I had a postcard popped through my door one afternoon showing a bootneck crouched in the grass, camoe'd up to the nines with his SA80 trained towards the camera, with the caption "Is your attention span longer than 2 hours?"
Got me instantly, filled in the form on the back, popped down to my AFCO and got wheels in motion.
I want to go that little bit further than most people.
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Good on all you lads, even Stinky Furby 
. Nice to see a thread like this.
I hope you all achieve you goals. It's a great life and by heck you will do things you would never ever think you could do. I've been out 15 years and still miss the comradeship and the way of life that only Royal seems to lead.
In fact since I started on this forum a few of us now meet up and Swing Lamps n Stuff every so often. I even re-established Comms with my Old DI, Yorkie Malone. A couple of years ago me, him and a couple of other Ex Booties had 12 hours of total fun in and around a local Public House next to the Llangollen Canal in Cheshire, swinging the Lamp and blackcatting each other over our tales of daring do!
The Civvies were tickled pink at our easy going open attitude towards life. One Retired Army Officer however was not. The silly man tried to order us to behave as we were annoying him........The reply to his request was succinct and to the point.
Naff off Perce!
Tis true you know lads. Once a Marine, Always a Marine.
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. Nice to see a thread like this.I hope you all achieve you goals. It's a great life and by heck you will do things you would never ever think you could do. I've been out 15 years and still miss the comradeship and the way of life that only Royal seems to lead.
In fact since I started on this forum a few of us now meet up and Swing Lamps n Stuff every so often. I even re-established Comms with my Old DI, Yorkie Malone. A couple of years ago me, him and a couple of other Ex Booties had 12 hours of total fun in and around a local Public House next to the Llangollen Canal in Cheshire, swinging the Lamp and blackcatting each other over our tales of daring do!
The Civvies were tickled pink at our easy going open attitude towards life. One Retired Army Officer however was not. The silly man tried to order us to behave as we were annoying him........The reply to his request was succinct and to the point.
Naff off Perce!
Tis true you know lads. Once a Marine, Always a Marine.
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Interesting thread people 
Excuse me while I fill you in with my lifes story 
Born and bred a Kiwi to unusual parents in NZ (homeschooled, have never seen the inside of a classroom). I have had a good upbringing with the typical goods and bads that life brings. One of the best things in my younger life was going with my dad to work. He was a technician with TVNZ and was responsible for designing and building the first live television link for use on the TV1 news Helicopter. Anyway in the constant course of refining the technology I used to be able to blag chopper rides all the time, and got to know the pilots pretty well. One of the pilots I discovered was a Bootneck and he filled me in on what he'd done in his life and the experiences he'd had in the Corps. From then on I've wanted to be a Royal Marine!
When I eventually said how I'd like to become a Marine he gave me a good lecture about state of mind being way more important than superhuman strength, showed his books of photos etc. He never actually thought I should join "His Corps", he just recomended a military career of any discription as a good way of doing and seeing things.
I was about 16 then and time goes by but everytime I got another job somewhere I always run into the same problem: I hate working with people who have no pride in, and dislike their jobs.
What makes the RM so attractive to me is the people I would work with, the training and I think the sence of acheivement.
Anyway, thats my reasons, and I avoided a one liner didn't I!
Benjo out
Excuse me while I fill you in with my lifes story Born and bred a Kiwi to unusual parents in NZ (homeschooled, have never seen the inside of a classroom). I have had a good upbringing with the typical goods and bads that life brings. One of the best things in my younger life was going with my dad to work. He was a technician with TVNZ and was responsible for designing and building the first live television link for use on the TV1 news Helicopter. Anyway in the constant course of refining the technology I used to be able to blag chopper rides all the time, and got to know the pilots pretty well. One of the pilots I discovered was a Bootneck and he filled me in on what he'd done in his life and the experiences he'd had in the Corps. From then on I've wanted to be a Royal Marine!
When I eventually said how I'd like to become a Marine he gave me a good lecture about state of mind being way more important than superhuman strength, showed his books of photos etc. He never actually thought I should join "His Corps", he just recomended a military career of any discription as a good way of doing and seeing things.
I was about 16 then and time goes by but everytime I got another job somewhere I always run into the same problem: I hate working with people who have no pride in, and dislike their jobs.
