How Long is Marine Boot Camp?

USMC Recruit Depots are located at Parris Island,skills and it will include combat skills. They would also
South Carolina and San Diego California. All femalehave to undergo swimming and water-survival
recruits go to Parris Island but males can either go totraining. For west coast recruits, training would be
either Recruit Depot depending where they wereentirely in the field during phase 2. For east coast
recruited (east or west of the Mississippi River). Itrecruits, the second phase will be for swim
won't be the easiest training you'll ever have but ifqualification, rifle qualification, and Team Week. It is a
you're tough and smart enough, there's no reasonweek of maintenance duties for the island as a sort
why you will not make it. How long is Marine bootof relative break from training.
camp?In phase 3, recruits start learning the basic field skills
The Recruit training for Marines lasts for 13 weeks.like setting up a tent. They would have to go
Did you know that the Marine Corps' 13-week trainingthrough a simulated gas chamber so that they can
is the longest in the United States Armed Services?learn how to manage a gas attack. Firearms training
The training is divided into 3 4-week phases and thenlike combat shooting are also continued. The last
broken down into individual training days. So how longphase would be the crucible. This is the most critical
is Marine boot camp in days? There are exactly 69part of the training and it will determine whether you'll
training days and you have to go through pre andgraduate or not. The recruits are only allowed 8
post training processing.hours (4 hours each) of sleep for the entire 54-hour
Phase 1 consists mainly of learning recruit lifeexercise. 13 weeks, that's how long is Marine boot
protocol, PT, MCMAP training, academic classescamp and for some it's the longest 13 weeks of their
(history), Pugil stick fights, first aid training and so on.life.
The recruits will learn both basic physical and mental