Coast Guard at meps

>>33445843
because getting shot by jafar in the desert is apparently more respectable than saving american citizens within our borders

>>33445843
Just roll with it. It's a job, and a good one at that.

>>33445843
I hope you like PT. Rescue swimmers are fucking monsters when it comes to physical fitness.

>>33445859
This

Don't mind them. Everyone who joins the other branches are doing it because they have something to prove.

The fact is, the USCG is the oldest branch in the US - plus they have the high speed LEDET's.

If I wasn't in LE, I'd be in the CG interdicting shit off the coast of Colombia in a US Navy warship while these wide eyed idiots gawk in amazement over how tacced out I'd be while they're wearing their white semen outfits.

Good on you OP

Go protect the Gulf from Jose

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So what's being a CG helicopter pilot like?

>>33445884
I was on the swim team for 7 years, I do triathlons, and I'm currently a lifeguard. I feel at home in the water.

>>33445843
at the meps I went to the army, navy, air force, and marine officers were all arranged around a waiting room, while the coast guard office was around the corner, down the hall by the bathrooms

don't take advice from someone aspiring to be a marine

>>33445843
Because they're fucking idiots who don't actually want to work for a living and have this delusion that they're going to be shipped over seas and have this great honorable war experience when in reality they're just going to be washing rocks and hating their lives.

Coast Guard is probably the most respectable branch to join and they do more for the American public on a daily basis than any other branch. In other words, they are just insecure.

>>33445947
>I was on the swim team for 7 years, I do triathlons, and I'm currently a lifeguard. I feel at home in the water.

Good on you. Hope you make it.

>>33445954
just be aware that if war were declared, the NAVY now owns your ass.

>>33445988
>just be aware that if war were declared, the NAVY now owns your ass.

Also that.

Did you know that a fair number of the landing craft used by the Allies on D-Day were piloted by United States Coast Guard personnel?

Don't mind the insecure fucks with their big badass soldier delusions.
If I was a burger I'd probably enlist for the CG too.

In fact I'm considering joining the canadian coast guard eventually even if here it's not the military.

>>33445988
I'm totally fine with that. I enlisted to serve my country.

>>33445843

I think the majority of the bantz exist only because most people see the coast guard as non-military. Though I have respect for all armed forces, I also had an CG guy in my MEPS and everyone gave him shit for it.

>>33445843
Waiting for paperwork to go thru. I will go thru MEPS in about a month, i might see u in basic. Im 29 bro, boatswains mate mos hopefully, as i rise in rank which is much more likely in cg ima go for boarding officer training, we're not pussies. We're smart and ready. SEMPER PARATUS brother

>>33445843
What do you even do in the coast guard? I've been thinking of joining the Navy because I like boats and the sea but does the CG do more sailing? How large are their ships?

>>33446151
I leave for boot camp in mid-Jully. Make sure to bring ear plugs. My roommate would not fall asleep, and he was on his phone all night! (WITH HIS VOLUME AT MAX)

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>>33445843
As much as i make fun of seacops, rescue swimmers are in a whole different level. Those guys are fucking monsters though, and probably have some mental issues to be jumping off helos into water at such height.
Either way, best of luck in your endeavor. Maybe you can save my ass one day when i got btfo by a shark or something.
T. commercial diver

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>>33446244
>What do you even do in the coast guard?

Buoy maintenance and water cops. Also some ice breaking.

>How large are their ships?

The biggest cutters are just large enough to land a helicopter on.

I laughed at the kids who had SEAL and PJ contracts the hardest. Coasties are alright in my book. Marine poolees are generally always retards and worthy of only scorn.

Ex-Coastie (BMC) here, good luck.

I never did anything on the level of rescue swimmers, if that's your passion you have some fucking balls on you. People with absolutely no knowledge of the CG talk shit despite having no information besides what they hear from their buddies. You get used to the whole 'puddle pirate' spiel pretty quickly to be quite honest. More often than not you'll run into people who don't snicker or give you shit, especially if you're stationed with members of another branch of the military.

>>33445843
Considering you will actually be helping your country instead of playing around in sandy shitholes you are doing more than "I wanna call of duty irl" mantits who apparently couldn't handle some bantz.

