Leadership positions in bootcamp

[Tennessee Top]

How do DI's pick the guide/squad leaders at initial pick-up these days? Take volunteers, ask about NROTC experience, just observe, etc.?

Besides the guide/squad leaders and contract PFC's, are there others who graduate PFC?

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[EastofWest18]

In 2011 they asked a ton of questions to pick guide, squad leader, and scribe. The main leadership positions were given to Marines that had been in NROTC at first, but switched around throughout. In the end of the day, none of the original squad leaders were in billets, the first guide was a squad leader, and the guide who we graduated with was a medical drop from another platoon who had been on the Island for about 8 months (he was also the honor graduate).

Scribe was picked differently. After picking the other leadership positions they asked who had any college. They then asked who had a degree. Then who had a B.A. There were finally two of us, and they picked me because the other guy had a slight accent and they said he wouldn't spell anything right. The other guy was (is) actually really smart though, and probably would have done just as well. They ended up using me for all sorts of administrative work for during my 13 weeks during my "free hour".

[Rocky C]

Great question Top and Great info Dan .
It will be very useful on the forum.

Thank you.

[SGT7477]

Times have really changed,lol, Semper Fidelis.

[m14ed]

Scribe was picked differently.
they asked who had any college.
They then asked who had a degree.
Then who had a B.A.

There were finally two of us,
they picked me because the other guy had a slight accent
they said he wouldn't spell anything right.
The other guy probably would have done just as well.
They ended up using me for all sorts of administrative work for during my 13 weeks during my "free hour".

do tell....

things change
and looks like much more PC...

ours picked the best penmanship in the platoon
who could present rosters that could be read
anyone...
AND didn't need a dictionary.

[Mongoose]

I didn't get past 10th grade. However, I was 1st squad leader throughout bootcamp. But.......the Platoon Commander got pizzed at me the week before graduation and releived me of that position.

[03GyRene]

I was squad leader, but one day we were heading off to a class where we were learning how to make field expedient stretchers out of a poncho, etc...anyway, I was so busy making sure my squad had their ponchos that I forgot mine.
oops. My DI was POd and I got fired...Oh well...such is life...from head of the line to end of the line in about a minute! lol.

[m14ed]

I was squad leader, but

I got fired...Oh well...such is life...
from head of the line to end of the line in about a minute!

Unless you're "LeadDog"-
the scenery Never changes...

[madsox]

Heh. I'm not Old Corps by any means, but our scribes and squad leaders and such were picked (as far as we could tell) by the classic "I need a volunteer - you. You're squad leader." method - p1sz off the Drill Instructor? You just got fired. Or hired, depending on how bad a mood he was in at the moment.

[Old Marine]

I usually picked a guide who was a feather merchant from the rear of the platoon. By doing that they never did run away with the cadence. Hired and fired many guides who could not hack it. Put a squad leader in CCP the day before graduation because I caught him smoking in the handball court by 2nd Battalion.

[Kegler300]

I didn't have any leadership positions while in boot camp and still graduated as a meritorious private ...

[Rocky C]

Hahahahaha....

[silverdollar]

All we had was guide, the tallest boot.

[madsox]

I didn't have any leadership positions while in boot camp and still graduated as a meritorious private ...

I see what you did there!

8-)

[MunkyVsRobot]

The way my DI's did it was the guide was the tallest guy in the PLT who thought he could drill. the squad leaders were people who had decent IST scores and thought they could drill.