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Give us the scoop! How did your platoon do in the events like Initial and Final Drill, PFTs, pugil sticks, etc? How did [b]you[/b] do at them? What was your final PFT score? What did you shoot on the rifle range? Did anyone in your platoon go UNQ? What was the Crucible like?
Do you have a guaranteed MOS? Where's your school?
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Well I got there a month to early to get the new camo my platoon was not one of the best platoons out there I think we where about 3 to last or second to last the only thing we took was Prac. Initial Drill we took 5th in and Final drill we took 4th in. As for me I did better on my pull ups when I first got in. I was doing about 8 to 9 pull-ups when I got in on May 7th 2002 and ended up with only doing 5 at the end.
I dropped my run time from a 25 min 3 mile to a 21 min 3 mile and did 105 crunches at the end I'm not happy with it but I did lose about 50lbs when I was there.
The range was a sad story for me first off I hated my M16A1 it jammed me all the time hell the first 2 mags that I place in it jammed so it as not a good start in the end I got a pizza box only 2 points away from a sharpshooter and it was a flyer that hit the 2 that got me my 4 shots before that hit 5 then the 5 shot just wanted to go to the 2.
I know that it was my fault I thing it was my breathing it just pissed me off because my two days before I shot expert on both days maybe it was just the stress of it all but I did chock big time but I have another chance if a few months to get what I should have and that's an expert.
The Crucible was fun we walked with are packs for about 50+ miles in the 2.5 days. Then we had the Grime ripper to go up and that was hell we all where tired hungry I was told by the corpsman not to go one because of my feet being so badly blistered but I still finished it.
Got to the top of that dame hill then walked down it and headed home the hump back home felt like we walked about 6 to 8 miles we where told it was only 3 miles but it felt like it was forever.
Pugil sticks was ok it was not as fun as MCMAP are SR D.I was ranked number 3 out of the Marine corps in it and he taught us some kick ass stuff and let us have fights agents other platoons.
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Did you make it or are you home early?
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I was at MCRD on MAY 7 2002 and my Grad day was Aug 2 2002 I made it all the way and got my EGA on my pith cover to prove it.