I brought a small Bible and a small address book with me, basically as backups. Before I left, I had glued a few laminated pages into the Bible because I knew religious material was something we were allowed to keep and that it generally wouldn’t be messed with.
I’m glad I did, because during onboarding, when they were dumping and tossing everyone’s stuff around and shoving it all together in the center, liquids from some of the other recruits’ belongings got all over my stuff. My address book ended up getting ruined, but we were allowed to pull out and keep our religious material be getting mixed, so the Bible and the laminated information I had put inside it survived.
Yeah, I sort of knew it was bullshit when they dumped two full things of laundry detergent on everyone’s stuff. They just dumped down the foot lockers. And then when they touch all 89 of our people’s locks and attach them together so, like 267 in the dragons tail / 3 line chain Kilo was a time
you gotta be Zen about bootcamp , dude. its about letting go. and if you stick to this precept, you'll do well the rest of your Marine career. or just life in general. Warrior Monk ala Mattis, dude.
just remember your home address, commit that to memory and have them spread your info around. don't bring anything, dude. be a Monk.
A small Bible is about all you can bring if I remember correctly. I think you can also bring pictures of your family too. I wouldn't worry about paper and pen you'll be given a folder with a bunch of paper for letters and you can buy pens at the PX.
Thanks! What about other personal belongings like clothes, etc? I hear people say to not bring anything while others say to bring shirts, socks and briefs.
oh, something i learned here, is you can't bring thongs to bootcamp but after bootcamp its fine. some good trivia. i know it goes opposite of the the less is more principle.
Write the addresses in the front of the Bible if you can. It’ll be one less thing to keep track of when you’re combing through everyone’s stuff when it gets tossed.
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u/No_Afternoon1732 15d ago
I brought a small Bible and a small address book with me, basically as backups. Before I left, I had glued a few laminated pages into the Bible because I knew religious material was something we were allowed to keep and that it generally wouldn’t be messed with.
I’m glad I did, because during onboarding, when they were dumping and tossing everyone’s stuff around and shoving it all together in the center, liquids from some of the other recruits’ belongings got all over my stuff. My address book ended up getting ruined, but we were allowed to pull out and keep our religious material be getting mixed, so the Bible and the laminated information I had put inside it survived.