Daughter just graduated from USMC boot camp

[wfooshee]

My sister went to Parris Island, I made her a plaque for graduation that says "This Marine is looking for a few good men"

She never found one, but married the one she did find, got married right there on the base.

At the time (late '70s) there were no pregnant Marines, so she was out almost before she was in.

Congrats! I well know the pride of a parent of one who serves!!!!

 

[Frushlorton]

Congrats to your daughter. I am still active duty after 22 years and spent 14 as a Security Forces member. I have worked with many marines and enjoyed every min.

Congrats to your daughter. I am still active duty after 22 years and spent 14 as a Security Forces member. I have worked with many marines and enjoyed every min.

 

[vabrzn]

Congrats , and I appreciate her service!

 

[Larry33319]

Congrats to both you and her. You for surviving her leaving the nest and her for going thru one of the hardest bootcamps in the world. She is making memories that will be with her for the rest of her life. She hasboth my respect and appreciation.

USMC 71-75 6612 (Avionics on CH-46 helos)

 

[airboss]

Congratulations on the newly minted Marine, proud Dad. :clapping:

Congratz!!!

My daughter is making her choice here. She's looking at the AF or the Navy.

God bless and keep them both safe!

Bet it's AF.....................where else would a tail dragger's Daughter go. :lol:

 

[HaulinAshe]

Parris Island. Next is Camp Lejune for combat training and then about 3 months at USMC base in missouri.

Lejeune is next to me. Holler if you are planning to visit and I'll show you how to waste some tires chasing seafood.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Congratulations to the proud papa, his family, and the new Marine! :clapping: Couple months from now I'll be beaming too!

:jester:

 

[DarylP]

Many here followed my reports of training my daughter to ride which started in 2008. Based on some good advice I got here I lowered the FJR and then took some advanced riding instruction and track days in 2009 with my daughter that turned out to be great fun and extremely valuable training. Last August I reported on our trip out to Yellowstone with her on my FJR and me on GOld WIng with younger daughter.

Well, my well laid plans for a riding buddy went away when daughter decided to enlist in USMC. she left in June this year and just graduated this past weekend. Graduation is very impressive and we're quite proud of her but it'll still be a while (if ever) before this dad gets comfortable with the idea that his daughter might be going in harms way to satisfy some politicial objective.

Hopefully we'll still get to do cross country rides in the next 5 years by planning it for some time when she's home on leave.

 

[blkredlinedrvr]

Tell her congrats from a fellow Marine.

MCT= Marine Combat Training it'll last about a month and she'll actually be at Camp Geiger which is attached to MCAS New River which is on the south side of Jacksonville, Camp Lejeune is on the north side. She'll be spending a lot of time sleeping in "worms" down at Camp Devildog a few miles south of the first fleet Barracks I ever stayed in lol. She'll be there at a decent time at least. During the summer it's unbearablely hot and humid and during the winter it's just wet and very cold. A lot like Paris Island . For every one here all female recruits go to Paris Island for training no matter where they are at. Even if they live right out the front gate of MCRD San Diego. For males it goes along the lines of if you are west of the Mississippi you go to San Diego if you are east of the Mississippi you go to Paris Island.

If she is going to Missouri for training she'll almost for sure be going to Fort Leonard Wood (Fort Lost in the Woods). We send our Arty guys there also for training. Another potentially miserable place depending on time of the year The Marine Corps has no bases in Missouri.

As for the cross country rides.......that's going to take some planning. We get 30 days a year off but it comes in 2.5 day a month parcels lol. In other words you can have 30 days of leave saved up to take if you don't take leave for a year. If she took 10 days leave from boot camp, like most people do, she'll already be negative in leave days. And then you have to have a command that will allow enough leave days to travel cross country. The commands I've been in usually have a 20 day limit on the number of days you can take. That makes taking long trips possible but takes time to build up that leave.

