Also..get your mental health and physical health together. Resolve relationships so you dont go to basic with personal issues hanging over your head. You want to be 100% focused. Great advice from this Marine. Do research. My Army recruiter told me RA or nothing. He would not explain the reserves or National guard to me.
Thank you for this video super helpful. I’m 24 and going to meet my recruiter this Monday. I’m looking to make a career change wish I had joined earlier but it’s not too late!
i ship out in 2 months and 4 days and in anything the only thing i think i’m concerned about is my laziness and discipline, i want to be able to get up even when i don’t feel like it and get what i need to get done, done.
This is very well detailed for anyone wanting to join. My only question I had because I’m choosing between Navy or Marines is for anyone that has a college degree can they become an officer in the Marines?
Thanks for the response. Glad to hear it helped! Yes, with a college degree you can absolutely become a Marine Officer. I highly recommend reaching out to a local Marine recruiter and talking with them. They’ll definitely point you in the right direction 🤙🏼
Take your time choosing a job or MOS. You may not want to be in the field all the time. It kills relationships and is a harder life. I was Artillery in the Army.
This might sound like a dumb question but are women and men in the same bootcamp? Meaning is it mixed for exercises or do the woman perform exercises with other women.
Definitely not a dumb question. Males and females do not train together at boot camp. Males train only with males and females train only with females. It’s not until after boot camp that males and females train together. Hope that helps 🤙🏼
Great video. I was in the Marines, and I was doing I &I duty. I wish you could have hit on if reserves wanted to go active duty or OCS, how would they apply
Sorry if this a goofy question but when going to boot camp, does the recruit take their cellphone with them & turn it it with everything else or should they just lewve it at home before even going on the bus ?
I’m going to a recruiter soon, does it matter if i chipped my front tooth, but it’s been fixed a long time ago? i already told him i havnt broken any bones
I heard a story about a guy who failed meps 15 times. What do you think about it? I thought there was a few months grace period upon 1st fail, then like a year after 2nd fail. Wouldn't 15 fails take years?
Ask about a signing bonus. I don’t know if that’s still a thing, but when I went in (2000), the Army was throwing money at people trying to get them to sign. I wanted to be a Marine, so I asked my Marine recruiter “Do you all give bonuses, too?” It most likely won’t be as much as other branches, but I got in my contract a $3000 bonus for my MOS in combat arms (1833). You have to graduate boot camp, MCT, and your MOS school, but when that bonus hit, that was a nice paycheck as a PFC. And best of all, I wasn’t a soldier 😝 I was a Marine 😎 (just joking, Army)
