| USMC boot camp is going to be the toughest 13 | | | | Understand that the drill instructors job is to try to |
| weeks of your life. You're going to be drilled, ordered | | | | get you to quit. They do this because they only |
| around, marched and dragged through the mud. But | | | | want the very best and the very strongest in the |
| at the end of the 13 weeks when you graduate a | | | | Marines. Take that knowledge and use it to prove to |
| proud United States Marine, you won't even care. In | | | | yourself and them that you are the very best and |
| fact you'll be glad you did it. However, if you ring the | | | | the very strongest. |
| bell and quit during that 13 weeks, it will be the most | | | | Get Physically Fit Before You Go: |
| sorry, demeaning thing you'll ever do, so you need to | | | | If there is one thing you absolutely need to do to |
| be ready! Here are some tips you can use to | | | | give yourself a fighting chance at USMC boot camp |
| dominate boot camp and be sure you graduate! | | | | it's to take your fitness seriously before you go. The |
| Understand the Drill Instructors: | | | | last thing on Earth you want is to show up at camp |
| One of the best ways to make sure you get | | | | not fit enough and have a USMC drill instructor |
| through boot camp is to understand your drill | | | | tasked with whipping you into shape! Research the |
| instructors. If you think of them as people who are | | | | minimum fitness requirements to pass training and |
| just getting in your face for the fun of it or because | | | | then make sure you can easily meet them, or better, |
| they're jerks, you'll quickly lose focus, and you'll fail. | | | | exceed them, before you head to camp. |