Boot Camp
Marines
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There are no bathrooms in USMC bootcamp. That area is referred to as the head, same as in the USN. The process of relieving yourself is known as making a head call. So, you get out of the rack and proceed to the head and make a head call. You may be intercepted by the fire watch on duty, but after that you just carry on and take care of your business. It would be highly discouraged to wake the DI on duty to request permission to make a head call like you would during the day.
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With the volume of inquiries by you here on RP, you will likely be very well informed if/when you make it to boot camp. Use your time wisely to fill in the blanks, but don't neglect getting in physical condition. I'd advise you keep all the knowledge you acquire to yourself when you get there so as not to draw attention to yourself.
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SN Greg Wright
PV2 J M - Good for you, then. Seems like a future Marine that puts his mind to it will be successful.
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A1C Ian Williams
sometimes if you aim properly and use your abs you hardly have to move at all SN Greg Wright
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You put your urine in some type of sleeve. Then in the morning you casually walk around and dump it out in small amounts. This way the Germ...Wait a minute. That was a movie I saw and it involved dirt. Never mind.
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It does vary by Drill Instructor/Platoon. We were allowed to make head calls after lights out. There is a fire watch on duty who had to keep mental track of how many recruits were on a head call in case he was asked by the Drill Instructor if he came out of the duty hut. The secret was to make no noise and to be in and out as fast as possible. If the DI found you in the head after lights out he might conduct some extra military instruction on you.
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After lights out we would use the head for letter writing time. 10 minutes tops in the head. When we hit 2nd phase, I would be woken by the fire watch and head to the whiskey locker where the prac remedial recruits would meet me and I would drill prac into their brain housing units. 2 hours every night I did this, 6 nights each week for 6 weeks straight. Out of 8 platoons we took 1st place in prac, tied for 1st in drill and took 1st place for final PFT.
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PV2 J M In 1968, our platoon was not allowed to go to the head after lights out. We were in Quonset huts, so those that could not hold it, would piss in a bucket. Very early in the morning, a recruit would take the bucket to the head and dump it. Our DI's were bad about letting us make head calls, and you could not request a head call or suffer the consequences. Those were different times.
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MSgt Gerald Orvis
I recall those days, too - 1967 at 1st Bn, RTR, MCRD San Diego. Our platoon was split between four quonset huts. Early on our DIs told us to do our dump and pee during "free time" before taps, and otherwise hold it until reveille. If a recruit couldn't do that, he was referred to sick bay for incontinence. We got used to it. When I was a DI at San Diego in 1977, our recruits were housed in multi-story open-squadbay barracks ("hotels") and things had loosened up. Once taps and "lights out" occurred, a recruit was allowed to go to the head (usually checked on by the fire watch to be sure he wasn't doing anything else in there). During the day, we DIs were required by regulations to give our platoons periodic head calls, although there was always the idiot that had to go more often and had to request permission. Again, if it happened too often, we had the recruit checked by the corpsmen for whatever disease or physical condition made him go so often, and the recruits were sometimes dropped or surveyed out of the Corps for that reason.
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Use the head it will be the only peaceful time you can, but never ever tell the D.I. You need to use the head no matter how bad during rifle cleaning , I learned that one the hard way.
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I never had to go to the head after Taps during nine weeks of USCG recruit training. It's called self control and eating a good diet.
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