Know Your Marines Essay

No matter if you stay in for one enlistment or two, the depth of the Marine Corps is unknown so knowledge will continuously flow and it is endless. All Marines get taught the basics of being a leader in entry level training, but only a few can react to help form their trait into an elite skill only for them. In order to become the elite you have to build a "Foundation of Values" (pg.31) so that respect in all aspects will become evident between the followers and their leader(s). While setting the example it does not matter what rank you are, you still show that the standards that you hold will reflect on who you are as a person and a Marine. Each Marine chooses how their standards and ways will become beneficial not only to the Marine Corps, but to themselves also. Why do ethics make conducting a moment of decision making so hard? At some point and time every Marine will come to a point in their career or life where the grey area will be the path they choose, but will not think that it is the right way. Moral and ethic dilemmas are common more and more each day. Every Marine is taught to be the toughest both physically, and mentally.

What also happens is people just lose things and have no idea until later when they need it. Marines lose things because of a few reasons. Probably the most common is when they are being hurried, which is pretty much 100% of the time. The other common reason is because a lot of junior Marines are young, irresponsible, and inexperienced. I’m pretty confident that most of the senior Marines here didn’t start at the level of responsibility or leadership that they are currently at, but have been through what the younger marines are going through and learned from their mistakes, and now trying to teach us so we don’t make them as much as we

It is harder to actually step down and listen to what another Marine may have to offer, especially as a “Leader”. Plenty of times you will have to step up and say, “No, this is not up to interpretation”.

NonCommissioned Officers are the backbone of the Marine Corps.   Each leader is very different from the other.   Some Marines enjoy being a corporal only because of the increase in rank and pay.   A few become the tactless leaders junior Marines try to avoid.   Fortunately, many others strive to become the leader that other Marines wish to emulate.   They know what it means to be a good leader.   Those Marines have the traits of a leader and they get to know their Marines

On November 10th, 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution that stated "two Battalions of Marines be raised", which established the Continental Marines, and is now considered the birth date of the Marines. The newly formed Continental Marines served on both land and sea, and took part in many major engagements, which helped establish them as an important branch of the Armed Forces. The first Commandant of the Continental Marines was Captain Samuel Nicholas, who was born in Philadelphia in 1744. He was commissioned to be a “Captain of Marines” by the 2nd Continental Congress on November 5th 1775. Nicholas soon established Tun Tavern as the recruiting headquarters. Tun Tavern’s owner, Robert Mullen, was so successful at recruiting

This is where a Recruit learns for the first time the amount of disciple that is expected from a Marine. All Recruits are taught exactly the same from MCO P 5060.2 to keep consistency.3 Once a Recruit has completed Recruit training, and has then earned the title Marine, the Marine is then sent on to MOS training. Once the Marine arrives at the next training the Marine maybe come in charge of fellow Marines of the same rank or subordinate rank. Once in this position the Marine will have to show confidence in leading fellow Marines. Discipline is not only expected from a Marine’s superiors. Both superiors and subordinates alike expect confidence from a Marine in a leadership position. One of the best ways of building confidante in a new Marine is by putting the Marine in front of other Marines to conduct closer order drill, and give commands. Once a Marine has gained the confidence to lead a small unit the Marine is then ready to take charge of a larger unit. This also leads to confidence in other aspects of a Marines

On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution stating that "two battalions of Marines be raised" for service as landing forces with the fleet. This established the Continental Marines and marked the birth of the United States Marine Corps. Serving on land and at sea, early Marines distinguished themselves in a number of important operations, including their first amphibious raid on foreign soil in the Bahamas in March 1776, under the command of the Corps' first commandant, Capt. Samuel Nicholas. The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War and as the last of the Navy's ships were sold, the Continental Navy and Marines disbanded.

I would like to thank this foundation and it’s donors for considering and choosing me as a recipient for the scholarship award of $2,500. It means so much to me to receive this award that will allow me the chance to continue my studies at the University of Virginia under their nursing program so that I can become the nurse that I someday aspire to be.

