430+ days at Parris Island...

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The story/video in embedded below. Short story, Marine recruit had near-devastating injury to shoulder and arm, ended up in boot camp for over a year....

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430 Days

Lance Cpl. Chase Nicholes reflects on his 430-day journey to recovery in order to receive his Eagle, Globe, and Anchor aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (MCRDPI), S.C., Aug. 1, 2020. Nicholes injured his shoulder during recruit training and spent over a year aboard the depot and...
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I had a really smart ass broken crayon eating Marine comment, but I will refrain...this time.

Good on him, wish there were more like him...he demonstrated potential and had the intestinal fortitude to stick it out, and to dodge that entry level medical discharge...but damn, what jumped out at me in the video was the abuse those ACOGs were taking, hell yeah!
 
Long_Hunter said:
I had a really smart ass broken crayon eating Marine comment, but I will refrain...this time.

Good on him, wish there were more like him...he demonstrated potential and had the intestinal fortitude to stick it out, and to dodge that entry level medical discharge...but damn, what jumped out at me in the video was the abuse those ACOGs were taking, hell yeah!
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The gear in the schoolhouses are the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, barely serviceable.

He graduated a lance corporal lol (E3), because of time in service. That's how long he'd been there.
 
Chuckman said:
The gear in the schoolhouses are the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, barely serviceable.
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...but don't they qualify with the same? I doubt they train with one and qualify with another, at least I hope they don't do that, which means the optics have to be fully functional...but crayola culinarians are odd creatures anyways, lol

Its been a long time ago, but the M16A1 I crawled through the mud & sand with at the Harmony Church School for Boys was the same one I had to qualify with...did everything with.
 
Long_Hunter said:
...but don't they qualify with the same? I doubt they train with one and qualify with another, at least I hope they don't do that, which means the optics have to be fully functional...but crayola culinarians are odd creatures anyways, lol

Its been a long time ago, but the M16A1 I crawled through the mud & sand with at the Harmony Church School for Boys was the same one I had to qualify with...did everything with.
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Oh, yeah, it's all functional...just very used and abused, that's all. The rifle they are issued in the beginning, that belongs to them for the duration. Except this dude. I have NO idea what they did with him.
 
I popped a hernia (bulging pretty bad) halfway through basic and i didn't say a word because I did NOT want to be a holdover. Had to go through my entire AIT (13F) with it as well. I had surgery the first week I was at my first duty station. I had to play dumb. I wasn't hard. BTW this all happened in 97.

I feel bad for this kid. Well, not really. Good he toughed it out.
 
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Scrubber3 said:
I popped a hernia (bulging pretty bad) halfway through basic and i didn't say a word because I did NOT want to be a holdover. Had to go through my entire AIT (13F) with it as well. I had surgery the first week I was at my first duty station. I had to play dumb. I wasn't hard. BTW this all happened in 97.

I feel bad for this kid. Well, not really. Good he toughed it out.
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I had stress fractures in both my shins. My DI’s figured I did even though I refused to go to med call. I was a squad leader and they put me on gear guard for the final run to keep me from making it worse.

After I graduated I had them treated on my 10 day leave.
 
They aren't kidding when they say the fastest way off that turd pile is to graduate. I had a couple of guys in my platoon that were from MRP but none of them were there that long. Longest I think I know of personally was around 6 months.
 
Chdamn said:
It was supposed to be 0300. But I had to do push-ups until I signed a waiver accepting an MOS change to 2675.
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03XX is default. 'Back in the day' ALL Marines went through SOI (not MCT, but for-real SOI) and got 0300, then went to MOS school (my old man did it this way).

Funny that you had to be browbeat for that MOS, usually the lure of contract $ is enough. A good friend of mine (retired about 5 years ago as a master gunnery sgt) went in with a Uniform Zulu contract, they found out in boot camp he spoke a couple languages (his mom was Chinese), and twisted his arm to go into intelligence.

Same thing with the Navy: we had guys with specific contracts get forced to change during boot camp. I had a specific corpsman (HM) contract, and we worked out with the dudes in SEAL and Navy diver contracts. Back then their wasn't a special NEC (Navyspeak for 'MOS') for SEAL; you had to go to a Navy A school and get a NEC is something else, then you went to BUDS. I knew this one guy on a SEAL contract, he was going to GM (gunners mate) A school, then to BUDS. The detailer gave him orders to the fleet in between A school and BUDS, a three year tour (maybe two, but I think three). He threw a massive fit, and the SEAL Motivator, an E9, got him, went to the detailer's office, ripped up the orders. Guy went to A school, then BUDS. The detailers do not have your back.
 
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Spent 6 months on that island because of a broken leg, I was ready to get out of there. We had a guy who had been there over a year at the time, had been injured two separate times if I remember correctly. That was back in 99-2000.
 
When I was in the reserve I did a 30 day AT down there one spring. I was supposed to augment branch medical clinic, but as it turned out I really had nothing to do. So I was extra hands from 0800-1400, the rest of the day off. I wandered the whole island, watched recruit training, spent time in the town, at the air station, at Hunting Island State Park. Since I wasn't getting my ass kicked, I loved it. Beautiful area.

But in full disclosure, I would not have wanted to spend one extra minute at boot in Great Lakes, Illinois than I had to. I was so ready to get out of there. And I do not want to go back.
 
Chuckman said:
When I was in the reserve I did a 30 day AT down there one spring. I was supposed to augment branch medical clinic, but as it turned out I really had nothing to do. So I was extra hands from 0800-1400, the rest of the day off. I wandered the whole island, watched recruit training, spent time in the town, at the air station, at Hunting Island State Park. Since I wasn't getting my ass kicked, I loved it. Beautiful area.

But in full disclosure, I would not have wanted to spend one extra minute at boot in Great Lakes, Illinois than I had to. I was so ready to get out of there. And I do not want to go back.
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Hunting Island is a really cool place or was 20+ years ago....
 
DrDover said:
Hunting Island is a really cool place or was 20+ years ago....
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I’m heading down there for the weekend. I used to live a mile from the main gate in Shell Point when I was a kid. We w going down for the Air Show until the Jarheads canceled it and I had to prepay for a room soooooo...
 
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