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Name: James
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Orange County
Birthday: 3/18/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: Blow things up, meet new people, play my trombone, traveling, reading, shoot at stuff, go to school, hang out, and going to church
Expertise: - Youth Group Teacher
- Marine Musician
- Expert Marine Riflemen
Occupation: Military
Industry: Government
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  Semper01Fi
Member Since:
12/8/2004
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| It's 0200 right now and I can't sleep. Most of you guys know that
I have been aggressively working on my military intelligence
package. This was supposed to be done through the US Army.
As I reminisce about my past as a US Marine, I can't help but to think
about my future. Am I ready to leave the Marine Corps and join
the Army? Many people have asked, "why the Marines?" I have
tried my best to explain it in words, but it simply cannot be
done. Yeah you can give the PR answer such as: few and the proud,
best of the best, 911 force in readiness, and so on...but the corps
goes much deeper than that.
After many thoughts and prayers, I decided to contact the Marine Corps
and inquire about Marine Intelligence. It came to my surprise
that the Marine intel field needs qualified people. When I joined
the Marine Corps as a young seventeen year old, I could have joined any
other branch in the military. I have always been goal oriented,
ambitious, and wanted the best. So choosing the Marine Corps was
never a surprise to me. As I have grown older, wiser, more
refined, and even more ambitious, anything less than the best will
never satisfy me.
Here's a few pics of me and my friends back in the days...too bad none of them have xanga
me hard at work
the fishner
freaking sexxxxy
one of my bestest friend
I'm probably at school
Please pray for me my friends. I have a long journey ahead of me. I have never made it alone and I never will.
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| The past two weeks been pretty nice. So the military starts my
background investigation and tells me that they're gonna go back since
I was 5 years old. I barely remember anything when I was
five!!! I might have stolen a cookie back then. I did get a
parking ticket at UCSD bout two years ago. I better just forget
about my new career...I'm a criminal with a history of cookie theft and
a parking violation.
I also came back from the CPCCG retreat today. I had a great time
and made many new friends. A few pics for ur viewing pleasure:
I can still taste the 9 scoops a mayo Boram and I ate and my head still
hurts because of her. This is the 2nd college retreat I've ever
been on. I was forced to miss many retreats because of my
responsibilities as a US Marine. Gotta make a living for my
family (me, myself, and Eileen). Seriously, the past few days
been very refreshing and awesome. I'm looking forward to my
newfound church and the many brothers and sisters I'm gonna get to know.
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| Finally done with finals! yay!!! I'm much more confident with
this than the pathetic mid-term I took. Making sure that I didn't
drink too much water before the test helped me tremendously. Time
to celebrate tomorrow by going to Mexico.
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| Weird Afternoon
So I'm walking my dog and as I come back I hear something in the
house. My dog even senses this and I come to realize that someone
is in the house. I assume that it must be my parents or my sister
but I get no response when I call out their name. So I'm freaking
out now and I run to my room and load up my weapon which takes only a
couple of seconds. I immediately think to myself, "did I invite
any of my friends over or who's stupid enough to do something like this
during the day!?!" The last thing I wanna do is hurt someone I
love. After many other thoughts I decide to search the
house. My house is not that big so I know that anything I shoot
at will be close range and will probably kill him/her. I think
about the urban training I received at the School of Infantry with my
heart pumping at the same time. At the end I realize that no one
is inside the house but I'm still totally freaked out.
This has never happened to me before! I think that it's my change
of lifestyle. I used to deal with 5-6 hours of sleep because of
work, amount of schooling I took during the night, and serving the
youth group. Now I sleep around 10-12 hours and my day is spent
going to school, hanging out with friends, and wasting my time on
myspace and xanga! Plus my final physical before I left the
Marine Corps says that I have high blood pressure. Is this how
college life is supposed to be? Why am I getting soo lazy these
days? I realize that I'm still living a pretty active life
compared to a normal civilian but this is still a major change for
me. Well, I'm sure that everything will come back to normal for
me once I settle down in a church and make new friends.
So after this ordeal I go to the golf range with my friend...
Golfing is not that easy and takes patience...this was my first time as
well. There are times when I miss the Corps and the
responsibilities/authority I used to have. I also realize that
God has a certain plan for me and I need to have faith and trust the
dude. (Special Note: Please always call me before you come over.)
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| I'm in a pretty low point rite now . So I get my mid-term test
back and I end up with a "D"!!! Oh my goodness, I feel like
hazing myself rite now. I used to work 50-60 hours a week and go
to school 6-10PM and I would never get a "D" on a test! Now all
of a sudden I leave the Marine Corps and I have to deal with this
substandard performance. Hmm...I did have to take a piss on that
day. It was one of those feelings where a geyser was about to
burst or a fire-hose going all out of control. Plus I ended up
circling random letters at the very end. So I go to the
firing range to vent...
You name it and I shoot it! I did get a "A" in apologetics...some
good news. I'm actually alright now that I think bout it.
Its all part of the Lords plan .
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