What makes the RM so attractive to me is the people I would work with, the training and I think the sence of acheivement.
Anyway, thats my reasons, and I avoided a one liner didn't I!
Benjo out
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Give a man a gun, he'll be giving away the bullets
Give a man a gun, he'll be giving away the bullets
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What was the ex RM's name? PM me instead of saying it over an open Forum as some guys don't like having their names plastered all over the Internet.
See you in October. Or whenever it is your coming over to join. As it is a good Oppo of mine came over from NZ and made a point of paying me a visit last year. Thats what a True Blue Booty Oppo does. We were instantly back to the owd days and at one time had his wife in fits of laughter when we sussed out that the Bar we were in was full of for want of a better word Whoofters! (Truth be told I did in fact know, bloody hilarious seeing his reaction!)
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What was the ex RM's name? PM me instead of saying it over an open Forum as some guys don't like having their names plastered all over the Internet.
See you in October. Or whenever it is your coming over to join. As it is a good Oppo of mine came over from NZ and made a point of paying me a visit last year. Thats what a True Blue Booty Oppo does. We were instantly back to the owd days and at one time had his wife in fits of laughter when we sussed out that the Bar we were in was full of for want of a better word Whoofters! (Truth be told I did in fact know, bloody hilarious seeing his reaction!)
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PM inbound Artist, looks like we'll have to do some lamp swinging about the town when I'm over! Better avoid that bar though, I for some reason am rather attractive to those sort of people, last time I dropped one in a bar cos he was reaching for me package 
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Cheers Benjo
! Cheers Benjo
give a man a bullet, he'll ask you for a gun.
Give a man a gun, he'll be giving away the bullets
Give a man a gun, he'll be giving away the bullets
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I can't see the point in seeing the worldi first looked at joining the army but then realised i wanted more of a challenge and see more of the world
But I cant wait to get into Iraq! I know I sound sick minded but it's my personality that wants me to do it. I don't mind dieing so I'm not going to waste myself by doing nothing then getting old. The army forces might as well make use of me.stinky,
1. Seeing as you dont want to join up for a few years, its highly unlikely you will be sent to iraq, inless on a Peace keeping role or engineering. (More likely to be drafted to Germany for about a decade. That seems to be whats happening in the army at the moment with regards infantry)
2. How do you know you don't mind dying, you havent tried it?
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1. Seeing as you dont want to join up for a few years, its highly unlikely you will be sent to iraq, inless on a Peace keeping role or engineering. (More likely to be drafted to Germany for about a decade. That seems to be whats happening in the army at the moment with regards infantry)
2. How do you know you don't mind dying, you havent tried it?
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My personal veiw is (and I don't mind you commenting it)...How do you know you don't mind dying, you havent tried it?
First of all, If you belive you go to heaven and hell after dieing which i do not, for eterinty, and you know your going to go to hell you shouldnt be worrying because you wont be alone there and one of the things you will think off when your dead is that you wished you never worryed about it when you were alive because it was only for your life time and you got the rest of eterity to suffer which your life time will be nothing compaired to, If you belive in science, you know when you die your brian will die leaving no thoughts or memorys and souls can't go to heaven or hell so it wouldn't mean a dam if you were dead or not you will basicly become 'perfect' as i like to think of it. What I mean by perfect is that people say lifes a bitch, which basicly means theres more bad things then good things in life, so when you die you would have left all the bad things (e.g. being ill, worrying, bill, work etc etc.) and it would not matter that you have left all the good things because once your dead there would be no such thing. People say they would like to live so they can live through the good things, obvously you have to live though the bad things to see the good things but dieing would mean none off this would matter therefor, you would become perfect. Of course theres the pain before dieing, If your able to take the pain, which is unlikly to go on more then 5 minutes depend on how bad the injury is. Once the pains over, you become 'perfect'. Some people are worryed if they kill them selfs, god will send them to hell because only he can take life away. Now for the people who have attemped a suicide it takes alot of balls to actully kill yourself. As god is all powerful, actully killing yourself would be a result of him allowing you to do it, so he has granted you to kill yourself. I came up with the killing yourself idea because If you are going to die and in alot of pain but unlikly to die for a while, you should be able to kill yourself without going against god. But I don't belive in god but if i was worryed about if god was real, at least he wont blame me for killing myself. So why am I not worryed about dieing, because If you veiw it like me, theres nothing to worry about, and in my eyes, become perfect. If the whole world to die, there would be no suffering and nothing else would matter. causing the world a better off place. If you really want to see, come and kill me and see if I care lol. But let me phone up my best friend saying im going to die and hopfully see will see it the same way as me
