Can I move up my boot camp ship date before I turn 18?

Antonio Dozal-Satraitis PLEASE, get your high school diploma!!!!

That diploma will positively matter throughout your life!

Listen to your mother!!!!

Talk to your recruiter about it. Your recruiter will know the best and current information. You have to graduate high school first but there also has to be a spot available for you to ship earlier. Most of those space are taken up by others just like you who are up to the challenge to earning the title Marine. There is always some that cannot go for some reason or another. Perhaps they didn't graduate, a medical issue or they cannot make the minimum requirements for the initial strength test to ship to boot camp. If you are 18 by the time you ship, your mother cannot do anything about it. But it's a fine line to walk when it comes to your family. Tread the subject lightly. Make sure you communicate everything with your recruiter and I am confident they will lead you down the correct path. Good luck to you.

One of the first things you will learn when you get where you are going is that you don't always get to do what you want to do when you want to do it, so think of this as your military first lesson. Now read the other responses on this thread.