As a bonus if the US actually gets involved in a serious conflict that isn't just about padding contractors/their politician buddies pockets, like >>33446002 says you might well get to do useful stuff.

>2008
>Wanted to join Coast Guard
>Recruiters are literally never there
>Buddy somehow got a hold of one
>Said they were backed up with more than enough people waiting to ship
>Said if he didn't at least have an Associates degree he'd have to wait forever
I Ended up joining Army instead, he went National Guard. Sometimes I wonder how different things could've been.

>>33445843
Should've told the Marine recruit he won't be laughing when his bunk mates sodomize him for forgetting his weapon serial.

>>33446351
I dipped my toes in enlisting a few months ago. Knew it wasn't really for me the second I walked in; too stiff, too dry.

Anyway, I told the guy I wanted to be an MK and he was all fucking over me. Said he could have me ready for MEPs in two weeks and shipped out to basic within the month.

Didn't you know, OP? Diving into rough seas to save someone's life is pussy shit... apparently.

>>33446248
Oh god, good to know, thanks and good luck bro

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/trump-budget-coast-guard.html

>The guy who's going to stop all the drugs flowing into our country is going to cut the Coast Guard.

>>33446525
As an Auxiliarist, I welcome this.

Hopefully they'll be forced to bring back the Temporary Reserve.

>>33445944
Pretty badass, my grandfather was one

>>33445944
I think you have to be trained in another service. Coast Guard doesn't have a training program for pilots last I knew. So it's a pretty good promotion from Army Warrant to CG officer.

>>33445843
Funny part is, when my dad was in the corps, you would get your jaw broken for saying that shit to CH and Navy Corpsman. And I mean by other marines. Old school guys see them as the guys that save their asses when shit is really bugged out.

>>33445947
>tfw when varsity swimmer since 7th grade and team captain later one

Fuck I miss swimming OP, I sometimes think I should still be in good shape because of my swimming career then I am like oh fuck that was nearly a decade ago

what were your events?

anyways..good luck

>>33447054
My best events are the 100 free at 54 seconds and the 100 breast at 1:01. My favorite event is the long course 400 free.

>>33447134
>>33447054
Hey faggots, if you want to make out with each other, go to >>>/lgbt/

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I never had this problem when I went when I told them they all gave me mad props but when I'm excited to get shipped this summer to boot thank god im /fit/ too because all the dyels joining other branches thought I was god

>>33445843
Been in for almost three years. So far I've been apart of several Search and Rescue cases totaling in a little over 60 lives being save. I've worked with rescue swimmers and their pretty fucking hardcore. Forget what goofballs from the other branches say. Their gonna talk shit because they have no idea the gusto it takes to willingly go into heavy seas or surf conditions to save a random motherfuckers.

>>33446883
The Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama. Flight school for the USCG.

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>>33447054

>oh whoa 7th grade was almost 10 years ago so long ago omg

youre not even 23 you faggot. just wait

>>33446244
>>33446306
I'm an E4 in the Coast Guard. my Rating is Machinery Technician. I work at a small boat station primarily designated for Search and Rescue with LE on the side. I am currently at training to become a Boarding Officer (Water Cop). While at the Unit my primary job is to keep the 4 boats we have running. We've got 45 RBM and 29 RBS. Secondary is to be a qualified boat crew-member on both platforms and to obviously be the underway engineer on the 45 RBM. I can shoot well enough to continuously pass at the range so I was trained as a Boarding Team Member to participate in a boarding (where are your life jackets) and Now I'm currently at training to become the Boarding Officer to lead the team. I'd KILL to be one Buoy Tender.

I work with swimmers and air crews a lot because our station is very close to and air station. All of the swimmers have something wrong in their head. Great people, but they're nuts, completely fucking nuts.

if fatty can't handle the bants at fucking MEPS then he's gonna get destroyed soon enough.

>>33447134
Those are good times

>>33445859
> Jafar
Kek

>>33446662
...you're dumb and you clearly don't understand a fucking thing about how fucked we'd be with another budget cut. stay on the AUX side of the house. No, Fuck that temp reserve bullshit. If you're not active duty and standing duty to answer the call at the wee hours of the night ten you shouldn't be in at all. I'm not a fan of our reservists that have never been on active duty.

