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Thread: Basic Recon Course
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04-29-09, 10:01 PM #16
First off, you arent going to MCT, you're going to ITB. To answer your question, no, you won't have time to work on your swimming in ITB. You will be training and working from 0400-2200 and will have zero free time except on the weekends. Which isn't enough to keep your swimming up to par. What I did was train as hard as I could before bootcamp in the pool and just accept that your swimming will degrade a little before you get to RIP. However, have no fear! RIP was created to help highly motivated Marines with their swimming and pt. You will swim everyday in the pool for 4 hours in the morning and then get slayed in the afternoon with pt. You will swim/pt 2 or 3 times a day. You will be so exhausted you won't be able to move by dinner. However, this will get you incredible strong so that when a BRC class picks up you will be more than ready in the pool, ocean w/ fins, ruck runs, etc. As far as the instructors...DI's are totall dicks, ITB combat instructors are almost as bad but recon instructors are awesome. They treat you like men and will joke around with you and give you respect because they realize it takes a special kind of Marine to make it in recon. So they treat you the way you deserve to be treated. Don't worry you will do fine!
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04-29-09, 10:07 PM #17
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04-29-09, 10:08 PM #18
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04-29-09, 10:11 PM #19
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04-29-09, 10:17 PM #20
To get a recon contract you don't need much except a clean record really. Just make sure you're great at pt, swimming and highly motivated. Oh and if you enjoy your free time, just forget about it. Recon is life around here, you live, breath and eat it. So tell suzy that you don't have time for her anymore and kiss your friends and family goodbye because you will be nonstop training for at least 1.5 years and most likely sent to Okinawa with 3rd recon. 3rd recon is hurting for bodies and has been for a while so thats where all the boot 0321's go when they graduate BRC.
When you go through SOI you MAY get a chance to volunteer to go to RIP/BRC afterwards but my company didn't. Luckily I had a recon contract so I was set anyways. So I highly recommend going into the Marines as an 0321 or else you risk not being about to volunteer in SOI or you have to wait until your an NCO in the fleet to lat move to recon.
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04-29-09, 10:21 PM #21
Yes you MAY get the chance to come to recon after SOI. That is only if RIP is hurting for bodies and comes to SOI and asks for volunteers. But like I said in a previous post, sometimers they are full up and don't need guys so they only take recon contracts. As long as you GT score is 105 or above then your eligible.
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04-29-09, 10:24 PM #22
recon is the route ive always wanted to go. but i'm clueless on how to get there. Im 67 days til recruit training an still havent got an MOS. So what MOS do i need to get into for recon? i'm ready to do WHATEVER it takes to get there. I just need to know what it is that i need to do.
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04-30-09, 04:27 PM #23
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05-02-09, 04:40 PM #24
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05-02-09, 04:41 PM #25
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05-02-09, 09:25 PM #26
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05-02-09, 09:56 PM #27
do recon Marines get all the hi tech weapons and stuff. Night vision and lasers and stuff like that.I dont want to compare life to a video game but is it like the **** they use in COD 4.
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05-02-09, 11:22 PM #28
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05-11-09, 11:55 PM #29
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05-17-09, 10:22 AM #30
after reading all the post in this thread...you can get a recon contract from your recruiter? The one i go to told me you can't. Getting in better shape, what are somethings to get better pull-up results and a better run. after SOI is it rip then RBC?
Im only a sophomore in high school, so im just trying to get enough info before i enlist
thanks
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