1. Where else can you find people who get dumber as they get promoted
  2. I love running around at 5am with little green silk shorts on singing songs
  3. I love eating food that is lower grade than a prison chow hall.
  4. I love knowing that no matter how old I am I’m always treated like a child.
  5. I like standing at attention for hours on end
  6. I hate spending time with my family

  7. I like being called into work 3hrs after I get off
  8. I like being told what to do 24-7
  9. I love being yelled at like im in middle school
  10. I am not a fan of Freedom
  11. Where else can you stand in a little shack in front of a gate for countless hours?
  12. I like knowing that if you have one less stripe then someone you can’t call them a liar.
  13. Even better, the fact that I need someone to tell me how to comb my hair and shave my face
  14. I always am a fan of cleaning a spotless room for hours on end
  15. I love having to work with a shop full of idiots
  16. I love gear
  17. I love CMR layouts
  18. I love pretending to be a real marine out in the “field”.
  19. I love LT’s
  20. I love having gear I’ll never use
  21. I love living with smelly roommates
  22. I love being 22 years old and having a curfew
  23. I’m happy to know that they will make it hard as possible to get the G.I. Bill so I don’t go to college and re-enlist
  24. I love sand storms
  25. I love knowing There is no chance I will not spend any less then 3 years in iraq if I re-enlist
  26. It’s awesome that I have no chance of catching up with my peers in college and that there are no jobs without a degree. Almost forcing people to re-enlist
  27. I love the fact I have a really good chance of being blown up by an IED
  28. I’m positive the Marine Corps tried to find barbers that could cut hair.
  29. I love knowing, although im in Iraq, it’s a chargeable offense to go to condition 1 with the rifle im forced to carry around
  30. What is more rewarding then knowing someone else got a NAM for your work
  31. I’m glad that I have working experience as a master of the custodial arts
  32. I love log books
  33. I enjoy long nights of waiting for some MGysgt to come and make sure my “home” is up to standards
  34. I love police call
  35. I can’t wait to get out and make my wife and kids sign out on the board with name destination and time
  36. I love Marine Corps Orders
  37. I love River City
  38. WWWBWOAY (where would we be without acronyms yo)
  39. I love being told the shots down when its not.
  40. Where else can you have doctors that have the same time in medical school as your MOS school
  41. A day without weapons cleaning is no day for me
  42. How many jobs do you know that you cannot quit, and if you try you go to jail. Oh wait, I know. Slaves
  43. I love being a ass chewin target
  44. I love knowing that if I wear a issued beanie I’m trying to make a fashion statement.
  45. It’s comforting to know my boss is most likely an old, bitter, pissed off asshole with nothing better to do then yell at everyone
  46. I thoroughly enjoy daily briefs
  47. I don’t think I can remember anything unless it’s told by my Bn. Co, then repeated by my Co. then repeated by my Company Gunny, then repeated by my SNCO, repeated by my plt sgt.
  48. I love LMST’s
  49. Good to know by the time “word” actually gets passed all the way down to me about a formation I show up 2 hours early from all the “15 minutes priors that were done
  50. I’m all about Honor Courage and Commitment, although the people that are suppose to teach me that are dirt bags, in prison, liars, and thieves
  51. I love being embarrassed cuz I’m a marine. All that means is that I was too dumb to go to college and now all my high school friends laugh at me.
  52. I love being called a devil dog, hard charger, motivator, and killer.
  53. I enjoy the same classes over and over again. that are suppose to make me feel smart
  54. I love being forced to retirement ceremonies for those old mean fucks
  55. I love that fact that at any given time there could be a surprise “inspection”
  56. I love how even if you’re on vacation they can still call you back.
  57. I love knowing that if I “get out” I’m never really “out”.
  58. I enjoy knowing no matter how hard you work, there’s always a flaw in what you do
  59. I love making sure I got a collar shirt nice and tucked in with gay boots and a spider belt to go into the px. Looking squared away at all times. But some fat disgusting wife or dependant can go there in flip flops, a wife beater and some sweatpants. Buying up all the treats.
  60. I love having to go broke just to get a haircut
  61. I love making sure that my uniform is nicely pressed, dry cleaned, starched, and IP’d. All of which comes out of my own pocket putting me in more debt.
  62. I love making sure I get a “max set” after each work day. Keeping my body in top physical condition
  63. I love saying good morning to a higher ranking person, then because they think they are better then me, they don’t say shit back.
  64. I love being yelled at if I don’t say good morning to them. Still they say nothing back.
  65. I love uniform items
  66. I love using words like porthole, deck, scuttle bucket, utilities, ink pen, and hatch
  67. I enjoy the fact that if I don’t know what to call something I can always count on using the word ‘gear’ to describe everything
  68. I love referring to everything as mine. Ex: “PM my freaking LMST”
  69. Where else can you work with motards? every time they talk, every other word is “freaking” or “dog’on”
  70. I don’t know of any finer luxury then sleeping in the same room as 80 dudes for 3 months
  71. I love that the “hardest” institution in the armed forces disciplines there belligerent subordinates with a piece of paper and a counseling
  72. Where else, beside the NFL, can you shower with those same 80 from #70 at the same time.
  73. I don’t know of any greater institution besides this one, that if you smell like a rotting vag, you’re a dirt bag, and complete idiot u can still get promoted.
  74. I love the pay
  75. I love that no matter how much work I do. Any shit bag will still get the same paycheck
  76. and Shit bag #2
  77. and Shit bag #3_
  78. Nothing better then knowing ive got people the same rank as me that have been in for less then half the time. Tight
  79. I love putting the number zero before I tell the time because apparently its to hard for me to decipher between am and pm
  80. I love revelry. Nothing better then waking up no later than 5:30 ( 0530 for all you tuffle’s)
  81. I like hearing stories of how a marine’s fat wife is spending all his money.
  82. Nothing better then saluting passing cars with some officers punk ass kid driving his daddy car
  83. I like turning a ten minute task into a six hour “mission”
  84. I like to call my food chow
  85. I like when devil dogs are smoke pit commando’s and smoke 20 times in an 8hr day.
  86. I love he fact that you can only smoke in a “smoke pit”
  87. This is the only chance I will have to get some “hands on” training. And never actually learn anything at all.
  88. I love cleaning up ghost tirds.
  89. I love how it takes a college education to break and a high education to fix it.
  90. Troubleshooting
  91. making sure my rifle is clean and squared away at all times. Although the only time it will see action is at the BZO range
  92. Putting name tags on clothes that already have name tags on them
  93. I love cammie inspections
  94. DUTY
  95. I have nothing better to do with my money then waste it on GAS to drive to the 50 formations we have to have each day.
  96. I love how they say they will re-reimburse you for the money you’ve spent but never do.
  97. If its raining we’re training
  98. I like marching to places that are 5 miles away
  99. I love that my car has to be inspected by a satellite platoon sergeant that has never opened a hood. To make sure my car is “good to go” for the long weekend
  100. I love the title Marine