I am extremely bored.  I am on scholarship, but no longer do I like basketball, infact I dread it, basketball practice is a horrible bore, when I am not motivated at all towards basketball or life anymore, I dont know, I just feel since I dont know I might as well find some answers while I am fighting for my family, my little brother, giving them an opportunity to find some answers.  I dont know I am just really bored with my life right now, I neeeed change.  I really want to serve.  I want to live, learn, fight, experience things.  I figure I would be able to get my degree while I am in, serve my country, my family, and live a little, do something with my life, help people.  There just lots of reasons why I dont want to stay here in school.

Colts,

I don't know a lot about the Marine Corps but I don't believe you can enlist specifically for a Recon unit.  You need to enlist to be a Marine infantryman. 

the corps has an enlistment option of FR, after boot and after infatry school you are guaranteed a spot to try out.  There are no guarantees that you will make it, and if you dont your infantry, untill you get a chance to try out again.

yimmy,

Why not finish your schooling and go in as a Marine officer?  I don't recall if the Marines have ROTC.

I do not want to be commisioned right away.  Right now I have no problem putting my self in harms way, but by no means could I ask one to put his life in jeapordy.  Me yes, them no.  I would also rather be an operator, in spec ops to my knowledge to not preform as much as  they plan.  I've heard they get a few missions at first, but once advanced in rank, just alittle they plan the mission and then the NCO's along with the rest of the platoon carries it out.  Thats why, not sure yet if I am up to the responsibility.

Colts said...    "When I ask him questions his reply is usually this; "the marine corps is the man, its ing awesome!" I really dont like him but understand that he is just part of the bad 10%."

Not to be rude, but thats about every single marine that I have ever met in my entire life.  Yes, I was army and not marines, but we did joint excercises and when I talked to them they were all exactly like that, seriously.  Guys in my high school who graduated before me (I met when they came back for leave after boot camp) were all exaclty like that.  Guys I knew in college who had just got out of the USMC and were going to college were exactly like that. Seriously.   The only USMC guy I met who was not like that was in his 40's, and retired from the marines, and now is in the US army researves. 

When it comes to the marines, before you should join, you should consider that your recruiter may actually the bad 90% and not the bad 10%. 

If you really want to be special forces, I know for certain that the army has an option to apply direct to the special forces.  You do basic, then infantry school, then airborne school, then go into initial special forces tryouts/training.  I've heard that only something like 20% or less of the people make it all the way through, but if you fail special ops you just get bounced in a infantry unit.  Also, I've been reading a lot about afghanistan, and it seems that untill very recently the special operations command did not include any of the force recon people (because the USMC did not want to be part of the special ops central command, because they're, well, marines) and so it has been an almost all army show, with some navy seals and devgru thrown in. 

Also, the marines just have FR, but the Army has both the spcial forces group as well as the ranger group, so there are more option in the army.  So, if you really want to see action, army special forces may be a better option. 

Chriss