>>33445886
Not actually true, The CG is the oldest continuous sea service. The Continental Navy was formed in 1775 and disbanded in 1785, 2 years after the treaty of Paris. The US Navy in its current form was founded in 1797. In 1790, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton created the US Revenue Cutter Service, this is the most senior of the 4 services that became the USCG (The other 3 being: The Lighthouse Service, Lifesaving Service, and Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation). As a result the Coast Guard by virtue of being the direct uninterrupted successor to the Revenue Cutter Service is the oldest sea service in continuous operation in the US, and actually was our De Facto Navy from 1790 to 1797 when the new US Navy was formed. And yes I've served in both USN 1986-90 USCG 1994-98.

>>33446525
thats what the navy is for. the coast guard was never supposed to be a fighting force against invading forces by sea. its time we have naval destroyers blowing the fuck out of drug ships with cannons leaving no survivors. the cartels need to learn the hard way. none of this "lets shoot warning shots 20 times while they keep speeding to a shallow mangrove to get away"

>>33447762
It's congress that prevents us from just wasting drug runners. I believe that we should just sink them. However the fucked up truth is, that a lot of the runners are actually doing it cause their families may be harmed if they don't work for the cartels and run drugs up the coast.

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>>33445843

First the army is 90% jocks nerds autists retards and bullied kids

Second the Special Forces Operator meme is perpetuated by Hollywood for the aforementioned groups to take combat / shitfantry roles.

Third, all of these fags have either no life or suck at it, so they have something to prove.

Join a nice respectable branch and fuck your wife / gf and have kids (or not) and enjoy the time at home with friends and family and do cool shit both at work and outside of it in a sweet Coast Guard position.

If you ever get the operator need (which you wont because you'll be more operator than 99% of them) you can go watch a movie comfortably with someone you love instead of jacking it off to porn mags and eating sand like them sad fuckers.

>>33445886
Oh, forgot to add this the services are ranked by seniority, you can see this when the honor guards pass in review at Arlington and rank in the following order Army, Navy, Marine Corps., Air Force, and Coast Guard. The last two never made sense to me because the Coast Guard was formed in 1917 and had been fully merged with the other 3 services by 1942. The Air Force did not become a separate service until 1947, 5 years after the CG, The Army ,Navy, and Marines use their Continental ancestors founding dates as their original inception dates.

>>33445843
Just remember highest retention.
Ill sit here and cry for not going to USCGA and instead being an SMP fatty at TAMU.

>>33445843
Good on you!! Served in the CG (1994-98) , good luck at Cape May, you'll never forget it.

>>33447762
I recommend you take a look at the National Security Cutter among others, the Coast Guard has been operating very closely with the Navy and has been involved in quite a few deep water ops with them, this started back in the mid to late 90's.

>>33447907
9 out of 10 kids at MEPS wouldn't shut up about how they wanted to be either a Seal, an Army Ranger, or a Recon Marine. All they did was bash each others branches claiming their special forces was better than the others. Literally the worst 10 hours of my life.

>>33447759
Neat, you learn something every day

>>33445886
nice fantasy

Question for you fine gentlemen.

I'm about 2-3 weeks from going to talk to recruiters. I just want to study a bit more for the ASVAB and get my run time a bit higher.

I have a degree so my fellow enlisted friends keep telling me go officer school. Which is fine. But I'm scared about one major thing that no one can give me a straight answer for.
When I was 17 senior year of high school I smoked mad pot and even soled some pot so I could afford to smoke pot for free.
After that throughout college I rarely smoked, focused on school, work and gf/friends. But from my research becoming a commissioned officer basically brings this into question.
Everyone say's since I have no record just lie. But it doesn't seem right, and more importantly wouldn't a thorough background check eventually bring this to light?

I've got no problem staying away from shit and haven't touched anything in a while, but I don't want to lose any opportunities just because I was a big ole dummy as a kid.

