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During the crucible there is a rope climb station. One of my instructors was over there climbing it... one hand on each rope. Got all the way to the top and then he fell on the way back down because his arms gave out. A few of us ran over to the station. He came running back saying. "You didn't see shit! Lets go!" Hahaha. Good times

Shit was easy

Do they have to pass regulary drugtests? If not, or just every few months i truly would sugest Amphetamine. Not for regulary use, but just for these few events. No sleep or food needed. And you have a great spirit the whole time lol

Edit: you still would have full strengh the whole time aswell

That breakfast is not just steak and eggs it’s also ham and juice and milk and most importantly of all the things you could get from it there’s cake 🤤

Semper Fi 🎉

When you make it to school house and fleet youll know it’s easy and want to go back

Do the women do it in California?

Not hard enough if some dumb mindless 18 year old who got lost and chose the easy way out can do it lmao

It's really not that bad I went through it in 2010 people hype it up so much by time u get done with it your kinda like that's it that wasnt that bad

Yup the only time where I fell asleep Humping! 😂SFMF✌🏾🇺🇸🤙🏾

My “warriors breakfast” was cancelled bc of an outbreak of what west coast likes to call “hands foot and mouth disease” so the only warriors breakfast we got was the “luxury” to heat up our mre

“O” 200 hours? Military Times WTF when I was in you got reminded “there are no letters on a 24 hour clock. It’s zero two hundred.

When did they drop the weight to 55 Lbs? It was 88 Lbs when I went through

😂😂😂😂 girl guides at there best 😂

Always crayon eaters !!

I love how they have the audacity to say once a marine always a marine. But if you go to military court you cant get in cuz civilian. Corrupt a-hole

I’m sure it sucks… but that’s everything day during RIP

Wasn't that bad. But I did have 7 years Canadian Army and 3 deployments 🤪

12 hours of sleep?!?? Definitely didn’t get that..

1084 alpha 2012

Sorry but 54 hours? Ft Benning Infantry final FTX before we get our cross rifles was 7 straight days doing war games long road marches and it ends with a 26 Mike road March in 24 hours and stops along the way to do different tasks. 54 hours was a road March and two days of MOUT training.

At that point of the training, those bad mother f***ers are different breeds, it is hard yes but not impossible, it is seen as impossible for recruits on day one but if you tell any of those marines on crucible day to do 1000 push-ups or 50 pull-ups, run 50 miles without a pack… they would be able to do it without any issues at all, like it was a joke

The crucible is designed to be difficult and draining but the first half of it those recruits arnt even sweating

You know, all I remember is the warriors breakfast lol

We ate so much that we threw up and went back for seconds 😅

12 hours of sleep my ass 2 a day if you didn't have fire watch

Not to bad

48 fucking miles?

I was an 0311 in 2/7 and Boot Camp was the easiest part of my entire enlistment by far

Easy peasy summer camp was harder

Parris island recruits and east coast soi marines have no idea how much thr pemdlton hills will toy with your mind

12 hour of sleep yea right I got like 6 if I was lucky 😂

Crucible was the only time boot camp felt like boot camp.

When I went through in 07, we did crucible on week 7 or 8 and we didn’t have our ega ceremony till graduation.

The third phase was easy compared to the first two phases felt mostly like a formality looking back on it

The steak hard as rock and the eggs unsalted.

Its not hard.

12 hours sleep in 54 hours…? Has he said that wrong? That’s loads.

We got a whole 2-3 hours of sleep not 12 🤣

I want to be a marine and this kind of stuff gets me so hyped as well as making me question if I should work out more lol

Had a pltn mate in boot camp he broke his toes during the crucible he didn't tell anyone till after. He had that dog in him. I almost cracked my ribs falling off small tower. That last hike back was the most happiest pain I had.😂

It's debating Andrew Wilson.

55 pound pack lmao I would say it’s more like 80 pounds or so

12 hours of sleep? More like 4-6 lol

The hardest part about The Crucible was the lack of sleep.

Gotta make sure yall don’t die because you’re tired or out of shape when In combat

Needs to be even harder!!!

12 hours of sleep? More like 1

They don't get close to 12 hours of sleep

Kicked my butt

This is not accurate.

I fell asleep standing up during instruction.

My son is doing this tomorrow I am so worried!!! 😢