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The biggest thing is... the Drill Instructors in your face and sometimes all 3 Drill Instructors at one time. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant who served 1973-1977.

I leave this week too homie

@Tyler Crowell good luck. Are you going to Parris Island or San Diego? I went to Parris Island. After boot camp, you will feel pride of being a Marine, and the pride stays with you for life..... and I'm almost 68 yrs old. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant

@@usmc-veteran73-77 I’m going to MCRD San Diego leave Sunday, March 19th. Thank you for your advice and thank you for your service mister.

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great advice

It was a pleasure. Thank you for putting out good honest content💯. Rah

Goddamn mat platoon, YAT YAS

Ayo is it really that bad man?

@@Jackson-zs1ih it’s only bad if you make it bad. Do what your told and stay squared away and do your job and you will be fine

That's you at 12:30!!!

You got this!

good luck

It was a pleasure to be able to react and add on to your point of view. Thanks for not being afraid to speak up

Actually “Corps”.

Embrace the suck or go outside and kick rocks. This is what we join for. Oorah!

facts bro

What are the bad changes and the good? Swearing in next week 😁!

Same

Facts I would put my time into working out since we got all this free time to just fuck around I guess

I think you get smoked pretty often so I doubt you'd be that bored lol

you can't just go to a range. Your unit has to set up range time because range time costs money and there are many different types of ranges. These guys arent in the fleet so you're not really getting the best look at what life is like IMO. Also these guys likely already did PT in the morning or something. Sure they can (and probably do) bang out some more push ups and pull ups but lemme know if you can workout all day everyday without stopping lol

Also free time varies. Different MOSs spend more or less time training which can really make things like online schooling not an equal experience. You COULD do it, but its not going to be the same level of commitment to get it done from like an S1 pov vs an 03xx

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Good luck

@@TrelltheGreat thank you man. It means a lot to hear that from you, your videos inspired me.

Any update on how you're doing now?

Glad it was

great point

Hi. I’m going as a musician as well, can I contact you for some questions?

@@reymanceratv5925 sure i actually joined the army reserves for music but its a very similar process

good luck

Stay strong. In the mind specifically. The first two weeks are gonna suck cause you’re not use to the environment and process they have in place for you. Once you get used to everything shit starts to fall in place and usually feels easier depending on if your DIs decide to cutback as you progress based on your platoons over all performance. And your individual performance. Remember be fast be loud and keep the intensity.

If you're going to Parris Island, it's very hot and HUMID, in May, June, July. If you're going to San Diego, the weather is a lot better. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant . BTW I went to Parris Island.

good luck man, i ship out next month, april 17 mcrdsd

@@usmc-veteran73-77how’s the weather in Paris Island during August, September and October?

Glad to be back💯

that sucks smh

The Marine Corps has always been that way, where 90% of Marines decide not to reenlist. But that’s OK. Imagine if even 50% of Marines re-enlisted, and continued to do so? Very soon you’d have a Corps full of E-2s, and E-3s in their 30’s, and no longer able to jump out of a chopper 15 feet above the ground, hit the beach, or even sleep on rocks and still be able to hump all day the next day. The Corps would hardly be a combat ready organization in such a case. I served as an enlisted Marine in ‘Nam. We did not have any field days, junk on the bunk inspections, wall locker inspections, or uniform inspections, nor did we have haircut inspections, but I can assure you that every bit of that and more was taking place in the Corps back in the States, which was one reason why so many guys extended their tours over there for 6 or 13 more months. On a new subject, there is another way to look at the whole situation. . . What if you were to make Staff Sergeant by the time your enlistment is up, meaning that all you did was supervise, no more inspections, no more labor of any type. . . How might you feel about remaining in the Corps then, and retiring at the age of 32? The reason I asked is because this happened to one of my boot camp buddies. Before we left for ‘Nam he said that he would never stay in the Corps. When we left we were PFCs, 13 months later, when we came home he was a Staff Sergeant, and ended up retiring as a Sergeant Major (E-9), with all the benefits for life for both he and his family. I went another way. I became an officer, and retired as a Major. Some guys are willing to suffer for a few years, so that they can more or less relax for the next 20 or 25 years, and then get those priceless retirement benefits for the rest of their life.

