Ill never forget my time, if we graduated on time we would come home for CHRISTMAS and get exetended leave because MCT cycle was also on hold for the Holidays. Man did that motivate me to not fail, I even hid an injury, my arm had gone numb on me and was having a hard time doing push ups and couldnt even do pull ups. I remeber being afraid Id fail the last PFT. The night before I had failed to do any, the day of I was able to somehow manage three the bare minimum. I have no shame in that because I honestly thought I wouldnt do any, I remeber people giving me shit and my Di being pissed but on the inside I was so happy because as bad as that was it meant I still passed. Sometimes when its do or die you can will yourself to overcome things
Thank you for sharing your experience. I went to BootCamp in 1980 and this happened to me. I felt so humiliated that I didn't talk about it much. I admire your candid conversation about it.
I get what you're saying about feeling discouraged or a failure.. You look at all the work , time and effort you've already put in.. And then for what ever the reason , you're Dropped.. To myself , it would feel like being held back a grade in School .. Your Bro's are getting ready to Graduate and your doing the whole year over.. But here's the thing:: As long as a person doesn't just quit trying or give up all together.. Because it's to hard or they're to lazy or to stupid , then it's Good to Go.. Just because a person has some kind of a set back , that's alright.. Because you're not giving up , you're addressing , focusing and fixing the problems.. And the Corp didn't kick you out , so they see that you have the potential to be a good Marine.. But you need just a little more work and help to get to Ship Shape Level.. So regardless of the set back situation , you fixed the issues and should've became a better and stronger Marine after doing everything.. And i would think that instead of feeling down about it , you should feel even prouder about Graduation and becoming a Marine.. It shows that you wanted it that bad and you work harder to earn the right to be called , United States Marine..🦅🇺🇸🦅.
Random question. Can you? I mean obviously I don’t want that but I see all these videos about the marines and I’m lowkey a lil stressed and don’t know if I could do it and I already signed up. If I go in there and can’t adjust to military life could I ask to go home?
@ashtondillard6906 . No, you just can't ask to go home once you already in boot camp. Because the Marine Corps already spent too much money on you. Let me ask you this, when do you leave for boot camp ?
@@ashtondillard6906if you have some medical thing preventing you from graduating technically yes, you’ll go to recruit separation platoon (RSP) and you stay there until you get sent home, it can take 5 days or several weeks-months. I knew two people in there that were there for 50+ days. It’s very boring in there if you’re not a social person. If you are social it’s actually fun. Literally all you do is go to chow, clean the sqaud bay, talk to other recruits that are in there and sometimes watch movies (if you’re platoon is acting good).
part 2, You know you’re going home when you get called on a list called T1, T1 is the process of you going home. If i remember correctly it’s you taking all your equipment and uniforms back (you can keep the sweaters and work out gear (i just realized they called it skibidis in RSP and i’m just now realizing). T2 is banking. T3 is signing that you got discharged and that you’re going home either by plane or someone picks you up by the gate. When you’re T3 you get your civilian clothes and everyone congratulations you like you just got out of prison 😭
I got dropped due to stress fractures right after the riffle range. No biggie I just recovered in MRP for about a month and went back to a different platoon. Its just one hurdle of many you will have to overcome as a Marine.
@@artykohl1118 sorry i didnt see this till now. So the priority of mrp (medical rehab platoon) is to get you back to training so you basically you do a lot of sitting around doing nothing. You go for check ups every single day as a group. You eat, sleep they take you to the gym so you can do what you can. The stress level is greatly minimized but its still bootcamp. Oh yeah and you watch movies on the weekend. The hardest thing about mrp is the mental toll it can take on you on having to wait to go back to training because you are. Basically in limbo.
@gabe9074 So it sounds like what the Air Force used to call A. F. I., (Awaiting Further Instructions) in tech school. P. T. every day and guarding a lounge room from having T. V. or other things stolen. Were they movie, movies or more like military training movies? Thanks for the response.
Army calls it “recycled.” We had one kid recycled, or dropped, and he went AWOL…. Turned out to be a great thing for the rest of the platoon, because his locker was somehow open and everyone was able to replace missing gear that had to be turned in at the end of basic.
We had a recruit in our platoon that reminded me of Dr Smith from the original lost in space show. He was older than most of us at around 23ish. He was a 'Know it all and always trying to tell us younger cats what to do! He wasn't a squad leader or a platoon leader but just some dude who thought he knew everything. No one cared much for him. We were in the middle of the first week of third phase when he rolled his ankle before we went to Edson range. Karma is a MOFO! Our platoon watched his platoon (1st BTN) march by us, and he had the look of shame when he saw us getting ready to graduate without him! He was about a month behind us!
