Marine Recruits Get a Taste of Boot Camp

Future marines get a taste of what life will be like in boot camp.
 
Marine Corps drill instructors flew in from San Diego to let local recruits and their parents know what to expect when they leave home.

More than 50 recruits from North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota will depart for various boot camps by the end of this summer.

Marines say it’s important to let them in on what’s in store for them, because it’ll be like nothing they’ve seen before.

“They’re gonna be on their own,” explains Staff Sargent Antoni Martin. “They’re gonna be 12, 15 hundred miles from home. No family. No cell phone. No internet. The only thing they get to communicate, paper and pencil and envelopes and they’re gonna mail letter back and forth, and they’re gonna have a hard time. This is gonna give them a taste of what they’re gonna prepare for mentally.”

Local recruits start departing for boot camp as soon as this coming Monday.