An Intro

[wolf0259]

Greetings all. This would be my first post here so I felt an intro would be a good move.

I'm 26 and live on the Northwest side of Chicago. I've kicked around military for a long time and after my younger brother signed up as a Marine, I knew what I had to do. Fast forward a couple years and here I am finally enlisted as a Combat Engineer. I am excited and nervous about it all at the same time so I'll be doing a lot of lurking to get answers and advice.

Btw, can anyone tell me how long basic combat engineer school out at Camp Lejune is?

[Wes40138]

Welcome , and its good to see a "older" person thats just enlisted ...I'm 26 also ,and I know it going to be tough to hang with all of the young ones ,but motivation and discipline will carry you far

[SureShot12]

I second that, Wes...Good to see another mid-20's person enlisting.

I enlisted when I was 18...Now, looking to return and I'm 25..I feel "old" when I'm in the RSS and there are a bunch of snot nose kids there entering or jsut returning from boot...

Since when did 25 become "old" ?

Good story, Wolf..Do you have a ship date ?

[wolf0259]

Thanks. It is strange sometimes hanging around with the young ones. Heck my local PT group is primarily 17-19yr olds. I think there might be one of legal drinking age beside myself, but as you said discipline goes a long way.

Edit-

Ship date is currently set at May 15 this year, but I'm trying to get that bumped up to March.

[mbrazil]

Man and I thought I was old...

[PaidinBlood]

Shee-yit. Enough about old. Who can answer the man's question?

[richrs01]

The school is 8weeks long, unless its changed since this thread was made. The post with that information is at the bottom of the page. Hope it helped.

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/sh...ngineer+school

[hempstead56]

By the time my shoulder heals up after surgery ill be 25 and I am reenlisting. So yea it's not 2 bad

[wolf0259]

Thanks a lot richrs01 I'll check it out.