@@sumnerwilson-cr6ej You don't have it made in the shade, The FMF is a MOFO! Some of those NCO's are A-hats! They don't take care of their troops and some of them have no idea how to lead. When I was a Sgt in another unit in Okinawa, I saw two corporals let a Pfc walk into the SgtMaj office with a wrinkled set of Alphas on during checking in process. They didn't help this kid out by trying square him away while he was waiting to walk in the office. I chewed them both out and after the SgtMaj chewed out the PFC he also chewed out his corporals! Square your shit away boot and hold on tight!!!
My recruiter told me that when you get dropped, you continue where you left off, they’re not going to start you over from the beginning of recruit training.
It really just depends. You would get dropped back to the beginning of your last training session. Probably worst case scenario you get dropped on one of the last days of rifle range, when you pick up another PLT, you will get dropped back to day one of grass week that would be 2 weeks you have to redo. On the other hand, let's say you get dropped on team week. I see no reason why they would set you back more than a couple of days.
It comes down to a variety of issues to get dropped. Not physically prepared, medical issues, doing drugs, disrespectful to any D.I., lastly a weak mind. One guy would pee in his skive shorts every time a D.I. would yell at him, we had one guy at the rifle range he would shoot at other targets , one tried to cut his wrist with a safety razor, caught two recruit's sleeping together, they ended up leaving the island, went AWOL and went to prison, one recruit that was a re-tread got caught stealing my clothes he got kicked out! I forget about the fat bodies some have been there for six months. They eventually kick them out! But it comes down to not being prepared mentally and physically! One last recruit went to chow hall, thru himself on the floor screaming I want my mommie! The first night we meet out platoon drill instructors , that night while doing fire watch there were about 10-12 recruit's laying in bed crying, most were saying, where is my mommie? We started with like 68 recruit's on parade day of graduation I remember there was 40 on the parade deck, from PLT. 2052 2nd Batt
People get dropped do many reasons IE fraudulent enlistment, medical issues that came up upon arrival to training, an officer tells the recruit that "we are dropping you from the program being detrimental to training, troop moral, a company officer wants a recruit to go to Balboa Park Navy hospital for an evaluation. Those evaluations result in those recruits being dropped from training. The government does not want to spend money on someone who would not get a return on their investment.
@@redjupiter2236 To be honest it wasn’t that bad. On weekdays we wake up, go to chow, then come back and square away time, then 1 hour PT, lunch chow, square away time, dinner chow, hygiene, then bed. On weekends all we did was either go to church or stay in the squad bay and either organize or watch moves/read books. The thing that messed with my head was all the waiting and seeing my platoon already training. I know it effected many people too I experienced someone break down everyday in PCP, but the brotherhood is like no other, when you were down your fellow recruits were there to help because you all are going through suck together. Don’t quit. Regret is painful.
@@dedted9579 Wow, I only ask because I ship off to Parris Island tomorrow and there’s a decent likelihood I end up in that platoon to work on getting in shape. There’s a lot of crazy rumors around it.
@@redjupiter2236aye man did you end up on pcp and should I be nervous because I’m headed in to San Diego in some couple of days and I am trying so hard but feel nervous that I’m going to pcp
Dropped is like the AF called recycled back on New Year's Eve, '81. Three days and the flight I was dropped from was held back so long that my plane arrived at my next duty station hours before a guy I knew from there. And if I hadn't been put back in training I would have gone to Illinoise, but instead I went to Colorado. It really worked out for me.
There's a reason why they treat you like a ghost. It's because they dont have time to waste on those who aren't up to snuff. The DIs have to focus on the recruits who aren't failing or up to standards.
I was lucky in boot camp in 1961. I was a squad leader at the time. I got strep throat during qualifying at the rifle range. It was winter and I had strep throat. I managed to shoot sharpshooter despite having strep throat. After qualifying our senior drill instructor ran us up and down the hill at camp Matthews in San Diego. The actual rifle range was in an area below what is now UCSD and the San Diego VA in Torrey pines in San Diego. Anyway the day we qualified the senior drill instructor ran us in formation up and down the hill. Having a high fever and having a bad headache and body aches and chills I fell out. I was carried to sick bay because I could not run any more.i stayed in sick bay for two days and I missed the hump back to MCRD. But while I was at sick bay my senior drill instructor came to visit with some candy. That blew my mind. He gave me the candy bars and talked to me like I was a member of his family and told me I’d rejoin the platoon when I recovered. I was super glad I was not dropped to another platoon. Staff Sgt Curry, wherever you are I’ll have a beer and give you a toast.
