At PISC, I had 2 hours of H2H, 5 days ICT and hygiene, check writing classes. Do you think your boot camp training was sufficient?

Which one is you?

In the center of the back row.

Sgt Tom Cunnally Beautiful photo, all dressed and covered!

2nd BN, Hotel Company, PLT 2004. I went through during the summer of 1994, and don't remember ever seeing a newspaper!

I liked the competition in Boot Camp & learned if you were among those who could do everything well, the DIs would treat you OK. But if you could not do all that was required, you had a rough ten weeks. We also had several guys who had served in the Army & Navy and said that Marine Corps Boot Camp was much tougher than their prior services basic training. But they were older and heavy smokers so they had a rough time with all the running and verbal abuse.

Sgt Tom Cunnally - I did well in Boot Camp because I did what I was told, when I was told to do it. Many of the recruits had a very rough time. The only time I was in trouble was during an inspection, the Senior DI noticed that I picked my finger nails After he cuffed me around, he said that I would no longer pick my finger nails. I of course responded as I was suppose to. I never did stop picking my finger nails, and it is a nervous habit that I still have today.

I think after getting through the first few weeks at Parris Island our platoon seemed to be in two groups; one group was squared away and one group was screwed up. So the squared away guys tried to help the screw ups because they were effecting the entire platoon. But we had a few screw ups who just couldn't make the grade and they were either washed out or sent to a platoon for special training. We also had a guy who went AWOL after just one day and he was found a few days later out in the Boonies in pretty bad shape. He told me he was going to take off after lights out and I thought he was just kidding but the next morning when our DI turned on the lights his bed had not been slept in. So the DIs contacted the MPs to begin a search team.