Statewide Poolee Fuction

[BigGunz90]

I just got back from an all day field meet today in Indianapolis. It was great. Tons of moto. We did everything from running the IST to getting yelled at by DI's to playing tug of war. The fun part about it is that it was raining lot while we were there and the field was muddy and we were such a mess. I improved on my crunches so I was pretty glad about that.

It pretty much went like this. We get there at around 10 after a 3 hour trip. We start off running a little bit and singing cadences then falling into formation for a few. We then fall out and we had a Marine talk to us about our decision to join the Corps, what we're gonna do today, etc. Afterwards, we line up to do pullups. I think the winner got 38. Run over do some crunches, and then our 1.5 mile run. It wasn't bad at all when you're running in a large group. There was alot of Poolees falling out though that didn't make time. The winner got a 7:34. We hydrate afterwards, fall into formation, then get thrashed around by the DI's. I've never been in the presence of a DI before and when you're less than 5 feet from him screaming his lungs out it kinda makes you shake. A couple people got hell from them by doing IT. I pretty much broke my vocal cords when we had to do a war cry. We did the basics like responding to a command and "EARS OPEN!" and "EYEBALLS CLICK!" and "ZERO!". When we're finished at the Drill Instructor Station I look back and some Poolee is double teamed by the 2 Instructors. Pure f*ckin moto I can't wait. We ate MRE's then did our events like sprints and tug of war which we almost won. After that we were pretty much done. A Marine said some final words and said it was a real good function today.

So did any other Poolee from Indiana go?

[duarte]

West Indy right here Oorah!
I was the Poolee getting double teamed and IT'd it was freaking awesome and motivational!!
I can't wait until bootcamp... the DI's were all on my ear just yelling.. i was like "AYE,AYE, SIR" while i was getting IT'd. That has to be the most fun thing I have done in a while..

[JWDevilDog]

then get thrashed around by the DI's. I've never been in the presence of a DI before and when you're less than 5 feet from him screaming his lungs out it kinda makes you shake. A couple people got hell from them by doing IT. I pretty much broke my vocal cords when we had to do a war cry. We did the basics like responding to a command and "EARS OPEN!" and "EYEBALLS CLICK!" and "ZERO!".

Oh man, I'm sure those DIs toned it down for you, too. Just wait until you meet your actual Drill Instructors... I will never forget that day. Chaos. Pure, undiluted, organized, chaos.

[duarte]

Oh by the way, I need to work harder..
I thought i was in really good shape and i just realized there is sooo much room for improvement when i compare myself to other of peers.. I ran my IST in 9:40 while my buddy who was the fastest ran 7:34.. i got 16 Pull-ups.. annnd i got 161 crunches..
Westlake, did you see that Wolverine guy from the station the won the tug-of-war? the big muscle kid that looks like he eats little babies for breakfast??

[JWDevilDog]

West Indy right here Oorah!

You don't rate to say "oohrah," poolee! Don't let it happen again.

[JWG]

This sounds like it was a great time, glad you two from the community here got to experience it. We had a "family day" where Drill Instructors came in and led a short example of what it'd be like on a few poolees. Definitely toned down for parents, but still very motivating for all of us poolees nonetheless.

GET SOME!


Motivated,

Jon

[BigGunz90]

Westlake, did you see that Wolverine guy from the station the won the tug-of-war? the big muscle kid that looks like he eats little babies for breakfast??

Yeah man he was insanely huge. I heard he benches around 350. Oh and I was from RSS South Bend by the way.

[benw2200]

You don't rate to say "oohrah," poolee! Don't let it happen again.

For some reason, what the LCpl said reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFsdeFHRjs

I rate, and you don't.

[nrml1]

For some reason, what the LCpl said reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFsdeFHRjs

I rate, and you don't.

lmao - That's a good series PFC, thanks for posting that lol

[AMBruce]

For some reason, what the LCpl said reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFsdeFHRjs

I rate, and you don't.

Lol yeah, those are awesome

[skyebates12]

i was the guidon from rss fort wayne, that wolverine guy really does bench 350 all he does is lift weights and eat

[benw2200]

i was the guidon from rss fort wayne, that wolverine guy really does bench 350 all he does is lift weights and eat

Hopefully this monster can handle his own body weight.. being able to bench a lot is great and I have respect for someone who can, but boot camp and most Marine Corps PT in general is not pure strength. It's endurance. You'd be surprised how the big beefy guys can get out-performed by smaller guys who have endurance and can handle their weight.

[Zaiik]

Oh man, I'm sure those DIs toned it down for you, too. Just wait until you meet your actual Drill Instructors... I will never forget that day. Chaos. Pure, undiluted, organized, chaos.

It was somewhat tame for us over in Beckley, WV(who also had ours on Saturday), although some guy from another RSS must have seriously screwed up at one point, because one of the DIs made everyone except for him in his entire RSS(i think, i didn't get a good look because I didn't want to be next) run around the track. Every time they passed him, they had to scream "THANK YOU (name)!" and he had to scream "YOU'RE WELCOME!".

We had one or two guys get harassed by them, and another guy managed to get our whole RSS running back and forth for a couple minutes because he didn't answer when the DI asked him why he was looking at him or something, but other than that we had it pretty easy overall.

Was pretty fun though, overall.

[BigGunz90]

Hopefully this monster can handle his own body weight.. being able to bench a lot is great and I have respect for someone who can, but boot camp and most Marine Corps PT in general is not pure strength. It's endurance. You'd be surprised how the big beefy guys can get out-performed by smaller guys who have endurance and can handle their weight.

Yeah that's exactly why I stopped lifting and started running more. The only lifting I do is pull-ups and push-ups now.

[skyebates12]

i saw a girl there in blue jeens running...was she with one of the stations or did she just hop out of the crowd?