. Hopfully I will never lose this thought because I belive not worrying that I'm going to die would give me confidence etc. and who knows, If this happens when I die, I might aready be dead and I would be worrying about dieing for eterity without knowing I am dead. And I'm not making this up. All I need now is fittness and some smartness and I'll be as happy on a battle feild as a bunny. And no, I wont care that I'm on a battlefield because of my belief and I like things happening like that. Hope your glad I put this much effort in to write all this and maybe it might help some of you. And I realize alot of these beliefs are heard from other people and past around, but my belief was totaly made up myself and I think thats why I belive my belief so much because It's mine. I think this post should count as two
I'm going in when I'm 18 I think. Do royal marine infantry do engernering?< spelt wrong.Seeing as you dont want to join up for a few years, its highly unlikely you will be sent to iraq, inless on a Peace keeping role or engineering. (More likely to be drafted to Germany for about a decade. That seems to be whats happening in the army at the moment with regards infantry)
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If your being honest then I'm so happyI can't believe I read all that. It made me want to reach "perfection."
I mean I'm not trying to make you all kill yourselfs but concider it. I hope it helps all of you and no, I wont go and play in the road because I want to kill some iraqis before I die but if i have no choice...then what the hell! If your not worryed about dieing now, I'm glad I helped you. P.S. I never thought I knew that much about it, all that runs thought my head is I don't mind dieing for some reasons that would last about 5 lines long!. If I could copyright that for free I would.
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Yeees, if I read your tortured syntax properly Stinky, what you just described is generally called Stoicism (or at least a part of it), as modelled by the Greeks, Romans, Vikings and other civilisations where life was a bit brutal and involved a lot of killing each other.
However, you have characteristically missed the point entirely (yes, I know it's your idea and so you cannot have missed the point, but try giving the ideas of thousands of wiser heads accumulated over thousands of years a shot). The general point of Stoicism as a philosophy is that by accepting that death is inevitable and life is painful, you free yourself from fear of death, pain and worry, and can live a better life and do greater things because of it - classic example being Spartan/Viking types dying a glorious death against many odds, simply because death is better than running away. The general point of Stoicism is not that death is inevitable and life is painful, therefore you might as well not do anything hard or painful in life, and hurry your death as quickly as you can, that's called Nihilism, and is pretty much the exact opposite. Also, whereas Stoicism is (in my opinion) a pretty damn good outlook to have, especially in the military, what you described is fairly pointless and not likely to help you much in the RM. Royal, as far as I know, wants good soldiers, not mindless suicide zombies.
Not that it really matters. You are young, and I'll put good money on you either growing out of or rethinking what you just wrote above pretty damn fast.
However, you have characteristically missed the point entirely (yes, I know it's your idea and so you cannot have missed the point, but try giving the ideas of thousands of wiser heads accumulated over thousands of years a shot). The general point of Stoicism as a philosophy is that by accepting that death is inevitable and life is painful, you free yourself from fear of death, pain and worry, and can live a better life and do greater things because of it - classic example being Spartan/Viking types dying a glorious death against many odds, simply because death is better than running away. The general point of Stoicism is not that death is inevitable and life is painful, therefore you might as well not do anything hard or painful in life, and hurry your death as quickly as you can, that's called Nihilism, and is pretty much the exact opposite. Also, whereas Stoicism is (in my opinion) a pretty damn good outlook to have, especially in the military, what you described is fairly pointless and not likely to help you much in the RM. Royal, as far as I know, wants good soldiers, not mindless suicide zombies.
Not that it really matters. You are young, and I'll put good money on you either growing out of or rethinking what you just wrote above pretty damn fast.
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Sarastro, put your money where you want but I'm not changing. My veiw to me seems pritty solid in my mind and yes, I do realize it could cause a little carelesness. whats a syntax. But why would I suicide and why am I a zombie? Infact I had a good moment there untill you spoilt it. I'm happy with my belief and If i change so be it but it wont be for the worse and it would be mostly based on my current belief.
