I was a total screwup in boot. Or at least I was made to feel like a total screw up. Got a first class on all my pfts and I’m good at school so I was good on the tests but I was always getting in trouble for fidgeting or being disrespectful or being bad at drill. I was slow changing into uniforms and bad at folding clothes. Everyone, other recruits included were telling me to drop out and calling me gay and autistic. Got a lot of negative paperwork but I graduated on time.
This was several years ago but it still kinda haunts me. I haven’t had any issues out in the fleet with my performance and am planning on staying in until I’m kicked out. Anyone have a similar story?
>boot / basic training regrets and stories
Anon i mean this in the nicest way possible and I'm sure you already know this:
None of that matters and no one cares. Don't let it bother you
I had to do basic twice because i fricked up my leg, and i remember thinking it was the biggest deal in the world. Now 4 years later and 2 contracts in, I've completely forgotten about it until i saw your thread.
nobody feels good about themselves during boot camp.
more like booty camp, know what I'm saying folks haha
my thoughts exactly.
In english, doc?
Dude everyone has a period in their life when they’re an utter failure. Take solace that for you it is your past and not your present. You’re doing good anon, keep those memories close because they’ll be a teaching aide for others in the future.
Any situation where the reality of the situation is only a check in the box, and youre a number totally comes down to luck.I got cross decked, and dropped for no good reason. After that boot camp was easy, and a total blur. I cant remember it too much. You must have been doing nothing to still be affected by boot camp.
Yeah I was that guy in bootcamp too.
It was during a super high stress time when you were away from 100% of your support group so it's not even your fault.
Most of all: it does not matter
🙁
>Everyone, other recruits included were telling me to drop out and calling me gay and autistic. Got a lot of negative paperwork but I graduated on time.
>This was several years ago but it still kinda haunts me. I haven’t had any issues out in the fleet with my performance and am planning on staying in until I’m kicked out.
If it helps anon, I am a company-grade officer and the older I get the more I am continually shocked at how much high-school-esque bullshit "bullying" and general clique nonsense continues well into adulthood.
Actually boggles my mind, especially in a career where my enemies are literally wearing different uniforms, we are all on the same team in a very literal sense, and we've all pledged to fight, kill, and even die for one another.
My only consolation for you is that if you do a good job (sounds like you do), mean well, and genuinely care about your mission, your peers, and especially the people under you that you will accrue good friends and a positive reputation. Good luck.
So I shouldn’t feel bad?
No boot doesn't matter if you are doing your job well now. Do superiors and colleagues greet you when you enter the room and happily chat with you? Offery ou coffees and snacks when they are getting them?
If so, then your probably doing alright.
bullying is used to get compliance. this isnt high school grade shit, this is a peer group trying to shape sn autistic homosexual into a man. this also helps the group from getting smoked by DI on the reg cuz everyone pays for one mans mistake.
I would have treated you the same way OP, if you deserved it cuz you couldn't fall in line, then you deserved it.
What branch are you in?
>If it helps anon, I am a company-grade officer and the older I get the more I am continually shocked at how much high-school-esque bullshit "bullying" and general clique nonsense continues well into adulthood.
This. The military is a very good example of this kind of shit.
"Several years ago"
Your story does not add up
Nah it’s real
Ur a little pussy b***h. A lot of ppl are. Deal with it
I am this anon btw and coming back to say I'm trans. Trans rights!
Also you are gay
You ain't getting no bunker bunnies like that homie.
Dat ass.
So? Frick 'em. You passed.
It could be worse.
YOU COULD BE ME.
I'm enlisting at 27. My joke of a family fricked me over at every turn. My whole fricking life has consisted of gaslighting at the hands of either of my bipolar parents. At 27, I am where I was supposed to be at 18. Except I'm afraid of people.
They wrote me off, and were still shocked when I came up short. Frick 'em. FRICK 'EM!
YOU'RE NOT ME, SO YOU'RE DOING FINE.
Godspeed anon
I'm 27 and in AIT right now, theres tons of people around our age, it's not strange or abnormal in the least
'Ya made it' now get on with it and do your duty.
