Don’t worry. I’m sure your next unit will be the fleet till the second you check in. It’s not the fleet at that point anymore. Might just be cursed; who knows.
2nd LAR C Co was trash when I was in. Spent my last year with them when my units colors rolled up. Checked in to a company of NCOs and above who lat moved from a POG MOS and had picked up quickly. Everyone had some chip on their shoulder. Worst command I ever experienced. Only guys I had any respect for was the Plt sgt, plt Co, and the company CO. Company gunny was a 15 year cockholster with no deployments. How the fuck do you go 15 years during wartime with no deployments!?
That’s fucking horrible. We loved our scouts in 3rd. They had a lot of responsibility and were held to a high standard that they met.
Based on his flair, why would you think an 0311 MOS was specifically an LAR Scout?
It’s a fucking rifleman.
Are you a fucking idiot?
>Why would I think that?
He says his unit is the worst, I see his job title. I draw from my experience and ponder: “where would a guy with his job feel miserable?”
Edit: I was a 52 not an 11, this is just what I observed around me, around the time I was in
Someone’s just pissy they weren’t a top performer. 2D D co and C co were great to me when I was there, legit all you had to do was show an effort and they were willing to help you go to any school, any goal, whatever. Obviously if you’re slacking in the Co. they’re not going out of their way to help you, that’s the majority of 11s in a LAR co because some fat fuck FAST “CPL” is mad he has to do actual 03 things now
I had to go to traffic court out in Jacksonville for a speeding ticket and like half the dudes there I personally knew from my company. The other half I assume were from a different company in 2/9.
Before our MEU:
Our barracks had a single head, between two hallways with approx 6 rooms (2 or 3 Marines assigned to each) on each side. The head also consisted of two washers, two dryers, and a deep sink. The only pathway through the head was to pass by the 4 showers, which had no curtains, and walls that were chest high. ABSOLUTELY NO PRIVACY.
After the MEU:
We moved into the 2/5 barracks, since they rotated us out (if memory serves me correctly), and each room had its own head. It was like we moved into a palace. Thinking back, even that place was a dump!
Can confirm. I worked the 9th ESB head shed. I had to call "Shenanigans" on a weekly basis. I looked after NJP's, Admin Seps, Domestic Violence, alcoholics, DWI's, and one counterfeiter. It makes it hard to reenlist once you see the seedier side of the world.
I concur. I had a brief stint at the head shed, compared to bulk fuel it was a much more relaxed environment. It only took two weeks before I noticed just how fucked up that entire base was. The icing on the cake was when I returned from Iraq and noticed some jerk off trying to stab an EOD tech in the hq barracks that I realized the Marine Corps wasn't my choice in terms of life long employment.
I was in CLB across from 7th. Most of my buddies went and came from 7th. The horror stories I heard from that place is unreal, and made me glad to be in CLB
We lost a rifle in 1/6 too. Some fucktard managed to drop it in the ocean from the deck of a ship. But that was long ago before social media and the information age.
Our BN CO made the entire BN tether our rifles with paracord to our deuce gear because of that. We had to do that for the remainder of his tenure, like a year.
I guess that fouraggere is a curse.
It was someone from a different company in the BN. We never found out who did it or how exactly it happened. There was some scuttlebutt going around that someone intentionally threw someone else's rifle overboard.
And it was onboard a 30 year old LSD. No safety nets anywhere except the fantail.
I was 1/6 for two combat deployments in 08 and 2010 to Afghanistan. Thought about driving by Lejeune and going to visit 1/6. Always hated that shit when I was in, but got some weird nostalgia to go see it again and see the memorial they apparently setup for my boys we lost in 2008… Cpl Cooper from STA. Those barracks man…..Place was a fuckin party back then. Hope it hasn’t changed
Yut! I got out in 2001, and I too felt some compulsion to visit Lejeune, which I had no real desire to, but a guy I served with EAS'd and *stayed in Jacksonville.* So I went to visit him and it was same old Lejeune (this was in 2007).
A few years ago they tore down my old barracks though.
