Stress Cards

[alanUSMCDEP03]

To all recent grads- or poolees who may know?

I heard from a couple of Sgts. that they heard they have stress cards in boot camp now, I knew the army and other branches did, but does the Marine Corps really have them now at PI and San Diego? If so, I feel its an emabarrasment to all the Marines, and another prime example of how MOA and other crybabies are ruining the greatest fighting force in the world.

[AshleyMS]

It is true...and it is an embarrasment, I dont see the point of them. If you get stressed in a combat situation what are they going to do pull it out and tell the enemy "Im stressed do you think you can wait to kill me and everyone else around me for maybe 30 minutes...that would be great thanks." Come on!!!! Thats just ignorant!

[greensideout]

A Drill Instructor friend told me a short story about this.

He told a recruit, "If you pull that stress card I will show you what stress is really about!"

I think that sums it up. You can have a stress card, just don't ever figure on using it!---LOL

[LivinSoFree]

Ashley, did you yourself have a stress card? 'Cause I know for SURE that those things didn't exist when I went through.

Probably the best way to check would be to get a copy of the Recruit Training SOP.

[1recon]

I just graduated in August and I never even heard about that till now. In fact, my Drill Instructors made fun of them.

[alanUSMCDEP03]

They didn't have them when I went thru, grad. Aug. 27-who knows for 100% sure?

[JAMarine]

What the Hell is a Stress Card. Is that another way of saying Non-Hacker?

OMG

Hey Cobb, you have any stress in the mountains on Peleliu?


Stress Cards!
I can't believe it for one moment.

Settle Down Roger,,,, it was just a dream. LOL Semper Fi Friend. We miss you.

rich

[scopekill26]

For the truth on this subject, read my post in the Polls section of Forums!!!

It is under (Stress cards).

True story. :marine:

[sm@@thrider]

if you see someone with it tell them to put it away or get the f&*^ out, Im from the old school and now your MoA- Mothers of America try to say that we treat new joins wrong. you will know why a DI treats you the way he should because tell your parents that you have to be strong there, look @ what Iraq's ppl do to ours on tv. but we don't show that, we go by the geneva convention, there ppl don't care about it.
Im glad I am going back.

[mrbsox]

When ever we were stressed out,

We just had to let one of our Drill Instructors know

And he would LET us go out and

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[enviro]

Geez - I think this needs to be printed at the top of ever page here at Leatherneck.com.

THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS STRESS CARDS!

http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18063&highlight=stress+cards

This rumor is only 7 years old now and has been thoroughly debunked several hundred times.

[scopekill26]

Here to save you with the truth.......

Last year I was talking to a Senior Airman at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. We were sharing stories about boot camp and when I finished talking about the Crucible he actually said: " You should have given your D.I. a stress card!"

Never hearing this term before I of course responded: "What the hell is that?!" Then he actually got into his wallet and pulled one out!!! It was the size of a social security card and blue.

I was blown away!!! It must be nice to know that when times get tough (or Drill S. 's get tough) you can veto what their doing and take a break!!!

I for one feel thankful that the Marines do not issue these cards,
as I actually enjoyed the pain......it made me and all my friends who we are today.

Semper Fi,

:marine:

[Ed Palmer]

I got a stress card from my D I but it was the same size as a size 12
combat boot and you know where he sliped it right between my two
stress points My head and my asz only had to use it once.

[Toby M]

I went thru in 67 but I don't recall having any stress in boot camp. The D.I.'s were really nice guys and we were able to rest all we wanted plus we didn't have to excercise if we didn't want to. I'm sure nothing has changed...

[scopekill26]

When at war, and you come face to face with the enemy, both raging with hate and fear, just pull out your stress card and hand it to him.

Then after about five minutes or so calmly get back up and tell him your ready to shoot him now, and see what he thinks. Maybe he needs more time too, to reload his weapon or call for reinforcements.

Then when you get home go to Leatherneck.com and let all of us know how it went.

We will be awaiting your reply!!!!!

Holding my breath............................................ :evilgrin:

[jo1753]

Maybe we should call myth busters.

I know if I had pulled one out......My SDI. would have put it on the toe of his boot and kicked it up my A** so far. It would have came out the other end.........Semper-Fi

Like ol R. Lee would say.........." don't ya just feel the love "

[Ed Palmer]

I went thru in 67 but I don't recall having any stress in boot camp. The D.I.'s were really nice guys and we were able to rest all we wanted plus we didn't have to excercise if we didn't want to. I'm sure nothing has changed...