Hey OP I'm not American but I did a short stint in my own army as an instructor in basic. 99% of the time the complete frickups in basic turn out to be complete and utter bags of shit in their units.
I guarantee if I turned up in your barracks room and demanded that you produce every item on your packing list for the field you wouldn't be able to do it. You'd stutter and blubber about not being ready and you'd still turn up on the day missing your multitool, compass, notebook and pen.
I guarantee if I gave you a weapon you'd leave it somewhere to go to the bathroom, and if I gave you live rounds you'd ND. On the range you wouldn't know how to zero your own weapon and you'd miss and fail every shoot.
I guarantee if I demanded you present in your Class As or whatever you call them, that you wouldn't have them ironed to inspection standards and you wouldn't know where you pin any of your shit.
The moron who can't dress himself or pass a room inspection is the same moron who needs to be consistently told to keep his head down, the same moron who can't patrol his arc and the same moron who doesn't see a pressure plate and detonates an IED under his own section killing everybody.
You're a terminal frickup and a worthless excuse for a soldier. You only achieved the absolute minimum standard after weeks and months on constant babysitting when normal human beings adapted quickly. I hope you count your lucky stars that I wasn't in charge of you because I would've bullied you until you killed yourself and if you somehow made it through just know I used to send emails to the COC of my frickups to warn them of the morons they were about to receive.
Frick you.
So you’re in the Russian military?
Not him, but I was an absolute failure in russki army, and this shit still haunts me to this day. At least the fact they shat themselves on the invasion kinda made me feel better.
Jesus fricking Christ go grab your pills homie
You sound like a future veteran suicide statistic.
Since you are so anal-retentive, you should ask your bf to use less lube next time you take it up the ass.
>You sound like a future veteran suicide statistic.
110%, vet suicides are usually the fault of the vet being an over judgemental waste of space. Who knew that being an butthole to your Joes will lead to you being hated and discarded?
seethe harder homosexual, I will always remember you as the b***h who cried because you folded your socks wrong
You won't remember anything after the bullet passes through your brain.
What did your enter key ever do to you?
does anzac day being tomorrow do something that pisses off australians or something
Sounds like your country fricking sucks and everyone you "trained" you failed as a leader. Youre a shitty instructor and never even tried to help those shit bags because you were just so fed up with that duty station. Sounds like all the shit you brought up were things you personally got fricked for because you failed your subordinates.
Frick you.
>t. bag of shit
Everyone remembers who was a frickup in basic training
Projecting hard there, buddy
Hold still while I Ice Beam you.
>I'm not American
Opinion discarded
"You! You 'orrible little man. Why aren't your garters ironed?"
The quality of your soldiers is reflected upon in leadership. Imagine whinging this much instead of helping them fix the problem. What am I saying, YOU are the problem.
>I’m not American
Stopped reading after that
Yeah sounds like real line unit shenanigans
Hopefully basic irons out people who can't do basic tasks but you're a hack if you think leadership is checking if a lived in room has dust on the floor
None of what you stated included how you'll train your own Joe's to be lethal killers in a cohesive unit
If you had frickups by the end of the cycle YOU FAILED THEM. They should have been forced to quit or mentored to perfection and even you couldn't do that, and at the end of the day, folding clothes and passing inspection is good for attention to detail, but not once did you mention anything related to battle drills, and sharpening the hunter killer mindset
If someone is a frick up, I'd mentor them to standard and hold them to it, and focus on being a well rehearsed combat ready unit who knows their shit. I'd haze the FRICK out of them for wasting my time if they did get on the radar for stupid shit
Frick you and frick any dogshit SNCO who's only real method of leadership is seeing if a grown man swept his floor and shaved.
Go FRICK yourself homosexual
That is one fine brapper
Sounds like you got adhd
You probably do really well if constantly stimulated by things that would stress others and hyper focus on things that makes you better than peers
I’ll take my chances in the nightmares to come over falling in line for the benefit of strangers.
