Trucks Trucks Trucks . .. . or my neck is finally red

[Asher]

A marine who can't swim. LOL.

[ColdWizard]

Marine officers just stand in the boat and point toward the beach.

[Asher]

Imagine if the boat was attacked and he had to abandon ship.

The stupidity astounds me that marines need not know how to swim...

I am a more capable marine than Alby. Fact.

[ColdWizard]

Marine officers are expected to defend the boat with their lives, there is no abandoning ship.

[Kuciwalker]

And I can't swim.

WTF

[giblets]

Do they not have public swimming pools in Philly or something?

[Flubber]

Marine officers just stand in the boat and point toward the beach.

Ya and a landing craft has NEVER been known to get blasted and start to sink or simply get stuck a couple of hundred yards offshore LOL


More generally, for my family, we consider it a life skill you should have .. . so our children are required to take swimming lessons -- Its their one activity apart from school that is non-negotiable. Perhaps this is more of a rural or coastal type attitude since being up at the lake was a common thing and our town was a seaport

[Flubber]

Also this explains much-- Didn't you all know that swimming gives someone the confidence and skills they need to be able to relate to potential romantic partners.

learn to swim and pick up a girl LOL

[Wezil]

More generally, for my family, we consider it a life skill you should have .. . so our children are required to take swimming lessons -- Its their one activity apart from school that is non-negotiable. Perhaps this is more of a rural or coastal type attitude since being up at the lake was a common thing and our town was a seaport

My family was the same, swimming was taught as a life skill.

Interestingly enough, I saw stats recently that demonstrated you were more likely to drown if you know how to swim. Non-swimmers avoid the water I guess.


Albie - Have you never been camping before? Serious question, not intended to mock...

[Hauldren Collider]

Learning to swim is like learning to ride a bike. Every kid learns it at some point...except, apparently, Alby.

[Wezil]

It's actually way less than "every kid". Iirc it is actually less than 50% so Albie would be in the majority on this one.

That said, I thought swimming was mandatory in boot camp. It is here.

[giblets]

Apparently not for the US marines. You can really tell that they are some of the finest forces.

[ColdWizard]

Officers don't go to boot camp.

[Hauldren Collider]

I would guess that it is in a later part of the training Alby never got to...

[Al B. Sure!]

I would guess that it is in a later part of the training Alby never got to...

Yes.

To enter the Marine Corps, you do not need to be able to swim. You also don't need to be able to know how to shoot or handle a weapon or fight or anything else. They teach you.

I have a friend who's a Second Lieutenant now and he didn't know how to swim til they got to that portion of TBS (yes, he's Black ). He did suggest to me to learn how to swim ahead of time though, just because it'll be one less thing to learn.

I'm from the ghetto. Don't yall know people from the ghetto don't know how to swim? What is that statistic? Like 70% of Blacks and Latinos don't know how to swim?


I actually don't know how to ride a bike...