Posted on Jan 2, 2019
Why would someone be transferred out of a unit during USMC boot camp?
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Hello everyone,
It has been awhile. Alot has happened since ive been on here last. But thats a story for another time (if anyone of you really even care) Anyways I have a buddy who is currently in USMC boot camp. He left when one of his other buddies left and told me that the recruiter promised them that they would be in the same company together and be able to go threw basic together. I have heard something about this before but am not sure how true it is. Kinda sounds like BS to me. Was the recruiter pulling his chain or is that actually a thing? So i contacted one of his buddies friends today after trying to see if i could find photos of them at basic. She informed me that my friend was transferred from his buddy's company to another one(the buddy he left for basic with) What does this mean? Do they do this just because they can or would their have to be a reason that he was transferred/removed from his original company. To be honest the kids a little rebellious. Not like criminally or anything. More like dont touch that hot stove type of thing. That and he doesnt really know when to shut his mouth. Not sure if that helps or would have anything todo with it. But i would imagine getting dropped like that wouldnt be good.
It has been awhile. Alot has happened since ive been on here last. But thats a story for another time (if anyone of you really even care) Anyways I have a buddy who is currently in USMC boot camp. He left when one of his other buddies left and told me that the recruiter promised them that they would be in the same company together and be able to go threw basic together. I have heard something about this before but am not sure how true it is. Kinda sounds like BS to me. Was the recruiter pulling his chain or is that actually a thing? So i contacted one of his buddies friends today after trying to see if i could find photos of them at basic. She informed me that my friend was transferred from his buddy's company to another one(the buddy he left for basic with) What does this mean? Do they do this just because they can or would their have to be a reason that he was transferred/removed from his original company. To be honest the kids a little rebellious. Not like criminally or anything. More like dont touch that hot stove type of thing. That and he doesnt really know when to shut his mouth. Not sure if that helps or would have anything todo with it. But i would imagine getting dropped like that wouldnt be good.
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Posted 6 y ago
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Yes, the buddy system is a thing. It isn't BS; it is a program to bring in more recruits. Now, the list of reasons to get transferred from one training unit to another is a long one. It happens. Without more information it would be illogical to just try to assume. You would be served just as well by putting regulations on a wall and throwing a dart at them for an answer.
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Conner Fleury
My friend said her friends bf wrote her. Pretty early on. Like the first or second letter he sent. Said that he was sent to I.T or something and never returned.
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Conner Fleury
Yea i thought it was a thing. Just seemed like bs to me considering the corps really doesnt give a shit and wouldnt really give a special treatment or attention to a recruite just because he wanted his buddy to go with him. But thats good to know.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
The fact that you are telling this story as a friend of a friend makes it almost entirely inaccurate (not by any fault of your own exactly) and impossible to understand the full picture. I cannot speak to what is or was going on because neither I or you know what is going on at that unit. I'm sure that your friend's friend's boyfriend probably doesn't quite understand anything about the military either because he is new.
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Maj John Bell
Conner Fleury - "considering the corps really doesn't give a shit." And just how did you come that conclusion and the heaping helping of attitude you served with it? How long do you think that the Marine Corps would be able to continue to using an effective inducement to join if they disregarded the promises they made.
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Back in my dad it was only a medical drop if you got sick. I went in on the Buddy Program and somewhere in first phase he got encephalitis from an infected Skeeter bite, he spent like 2-3 weeks in the hospital and recycled thru 2nd Batallion., I can’t think of anyone else who just disappeared as being behind or not suitable for moving forward. I can’t even think of anyone sentenced to 3 day motivation platoon, damn that would have been supreme suckage. Pulling up the bottom 5% was probably a huge endeavor, but the top got it, most were in the middle and didn’t need but minimum guidance, they focused most of their attention on the bottom guys, recruits who were overweight, or badly uncoordinated, but they did their job. Not that the rest didn’t get attention, we all got our share of verbal abuse, and smoked just for the hell of it. It’s the PT part where a few really struggle, 1975 was a peacetime military, Nam only a few years in the rear view, recruiting standards were low, interest I guess not very high, there was really some overweight guys in my platoon.
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