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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KoG 33RD" data-source="post: 63046" data-attributes="member: 57141">BASIC TRAININGBasic trainingI went to Paris Island SC for Marine boot camp. I remember the flight down there and being picked up in the terminal by a Drill Instructor and being marched to a little room with 50 recruits packed into it. We all sat there reading Marine Corps knowledge as we waited for them to call us up one by one to make sure our paperwork was squared away. You could hear a pin drop in the room and the only noise coming from anyone was the turning of pages and the occasional scrape from the chair as a recruit went to the front to report in with his paperwork. I was prepared for it to be difficult. I knew I would be pushed to breaking point and even further while there. I went there being able to do 27 pull ups and a 3 mile run in roughly 20 min. I weighed 185 pounds and had been working out at the gym 3 years prior to leaving. I was in extraordinary shape and it proved worth while because I was able to beat most of my fellow recruits in physical fitness requirements. I was placed into 1074 which obviously belongs in 1st Battalion. My final pt day I weighed in at 145 pounds with a size 29 waist. I was only able to do 23 pull ups. I ran the 3 mile in 18:46. I received a 300 on the final physical fitness test which is a perfect score. I could have done anything physically that was asked. That was the best shape I have ever been in. My time in the Marine Corps was great and I was able to go to quite a few different countries. Boot camp isn't easy or fun but when your mind is made up your body will follow.</blockquote>

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