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There are a couple inaccuracies with that video:

1.) You probably won't ever be sitting down on post.
2.) Or having that much fun.

Standing on post somewhere being bored out of your wits...

There's nothing unusual about what you're going through. My parents made me see a psychologist when they found out I enlisted. No kidding.

Now there are EGAs on their cars and they bring up my...

There was some rocket surgeon at boot camp who already had "USMC" tattooed on his chest beforehand. For some reason I never really saw him catch any flak for that. So if he made it through alive, I...

Being able to roll sleeves really well was a mixed blessing for me in boot camp. On one hand, it's always nice to look squared away when everyone else has the sleeve of wizard thing going on. But...

It is 105, my mistake. I must have been thinking of some other secret squirrel job.

I think I told another poolee in some other thread something similar. I was in the same situation as you when they said they had no infantry slots left, but I was already at MEPS when they told me...

My recruiter tried to pull the same shenanigans on me when I enlisted. They said that 0311 was completely full, but they could enlist me as an LAV mechanic and switch me to 0311 when it opened up...

The ID has been recovered, crisis averted.

I just had my wallet stolen, including my Marine Corps ID. How does one go about getting a new one?

If you can't do a single pull-up, you're not only setting yourself up for failure, but you'll hold back whatever platoon you end up with, which will probably not be the one you start with. Don't...

Making the Corps by Thomas Ricks.