Letter Eight finds us nearly a month into recruit training, and I was starting to get used to the routine, getting a lot stronger, and displaying some aggression that the Drill Instructors liked. We had undergone our first Battalion Inspection at Recruit Training Depot San Diego, which was more chaos and trying to throw your …
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Okay ladies and gentleman, we are fully indoctrinated into the Marine Corps at this point and the stress inoculations are working. San Diego in summertime rivals Kuwait. Yeah, the heat ain’t as bad but when you’re choking on the exhaust from multiple jets landing and taking off at San Diego International while you’re running your 130lbs …
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These boot camp letters sent home from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, reflect a rapidly changing mindset. Chubby recruits become fatbodies. Food is chow. The bathroom is the head. The wall is a bulkhead. Never understood why a water fountain is a scuttlebutt, however. There’s some interesting things to note here. One, the …
Alright, ladies and gentleman, after a bit of a wait, here is letter four that I sent home to my parents from Boot Camp. If you haven’t been following along in the series, you can find Letter One here. IN this letter, the platoon is fifteen days into training and getting into a routine. This early the …
If you haven’t read the first two letters yet, you can catch up on them here. I become valuable to the platoon for having the only copy of the recruit training schedule, become adept at disassembling and reassembling my M16A2 rifle, but hate marching drill so much when there’s a war going on. “There are things …
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“We hear little about the outside world except that Marines are dying. “ Letter Two was written about a week and a half into boot camp. And things had gotten real. Was there a war going on or what? One of our Drill Instructors had a tape recorder of battle. Not just some historical recording, mind …
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Letter One. April 14, 2004. My 22nd birthday. Nine days before my 22nd birthday, I shipped out to Marine Corps recruit training in San Diego, California. What made me join the military? I get asked that a lot. Sometimes I give the form answer—patriotism, wanted to give back, serve my country, travel the world, etc—but …
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