The haircut and shave is enough to give you away. Any locals will spot you from a mile away in uniform or not, especially scammers! Still though there is that off chance that they might miss you, so good advice nonetheless.
Easy to pick out even in their civilian attire. My son brought over his friends from SOI and sure enough, the baseball caps, jeans, tshirt and hoodies were a dead give away to their true identity. Like Clark Kent with his glasses. Baseball caps.
Luckily athough the current hair styles may not be high & tight but they are short on the sides. A little easier to blend in than when I was in. Problem though. Marines have that certain walk. That's a giveaway.
When I was in Camp Pendleton, a PFC and his wife were picked up by shady dealership on a Saturday morning and were hassled, by salesmen and they kept ganging up on them and they had to make a run for the bus stop. That place tried to get them into a POS on its last leg. Be careful, take an NCO.
I’m an army infantry solider and the car dealership thing is facts. I know of a few soldiers that got screwed over with crazy interest rates and shitty cars. They are scumsbags.
I was stationed at Camp Pendleton Camp Horno 3/1 Kilo Co from 1977-1979. Oceanside was full of prostitutes MP’s and drunk Marines. My Marine buddies told me Oceanside for the most part has changed for the better. I hung out a lot at San Clemente California.
When I graduated from OCS too many young lieutenants bought brand new cars but were deployed to Okinawa within 6 months to a year. But had to leave their cars at home for their relatives to enjoy!🙄
That first jewelry store actually tried to get me to buy stuff from them. I knew what they were up to so I sat there and waisted 2 hours of these peoples time. They were so excited and thought they got me until I stood up and told them I’m good I just wanted to waist your time. They were talking about when they were in the military and so on.
Definitely some good advice, brother. Had a friend at MOS school in Camp Lejeune get scammed into signing up for "Life Insurance" right outside a Taco Bell. He wasn't the smartest tool in the shed (as shown by signing something from a guy outside a Taco Bell), but I told him it's not even necessary, we're automatically enrolled in a $400k policy when we join. Thankfully he was able to get out of it when the scammer was confronted. Watch yourselves out there, as well as for your fellow comrads.
I'm a reservist at Pendleton (just left Active Duty for the reserves). Let me know if you wanna grab a drink with us this weekend in San Diego brother! Love the videos! These new Marines will fall for a lot of these games!
I seen this shit all the time when I was at 32nd st. The one I remember the most was when I was walking back to my ship and these two sexy ass girls came and started walking on either side of me trying to have a conversation. I knew they wanted something, but I talked to them anyways just to test to see if they were going to try to scam me on a car. Which is exactly what they tried to do. In Horton Plaza there is a veteran owned jewelry store that tries to get service members into a pyramid scheme. So one day I was shit faced drunk and went in to listen to their hour long introduction about the whole scheme, I asked as many questions as I could to waste as much of their time as possible and then I didn't sign their paperwork at the end. Guy was super pissed that I didn't sign it even though the first thing I told him as soon as he tried to pull me into the scheme that I'm not signing for shit. I did the same thing to the church of scientology but I was FAR drunker for that one. Pretty much my go to thing to do on liberty was to get extremely wasted, skateboard, and troll scammers out in town by wasting as much time of theirs as possible because it's fucking hilarious to me.
It’s pathetic how decades of some of those car dealerships have rip-off Marines and Sailors. Those dealerships were there when I was stationed Sand Dog smh
I remember off post of Fort Lewis, Washington those places that sells electronics TV & stereos. They want to see your LES form to see how long you have left in the military to finance you a deal b4 your ETS date. By the time you pay it off, you could had really bought 4 televisions with the money you finance it with.
Thank you for the straight talk and words of wisdom. Yup, over the decades, Marines were easy to pick out based on their muscle cars and now motorcycles ( jock rockets). I grew up in Oceanside/Vista as a Marine brat. I've seen a lot of changes on Coast Hwy. (used to be called Hill Street but name changed to help clean up it's old infamous image). My son just finished training at SOI-ITB and said that a lot of young Marines were spending their $ and liberty time visiting a particular well-known massage parlor.🤔 🤷🏻♀️ 🤦🏻♀️ Other than that, the Main Attraction strip club has gone out of business, but it was only a matter of time. Tourist stop/Family friendly In-N-Out burger was strategically built across the street. 😅 Fortunately, my son heard a lot of stories from Grandpa (30+ yrs. USMC vet) about what he warned his young Marines when they went out on liberty. Again, thank you for giving an updated version of what our young and sometimes naive Marines need to be aware of these days.
