WWII Marine Veteran on WHY HE Joined the Corps 

Insert *Those bastards lied to me * meme

That would have made the story perfect how many of us fell for that

I wonder if that’s the kinda document you’d actually be able to pull up

Somthing along the lines of: 🙂😊

Lol😂😂😂yep u said it😊😊

He got to gamble. Not with money though.

@@DiviAugustiIf not money, then what did he gamble with?

@@KahinAhmed72His life

@@KahinAhmed72💀…

Thank you for your service. I assume your farm boy naivete didn't last to long LOL.

Or maybe not Dude joined the Marines expecting to go to Portugal in the middle of a war

Well, for an American, yeah, I suppose he was. Most members of the British Empire had a fairly good idea where most of the Nations were, they were our Cousins, as children we were taught about all the other People's who shared our King-Emperor. Even as Adults we got a LOT more news from around the globe than any American did. The real shame was the adults didn't keep faith with what they taught us. If there had been some way to remove the racists and opportunists from the Empire, and to honour the claims they made about us being brothers, maybe it wouldn't have broken down. As it is, NZ, Aus, Canada, we all have tens of thousands of people from even the small Brother-Nations living with us, We all have many hundred thousand people who were born on the Sub-continent now Citizens. Canada has about 4 million from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.

Contrary to what educators of today believe, most of these kids who went to school 50-150 years ago were far smarter and knew a lot more than we do today. Just read some Civil War letters. Those guys were supposedly barely literate and uet their letters alone read like poetry today.

Well informed, yes . But I wouldn’t say incredibly educated, I mean Macao has always been a pretty famous gambling town

People knew things about the world before the internet, we just rely on it now

❤🥰🙏🕊 I'm sure he is singing fully now and in perfection. God Bless and one day you'll be able to be with your Dad again and hear him sing with the Angel's ❤... I cannot wait to be with my Dad again miss him everyday none stop.

With a French name like Desjardins, he sang Irish songs! That’s cute. No French love songs? 😊

😅😅

Sharpshooter is a designator for a score on the rifle range, either you misunderstood or someone is lying 🤷🏻‍♂️

He sounds like a grand old man and I'm glad he made it out alive so that you's could have a good life! And those wonderful memories of him so when you hear the the Angels sing you'll know he's there !

Wdym he was heading west to macao!

@@jeremyburkhardt2628must’ve hit a detour cus they stopped short at Japanese islands

Its weird to me that everyone thinks ww2 was Europe solely its like hello World war. The war in the Pacific was d-day for four years steaight

​@@SometimesOriginalmisspelled straight pall but yeah the Pacific Front of the war started December 7th 1941 and lasted all the way till September of 1945 we didn't get involved with Europe for a while after we started dealing with the Japanese

@CodeNameZ_935 Yes, e is next to my r, but is that 2 ls? You know, when I was growing up, pal always stood for personal ass licker. It's probably not derogatory, but when i say pal in my head, it feels derogatory, friend.

They always do. I thought I was joining the Navy band.... While being enlisted

I was told at 17 if I went to Korea as an enlisted I would make enough to rent a Korean apartment and hire a Korean maid who would ”do things for me.” I was pretty dumb, but not that dumb.

Noooo..a recruiter wouldn't do that!

If you are dumb enough to think some dude in a strip mall gets to approve your random assignment requests, then you deserve wherever they send you

​@@jameswooden9911u prob could tho

There is a chance my uncle drove him to the beach at iwo

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No they have always been liers

They cycle out. They move around more than any other servicemen.

Many recruiters do tend to get transferred, promoted, or end up leaving the service.

Really, I'd love to find mine! Lying POS....

the recruiter told him nothing but the truth these are the jobs for the uniform he did sign him up for his first choice. blaming the recruiter cause a war kicked off is beyond assinine youre ass pulling and quoting liberals though why bother.

Bro what ​@@bastait

@@bastaitthanks for showing you’ll say anything to fit your narrative without any background knowledge. This man was 17 in 1943 and was told he “might as well sign up because they’ll draft you when you turn 18” this recruiter knew EXACTLY. Where this young man would be sent. He knew EXACTLY how horrible it would be.

Yup! But if they were honest, how many volunteers would have served during WW2?

@@charlesdesjardins3940a surprising high number of them actually. Most of the WW2 vets I met went voluntarily knowing exactly what they were signing up for. My Grandfather and both his brothers did as well as several of their friends. It was definitely a different generation. I doubt think the same could be said about my generation unfortunately.

What did you experienced there? Cheers from Austria

Fought the wrong enemy

Egypt?

​@@mehmeh5471what?

Learn some history, Patton realised it@@tomhaggard3352

@@sirstephen9825 yeh, a long way from ski country.

Even if it is in the written contact, they can change it. Once you're in the military, all bets are off. My sister was promised several corpsman schools when she enlisted, and after the first one they said the others no longer existed or some story, and that was it.

