[usmcobra]

Joined the Marines at 18,

Why? because I always knew I would be in the military

and always knew I'd never join the Marines,

they were last on my list after the Coast Guard, I got turned down by every other service and someone (The Navy recruiter) tossed my name to The Marine recruiter, he went into the boondocks (literally) to get me, (I was stuck in a swollen creek with the family truck frame deep in mud, and he showed up in WHITE jeans, a RED USMC t-shirt, and spit-shined combat boots and pushed out the truck,)

after that I could not say no.

My biggest regret, not re-enlisting for longer when I had the chance, it might have prevented me from being cut via a budget cut that eliminated 6000 Marines.

[Warrior Nurse]

I enlisted in the Marines at age 20 in 1982. When I graduated from college in 1983, I applied for a commission and earned the title of Lieutenant of Marines. I served in the Corps until 1990. There was a RIF prior to Desert Shield/Storm and I had to get out of the Corps. In 1995 I accepted a commission in the Navy Nurse Corps which I have be serving but due to the lack of opportunity and other reasons I applied for an inter-service transfer to the US Army so starting in 2006 I will be an Army Major, 3 branches of the military and 3 commissions says simply that I love wearing the cloth of the nation.