Mini Bootcamp?? Please help!

[Alex Miller90]

So my recruiter just called and said i'm going to Mini-Bootcamp for 2 days.
Im supposed to bring my SSS kit(S*** Shower Shave) and 2 pairs of clothes and PT gear. Anybody else do this? what am I to expect?

thanks in advance.

p.s.
The sooner I get answers the better. I leave at 0700 tomorrow.

[jinelson]

Sounds like you are going to break some new ground. This is the first I have heard of anything like this let us know whats up when you return.

Jim

[Alex Miller90]

Aye Sir!

[davblay]

So my recruiter just called and said i'm going to Mini-Bootcamp for 2 days.
Im supposed to bring my SSS kit(S*** Shower Shave) and 2 pairs of clothes and PT gear. Anybody else do this? what am I to expect?

thanks in advance.

p.s.
The sooner I get answers the better. I leave at 0700 tomorrow.

A little taste of what is yet to come! :evilgrin:

[SGT7477]

Give them a taste I wonder if that is a good or bad thing? Maybe some will back out,lol.

[Alex Miller90]

I'm leaving in 15 minutes and I feel like im gonna throw up:) . but I know I can do it. Wish me luck. I'll report back when i'm home.

[jackson07]

Might be too late. But usually they have drill instructors there, and you get a chance to get smoked a lil bit, ask questions, eat MREs and some other random bootcampish stuff. Not a bad experience. I helped run once once.

[Alex Miller90]

Well after the agonizing time it took from the time I got up until when I was supposed to leave (as if that wasnt enough) I wait for an additional 35 minutes for word from my recruiter. As i'm waiting by the door like a good POOLee should, I decide to call him, and only to find out that we for some reason are NOT going. I am in shock with happieness and also dissapointed because I wont be able to experience it first hand.

Well, I guess my time will come. I guess i can be like the other 95% of Recruits who stand on those Yellow Footprints without ever seeing the furious and raging body of a Drill Instructor!

Even though i'm not going, I am very motivated. I am motivated because I realize my dream of joining the Marine Corps isnt just a dream anymore but a work-in progress to become one of the best!

I would also like to thank each and every one of you for your time for reading this post.

Sincerley Alex Miller!

[SGT7477]

Good luck remember one thing mind over matter.

[davblay]

Well after the agonizing time it took from the time I got up until when I was supposed to leave (as if that wasnt enough) I wait for an additional 35 minutes for word from my recruiter. As i'm waiting by the door like a good POOLee should, I decide to call him, and only to find out that we for some reason are NOT going. I am in shock with happieness and also dissapointed because I wont be able to experience it first hand.

Well, I guess my time will come. I guess i can be like the other 95% of Recruits who stand on those Yellow Footprints without ever seeing the furious and raging body of a Drill Instructor!

Even though i'm not going, I am very motivated. I am motivated because I realize my dream of joining the Marine Corps isnt just a dream anymore but a work-in progress to become one of the best!

I would also like to thank each and every one of you for your time for reading this post.

Sincerley Alex Miller!

Alex....your profile says you are a "Marine Friend"! :confused: If you are a poolee you need to get the moderators to help you change your ststus and avatar!

Good Luck,

Dave

[Alex Miller90]

No Sir, the site is correct. I am currently a "Marine Friend". I have started talking to a recruiter and PT'ing with The POOLee's and DEPpers but I have signed no paperwork or visited MEPS yet, I thought that qualified me only as a "Marine Friend" am I wrong?

[Alex Miller90]

Oh! I missunderstood your post, I as a matter of fact did not read the quote that you quoted me on. I better start paying attention to detail huh? My mistake!

No need for anybody to trash me. I've Adjusted myself!:)

[davblay]

Very Good...CARRY ON!

[sparkie]

Aw,,, common, Dave. I love puttin out the trash on a saturday morning,,,,,,,Can I? Can I Please???


Alex, you sound squared away,,, When do you DEP? Or you still thinking?

[davblay]

No need for anybody to trash me. I've Adjusted myself!:)

INCOMING!!

[Alex Miller90]

Aw,,, common, Dave. I love puttin out the trash on a saturday morning,,,,,,,Can I? Can I Please???


Alex, you sound squared away,,, When do you DEP? Or you still thinking?

I'm trying to get into the DEP as soon as physicaly possible. I started talking to a recruiter last month and I weighed in at 296lbs and was running a 10:47 mile. Now about a month later i'm at a 8:51 mile time and i Can do three pull ups but only underhand. and im around 278lbs. I'm 6'4 so I need to drop to 256lbs before I can DEP in. It is not a impossible Task, although I'm trying very hard!

Sincerley,
One Very Motivated "Marine Friend":p