Being A Marine

PART 13: Q&A

PART 13

Hey guys! Questions of the day is:

"How much time do girls have to get ready in basic"

   So, in the mornings you don't have time to do your hair. You'll probably at best have a little extra time to brush your teeth. You'll always have time to use the bathroom in the mornings though but that's about it. In the mornings you go straight to the bathroom, rush back to your racks and get told to get dressed.

But when they day is over, you'll have time to shower and plenty of time to do your hair at night. You'll definitely have time to do your hair at square away time or as most of us did-we did it after lights. And you don't have to worry about having to do your hair everyday! In bootcamp, we used SO MUCH PRODUCT that we could go DAYS to a WEEK without doing our hair, and even after days our hair would still look decent. So make sure to put a lot of product in. You DO NOT need to cut your hair. If you have frizzy hair DONT DO IT, but if you naturally have straight hair then that is fine, that will make your life a lot more easier actually.

I also might as well go over marine corps Slang in bootcamp :) these are the only words that you'll be taught to say. So forget about your civilian way of saying things.

Portholes- glasses or windows

Ladder-well - stairs or stair well

Head- bathroom

Time piece- watch

Tienny runners- shoes/running shoes

Rack- your bunk beds

Blouse- your military top

Trousers- military bottoms

Skivy shirt and skivy shorts- your military pt green top and green bottoms

PT- stands for physical training

PFT- Physical fitness test

CFT- combat fitness test

DEP- Delayed entry program

Range- shooting range (easy)

Footlocker- your locker that you'll always keep your belongings in

Blue bag- some blue money bag that you get to keep all your personal belongings like your cards and stuff

Drill- it's marching basically

Quarter deck- the front of your squad bay where you got ITd

Squad bay- your home, where you'll be living

IT- initial training where you'll die. Intense physical training :)))))

Strip- easy. You'll strip off your blouse and go wherever you DI tells you

DI- drill instructor

SDI- senior drill instructor

Deck- floor

Bulkhead- back of the room

port side- left

star board side - right

So these are the only words I can think of right now, if I think of anymore I'll come back and update this chapter.

- Lcpl Rodriguez :)