What is fire watch like in USMC boot camp?

Question

boot camp. MCRD Parris Island or MCRD San Diego. Not Camp Pendleton, not Iraq or Afghanistan, boot camp.

Answer 1

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Firewatch starts when the recruits are put to bed at 9pm (2100).  It ends at 5am when they are woken up by the DI.  There are two people on firewatch at a time, to keep each other accountable and make sure the other guy doesn't go back to sleep.  (Let me tell you, h**l rains down when a recruit is found asleep on watch or when nobody is on watch at all because they didn't wake up the next shift.)

You usually have one hour of firewatch per night.  If your platoon is big, then you probably will have it every other night or every 2 or 3 nights.  Basically, you just make sure nothing crazy goes on.  You might clean something or do a task that the DI told you to do.  The females would work on the laundry, washing it and folding it and setting it out on everybody's footlockers.  

You have to be ready to report to the DI at any time, because they might wake up and sneak in and test you.  It isn't hard, it's mostly just a pain because you would rather be resting up.  The best shifts to get are the first and last ones, because then your sleep isn't broken up.  I wold say the worst shift is the next to last, because once you're up, it's hard and pretty pointless to go back to sleep for just an hour.

Don't sweat it, firewatch is probably the easiest and least painful thing about bootcamp.

Answer 2

Stay awake!! Goodluck

Answer 3

12 hr