Marines vs. coast guard boot camp?

Question

Which boot camp is more difficult, the marines or the coast guard? I have always heard that the marines boot camp is the hardest but I have a friend who says that the coast guard is the hardest but I have never heard that before. Please help me out.

Answer 1

Marine Corps boot camp is commonly believed to be the most difficult boot camp of the US military branches.  They pride themselves in it, actually.  It's still 13 weeks long, and many of the qualifying requirements (to earn the title of Marine) far exceed those of other military branches.

Answer 2

Well my two brothers went threw boot camp in the marines of course its going to be semi difficult but overall there were no complains. So im guessing its pretty easy

Answer 3

Coast Guard. You could also throw in the US Army Infantry Training Brigade at Ft. Benning Georgia. 15-18 weeks of missery....

Answer 4

what a silly question, your friend is a fool, as a matter of fact the coast guard isnt even part of the military except during wartime and as far as i know we havent been in a "war" since 1945.coast guard = 8 weeks of sitting around. USMC= 13 weeks of h**l

Answer 5

are you kidding me the marines are so much harder sure you haft to swim allot but you don't wake up as early and allot more strict  

Answer 6

The MARINES...and if they found out otherwise, then they would rewrite their curriculum just to make it harder.

The MARINES are all infantry trained, meaning they have a few additional weeks of just infantry training and then their "A" school/AIT. The other branches have their regular boots/basics and then go on to their A/AIT schools.

Answer 7

Im not a soldier yet so I haven't gone to boot camp, but the Marines will almost certainly be harder. Think about the jobs they do.

Marines- frontline warfighters

Coast guard- Protecting Coast(as name suggests) and they also act as Watercops

Answer 8

Coast guard boot is NOT hard.  Many recruits in my graduating company were still fat when they graduated.  And you only go in the pool once for the entire 8 week period unless you fail your swim test