US Marine Corps Reviews

Pros

Pay, benefits, and duty. It is an honor to serve.

Cons

Hardest job in America. Long hours.

Pros

plenty of room for promotion, but it is all on you to get where you want to be. the friendships made and comradery is second to none. The definition for team work is shown everyday by Marines. And the chances to see the world are given all the time.

Cons

A lot of leaders and people become road blocks to who and where you want to be. There is a lot of hypocracy and little common sense used in a lot of situations.

Advice to Senior Management

hypocracy is too common

Pros

There are good benefits and training.

Cons

Not doing the job you were trained to do.

Advice to Senior Management

Only promote competent leaders.

Pros

Good Training, decent benefits, and the ability of relocating.

Cons

The Marine Corps as a whole works almost 10-11 hour days while paying its personnel under the poverty line. And to top it all off all the government wants to do is to cut the military pay for a while to help with deficits and everything else wrong with this country. We put up with all of this and the problems from inside the workplace.

Advice to Senior Management

You can't ask me this.

Pros

The training is second to none, some of the best training you will ever receive is from the experience the Marine Corps provides.

Cons

For the amount of work and overtime you put in, the salary does not cut it.

Advice to Senior Management

Marines come first, then yourself. In order for this organization to be more efficient, troop welfare comes first, then mission accomplishment.

Pros

Pay, Benefits, Friends, Steady job, Things can be good at times

Cons

Deployments, Punitive Actions, deployments definately take a toll

Advice to Senior Management

Tighten the reigns, don't backstab

Pros

You will always be proud of your personal contributions in the Marines. You will also get a great deal of respect from the civilian world. Many lessons will also be very useful in the civilian workplace.

Cons

Work/life balance? There is none, this is the most extreme military branch and is the hardest on families. After you leave the military many skills and proficiencies do not translate well in a civilian job search.

Advice to Senior Management

The low tiers of the Marines are littered with leaders who remained in the military for no other reason than they feared they wouldn't be able to make it in the civilian world. These incompetent leaders are inefficient, decrease moral and force out many potential good Marines.

Pros

you are given the opportunity to see the world and meet great people

Cons

there will be extended periods of time when you are away from your family

Advice to Senior Management

stay strong and never give up

Pros

Pay & benefits such as healthcare package, pension, education benefits.

Cons

Deployments, frequent moves, at the mercy of the monitor.

Pros

they have great jobs and many different benefits for all kinds of people and needs. they also allow you a pick of your job.

Cons

No matter what job and position you are you must go through bootcamp even if you are going to work in an office.

Advice to Senior Management

Just keep training more marines for the sake of the freedom of the country we live in and serve for.