Is there an IQ test for Marine recruits?

[Boog]

You swam from Isla Cabras to Punta Arenas? Noooooo! Maybe paddle board or a boat but swim the Vieques passage NooWaaay.

We did the swim with two buddies in a rented boat from MWR. Those turds drank all the beer before we finished the swim. Had to go back to base to get more.

The cross current is fast at times and that was the only thing to worry about. The sharks didn't bother us, neither did the barracuda. But for something impossible, it wasn't all that hard; back when youth doesn't know better...

 

[sonny]

Spent a lot of time in that part of the world floating around. Was going to ask about the sharks and barracuda. Had a friend get pretty messed up after a barracuda thought his shiny watch was lunch.

 

[TriumPhil]

We did the swim with two buddies in a rented boat from MWR. Those turds drank all the beer before we finished the swim. Had to go back to base to get more.

The cross current is fast at times and that was the only thing to worry about. The sharks didn't bother us, neither did the barracuda. But for something impossible, it wasn't all that hard; back when youth doesn't know better...

I've spent a bit over a year of my life, over about 30 annual trips to that part of PR, based at a formally awesome resort called Palmas del Mar in Humacao, just south of Fajardo. You really do have to know your business to swim in those open waters known largely as Roosevelt Roads, but, more technically, across the Vieques Passage portion of the much larger Vieques Sound. I have scuba dived, swum in open waters and snorkeled more times than I could count all over that particular part of the world.

We ragtop sailors call such conditions as you'll usually find there "confused seas", as you have the Atlantic Ocean and its currents colliding with The Caribbean Sea and its currents, not to mention the daily variations of tides and ever-present trade winds, especially tricky between the east coast of PR and the island archipelagos lying further east from that coast.

Respect, Boog!!! What you did there conjures up the 7 Pees (yes, that's how you spell the P sound in English);
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

 

[1K9]

Trump Phil is right. Those are not friendly waters even for boaters. As the channel narrows currents make eddies that have sent many a good sailors into the sand bar on the west tip of Vieques or up the channel into hidden reefs, some of which are not well charted. Sharks are notorious patrollers since the channel is also favorite of pelagic fish that move into the Caribbean sea that way. If you had a chase boat it was a life saving measure. The English channel has been crossed by a woman swimmer so it is doable. I was a good swimmer in my time and would have not attempted that swim unless my boat had gone under.

 

[EasTexRIII]

Boog's NOT a good swimmer...... He's a GREAT swimmer

 

[TriumPhil]

I should hope so, given that he was a Navy Rescue Swimmer!

Navy Air Rescue Swimmer (AIRR) : Navy.com

 

[1K9]

Bad Ass badges you'r displaying there Sir. Hard to earn. There are a couple of movies dedicated to those who risk their life to save strangers troubled in the high seas. Got to give it to the pilots who operate the aircraft.

 

[Mike]

The young Marine just applied what he was taught....Adapt and Overcome! He made it to the shop and all is well.
SEMPER FI!!

 

[grzbiet]

Is there an IQ test for Marine recruits?

with high regard for both formations:
"I actually wanted to become a police officer Marine but failed the IQ test when I arrived on time at the correct building"

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[RichRIII]

Actually Marines have higher ASVAB requirements then some of the other branches, and especially for female Marines. It does not say if the guy hey almost stole the bike from was another Marine. He could have bought it off a Navy Corpsman or a dependent on base. He was smart enough to bring it to the shop. I would have picked it up too, for that price.

Semper Fi