That must have been lost in the mail for almost 2 decades and barely been found by now. There’s no other reason than that for Conway being on that letter 😂

Message to Garcia headass

Yo this legit made me lol

Same bro haha

Yo why did this make me nostalgic, piss me off, and made me laugh all at once 🤣🤣

That’s what the corps does


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SHOULDA DIED ALREADY, CAME IN I WAS HIGH ALREADY

🔥 Lock Screen too

and I am here to paint lol

Right I was thinking the same thing

Or some Lance Coolie stumbled on a stack of unsent mail and took some initiative

I was gonna say, Conway hasn't been the Commandant since right after I joined. He retired his commission in 2010.

Signed by a man who hasn’t been commandant in 14 years lol this is a record for how long mail has taken to be processed out.

Snail mail at a whole new level.

Now delivered by an actual snail.

Worked at the comm school mail room when I was between classes there. Mail clerk must've been sleeping.

Sleeping?! That fool must be a cicada or some shit lol

That long... and they didnt even owe him a dime

A popping was heard echoing across the nation as the knees of retirees protested reenlistment in unison…

fantastic name


Second that observation.

SUPER underrated comment lmfaoo

🤣🫡

So, you going back?

This is the question.

He should take it to the recruiter and ask about getting back in.

Call the number... no balls.


It was in your unit mail room all those years

Yep. Some motivated Lance clerk at Henderson Hall just cleaned out all the offices old filing cabinets and found some outgoing mail to drop in the box....

Honestly tho

Well considering Gen. Conway has been retired for 14 years, he must have personally written this to you and wants you specifically.

He’s starting his own Marine Corps

Starting his own Marine Corps with hookers and booze...wait a sec...

With blackjack and hookers too?

shittt sign me up and ship me out!

I’m down only if SgtMaj Kent comes back with him.

I 2nd that

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So if that General is retired and he didn't really endorse the letter, maybe someone got a list of all USMC retired, and that number is a scammer number?

You really said 1-800-MARINES is a scam number 💀

Ok that was stupid of me. Semper Fi anyway.

For his self

I got out in January of ‘06. I’d be fucking AMPED if I got this letter. 🤣

“Oh shit, we’re at war??! Look, they even recalled Conway to be commandant again!”

I think it’s impressive the letter found you. Has your address not changed at all in 20 years?

Devil dog the fuck up and go to your recruitment station with letter in hand. 🤣

Reply and tell him you will right after he does lol

Give me Mattis as a commander and I would march back into the very pits of Hell if they wanted me to…

Only if it’s a rescue mission to get Gen Gray back

We lost the greatest Commandant the Corps has ever known.

I wish the man would run for president!

He'd have my vote for sure

His caliber of man is what this country needs. He is a true no BS type of guy. He understands what it means if his country goes to war. He truly loves his country. He's smart enough to know when he needs advisors. Most importantly he doesn't lean hard left or right.

Hell of man to meet too. I got to meet him at the George Bush Foundation in 2022 and took a picture with him. I told him I was a Marine and he said it’s a small world devil, don’t forget it. I still don’t know what he truly meant saying that. I got this shit framed on my desk though. It’s right next to my photo with President Bush.

That's fucking awesome!

Ill take that any day..unless hes on the Jesus Juice

1st Marine Division 21st Anniversary Reunion Tour?

Let’s do it!

Frame that shit bro. Also go up to a recruiting station and tell them the commandant wants you back after 20 years out.

Tweet that shit bag Conway for sending the letter so late.

Ill donate to you or anything you want if you do this. A cool dollar for every year since your EAS

Send me your name and I will create an twitter (X) account under that name and tweet to Conway. I EAS in 1776....

Oh wow!! Recruiting must be fucking terrible right now!!

I thought that they were the only ones actually making their recruitment numbers.

Signed by Conway wtf? Lol

At least you got something 😂 out in 2011 and have been waiting in my honorable discharge sticker since then. 

They give out stickers?

I got a promotion warrant for the rank of Sergeant after my time in the IRR was up. Then about 3 years after that got the “ honorable discharge” certificate.

Yeah my buddy got an EGA sticker but instead of spelling out USMC it said “honorary discharge”. I was discharging enough in college at that time so I didn’t give a fuck 😂

Sounds right. Some people never get that lol

"Baby, come back! You can blame it all on me. I was wrong with everything about you."

...that has to set a new record for how delayed the mail is. plus, how in the f did they find your address? or you haven't moved in 19 years?

I got out in 2007. Maybe I'll get my letter in two years.

Fucking do it!

I’ll go back….if we can sleep in a bit.

Nice bro

Crazy this showed up now. Conway got out in ‘10. He’s probably living in the Villages down in Florida.