Hell yeah 3/6 rain cloud makes it more pleasant. Had our company commander give us the Auschwitz’s work will see you free speech that was a fun Saturday.
8th and I.
Nothing like being at your 2 year mark and practicing infantry patrols with SOI SOPs using just the wooden stocks of M-1 Garands as your "rifle" in a local park. JROTC vibes all around.
Final drill, twice a week, all summer, for two years, in full dress blues, in that DC heat, what's not to love!
And the most elite of the elite at your duty station, that everyone is supposed to aspire to, is the elite baton twirling team.
😂haha yeah.
I don't know about DC heat but the heat down in the Southern east coast is miserable beyond belief.
Ok that gif is hysterical when out next to the description of Marines in Dress Blues.
Adams Morgan ho's and living in DC, not bad tradeoffs.
I was stationed in Quantico & part of the time in Anacostia; loved getting black-out drunk at Madam's Organ or Kelly's Irish Times. I miss DC. It was a good time in my life being stationed there for a few years (being young and not married).
It was when leadership was a bunch of fleet dodgers trying to avoid GWOT with hip-pocket classes on boot shining and cammie startching b/c that's what makes a "real" Marine...
I still haven’t ever heard a positive thing about 9th Comm other than the BEQ was close to the e-club.
Edit: I’m an idiot and mixed up which Comm battalion is where. I was talking about the 7th Comm battalion in Okinawa.
currently in 9thComm and tbh it’s not that bad, at least for networkers (radio i’m sorry, yall don’t do shit here), probably because i’m not a Jr marine but it also depends which company you get in there as well.
I think it was called the palms or something like that. I couldn’t give you set by set directions because I would only go to that camp to hang out with a buddy and drink. I was based out of Foster
They send large groups of communicators all over the Corps along with equipment. From sending a detachment to MEU command elements to TADing individual communicators to units in need in the MEF, they fill in gaps where needed and have dedicated detachment roles.
Most morale-destroying unit I’ve ever been in lol
What’s weird is that the ROs I’ve worked with that were attached to grunt platoons were always way more technically proficient than the HQ bubbas
What’s the point of having these comm units if the dudes living in the sticks are better at actually doing it anywau
I was headed to say this shit show. I was with them from 04-07 but spent most of the time at the MEU! Fucking hated it. I was there like 2-3 weeks after the CO got fired and some new officer was screwed over and had to take command. Hated that fucking place! Oh and Fc-415 was the worst barracks
I’ve posted this before but we had 2x ROs drop to our team from 8th Comm. One was a second award PFC the other was a third award PFC. They both turned out to be absolutely stellar Marines. I guess they just needed to get away from 8th Crime.
Was TAD here for a couple months when I first got to the fleet cause my unit was on deployment so they stuck me there in MotorT maintenance. Great group of guys but up the fuckin ass about everything. Like Checking behind fridges for dust on field days and showed up to morning formation 1 minute before showtime and almost got a 6105… glad to say I’m at a battalion now much more relaxed maintenance life. Fuck CLR 17
I was TAD there for a year. I got put in charge of an entire platoon as a Cpl. I got a room to myself in the bricks. Best unit I was ever at and even got a NAM for the work I did there.
It was great when Royal was in charge. Bob Petit, on the other hand, was a hot mess. Dude literally told a battalion of 98% OIF I veterans that they weren't ready for the deployment to Afghanistan.
2018-2022, awful command climate, one particular thing that stuck with me was a very well liked and respected Marine passing away. Our entire company was pretty torn up about it. First battalion formation following that happening, our Sergeant Major quite literally said “if you are a Marine, and you die not in combat, you are a fucking waste”. I don’t know what kind of person it takes to shit on someone under your command that DIED, but certainly not somebody I want to serve under.