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great point to bring up

Yeah I heard that a lot by my Ssgts and Gsgts

@@TrelltheGreat I would tell today's youth who are going to the military to just go and get that Vet status. The chances of them getting deployed and being in the shit is not very high. When we landed in Kuwait City we saw all the branches. Us and some of the army, air force and even Navy went straight to the hot ass 130 degree desert and I didn't see the rear again until we left. It is an experience I'll never forgot. No AC or fans, we ate MRE's 3 times day with the occasional C ration sometimes. We had to burn our own shit. We called it the burning of shitters and it was the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life. It had to be done every day.

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It’s a lot to take in at first but infantry they do a lot of hiking, deployments and field ops your most likely never going to be at the barracks when you hit the fleet because you’ll be so busy all of the time training. Infantry is hard the leadership most of the time are strict and you’d be doing a lot of dumb stuff because that’s just how it is. All MOS’s do dumb shit it’s just you paying dues because your seniors got treated like shit by theirs so they’re going to treat you like shit and you got some good ones who will take care of you but most of them will be strict especially in infantry

you just really need to decide if the Marine Corps is really what you want to do

I tried to be as honest as I could

@@TrelltheGreat kir with you I appreciate that shit I should've listened. Howvever, I graduate with a degree tho so we up on the board fym I got mine back.🤣🤣

Wow! Great! They don’t just make anyone a Corporal in the Marines. I know. I was one. It took me two years but I finally made it, and my whole life changed. One thing was that I no longer had to pull mess duty. Yeah. In those days civilians did not do the grunt mess hall work, like getting up at 0300 every morning, working until 2200, sweeping, mopping, and scrubbing the floors three times daily, scrubbing pots all day long, and still falling behind, working the serving line, peeling potatoes, on and on, and only. Nope, that was all done by E-1, E-2, and E-3 Marines, and it was hell. Once you made Corporal, no more of that. In fact, no grunt labor at all. For instance in ‘Nam, Corporals and above didn’t have to burn the shitters either. I’ve got to tell you that burning the shitters sucked big time, but it had to be done, and unlike the other services, the Marine Corps wasn’t going to hire hundreds of Vietnamese, some of whom were always Viet Cong sympathizers to run all over our camps checking out, and measuring mortar distances between strategic buildings, command posts, ammo dumps, etc. So, burning a shitter consisted of you and another guy removing cut in half 55 gallon drums, which were full of diesel fuel and lots of human shit, and then carrying them 20 yards, while the shit, which floated on top sloshed all over you, then setting it on fire, then filling a new half drum with diesel, then carrying it 20 yards back to replace the first one, then doing it all over again, then all over again, then all over again. Not only were the looks enough to make you puke, but if that didn’t do it, the smell would. Let’s not even talk about when the floating diarrhea sloshed on to your boots, or worse yet, your trousers. Anyway, like I say, no manual labor as a Corporal. I don’t know about now days, but there were a host of other perks when one made Corporal in the Marine Corps, none of which E-4s received in any of the other services. For instance, Corporals slept in a separate section of our open squad bay barracks, which only NCOs and Officers could enter, in single racks (bunks), as opposed to two tier racks. We also got to have our names and ranks painted on the foot of our racks. That may not seem like much to you, but when you are one of only a dozen guys in a barracks of 60 guys to be afforded that privilege, that’s status, believe me. Then there is the privilege of ALWAYS being addressed by your rank by everyone, of a higher and lower rank than you, after years of being addressed by only your last name by everyone. That’s what is called respect! I could go on with the perks of being a Corporal, but you probably get it.

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Same bruh 😭

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Just know if you don't like it. You still get out as a young man with good benefits and good things to put on your resume. Even if it's not your thing and you do 1 enlistment you'll be better off after.

@@NoCommie Thanks for the advice

Reading this, I can say that I am in the same boat as you. I wanted to join earlier this year as well, and the benefits seem good and all, but the thing that gets me most is when people hint to not join by saying things like "Go try something with your career or education first, the Marines will ALWAYS be there for you to join" as well as other negative experiences, honestly pushes me back. The only thing now to deal with is pressure from parents and whatnot..

I am in the exact same position. I’m glad I’m not the only one struggling with this decision.

