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Go ahead and take it all the way down for him, before he leaves. And make sure he sports a USMC t-shirt, too. They love it when you do that. ;)

And if he really wants to impress them and stay out of the spotlight, talk him into getting an EGA tattoo before he ships.

It's the only way to show spirit! :usa:

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Guest TinkerBell
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o im sure hell have on a usmc tshirt and hair real short and a grin from ear to ear but no EGA tat. he has plans for 2 military tats, one after bootcamp and one when he gets thru with the military...

Guest Halfpint
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Go ahead and take it all the way down for him, before he leaves. And make sure he sports a USMC t-shirt, too. They love it when you do that. :D

And if he really wants to impress them and stay out of the spotlight, talk him into getting an EGA tattoo before he ships.

:drama: Dude, I thought the whole point of boot camp was to be UN-noticed by being good at what you do?! I've been going about it all wrong!!!

I know what I need, a nice set of dress blues to show them I already know how to put the uniform on! ;)

. . . I want to be the guy that, on graduation day, has the absolute lowest number of screw-ups next to his name, and that the DI's have to ask each other what my name is from lack of yelling it for the afore-mentioned screw-ups. Including showing up in EGA gear--though I might decide to rock my Infidel shirt. :D

Guest bkelm18
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:drama: Dude, I thought the whole point of boot camp was to be UN-noticed by being good at what you do?! I've been going about it all wrong!!!

I know what I need, a nice set of dress blues to show them I already know how to put the uniform on! ;)

. . . I want to be the guy that, on graduation day, has the absolute lowest number of screw-ups next to his name, and that the DI's have to ask each other what my name is from lack of yelling it for the afore-mentioned screw-ups. Including showing up in EGA gear--though I might decide to rock my Infidel shirt. :D

The longer it takes your instructor to learn your name the better you are doing. That goes for any boot camp. :D;)

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I'm gonna say you probably want to be wearing as plain vanilla of a shirt as possible when you step off the bus. :drama:

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Dude, wear plain blue jeans, a non descript shirt, and have a decent hair cut. All life that you have known will cease to exist when you hear "GET OFF MY BUS" and you find yourself on the yellow footprints! It'll be fun:crazy:

Guest Verbal Kint
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I'm gonna say you probably want to be wearing as plain vanilla of a shirt as possible when you step off the bus. :usa:
Dude, wear plain blue jeans, a non descript shirt, and have a decent hair cut. All life that you have known will cease to exist when you hear "GET OFF MY BUS" and you find yourself on the yellow footprints! It'll be fun:crazy:

Huge +1

I think the recruiters do this crap on purpose, which actually makes me laugh. I see more and more people ship out wearing the t-shirts they give the DEP'ers with whichever branch logo across the front. So they show up, much to the pleasure of the DI's / TI's, sporting the shirts. Then the fun begins. :hat:

Definitely show up in clean, conservative, clothing... well groomed in appearance, with a conservative haircut. You'll be wearing these same clothes for several hours (possibly overnight into the next day) as you in-process, so you do not want to pick something that will paint a bullseye on you.

I've actually witnessed a trainee show up sporting all three things I mentioned above... military branch t-shirt, GI haircut, and huge military tattoo across his arm. Needless to say, it wasn't fun for him during his entire stay there.

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Guest bkelm18
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Ugh. Don't remind me of in-processing. That was the longest, sh*ttiest night of my life. :usa:

Guest Verbal Kint
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Ugh. Don't remind me of in-processing. That was the longest, sh*ttiest night of my life. :usa:

Yep. That first morning wake-up call has been forever burned into my memory as well. :hat:

Guest TinkerBell
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haha.. ya my brother is at SOI right now. will b home on the 14th and ya he said the 1st night was long as hell... :-p

Guest Halfpint
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Huge +1

I think the recruiters do this crap on purpose, which actually makes me laugh. I see more and more people ship out wearing the t-shirts they give the DEP'ers with whichever branch logo across the front. So they show up, much to the pleasure of the DI's / TI's, sporting the shirts. Then the fun begins. :rolleyes:

Definitely show up in clean, conservative, clothing... well groomed in appearance, with a conservative haircut. You'll be wearing these same clothes for several hours (possibly overnight into the next day) as you in-process, so you do not want to pick something that will paint a bullseye on you.

I've actually witnessed a trainee show up sporting all three things I mentioned above... military branch t-shirt, GI haircut, and huge military tattoo across his arm. Needless to say, it wasn't fun for him during his entire stay there.

Noted. Clean-shaven, jeans, polo shirt, decent haircut . . . all noted for future reference. :P Kinda figured though, just good to know that's definitely the route to go.
Guest Halfpint
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. . . so which one are you? :screwy:

Nah, 22 years old, a dude--it's kinda obvious.

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We use to cut cards to see which of us Drill's were coming to pickup at the Reception Station. The rest stayed in th Company AO to wait on the cattle trucks with the Splibs to arrive. I have fond memories of my 24 total first day experiences of picking up recruits.

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A bunch of ugly mofos around a pretty lady. How did that happen? :screwy:

Guest bkelm18
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A bunch of ugly mofos around a pretty lady. How did that happen? :bow:

They call those nightclubs. :screwy:

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And whats with this guy always ruining pictures...what a ass!

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. . . so which one are you? :up:

Nah, 22 years old, a dude--it's kinda obvious.

Yeah, direct center.

And whats with this guy always ruining pictures...what a ass!

I know what a jackass....

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Oh reception isn't that bad in the ARMY, I wouldn't know about the Marine Corps. My big gripe was lack of sleep and fireguard in my basic training unit we were the 3rd cycle to go through brand new barracks so we did alot of cleaning too. But I went to Relaxin Jackson so I don't have much room to talk.

Guest TinkerBell
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Sand.... ummm the beach that sounds nice.... boy do i need a vacation right now.. lucky for me im goin to houston for xmas thanks to halfpint....

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