Marines are not having a problem recruiting

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Marines are not having a problem recruiting and there is a reason as their motto has always been do or die. Some of the best pilots I have flown with were all Marine aviators. A Marine is a grunt first (rifleman) and anything else is secondary. However they usually have the worse living conditions of any of the services.

The Air Force would open a base and build the living quarters and officer and enlisted clubs and then end up several thousand feet short of the required length for their runway as they were out of money. Runways always got finished with more money added...

Army and Marines would build the runway first while living in tents and that is where they remained until building materials could be scrounged !! 

After all these years, 45 years to be exact, I still smile when I hear someone rag on the Air Force.

Feels like it was just yesterday when I was first called out for being an officer in the Air Force. I heard someone say I was straight up Air Force, all brains, no boobs, and no butt.

I thought it was hysterical. I laughed till I cried. It was funny and true.

Those were the days. 

Actually some would consider the Airforce is very smart building the living quarters first as they know if no runway no mission !! 

While they wait on the puzzle palace boys and girls to put together an aid package for the runway they sit in air conditioned rooms and have a few cool ones..

When I was working for the Navy as a computer operator. It was a job that clicked with me. Back then the system ran with punch cards, that I could read by just looking at them. This was something no one else in the division could do, so of course it was a place where I excelled. They didn't know what to do with me. They talked about me behind my back. One day one of my co-workers had enough. He said he became fed up when they said I was crazy. He said he could not stand it anymore. He said he stood and told them. "She is crazy alright, crazy as a damn fox!" He claimed he told them they were scared shitless of me, because I was the only one that did not need the machines and the building to hold on to my job.

I never thought about that for a single second. I didn't think about any of it. It just came natural.

With the Air Force the only problem I had was that it thought that as medical persona, we were second class citizens. Air Command and Staff were the golden hair children.

Through it all, I have no regrets.