Same position here

good luck

dang fr

79-80 Iranian Hostage rescue, other then that it was routine chaos daily. Air Wing deployed all the time. L/Cpl with a small salad bar constantly being asked, challenged and having to prove what happened in 4-80. Was glad to get out.

everyone will have their own experience

Join the legion

You sound much like a liberal to me, when you say the our government does not care for you. Compared to what? If you compare our government to utopia, that might be true, but there has never been a utopian government and never will be. If you are comparing our government to every other government in the world, you will find that no other government on the face of the earth cares more for it people than the US. Just look around the world. What do you see shit holes, and cess pools all over Asia, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In the best of these counties, they do not eat three meals a day, and they seldom taste meat. There is no access to doctors if you are not well to do, and hospitals will not let you in the door without cash in hand. If you are sick, you die. There is not access to education unless you are well to do, and there is absolutely no social mobility. You should be saying every day, “Thank you Lord that I wasn’t born in one of those places!!!” John F. Kennedy who was one of our greatest and most beloved Presidents, once said, Ask not what your country can do for you. Instead, as what you can do for your country. My generation (the Baby Boomers, the Vietnam generation), grew up believing in this as our duty. I don’t think that today’s generation has even even heard the word duty, and I mean that literally. When’s the last time you hears someone use the word duty to you? My Marine Corps is no place for liberals who do not love America, and do not believe that they own their country. The Marine Corps has one reason for being, to kill the enemies of the United States of America. Sorry to disappoint you, but the Marine Corps was not created to give you non stop pleasure and good times. That’s just not the purpose of the Marines and never was.

This is just unbelievable! Boot Camp must be very easy today! By the time we graduated from boot camp, we thought of the slightest bit of spare time as a gift from heaven. Any moment that we weren’t in physical pain and fear was paradise! We thought that we were “skating” every moment while in our MOS schools. We had no problem with boredom at all! We just felt grateful for every second of slack we could get. Here I see these guys are acting all ”Salty”, and unmotivated. Hell, they are still shitting Biot Camp chow, and haven’t the slightest idea what the Marine Corps is all about. They have not the slightest right not right to act Salty, be unmotivated,nor dislike the Marine Corps. Three years from now, they may have that right, but not before? What kind of Marines are these? haven’t ear Ned the right to be Salty! Yeah! Boot Camp must be a fun zone today. We were motivated as hell, and proud as hell to be Marines. We knew that we were special, because we had made it through the toughest Boot Camp in the world. We knew that our next stop after our MOS school was ‘Nam (Vietnam). (That’s a country in Southeast Asia where we once fought a brutal war, if you have never heard of it). We were also proud to go to ‘Nam. This is what we joined for, not for some cash bonus, or for a free college education. Of course, it might have been for that huge salary we were getting. Yeah, we were paid $89 a month as privates, and it was good enough for us, because the Marine gave us everything we wanted - a warm roof over our heads, a spotless environment, three square meals a day, brand new clothing to wear, two new sets of boots, a new set of dress shoes, warm shower with no time limits, and a great opportunity to make rank! These guys in this video have absolutely no idea how lucky they are, as they sit there texting away to there families, friends and girl friends at their leisure. They can are in paradise, and have no idea!

@@majorronaldmandell7835s a 20 year old, I can see where you are coming from. My generation is full of crybabies who want the world to know how much pain they go through in their life as if anyone should give a piss. Patriotism is far from dead in us young folk. The endless whining of what some of us think we have the right to do is what's magnified now. All thanks to social media and attention seeking children who want to be perceived as grown.

@@genluard: Thanks! I would love to be 20 again. Boy! How my decisions would change. . . First off I would have married at a much older age, if at all. I would also have chosen not to wait to return to ‘Nam for a second 13 month tour but gone sooner.

Why dont u think the govt doesnt care? You want some personal love from the prez or something. Just cuz you might not like the sitting potus doesnt mean you wont be fighting for the usa. All wars have hypocritical reasons get over it. Join and do recon. If nothing else just getting away from a job you hate might get you on a better path.

Got you

^parris island

sounds like PI

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BIG FACTS

Hazing was called the good training in the Old Corps.

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that sucks

Put your sneaker on Read the 6_ 5 Learn your leader ship traits. Be gunge young boot to soon to get a attitude. I was promoted to sgt 2 yrs how meritorious promotions out of boot pfc line company time and grade to Lance cpl Short time then promoted to cpl then few months sgt never walk fire watch No you Mos a pissed off marine is a dam good one .

good luck

good luck man, i ship out april 17 mcrdsd, what’s ur MOS?

@@derekreynosa459 personnel and administration. A damn office job 😂. I was actually hoping to get combat photography first but my recruiter just wanted me to take my asvab soon so I got a decent score yet that was the only job I got. I do plan on getting into combat photography again but I’ll see where this takes me.