>Good at pfts
>good at school
When human begings see someone perform well, they instinctively want to sabatoge them since they are a threat. This isnt just a military thing, you will see this in every job. Those things you mentioned were nitpicks that ultimately do not matter. The goal of these nitpicks is to humuliate you and reduce confidence in yourself. Frick those people.
>When human begings see someone perform well, they instinctively want to sabatoge them since they are a threat.
lol no
human beings elevates those kind of people and want to emulate them and improve themselves
you are describing subhumans with brown admixture
You're in for a hard lesson. People will treat you lesser just for the sake that they can. Big fish, little pond.
>anon has never succeeded enough to be hated
You may learn, you may not.
50/50 type of thing. In the military/law enforcement, it's more common since it attracts insecure men. Outside of that, I've been surprised how many people are genuinely happy to see I'm doing well.
Not saying you need to switch careers or anything, but buttholes are a lot less common outside the military.
so anon maybe you need to realize this, some people like to frick with other people for fun. There isn't any bigger meaning or life lesson to be learned. There isn't a culture of "good natured ribbing or banter". They want to frick with you and make jokes at your expense. Being a drill instructor lets them do that and not get in trouble for it.
>mfw smuggled so much contraband into infantry OSUT I made the Puerto Rican NG members look like amateurs
How loose was your pooper after that?
I used the camelback
Boot camp is a mental exercise. Once done, no one cares about your folded clothes. You have performance reviews and that's what counts. Basic training is one filter of recruits; it's a milestone (you seem to have crossed). Plenty of others like you have fine careers. I did starting in 1983. No one will take Veteran away from you, unless you betray your oaths. Don't. Serve well and thanks. Boot is something you can put behind you in tech school. Next milestone. Then first assignment. Next Milestone. Ad nauseam.
One last thing...many a shiny boot was paid for. Money can hire someone to fold your clothes if you still feel the need to sleep in a bunk with everything in a chest. Accept it was a mind-fug and live in the tasks set today. Talk to any Chaplin, he can give confidential counseling if you're still losing sleep.
Left-Right, Left-Right, c'mon drill hasn't been part of warfare since really the Romans. Leave Honor Guards continuing the pomp and circumstances.
How can you not pop a boner in this situation?
be sleep deprived and stressed
Nobody gives a single frick about boot camp after you graduate
If this still sticks with you other than a passing cringe memory, you might actually be autistic. What's you MOS/rating?
6314
I'm a neverserved, but isn't boot where homosexuals who scored a 20 on their asvab can flex on people who scored in the 90s? Who gives a shit if they tuck their sheets better than you?
Correct, and that's funny. I was a frickup recruit. Not dumb, got a 94 asvab, just had a lot of culture shock and growing up quick to do(dad was a navy pilot).
Ended up a 0351, had a great time with the boys in the fleet. Shame about the dicksucker leadership.
why does that drill sgt have a woman's ass?
Don't get why the Mexican marine force does all that screeching
It's not like they are conscripts they volunteered to be there so theres no reason for all the screaming
tradition that's slowly being phased out. in the more corporate branches like the USAF and USSF there's really no yelling at all
I'm not military, but I reckon it matters about as much as your social status in high school.
So quite a bit? Social media lets that stick with you.
Wasn't just in your same boat but going through it right now. I was the fricking moron most my platoon despised, and even a lot of the company has heard of, such was the legend of my moronation.
Despite even that shit I never got dropped, cloning by mostly because all the shit I got from other recruits and my instructors was nothing compared to having to spend more time at boot camp.
I've got out and spent the last 3 months doing RA and rotting in MAT since ITB is backed the frick up, and in so low stress environment I've done fine for myself, but I pick up in a week, and I'm so genuinely afraid that it's gonna be the same shit again. I never really got close to competent during boot camp, not even during Marine Week. I didn't change. I'm afraid I can't, afraid that I'm just gonna suffer till the "luck" that let me off the Island with an EGA runs the frick out.
I'm a neurotic low self esteem indecisive butthole, and I'm really hoping I can get my shit together to just do this shit and keep going, that maybe this time will be different, but I just expect nothing.
