Message to Wife in Bootcamp
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Good luck, hang tough and it will be over be for you know it. 
Thank you for your sacrafice and your family's sacrafice.
Thank you for your sacrafice and your family's sacrafice.
I want to thank you for your exercise of citizenship and expressing that responsibility in service to our great country. I have mixed feelings about our government but never about those perserving my freedom through the armed services. God Speed, Marine!
I suspect about now you are wondering, "what the hell did I get myself into? The Drill Instructors yell at me all the time, it's hot, I am running my tail off at 3 AM doing PT carrying my rifle in the sand pit and NOBODY CARES"...did I get it about right?
Ok, just to keep things in perspective:
1. If it were easy, it would be nothing to be proud of.
2. It's a game, a mental game, to see if you can handle stress. Roll with it.
3. Never volunteer for anything ('nametag defilade'); just like in 'Forrest Gump' when the Drill Sergeant asks: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army? Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant!
4. You are about to find out more about yourself in the next 10 weeks than you've found out in the last 10 years. You may not like it now, but you'll remember the experience for a lifetime.
5. When they tell you that you are now a Marine, and no matter what you do the rest of your life, you'll always be a Marine, they aren't kidding.
6. Semper Fi!
Play the game and stay Frosty.
Ok, just to keep things in perspective:
1. If it were easy, it would be nothing to be proud of.
2. It's a game, a mental game, to see if you can handle stress. Roll with it.
3. Never volunteer for anything ('nametag defilade'); just like in 'Forrest Gump' when the Drill Sergeant asks: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army? Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant!
4. You are about to find out more about yourself in the next 10 weeks than you've found out in the last 10 years. You may not like it now, but you'll remember the experience for a lifetime.
5. When they tell you that you are now a Marine, and no matter what you do the rest of your life, you'll always be a Marine, they aren't kidding.
6. Semper Fi!
Play the game and stay Frosty.
HT_USMC
Registered
Thank you for your service! Thank you to your family for supporting you in your decision and allowing for the sacrifice you are all making!
It's a special few that take the challenge of becoming a Marine. Even fewer are those without a Y chromosome who accept that challenge. Remain trainable but carry that pride with you every day.
Enjoy your new vocabulary
Stay clear of the pogybait, top off your waterbull, live from field day to field day, remain squared away, remember you're always good to go, keep your go fasters clean and your skivvies cleaner, stand and sleep in the POA, getting bent is good for you, and above all else wake up highly motivated each & every morning.
Semper Fi (soon to be) Devil Dog - We're already proud of you!
It's a special few that take the challenge of becoming a Marine. Even fewer are those without a Y chromosome who accept that challenge. Remain trainable but carry that pride with you every day.
Enjoy your new vocabulary
Stay clear of the pogybait, top off your waterbull, live from field day to field day, remain squared away, remember you're always good to go, keep your go fasters clean and your skivvies cleaner, stand and sleep in the POA, getting bent is good for you, and above all else wake up highly motivated each & every morning.
Semper Fi (soon to be) Devil Dog - We're already proud of you!
Thank you very much and Semper Fi
Proud_Mama
Registered
Hi! This is Leigh's Mom. Thank you for the support you've shown here for our daughter in Boot Camp. We miss her so much, but we know she's OK there. Keven has printed the postings and we've got them in the mail to her.
TruWrecks
Banned
Thank you. My thoughts are with you.
Yes, boot camp is hard physical work. The rest is just a head game. Don't let it become personal. The DS has no idea who you are. It's their jobs to break people down, then try to build confidence in them. Think like a leader, and act like a soldier. You will be fine.
Yes, boot camp is hard physical work. The rest is just a head game. Don't let it become personal. The DS has no idea who you are. It's their jobs to break people down, then try to build confidence in them. Think like a leader, and act like a soldier. You will be fine.
coreywiley
Registered
The hard part is over. Which is just getting use to all the hurry up and wait. Atleast that was the hard part for me. Just keep ur head up and remember that we all are proud of you.
SEMPER FI
SEMPER FI
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