@@edgarrodriguez2764 damn so admin? what score did you get on your ASVAB? i was also thinking of going admin or maybe even combat supply but i still don’t know to be honest, i also have the option of infantry but i have a friend that’s in SOI right now and he told me that it sucks ass lmao and my recruiter was a 0311 too 😭 i lowkey want to go with infantry but idk tbh

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On the other hand, had you made sergeant in those four years, you would be skating form then on, and 16 years from now at the age of perhaps 32 you would be retired before your father retires. As it is, having gotten out, 16 years from now, you will still have 30 more years of work in front of you before you can retire. But, it’s not all lost, you can still join another branch of the service such as the Coast Guard, and accomplish the same thing, or you could switch from the inactive reserve which you are now in, to the active reserve in any service, and still retire with a nice big fat monthly paycheck, and the other benefits. Something to think about. You could also attend college on Uncle Sam’s dime, take ROTC for your junior and senior years, and graduation as a reserve or active officer in any branch of the military! The opportunities are almost endless. In fact, after graduation from college as an officer, the military will send you to any professional course such as Law School, Nursing School, Pharmacist School, etc., etc on their dime, if the school accepts you.

dang fr

You have to follow your heart

@@TrelltheGreat appreciate it ✊🏽

It depends upon how much pride and danger mean to you. The Marine Corps is significantly more dangerous than the Navy, but you will always have a lot more pride in having been a Marine than a Sailor. Veterans of other services often say, “I was in the service”, while Marines always say, “I was in the Marines”. But, then again, all the pride in the world won’t buy you a cup of coffee. It’s a serious question. I joined the Marines at 18 years old, and went to ‘Nam immediately, and not just for six months like today, but for 13 months. Trust me, the first time bullets started flying, pride was the farthest thing from my mind. In fact, I would have given anything to be swabbing a deck in San Diego Harbor. But, now at 74 years old, I take pride in saying that I was young once and a Marine.

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good luck

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I’m not from the US but I can tell you that the subtle indoctrination of Marxist ideology into the vulnerable institutions of the west, has something to do with the “softening” of the younger generations. Needless to say; this has also trickled into the Military institutions. When I was in the US, just training with the Marine corps, I visualised the “progressive” nature of the marine corps, to elaborate: more emphasis on women joining, softening the training, lowering the standards etc. The Marine Corps of your time is long gone! Thanks for your service 👍🏻

not in bootcamp, you don't have a gym. You might have a couple of dumbbells in your squad bay that's it. But nutrition wise, you don't have to worry about that

@@TrelltheGreat I see thanks for the timely reply. I guess a better way to word my question would've been how many months in does it take to have access to the gym?

You're not going to have access to a gym until you hit MOS school or the fleet right after ITB/MCT. I'd say 4 months total. 3 months for boot camp (unless they are still doing the quarantine stuff then it's longer) and 1 month MCT (if you don't get selected to go to ITB). I'm not sure if you can use the gym on base if/when they give you libo in ITB.

@@brianrocks1105 I appreciate it.

It’s certainly not the case in boot camp, because you have no free time, and thus you go nowhere alone, ever. Every minute of your time is managed, and there still isn’t enough time in a day to accomplish all that must be done. I considered a couple of hours on the drill pad, constantly in motion, and being yelled at for the smallest mistake to be relaxing, enjoyment. Of course, then I did not make mistakes on the drill field because I had the sense to learn both close order drill, and the manual of arms to perfection before I left for boot camp. I also learned the eleven general orders by heart, as well as first aid, history of the Marine Corps, assembly and disassembly of the rifle we used, marksmanship, how to make a perfect rack with hospital corners in five minutes, and every other thing required of a Marine to learn before graduation. All one has to do to find out what you will have to know by the end of boot camp is to ask your recruiter. How hard is that? Then at 0300 (3AM) while everyone else is still up in the pitch dark desperately attempting to learn these things before morning, you can be peacefully sleeping away. Does that make sense? Don’t worry about nutrition. Your meals are devised by a nutritionist whose job is to see that each and every meal provides a recruit with the perfect amount of ever possible vitamin, nutrient, for someone undergoing exactly what you are going through. Trust me when I say that the food you are eating will be much more nutritious that what you are presently eaten, or have ever eaten. In face, even you pr own parents will not recognize you on graduation day. No, that’s not just some saying. Your parents will not recognize you on graduation day.

