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Oh well I guess you're qualified to answer this question.

It's not impossible to do avoid getting singled out, in fact, it's relatively simple. Do exactly what they say, when they say to do it,...

Sounds like black magic to me. You're supposed to be wearing those shower shoes when you're in the head and the shower anyway, and it wouldn't take a very astute DI to notice you're wearing boots....

Should be number one.

How does one go about getting an @usmc.mil e-mail address?

"First makes men
Second makes Marines
Third makes machines"

I don't know if there's any truth to that saying. I just read it on a bathroom wall during Team Week.

What, you don't want to be a part of the mindless hordes who give their lives for the Motherland?

Go away.

I didn't know any of that stuff when I left either, but it's drilled into your head almost nonstop day in and day out that by the time you'll actually need to know them, you'll have them memorized...

Our scribe accidentally put the same guy on firewatch three nights in a row, so for the next three nights our scribe had the first two hours of firewatch. I mean, no, scribes do not get firewatch...

Why are you so preoccupied with the risk of failing? It takes the equivalent of an act of Congress to drop a recruit. In my platoon of about 70, we only dropped about three recruits, not including...

Yeah, Milford is still around. I think he was a heavy in nasty lead series.

Just graduated August 17th, Platoon 2070, Fox Company 2nd BN. It sucked, but not as bad as I thought it would. I'm just glad to be going home right now.

Ft. Meade.

On the first day they thought they needed some drug waiver that they really didn't, today it turns out that neither of my recruiters in the nine months I've been in the DEP bothered to get until just...

You wish! Me and Vicky STILL haven't shipped out yet, both because of stupid problems our recruiters waited until our shipdate to try to fix. Tommorow will be our third day at MEPS, and we're both...

Well poolees, my time has come. I got my 0311 MOS back, and tonight's the night I go to the hotel from which I'll go to MEPS and then to MCRD PI the next day, so I guess this is it for me. I'll see...

All this time in the DEP and your recruiter hasn't given you a shirt or something?

Roger. I've spent most of my time as a poolee training for the IST (dumb) and only relatively recently realized how dumb I was and started training for the 3 mile instead. Better late than never I...

I'm many things right now, but scared is hardly one of them. I've been trying to get my 0311 back since January and the only reason I didn't try to get out then was because they swore up and down...

Hmm, I'm a lot lazier than most of you guys. I eat bacon and cookies, never do any sort of ab workout, work on pull-ups maybe once or twice a week, and run slightly more often. But, I always max out...

When I went to MEPS, right before I enlisted the Marines there told me that there were no 0311 slots open in any reserve stations near me. But, they were nice enough to offer me an enlistment as a...

Yeah, instead they get a uniform that looks like what you'd wear if you wanted to wear an Army man costume for Halloween. And what's with all the damn "options"? Isn't a uniform supposed to be... I...

Only the Army has "Special Forces", everyone else is "Special Operations Forces". There's a difference. And SOCOM is seperate from the military branches' control.

I've got news for you, you've chosen a life that's going to get a lot of negative replies from ignorant people, simply because you're in the military. You wouldn't change your mind over what they...

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Thats a 269. Out of curiosity, Marines, how much did your 3 mile run time improve from the beginning of Recruit Training to by the time you left?

Let's say you enlist in the Navy with the sole intention of passing BUD/S and becoming a SEAL. If you're one of the 80% who don't pass the training, then what? You're scrubbing ships while dressed...