So good on you for doing better Anon, boot camp literally doesn't fricking matter for you since you,be proven yourself to be a good soldier-sailor-marine-whatever the frick, and knowing that you made it is comforting to me.
IDK if you're infantry or not, but if you ever had experience being taught infantry shit, how'd that go for you?
Those dreams about being back in school and unprepared get replaced by being back in boot/basic.
>female
How do you refrain from laughing in her face?
By not being an incel tryhard tough guy and respect the rank, not the person
>respect the rank, not the person
Private Vega is cute, CUTE!
Kielbasa with refried beans, it'll be central Texas 2.0 in front of russia
Those two women are both legally midgets when compared to the Polish soldiers.
>By not being an incel tryhard tough guy and respect the rank, not the person
>in fact laughing will be last thing on your mind. But go ahead laugh.
NTA, but these instructors are my inferiors in every way imaginable. Why would I ever take them seriously?
After a few days of focused attention, you will be more concerned about holding back your tears than holding back your laughing, in fact laughing will be last thing on your mind. But go ahead laugh.
Is it posible to go on a field exercises and maybe get her drunk and fug her? With consent and respect She is a woman
I was more or less a ghost recruit but ocassionally I'd frick up and the others would gang up on me to make me feel like an idiot. My senior drill instructor once told us that you can be a shitty recruit but a great Marine. Literally none of that shit matters. As long as you know how to shoot well, pass your pft and know your MOS you'll make it.
boot is more for ego breaking than anything else
ego will get you hated and eventually it will lead to your or even your comrade's deaths
once you're broken and made to know that you're a piece of shit you can begin to improve
if you don't think you don't need it, that only means you need it more than anyone else
they need to know that you'll pass the absolute bottom line, which you'll back work up to after you're ground into the dirt
if you're actually better than the bottom line that's fine, you'll go on and do good things
>Ego breaking
>Produces some of the wieneriest frickers you'll ever meet on the street
????
That's literally the point of boot camp OP.
Anon, no one feels good at basic. Thats part of the intent of it. The good news is none of that matters now. You gotta learn to set that aside and just do your best, otherwise youre holding yourself back
Still haunts me too. Even more so during squad leader training. I once got my entire platoon of candidates in a sea of shit because I fricked up a simple packing order. Once through with it, I'm doing fine though.
>Got a lot of negative paperwork but I graduated on time.
They do paperwork in bootcamp? Did your DIs sit you down for a counseling? The frick?
If you passed on-schedule who cares?
If it makes you feel any better I nearly got recycled for being incompetent in the easiest boot camp of all the branches (air force). Made it through in the end.
I'm 42 years old. Put in eight years. I STILL can't fricking fold clothes well and struggle to get all the shit hanging off my class a uni to look good. I always either failed the sit up portion of the PT test, or just barely passed.
Meanwhile, I was always among the highest scoring in weapons qual, the 2-mile run, and the push-ups.
It's whatever. But I do hate that the situps kept me from getting a PT patch. I just can't fricking do them. I wonder if it has something to do with having a huge head.
Some kid put icey hot in some other kids camelpack. Fun times
>GET YOUR BED SQUARED AWAY PUTA
Could be worse, I washed out of Navy basic because I didn't train beforehand and failed my run both times. Passed situps and pushups both times, but I just can't run to save my life (literally).
I consider it a bit of a blessing, I enlisted in a 6 year contract as a nuke, and didn't know at the time what a mistake I made. I since got my A&P and pursue my real passion, which is aviation.
I mean, I'm slightly autistic and bad at fitness related tasks, but I know my job better than most other soldiers. They might call me a skinny autist or something, but it's always me they come to when something breaks. I get more cool assignments than they do because of it, and it's helped my career even though I have a bad PT score.
That’s exactly how I am. Just worried for the day I get to a new command and they’re like “oh, he cried in front of the whole company”. Even if I outrank them
I mean if you do weird shit you just have to own it. Everyone knows I'm pretty weird, but I own it and don't really care if they say anything. It ends up making them forget about the weird shit, and everyone's like "oh that's SPC so-and-so, he's pretty normal."
also, i should add, you have to be good at something else for this to work too. If you're just bad at everything, you're obviously going to be ostracized.
