How old were you when you enlisted ?

[SureShot12]

If the Corps grants me the previledge to enslit, again..I'd be going in at 25/26years old.

18, I was 18 when I did this the first time. I feel like I'd be the "old guy".

How old were you ?

[ecfree]

I was 18 when I enlisted,but I quit school to do it.
If I were 18 today,I would finish school,go to college and enlist.....

[SureShot12]

You'd wait until you finished college ?

I left school to enlist, and gave up a "nice life" working for my fathers firm.

All good, though. I'll possibly be giving up a job in Law Enforcement if I go again.

I guess some men are just born with the Corps in their blood..Others may call it crazy.

[ecfree]

Correct....

[SureShot12]

How long have you been in, ec ?

[ecfree]

How long have you been in, ec ?

I'm out 41 years now,I was in for 6...
I wish I could have done it better,like I said,the schooling....

[SureShot12]

Nice.

I think a lot of young, soon to be Marines get caught up in the "gung ho" aspect of becoming a Marine and fail to think about their future aside from or after the Corps.

I know I certainly did.

Thats one thing that I told every one of my friends that enlisted after I.."Make sure that you obtain some education and create a fall back plan. 4years will go quickly, and then you'll be 22-24yo, starting what everyone else did when tehy were 18.

[Enigmatic]

Nice.

I think a lot of young, soon to be Marines get caught up in the "gung ho" aspect of becoming a Marine and fail to think about their future aside from or after the Corps.

I know I certainly did.

Thats one thing that I told every one of my friends that enlisted after I.."Make sure that you obtain some education and create a fall back plan. 4years will go quickly, and then you'll be 22-24yo, starting what everyone else did when tehy were 18.

So what? That's what happened to me, and I got no regrets. Ain't like I'm the oldest guy in my classes at 24 years old. And I know if I had gone straight to college out of high school there's no way I would've had the discipline to actually finish. You make it seem like being a college freshman in their 20's is a negative. Not going to school at all is a negative. Carry on.

[Petz]

old enough.

[SGT7477]

18 and completed school.

[WKranz]

I was 18, a year out of high school though. When i graduated High School I had no idea I would be in Boot a year later. Weird now that I look back on it...

[SureShot12]

So what? That's what happened to me, and I got no regrets. Ain't like I'm the oldest guy in my classes at 24 years old. And I know if I had gone straight to college out of high school there's no way I would've had the discipline to actually finish. You make it seem like being a college freshman in their 20's is a negative. Not going to school at all is a negative. Carry on.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, Enigmatic. I'm 25 and just started a new course of study. I did the same thing when I enlisted, Enigmatic. I left school and was focused on only the phase of challenges I would be confronted with by the Corps.

The topic of this thread was enlistment age, though, we kind of got off topic. When I went to boot we had one recruit/now Marine, that was 31.

I just wanted to know everyones age at enlistment time, because I went to boot 7 years ago....Thats like over 1/3 of my life ago

[THAT AINT IT]

I was 17 when i DEP'd in on 2006NOV07, shipped to The Island on 2007JUNE18, still 17. Graduated boot camp on 2007SEPT14...still 17. I didnt turn 18 until I was 4 days into MCT.

[sscjoe]

Enlisted May 1975 after getting my Associates Degree. Arrived MCRDPI Dec 1975 at 19.

[UsmcMotorT]

17. but when to bootcamp at 18.