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It's been a long and hard 10 months. A lot of pain, sweat, and even tears. I thought the path to becoming a Marine was going to be the hardest part of my career, but the real physical and mental...

I already carry around about 5 or 6 of those pocket size cards. Ranging from how to call for fire to our roe's.

The funny thing is they'll hate their parents with such anger throughout the whole cycle, and then they'll want to be exactly like them the last couple of days. Funny how it works out.

Thank God we have men like this living in the world today.

One word of advice, be accountable for all of your gear.

Its hard to believe that the Islamic terrorists can use a religous idea to bring so much violence to the world, but to think that a man of my own faith can support that, it just sickens me.

I...

Like GySgtRet said, they'll send you to a unit that needs bodies. When I was in ITB they did'nt even let us choose east or west, they just told us what unit we were going to.

I don't know how Pendleton was but Gieger was like a deathcamp. I hated that place.

I've been training up for Iraq for the past 6 months, and our #1 mission right now is public relations. If anyone has been to saso lately thats drilled into your head so many times. Right now our...

The only thing, I'll be buying for my deployment is a chest rig, becuase the lbv gear they give us is crap. But I garuntee you that he was issued a flak jacket and sapi plates. Everyone fighting in...

And thats why I'm going to Falluja in July. Theres no political agenda for me, It's just to help the people that still have good in them.

In NC you'll spend on average 1 month in a forming company, then 8 weeks in itb (Infantry Training Battalion). In forming you'll just do working parties all day. But The hole soi experience goes by...

They all have to go through itb don't they? I did'nt know of any specific job in sf that went trough mct.

If you go through itb your trained as an 11 in a rifleman platoon.

Heres how it works nowadays. You get to soi. Your assigned to a platoon, either 1st 2nd or 3rd. This will be your platoon for the first couple weeks, until mos breakdown. While in this period you are...

At itb (infantry training battalion), if your security forces you can only be an 0311. As for the training I don't know where the school is, my buddies who are sf are still a little shakey on where...

I was thinking the other day if I actually liked anything in bootcamp and it was the Crucible. I hated everything else, but I thought the Crucible was a tough, but fun training exercise.

Thanks for the welcome, I'm out to itb on Tuesday. I'm actually excited to train this time around.

I'm not exageratting either, for some reason, after cease fire, the tower had everyone stay in the prone, and this numbnut was aiming in the entire time and finally fired. It took a while for all the...

He either had guts or was as dumb as the kid in my platoon, hell, we knew we were taking a chance when we put a cough drop in our mouth.

But that also brings me to another point, if I'm not...

For most things, like not qualifying during a training exercise or failing the ist or any of the pft's your, dropped. Not from training, thats almost impossible, unless you try to kill yourself, but...

Hah, yeah bwt was a fun week.