| Marine Boot Camp San Diego is the west coast | | | | you get to camp in less than peak form. Make sure |
| version of USMC basic training (which is held at Parris | | | | you can meet all of the minimum physical |
| Island on the East Coast). While San Diego recruits | | | | requirements before you head to camp and you'll be |
| (or 'Hollywood Marines') may have good weather all | | | | much better off for it. |
| year around, that in no way changes the extreme | | | | Learn to turn negatives into positives... |
| difficulty that recruits face at basic. To ensure your | | | | Boot camp is a tough experience; probably the |
| success, you absolutely need to prepare yourself as | | | | toughest you'll ever go through. The drill instructors |
| much as possible. Here are some tips you can use to | | | | will try to break you. They'll work you until you feel |
| help ensure your success. | | | | like you can't do another push up or run another |
| Fitness needs to be taken care ahead of time... | | | | yard. The key is to be able to take anything negative |
| Fitness is obviously one of the utmost important | | | | they might throw at you and turn it into a positive |
| aspects of boot camp, but it's amazing how many | | | | you can use for motivation. That kind of mental |
| people think that being in average shape will be | | | | toughness is absolutely crucial if you want to |
| enough to get them through. There is nothing you | | | | graduate it, and without it, you're done for. At San |
| want less than to be whipped into shape by a USMC | | | | Diego, try and use the weather as a positive. |
| drill instructor, and that's exactly what will happen if | | | | |