View Full Version : What age did you join?
PhantomLord
08-08-08, 10:27 PM
I'm curious to see what the age differences are with all of you who have joined. I've heard as early as 17 up to 29 aside from this forum.
darkgreen0311
08-08-08, 10:32 PM
I joined a day or two after my eighteenth b-day.
:marine:Semper FI 4 Life
Wyoming
08-08-08, 10:32 PM
Footprints @ 18 and 2 months
RVN @ 19 and 2 months
Artemis
08-08-08, 10:36 PM
I was 17. Had to have my mom sign for me so I could go to MEPS.
coltie52
08-08-08, 10:49 PM
swore in at 18 1/2 years old
jeffsnff89
08-08-08, 10:52 PM
Swore in at 18 and 6/8 months had to wait because of the school I was in or it would have been 17.
DGardner
08-08-08, 10:53 PM
18 years old.
SlingerDun
08-08-08, 10:55 PM
Woke up at the butt-crack of dawn 17th birthday and proceeded with DEP. Landed on the footprints exactly one year later just before midnight.
--->Dave
jinelson
08-09-08, 01:53 AM
Two days after my 18th birthday I hit them yellers and started ****ing green.
Jim
JdnSmith
08-09-08, 02:17 AM
I swore in at 23. I feel a little old amongst my fellow Poolees.
davblay
08-09-08, 02:19 AM
17
CH53MetalMan
08-09-08, 03:10 AM
17
KevinR90
08-09-08, 08:50 AM
17. If my ship date isn't moved back again I'll be 17 for about a week in boot camp before I turn 18. If It hadn't moved back at all I'd have been 17 for 3 weeks in boot camp. Somehow I think it would be better if my birthday isn't going to pass while I'm in boot camp.
Marine84
08-09-08, 09:17 AM
23
Sonic13
08-09-08, 09:30 AM
17
introspect
08-09-08, 10:28 AM
17. If my ship date isn't moved back again I'll be 17 for about a week in boot camp before I turn 18. If It hadn't moved back at all I'd have been 17 for 3 weeks in boot camp. Somehow I think it would be better if my birthday isn't going to pass while I'm in boot camp.
17 as well. I'll be in boot for my b-day as well if all goes well with my ship date :] no worries. I heard the day comes and you're like oh.. It's my bday today?? Hehe can't wait :D
JoeSzynal
08-09-08, 10:49 AM
28 back in '05. I'll be turning 32 and EAS'ing in Febuary. Having a platoon of buddies in their late teens and earlier twenties for the last four years was exactly what an old man like me needed to stay and feel young at heart. Even though 30 is the new 21 ;>
PhantomLord
08-09-08, 10:54 AM
Ahaha, well I'll be enlisting at the young ole age of 20. I go in next week to get myself into DEP.
outlaw3179
08-09-08, 11:36 AM
My parents signed the papers at 17, at 18 I was guarding the American embassy in Kenya.
SgtThrasher
08-09-08, 12:34 PM
17 +9 days,Parris Island,positively the best decision I could have made.:evilgrin:
TypeOrange
08-09-08, 01:29 PM
Signed my papers the day after my 17th birthday and swore in 8 days after my birthday
silverdollar
08-09-08, 01:52 PM
Was 17 on the 16th, sworn in on the 19th. May 1954.
I was 20 in boot camp. There was a prior service AF in my platoon that was 29. He had a wife, kids, mortgage all that stuff.
I can't talk my parents into signing my DEP papers, so it looks like I will be joining at 18.
alauver
08-10-08, 07:58 AM
i just got sworn in about a week ago at age 22. after reading all these posts i feel old haha had to get through college first tho. parents made me go.
bstewar09
08-10-08, 08:03 AM
17 took a while to convince my parents to sign the papers
SGT7477
08-10-08, 09:36 AM
17
Isrowei
08-10-08, 09:38 AM
17
bgsuwoody
08-10-08, 11:49 AM
Turned 23 the day I rifle qual'd a bootcamp
Hit Parris Island 25 days before my 20th birthday
Bonzack
08-11-08, 10:19 AM
A couple weeks after my 18th birthday.
usmchauer
08-11-08, 10:50 AM
One month after my 20th birthday I was there. Graduated with a guy who was 29.
THAT AINT IT
08-11-08, 12:34 PM
I swore into the DEP November 7th 2006 at the ripe old age of 17
TangoDown
08-11-08, 01:27 PM
I'm joining when I turn 17 which is this December. Good thing my parents will consent. Think 17 will be best since you're young and fit. Just my opinion though.
Swore in two days after my 18th. I'll turn 19 in Boot.
Garrett90
08-11-08, 02:06 PM
I'm joining when I turn 17 which is this December. Good thing my parents will consent. Think 17 will be best since you're young and fit. Just my opinion though.
Whats the difference between 17 and 18, or 19, or 20
PhantomLord
08-11-08, 02:09 PM
I'm a hair shy of 20 and I would consider myself fit.
Garrett90
08-11-08, 02:15 PM
I was young and fit at 8. I wish I would have DEP'd in then.
gobuffs10
08-11-08, 03:20 PM
Man that first page of 17s and 18s was crazy. I joined at 20 (in June) and will be 21 when I leave for boot camp (October). Originally they slotted me for September 15, 7 days before my 21st. I don't think so.
josephd
08-11-08, 03:28 PM
23, I will turn 24 while I am at boot camp though in November
alauver
08-11-08, 03:38 PM
I'm joining when I turn 17 which is this December. Good thing my parents will consent. Think 17 will be best since you're young and fit. Just my opinion though.
I am more fit now at 22 than I was at 17.
RockSteady85
08-11-08, 03:39 PM
I joined at 21 a few months after I graduated from college. I will never forget being in Receiving on my 22nd birthday and getting my M16 that day. Best. Gift. EVER. :-)
Sgt Baker
08-11-08, 03:41 PM
20
TazMatt
08-11-08, 07:34 PM
I was 20 when I hit the yellow footprints
Psurichie
08-11-08, 07:40 PM
I am 22 hopefully I will go before I am 23
PhantomLord
08-11-08, 07:41 PM
I'll be 20 the day I hit the yellow footprints.