Fleet Marine Life #76 – Falling Down
I can imagine why many Marines would want to commit suicide. Simply put, the Marine Corps life sucks donkey balls. It’s fucking depressing. It’s lonely, aggravating and boring. Any attempt at making any romantic relationships usually end in failure due to the Marines making you move around a lot causing you to see your significant other a lot less. There’s usually nothing to do in the Barracks except drink, use the internet, get a new tattoo and play video games.
In my old unit, everyone jokes about suicide all the time. In fact, this comic was inspired by a fellow Marine who told me how he was going to commit suicide if he were to do it. But really, he had no real reason to. If he was feeling down, he’d go out with some buddies and get plastered drunk out of town. This isn’t the best solution to combat suicide but I guess it’s better than nothing.
“What gets me through the Marine Corps is the next payday and beer.”
I don’t think too many Marines talk about needing help because they’re afraid of their command coming down hard on them. I sure as hell didn’t trust my command after the things they did. Why the hell would I want to talk to them?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/30/marine-corps-steps-suicide-prevention-efforts-halt-deadly-trend/
If you’re in the Corps, I’m sure you’ve thought about suicide whenever you field day but suicide not worth it. Suicide is a permanent fix to a temporary problem. Get out of the Corps and live your life. Life is truly better outside of the Corps. 4 years isn’t that long. Just take it one day at a time. Payday to payday. Weekend alcohol binge to weekend alcohol binge.
On a side note, check out KarlDonitz’s demotivating youtube page about USMC life.
http://www.youtube.com/user/KarlDonitz
Jumping off the fourth deck since 1775.
PS, one of the unmotivated Sergeants we had actually told us that if a suicide would help get conditions better, he would jump off the third deck himself, but all it would do is cause a 6 hour brief and then field days and all other bullshit would resume as usual.
I lived in base housing but my command made us stay behind for field day by forcing us to help field day the rooms and the common areas in particular. The duty hut and wash rooms were left to the married guys. Well, what I started to do is I would field day for an hour or so and then when chow was announced, I would tell my squad leader that I was going out to Taco Bell or Subway for dinner (since I had to pay if I went to the chow hall anyway). I immediately got in my car and went home. They never caught on. They would field day until 0000 or 0100. I always got home by 5:30 pm or earlier on field days. (If you are EASed and still use military time, you need to fix yourself!)
Hey, hey. Nothing wrong with using 24-hour (military) time! I use it on my cell phone alarm clock. I use 12 hour time when I’m talking to civilians.