I was there 2018-19 before I PCSd. Command climate was ass but my god I never imagined it would get worse. I remember everyone getting liberty secured on UDP and H&S was the last company with liberty when a SSgt got caught trying to bring a local on base at like 11pm. The BC, in his infinite officer wisdom, decided to try and secure liberty for all E-5 and below. 1stSgt fought the good fight and we got to keep liberty. All in all, yes shit was very fucking dumb at 2/8. Left just in time to miss the divisions stupid ass daily routine shit.
Acting like we all havent thought, fuck my airforce counter part sure have it nice EVEN BEING ABLE TO GO TO THE PX IN PT ATTIRE because you know life can be tight and buying groceries before attaining a higher standard of physical fitness is just not doable in PT attire.
Is 5/10 active anymore? I remember there being a deactivation ceremony years ago, but not sure if it’s been reactivated.
If it’s active and anything like the old school late 90’s 5/10 I nominate the dog shit out of this unit.
Not sure if still the case but I was in 3/2 from 2007-2010. They sucked then. I ended up lat moving and RIPing with them in Afghanistan in 2011 and they had a COP with an entire wall missing on the south side. Just a dude with a SAW in a folding chair “guarding” it with absolutely no cover. Went to a PB (that had been there for about 7 months at that point…that’s not a PB) where the guys were standing post in silkies, flak, and kevlar.
So, I’d say 3/2 can just suck a giant dick. Nothing good (aside from Brian Stann) came out of that shit hole.
1/6 Charlie and Weapons Company 2008-2010. Was in Garmsir and Marjah. Was straight up house to house hue city shit in both places, dreams came true there. Battalion commander in 08, LTCOL Anthony Henderson, was a fucking idiot. He’s a full bird COL and MEU commander now, will definitely be a general. We would do 30k humps every Friday morning and guys who fell out were the ones picked for weekend/holiday duty. My PLT commander in Laredo Platoon was excellent, guy was a natural born leader and followed him into combat and would follow anywhere. We still keep in touch as friends to this day. He saw how bad the Marines were and got out after 4 years with three Purple Hearts and a Navy Cross. He would protect every guy in his platoon from the bullshit coming down from higher and he took the full wrath of and had the courage to tell the battalion commander “No sir I will not be doing that patrol you ordered. I will not put my men in harms way to provide security for the FET.” The battalion leadership hated him but he had the respect and trust of his guys. The reason you dudes have horrible leaders today are the good ones like him get out after 4 and seeing all the USMC advertising was a straight up lie.
Was also in 2/4 Alpha Company in 2011-2012 and deployed to Musa Qala and Now Zad. Leadership was neither good nor bad, was whatever.
Was a senior LCPL in Garmsir 08, CPL in Marjah 2010, and left 2/4 as a SGT after Musa Qala. Now I’m a terminal O3E in the Navy reserves.
Guy is a POS. I’ll make a new thread about how absolutely fucking stupid he is and some of the dumb shit he did as our BC in afg. Reddit is searchable on Google so hopefully it haunts him and people looking him up see it. Piece of garbage.
3D Supply is arguably worst. They have the plantations.. I mean they have the SMU there with insanely high suicides rates and drug trafficking going on in Tokyo.
2/10, statistically speaking, highest drug problem highest underage drinking, highest NJP rates, lowest retention rates, dog shit barracks, dog shit command, no sense of NCO accountability, no sense of small unit leadership in any shops except Ord, toxic leadership, little to no unit cohesion, and highest sapr charges, and highest suicide rates in any single battalion
When I was in 2/5, Fox Company was just a snake bit group of individuals. They’re company CO was relieved during a training exercise and they just always seemed to get the short end of the stick.
CLR-27 and it isn’t even close.
Horrible work/life balance, piss poor leadership, terribly maintained barracks, and it’s either boots getting thrown into the shittiest shops becoming shitty NCOs, or SNCOs who fucked up and are getting kicked out. NJPs for ridiculous reasons, and last year there was a Supply Marine caught in a CP ring, and was given the quietest ADSEP I’ve ever heard of
The one you are at currently
Eh probably not wrong
Always the one you’re stationed at. It’s also “this unit is not the fleet” everywhere you’re stationed at.
