. I also heard that as an Intel Officer you spend half the time leading a Recon/Force Recon platoon and the other half doing something else, not including your B MOS. What is that other job? If there is such a thing.
6. B MOS's- do all enlisted personnel have a B MOS? If so, from which rank would a Marine be required to do his job for his B MOS. And does a Marine get assigned to a B MOS, then go to training for such a job, or does the Marine get to pick, or have any say in it?
Some of these questions are out of curiousity, but all interest me. Thanks for any and all help.
Lamm
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I have a few questions I would like to ask, so if you have any input, please help me out. Thanks.
1. If one were to apply and get accepted for an NROTC four-year scholarship with the plan to switch to Marine Option, when would be the soonest time one could switch to Marine Option and is it guaranteed that one could switch?
2. If one were to join the Marines and put 20 consecutive active duty years in service then join the Reserves after the 20-year marker would/could that person collect his/her retirement while being in the Reserves? It sounds like a stupid question and I think the answer is no, but its never hurts to be sure. And if someone did do that, had 20 years active duty then went into the Reserves for lets say 10 years, when the person finally retired could he/her collect retirement right away or does he/her have to wait until he/her is 65? Also, how would that work anyhow? Would it be a combination of your 20 years active duty and 10 reserves?
3. If one were to be in the Reserves for 20 years, he/her get his/her pension at the age of 65, correct? Is it based on how many drills you put in? Or, say if you retired as a Staff Sergeant, would you get as much as a staff sergeant who served 20 years active would get?
4. In Recon and Force Recon, do 2nd and 1st LTs. lead platoons, Capts.-companies just like Lts. and Capts. would in the regular FMF?
5. Intel Officers-they lead Recon and Force Recon platoons, correct. I also heard that as an Intel Officer you spend half the time leading a Recon/Force Recon platoon and the other half doing something else, not including your B MOS. What is that other job? If there is such a thing.
6. B MOS's- do all enlisted personnel have a B MOS? If so, from which rank would a Marine be required to do his job for his B MOS. And does a Marine get assigned to a B MOS, then go to training for such a job, or does the Marine get to pick, or have any say in it?
Some of these questions are out of curiousity, but all interest me. Thanks for any and all help.
Lamm
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