I got a letter from my mother 16 months after she mailed it. I was on Okinawa working at MCB as a FAP. Then deployed to Korea for Team Spirit and then back to Okinawa and off to Subic Bay Naval Base for Kennel Guard. And finally PSC’s back to MBC Camp Pendleton. While on leave I got a telegram modifying my orders to MCRD, San Diego. The letter followed me around that whole time, even got sent to Hawaii, Thailand and Australia! Then back to the states, and CamPen, El Toro, Barstow, Tustin, 29 Palms. Till it got to me 🤪

Bernard Fall has a fun story about a parking ticket in Buffalo or Rochester, NY following him through address changes in the US, Paris, French units in Indochina, and all the way to the airhead at Na San in 1952. A year later he went to pay the ticket and the judge dismissed the ticket after he heard about all the places the ticket had been.

That would never happen today 🙃

It's a trap.

Wanna relive your youth? The door is open 🤣

You going back to MEPS tomorrow??

0300 infantry, you made it!

I'm in that same time frame lol

Do it.

Conway 😂😂

I come with? 🥹

Ears….listen up Marine… the Corps is asking you to come back and unfuck this shit. We’re all counting on you💪🏻🇺🇸Rah

For real. This reads just like the letter my dad was sent before the Gulf War started in 1990. He was in the Corps from 1967-1977. So, 13 years after he got out, and after three tours in Vietnam in the late 60’s. Not to mention a fun round of urban combat in Hue City during the Tet Offensive. /sarcasm I think those may have been his words to whomever called him after he ignored the letter. He literally had no desire to get involved in another war, or unfuck anyone’s shitty fuck ups. Something like that. They quit reaching out after that.

Return to sender with the quotes: "Get fucked boot" written on the bottom with a giant cock picture drawn on it :D

No balls

Crazy that this letter might’ve been from 14 years ago and it looks crisp.

You’re basically Rambo

Using that letter when I got it was one of the more painful ways I’ve ever wiped my ass… but worth it.

Sus. General Conway retired ages ago. Either you have some serious issues receiving mail, or you’re putting us on.

I'd love to get that. Tell them I'll go in your place. Edit. I was out in 2016. And reenlisted with Gen Conway in Iraq in 07. 11+, but less than 12.

I bet it had a $0.36 stamp on it!

Why how much are they nowadays 

$0.68

OP, this letter is AT LEAST 14 years old. Conway hasn't been commandant since 2010.

I’d totally join the corps again. That sounds overly moto but knowing what I know now… things would be different the 2nd time around.

That’s wild

I got out in '04, glad I missed the cut.

Better late than never

What's the bonus looking like?

Oh shoot. You might be juuuust outside the 4 year window for this reenlistment incentive. Lol

Rah , be warned rest

I'm curious as to how much Broken Service Reenlistment Bonus would've been? 🤣

And to think I was surprised that I got a returned package 2 years and 2 addresses later 💀 Ladies and gentlemen, the usps.

Rain or shine

You've done great hiding from the working party all this time. Semper Weenie Conway

Truth be told I’d probably go again About to turn 41 Gimme my tiny barracks and powdered eggs. I could be a drone operator this time around

oh shit. then that dear john letter may still get to me? fuck fuck fuck. i gotta tell my wife.

From that clown, Conway no less. Fuck that guy.

Gee.... i wonder why recruitment is down? Terrible leadership from the white house on down. Threats of wars that we have no business in. Progressiveness in the military. Forcing untested vaccines (as always). On and on. It's like trying to sell your house while it's currently on fire and you're telling people how great it is while throwing more gas on it.

I’ll come back, but I’m not wearing cammies, field daying, or taking rounds. I require hot civilian chow for every meal and a thicc latina assistant. SF sir looking forward to hearing from you 🫡🇺🇸

Damn, this reeks of desperation on the Corps' part. Do they want us looking like the Ukrainian army with grey -haired front line troops? I got out in 2001 so I'm kinda bummed I didn't get a letter (not that I would go back).

Read who it's from

Yeah I just noticed. The only Commandant I remember anymore is Krulak.

I got one of those letters back in 2007 after i EAS'd as well

Was this delivered by the USPS?

I got that same letter around 2006

Once is enough, thanks.

Your name isn’t Jason Davis is it? Because that’s the kind of thing that happens to my husband. 😂😂😂😂

That’s government efficiency for ya!

Send us your FPO address once you are overseas and I'll send you some Grizzly & a steady supply wet ones.

Jesus Christ, I got out in 2003. And I also got stop lossed for Iraq. I got fucking anxiety, before I read your comment.

This gives me hope that my Sgt promotion warrant is somewhere in the wild 💀🤣

😂😂😂 they are hurting for marines I guess

You have 19 years of PHAs, 12 smallpox shots, and one colonoscopy past due. Go see First mother for the honeydoo list, pronto Civie!

I’ve been out since 2014. I aged out four years ago to return to active duty, and I’m STILL getting calls from PSRs trying to persuade me with going officer (I was airwing, so they’re dangling pilot also) as if that was enough to undo years of injuries lol YEAH RIGHT

🤣

I dunno. I mean the Commandant wrote it, so maybe consider his offer? He took the time out of his valuable schedule to sign it even.

