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!!!!

As a former recruiter I will tell you, get your HS diploma and no you can't ship before 18 without parental consent.

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.

Probably not a possibility. Almost all the services require you have your diploma, and only a few allow a limited number of GED's to enter the service. If you have neither, you aren't eligible. Plus, being under 18, you are at your parents discretion for their permission.

There is already some sage advice on this thread from people far more knowledgeable than me. The only thing I would add is more general in nature and applies to anyone entering the military. Consider the seasonal variations in whether at your training site. Try to time it so that you are not having to deal with extreme whether, in addition to all the other changes you will be going through in boot camp.

Well without her signature, you're not going anywhere until you're 18. Or your dad's, maybe.

Already bucking the system... don't forget to tell your drill instructors.. they're doing it all wrong...

Yes just wait you almost there I can’t see if this was about a year or two ago and you want to do the split option program and go while still in high school but you about to graduate so just wait!

At one time, I thought some services would let you go to boot between your junior and senior year. I don’t know if the Corps still does that, or if they ever did. Services-wide, enlisting before eighteen requires parental consent.

But realize this, and please understand I do not mean this as a challenge. If you give up on your education, you will not meet your potential in uniform. If you challenge your parents’ authority, you will fail to adjust to military discipline.

Turn eighteen, finish school and graduate, then march right down to the recruiting station. The Corps will be waiting, and you will be better prepared. Good luck!

Unless you are graduating early and getting your diploma I'd say stick it out. Shipping early without graduating may effect your eligibility, places you in a different recruit category and also jacks up the accessions commands programming of incoming troops for available seats in training. Your Mom is a wise person.