>>33448262
*sold

That was bugging me

>>33445843
It's just inter service rivalry. Those kids weren't even dot one of basic and don't know shit.

I actually tried to cross into the coast guard. I got sick of constant deployments. Secret service missions were fun the first couple of times but then became a nuisance themselves. I had a young son and was sick of the bullshit and wanted to stay stateside.

I started talking to their recruiter while still active duty k9 in 2011 and was setting everything up to bounce when I got home. I got home and three months later got re fucking deployed and deal went away with it. I ended up getting medically retired in 2013 but still wish I could have gotten into the coast guard dog program.

>>33448262
>becoming a commissioned officer basically brings this into question.
>Everyone say's since I have no record just lie. But it doesn't seem right, and more importantly wouldn't a thorough
You lie, end of story. Don't even tell your recruiter your smoked pot. Remember, you have never even been offered pot.

>>33448341
To tag onto my post, fuck everyone else op and their bullshit. Go do that job and good luck making it.

I was air force k9 and been attached and whored out to everyone. I still run into infantry privates with zero deployment experience saying dumb shit about "chairforce."

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Coast Guard's flag is fucking /aesthetic/ tbqh

>>33448375
OK, well I can't remember the name of the background check but it's the one where they basically go to your neighbors, friends relatives and ask intimate questions and shit to get clearance.

Not that my friends and family would have any knowledge of my dumbfuckery but my ex gf totally would. And she wouldn't be so kind. Do they really go that in depth for a fucking butter bar?

Can anyone here give me more information on the gunner's mate rating? I understand you're mostly just maintaining and cleaning weapons, counting cartridges, and conducting paperwork. But what else do they do? Can they perform other duties such as surface swimmer or BTM?

>>33445843
Fuck those guys. I've lived on various boats for coming on fifteen years now. The Coast Guard is literally the only service branch that I retain any respect for.

>>33448262
How the hell would a background xheck find that if there are no official records of it? It's not like they call up random people you may have known, asking if you smoked weed

>>33448613
My impression was literally that.
My nieghbors kid joined the Feds. This was like 12 years ago but I remember as a kid dudes in suits knocking on everyones doors and asking if they had a moment to talk about him and were asking questions about what he was like, if he did anything "questionable" shit like that.

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>>33445843
when you enlist, and serve for a little while youll get the jokes man. unless its from marines, they legit have mental problems and are usually sourced from trailer parks.

majority of it is just branch humor, we all make fun of each other. like marines eat crayons.

what makes me fucking mad are those little shits who havent done a god damn thing and think they are hot shit.

next time tell them suck dick until they make it threw boot, they are nothing.

i guarantee you half of them wont make it threw the first year of enlistment.

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dont let fuckin scrub ass poolies bother you dude.

t. army vet

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dont coasties have to be really fucking smart?

>army because the airforce was full
>navy because the recruiter lied about travel
>airforce because hot chicks and easy life
>marine corps because literally fucking retarded

>>33446038
Thats right

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>>33449349
>>33449369
>>33449385

>Coast Guard Pussies

Get in the pool then boot. Lets see you try a little drown proofing and find out who's gonna serve heroically and who's cannon fodder

>>33448262
You'll be fine dawg just don't mention it, the background check isn't that insanely thorough lmao

>>33445843

Don't worry brother, you'll find most folks in the military are petty fucks. Don't give two shits about what the other cunts are talking because a majority of them are normie common sense blockheads who will be able to tote their abilities of doing basic shit like tying knots and arriving 15 minutes early in an attempt to seem like some kind of James Bond/Master Chief mashup.

Do whatever you want. Coast Guard is a better living than the fucking Army, I'll tell you what, motherfucker.

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>>33448412
No, the Coast Guard Ensign is Aesthetic ! got one on my wall, a parting gift from one of the cutters I served on.

What's boot camp like in the Coast Guard?

>>33450060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zW_Bh2ZvQ

Dunno how accurate this video really is or what year it was recorded, but it looks like a quick glance.

>>33445954
When I shipped to Cape May (CG Basic), I was the only one leaving from MEPS for the CG that day, and I'm from a large city with a good sized Coast Guard presence.