I have a son in now that sent home a concerning letter talking about he was getting dropped and as the Corp does, the parents just get a letter with no explanation. "From the recruit?!?!" NO official anything! Gotta love the Corp and the keep everything in house attitude.
I got set back a week because I got the chicken pox. This was back in the 80s before the vaccine came out in 1994. I missed the first week of the rifle course. Yeah it sucked but a week wasn't too bad and from what i remember the rifle course was in the 5th week. At least I wasn't 8 or 9 weeks into training and there was a lot of us with the chickenpox. It was running through Parris Island like wildfire.
Swim Unq here. Got dropped from 2nd btn to 3rd btn. Yea 3rd was a lot harder. Paris island 1988. Fk that bs. Glad it went through it and glad I made it out. He’s not lying
What is this business of "getting dropped"?? How is this possible? In Air Force basic training we were told in strong terms we were in the military and absent going to prison we could not "get out" of it---period. How can you FAIL basic training?
It's mostly for people physically not prepared before boot camp or for medical issues that happen at boot camp. Being dropped doesn't mean your dropped from the Marine corps it means you're set back until your ready to continue training. Boot campus 13 weeks but if you break an arm, leg ect.. or like me I had the chickenpox and got set back a week cuz I was in the hospital quarantined. So my boot camp was 14 weeks.
Hey jay, quick question for you. I’m scared about getting dropped because of the physical aspect of boot camp. Will they just send me straight home? Or is it up to me?
nah, they’ll send you to a physical conditioning platoon, PCP, or pork chop platoon some call it. and it’ll be hell on earth for you because you pt every day for about a month before u can transfer into a new company
If you do some running and some push-ups and pull-ups sit-ups all the basic stuff before you go in (basically get in shape) you'll do fine. They don't start you out with long runs.
1st Battalion Delta Co. 1997 Parris Island. Start doing some sort of PT before you go. There is something called the IST test that you have to do before you go to your actual platoon. You fail that IST test, you'll be in the "Pork Chop" platoon is what we called back then. The IST test is a base line PFT test, it's not the full test. You have to do like 3 pull-ups x amount of crunches within 2 min and run a mile and a half in under 12 min I believe. I can't remember exactly, it was a long time ago for me. Most people fail that run, so start running.
@@GenX_US_Marine ...1974...been there for a month,,,,they used our PCP platoon as a test..we were formed into a regular training platoon...did not work..at graduation there was only 4 of us left from the original PCP
What did you want your new DI to say to you? " Hey buddy you'll be okay, you caught a bad break". Believe me they knew everything about you when you got picked up by your DI. And they saw your range violation and probably thought you were some kind of fuck-up so they're definitely not going to take it easy on you. It's up to you to prove that you weren't.
You know what I'm saying. Learn how to clearly express yourself. Street talk has little meaning and reduces the quality of a person you could become. Very hard to watch.
Ill never forget my time, if we graduated on time we would come home for CHRISTMAS and get exetended leave because MCT cycle was also on hold for the Holidays. Man did that motivate me to not fail, I even hid an injury, my arm had gone numb on me and was having a hard time doing push ups and couldnt even do pull ups. I remeber being afraid Id fail the last PFT. The night before I had failed to do any, the day of I was able to somehow manage three the bare minimum.
I have no shame in that because I honestly thought I wouldnt do any, I remeber people giving me shit and my Di being pissed but on the inside I was so happy because as bad as that was it meant I still passed. Sometimes when its do or die you can will yourself to overcome things
Thank you for sharing your experience. I went to BootCamp in 1980 and this happened to me. I felt so humiliated that I didn't talk about it much. I admire your candid conversation about it.
I get what you're saying about feeling discouraged or a failure.. You look at all the work , time and effort you've already put in.. And then for what ever the reason , you're Dropped.. To myself , it would feel like being held back a grade in School .. Your Bro's are getting ready to Graduate and your doing the whole year over.. But here's the thing:: As long as a person doesn't just quit trying or give up all together.. Because it's to hard or they're to lazy or to stupid , then it's Good to Go.. Just because a person has some kind of a set back , that's alright.. Because you're not giving up , you're addressing , focusing and fixing the problems.. And the Corp didn't kick you out , so they see that you have the potential to be a good Marine.. But you need just a little more work and help to get to Ship Shape Level.. So regardless of the set back situation , you fixed the issues and should've became a better and stronger Marine after doing everything.. And i would think that instead of feeling down about it , you should feel even prouder about Graduation and becoming a Marine.. It shows that you wanted it that bad and you work harder to earn the right to be called , United States Marine..🦅🇺🇸🦅.
