Calling all marines, where and when did you go to bootcamp?

nuggetdog

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Mcrd San Diego, CA 1983 Worst 3 months of my life, best 4 yrs of my life.
 

SgtSki in MI

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MCRD San Diego, CA. PLT 1091 Delta Co. Sr. Drill Instructor Sgt Pruitt. Graduated on 09 November, 1983. "We have the meanest Drill Instructors, they're all freakin' nuts. The Senior is a crazy man, the other three are wild. When compared to a savage beast, the savage beast is mild. They never have to beat us. They never will mistreat us. In fact these broken bones you see, happened accidentally!"
 

pottsie54

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Training Day 1 was 10 Nov 1989. Yes, they killed us!
 

82ncmarine

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Yellow footprints

I see those yellow footprints and start laughing outloud. Only Marines would need a guide on where to place your feet when standing in formation.....:laughing7:

Sorry TTC, you know how the inter-service rivalry goes, we are all brothers in arms anyways.

Lol, yea and the results are miles above the others!
 

82ncmarine

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PI 6/17/82-9/9/82
The first day was my worst and the last day was my best! What a chill down your spine when the platoon was dismissed for the final time! Hoorah!
 

Digging Deeper

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Parris Island 1st Battalion Bravo Company Platoon 1010
August 1994-November 1994
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Anyone remember "scrub brush bulkhead". Lol
 

huntnva

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Plt 2004 H Co 2nd RTB PISC
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1991-1995
Semper Fi!
 

LuckyPepper

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PI 1992 Feb-May 2nd BT E co plt 2045 I remember
Skuzz brush to the bulkhead! Skuzz brush 500!I picked east coast so I went to Futema okinawa.Forward deployed you get first pick of duty stations.I pick east coast and get 29 stumps.Checking in my CWO asks me what I did to get sent here?LOL.wouldn't trade a minute of any of it now.
 

crashbandicoot

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San Diego,Plt.3031,March 1971.S/SGT Kaufman was our Sr.Drill Instructor.Was billeted in quonset huts right next to the airport and had to listen to the planes taking off all the time.
 

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MCRD Parris Island South Carolina Feb.6-May 4,1976. PLT. 217 D. Company 2nd Bn. 2nd to none. Just across the way from the Iwo Jima Monument. Sr. Drill Instructor SSGT. Collins, Asst. Drill Instructor SGT. Nothen, and Asst. Drill Instructor SGT. Bliel. MOS-2111 Small Arms Infantry Repairman (Armorer) Aberdeen Maryland Proving Ground for Armorer School after Boot, and back to the Island after school where I was assigned to Weapons Training Bn. As an Armorer assigned to the Armory, but spent most of my time assigned as the Line Armorer on D' Line in Weapons Bn. Semper Fi To to all Devil Dogs, Leather Necks and Jar Heads. Once a Marine, ALWAYS a Marine.
 

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crashbandicoot

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MCRD Parris Island South Carolina Feb.6-May 4,1976. PLT. 217 D. Company 2nd Bn. 2nd to none. Just across the way from the Iwo Jima Monument. Sr. Drill Instructor SSGT. Collins, Asst. Drill Instructor SGT. Nothen, and Asst. Drill Instructor SGT. Bliel. MOS-2111 Small Arms Infantry Repairman (Armorer) Aberdeen Maryland Proving Ground for Armorer School after Boot, and back to the Island after school where I was assigned to Weapons Training Bn. As an Armorer assigned to the Armory, but spent most of my time assigned as the Line Armorer on D' Line in Weapons Bn. Semper Fi To to all Devil Dogs, Leather Necks and Jar Heads. Once a Marine, ALWAYS a Marine.

devildog,saw this and thought it exemplified how Marines feel!There are no ex Marines or former Marines,you,re either a active duty Marine,a retired Marine or a Marine vet!How about them apples?
 

devldog

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devildog,saw this and thought it exemplified how Marines feel!There are no ex Marines or former Marines,you,re either a active duty Marine,a retired Marine or a Marine vet!How about them apples?
Yes sir, a Marine veteran. 3 years 1976-1979. I believe I have spoken with you in the past. Are you also from Georgia?
 

boogeyman

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Maybe you qualify to be a lid to the jarhead then.....:laughing7:

My Pop was in Camp Pendleton. I was born there. may not be a jar head, but I'm his half pint.
WOW! Same here! But a jar head I became. MCRD San Diego. Anyone know how Rattle Snake Canyon got its name? Only place on the damned base they never found any. Think I was the only kindergardner in my school that knew the difference between blank & live rounds, and had a couple in my pocket to show. Hmm.. back then live rounds for show n tell = atta boy! Today? Kicked out & on a terrorist watch list. What the heck happened to this world?!?!
 

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