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>>33445843
Can you break all of the Senior Chief's records?

>>33445843
Coast Guard actually gets to do cool shit all the time instead of just (maybe) while deployed.

My last NCOIC has been in 3 branches and wishes he'd just joined the Coast Guard back when he started his first enlistment.

>>33447651
Was an FT3 on the Escanaba (96-98), being one half of the Weapons Dept. on a 270 (the other half were the GM's) we were expected to be on one of the LE boarding teams. Drug and Migrant interdiction every time we went south, lots of boarding's and some good seizures, and it sure beats doing Fisheries and Treaty enforcement in the North Atlantic in January.

>>33447350
Kekamus

>>33445843
They're just jealous that the Coast Guard actually does important shit, rather than be tools for politicians.

>>33445886

Law Enforcement hahaha. Perfect response. I knew you'd say something like that.

>I'm too scared to go fight military terrorist trained sand niggers with AK's and RPGs ... but I want to feel like a bad ass.... what do I do?????

>OHHH I KNOW!!!! Become a cop and act like a soldier with nice white American citizens instead... and use the very rare dangerous examples that happen once in a while, to explain to people why I'm so bad ass and why they need me.

I never interacted with any other poolees. Not even other marine poolees.

You faggots are doing this all wrong.

I didnt even show up to any of the functions other than the mandatory ITS and obviously meps.

>>33445962

Little brother syndrome.

>>33445843
>join any branch but coast guard and protect jew interests
>join coast guard and protect your country and its citizens
gee, i wonder which way they'll be brainwashed to think.

>>33445843
do maritime enforcement, looks cool.

>>33445843
>Be me at 21, want to see the world.

>Gf tells me she'll leave me if I join

>Puss out and go talk to CG recruiter ( cause CG has a local station)

>My eyes are opened!

>Tell that bitch I'm joining the CG

>Take the test. High scores. Sky's the limit!

>Go out partying, get arrested for possession.

> no CG, no navy.

>Bitch leaves me a year later
Feels fucking bad.

>>33449416
They have the highest average ASVAB scores

>t. 92AFQT

>>33446275
This. Rescue Swimmers get mad respect from the people who actually know what they do. Same with Airforce PJ's.

Who else is willing to jump into a pitch black ocean in the middle of a storm, risking their life for a complete stranger?

>>33447651
How often do BM's get a shot at boarding team training. I will be E4 upon a school graduation?

>>33450733
>>33445859

>>33445843
I used to date a girl in the Coast Guard when I was stationed in Puerto Rico. I thought the Coast Guard was a joke, but she did more bad ass shit every day than I did. She was Maritime enforcement, and she did drug busts, took floating Dominicans back to their shithole island and rescued clueless Puerto Ricans.

Plus, she was super fit. She could out swim me and out run me.

>>33449369
I'm ex army and I generally have more respect for Coasties than most Navy types (save for the obvious Corpsmen, Special Boat Teams, SEALS, Seabees)
Coast Guard riverine patrol boat teams went up and down the Tigris/Euphrates in the Iraq war shooting at anything fishy, while Navy SWCC special boat teams were few and far between and usually restricted for SEAL shit

>>33448142
The funny thing is that those kids who spoke the loudest when shitting on other branches and bragging about being tacticool specops operator were probably the ones who didn't make it in the training for said branch or group

>>33452955
>98 AFQT
>PDQ'd from National Guard for ADHD

Military is for morons.

>>33447730
That was just a joke shipmate.

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>>33447134
>tfw swam competitively for 5 years
>tfw 49.5 SC 100 yard free
>tfw can't stand swimming any more

>>33445843
Keep in mind that these guys aren't even recruits yet (and neither are you for that matter). They don't know anything from actual experience and they have everything to prove.

Rescue swimmer is a real, respectable profession where you save actual lives. What branch you pick doesn't really matter unless you actually care what some strangers think of the logo on the uniform you wear.

>>33450240
I never noticed how shitty those sleeves are rolled.

>>33456704
You can be a rescue swimmer in the Navy, and not be a CG pussy at the same time.

>>33449416
Highest ASVAB to get in, you don't have to be a rocket scientist, though. I've met my fair share of mouthbreathing retards during my career.