Patty I served 1973-1977, a lot of changes

@@usmc-veteran73-77 yes I was married back in 75 and I just can't get over the Big chain since then and there is a lot of changing

@@usmc-veteran73-77 where were you stationed at

i bet

The Marine Corps was a shithole in the 1970s.

Yeah you'll learn some skills you can take bake into civilian life

My MOS was 3051, Supply Warehouseman. Supply won’t help you much in civilian life unless you go to work for the Federal Government such as on a military base, but it’s a great MOS in terms of the work itself. You work in a nice, clean, cool warehouse, and self ever has to lift anything heavy or sweat. The work is easy, and the time goes by quickly. Also, promotion is good. Just keep your nose clean, offer to do a little bit more than you need to, and make it known that you are interested in learning as much as you can so that you can make rank quickly. Remember, less than half of all Marines have any real interest in making rank, so how are your superiors to know that you are interested in doing so? One other thing. . . There are lots of opportunity in the supply field to steal. Don’t do it! You can’t hide it from a lie detector, and trust me, the Marine Corps will make a Federal case out it.

Remember it’s a mental game, and that it will eventually end you’ll be fine💯

Yo I leave on Monday for basic in Cali 🤙🏻

@@WileyJordan No way haha, what Company and battalion are you?

@@TrelltheGreat yea I know that 😂 I plan to just take everything and go with the flow

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Prioritize your main PFT exercises, run and pull ups mainly. Learn a good little bit of the marine corps. History before you go in.

good luck

oh it's coming trust me

idk

I had 2 deployments, and sometimes yes you just sit around but on deployments you're going to be doing stuff

@@TrelltheGreat thats great to hear, thank you!

Gee! Your school course only lasts for five or six weeks or so, unless your MOS is highly technical, so what’s the big deal? I joined during Vietnam, and boot camp was living hell, every single moment of it. Then all of us, no matter our MOS went through infantry training for another couple of months of humping every day in the boonies. By the time we got to our MOS course, we were so over joyed to be able to just sit down, and do nothing that we could have cried, and would have given anything to stay right there forever doing absolutely nothing. Two months later, we were in ‘Nam and all we could think of was how wonderful, relaxing, safe, and non stressful our MOS course had been. Oh, did I mention SAFE? Bored? Bull crap! What kind of Marine complains about being bored? Believe me, in the Marine Corps you may find yourself on the receiving end of incoming fire at any moment, and you are going to be begging for a little boredom. Semper Fi!

fair point but a lot of people that have been in for a min feel the same way

@@TrelltheGreat trell, honestly speaking, I would not use this video as a reference to what the Marines is all about. This could be very damaging to folks who may want to join. I reviewed a lot of your videos and would see how you react to videos where people would post about the Marines. A lot of what you say is spot on but like I mentioned to you in a video where you talked about why you left the military, you have to be careful about the message/videos you post and the context of posting. Remember, the military is dealing with a different generation of young folks and with that, comes a different reason for wanting to serve. These days this newer generation would join for free money for college where decades before, it was all about service to their country and patriotism. I saw this video and really shook my head because yes, it is a totally different Marine Corps these day. You intrigue me, I think I will watch a little more of your vids when I have time.

@@Tallandlightify I understand what you’re saying. Trell can only give his side and The Marine Corps depends on how you make it and what base you are

I agree everyone’s experience is different it’s a hit and miss in the military you either have a shitty experience or an amazing one. I unfortunately got the shitty experience hence why I got out after 4 but some people I know have had an amazing experience and they’re doing another enlistment. It’s all depends on what unit you get honestly and if they actually give a f about you.

@@Gucciyolo: sorry to hear about your experience. I served from 1995-2002. I told my recruiter straight up what I wanted based on my ASVAB scores. I qualified for pretty much anything I wanted. I worked with Air Traffic Control as an Aviation Ops Specialist. That job allowed me to be with a basic squadron. I think I did a good job choosing that role because it’s a versatile MOS in that I served with the “MAW” as well as the squadron. I met some good people and there people who I wished I never crossed paths with. It’s called growing pains. It all worked out for my good.

I would still join but a different MOS

@@TrelltheGreat what mos?

@@TrelltheGreatyes what mos

I have no idea

they were AAVs

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What mos did you pick y’all be playing video games that don’t sound too bad

good point

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good luck

Not really

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Any one can be Army But to do a tour or Be a lifer marine takes grit. Was proud to serve . And last it's not hotel suites. Train hard it will save your life when the time comes. When u get in the shit u will wish you were not their.

hey

I went to bootcamp with one

yes you can, good luck