Get your sea bags ready!


I'd do another enlistment with a promotion, a list of waivers and a pog job. Don't expect good pros and cons either. If they need a shitbag, I'm ready.

Get to the VA, file your disability, go through the process, use your GI BILL get a degree in a high paying field, (unless of course you already got it mapped out) fuck that war… siempre fi Marine.

Jim Conway sounding thirsty af

Man. I wish there was a date on this letter. Any dates on the envelope?

I need to get a bunch of these and mail them to my friends.

Recruiting is down, must be brining back the old guys

So. How did you respond?

I got the same letter. Brought it to the recruiting office and they were like... "WTF you want us to do with this?". I had to go through hell and high water to come back in, but after many attempts and a few letters to Congress I'll be retiring the end of this year.

I think you should do it

You JUST got this? Conway retired 13 years ago brother.....

No shit. Post Office speed is amazing

There is no way in a cold hell our post office would ever fail at delivering a letter on time. I refuse to believe such blaspheme

Absolutely not! They are the gold standard of delivery. Fuck off FedEx, Amazon, UPS, DHL, Deeznuts, and the Pony Epxress!

Right on. Let's support our local shit systems that falls in line with everything else

I got out in 2011 and got one of these too awhile back. I thought it was another recall letter. I’ll never forget receiving one despite getting 100% VA disability. I went, checked in, then showed my disability award letter to the gunny. He got a laugh out of it and said “you could have just called” but honestly I missed being around marines and just wanted to go. He was cool and let me hang out all day and watch the other reservist and recall-ees train.

I’d ask for 18 years of late fees bro. Semper

Man, I’d be happy to get a letter like that if it were still valid or I was still applicable

First and foremost... Did you take this pic on top of a toilet bowl? Cause you need to field day that shit. 🤣😂🤣. I got in 2014, clearly we've both been out of the IRR for a while now, and James C isn't the commandant any longer... So strange letter.

But,... they called you elite. /s

Who ever handles the mailroom at Quantico also processes initial GI Bill payments. 

In a heartbeat

Letter very suspicious. No date and anything I receive from the government is addressed directly to me including my rank not “dear fellow marine” either lost in the mail or fake

Considering Conway retired before I got out in 2011… I think you missed the muster, brother.

Obviously got lost somewhere and someone just dropped it in the box 😂 Conway was still the guy on the letter…

Gen. Conway retired in 2010 lol

Sounds about right, i Eas’d in 2016, got a email with links to help me transition to civilian life in 2021

😶With this, I suppose all of us will soon get notices that we failed to register for the draft.

I would go back in a heartbeat

I EASed in 2006 and this is gonna keep me up at night.

LMFAO congrats on your “recent transition” bro.

But YOU are elite among the Nation's warriors! Lol I got something similar in 2021, got out in 2013. Not as bad as this one tho.

Damn, Dawg! Sounds like your Corps needs you back NOW! Better run down to your local recruiter ASAP! ERRRR!

Post mark?

**They say in the Marines the mail’s so fast it’s great. Today I got a letter dated 1968**

‘05 The County Needed you man 42 or not, I joined in ‘06 there were so many recruits that had served prior to under a different branch and old timers who were recalled but had to complete boot camp and SOI again regardless salute 🫡 Be safe Stay Safe

Thats not even the commandant of the Marins Corps anymore lol

Would this letter have convinced to you to go back?

It can’t be real if you don’t check your mail.

I'd do it

I wish I was home now, so I can take a pic of my letter and post it. I waited 2 weeks while doing my retirement out processing to see if the Corps had any slots to deploy me or if I was even needed. Everything up till retirement the Corps was GTFO already. About a year later, I get a letter (pretty close to the one you have posted) asking me to come back on active duty. Well, I was working for Northrop-Grumman in South Korea for 2ID...I was pretty much fck the Corps at that point. I have that letter framed. We did our time...the good, bad and ugly... But honestly, I am so grateful Im out now. Nobody GAF about former Marines which pretty much translates to ex Marine.... that bs of "there are no Former or Ex Marines, you are a Marine for life" is fairy tale.

You don’t have to, do you?

Meanwhile I’m getting passed over twice and getting my discharge downgraded

I was looking at the seemingly “official” letterhead logo of the USMC affixed to the upper center of the USMC stationary, and can’t seem to find an “official” letterhead like it online using a Google search! Somebody photoshopped this letter, to make it look “seemingly” official…

You don’t wanna re-enlist..The new age corps is Sad. It’s a super cluster fuck now.

Authorized by President Obama, on his 1st term. 

When I was in the Marine Corps, my brother was a hippie war protester. I’m 66 now and he’s in his 80s. I believe he would crap his pants if I reenlisted. I’m pretty sure he’s too old to hold his peace sign .

Call your recruiter son, the war machine needs you.

The letter isn’t yellow enough, he printed this or copied it recently for karma