I wanna teach english overseas, is the Marines Corp. a good choice?

[asian]

I also want to learn new languages. I am fairly adequate in learning new languages. I am chinese, speak chinese quite fluently, speak english even more fluently (born in california =D) and currently learning spanish.
I want to teach english in taiwan or japan. I dont wanna teach in iraq or those war countries we're having wars with right now. haha dont wanna be nowhere near the combat.

marines corp has many opportunities such as linquistics soooo... i met with a recruiter and he's signing me up now, after i passed the practice test. Also I dont wanna cut my hair, because as a lady we have to have long hair and its not a part of my religion but its our lifestyle. My hair is straight and long and would goes neatly in a bun. is that fine?
i'm a small lady too. i know marine corps dont have alot of ladies. so what do you think. i'm quite athletic also.

[draco99_99]

uummm...... every Marine is a rifleman first for a reason. A marines 1st and main concern is combat operations. If you wanted a linguistics career with less chance of combat I would've looked at the Air Force or be CTI in the Navy. But I would expect to at least be deployed to a combat zone while in the Marines.
Actually i just noticed you were a woman after reading the hair part over so I had to edit my above original answer. Truth is I'm not sure how the Marines work with female recruits. I'd probably search some message boards over the internet for other ladies in the Corp.

[mayflower]

You don't need to cut your hair so long as you can keep it in regulation.
Please when you 'start' teaching English...abolish the word 'wanna' and replace it w/ 'want to'. Oh and don't forget to emphasize the importance of capitalization.
I am 5'2" and 100lbs I made it through Marine Corps bottcamp. There were girls shorter than me

[Kevin G]

You want to teach English? I think you are better off not joining the military. Military linguistics specialists learn the language they are told to learn and they monitor foreign intelligence, or they go to Iraq and are attached to a unit as an interpreter. If you want to teach English as a second language in Asia, you should look for jobs with English companies such as Geos http://www.geos.net/. I know some people who taught English in Japan and loved it.

There are also jobs teaching English as a Second Language at schools on bases overseas to the children of servicemen who have mostly been raised by a non English-speaking spouse. These people are DOD civilian contractors, they aren’t in the military. Being commissioned or enlisted however, isn’t a good way become an English teacher in Asia.

[Diogene's Dog]

Look elsewhere. You are not Marine material. Unless you are ready to abandon all that you ever thought of your self being until the Marine Corps is through rearranging your thinking, you are not ready. The Air Force is probably what you are ready for.

Your pre-proven language abilities would do you well in any intelligence job in the current need. That alone should get you to the DLI. I am just going to quess that you have tested out in the 90 percentile. All the services should be fawning over you and falling all over themselves to get you in.

I have no negatives to offer for the Marines. You are not ready for that.

[uhgrant100]

Army or Navy would be better.

They have more translator options and positions, and more places to go to be a translator. Marines are a much smaller force and only have a finite amount of these postions.

If you want to avoid combat, do not join the military. Combat is part of the job. Army and Marines face the most combat.