Questions about USMC life after boot camp.

Question

Well I'm going to boot camp next summer and I know all about boot camp but I'm still a little nervous about afterwords, like after ten days leave and all that. What happens at school? where do we live, in a dorm with other people or is it possible to get your own place? How long do you go to school for? actually any information you have in detail would be so helpful right now.

Answer 1

You won't be officially allowed to live out in town or in base housing unless you'remarried or are senior enough in rank and the barracks get too full.  

You didn't give much information as to what MOS you want be in so the information you get might not be what you're looking for.  But after you finish your 10 day boot leave you'll report into the School of Infantry regardless of your MOS.  Grunts go to the Infantry Training Battalion and pogues go through a miny version called Marine Combat Training picking up BASIC infantry skills.  While there you'll live in squad bays like you did in recruit training.  The amount of freedom you have for on-base liberty on off-base liberty will be up to your company.  Some are more strict than others.



In the FMF if you're a grunt your life in the states revolves around training to deploy, cleaning the barracks, cleaning your weapon (for days on end), standing in formation, going to the field, getting up at 0330 to stand around waiting for your turn to grab your weapon, then standing around the parking lor in formation waiting for motor-T to show up. If they show up you get to ride, if they don'e you get to hump/run to the range to get there by 0730 and then sit there b/c someone focked up something or forgot something or the RSO didn't show up on time, etc...When you get done at 1530 you hump/run back to the battalion area, then stand in formation waiting for word that could have been passed earlier that day.  When the word is finally given you will stand there some more as the next layer in the chain of command tells you their version of the word, yells about how jacked up the barracks is, what some idiot in another company or even battalion did and how we are going to pay for it.  By the time all that is over it's 1700.  All this is assuming that you're not out in the field eating MREs and it doesn't matter what time of day it is when you're doing stuff and when your sleeping in your bag while the tent they issue you is in the back of a HMMWV nearby.

When you deploy what you do is based off of what is going on in your AO and what they want you to be doing.

All this is what it could be like.  Not all commands are the same and not all situations are always like this.  We also drank a lot, got into fights and tried to sleep with as many women as we could while we could.  Avoid the deployment widows like a plague, most are fat as h**l anyway, and just have fun while can.

I was on AD for 8 years so I went a lot of places and saw a lot of different things throughout the Marine Corps.  I had a lot of fun to go along with all the misery and boring times.

Answer 2

I believe all this depends on your MOS, and the base you are stationed at and If you signed up for school. Take a look at marines website it should say that stuff, or call a local recruiter

Answer 3

While at your MOS schooling or MCT you do not live on your own..You will live in barracks with a roommate or more than one..

Depending on your MOS some accommodations are better then others..School lenghts vary from 2 months to one year..Your MOS would be helpful..

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