CIVIES

Esprit de Corps of AMS-2 Marines
By the students of AMS-2

Aircraft Maintenance Squadron 2, NAS Pensacola has had a rough past, a restricted present, and an unprecedented future. Over a year ago, before Pensacola’s restriction was put into place, the Marine-Students took place in multiple dishonorable actions, and caused many problems both on and off base. In an effort to stop these mistakes and prevent them, a restriction was placed across all of MATSG-21. Now over a year later, this restriction appears to be rather successful, with far less Marines getting into trouble. However we disagree with this, as many Marines continue to get into trouble, and we see the Marines here having no incentive or motivation to improve or correct this. We believe that by authorizing a status for the “excellent” Marines to have an upgraded liberty policy, the Marines in Pensacola will have an incentive to be that “excellent” Marine, do they right thing, stay out of trouble, and do well in class. In the status, that we will call “Condition 3,” Marines could achieve something similar to the Navy’s “Phase 4”. The sailors in our classes all have big plans of staying out of trouble and maintaining grades because they have incentives. They are motivated because if they do well they get better liberty and even promoted. While on the Marines side of the class, at least in I strand, they have no motivation other than maybe get top of class and get a positive entry into their records. It is clear that the Sailors have much more to lose, and to gain. This may be the reason that sailors out-score the Marines so often. The Marines that would rate this new policy should have a good GPA, maybe an 90% or higher, they should have no red entries, no Page 11s, no counselings, no NJPs, and should have to be recommended by their instructor and approved by the troop handlers. By the time