Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2007/09

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Military Bands
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:31:17 -0400

You CAN NOT assume that you will be that
exception. Nor does there have to be a good reason
for an exception (or for being sent in the first
place). There are people with great ASVAB scores
who have gotten the short end of the stick- there
are great players who have gotten the short end of
the stick- and there are certainly great people
who haven't gotten along with their superiors
through little or no fault of their own!!!

Mark is right!
Anne

Vincent Horrillo wrote:
> I am sure that isn't an all out truth, I have talked to people that
> are in band and haven't been infantry. So I am aware that there are
> such things as exceptions.
>
> On 9/29/07, Mark Charette <charette@-----.org> wrote:
>
>>Vincent Horrillo wrote:
>>
>>>All of you that say you have heard of people being transfered out of
>>>the Marine Bands to go to Iraq, can you give me a bit more details.
>>>Like what they got on their audition, where they were stationed, how
>>>well they got along with their superiors, and possibly their ASVAB
>>>score.
>>
>>The only thing you need to know, truly, is what Tom wrote:
>>
>>From: "Tom Puwalski" <tski1128@-----.com
>>
>>
>>>>Do not join a Marine band if you're not going to the Barracks in
>>>>
>>>>>>downtown DC. YOU WILL BE INFANTRY!!!!!!
>>
>>If you're not guaranteed, in writing, to go to the DC barracks then you
>>can (and will) go anywhere and do anything the Marines need you to do.
>>Period. Full stop.
>>
>>Mark "join the Navy & see the world *" Charette
>>
>>(* I did and I did. The world's 3/4 water, and I sure saw a lot of it)

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