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I left home on December 12th last year and entered the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at San Diego. After almost four months of the toughest basic training America has to offer, I'm back. The journey wasn't without it's setbacks, however. I should have graduated on March 10th, but I caught a bad case of pneumonia (and I do me bad; I managed to fracture one of my ribs I was coughing so hard), and had to be dropped from training into the Medical Rehabilitation Platoon (MRP) for eighteen days. I earned the title of Marine this past Thursday, and graduated on Friday with Platoon 2066 Echo Company.

As of now, I'm on my ten days of leave every Marine recieves after completing basic training. Next Tuesday, the 11th, I have to report to the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton, California. I will spend another two months there learning how to operate grenade launchers, machine guns, antitank weapons, etcetera, along with MOUT training, and a lot of humping in the boonies.

If any of you have questions about boot camp, go ahead and ask, and I will answer them to the best of my ability. Perhaps I'll be able to clear up any misperceptions some may have about recruit training. Be aware that I don't have a good idea of what life is like in the Fleet, and I won't be around constantly to post, since I have other things I would like to do with my free time (ie: women and alcohol).

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If there exists anything mightier than destiny, then it is the courage to face destiny unflinchingly. -Geibel

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. -Marcus Aurelius

Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? -GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly