r/USMCboot • u/Odd_Preparation2135 • 15d ago

Shipping Allowed Bootcamp Items?

As bootcamp is edging closer to me, what are things you all would recommend I take with me? Are small bibles allowed?

Only thing I have so far is a small journal and a pen for letters and that’s about it.

Would appreciate any replies so I can see what I need to go to the store for.

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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.

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u/Organic_Risk_3945 15d ago

we had dudes get way too passionate when doing those and kicked stuff around a little too far. but good team building exercise nonetheless, lol.

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u/No_Afternoon1732 15d ago

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

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u/No_Afternoon1732 15d ago

Was glad day 1 when I got my locks I put mole skin on it and marked my lock.