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for the past couple of years ive been considering joining the marines (active duty), and ive been thinking of calling a recruiter to learn more about it.

how does it work? do you have to go to one of their offices or do they come to you?

In Michigan, they come to you early.
While your shopping or watching 4th of July fireworks.
When your years short of joining up.
I think it has something to do with the economic situation.

I know that sometimes they come to you,
other times you gotta ring them up and go to them.

for the past couple of years ive been considering joining the marines (active duty), and ive been thinking of calling a recruiter to learn more about it.

how does it work? do you have to go to one of their offices or do they come to you?

Nah, If you call a recruiter they won't even take you. They will see it as a sign of indecision and weakness. You have to buy a gun and make your way to Iraq by yourself. Have you seen the commercials? "An army of one". Once you have proved yourself you can join "an army of a few" and they generally go from there.

for the past couple of years ive been considering joining the marines (active duty), and ive been thinking of calling a recruiter to learn more about it.

how does it work? do you have to go to one of their offices or do they come to you?

Depends on the requiter.

You will eventually have to show up at thier office, and take the ASVAB, and sign papers, etc. There's also the physical. You usually have to travel to the main recruiting station/military hosptial for that. In Oregon, everyone goes to Portland.

Good luck making the right decision. I tried to join, but am medically ineligable.

My BF's oldest son is in the process of joining the Marines right now. I was in the AF, back in the day.

You have two choices for contacting a recruiter. Either you visit the recruiter first, or you go take the ASVAB first, in which case - if you get a good score - the recruiter will call you (in my case, they gave it at our high school). In general, once a recruiter knows you're interested, they will come to you.

The ASVAB is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. A written exam. Everyone must take the test eventually in order to enlist. Your score helps determine what careers you get to choose from. The higher your score, the more choices you will have.

If you're thinking about joining the Marines:

1) Ensure that you can run 3 miles, do a minimum of 10 pull-ups, and 100 sit-ups in 2 minutes. A good time for the 3 miles is around 21 minutes.

2) When you go to Boot Camp...(if you were in JROTC)...pretend not to know anything. If you didn't know anything, that's OK. Also, always move FAST...like a run, for everything. If the DI tells you to get the heck out of the building, freaking fly out of it. Don't be the last one out.

3) Be mentally tough. Boot Camp is supposed to be hard. But don't start gaffing off anything either. You won't get much sleep, neither will anyone else. You're all in the same boat together, and depend on your rackmate, your squad leader, and everyone else, because they'll also be relying on you.

That should be enough to get you through the toughest Basic School in the US military.

Considering how well you're doing with your math and physics homework, this might be a good idea.

Then again, some military occupational specialties require an ability to do fairly complex math.