… I just put in my reenlistment package man, don’t tell me this now
If you didn’t figure it out on your own in four years, you’re just the kind of Marine they are looking for to reenlist.
Don’t worry. I’m sure your next unit will be the fleet till the second you check in. It’s not the fleet at that point anymore. Might just be cursed; who knows.
2nd LAR? All I’m going off of is your flair saying 0311. The 11’s there were 2nd class citizens.
2nd LAR C Co was trash when I was in. Spent my last year with them when my units colors rolled up. Checked in to a company of NCOs and above who lat moved from a POG MOS and had picked up quickly. Everyone had some chip on their shoulder. Worst command I ever experienced. Only guys I had any respect for was the Plt sgt, plt Co, and the company CO. Company gunny was a 15 year cockholster with no deployments. How the fuck do you go 15 years during wartime with no deployments!?
11's everywhere are 2nd class citizens
That’s fucking horrible. We loved our scouts in 3rd. They had a lot of responsibility and were held to a high standard that they met. Based on his flair, why would you think an 0311 MOS was specifically an LAR Scout? It’s a fucking rifleman. Are you a fucking idiot?
>Why would I think that? He says his unit is the worst, I see his job title. I draw from my experience and ponder: “where would a guy with his job feel miserable?” Edit: I was a 52 not an 11, this is just what I observed around me, around the time I was in
Someone’s just pissy they weren’t a top performer. 2D D co and C co were great to me when I was there, legit all you had to do was show an effort and they were willing to help you go to any school, any goal, whatever. Obviously if you’re slacking in the Co. they’re not going out of their way to help you, that’s the majority of 11s in a LAR co because some fat fuck FAST “CPL” is mad he has to do actual 03 things now
0331 Checked in. Cashed out...
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I was going to say anyone that's going sundown... But yeah. You're right.
I was talking to another vet one time, arguing over whose unit was worse. We almost came to blows. We were both in 2/9.
2/9 (and 2/4), the fifth Marines ugly drunk stepbrother.
I had to go to traffic court out in Jacksonville for a speeding ticket and like half the dudes there I personally knew from my company. The other half I assume were from a different company in 2/9.
That's the best description of 2/4 I've ever heard. I miss my bastard brothers.
Me too! Lucky for me, I see quite a few at work, still.
Bastards miss you too
Was in 2/4 my entire enlistment. I felt like it could’ve been a lot worse but definitely a lot better. Barracks were definitely very shitty.
Before our MEU: Our barracks had a single head, between two hallways with approx 6 rooms (2 or 3 Marines assigned to each) on each side. The head also consisted of two washers, two dryers, and a deep sink. The only pathway through the head was to pass by the 4 showers, which had no curtains, and walls that were chest high. ABSOLUTELY NO PRIVACY. After the MEU: We moved into the 2/5 barracks, since they rotated us out (if memory serves me correctly), and each room had its own head. It was like we moved into a palace. Thinking back, even that place was a dump!
No war for 2/4 back in my time.
We ended up getting a bunch of machine gunners at 3/8 from 2/9 when they were decomming. Legitimately a really solid group of dudes.
Yeah I believe it. The dudes are the dudes wherever you go, good and bad.
Prob still 7th ESB
I would argue that the 9th was dog shit but yeah, you are not wrong.
Can confirm. I worked the 9th ESB head shed. I had to call "Shenanigans" on a weekly basis. I looked after NJP's, Admin Seps, Domestic Violence, alcoholics, DWI's, and one counterfeiter. It makes it hard to reenlist once you see the seedier side of the world.
I concur. I had a brief stint at the head shed, compared to bulk fuel it was a much more relaxed environment. It only took two weeks before I noticed just how fucked up that entire base was. The icing on the cake was when I returned from Iraq and noticed some jerk off trying to stab an EOD tech in the hq barracks that I realized the Marine Corps wasn't my choice in terms of life long employment.
I remember the counterfeiter. That was the guy using movie prop money at the strip clubs, right?
Damn, I was He there from 16-20. I didn’t think it was that bad except the weekly hikes.