It's easy to get discouraged when you get dropped. You'll want to quit and go home.
Random question. Can you? I mean obviously I don’t want that but I see all these videos about the marines and I’m lowkey a lil stressed and don’t know if I could do it and I already signed up. If I go in there and can’t adjust to military life could I ask to go home?
@ashtondillard6906 . No, you just can't ask to go home once you already in boot camp. Because the Marine Corps already spent too much money on you. Let me ask you this, when do you leave for boot camp ?
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@@ashtondillard6906if you have some medical thing preventing you from graduating technically yes, you’ll go to recruit separation platoon (RSP) and you stay there until you get sent home, it can take 5 days or several weeks-months. I knew two people in there that were there for 50+ days. It’s very boring in there if you’re not a social person. If you are social it’s actually fun. Literally all you do is go to chow, clean the sqaud bay, talk to other recruits that are in there and sometimes watch movies (if you’re platoon is acting good).
part 2, You know you’re going home when you get called on a list called T1, T1 is the process of you going home. If i remember correctly it’s you taking all your equipment and uniforms back (you can keep the sweaters and work out gear (i just realized they called it skibidis in RSP and i’m just now realizing). T2 is banking. T3 is signing that you got discharged and that you’re going home either by plane or someone picks you up by the gate. When you’re T3 you get your civilian clothes and everyone congratulations you like you just got out of prison 😭
I got dropped due to stress fractures right after the riffle range. No biggie I just recovered in MRP for about a month and went back to a different platoon. Its just one hurdle of many you will have to overcome as a Marine.
What kinds of duties do they assign you during rehab?
@@artykohl1118 sorry i didnt see this till now. So the priority of mrp (medical rehab platoon) is to get you back to training so you basically you do a lot of sitting around doing nothing. You go for check ups every single day as a group. You eat, sleep they take you to the gym so you can do what you can. The stress level is greatly minimized but its still bootcamp. Oh yeah and you watch movies on the weekend. The hardest thing about mrp is the mental toll it can take on you on having to wait to go back to training because you are. Basically in limbo.
@gabe9074 So it sounds like what the Air Force used to call A. F. I., (Awaiting Further Instructions) in tech school. P. T. every day and guarding a lounge room from having T. V. or other things stolen. Were they movie, movies or more like military training movies? Thanks for the response.
It happen to me @ the rifle range. After I qualified with the new PLT. I want back to my original PLT. I was so happy that day.
Army calls it “recycled.” We had one kid recycled, or dropped, and he went AWOL…. Turned out to be a great thing for the rest of the platoon, because his locker was somehow open and everyone was able to replace missing gear that had to be turned in at the end of basic.
So, in other words, Army Thieves?
Yep! I had gear stolen from me, so I got my property back. But I’d guarantee every branch has thieves.
“Tactically Acquired”
We had a recruit in our platoon that reminded me of Dr Smith from the original lost in space show. He was older than most of us at around 23ish. He was a 'Know it all and always trying to tell us younger cats what to do! He wasn't a squad leader or a platoon leader but just some dude who thought he knew everything. No one cared much for him. We were in the middle of the first week of third phase when he rolled his ankle before we went to Edson range. Karma is a MOFO! Our platoon watched his platoon (1st BTN) march by us, and he had the look of shame when he saw us getting ready to graduate without him! He was about a month behind us!
i got dropped for 2 months during gas chamber week but i ended up graduating yesterday
Good for you, pal. Hang in there. You got it made in the shade.
@@sumnerwilson-cr6ej You don't have it made in the shade, The FMF is a MOFO! Some of those NCO's are A-hats! They don't take care of their troops and some of them have no idea how to lead. When I was a Sgt in another unit in Okinawa, I saw two corporals let a Pfc walk into the SgtMaj office with a wrinkled set of Alphas on during checking in process. They didn't help this kid out by trying square him away while he was waiting to walk in the office. I chewed them both out and after the SgtMaj chewed out the PFC he also chewed out his corporals! Square your shit away boot and hold on tight!!!
My recruiter told me that when you get dropped, you continue where you left off, they’re not going to start you over from the beginning of recruit training.
