Nicholas Lepinski - 8 Tips to Ensure a Successful Marine Corps Career
1. Pay Attention Remember, you are fresh out of basic, which means you have no clue what you are doing. When your first-line supervisor tells you to do something that flies in the face of what you learned in basic, nod your head in a sagely manner and do what they tell you. What you learned in basic is all fine and good, but this here's the real deal, and things are done differently. 2. Educate Yourself Free promotions stop at E-4. The only way you're going to advance is if you convince your service that you are better than your peers. Take civilian college courses if you can and enroll in military correspondence courses if they are available. Start studying for your next qualification exam. After E-4, you need to convince the military that you're worth keeping. 3. Relax, but ... Don't forget you're in the military now, not back on the block. Unless you're going on a deterrent patrol aboard a submarine packing nukes, the military is essentially a 9-5 job ... Ex...