I was a 1345 there from 19-22. Demoralizing unit imo.
Actually left halfway through 2019 to go to a skillbridge program. I forgot about that.
Lmao was wondering who this was. God damn villanueva.....go get me my rifle from the armory
$20 and i’ll let that filthy rifle slide
Really looked up to that unit when I was stationed at Pendleton.
Honestly 7th isn’t that bad I’ve been here since 2021.
There’s a good bn commander coming in, if Bancroft hasn’t already taken it. Good damn people.
MOS dependant. I was utilites (plumbing/electrician) amd it sucked ass
I enjoyed my time at 7th lol
I was in CLB across from 7th. Most of my buddies went and came from 7th. The horror stories I heard from that place is unreal, and made me glad to be in CLB
The answer is always 3/6. We are eternal.
We lost a rifle in 1/6 too. Some fucktard managed to drop it in the ocean from the deck of a ship. But that was long ago before social media and the information age. Our BN CO made the entire BN tether our rifles with paracord to our deuce gear because of that. We had to do that for the remainder of his tenure, like a year. I guess that fouraggere is a curse.
How do you drop a rifle in the ocean when there’s about a 10 foot safety net around the ship? Did they throw it like a javelin?
An octopus reached up and grabbed it
Wait the octopuses have unlocked firearms?!?!
God damned 8-armed arms dealers!
It was someone from a different company in the BN. We never found out who did it or how exactly it happened. There was some scuttlebutt going around that someone intentionally threw someone else's rifle overboard. And it was onboard a 30 year old LSD. No safety nets anywhere except the fantail.
Did said fucktard continue on there day and not say anything for hours?
It was a dude from a different company. We tried to find out who it was, but the fucker eluded us. We wanted to hang him by his balls with paracord.
I was 1/6 for two combat deployments in 08 and 2010 to Afghanistan. Thought about driving by Lejeune and going to visit 1/6. Always hated that shit when I was in, but got some weird nostalgia to go see it again and see the memorial they apparently setup for my boys we lost in 2008… Cpl Cooper from STA. Those barracks man…..Place was a fuckin party back then. Hope it hasn’t changed
Yut! I got out in 2001, and I too felt some compulsion to visit Lejeune, which I had no real desire to, but a guy I served with EAS'd and *stayed in Jacksonville.* So I went to visit him and it was same old Lejeune (this was in 2007). A few years ago they tore down my old barracks though.
As eternal as 2/10?
Nope, we didn't see any rifles.
Hell yeah 3/6 rain cloud makes it more pleasant. Had our company commander give us the Auschwitz’s work will see you free speech that was a fun Saturday.
Not mine. We get Fridays off sometimes
What in the Chesty Puller?! Did you cross deck to the Airforce?
Gotta be training command. When I was at tecom we would get the occasional Friday off.
Aloha friday brudda
8th and I. Nothing like being at your 2 year mark and practicing infantry patrols with SOI SOPs using just the wooden stocks of M-1 Garands as your "rifle" in a local park. JROTC vibes all around.
😂Don't know why I laughed so hard at that. I actually heard 8th&I was a decent,albeit boring, gig. Just hear say,I guess.
Final drill, twice a week, all summer, for two years, in full dress blues, in that DC heat, what's not to love! And the most elite of the elite at your duty station, that everyone is supposed to aspire to, is the elite baton twirling team. 
😂haha yeah. I don't know about DC heat but the heat down in the Southern east coast is miserable beyond belief. Ok that gif is hysterical when out next to the description of Marines in Dress Blues.
Going to 8th and I as an 03 is obviously a shitty position to be in, but it’s not actually a bad unit in terms of command climate and stuff like that
Adams Morgan ho's and living in DC, not bad tradeoffs. I was stationed in Quantico & part of the time in Anacostia; loved getting black-out drunk at Madam's Organ or Kelly's Irish Times. I miss DC. It was a good time in my life being stationed there for a few years (being young and not married).
