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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1788032" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>You are both correct. I am dual service.</p><p></p><p>Spent 4 years USMC and 5 years USN.</p><p>In 1970, when I went to Vietnam, the Marines had over 260,00 troops. A record high. As the Marines pulled out starting in '71, they started downsizing back to pre Vietnam levels and by '73 when my enlistment was up, they were down to 186,00. My MOS was full up and then some, like almost all Mos at the time. US Army was also downsizing but I wasn't interested in them anyway unless I could get back into helicopter aviation, and that area of US Army was cutting back too. My USMC re-enlistment incentive was Embassy school and foreign duty at one of the embassies or foreign missions. I was a good Marine, but I had no desire to be <em>tha</em>t kind of Marine. Embassy dutyis not what many think it is. They don't guard the Embassies. They take care of and guard what is inside the embassy...the classified material. Each host nation, by international agreement, provides the day to day exterior security and a ready force of Marine infantry is flown in if the SHTF. Embassy duty is spit and polish garrison duty of sorts and I was a combat Marine that wanted to travel more than just be stuck in one little place for a year at a time, often some dirt hole country in nowhere planet Earth. So I got out, and went in the Navy for 2 years. After 4 years USMC, it was a culture shock. I found both discipline and professionalism to be 'lacking' but I muddled thru, stiff upper lip as the Brits might say, and got 2 promotions up to E6. First duty station was Guantanamo Bay Cuba as a diesel mechanic (what they called an engineman. Then to Pcola doing the same job and re-enlisted for the gas turbine program for the then new Spruance class destroyers. Caught a tin can DD 964 in Subic Bay and cruised the Pacific and Indian Ocean on and off for a couple of years until I had to get out and care for my 4 kids when my then wife decided she no longer wanted to be a mother to. (she had gotten into drugs and I'll never forget the words she told me that day "take them with you, they're better off with you than here with me. I LKE putting a needle in my arm) </p><p>I'm proud of both my services, but I was just 'in the Navy' but will always first and foremost be a US Marine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1788032, member: 18945"] You are both correct. I am dual service. Spent 4 years USMC and 5 years USN. In 1970, when I went to Vietnam, the Marines had over 260,00 troops. A record high. As the Marines pulled out starting in '71, they started downsizing back to pre Vietnam levels and by '73 when my enlistment was up, they were down to 186,00. My MOS was full up and then some, like almost all Mos at the time. US Army was also downsizing but I wasn't interested in them anyway unless I could get back into helicopter aviation, and that area of US Army was cutting back too. My USMC re-enlistment incentive was Embassy school and foreign duty at one of the embassies or foreign missions. I was a good Marine, but I had no desire to be [I]tha[/I]t kind of Marine. Embassy dutyis not what many think it is. They don't guard the Embassies. They take care of and guard what is inside the embassy...the classified material. Each host nation, by international agreement, provides the day to day exterior security and a ready force of Marine infantry is flown in if the SHTF. Embassy duty is spit and polish garrison duty of sorts and I was a combat Marine that wanted to travel more than just be stuck in one little place for a year at a time, often some dirt hole country in nowhere planet Earth. So I got out, and went in the Navy for 2 years. After 4 years USMC, it was a culture shock. I found both discipline and professionalism to be 'lacking' but I muddled thru, stiff upper lip as the Brits might say, and got 2 promotions up to E6. First duty station was Guantanamo Bay Cuba as a diesel mechanic (what they called an engineman. Then to Pcola doing the same job and re-enlisted for the gas turbine program for the then new Spruance class destroyers. Caught a tin can DD 964 in Subic Bay and cruised the Pacific and Indian Ocean on and off for a couple of years until I had to get out and care for my 4 kids when my then wife decided she no longer wanted to be a mother to. (she had gotten into drugs and I'll never forget the words she told me that day "take them with you, they're better off with you than here with me. I LKE putting a needle in my arm) I'm proud of both my services, but I was just 'in the Navy' but will always first and foremost be a US Marine. [/QUOTE]
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