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  1. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by AjC View Post
    I'm telling you this now so that you remember when you're there. Assuming you're going to PI, your guide and squad leaders will likely be fired after Initial Drill, and the worst people in your platoon will be placed in their spots for a few days at the range. The old guide, as well as most of the squad leaders, will be re-hired a few days later, depending on the mood of your Heavy or SDI. Your SDI has to really like you, a lot, for you to stay Guide. You will have to kiss ass to stay in the position.

    Also yes, being Guide or Squad Leader in Boot will make you an arrogant prick. At least for the time you hold the position, if not during MCT as well.
    Things haven't changed much, I see. I was a squad leader all through first phase and got fired not long after initial drill (if I remember right it was because they weren't happy with my yelling techniques at one of the recruits in my squad.....I didn't yell at him loud enough or something). Anyway, I got hired back right before final drill because I knew how to execute column of files and the dude they hired to replace me was a drill rock.


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    If you can get and hold guide.... kudos to you. I have spoken with many young Marines and have heard the same thing over and over again. Guides get fired on a whim. It happens. Focus on being the best. Bust your butt every day in all you do and if you get guide...great... if you don't...great. You will end up being a Marine...and isn't that what this is all about?

    If it isn't.... not really sure you are cut out to be a Marine.

    Go luck in whatever happens.


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    I'd be more worried about just graduating and earning the title. It won't mean a hill of beans once you are in the fleet anyhow. I think my platoon scribe and/or all of our squad leaders were a hell of a lot more squared away than the loser who was our guide when I went to Parris Island. This guy barely qualified swimming, shot a toilet seat at the range, and then dropped from the runs more than once. He got off the island as a PFC. I passed him up and made Cpl meritoriously with 20 month in service (got PFC at 6 months, LCPL at exactly 8 months later, and 6 months after that I was a Corporal by meritorious promotion with just 20 months in the Corps.


    Oh, I was a squad leader for all of 5 minutes. Glad I got fired because I was a House Mouse too and that kept me busy enough.


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    Quote Originally Posted by AjC View Post
    I'm telling you this now so that you remember when you're there. Assuming you're going to PI, your guide and squad leaders will likely be fired after Initial Drill, and the worst people in your platoon will be placed in their spots for a few days at the range. The old guide, as well as most of the squad leaders, will be re-hired a few days later, depending on the mood of your Heavy or SDI. Your SDI has to really like you, a lot, for you to stay Guide. You will have to kiss ass to stay in the position.

    Also yes, being Guide or Squad Leader in Boot will make you an arrogant prick. At least for the time you hold the position, if not during MCT as well.
    They did that to my platoon at the range too.. Okay good, it wasn't just my platoon. I hated that crap so much.


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    I maybe should start a new thread but my question is how do you fly under the radar? What is the best way to get through PI with out being on either end of someone's list?


  6. #21
    As a Recruit, you'll automatically be on their **** list, even if your SDI likes you. Don't think for a second that you'll fly under the radar - they catch everyone. And if you by some miracle make it to the end without your DI's knowing who you are... why bother? Why would you ever want to be such a substandard and mediocre thing? Why would you even try to join the Marine Corps?


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    Quote Originally Posted by AjC View Post
    As a Recruit, you'll automatically be on their **** list, even if your SDI likes you. Don't think for a second that you'll fly under the radar - they catch everyone. And if you by some miracle make it to the end without your DI's knowing who you are... why bother? Why would you ever want to be such a substandard and mediocre thing? Why would you even try to join the Marine Corps?
    I completely understand your point. I have no desire to be mediocre. I am memorizing my materials and working toward a 300 pft (right now about 260). The responses here about guides is a bit of a pain. I want to earn the title. Boot Camp sounds hard enough without trying to add to it. Thank you for the reply.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob824 View Post
    I completely understand your point. I have no desire to be mediocre. I am memorizing my materials and working toward a 300 pft (right now about 260). The responses here about guides is a bit of a pain. I want to earn the title. Boot Camp sounds hard enough without trying to add to it. Thank you for the reply.
    HA...."memorizing the materials"....don't come off like a smart ass either. I knew a lot of what was required (Essential Subjects) in bootcamp and when the Drill Instructors had classes and I gave too many right answers, I got to do pushups while everyone else did classes.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob824 View Post
    I maybe should start a new thread but my question is how do you fly under the radar? What is the best way to get through PI with out being on either end of someone's list?
    We had four Drill Instructors. I had one main guy who tried to wear me out every chance he got. He always told me that they only way I was leaving "his island" was in a body bag. I believed him for quite awhile. LOL


  10. #25
    Thank you sir. That is what I am talking about. Be smart but not too smart, got it. I won't be the sharpest tool in the shed but not the dullest either. I am who I am and I will have a hard time with some things and a better time with others. I do well with keeping my mouth shut. Trouble is I am 6'3" and usually stick out in a line up. As you have in your profile, It is what it is...


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