The prized commodity isn't high IQ, it's being able to think for yourself in unusual or unexpected conditions.

>>33448542
>Can they perform other duties such as surface swimmer or BTM?

Yes. Those are collateral duties, not rating specific. Another collateral you might be interested in is EMT.

Diver used to be a collateral when I was in, but now it's a stand-alone rating.

If you wind up on an icebreaker, see if you can get demo school. It's rare, but it's been known to happen.

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>>33445843
>In anger I tell him the Marines don't except fatties
>except
And you're an autist that can't handle some bants. Also you have Marine Corps level IQ.

>>33445907
And everyone else...
Seriously, even though all armed forces are heroes, coast guard and national guard are the most respectable, because they defend american soil and waters. They don't go out to fight mohammed in the desert for no reason but to protect big business intrest.

Call me bait, call me a dick.

>>33448480
No, only if you're getting a Top Secret clearance and even then only if you list her. But if you do go for a TS do the people you a list a favor and give them a heads up that the FBI will be talking to them.

>>33446307
why did you laugh at the sf guys?

>>33446306
Polar class and NSCs can actually have two Dolphins.

I was looking up the length of the NSC and was very surprised how much longer it is than the Polar class ships. Live and learn I guess.

>>33452424
>for possession
of what? It was your fault tho.

>>33446151
>boatswains mate
>making rank quickly
Pick one

>>33445843

kek.

AAA on the shallow seas.

Good on you. Branch to branch rivalry exists because it's healthy. Roll with it, we all know you win in the end.

Navy and Army here, based on my interactions with the services in order from best to worst quality of life is....

CG > chair force > Navy (air rates) > Army > Real Navy = Marines

Have fun. Do everything you can. Since you probably won't make swimmer, just enjoy your selected job. Suck up the punches, those with service under their belts who give you shit have every right to do so. Booters are just copying what they see real members doing.

>>33445843
Cause he's a fellow dumb teenager. Any adult will tell you the Coast guardsmen are pretty hardcore and they do deploy, we had coast guard running security in the Persian Gulf.

Trust me, if fatty who gave you shit ever dose get in and get's his EGA and deploys alongside sailors and coasties he'll be less of a dick and have respect for you

At the moment you are all dumb civilians getting into a dick measuring argument about accomplishments you haven't attained yet.

Only military branch that is a joke is the chair force.

>>33458780
they have a 95% wash out rate so most of them are never going to become special forces and just get folded into infantry or other MOS like forward observers or something.

It's sad, most of the guys that sign up for seals and shit are the most fit guys at the recruiting station, but they only take on so many graduates, they are going to weed people out, even if they pass everything...it's like football training camp, plenty of talent, but on one out of a hundred is going pro.

>>33449385
You have the cartoon where the marine tells the cancer kid he's going to haze the cancer out of his fuk'n body?

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>>33445886

DSF is a meme, besides getting multicam and mall ninja guns cus "muh tactical security force" what do they even do... and the HITRON guys suck even more fking autists naming issued guns 'n shit

>>33446151
they are rates btw, i hope you studied your general orders, enjoy the best cape may has to offer, mosquitoes and baby seagulls, baby seagulls EVERYWHERE

just go GM, nobody wants to go gunners mate, cus all they do is play with guns, so you go to "a" school really quick

>>33445947

but can you sew,
>wait 4 years to go to school basically doing bitch work on a cutter
>go to school to be AST
>end up having to do all the dry suit maintenance
>i hope you like sewing

>>33445859
DC3 Bruckenthal got rekt by a suicide boat IED
and the RAID team used to work in Afghanistan,
coast guard also has an international training team that goes around the world and teaches stuff

>>33446244
the NSC are about the same size as a DDG, and have a BOFORS 57mm main gun

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>>33454914

it depends, you need to be billeted for the specific job (like at a small boat station)

if you end up getting on a big cutter, you get to babysit E3s and paint, small boat stations are where its at, or small cutters too, cus you can get your Officer of the Deck qualification

BO school is a supplementary school that makes you a federal agent to enforce counter narcotics and firearms laws in addition to maritime safety, and to get it you basically need to be in a billet where that's part of your job (i.e. a small boat station)

>>33459291
Why will I probably not become a swimmer?

