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Well for me it wasn't too bad because I had some previous experience with tear gas, and mace/pepper spray...got to play guinea pig for some local PD friends. So I've grown a little immunity towards...

Oh alright, yeah that place was hell but at the same time part of me didn't want to leave....the other half was sprinting to the airport in my Dress Blue Deltas. :)

The gas chamber isn't that bad, don't know about the dry shave thing, but I can tell you from my experience it wasn't that bad. Yeah it burns, and its hard to breathe...but it clears your sinus' real...

3rd Battalion, Mike Company, Plt. 3271, Honor Platoon.

Took me a while to remember this site and my info for it. Feels good to be back, kinda miss boot camp already though. :)

And which...

Alpha Company, you guys graduated on a Wed?

I was in Mike right before ya'll....whats up with the wednesday grad?

I think the reason you don't hear about is because it might still be classified info. Not to mention the War in Iraq/Afghan is the medias main coverage right now, pirates are not that big of a deal....

Down here in Texas we have weekly PT on Thursdays in which we run about 3-4 miles, do pull ups and crunches. Along our run we stop at certain point to do some exercises, and calisthenics.

Then we...

JJA1990, don't feel bad I started nine months ago at barely a pull up. I'm not at 14, since I never did any for like the first 2 months I was in the DEP I stayed at 1 for a while. As soon as I...

I got this Golds Gym pullup/crunch bar at Wal-mart for like $10, its pretty much the iron gym but it screws into the door frame. Mine doesn't spin though, so its the best $10 I ever spent. It helped...

Pull ups are pretty essential to being a Marine, seeing as you must be able to do atleast 2 before Boot Camp and atleast 3 after.
But if you keep working on them pull ups are acutally pretty easy to...

The only time I carry weight is at my recruiting stations weekly PT, they have a 60lb concrete bag wrapped in duck tape. They put it in a ruck sack and we take it along on our little hike. Other than...

I am 17, I turn 18 in June and I'm shipping out in July/August. Most of the Poolees at my station are 17-19, we have had a 23 year old guy he shipped out in November/December. There are a few other...

You can do it man, just keep doing pull ups every chance you get. Keep doing them even after you think you can't do any more, and when you do your last one do one more just for the hell of it.

Hell yeah man keep pushing and you'll get your wish.

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60xx/61xx/62xx(Aircraft Maintenance)
MCRD San Diego
San Antonio, Texas

I just got done with my weekly PT poolee meet and one of my SSgt.'s did a cadence at the end of our run and I pushed the hardest then. Through out our whole about 3 mile run I usually keep telling...