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Mentally, you will have a very difficult time understanding why you are truly there, why you should continue being there and why you shouldn't just get up and walk away i.

It is perfectly fine to join the military for the aforementioned reasons. However, the underlying reason must be for the love of your country and the true belief that you live in the greatest country in the world. No one, and I mean no one, makes it through basic training without being helped by another recruit. You must be the type of person to offer and accept help when needed. I have seen countless recruits try to act too tough to admit they need help or are too afraid to ask other recruits when they need help.

Either way, you must be a team player to graduate boot camp. Sergeant Michael Volkin is a U. Army veteran and expert on basic training issues. Check out his website at www.

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Boot camp elicits flashbacks. Marines who come to drill instructor school have about a week of administrative processing before they start their classroom tasks - and they need that time to adjust, said Maj. The place has that kind of effect on them. Battle-tested sergeants, staff sergeants and gunnery sergeants re-enter the boot camp environment and regress to semi-recruit mode, he said.

Nicholas Lanier, a senior DI who recently wrapped up his three-year tour and headed to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, at Camp Pendleton, California, said going back to boot camp was a huge adjustment. The 'frog voice' is real. Drill instructors literally scream so hard at recruits that they can pass out, give themselves hernias, or do serious and permanent damage to their vocal chords. That's why they spend a lot of time at DI school learning to project from their diaphragms. Even so, most DIs develop that raspy "frog voice.

But at school, they try to teach new DIs how to prevent voice problems turning into something permanent, Craven said. Staff Sgt. Antonio J. Curry, a drill instructor aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, barks out instructions to align his platoon of fresh recruits Aug 30, Curry, who is on his second b-billet after completing a tour of duty as a recruiter, says his prior experience has helped him become a better drill instrutor for his recruits.

Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kuande Hall. Photo Credit: Sgt. Still, they need to speak loudly enough for about recruits to hear them, and that requires practice. Schoolhouse instructors will stand a set number of paces away from the Marines as they learn to project their voices, he said.

While they do lose their voices on occasion, they have become masters at getting it back fast. Craven said the treatment is similar to soothing a sore throat, including hot water with honey and lemon. But Sgt. She drinks hot tea followed by a cold drink, she said. But she has also tried pickle juice or lime juice mixed with salt. Laughing on the inside. The screaming that recruits must endure might actually be masking a different reaction: laughter.

Drill instructors think recruits do and say some pretty funny things. Lanier said he was tempted to laugh nonstop while on DI duty.

Instead he'd scream at them for doing or saying the wrong thing. The recruits execute the rappel tower as part of second phase recruit training aboard the depot. Rodion Zabolotniy. Photo Credit: Lance Cpl. Sandoval agreed and said she had to stop herself from laughing all the time. You have to just breathe and think of something else. Juan Rocha, a drill instructor with 1st Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, said he's too busy to even think about laughing in the moment, but he and other DIs will swap funny stories about recruits later.

They channel their own DIs. The recruits who graduate from boot camp have to be able to run towards danger, not away from it.

They should be able to run towards the sound of gunfire and explosives. They should be able to make crucial life-or-death decisions, in seconds, in a stressful, unforgiving environment. They have to maintain their cool when in danger and get themselves and their mates out of danger. Running towards danger goes against human nature. Think about it. When you hear an unexpectedly loud bang, what do you do? You duck. Or you flinch.

You need intensive training to be able to do that. And yet, most kids who go to boot camp are, on average, 19 years old. Most teenagers grow up in relative comfort, surrounded by a loving family who make most of the decisions. They do not serve in combat units such as infantry or artillery. Having completed boot camp, the privates move to Advanced Individual training in a specialty before receiving a permanent duty based on the needs of the Army.

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