Well I'm going to be.....

[RipChord929]

Just had to yank your chain a bit there!!! 

<Zalduta> Stay hard bro!!!

RC

[Bosco123]

LMFAO AKP...you got 15 minutes? My last month in boot was "eat duck" 3 times a day...duck in, grab a tray, grab some chow, swallow what you can before you dump the tray into the garbage and put the dishes on the conveyor belt, duck back into formation at attention...last man out did bends and mf'ers for 10 minutes before we double timed it to the grinder.

After 20 years I finally figured out how to chew my food...it's taken another 10 to learn how to eat slow enough to taste it. 


Bosco...looks like Selino wants you in the Army...really bad. That little "guaranteed MOS" thing on your contract don't mean squat...not in any branch of service. Especially if there is a war going on...<hint>...<hint>... I can tell you this for sure though...do 4 yrs in the Corps, make it to at least E-4 and when they hand you your DD-124 with an honorable discharge...go straight to the Army recruiter and tell them you want to enlist for 6 straight with a guarantee to WO school as a chopper pile-it and you have a greater chance of getting it than a fresh kid off the street...they will even hand you E-5 stripes for your new uniform and no boot camp.

Helicopters is not my thing, thought about that too.

[DaveJ]

Looks like alot of us are going into the service.

I'm starting Army ROTC program this year as a Sophomore. Taking both MSI and MS II years concurrently to make up for last year, which I missed. Raring to go! 

[wojo71]

  Bosco... go for it...

  About a year ago  my son  enlisted in the Marine Corp out of the blue.  I can not put it words how proud of him I was that day when he marched in front of us in San Diego at his graduation from boot. I tell you this, He want as a 19 year old with no plan or direction, What I got back was a "Marine". What I mean by that is nothing is a problem for him now, I ask him stuff like " how you going to do that" or how  you going to get there?" and his answer is always the same " don't worry about it I'm a Marine I'll do it"    
                                                         
  F.Y.I  He is a combat engineer  loving every minute of it   and will deploy to Iraq in Oct.

[B2B]

Best of luck to you Bosco! 

[lowZX14]

When are you leaving for boot camp Bosco?  These other guys have given you some good advice and I can tell by gyrene's post that he went to MCRD Sand Diego (Hollywood), but hey we're not gonna get into that argument here hahahahahaha.  Tell me when you're going and I can alter what I have to tell you about The Island.

wojo.....Tell your son Semper Fi from one engineer to another.

[Bosco123]

I won't leave until next June. So you have all the time to kill me as many times as you can, if you can

<S>  Can't wait already

[lowZX14]

Let's see, June at Parris Island......oh boy, you're gonna have fun.  It's going to be rather warm but nothing you can't handle.  Just keep in mind, DO NOT SCRATCH AT SAND FLEAS.  You're going to and others are and you're going to see why, it's inevitable.  And don't think you can be slick and scratch without someone noticing, your DI's will tell you that it's noticeable and it is.  gyrene will tell you whenever you're in front of a formation you can see everything.  People think they can blend in, but they can't

Be loud, be intense, do what you're told when you're told and you won't have any problems.  What you hear about it being somewhere around 75% or more mental is true, it really is.  So, go ahead and start getting ready.  Start having someone come into your room at 0545 and scream "15 MINUTES TO LIGHTS" and have them do that every 5 minutes until 0600 when they scream "LIGHTS LIGHTS LIGHTS" and you instantly jump out of your rack and make it in about 10 seconds and get on the line still sleepy eyed.  Then give yourself about 20 seconds to get dressed sitting on a footlocker with another bald headed moron bumping elbows and getting in each others way until you're dressed ready to form up outside.  Then march down to the kitchen still sleepy eyed and wait in line for about 10 minutes just to have 2 or less minutes to eat, dump your trash which consists of over half of what you were given which wasn't much to start with and drop your tray in the galley, then run outside with speed and intensity and form up again.  All this is after you went to sleep, well tried to around 2200.  Then you had to wake up for fire watch at 0100 which meant at 1250 someone came and woke you up after you have only had a good hour or so of sleep.  Then you didn't get back to sleep until around 0230 if you're lucky because the moron you woke up for your relief for fire watch took his sweet time waking up and getting ready and of course you weren't sleepy anymore.

This is just the first lesson which covers probably your first 30 minutes of the day, we will conduct follow up lessons at a time and place to be determined later.

[gyrene81]

ROFLMAO!!! Low...that had me scared... 

Being right next to the San Diego airport...sleep didn't happen until day 6. I'm pretty sure my D.I.'s had someone send them sand fleas in the mail from P.I. Never had an issue with them until second phase then for some reason the sand pits around our barracks were full.

Between P.I. and S.D. - I'll take the beach towel and sunglasses over the mosquito infested swamp any day. Besides, where else would you have the privilege of marching under the same arch as Gomer Pyle USMC? MCRD San Diego.   

[lowZX14]

 
I know, I used to give my buddies that went to SD a hard time.  Most of us that were together graduated the same day, went to MOS school together and went everywhere in the fleet together.  Most of us were promoted to EVERYTHING at the same time and when it came down to time in grade we were tied so it goes to time in service.  I constantly reminded them that my official day in the Corps started on the east coast 3 hours ahead of them so I had 3 hours more time in service than they did.  They might have shipped some over, those are nasty little boogers.

I'd take the beach towel, sunglasses, going to watch baseball games, and popcorn and movies any day over the swamp because that's all PI is.  One way in, one way out, one of the guys in my platoon found that out the hard way when he tried to run away from the range....idiot.  Nothing but gator infested swamp around that place.  As for the sand fleas, when we were at the range one DI went beserk when one guy scratched so we went out into the thick grass where those things seem to breed and mark timed for about 30 minutes.  We left out of there with polka dots all over us.

Bosco, be lucky I'm not going to boot camp with you, I was bad luck.  My good buddy and rack mate who was from the same city in FL as my grandma laid down in a fire ant pile at the range and found out quickly he was allergic to them.  The range is a waysssssss away from mainside where the hospital is.  He almost didn't make it.  Then one of my good buddies I rode down on the bus with was hurt when we were on the hump out for BWT.  We were going along and I heard a loud pop and snap right beside me and he went down crying.....shattered the ball on the top of his femur where it goes to the hip socket.  This was about 2 or 3 weeks before graduation, needless to say, he didn't graduate.

[Selino631]

Helicopters is not my thing, thought about that too.

yea man, i was just saying that cause i wasnt sure if you looked into it or not, good luck with your decison 

[Bosco123]

I've been lucky so far, and I have a friend that is in the Marines, and he is telling me all of the "good stuff" in Boot camp.

Just can't get over the "Silver bullet" lol, that will NOT happen to me.

[gyrene81]

The "good stuff in boot camp"???   

Oh yeah...green eggs...watching Iwo Jima and The Halls of Montezuma every single weekend...free haircuts...endless hours of P.T., rifle disassembly/reassembly and cleaning...endless hours of boot and brass polishing...endless hours of close order drills...foot locker drills...did I miss something?

If they don't have all that...you're in the squid boot camp...time to jump the fence and go back where you belong before they realize you're missing.

[Bosco123]

Ment to be sarcastic but ok.

[texasmom]

Congratulations!