Is that you Steve smith

@@texaswunderkindnot in the army! You’re guaranteed your MOS if it’s in writing. It’s the reason I chose them over the marines or any other branch

AIN'T THAT THE DAGGUM TRUTH !?!?! I was in the US Army for 12 years !! The US Army's Uniforms sucked... Unless you decide to go hide in the forest; then, they're GREAT !!! LOL !!! 😂😂😂

Knew someone who was promised an education Kept getting pulled out of "classes" In peace time Barely got a high school equivalency Certificate Of course they also were asked Wouldn't they sign up again

Selling dreams were they? 😅❤

It’s still called the dream sheet. I asked for japan and I got sent to Norfolk.

@blakedavis2447 I asked for Pearl Harbor getting out of sub school... but someone thought i asked for Kings Bay, GA - not sure how that mistake happened either lol.

My uncle A Marine was in Iwo Jima

Ha!

Been looking for u for a long time !! Nah, my recruiter didn't lie to me. He was straight forward about everything. Never got my dress blues though. Feb 89 to Feb 93. Semper Fi

Facts lol nothings changed, semper fi

He looks at most 80

He wasn't so sharp back then

I think a lot of these interviews might be many years old now.

@@DiviAugusti I agree. You can tell this is many years old by the tie.

True, very true

Oh, the recruiters love those lie loopholes.

Thank you for your service, Charlie

Everyone has a story an then their are Men like Charlie here, who have a Real Story , Worthy to this Day. Sincerely Thank You Charlie.

Thank you Charlie

Obviously you don’t know military recruiters

Well, it does say he’s an Iwo Jima veteran. They didn’t need any embassy guards there.

Most expensive clothing ever.

That's too bad, because the school at Monterey is the best assignment I had. I spent a year there learning Russian as a Marine. Interrogators rarely do front line work. You deal with POWs after they have been caught and brought to the rear.

To the original Comment - hmm, we can't know your true motivations but one theory might be sour grapes. I don't think there exists someone who's been through that intensive language course with the American military that regrets it so.......... To the Marine responding - здравствуйте друг - non military Brit here. I went through many years of uncertainty about what to do and despite my mother forcing me to go see the Army recruiters, I was never serious about it. Mind you, when I mentioned a preference for "the Blues and Royals" and he responded "ah - one of the more refined regiments" I knew they weren't serious about me either!! I think the only way that might have been different was if there had been the same language pathway as you guys have. Incidentally, there was a really great documentary about that here in the UK about 15 years ago .. Quick anecdote for you - in 1975 - when I was six - my parents went on holiday to Moscow. No, they weren't Communists or spies. They were - and still are - utterly ordinary middle class regular people, albeit ones who never seriously struggled with money although they equally were and are not urban elite either . Thus to decide to go to Russia at that time was all the more remarkable, albeit it was, predictably a highly regulated, supervised trip with a stay at the only hotel permitted - the Intourist. I still have their entry card to this day... I recall that me and my brother stayed with our grandmother and recall being collected on my parents' return in the middle of the night. What they were somewhat surprised to find out was that - having won a prize for reading or English or something at my school for which I received a book token, I had asked to be taken to WHSmiths where I bought a Teach Yourself Russian manual - and having studied it and practised, was able to greet them in rather passable Russian if I do say so myself 😂 I think it must run in the family as my brother's second child is now half way through his first year at Cambridge reading Modern and Mediæval Languages. I am, by the way, fully cognisant of the irony of seeming to level even a glancing criticism of the guy that didn't take the opportunity you did....

Why are you thanking someone for being stitched up 😂

My recruiter really saved my life and when i graduated high school and basic he was there bth times we still talk today not all are bad

These men were betrayed by our government. They fought a war they didn't ask for and the government betrayed them.

@@FALLENMarinethe truth lies in nuance. Of course there are exceptions to the rule but the rule is there for a reason. Glad you had such a good experience hope your doin well

​@@maxgronros6728 the recruiter didn't lie to him. He didn't get what he wanted. Recruiter never promised it. I got everything I wanted in my contract.

Recruiters can't lie to you if you believe everything they say and never look into it you weren't lied to you are just stupid

for the corporation. country was never in danger from outside forces.

@@finished6267 I love that modern day narrative. The greatest generation should have let Germany, Soviet and The Empire of Japan enslave half of the world. Would you be happier if the US didn't have industrial might like 1930's China?

I guess recruiters end up with civilian jobs eventually. It's nice there is a natural fit for them somewhere.

I'd say that God has blessed this man if he made it through Iwo Jima and is still alive today, as sharp and intelligent as he is at his advanced age as he probably was 60 years ago. I certainly bless him and thank him from the bottom of my heart for his service. And my wish that that recruiter got what he deserved for leading him, and every other young man he lead to believe that they would get to serve where they chose to, instead of being sent right into the hell of the center of the war. You. could say that he and those other young men were incredibly naive, but it was a dirty trick not to just be honest with them. So bless this man, who said he got sea sick (so he had extra misery) for his service and making through the war in Iwo Jima.

We are it's called Spanish you ignorant

No you didn't

​@@jimmytesta1454no, you didnt lol

Not because of the pickle suit and Airborne tab. No one really cares. I would have believed Ranger or Seal...maybe.

Guess those boys really liked you in it ! 😂😂

Right on, They do love the uniform.. But its the solider that wears it, They dig.. I found women to be twice as excited, Once the uniform was off. 😉