Man that took me down some memories. When I was a boot I remember learning all this the hard way, except for the car thing or loans. One of my buddies from the schoolhouse was trying to get me to buy a car from that 500 motors place and the dude was trying to sell me a car with no license at the time. I smelled the bs a mile away
WOW! Good ole Ocean Slime is still in business! Back track this video 30 years ago when I was a young Marine. What a shit hole. The old Movie place was still alive with nothing but XXX neon lights. you couldnt walk down the street without be accosted to buy cameras, and electronics. They had one ALL Nude "juice bar" strip joint that a lot of newbies dropped the money at. It was sad, some of us had "street smarts" back then and tried to warn other young Marines, but JAG was busy 24/7 back in the day.. THe only thing we used to go into Ocean side for was the cheap and good Embroidery work. Gotta get that Boot Jacket Tight! LOL
Lmao our combat instructors told us about all this shit, cant count how many times ive been up and down that whole oceanside area, good looking out for us devils tho !
I live near one of the largest US military installations in the world. When I went car shopping in 2018, I went to one lot, and then I saw a bus with nothing but fresh 11B’s get off pull up and open its doors. Needless to say, I went to another dealership.
Patterson.... you are a hell of a Marine NCO... keep passing the word !!... it's amazing how some things NEVER CHANGE !! . Was back at MCRD S. D. for RTO school... yea, I was a Hollywood- communa- skater, and me and a couple of my bros where on the verge of being scammed in a jewelry store we got lured into ( dude in uniform.. watching collage football on color TV... hey, this was Feb of 1972, color TV was still a big thing way back then !) One of us finally spoke up saying you were the ones our SDI warned us about and the "friendly atmosphere" took a dump oh so most Riki=Tik !. The honcho yelled at us as we ran out , saying he was gonna report us and to expect office hours come Monday morning... for "wasting his time" !! Some things NEVER CHANGE. Now, are you ever gonna talk about T J... just asking......SEMPER FI
This was a trip in the way way WAY back machine for me. I was stationed there from '93-'97. Coast Hwy was called Hill st. When I was in soi the base CG made Hill st. off limits to EVERYONE due to several armed robberies and several shootings involving marine victims. That place was a hell hole. I went there for the cheep haircuts and low cost dry cleaning. Then got suckered in to some of the seedier establishments and barely made back to base alive due to A LOT of luck. Fun times. Whole lot of stories that I will never tell my mother about. Great vid, Keep 'em coming.
Excellent wisdom here. I wish the military added a day to bootcamp just for financial literacy. A financially stable military would be a force multiplier.
Great vid I'll sure you just saved a lot of justly graduated Marines and fresh service members in general. But man wow I thought it was common sense you never get a car from a place that isn't a major dealer like Ford Honda Toyota etc
i went to meps yesterday for an 18X contract but need a waiver because apparently my right eyes is too bad uncorrected even though it can still be corrected to 20/20
Where were you stationed at on Okinawa? I was stationed at Camp Foster the old 3rd Force Service Regiment today's 3rd MLG. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant
@@rmb743 yes I remember the Red Patch Marines. Their Battalion was part of the 3rd Force Service Regiment, (3rd FSSG/3rd MLG) my tour at Camp Foster 74-75. Is the Red Patch still sewed on the Utilities ( Camouflage Utilities) close to the knee?
Might be a myth, but I’ve heard First Command has some undercover “scams” that target younger service members that have less financial experience. Has anyone had any experience with that organization that could weigh in on whether or not this is true? Personally, I’ve been getting offers from them to set up a financial plan with them and am getting the feeling I shouldn’t.
I know the odds of you seeing this a pretty low man but you should do a video on religious organizations preying on young service members for their GI bill money with there Seminary colleges
Look up hopcc Christian in RU-vid my dumbass was trying to find God and I thought I'd find it there because I got a invite at the right time, as time went on it with the way they practice the Bible is really radical but I was wondering why they had so many houses we would have prayer meetings at these houses none of them were owned by the members themselves they were all owned by the church, there was 5 in my town alone about a new and expensive houses in Washington State and I would say about 80% of their members are either current or former military in the majority of their target recruitment is on Fort Lewis Washington for the Washington churches in Lacey and Tacoma, the church owns its own seminary college that is GI Bill compatible led by Pastor Dennis the leader of the organization whose worth about 48 million dollars, they rope in young military service members they specifically Target the really young guys as pretty much everybody who was new to the church was around 18, they bring in the young guys get them really deep into the faith then encourage them to go to the Seminary school and then take the money they get and buy real estate they don't talk or listen to anybody outside the church rather than blow the whistle I just got the f*** out of there because people more powerful have tried in Georgia, where the church was first founded it is currently led by Pastor Dennis, the community in Georgia have been protesting for years against this church however they get some sort of protection as a religious organization.
There are certain websites that can we use a solid sources the entire organization other than the priests used flip phones in the priests use the smartphones wisely so they have a very low digital footprint
Not gonna lie for the longest time when you tube first came out I thought subscribe would bill you through your Google account. It's just bad rhetoric they should change it to something else like follow or whatever.