Every Jarhead faggot wants to join the Marines because "muh brotherhood", ignore the years, they'll probably never make it in

>>33455063
What do Coasties and Marines have in common?


Navy Wives.

>>33446244
Sea police.
Shooting José when he tries to smuggle cocaine into Florida.
Rescuing retarded drunk boaters who took their 15 foot pleasure craft out in 20 foot seas.
Icebreaking.
Occasionally rescuing desperate fishermen from the jaws of fucking sea-hell.
Buoy maintenence.

You know, usual stuff.

>>33448388

This. I'm in school using voc rehab right now from prior air force. Ive actually had scum trainee ROTC faggots guffaw with a "HEHEHE CHAIRFORCE!!!" Had a navy vet who LITERALLY worked as admin talking shit on the air force.

Im not sure why everyone just assumes everyone in the airforce humps a desk all day but that shit is annoying.

>>33447934
>and rank in the following order Army, Navy, Marine Corps., Air Force, and Coast Guard

The USMC comes before the USN due to some bull-fuckery. If recall correctly (as in, I could be very wrong), something that had to do with the USN taking its sweet time deciding on what origin date to use when the precedence thing was an issue.

>>33456759
Such an insightful answer, tell me "Navy Expert", what EXACTLY makes a Navy "Rescue Swimmer" superior to a Coast Guard AST? Now you go run off and research that for me, and come back with an informed, reasoned, and well researched answer and we will discuss it like adults, OK? Good, run along now.

>>33461692
Not that guy, but I'd imagine the thought process is that Navy does that shit out in the open ocean. But I'm a landlubbing soldier, so I wouldn't know...

I don't even give Coasties shit. Their training seems relatively intense, and someone's gotta stay here and protect the homeland while the Navy takes a paid vaca...I mean deploys to Greece or whatever.

>>33462263
Navy..... Go to sea, drink coffee, send in the Marines.

>>33459577
NSC's are 418' vs. 509' for the Burke class but similar in many ways, the NSC can be upgraded to conduct deep water missions if needed and as with most of the new large cutters, it is designed to operate in tandem with Naval units if needed. Ingalls Shipbuilding, the contractor for the NSC, also builds Burkes and has been shopping around a Fast Attack Frigate concept using the NSC platform/Hull.

>>33447134
>these are varsity times
Zep Kek
I was varsity only my last year in high school, started in 10th grade. Best 100 free was a 54, best 100 fly was a 59.
Fug now I'm 24 and running a mile is an accomplishment for me.
I should just kms

>>33445988
Check your history genius, the ONLY time the CG was absorbed by the Navy for purposes of war fighting was WWII, a large number of Higgins Boats, LSTs, LSMs, etc., were crewed by Coasties, Every other conflict they've operated solo, and as an equal/supplement to the other branches. Vietnam being a good example, look up Operation Market Time, they got neck deep in the shit with everybody else.

>>33456759
I'll just leave this here:

http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2010/05/coast-guard-graduates-first-two-seals/

>>33447000

The best way to tell new blood from old blood is how they treat other branches. They'll talk shit about pencil pushers, but there's badges they won't throw shade at, Usually things that the new guys think sounds limp-wristed.

It's always a good time when someone finds out Forward Observers don't just point binoculars.

>>33462263
That's part of it, but the truth is most people will never know how many things the Coast Guard is actually involved in/does on a daily basis, especially for a service with less than 40,000 active members.

>be inna navy
>going to mexican waters
>command puts out we're potentially gonna be doing anti drug ops
>fuck yeah vbss get ready to fuck shit up
>bring on shipriders
>they're coasties
>coasties going to do the actual boarding in event of drug ops
>tfw navy doesn't do non-compliant boardings anymore

>>33459716
how long does it normally take to pick up 3rd class being a puddle pirate?

To some degree, I want to actually enlist in the Coast Guard, but the Navy has better job training and benefits apparently.

>>33463643
Three weeks, if you can get into DEPOT.