It definitely depends on the situation lol.
It really just depends. You would get dropped back to the beginning of your last training session. Probably worst case scenario you get dropped on one of the last days of rifle range, when you pick up another PLT, you will get dropped back to day one of grass week that would be 2 weeks you have to redo. On the other hand, let's say you get dropped on team week. I see no reason why they would set you back more than a couple of days.
It comes down to a variety of issues to get dropped. Not physically prepared, medical issues, doing drugs, disrespectful to any D.I., lastly a weak mind. One guy would pee in his skive shorts every time a D.I. would yell at him, we had one guy at the rifle range he would shoot at other targets , one tried to cut his wrist with a safety razor, caught two recruit's sleeping together, they ended up leaving the island, went AWOL and went to prison, one recruit that was a re-tread got caught stealing my clothes he got kicked out! I forget about the fat bodies some have been there for six months. They eventually kick them out! But it comes down to not being prepared mentally and physically! One last recruit went to chow hall, thru himself on the floor screaming I want my mommie! The first night we meet out platoon drill instructors , that night while doing fire watch there were about 10-12 recruit's laying in bed crying, most were saying, where is my mommie? We started with like 68 recruit's on parade day of graduation I remember there was 40 on the parade deck, from PLT. 2052 2nd Batt
People get dropped do many reasons IE fraudulent enlistment, medical issues that came up upon arrival to training, an officer tells the recruit that "we are dropping you from the program being detrimental to training, troop moral, a company officer wants a recruit to go to Balboa Park Navy hospital for an evaluation. Those evaluations result in those recruits being dropped from training. The government does not want to spend money on someone who would not get a return on their investment.
I got sent to PCP and lost all motivation, sometimes I regret it
What was PCP like? What did you experience?
@@redjupiter2236 To be honest it wasn’t that bad. On weekdays we wake up, go to chow, then come back and square away time, then 1 hour PT, lunch chow, square away time, dinner chow, hygiene, then bed. On weekends all we did was either go to church or stay in the squad bay and either organize or watch moves/read books. The thing that messed with my head was all the waiting and seeing my platoon already training. I know it effected many people too I experienced someone break down everyday in PCP, but the brotherhood is like no other, when you were down your fellow recruits were there to help because you all are going through suck together. Don’t quit. Regret is painful.
@@dedted9579 Wow, I only ask because I ship off to Parris Island tomorrow and there’s a decent likelihood I end up in that platoon to work on getting in shape. There’s a lot of crazy rumors around it.
@@redjupiter2236did you ever go to pcp my recruiter is trying to ship me very soon even though i failed the ist
@@redjupiter2236aye man did you end up on pcp and should I be nervous because I’m headed in to San Diego in some couple of days and I am trying so hard but feel nervous that I’m going to pcp
Dropped is like the AF called recycled back on New Year's Eve, '81. Three days and the flight I was dropped from was held back so long that my plane arrived at my next duty station hours before a guy I knew from there. And if I hadn't been put back in training I would have gone to Illinoise, but instead I went to Colorado. It really worked out for me.
There's a reason why they treat you like a ghost. It's because they dont have time to waste on those who aren't up to snuff. The DIs have to focus on the recruits who aren't failing or up to standards.
Facts
@@Jayyy3x now scream aye aye sir!!!! Haha jk. Bro I hope you know I'm only being sarcastic on here and giving you shit in my comments haha
I was lucky in boot camp in 1961. I was a squad leader at the time. I got strep throat during qualifying at the rifle range. It was winter and I had strep throat. I managed to shoot sharpshooter despite having strep throat. After qualifying our senior drill instructor ran us up and down the hill at camp Matthews in San Diego. The actual rifle range was in an area below what is now UCSD and the San Diego VA in Torrey pines in San Diego. Anyway the day we qualified the senior drill instructor ran us in formation up and down the hill. Having a high fever and having a bad headache and body aches and chills I fell out. I was carried to sick bay because I could not run any more.i stayed in sick bay for two days and I missed the hump back to MCRD. But while I was at sick bay my senior drill instructor came to visit with some candy. That blew my mind. He gave me the candy bars and talked to me like I was a member of his family and told me I’d rejoin the platoon when I recovered. I was super glad I was not dropped to another platoon. Staff Sgt Curry, wherever you are I’ll have a beer and give you a toast.
That you devil. This definitely clarified some things for me. If you were never dropped then you wouldn't know because no one tells you any of this.
Thankyou! Sorry stupid phone. Do you get to call home if you get dropped?
