I had three young Marines under me and not one time in the nine months we were there did they have to burn Sh#*t. It was great we set up a huge armory to Marine corps standards using triple layered razor wire and we were set a couple hundred yards from billeting. When I went to Iraq I was an E-5 and became the Armory chief for our Company, and I was also the battalion armorer. duties outside the armory he protected us since his thinking was "they didn't come in here and help us."Īnother huge aspect is if your activated and sent to a foward area. If there was work to be done inside the armory we did it, we cleaned and took care of our own business so when it came to B.S. Only a certain few people are allowed to enter the armory without being escorted, I was lucky that my SNOIC when I was a young Marine looked out for us. Marines are about combat operations everything that we do revolves around supporting those combat operations so you are very important considering you can't kill without your weapons of war. On field operations you become a very important part of the unit. Your a little isolated from the rest of the unit during the work day so you can lay low as a young Marine. Think about it this way your in an armory most of the day, depending on your SNOIC you don't have to do as much B.S work outside the armory as other young guys who are getting snatched for cleanup duty ect. That will be you for a while but you'll work your way up. The Marine that the weapon is assigned to is responsible for cleaning the weapon, except for the ones not assigned to a Marine then you have the new private clean those. Sigarmorer is right we don't clean the weapons we inspect them and fix them. The Skys the limit and only you can decide what you want to do. Maybe you can be a Less Baer or and Ed Brown. I can hear the line now "I spent 20 years in the Marine Corps to come work for these guys and to assemble revolvers for $20.00 an hour?" Have you seen some of the crap that some of these gun manufactires are selling now these days? Not to harp on an Armorer but I don't personally know any Armorers who did 20 years in the Marine Corps and got out and went to work for Smith and Wesson. Why don't you try and get a job that will take you further into the future when you get out of the service?Ĭomputers? Criminal investigation? maybe Aviation? Most jobs in the Marine Corps have down time but it really depends on what your job involves. Or if you show exceptional apptitude you may get assigned to be an armorer for the Marine Corps Rilfe team or the Base Rifle team. In some cases you will be assinged to a unit and be the unit armor and go our on deployments on Ship or stateside. Yeah you love weapons but do you really want to spend all your time in the armory lubbing weapons? Think about the down side to what your job will be. or get stationed on an Air Wing Base like Cherry point North Carolina and maybe fix a couple of weapons a week since the Air Wing only qualifys with thier weapons and don't usually go out into the field with them much. Since there is an Armory on every base you can get assigned to lets say Camp Lejune in jacksonville North Carolina and be busy all day fixing weapons.
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