I'm coming into this thread late and as a newbie, but one who can nolonger play jarhead because of asthma. I had no symptoms at all until returning home from Desert Storm in 91, and had been in the USMC for almost three years, 285+ on every PFT, CONUS and on Okinawa. Had to drag down two inhalers three times a day to get it under control, along with no PT. Forced laziness and the drugs offered me an extra 40 to haul around, but I was still in spec. Long story short they let me finish my enlistment but said hell no to a re-up.
15 years later... I still have the extra 40 pounds, due mainly to a woman that can cook. Down to one inhaler that I am supposed to hit twice a day, but use maybe twice a month. I've tried six times in the last twelve years to get back in and the USMC don't want me. No matter the MOS, every Marine is a rifleman first. I could probably weasel my way into NG or USAR, but they suck possum ass, and I just can't force myself to pucker up. I just standby waiting for the coming revolution to free my homeland from the teeth of the socialist empire known as the Incorporated States of Amurika.
"Every evil which has befallen our institutions is directly traceable to the perversion of the compact of union and the usurpation by the Federal Government of undelegated powers."-President Jefferson Davis