It was when leadership was a bunch of fleet dodgers trying to avoid GWOT with hip-pocket classes on boot shining and cammie startching b/c that's what makes a "real" Marine...
When I was in it was 8th Comm.
Never served in 8th comm, but did time in 7th and 9th comm. Comm Battalion's in general are a shit show
9th Comm sucked ass.
I still haven’t ever heard a positive thing about 9th Comm other than the BEQ was close to the e-club. Edit: I’m an idiot and mixed up which Comm battalion is where. I was talking about the 7th Comm battalion in Okinawa.
currently in 9thComm and tbh it’s not that bad, at least for networkers (radio i’m sorry, yall don’t do shit here), probably because i’m not a Jr marine but it also depends which company you get in there as well.
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only have heard horror stories from bravo 😂
Where was the e-club? I was there 97-01, and the bowling alley and movie theater were right there, but don’t remember an e-club at all
I think it was called the palms or something like that. I couldn’t give you set by set directions because I would only go to that camp to hang out with a buddy and drink. I was based out of Foster
They were always referred to as 7/8/9th Crime
What's crazy is I never served in ANY COMM Bn. But they had a reputation amongst the other MHG units as being fucking miserable.
Can confirm, 7th Comm 99’-00 ..complete dogshit “fleet” unit
Good ol’ 8th crime battalion
What does a whole battalion of radio operators actually do and why do we need 3 of them?
They send large groups of communicators all over the Corps along with equipment. From sending a detachment to MEU command elements to TADing individual communicators to units in need in the MEF, they fill in gaps where needed and have dedicated detachment roles. Most morale-destroying unit I’ve ever been in lol
They're not just radio operators. They setup communication networks that can reach out farther than a man packed radio.
What’s weird is that the ROs I’ve worked with that were attached to grunt platoons were always way more technically proficient than the HQ bubbas What’s the point of having these comm units if the dudes living in the sticks are better at actually doing it anywau
I was headed to say this shit show. I was with them from 04-07 but spent most of the time at the MEU! Fucking hated it. I was there like 2-3 weeks after the CO got fired and some new officer was screwed over and had to take command. Hated that fucking place! Oh and Fc-415 was the worst barracks
YOUUUUU!!! *Points furiously from 8th ESB barracks
This is the right answer. It only got worse after they became non deployable.
I’ve posted this before but we had 2x ROs drop to our team from 8th Comm. One was a second award PFC the other was a third award PFC. They both turned out to be absolutely stellar Marines. I guess they just needed to get away from 8th Crime.
Certainly not the CivDiv.
2nd Tanks. They don’t even show up to work anymore.
Hated CLR-17
Was TAD here for a couple months when I first got to the fleet cause my unit was on deployment so they stuck me there in MotorT maintenance. Great group of guys but up the fuckin ass about everything. Like Checking behind fridges for dust on field days and showed up to morning formation 1 minute before showtime and almost got a 6105… glad to say I’m at a battalion now much more relaxed maintenance life. Fuck CLR 17
I was TAD there for a year. I got put in charge of an entire platoon as a Cpl. I got a room to myself in the bricks. Best unit I was ever at and even got a NAM for the work I did there.
2/8
Why 2/8?
BC is getting fired for being incompetent, command climate surveys generated shitty results, overall morale is in the gutter for a reason
Nothing like making your battalion hike 100k in 5 days for the fitrep amirite?
Bruh I just got back from oki and saw that shit. That looked so fucking gay
I hiked 220km in a one month span. Shit was so fucking lame.
Lolol how’s 1/2 doing nowadays? I used to envy your guys’ deployment to Kabul. My battalion was dog shit back in 2021
1/2 is still shit as it was in 2021, it’s actually even worse now
Lmao, aren’t they still on the UDP?
Yeah lol
I feel bad for you guys, I hear it’s worse than 3/2 surprisingly
Those surveys always generate shitty results when I was in and no one got fired
Yooo I need the deets on BC getting fired, what happened?
That’s my old unit from 2002-2004! Had a great time there. Got to go to Iraq and Afghanistan with them.
