what happens if a recruit drops out of boot camp?

Question

Always been curious of this question. Lets got with the Marine Corps. If a recruit signs up, ships out to basic training, but then after the first day, or couple of days decides they dont want to do it, what happens to that recruit?

Answer 1

Haa Haa yeah right.! If that was true every body that joined the Marine Corps would be bailing out in the first week.

Nope when you sign up for the Corps. You are there like it or not. The D.I. is going to make sure of that. Veyr few people got out like that. Then it is usually for a medical condition that cropped up such as bad back. Bad case of Asthma. etc. Or family emergency such as teminally ill mother or father and the boot being the only relative.

The so called for the good of the service is few and far between. If it was that easy every body in my platoon would have been hauling @ss home the first week. Me included.

And if you think you are going to cute and pull a bunch of funny stuff to get out forget it. A couple sessions of corrective posture training in the D.I.'s hut with your D.I.'s and platoon Sgt. will square your happy little maggot boot @ss away real fast.
You will also learn real fast there is no such words as can't or cannot in the Marine's vocabulatory. The words can't or cannot does not exist for Marines. !
The phrase: That is impossible also does not esixt for Marines. Marines do what is impossilbe for everybody else as a matter of course
Iwo Jima was impossible to take but the Marines took it.
The Frozen Chosin surrounded by the 8th Chinese Communist Field Army was impossible to break out of But the Marine broke out and destroyed the 8th Chinese Communist Field army in the process.
Firing at one thousand yards and hitting the enemy was impossible to do, but the Marines did it and earned the name Devil Dogs for it from the Germans.
They said the F4U Corsair was impossible to fly off a carrier and land on a carrier, but the Marines did it day in and day out.
Now if you are one of the very few that can do the impossible and can't is not in your vocabulatory you need to go see your Marine recruiter.
Any more questions about the Corps!

Answer 2

First things first, you don't drop out, you don't have choices like that!

There is an entry level discharge if you've been in for less than 100 days (which is during basic). That's generally for "failure to adapt" which is I guess pissing yourself every night or something. Or, you can get medicaled out for varrious reasons.

You shouldn't worry about such things. The process really isn't that bad at all - kind of fun actually, you get to do a lot of cool stuff. The first few weeks is the only part that sucks, and it's nothing like the movies. Honestly at this point they need people out pretty bad & they WILL get you through if there's any way you can make it with all the help they can provide to get you beyond the standards. It's pretty hard to screw up basic training, but there's always a few that just refuse to get it together for whatever reason.

Answer 3

Hee hee, recruits do NOT "drop out" of boot camp. When I went through boot camp at Paris Island, they had a special "Motivational Platoon" for those who lacked motivation. One of the activities, I understand, was a giant pile of sand about 20 feet high. It became the job of the recruit being "motivated" to move that pile of sand from point A to point B using an entrenching tool and a bucket. I understand there were other motivators as well.
The same platoon served as a weight lose center for recruits who were too obese to pass the physical requirements. One recruit who graduated with my platoon spent some time there. I don't know how much, he never talked about it.

Answer 4

you get sent to the quarterdeck for some intensive motivational training then you are informed that this isn't high-school and you can not "drop out".
then that recruit will most likely cry himself to sleep and either accept that he's in the Marines now or he will turn into a Shi t stain malingerer and spend the rest of his 13 weeks trying to figure out how to quit. eventually he will most likely graduate and be sent to SOI/MCT where he will go out and smoke a little weed or just hop on a plane home where his saga will continue until he gets pulled over for speeding and he is sent to federal prison for a while.

Then and only then he will have "dropped out of bootcamp"

Answer 5

Why do people sign contracts and then when things doesn't work out they think they can just get out of things. There is no excuse for any one to join any military service and not know what to expect. None what-so-ever. Talk to recruiters and talk to veterans before joining or stay home.

Answer 6

Nothing legally, but in our society at the present time, with the government that we have, and the technology to provide the electronic paper trail, he/she will have that on their record for eternity. 1. He/She has to tellt he truth of whether in the military or not, then the person must tell whether he/she had an honorable, general, or dishonorable discharge. 2. At some point, they have to explain the situation to someone, somewhere.

Answer 7

you can't just quit. It is VERY hard to get out once you have shipped, and barring physical injury, you are going to finish Boot Camp.

There is no walking up to the DI and saying: I want out. It won't happen.

Answer 8

Ummm..I don't think he has much choice in the matter. Once you get as far as boot camp, the military pretty much owns you for whatever time frame you enlisted for.

Answer 9

There are provisions for a general discharge under "uncharacterized" circumstances. All services have an entry level discharge provision.

Answer 10

its not that easy. we had a girl talk about being bi sexual and that she wet the bed in front of the drill sergeants because she didnt want to be there. they caught on and they sent her back to wait to be chaptered out. but its not like you can just go up to a drill sergeant and say you want out and then its done. its a long process