 

[oldryder]

thx for comments. I figured it'd be a while before she had enough time off to take a trip (like maybe 2012) and then she might just want to stay home so maybe I'll just be riding to where ever she is stationed. deployments are another fly in the ointment as in a given year she could be gone for all the months when a road trip is possible starting from MN.

Another option is to take a school like Keith Codes on a long weekend when she can get liberty. We've both done some track days and think it would be a terrific time.

Her MOS is MP so she could end up anywhere including some navy bases.

at least she's doing MCT in the fall which should make the weather as bearable as it ever gets there. I suggested she wait to go to boot camp until sept. to avoid the summer in SC but she was hell bent on going and got thru it just fine.

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Tell her congrats from a fellow Marine.

MCT= Marine Combat Training it'll last about a month and she'll actually be at Camp Geiger which is attached to MCAS New River which is on the south side of Jacksonville, Camp Lejeune is on the north side. She'll be spending a lot of time sleeping in "worms" down at Camp Devildog a few miles south of the first fleet Barracks I ever stayed in lol. She'll be there at a decent time at least. During the summer it's unbearablely hot and humid and during the winter it's just wet and very cold. A lot like Paris Island . For every one here all female recruits go to Paris Island for training no matter where they are at. Even if they live right out the front gate of MCRD San Diego. For males it goes along the lines of if you are west of the Mississippi you go to San Diego if you are east of the Mississippi you go to Paris Island.

If she is going to Missouri for training she'll almost for sure be going to Fort Leonard Wood (Fort Lost in the Woods). We send our Arty guys there also for training. Another potentially miserable place depending on time of the year The Marine Corps has no bases in Missouri.

As for the cross country rides.......that's going to take some planning. We get 30 days a year off but it comes in 2.5 day a month parcels lol. In other words you can have 30 days of leave saved up to take if you don't take leave for a year. If she took 10 days leave from boot camp, like most people do, she'll already be negative in leave days. And then you have to have a command that will allow enough leave days to travel cross country. The commands I've been in usually have a 20 day limit on the number of days you can take. That makes taking long trips possible but takes time to build up that leave.

 

[blkredlinedrvr]

It is a definite possibility she could get deployed but on that same token there are very few Marines left in Iraq and the draw down in Afghanistan for Marines anyway may be happening in the near future. I know many MPs that have never been deployed. Just know that she might not go or she might its not a definite for sure thing.

 

[rogdeb]

Congrats to her...

...prayers for her and all our other warriors that they come home safe at the end of their duty.

I'll 2nd that!

We'll 3rd and 4th that !! One of our proudest days was watching the graduation of our youngest from USMC Boot Camp at Camp Pendleton.

She'll be in our thoughts,

Rog n Deb

 

[MCML]

Congrats to daughter and parents from the son of a WAAC Tech Sergeant.

 

[Bigbeavk]

Congrats on the awesome job raising her. You will miss her for sure but she is now proudly on her way serving all of us.

We are so blessed!

Thank her for us please.

:clapping:

 

[krashdragon]

Congratulations to her and you and the rest of the family!

and thank her!

OoRah!

Mary

 

[08FJR4ME]

Congradulations!

From another proud father of a United States Marine.

Dave

 

[oldryder]

Everyone; thx for the thoughts. When she's home again (probably christmas) I make sure she reads thru this thread. It's wonderful the support our service personnel get from the public and airlines when traveling.

I'm old enough (and I know a lot of you are as well) to remember the deplorable way some Americans treated returning Vietnam vets. It's nice to know our country learned at least one good lesson from that war.

 

[JR'SFJR]

Congratulations. That's a tough basic. My daughter went through Parris Island. After 4 yrs. duty, completed rn nursing, married a marine and 4 children later.

 

[oldryder]

"married a marine"

I'm kinda hoping my daughter doesn't marry a marine so she won't spend the next 20 - 30 years far far from home. Not many options for the USMC in the midwest.

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Congratulations. That's a tough basic. My daughter went through Parris Island. After 4 yrs. duty, completed rn nursing, married a marine and 4 children later.