When do you found out your USMC boot camp address?

October 27th, 2008 | by MakingMarines |
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Roxye asked:


When do you found out your address when you are in USMC boot camp and can start sending letters?

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  1. 5 Responses to “When do you found out your USMC boot camp address?”

  2. By NAZGUL on Oct 30, 2008 | Reply

    Find out in BOOT.

    When you / everyone earns the privilege to write letters

    They (the military) use to make you call home to tell family you made it to Boot / Basic sometime in the first couple of days, I have heard that has changed some.

    Vet-USAF / Basic 1979 Aug - Sept.

  3. By darwin on Oct 31, 2008 | Reply

    Upon arrival.

  4. By lestermount on Nov 3, 2008 | Reply

    The night you arrive they will give you stationary, and stamps.
    You will then send a letter home saying you have arrived and are well.
    Then you will have the mailing address for your training platoon.

  5. By Vivi T on Nov 5, 2008 | Reply

    everyones posts arent exactly true. they take at least a week to put all the guys in their platoons and do all that stuff. they may know the address, but its the platoon # and company that they have to wait on. yea they get a post card and a phone call but they dont get to talk in the call and my bf actually never got the post card. he sent me letters wtih his return address after 2 weeks

  6. By Matthew H on Nov 6, 2008 | Reply

    About 3-4 days after arriving at boot camp. Read on if you want more detailed information.

    When you arrive at boot camp, you are given a 1-2 minute phone call. I remember mine very clearly, like it was yesterday (it was 6 years ago). My dad answered the phone, and I had enough time to tell him that I had arrived safely, that I was being treated fairly, and that was about it.
    Recruits spend 1-2 days in a receiving platoon…getting their issued gear, learning some basics, filling out ALL the paperwork, and what not. Then you will be placed into your regular platoon. At that point, at least when I went through boot camp, we wrote a letter home that had our address included in it (I think it was a postcard actually). It was a “canned” letter (the Drill Instructors told us what to write). I think that letter also had some information in it about when we would be graduating and how to get information about our graduation that would be taking place 13 weeks later. So figure one to two weeks for your boot camp address to make it back to the people at home.

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