My fiance is in marine boot camp right now and he wrote in a letter that they were told they are able to quit after Phase 1. I was told by someone else, however, that the drill instructor's just tell them this to give them a sooner date to focus on. Do any marines or ex-marines or anyone for that matter know if this is true or not? If it's not, how come there are so many recruits that don't end up graduating? Any help is greatly appreciated...thanks a lot!
2006-12-18 10:16:40 · 10 answers · asked by Cass 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
tell him to suck it up. if he can't hack it as a marine then he shouldn't not have signed up in the first place. I know this b/c I went through boot camp.it's not that bad. yeah it sucks when your there but I look back and laugh now. Beside thats a bunch of crap being able to quit after phase 1. and if he gets the idea that getting hurt will get him out of boot camp quicker that is WRONG!! If you get hurt you will be placed in another platoon and stay at boot camp longer.
2006-12-18 10:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by Julie S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a commonly held belief that you can't get out of boot camp once you start. This is false. But before you think about doing something to get out, remember that the government has invested a lot of time and money into you, and they will get a return on their investment. You might get kicked out of basic training, but you aren't going home. You will work off your debt to the government, and often you will stay longer then you would have if you just sucked it up and kept training. The people who end up in this position are more miserable then they were before dropping out.
And while you can get out, it will not be an honorable discharge. Honorable discharges are reserved for people who have served their full service length. Period. He might be able to get on a medical - other than honorable discharge, but not dis-honorable. Or a psychiatric but once out there is a whole process that he will have to wait, and then go through before that "other-than-honorable" can be changed to an honorable discharge. (Its not as easy as people think it is...)
That would hang over him in jobs etc. Its not something that you can simply "hide".
Tell him that boot-camp is supposed to be hard. Let him know that it is a mind game and they are trying to see how he will react under times of stress. They are teaching him how to handle stress.
2006-12-18 11:16:10 · answer #2 · answered by markymarvin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can quit anytime during boot camp. It's a separation not a discharge. It's as if you never went.
2014-10-01 16:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by Trav 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 04:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the army, you are recycled, which means you are given a second chance, and take the whole program over again, I don't know if this is true with the Marines.
2006-12-18 11:36:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can always "cry-baby" out of boot camp.
If you want your fiance to go through life thinking he is not a real man, he can get out of boot camp.
What would your life be like, being married to a cry-baby and a quitter?
That's why Dan Rather was always a freak and weirdo. He got out of Marine Boot Camp for being a sissy and went running home to Mommy.
To this day, he brags about being a Marine. He is not a Marine. You have to make it through boot camp to be called a Marine. Dan Rather couldn't hack it.
(I hope your Question doesn't really mean that your fiance wants out.)
2006-12-18 10:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No one quits the marines, or any other branch for that matter. They can however, deem you unfit, and kick you out, after they see that you have given up on yourself. Once you reached this point, you are useless to them.If you don't quit on yourself, the DI's will stick with you to the end.
2006-12-18 12:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can always just stop trying and they'll kick you out of boot camp at ANY point. However that is just a cop-out.
Our drills told us that kind of crap just to try and weed us out. "Oh you can quit next week if you want."
Yeah right. Tell him to suck it up.
2006-12-18 10:58:11 · answer #8 · answered by T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are honorable discharges for people in the military who are not suited for service, at any point of their enlistment.
2006-12-18 10:25:21 · answer #9 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you can't QUIT the Military, period.
2006-12-18 10:28:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