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[jinelson]

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Whats in the boxes?

[SmokeyBandit]

231 years of motivation, dedication, and a fierce fighting tradition!

[hawks]

Eagle, Globe, and Anchor?

[USMC90]

Eagle, Globe, and Anchor?

I second that.

[aviator101]

I third that.

[baronius]

Rattlesnakes.

[SkilletsUSMC]

Rattlesnakes.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaa:yes: hahahahahahahaha:no: hahahahahahahahahaha:banana: !!!!

[Master Sephiroth]

A Marine Corps for another thousand years.

[Old Marine]

Its the poolees brains that they had to leave in receiving barracks. Now that they have been transformed into Marines, they will have their brains returned to them. They used to keep them in little green bags and hang them on the wall and upon becoming a Marine you could go to receiving barracks and retrieve your bag. I assume that quite a few forgot to get their bags so now they reissue at graduation.

[maverickmarine]

I will have to go with Eagle, Globe and Anchor as well because I don't remember them rolling out with any boxes at my graduation and I guess they didn't feel that we deserved our brains back, nor did they let any rattlesnakes loose although it would've been a good preview of my snake eater days...GET SOME!

[Marine84]

Its the poolees brains that they had to leave in receiving barracks. Now that they have been transformed into Marines, they will have their brains returned to them. They used to keep them in little green bags and hang them on the wall and upon becoming a Marine you could go to receiving barracks and retrieve your bag. I assume that quite a few forgot to get their bags so now they reissue at graduation.

That's funny as hell!

I'm guessing swords. (Look like nice boxes)

[jinelson]

The boxes contain the Eagle Globe and Anchors that are awarded each new Marine by one of his Drill Instructors at MCRD San Diego at the EGA Ceremony/family day on thursdays.

Jim

[Marine84]

well don't I feel like a doofus.....................don't remember those. Do they not do that for the ones at the Island?

[cplbrooks]

They didnt do that with us either. They started doing this after 1996 when they introduced the crucible or something like that. Back in the day they just had a graduation ceremony and the CO called us Marines and said get the hell out and off to MCT and SOI we went.

The EGA ceremony is nice but a bit corny in my opinion. Maybe i am just jealous :cry: LOL

[SkilletsUSMC]

They didnt do that with us either. They started doing this after 1996 when they introduced the crucible or something like that. Back in the day they just had a graduation ceremony and the CO called us Marines and said get the hell out and off to MCT and SOI we went.

The EGA ceremony is nice but a bit corny in my opinion. Maybe i am just jealous :cry: LOL

It may be corny from the outside, but once your Drill Instructor steps infront of you and hands you your first EGA, then shakes your hand and calles you a Marine, it feels good. Trust me alot of glassy eyes in formation.

I think its a good tradition to carry on, and Im suprised to find out that its new.

[Marine84]

We were handed ours before we went out there that morning and the DIs went through the ranks and PUT ours on our covers FOR us.

[jm4magic]

Ill do anything to get one of those!

[SkilletsUSMC]

Ill do anything to get one of those!

But the real question is.....

What would you dooooo for a Klondike bar?;) (inside joke in our platoon.)

[Kildars]

Ill do anything to get one of those!

Agreed!

[CJA]

Late response, but I promise I was going to say Eagle, Globe, and Anchor!

Haha

[maverickmarine]

Yeah, we didn't get those either and I do believe they introduced that around 95' or 96'. Yeah, there's the part of me that thinks you shouldn't actually be called Marine until graduation day and by the Battalion CO like the rest of us but then the other part says it's kind of cool and to be honest I still remember my SDI talking with us at the end of Second Phase telling us that once we completed that phase, field phase, he considered us Marines because the rest is just the final events and getting ready etc....He sure didn't back off on putting us in the pit though, LOL.

[WanderWannabe]

The EGA ceremony is the real graduation ceremony, really. It's for the recruits to have that moment of "it's worth it." The graduation ceremony is one day later and is basically a big parade for the familes. During graduation, everybody is just thinking of going home, but during the EGA ceremony everybody is thinking of the history of the Corp and exactly what it means to them to get their Eagle, Globe and Anchor. At least, our company.