After a few nights aboard the high-speed vessel United States Naval Ship Fall River headed towards Malaysia, Lance Cpl. Taylor Schock, a rifleman with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, gets used to his first experience with ship life in the Marine Corps. Schock, a Glyndon, Minnesota native, went to Malaysia with approximately 100 Marines and Sailors in support of the bilateral Exercise Tiger Strike 17. “Joining the Marine Corps was a decision I made early on in life,” said Schock.” In the town that I grew up in, everybody had their opinion on the military and I always heard
After a few nights aboard the high-speed vessel United States Naval Ship Fall River headed towards Malaysia, Lance Cpl. Taylor Schock, a rifleman with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, gets used to his first experience with ship life in the Marine Corps. Schock, a Glyndon, Minnesota native, went to Malaysia with approximately 100 Marines and Sailors in support of the bilateral Exercise Tiger Strike 17. “Joining the Marine Corps was a decision I made early on in life,” said Schock.” In the town that I grew up in, everybody had their opinion on the military and I always heard great things about the opportunities that the military provided.” After attending high school with a graduating class of 79 students Schock made the decision to join the Marine Corps. “My grandfather served as a Marine in Vietnam and was the only one that kind of discouraged me from joining the Marine Corps,” said Schock. “ But when choosing which branch to join my thoughts were go big or go home, the Marine Corps does it best, so that helped narrow down my options when I stepped into the recruiting office,” said Schock. After trials and tribulation at bootcamp and getting to his first duty station at Camp Pendleton, California, the Marine Corps was different than what he expected it to be, Schock said. “Before the Marine Corps I had been to Minnesota, North Dakota, and Florida,” said Schock. “Now, not even half way through my contract, I’ve been all over California, Okinawa, Japan, parts of the Philippines, and now Malaysia.” “No matter what you do in the Marine Corps it is an experience,” said Schock. “Because you can look at the Marine to your left and right and assume that how you grew up and how they grew up is completely different, but you work hand in hand to complete the mission, whether it be to tactically scrubbing the head or running live-fire drills alongside other countries.” Schock is forward deployed to 4th Marine Regimen
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