I, Cpl Nathaniel K. Bouffard was born on June 15, 1996 in Burlington, Vermont. Where I then went to Flynn Elementary School from kindergarten to 5th grade. After that I went to City Middle school. Then for high school I went to Bellows Free Academy, where I graduate from. I decided to join the Marine Corps half way through my senior year in high school. I decided I was not ready for college, I figured I would be focusing more on social life then schooling. So I thought the military was the best option. I chose the Marine Corps over all the other branches because in my eyes and to this day the Corps is the elite fighting force of the world. I also am a fourth generation Marine in my family my great grandfather was a Sergeant in the Marine corps in WWII. My grandfather was a Sergeant during the Korean War, he later changed branches into the Airforce and retired as a Chief Master Sergeant. His brother my great uncle was a Marine Sergeant during the Korean War as

SSgt Diaz, words cannot describe how much I agree with you on this post.  I believe one of the biggest issue in the Marine Corps is the ability to be humble.  From all levels, there are Marines who believe their way is right even if an idea that presented in front of them could ease a process or that is much safer. There has been countless times to where I have run into Marines who have this type of mentality and seeing the Marines they lead that are miserable and they want to get out of the Corps because of this.  We are all taught to have a sense of pride in what we do, but sometimes we must step back and see the big picture in order to fulfill the mission.  In order to do this, we must be humble and be willing to take the good, bad, and

I am more than happy to learn that I am a recipient of the Marine Corps Scholarship. I am writing to thank everyone who is involved in this foundation that aims to aid students like myself. I thank you for your generous, financial support towards my college education and future. My connection to the Marine Corps is through my father, a war veteran, who not only fought for his country but who also fought to provide better education opportunities and benefits for his children.

The military across the board has been making a transition in to peace time life. This is fairly difficult for people like myself, because we are used to the Marine Corps being a certain way. Nearly Ninety percent of the Infantry in 2007 was composed of individuals that knew, or were asking to go to war. With the tightening down on certain aspects of rather relaxed rules and regulations. From the time that I had joined, many of our war hardened hero’s found themselves in a predicament with having to leave the military by force. Rules such as the tattoo policy which at one time was ok to have tattoos, overnight Combat Veteran Marines were told to find work elsewhere. Knowing the reasons why I had originally joined, and seeing what was becoming of future warfighters, I knew I didn’t see the true focus of the mission at hand.

My warrior mentality has been challenged more than once during my time at Marine Raider Training center and many times I have failed allowing my leadership to reflect poor judgement and decision making. With Sergeants course and a few attitude changes I have been able to bounce back and see the Marine Corps for what it is: a great organization that has enabled me to be a better person. However we still have a long way to go as a community in order to perform at the highest level possible. I am grateful for the good things my unit does such as promotion panels. However I am not blind that we as a unit have room for improvement, with me taking control of building the welcome aboard brief I believe we can be on step closer to sustaining the

The Marines of Bravo Company will be forced to live with difficult decisions that they have made during their deployment. Wright recalls after a shooting incident, “Colbert walks off, privately inconsolable. ‘I’m going to have to bring this home with me and live with it,’ he says.” Marines who have been in a combat situation often have had to make difficult decisions that they would not be able to take back, and the Marines of Bravo Company would have to live with those decisions every day for the rest of their lives. These difficult decisions along with being away from loved ones for a long period of time are the challenges that Marines have to overcome in

I was twenty-one when I walked into a recruiting office for the Marine Corps .A recruiter came to me and started talking to me,he said you came to the right place man what can i do or you.So i told him that i'm interested in becoming a Marine and i would like to know more about it. The recruiter then ran me through the basics of being a Marine was all about and i loved it,so the recruiter went over all the qualifications for joining and the only thing that disqualified me was my GED. I asked him what i had to do to change that,ad he said "you need to go get some college credits."Alright i said, how many do i need? The recruiter told me i needed fifteen of them but in the meantime i could go and