Comments on: How to prepare your mind for USMC BOOT CAMP? http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: asdfas http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-645 asdfas Mon, 25 May 2009 07:39:54 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-645 To mentally prepare for USMC boot camp, do the following: Know your General Orders. Know the rank structure, basic USMC history, customs and courtesies. Know how to address your DI's properly by speaking in third person and addressing him/her by sir/ma'am at the end of each sentence. Being mentally prepare for boot camp isn't impossible. It means knowing what you could get into as a recruit and later, as a Marine, knowing about basic Marine Corps history, customs, rank structure, etc, and knowing how to be a recruit before you go to boot camp and become a Marine. Being mentally prepared is just as important as being physically prepared. They will make your life a little easier while you're in boot camp. To mentally prepare for USMC boot camp, do the following:

Know your General Orders.
Know the rank structure, basic USMC history, customs and courtesies.
Know how to address your DI’s properly by speaking in third person and addressing him/her by sir/ma’am at the end of each sentence.

Being mentally prepare for boot camp isn’t impossible. It means knowing what you could get into as a recruit and later, as a Marine, knowing about basic Marine Corps history, customs, rank structure, etc, and knowing how to be a recruit before you go to boot camp and become a Marine. Being mentally prepared is just as important as being physically prepared. They will make your life a little easier while you’re in boot camp.

]]> By: Todd http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-644 Todd Sat, 23 May 2009 23:18:50 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-644 stay mentally strong stay mentally strong

]]> By: just_that_one_girl http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-643 just_that_one_girl Sat, 23 May 2009 03:02:19 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-643 About the only thing you can try to do is get your workouts done before you go in. Then again its still nothing compared to what they will give you. As far as I know and from what I experienced by going into the Army, which I know is nothing like the Marines, They tear you down. The brake you down and rebuild you and your mind to bend to their way of thinking. Then you are their little robots to do as they want. They train you for battle. They try to harden you for the things you will face in the future. So no there is really nothing you can do to prepare. They bend and mold you to the way they need you to be. You do not even realize it until you get out and people look at you different and say that you have changed. You do not even know it. About the only thing you can try to do is get your workouts done before you go in. Then again its still nothing compared to what they will give you. As far as I know and from what I experienced by going into the Army, which I know is nothing like the Marines, They tear you down. The brake you down and rebuild you and your mind to bend to their way of thinking. Then you are their little robots to do as they want. They train you for battle. They try to harden you for the things you will face in the future. So no there is really nothing you can do to prepare. They bend and mold you to the way they need you to be. You do not even realize it until you get out and people look at you different and say that you have changed. You do not even know it.

]]> By: artemtb http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-642 artemtb Wed, 20 May 2009 15:14:51 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-642 first word of advice is to change your current and any other screen names from giving the impression you're already a Marine. Stop pretending you have something you don't find out if this is what you want. During boot camp it is quite easy to quit and that's when you'll have to reach down and grab a pair so don't even stress it now. first word of advice is to change your current and any other screen names from giving the impression you’re already a Marine. Stop pretending you have something you don’t find out if this is what you want. During boot camp it is quite easy to quit and that’s when you’ll have to reach down and grab a pair so don’t even stress it now.

]]> By: striking_firewall http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-641 striking_firewall Tue, 19 May 2009 00:45:48 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-641 You will go through the hardest basic training of the US forces. Everybody yells at you, you are no longer a individual you are a unit. No longer use me or I use we or us. You will get blistered feet. You loose track of time. You have to be perfectly neat and tidy. You will have to change your vocabulary like you are on a ship. Do not have an attitude you would be commiting suicide. Do not complain. You are no longer given rights. You will go through the hardest basic training of the US forces. Everybody yells at you, you are no longer a individual you are a unit. No longer use me or I use we or us. You will get blistered feet. You loose track of time. You have to be perfectly neat and tidy. You will have to change your vocabulary like you are on a ship. Do not have an attitude you would be commiting suicide. Do not complain. You are no longer given rights.

]]> By: Natalie http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-640 Natalie Sat, 16 May 2009 16:58:48 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-640 Well as a girlfriend of a USMC Lcpl for 4 yrs I must say I've heard some stories about boot camp that makes me wonder why he went BUT I think the best way to mentally prepare is to be ready to take ALOT of direction and to be treated like crap. Also my boyfriend always said how much the letters he received in boot camp and training helped him get through it so make sure you have ALOT of support. I realize you might not take my answer as serious because I'm just a girlfriend and I wasn't the one physically there but I figured I'd give some insight anyway. Good luck and be safe. Well as a girlfriend of a USMC Lcpl for 4 yrs I must say I’ve heard some stories about boot camp that makes me wonder why he went BUT I think the best way to mentally prepare is to be ready to take ALOT of direction and to be treated like crap. Also my boyfriend always said how much the letters he received in boot camp and training helped him get through it so make sure you have ALOT of support. I realize you might not take my answer as serious because I’m just a girlfriend and I wasn’t the one physically there but I figured I’d give some insight anyway. Good luck and be safe.

]]> By: reconciled one http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-639 reconciled one Fri, 15 May 2009 14:07:51 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-639 Mind over matter! You tell yourself you can make it and don't listen to your weak inclinations to drop out. Pain is weakness leaving the body. Don't take it personal, your DI doesn't hate you. He's got a job to do and he's good at it. He's playing a role and he's been there where you're headed. Beneath it all he's a regular joe. Semper Fi and thanks for serving. Mind over matter! You tell yourself you can make it and don’t listen to your weak inclinations to drop out. Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Don’t take it personal, your DI doesn’t hate you. He’s got a job to do and he’s good at it. He’s playing a role and he’s been there where you’re headed. Beneath it all he’s a regular joe.

Semper Fi and thanks for serving.

]]> By: krazzee_aj http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-638 krazzee_aj Thu, 14 May 2009 23:19:19 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-638 Full Metal Jacket is the last thing you should watch... before I went to USMC boot camp in Parris Island I prepared my mind by realizing that no matter what I had to make it through... I expected to be yelled at and called names... I expected to not get any sleep... but I put in my head that nothing was gonna get in the way of me becoming a Marine Full Metal Jacket is the last thing you should watch… before I went to USMC boot camp in Parris Island I prepared my mind by realizing that no matter what I had to make it through… I expected to be yelled at and called names… I expected to not get any sleep… but I put in my head that nothing was gonna get in the way of me becoming a Marine

]]> By: jilliebean3590 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-637 jilliebean3590 Thu, 14 May 2009 05:59:53 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-637 You really can't mentally prepare for it! Its nothing like you think when you get there everything you ever thought you knew about boot when you get there goes out the window! Its a GREAT experience!!! You'll hate it when you're there but when you're done and graduate you realize what a huge honor it is! just be ready to get yelled at ALOT and be ready for the drills....bed drills, water drills, sweat drills, shaving drills for the guys! sooooo many different things! Don't stick out! Try to blend in! You really can’t mentally prepare for it! Its nothing like you think when you get there everything you ever thought you knew about boot when you get there goes out the window! Its a GREAT experience!!! You’ll hate it when you’re there but when you’re done and graduate you realize what a huge honor it is! just be ready to get yelled at ALOT and be ready for the drills….bed drills, water drills, sweat drills, shaving drills for the guys! sooooo many different things! Don’t stick out! Try to blend in!

]]> By: Ace http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-636 Ace Sun, 10 May 2009 19:20:21 +0000 http://www.makingmarines.com/bootcampblog/how-to-prepare-your-mind-for-usmc-boot-camp/#comment-636 Should have went in the Air Force..... Should have went in the Air Force…..

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