Fly By Might Only
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- Sep 18, 2014
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Good afternoon everyone,
I'm a 20 year old LCpl in the Marine Corps, presently undergoing language and SIGINT training. My purpose for being here is to consult and gather insight from the no shit real deal guys who are staining the carpets behind the scenes. I'm in the latter parts of my training courses, and I have finally (after a significant amount of time gaffing off) started training to an extremely serious degree, as I have gotten to a point in my studies where I can find time to correct my deficiencies in a variety of other aspects of my rather young military career.
A little about my history, I am a South Korean who was adopted by American parents, my true father was a ROK Marine, and my mother was a young student. Not sure about how she ended up with my in her belly, or why I am here in the United States, but in any case I'm very thankful that I get to live in this great country. Spent all of my middle through high school years about as beta-male as it comes, my existence was truly tantamount to a waste of carbon. Causing trouble and skating was all I did and I never really considered a military career. My junior year of high school, after I had picked up olympic weightlifting to boost me up from my frail and sickly 95 pound frame at 5'4, I decided that maybe I could potentially become someone who has an ounce of physical capability. After two years of oly-lifting I developed a good physique but more importantly developed a stronger mindset. With that I nutted up and decided to apply for the NROTC Marine Option scholarship from the University of Washington. I was accepted but decided later, upon meeting and talking with my old childhood friend who was/is(?) over at 1st Ranger Battalion, to enlist in the Marine Corps to get a good idea what followership is before I take on the mantle of a leader.
Even with two years of pretty solid 2-a-day Olympic weightlifting sessions five days a week, I wasn't that competitive physically. Running a solid 220-ish PFT before I left for bootcamp. Fast forward to now, I run a 299/300, and I'm starting to realize I may actually have the physical capacity to not only make it, but hopefully some day excel in the Radio Reconnaissance field.
These days, I do land PT in the morning before class, and swim in the evenings, 6 days a week. I've gathered a good amount of information from my friends who are presently in RRP, and also some side information from some of the individuals who were dropped from AFSOC training pipelines who are at the joint service installation that I am at currently. I understand that physical training will only get you so far, especially if the programming is shotty. So if I could sum up the reasoning behind my presence here in a short statement, it's simply to try to improve myself holistically and learn from the people who have lived it, made it, but also excelled at it, and are capable of teaching it.
Thank you, and I hope to get started soon.
I'm a 20 year old LCpl in the Marine Corps, presently undergoing language and SIGINT training. My purpose for being here is to consult and gather insight from the no shit real deal guys who are staining the carpets behind the scenes. I'm in the latter parts of my training courses, and I have finally (after a significant amount of time gaffing off) started training to an extremely serious degree, as I have gotten to a point in my studies where I can find time to correct my deficiencies in a variety of other aspects of my rather young military career.
A little about my history, I am a South Korean who was adopted by American parents, my true father was a ROK Marine, and my mother was a young student. Not sure about how she ended up with my in her belly, or why I am here in the United States, but in any case I'm very thankful that I get to live in this great country. Spent all of my middle through high school years about as beta-male as it comes, my existence was truly tantamount to a waste of carbon. Causing trouble and skating was all I did and I never really considered a military career. My junior year of high school, after I had picked up olympic weightlifting to boost me up from my frail and sickly 95 pound frame at 5'4, I decided that maybe I could potentially become someone who has an ounce of physical capability. After two years of oly-lifting I developed a good physique but more importantly developed a stronger mindset. With that I nutted up and decided to apply for the NROTC Marine Option scholarship from the University of Washington. I was accepted but decided later, upon meeting and talking with my old childhood friend who was/is(?) over at 1st Ranger Battalion, to enlist in the Marine Corps to get a good idea what followership is before I take on the mantle of a leader.
Even with two years of pretty solid 2-a-day Olympic weightlifting sessions five days a week, I wasn't that competitive physically. Running a solid 220-ish PFT before I left for bootcamp. Fast forward to now, I run a 299/300, and I'm starting to realize I may actually have the physical capacity to not only make it, but hopefully some day excel in the Radio Reconnaissance field.
These days, I do land PT in the morning before class, and swim in the evenings, 6 days a week. I've gathered a good amount of information from my friends who are presently in RRP, and also some side information from some of the individuals who were dropped from AFSOC training pipelines who are at the joint service installation that I am at currently. I understand that physical training will only get you so far, especially if the programming is shotty. So if I could sum up the reasoning behind my presence here in a short statement, it's simply to try to improve myself holistically and learn from the people who have lived it, made it, but also excelled at it, and are capable of teaching it.
Thank you, and I hope to get started soon.
