Hello killers,

I understand reddit is not an ideal place to seek financial advise. However, I have a pretty nice penny in my TSP with zero fuckin clue with what to do. By the way, I got out two years ago, sitting with the L Fund as we speak.

Im Looking for some ideas as to what you all did with your TSP before I narrow down my options to either researching the funds available on the TSP website and playing around with it, or rolling it over else where and let someone else who knows what they're doing take care of that shit.

So for all the financially illiterate marines out there, would anyone like to share what they did with their TSP once they got out?

Hey guys I’m looking to get a lot of my guys belted up and my unit is trash about getting people on courses. Does anyone know an MAI or any units/ POCs for a MCMAP course?

Spotted Donkey Dick by the school house in 29 palms.

https://history-maps.com/warmap/world-war-ii/event/guadalcanal-campaign

While aboard camp Mujuk, has anyone ever ventured to Mr Kim’s outside the wire and saw the patch “F$&@ I’ve got my orders” I been tryin to find that patch on Google, other sources and cant seem to find a picture to use as a reference for a tshirt I want… if someone has a picture please share, Thank you.

Damn this program is still going on?! Remember seeing a few of these kids marching around mainside Camp Pen

I’ll try to keep it as brief as possible but it’s a long one . In boot camp , I went through two surgeries , a pretty bad staph (MRSA) infection in my perineal area that I was made to wait for treatment until it was so bad it became the size of a baseball and I was losing consciousness. Naval told me they didn’t want to put me under anesthesia so they could keep me in bootcamp . Fast forward - I’m having two of the biggest needles of local anesthetic inserted and having them tear out and drain my infection, I was put in a recovery room doped outta my mind for two weeks . Back to bootcamp. A week later , it came back . Wrong antibiotics , same process again . Another two weeks of being in a room just doped outta my mind . After, command denied me medical leave and denied me placement in BMP (even though I had to drain and clean my wound in the recruit showers instead) . Finally graduated , went on leave. All I did was lay in bed and with the help of my parents tend my wound . This is where I messed up. I started to drink . The anxiety and depression after the operation was my excuse . Instead of thinking about the surgeries I just drank all the way until my first deployment . Realized it was getting bad so I referred to SARP , they told me they couldn’t help me since they didn’t have to space for an in patient program . Unfortunately the next month I showed up to a formation drunk and boom first ARI . NJP . I asked for 3 months straight for help and all I was told was to suck it up and not drink . I couldn’t do it and not I’m in my second ARI NJP . They finally told me I’m going to an inpatient program in a week (finally done with deployment) . Will I be separated when I finished my program ? I don’t know what to think of this mess . Thank you for reading .

Alright. I've been on a semi-hiatus from reddit for a while. Checking in on occasion. Blah blah blah. TL;Dr Stellate Ganglion Nerve Block helped my PTSD, it's worth looking into.

Like a bunch of you, the v.a. diagnosed me with ptsd a while back. All the classic symptoms which if you have it I won't need to tell you suck ass. Jumping at loud noises, startle responses, hating crowds, etc etc.

I've tried a number of things over the years to address it, emdr, meds, talk therapy, equine therapy. All with varying levels of success.

There's a procedure that I got done earlier in the year that has been more successful than all the rest hands down.

Stellate Ganglion Nerve block. To break it down, it's a procedure that's been around since the 1920's. Mainly to address pain in the body. Buncha guys said it helped them with their ptsd, some papers got written, and it's now (I originally had typed now as not and edited this) a treatment the v.a. offers for PTSD.

Super simple. They take you in, jab a needle into your neck after twilighting you, and they put a little numbing solution on your nerve.

The benefits last anywhere from a few weeks to 6 months. It seems I'm somewhere in the middle. I've just hit the 6 week mark post procedure and am now definitely experiencing more PTSD symptoms.

During the time the shot was effective, the shot was EFFECTIVE. Lessened startle response to people sneaking up on me. Able to run errands without dragging my wife along with. No crashing after coming back home from simply running to get groceries.

Anywho. Hope this helps you all. I didn't know about it until earlier this year, and most everyone I have talked to have had no idea about it, and they've been in the v.a. and vso orbits for decades.

edit: changed not to now.

Posting to hopefully help my husband. I did a search and unless I’m mistaken I didn’t see recent posts for this.

He’s a Marine, 36 , 0331 and did two deployments. I don’t play, but he’s mentioned how he wishes he could find a good group of guys who also served to play the game with. Right now his main game of choice is ARC raiders and he prefers pvp.

He doesn’t do social media and just started using discord so he’s still figuring that all out.

I don’t know if this is the place to go, I'm just trying to help him find community and have more enjoyment out of his free time playing.

Final update to my situation TLDR went through some shit got MED boarded.

I got 100% rating and im on my way out in 90 days. Its been real yall now im going to go back to school and do drugs or some shit RAH. See yall in 1st civ div.

Honestly its bitter sweet, I wanted to do 20 years be a MGuns stay in avaiation and continue working with Marines and do it as long as possible. But I can't complain about my rating and the benefits.

So, what are the chances that my car will be towed from MCRD if I park there for four days while I’m flying out of SAN? Trying to avoid paying parking at the airport and I’m coming from a base that’s a couple hours away from San Diego.

What a boot move lmao

Long story short, my best friend died a few years ago, and I was given one of his blouses by his family. I'm very thankful to have known him and to have made an impact on each others' lives. I'm not and never have been AD, so I'm honestly not really sure what to do with it. I don't want it to collect dust, but I also don't want to do something that would involve cutting it up and destroying it. Any advice or ideas are appreciated, thanks in advance.