Marine Corp Boot Camp?

I wouldnt spend any money on a book that "prepares" you for USMC boot camp..

Here is a good link for you..

http://www.marinebootcamp.net/score-high-on-your-P...

You can email me..I have some other great links on what you want to do..Good luck to you.

I concur with most of the other posters. There is no book in the world that will truly prepare you for boot camp. Don't waste your money.

On top of that, every Senior DI will do things the Marine Corps way as he sees it. Every Platoon with every company will do things just a tiny bit differently. The training is essentially the same for everyone, but every SDI has his own way of doing things, and he runs the platoon. To "prepare" according to what you read in a book is to set yourself up for some sand pit time with the DI team. They'll rip you a new one, kiddo.

Your best bet is to make sure your endurance is high and your legs are really strong... running is the way to accomplish that. (most Phase I injuries are leg, ankle, and foot-related) Also, if you work with the local recruiter, he'll help you prepare for the Initial PFT.

Other than that? Boot Camp is not about brute strength, it's about being mentally strong. Period. Show up determined to do exactly what you're told to do, the instant you're told to do it, no matter what. Show up determined to be mentally strong when you're physically weak, and ready to learn how to use your mental strength to overcome those physically weak moments. Show up ready to do boot camp the way your SDI tells you to do it... In his book, the only thing that matters is you doing HIS program while you're there. Anything else you might learn will just be bad habits he'll have to break.. and that won't make him happy at all. (And unhappy SDI's make for VERY unhappy recruits!)

Beat is such a negative word. I was in 94-98 and DI's were 'normal' DI's it is mostly a mental game. The 'heavy' seemed to take sadistic pleasure in hand to hand instruction/demonstration. It helped mold us as Marines, even after training you knew that it was over and you had your brothers/sisters there and they went through the exact same thing. I know he got in trouble a couple cycles after we graduated for striking recruits and I was angry-I looked down on the other cause they wouldn't be the same as me or the our platoon. I guess the moral of the story is in the struggle to make you a fighting machine don't you need to be 'broken down and beat' to build you up? What would happen if you have never gotten hit-how would you react? Would you know how to counter, recover, defend, become the aggressor? Do you think great fighters never hit each other for practice/training? As a former Marine, thanks for your choice. Relax just know that you will have 50-60 like minded people right next to you going through the same experience.

What worked for me when I went thru Marine boot camp was the fact that I decided that no one was going to keep me from finishing it from start to finish, my advice is to get into shape for PT, work out some, run as much as you can, stop smoking if you smoke, get your mind wrapped around the idea that for 12 weeks you will not be able to sleep, eat or even go to the bathroom with out a DI on your butt the whole time, and keep telling yourself that your going to be a Marine regardless how hard it is while in boot camp. My DI's were all combat vet's fresh from the war in Vietnam, wasn't no cake walk since they had been where most of us were going to end up going, and I'm glad they trained us.

Books won't get you thru boot camp, your mental attitude and desire to be a Marine, is what will get you thru.

Semper Fi to you!

Hold on now! Marine Corps boot camp is NOT easy. It isn't THAT physically demanding if you are already in shape but the "games" you play with the drill instructors will get to you. You will come out with discipline

thats for sure.

The only way to prepare for it is to run. You can't prepare for it mentally. Good luck future devil dog.

Boot camp is a prep course to the Marine life in itself... I don't think a book will help you too much. If anything it'll make you a know-it-all and no one likes that guy... haha.

no...avoid that site completly. its a scam, the author of the book isnt even a Marine. He has a pic of a Marine in dress blues without an EGA on the cover.

go on leatherneck.com

they can answer all the questions you got.

Go to you tube and check out Marine Boot camp. My nephew said basic training is very easy in the Marines. They treat you in a dignified manner at all times. Honor is their middle name.

don't waste money on a book to prepare for boot camp... physically, you just need to be in shape so run alot... mentally, you can't prepare for... just stay focused from day 1... thats all I can tell you

your recruiter should help you to prepare, i see my recruiter several times a week to work out