Guidons Retired
October 18th, 2008 | by MakingMarines |lesliecarbone asked:
The honor graduates of six Marine recruit platoons retire their guidons.
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11 Responses to “Guidons Retired”
By elchapin89 on Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
Oorahh!!! Plt 1100, 1st Bn Charlie Co.!!!! 13 November 2007!!!
By volunteer30 on Oct 22, 2008 | Reply
Outstanding snap and polish!
By Madmxa7 on Oct 22, 2008 | Reply
yo i was Lima..a week behind you mofos…i was guide and our graduation got shit on by that hurricane and we had to do it at the AWTF
By MacDaddie9 on Oct 25, 2008 | Reply
this WILL be me soon. IM the dep guidon RSS chico,ca
By D0MINICAN01992 on Oct 26, 2008 | Reply
depends…like a friend of mine is graduating next week with Hotel Company, and he says his platoon guide was chosen just because he could drill from ROTC but was basically not a good leader.
By lesliecarbone on Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
Congratulations, and thank you for your service.
By cyclist14 on Oct 29, 2008 | Reply
Just got off the Depot today after a long, challenging three months, this was by far my favorite part of the ceremony, after marching behind the guidon for so long and seeing it as a symbol of our platoon (2052, G Company, 2D RTBN)It was hard to see it go.
By clwasser on Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
Well yeah that’s true, the guide is essential the best recruit in the platoon.
By fartingnoises on Nov 2, 2008 | Reply
Oh I see and that in my JROTC unit they say a guide is suppose to have the best drilling and all those things u mentioned. Thats what they told me once in my ROTC unit.
By clwasser on Nov 2, 2008 | Reply
Well, the guidon itself is the staff with the flag, whereas the Marine is called the guide. He is basically the recruit leader of the platoon. It isn’t necessarily a random nomination from a drill instructor, the said recruit has to show leadership and responsibility capabilities to be able to carry out such a billet.
By fartingnoises on Nov 3, 2008 | Reply
I have one question how does a Marine become a Platoon guidon? Does the DI ramdomly pick a Marine or is this Marine have experience in drilling before the other Marine in his/her plaoon?