From the YouTube caption: Jenny Miranda sings this classic with the 2nd Marine Division Band from Camp LeJuene at the Columbus Day Italian celebration in Bridgeport, CT, October 9, 2010. I went to boot camp with her and we ended up at the same duty station for a little while at one point though we [...]
This is a fairly laid-back day, these recruits are probably in the third and last phase of boot camp judging by their bloused boots and the fact that only one drill instructor is present. It has several examples of the obnoxious counting down the drill instructors like to do when they are waiting for you [...]
Tela, Honduras – August 2008 This is me, hiding from the wind…and also hiding from the last few, super-strong sand fleas who managed to avoid getting blown away by hiding in the bottom of the boat. On the shore, these sand fleas were WORSE than the infamous sand fleas of Parris Island boot camp fame. [...]
Marines make teen’s wish come true – 13-year-old battling lymphoma says Parris Island visit was ‘amazing’: Kyle’s visit to Parris Island and a visit Thursday to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort were the work of a coordinated effort between the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s North Texas and South Carolina chapters. Kyle’s mother, Amy Drott, said she wasn’t [...]
The Spoils of War: Pfc. Earl Coffey found a fortune in a palace in Iraq. His decision to steal it derailed his life…He watched as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle rammed and collapsed the wall of a windowless bunker just outside Saddam’s palace. The building concealed bundles of U.S. currency stacked floor-to-ceiling and wrapped in binding [...]
Andrew, Sam and Elizabeth Foltz of Cadillac may have disagreed now and then growing up, but they’re taking the same post-high school path — enrolling in the Marine Corps. “I always told the kids to find a way to make it through college,” their mother, Denise Vaughan, told the Cadillac News during the triplets’ graduation [...]
I was reading a One Marine’s View post about eating MREs and I realized that during the entire time I’ve been in the Marine Corps, including boot camp and MCT, I NEVER once used the MRE heater. Never even tried! At first, I guess I was just so hungry all the time that using the [...]
Last fall I wrote about the first two installments of an LA Times series that’s following three Marines as they enlist on the buddy program, go through infantry training together, and eventually ship out to the Sandbox. Somehow I missed the third part, From boys to Marines, in November. It’s a detailed account of their [...]
From the L.A. Times: With the U.S. at war, three buddies from the Santa Clarita Valley were eager to see combat. Despite their parents’ misgivings, they enlisted in the Marines fresh out of high school in June. This series of occasional articles will chronicle their experiences in boot camp and beyond. Marine recruits are in [...]
http://www.militarytimes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1559516 Your not wrong or a bag for wondering, but understand that the Marine Corps is the REAL military, turning recruits into REAL men. All these other characters lurking about are little more than high school kids in uniform with guns. That is why they are held to such juvenile standards.Marines’ sergeant major visits troops [...]
I am not a morning person. Anything that requires removing myself from the bed after waking up is not something I want to do. I can’t even eat happily until at least an hour or two after getting up the morning. Even if I fell asleep hungry and spent the entire night dreaming about chow [...]
I’ll be outing myself as a “New Corps” Marine by saying that I was issued digital cammies and brown boots at boot camp. We didn’t have to iron, we didn’t have to use starch, we never polished boots, and we sure weren’t sad about it. I think the digitals are nicer looking but I think [...]
The first toilets we saw at boot camp didn’t even bother to have any toilet paper available. I don’t think I pooped for three days. If we showered during those same days in the holding pen squad bay, I don’t remember it so I’m sure we all smelled quite lovely. During the few free minutes [...]
I’m going to start doing my boot camp stories. I decided to just pick random words and write down everything that particular word brings to mind.
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