God I fricking hate mutts so much it's unreal
I'm glad your fake disgusting corn syrup shithole is now a third world latin shithole
<3
Rent freely yours,
-U.S.A.
I was slow as well, but I guess I just blended in better and laid low. Thankfully the negative paperwork doesn't follow you to the fleet. Recruits in general work like a hivemind so if they see one recruit getting fricked with they'll follow and frick with that recruit as well. Nothing personal man, I've had recruits who I thought would make terrible Marines and would go on to do nothing. I saw recently he got promoted, and I congratulated him, I don't think any beef from bootcamp really follows.
Be frank with me /k/
>27 years old
>in good shape
>about to go into the marines
>everyone in my depper program is fresh out of highschool or early 20s 23 is the second oldest behind me
How do I cope with trying to keep up with kids almost a decade younger than me
dont cope, just act better than them because young marines are moronic.
>act better than them
>not trying to stick out or show up on kids just wanna make it through get my Mos do my duty
Sometimes it makes me believe the marine stereotype of crayon eaters
I got to chat with most everyone in the program they all scored around 45 on the asvab
>scored an 82 on my asvab
>next closest in my program is a 52
What the actual frick it's not even hard
you will inevitably meet a lot of stupid marines, but you will meet smart marines as well. if i may ask what are your top 3 picks for your mos?
Right now? Mp, Airtraffic controller and armorer/quartermaster
I went in thinking that cook would be cool since cooking has always been my passion but when I went to meps a fellow recruit talked me out of it
>tfw I love cooking and thought I'd be cooking fresh product or something similar to civilian cooking
>tfw it's not
also man you're going to have so many moments throughout your contract where you will think to yourself "i can come up with better solutions than our battalion commander." or "i can be a better leader than my nco's" things will get stupid, your time will be wasted (most of you contract is honestly just standing by waiting for what to do next) your recruiter may have told you things get better / easier this is a blatant lie. although im sure you weren't expecting things to be sunshine and lollipops
yeah man don't do mp because they get fricked and usually work gate guard which is 3 days on 3 days off with just a ton of bs, airtraffic controller i've heard is a pretty good gig but you will have to be a 5 year contract instead of a 4 year you will more than likely work extremely long hours and the airwing isn't the nicest to fresh boots. armorer is probably the second best out of your picks simply because it's an easy job and most armorers are very cool.
I went In knowing full well the recruiter is a used car salesman
>he made me sign a document stating he can't lie or overpromise me anything
>tfw they had to make this policy because of recruiters
Honestly I wanna get into policing when my contract is done long hours and hard work is something I love MP I feel would set me up for civilian policing and instill solid disciplines into me beyond that which is giving at basic
>armorer
I love working on things and making shit tip top shape, I've always heard they are closer to the bottom rung but I genuinely don't believe that I would work on most weapons and armaments for service members so how could they be near bottom
>airtraffic
It sounds easy but I hate having to sit and be idle I like doing something and being actively involved in the goings on of daily life being out and walking
yeah man, you can still do police work when your contract is over. the closer you get to your end of active service date (which is 4 or 5 years from your ship date to bootcamp) you can get on a program called skillbridge where you go train to do basically anything to include police academy and stuff, my friend went on skillbridge to police academy and he said that it was a fantastic experience and got job offers from a police department near where he was planning on moving once he got out, so you can still eat your cake and have it too. just know that it's a long way out and your skillbridge package may get denied for any reason (this is rare for marines who have never had any disciplinary action whatsoever it only really happens to marines who have a track record of being shitbags).
I didn't know about skillbridge! Thank you sir for letting me know.