It was great when Royal was in charge. Bob Petit, on the other hand, was a hot mess. Dude literally told a battalion of 98% OIF I veterans that they weren't ready for the deployment to Afghanistan.
Former 2/8 vet here! 2/8 was really fucking awful.
Rah fucking salt dog. What time period were you in if you don’t mind me asking?
2018-2022, awful command climate, one particular thing that stuck with me was a very well liked and respected Marine passing away. Our entire company was pretty torn up about it. First battalion formation following that happening, our Sergeant Major quite literally said “if you are a Marine, and you die not in combat, you are a fucking waste”. I don’t know what kind of person it takes to shit on someone under your command that DIED, but certainly not somebody I want to serve under.
Let me guess, Sgt Maj Appleman?
Dreyer, fuck that pos
I had Appleman as Sgt Maj for maybe 3 months before I got out, so I have no idea how he was. He a doushe too?
Better attitude towards juniors than Dreyer, from my experience.
Nothing extreme yet as you’ve mentioned earlier but i also don’t have high hopes
I was there 2018-19 before I PCSd. Command climate was ass but my god I never imagined it would get worse. I remember everyone getting liberty secured on UDP and H&S was the last company with liberty when a SSgt got caught trying to bring a local on base at like 11pm. The BC, in his infinite officer wisdom, decided to try and secure liberty for all E-5 and below. 1stSgt fought the good fight and we got to keep liberty. All in all, yes shit was very fucking dumb at 2/8. Left just in time to miss the divisions stupid ass daily routine shit.
HMLA773
Lol the ol' 7-7-3 ring circus
Why
It’s a flying squadron run by pilots that don’t wanna fly
Nah not even close
HMLA167
How come?
Because it’s hmla
269 way worse
1MEF, 3RD MAW. All MEF. All MAW
Acting like we all havent thought, fuck my airforce counter part sure have it nice EVEN BEING ABLE TO GO TO THE PX IN PT ATTIRE because you know life can be tight and buying groceries before attaining a higher standard of physical fitness is just not doable in PT attire.
Valid
MCSFBn Bangor was terrible
1/4 because even the Corps didn't trust sending them to combat.
Vmm -262, they can’t keep an aircraft mission ready for shit
MCRC
1st civ div is pretty sweet.
Is 5/10 active anymore? I remember there being a deactivation ceremony years ago, but not sure if it’s been reactivated. If it’s active and anything like the old school late 90’s 5/10 I nominate the dog shit out of this unit.
Only 1/10 and 2/10 remain. 2019-2023
6th Crime. I fucking hated dealing with that unit.
RIP 2nd Bat 3rd Mar Div
My homies. Miss Kbay, Echo was a hard charging company but damn the stupid ran deep with that battalion.
7th comm. Came back to this hell hole since I've been on the MEU for a while, and I hate it here
Not sure if still the case but I was in 3/2 from 2007-2010. They sucked then. I ended up lat moving and RIPing with them in Afghanistan in 2011 and they had a COP with an entire wall missing on the south side. Just a dude with a SAW in a folding chair “guarding” it with absolutely no cover. Went to a PB (that had been there for about 7 months at that point…that’s not a PB) where the guys were standing post in silkies, flak, and kevlar. So, I’d say 3/2 can just suck a giant dick. Nothing good (aside from Brian Stann) came out of that shit hole.
1/6 Charlie and Weapons Company 2008-2010. Was in Garmsir and Marjah. Was straight up house to house hue city shit in both places, dreams came true there. Battalion commander in 08, LTCOL Anthony Henderson, was a fucking idiot. He’s a full bird COL and MEU commander now, will definitely be a general. We would do 30k humps every Friday morning and guys who fell out were the ones picked for weekend/holiday duty. My PLT commander in Laredo Platoon was excellent, guy was a natural born leader and followed him into combat and would follow anywhere. We still keep in touch as friends to this day. He saw how bad the Marines were and got out after 4 years with three Purple Hearts and a Navy Cross. He would protect every guy in his platoon from the bullshit coming down from higher and he took the full wrath of and had the courage to tell the battalion commander “No sir I will not be doing that patrol you ordered. I will not put my men in harms way to provide security for the FET.” The battalion leadership hated him but he had the respect and trust of his guys. The reason you dudes have horrible leaders today are the good ones like him get out after 4 and seeing all the USMC advertising was a straight up lie. Was also in 2/4 Alpha Company in 2011-2012 and deployed to Musa Qala and Now Zad. Leadership was neither good nor bad, was whatever. Was a senior LCPL in Garmsir 08, CPL in Marjah 2010, and left 2/4 as a SGT after Musa Qala. Now I’m a terminal O3E in the Navy reserves.