I have a son in now that sent home a concerning letter talking about he was getting dropped and as the Corp does, the parents just get a letter with no explanation. "From the recruit?!?!" NO official anything! Gotta love the Corp and the keep everything in house attitude.
Did you still get your 10 days of leave when all was said and done?
You get called a "pickup" by your next Platoon Commander. Wakefield, Schaefer, and Sanders did not like that. They did graduate with my platoon.
I got set back a week because I got the chicken pox. This was back in the 80s before the vaccine came out in 1994. I missed the first week of the rifle course. Yeah it sucked but a week wasn't too bad and from what i remember the rifle course was in the 5th week. At least I wasn't 8 or 9 weeks into training and there was a lot of us with the chickenpox. It was running through Parris Island like wildfire.
Swim Unq here. Got dropped from 2nd btn to 3rd btn. Yea 3rd was a lot harder. Paris island 1988. Fk that bs. Glad it went through it and glad I made it out. He’s not lying
We had a guy show up to our platoon who was dropped the week before the crucible. We were like at grassweek I think
What is this business of "getting dropped"?? How is this possible? In Air Force basic training we were told in strong terms we were in the military and absent going to prison we could not "get out" of it---period. How can you FAIL basic training?
Cause that’s the Air Force - marine corp is the hardest boot camp for enlistee
It's mostly for people physically not prepared before boot camp or for medical issues that happen at boot camp. Being dropped doesn't mean your dropped from the Marine corps it means you're set back until your ready to continue training. Boot campus 13 weeks but if you break an arm, leg ect.. or like me I had the chickenpox and got set back a week cuz I was in the hospital quarantined. So my boot camp was 14 weeks.
The guys that got dropped back into our platoon became valuable advisors relating to the rest of us about the terrible miserable stuff ahead.
What part did you fail or Most marines fail instead of the CFT or PFT, like what kind of Training was for Phase 2
Table 2, Flagging the line lol
1971 spent a week at motivation ,no joke👎🙀😵💫🤡
My son just went to medical platoon, thanks for the info
Hey jay, quick question for you. I’m scared about getting dropped because of the physical aspect of boot camp. Will they just send me straight home? Or is it up to me?
nah, they’ll send you to a physical conditioning platoon, PCP, or pork chop platoon some call it. and it’ll be hell on earth for you because you pt every day for about a month before u can transfer into a new company
If you do some running and some push-ups and pull-ups sit-ups all the basic stuff before you go in (basically get in shape) you'll do fine. They don't start you out with long runs.
All of what been previously said and MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ASS CAN SWIM!!!
Sorry if this question was already asked but what was the reason for them dropping you?
why did you get dropped? and how can you avoid being dropped?
Got dropped for flagging the line in Table 2 & I’ll make a video about that too, that’s on my list now.
once you get dropped are you able to rejoin an try to be a marine again?
Think that would depend on the circumstance honestly.
Not very likely. Other branches of the service will not accept them.
If you fail, do they give you the option to go home?
They do. But they’ll really try to talk you to not
Yo Jayyy3x. What have you done with your life since you've been out?
Work everyday. Non-stop. Lol
@@Jayyy3xI respect & admire that! Keep up the good work Brother! 🫡💪🏽
Yes I know what you are saying
Did you train before you went to boot camp?
I did lol. I was in the Delayed Entry Program as a “Poole” with the Marine Corps for 7 months.
1st Battalion Delta Co. 1997 Parris Island. Start doing some sort of PT before you go. There is something called the IST test that you have to do before you go to your actual platoon. You fail that IST test, you'll be in the "Pork Chop" platoon is what we called back then. The IST test is a base line PFT test, it's not the full test. You have to do like 3 pull-ups x amount of crunches within 2 min and run a mile and a half in under 12 min I believe. I can't remember exactly, it was a long time ago for me. Most people fail that run, so start running.
@@GenX_US_Marine ...1974...been there for a month,,,,they used our PCP platoon as a test..we were formed into a regular training platoon...did not work..at graduation there was only 4 of us left from the original PCP
Isn't getting dropped the same as getting recycled?
What did you want your new DI to say to you? " Hey buddy you'll be okay, you caught a bad break". Believe me they knew everything about you when you got picked up by your DI. And they saw your range violation and probably thought you were some kind of fuck-up so they're definitely not going to take it easy on you. It's up to you to prove that you weren't.
You know what I'm saying. Learn how to clearly express yourself. Street talk has little meaning and reduces the quality of a person you could become. Very hard to watch.