2006-07-28 01:07:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I'd say the majority who go in come out Marines. Remember, Boot Camp is not designed to fail you. it is designed to whip you into shape and teach you the basics. People who get weeded out demonstrate to the Drill Instructors that they simply cannot handle the stress that combat situations have. The rest are due to injury.
2006-07-28 01:16:39 · answer #1 · answered by bigdan6974 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Okay, I don't know about the men, BUT...
I started in a platoon with just under 100 women (96 I believe) and when I graduated their were 32 of us standing their proudly. The first month or so, the people towards the end of the squadbay were having to move racks pretty much every day to fill in the spaces vacated. Like the others said, many were temporary medical drops that would be picked up by later platoons.
Like they say, the fastest way off the island is to graduate...
2006-07-28 10:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by Drea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went through Marine Corps boot camp back in the fifties. We began with a platoon of around 72 recruits. Twelve weeks later on graduation day, we had twenty six of the original 72 recruits. On that basis, 36% made it through, from our platoon. This does not mean that the remaining 64% didn't make it through, in a later platoon. There are a number of reasons that a recruit can be "set back". A short term health problem is one reason, discipline problems yet another. Slow learners are often time required to take certain aspects of boot camp over again. This requires them to leave their original platoon and join a later platoon.
2006-07-28 01:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as many people make it through Marine boot camp as any other branch. Boot camp no matter what branch is more of a mental game then anything else. Depending on what branch you pick as long as you have your determination to get through it you will....
2006-07-28 02:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by JB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The official numbers from Parris Island and MCRD San Diego is 1 in 5 graduate.
2006-07-28 11:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by William 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My platoon stood up on December 18, 1996, with 83 recruits, we graduated 67, and when asked, the drill instructors said that was about average drop out rate, altough six or eight of the washouts were picked up later and did graduate with other platoons. 75-80% graduation rate.
2006-07-28 07:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by The_moondog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in in 1971, about one in three were DAB d out. It was a shameful process. They would send these guys home in awful fitting clothes. It was pretty humiliating. I myself was set back in training 13 times, graduating after six and a half months on the Island.
2015-08-03 10:33:50 · answer #7 · answered by threedogs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for my area, too many. there have been many those that made it by using boot that would desire to under no circumstances have made it in the time of the recruiter's door. sick bay commandos, sh!tmates, and various of alternative people who only had an strategies-set the completed way.
2016-12-10 17:08:59 · answer #8 · answered by miracle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure of the % but my brother is a marine and said that he had only one guy that did not make it out of his platoon.
2006-07-28 01:14:07 · answer #9 · answered by tloca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as hard as it is, not many dont make it through. The USMC takes good care of their men
2006-07-28 01:16:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