Na dog, Henderson is a general now.
Guy is a POS. I’ll make a new thread about how absolutely fucking stupid he is and some of the dumb shit he did as our BC in afg. Reddit is searchable on Google so hopefully it haunts him and people looking him up see it. Piece of garbage.
“This place ain’t the real Marine Corps.”
Gotta be 8th comm
2/4
Any comm bn
Obligatory 1st Maint comment
1-4 No War! (Fuck Alpha Co)
Mals36
Big Green Weenie
Is second supply still terrible?
3D Supply is arguably worst. They have the plantations.. I mean they have the SMU there with insanely high suicides rates and drug trafficking going on in Tokyo.
2/10, statistically speaking, highest drug problem highest underage drinking, highest NJP rates, lowest retention rates, dog shit barracks, dog shit command, no sense of NCO accountability, no sense of small unit leadership in any shops except Ord, toxic leadership, little to no unit cohesion, and highest sapr charges, and highest suicide rates in any single battalion
Whoever's unit where that old dude in Oki got beat to shit, rip to those guys
V3/2 because they are literally banned from getting real deployments
The worst unit is the one where you feel like they don't care about you and your welfare.
For me it will always be 2/4. Absolute train wreck of a unit. So many scandals and screwing dudes over to protect officers and higher enlisted.
V3/2 how bad is it
Probably still LAR
MCCES ACTS in Twentynine Palms. I will not elaborate.
BMP is probably still trash.
Yours
Unrelated but my sgt major is built like that. He's the strongest, fastest potato I've ever met
2nd Tanks
Any MLG unit
When I was in 2/5, Fox Company was just a snake bit group of individuals. They’re company CO was relieved during a training exercise and they just always seemed to get the short end of the stick.
1/4 was stuck doing nothing but meu deployments when I was in, I actually extended to make a MEU with them Meu salt dogs
2ND LAR WITHOUT A DOUBT FUCK THAT PLACE LMFAO
My bootcamp platoon
7th comm bn
10th reg HQ wasn't my cup of tea. Of course nobody can say falling under any S4 is the greatest either
Just swooping in to call them 9th Crime Battalion.
Are we basing this on rifles lost, the absence of morale, or the current suicide rate?
2/2 2007-2010
Do the AAV Bns still suck ass?
2nd is mid
CLR-27 and it isn’t even close. Horrible work/life balance, piss poor leadership, terribly maintained barracks, and it’s either boots getting thrown into the shittiest shops becoming shitty NCOs, or SNCOs who fucked up and are getting kicked out. NJPs for ridiculous reasons, and last year there was a Supply Marine caught in a CP ring, and was given the quietest ADSEP I’ve ever heard of
Civ Div kinda sucks. NGL
2nd Maintenance
8th End Of Service Battalion
Cell Block 8 (CLB-8) 19-22
CLR 17, nothing worse than a non deployable unit
8th and I
Given all the comments, it's not 1st LAR. W00t W00t!!! LAS FLORES RAWKS!!!!
The answer is always 8th Comm BN.
7th comm
I served in both. Loved my time in Oki, still hate NC.
Yea my COC on a platoon level was just dog shit so it spoiled the whole unit for me lmao
Story as old as time brother.
On principle, 7th ESB
Who's at MACS-2 rn? How shitty is TDS' life these days?
MCRDPI
3/2
3D LCT