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Well, Leathernecks, today I have good news and bad news.<\/p>\n
As of last week,\u00a0 a talked about change took effect.<\/p>\n
Marines who plan on departing the Corps must now notify the service of their intent to exit no later than six months ahead of their planned departure date.<\/p>\n
Previously, Marines could resign or retire with as little as four months of advanced notification. The update, released last Friday, went into immediate effect for the service<\/p>\n
The previous timeline of resignation notification within 4-14 months didn’t give Marines adequate time to prepare for their transitions, Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Eason said in an email to Military.com on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Marines’ requests for resignation or retirement now may not be submitted before 18 months from the requested departure date; that’s up from a previous limit of 14 months. Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So you have to tell them no earlier than 18 months from retirement – I guess the additional four months is to help them not prepare for your leaving? Would seem to me that additional scheduling time would help, but what do I know…<\/p>\n
They also mention that there is a mandatory training seminar everyone leaving must complete 12 months before exiting the Corps (I won’t speculate on the topics in this seminar…y’all can do that.) But especially for first-termers, not sure they wouldn’t be better off amending that “12 months before” to “one month before”. I seem to remember first term folks knowing damn good and well if they were getting out a long time before their ETS, but re-enlisters sometimes waiting to make up their minds till very late in the game.<\/p>\n
Regardless, all of you can be dressing in style.\u00a0 I remember doing a blurb on uniform shortages ‘way back when – partly due to Covid and partly due to other causes, the Marines have been short on basic issue camouflage uniforms for years.<\/p>\n
The Marine Corps said it initially started noticing shortages in 2022 of the combat utility uniforms that left exchange stocks empty and Marines having to improvise, including issuing recruits fewer pairs of the Marine pattern, or MARPAT, woodland-camouflage sets.<\/p>\n
Leadership in the Corps also gave commanders at the battalion level authorization to let troops wear desert pattern uniforms or flame-resistant sets, also known as FROGs, amid the shortage, a necessary departure from the Corps’ typical uniformity standards. Until the shortage is expected to fully end this summer, that authorization stands, according to officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The CEO of American Apparel Inc. says that due to (presumably the post Afghanistan)?) drawdown many of their subcontractors went out of business, and often workers made more from Covid subsidies from working.<\/p>\n
“We did in fact increase our wages some 20%-25% to retain as many as we could and did to some degree. But it was costly, and we lost several million dollars but hung in there.” Military.com II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Might be wise to get to take care of any personal shortages as soon as possible, the CEO sounds optimistic on current supplies but seems to think a significant uptick in demand (like for a big deployment) could\u00a0 cause problems again.<\/p>\n
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