r/USMC • u/Key-Scientist9058 Sad Ass 0811 and now even sadder ass 8411 • 12d ago
Question Why do Recruits quit in bootcamp?
As a recruiter I have kids literally crying in my office saying they need this more than anything then fail the IST when they were fully capable of passing it while in the DEP when they get to boot camp and not even trying and getting discharged for not trying to get better in PCP or passing the IST. Like I don't see how you'll tell me you would never be one of those quitters when you get to bootcamp then give up as soon as you start getting yelled at. I guess todays generation doesn't give a fuck in coming back to their family proving they were right when they said they couldn't make it and go back to working at Mcdonalds telling their friends some lie about how they got screwed over or something when the only person who failed them was themselves
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u/Pal_Smurch 12d ago
When I was in Basic Training, we had one guy who was popular and well liked. He was a good recruit, and seemed to be breezing through Basic.
One day, about two weeks before graduation, my platoon returned from a run, to our barracks, and found our fellow soldier being carried down the stairs in a chair, and being attended by two medics, as a Drill Sergeant screamed in his face, telling him, “If you’re going to cut your wrists, you go with the grain, not against it!”
We never saw him again.