Who are you trying to bull shxy

[jo1753]

I think this whole topic is someones idea of a wet dream/wishful thinking...........I still think we should get myth busters on this.LOL
Semper-Fi

[Nagalfar]

Just thinking about giving boots a "stress card" makes me wanna pull out MY STRESS CARD! and I dont even have one.. were does a old fart get his?

[AshleyMS]

I never actually had one myself but was told by a friend that was at SD they had stress cards...but who knows, I just know what I am told so. Sorry it took me so long to reply, have had a lot going on lately.

[yellowwing]

Snopes Urban Legends: Military Stress Cards (http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm)
Claim: Recruits in basic training are issued "stress cards," which when waved at demanding drill sergeants immediately entitle recruits to gentler treatment.

Status: False.

Origins: This is one of those tales that has the smallest kernel of truth to it, but that truth is almost unrecognizable in the form the scuttlebutt has since taken.

For a few years during the 1990s, the US Navy did issue "stress cards" to new recruits, but they weren't the "Get out of jail free" coupons military lore has since turned them into. Rather, these cards listed names and phone numbers of resources the newcomers could contact "if things pile[d] up." The cards were strictly for informational purposes: they informed recruits of available support services.

Navy trainers began reporting that some of the recruits had taken to raising their cards while being disciplined, as a way of signalling for time out. It's unclear whether any of those enduring basic training really thought that was the purpose of the cards or whether this was just standard armed forces jackassing, but the Navy took no chances and got rid of the cards.

This short-lived experiment with providing recruits with clear information about whom to contact when things went bump in the night has morphed into an unflattering and unsettling illustration of today's soldier as a creampuff. Notice how the story has mutated into one where the drill instructors are portrayed as honor bound to obey the cards when they are displayed to them, an aspect that wasn't part of things during the real cards' short life. The story has also widened its net; what was a Navy hand-out has, in the world of rumor, become a card issued to Army and Marine recruits, making this an Armed Forces-wide phenomenon.

[SuNmAN]

I swear if this has the least bit of truth to it I am disgusted to the core.

I also heard when I was in MCTBN at the School of Infantry a rumor that they abolished the use of the ALICE pack during the Crucible and replaced it with the far lighter, smaller "day" pack.

Eventually I even heard that they were abolishing the crucible.

Also read this about the kid who died in boot camp - he did'nt deserve to die, but he was sure a weak ***** who doesnt deserve a place in my Marine Corps.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1511


I'll really appreciate it if someone would come and tell me straight up that there rumors are false. I graduated boot camp in October 2004 and it was still pretty damn hard. Please don't tell me in a mere 7 months the elite organization I've been so proud of and worked so hard to join has gone soft.

I want to know if these rumors are true or not, because if they are, it really does not mean much to be a Marine anymore. Might as well be a soldier...or a seaman.

[SuNmAN]

My ultimate goal right now is to one day become a Marine officer. As it is once said - "There is no greater privelege in the world than leading Marines in combat", but I swear, if all this is true I'm serving my obligation and I'm OUT.

[HardJedi]

look, there were rumours about stress cards as long ago as 1992. I remember people telling me THAN that new recruits had them and were using them. obviously, in 13 years, it hasn't been true so far.

[SuNmAN]

I hope so :-)

I just convinced a buddy of mine to join the Corps. He's in MCRD San Diego right now in receiving company, I'll ask him about them via mail :-P

[ringoffire]

I just asked my hubby about this the other day. He was Drill Instructor 1999-2002 at PI. He said he has never heard of stress cards. Then I saw the evil grin on his face, and I believe I heard a chuckle. None of his recruits had a stress card.

[jo1753]

Yellowwing........thanks alot for taking the time to share that with us................It sure makes me feel better knowing this was all just a run-a-way urban myth............SEMPER-FI God Bless the Corps.

[jo1753]

Originally posted by SuNmAN
My ultimate goal right now is to one day become a Marine officer. As it is once said - "There is no greater privelege in the world than leading Marines in combat", but I swear, if all this is true I'm serving my obligation and I'm OUT.

I wouldn't go making plans to get out of the Corps, not just yet.
I've personally heard crap about this back in the early 90's and remember my blood presure going up back then.

:mad:

But...." myself " along with a huge amount of other people thru the yrs. Should have known better.......... Simply because of one main factor..... It was always a friend of a friend of a brother who had his best school buddys' cousin second removed. step dads' who know a guy back WHEN....LOLOL

In other words I've never personally met anyone who had a card "themself"......... it was always.........some other guy....
Semper-Fi God bless the Corps.

[SuNmAN]

Ooorah !

I've heard another rumor not too long ago...ugh there are so many of them - that

Army is extending its basic training to 13 weeks and the Marine Corps, to keep its advantage, is extending boot camp to 17 weeks...sounds like BS to me but I heard this crap somewhere.