I asked my recruiter about how well the transition is from military life to civilian and all he said was "everyone wants to hire marines when they get out don't worry about that focus on the now"
I get focusing on what I have on my plate in front of me but I know my ship off date I know I won't wash out I just want to plan a future
you don't have to call me sir, i'm a young dumb marine, and it's always helpful to know as much as you can. my advice that will make your overall experience better is this. lay low and let your work speak for itself, this goes for your physical activity as well as your job. don't let the marine corps get to you, there will be times where you will be so frustrated with the way things are going because of one reason or another, but because of your age i assume that won't be a problem. just remember customs and courtesies to your staff ncos and your officers, as long as you give the proper greeting and address people by their rank and stuff when you're talking to them they get a boner for it and will tend to like you more. take advantage of opportunities to include, training, job related stuff, just anything to fill your time and make you feel like a better marine. just don't let bad experiences break your view of the marine corps because it's really not that bad. also don't forget to enjoy your time with your bros because when they leave (which they inevitably will) you'll miss the time you spent with them.
It's just me being respectful I don't mean anything by it sir
I planned on trying to take some courses a few veterans told me about
Gun safety, weapon certification, self defense and marital art classes to better my body and mind
I don't think I'll have any problems with the droll of everyday life in military I understand that things need to run a certain way to operate like a well oiled machine
Try your best to follow orders and maintain order where you go
What is your Mos if you don't mind me asking sir?
Either autism or excellent bait
I'm not baiting at all. Why does every instance of anons respecting each other have to be bait.
It's autism sir I'm sorry for my tism sir i will try my best to hide it during basic sir
do not redeem saar
Oh god. No way you would have survived bootcamp 20 years ago.
probably less than 1 % of marines that are active duty right now couldn't survive bootcamp 20 years ago. but the year isn't 2003 gramps.
feeling haunted or cringey about your frick ups is a sign that you care. As long as you weren't;
>unapologetically disrespectful. Usually the 'hurr durr I'm from (enter shit ghetto city here)' types
>wannabe tough guy/bay bully
>an utterly disgusting, gypsy camp living, unsanitary, foul human being
>a weak willed, and pathetic 'wahhh but I joined to be a (POG MOS goes here), why do I have to sleep outside/ruck march/qualify with a weapon etc.
For as long as I've been in these people do not usually last long, or they'll get a huge wake up and really turn it around. However, when it came to the females everything I stated above was cranked up x1000 and everyone, ESPECIALLY the female drills hated them lmao
Yea, boot camp is kinda stressful and even failing the little things makes you feel like a complete butthole. Don't stress over it, everyone was a newdick once.
>Or at least I was made to feel like a total screw up.
I'm not in the military and never have been but I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of boot camp. You're clearly motivated and doing well so I guess the drill instructors were right and did a good job at training you. As unhealthy as it sounds, making someone feel like a failure is a good way to make them prove themselves and really flourish into a great person. Keep your head up m8
It's just Marines OP.
I am surprised by the number Marines who get emotional easily, start gossiping about so and so, and did ya hear bullshit.
Not saying all Marines are like this, but that few and the proud bullshit gets eaten up by the scum of the earth, I hate women, single mom frickers
as a Green Beret myself, we know and appreciate our Marines cannon fodder.
if you aren't in specops it doesn't matter what boot was like for you
I liked that one story of that guy who didnt get into any mos after bootcamp cos of some clerical error, so he just pretended to do tasks in the barracks for 2 years. He would just walk around cleaning showers walking everywhere eventually he got caught in the showers forgot what happened to after that lol
Also like the story of the guy who went to bootcamp his drill was a hard on him, he would tell him he would mount to nothing. Eventually the guy ended hp going to spec ops and getting into a high tank and eventually saved this guys life it turned out the guy was hid old drill and he was below his rank lol
Anyone meet there drill sgt or instructors out side of the military how was it like?
You will not remember any of this boot camp horseshit when you are in New Britain, like your Great Grandfather was, only this time you'll be fighting to retake the Solomons from the Chicoms.
Good fricking luck. Don't wear cheap cologne. The PLA will probably be able to smell it from a mile away.
Oh, and they probably had a similar boot experience to yours. Probably much worse; their boots get beaten by their noncoms for lack of performance.
Happy Trails! Enjoy "The Pacific, Part Deux".