The Birth of a Marine Story

A new addition to the blogroll is that of a Blue Star Family that has restarted their site with a new purpose:

"The bus door opened, a DI got on, and after telling us that we had arrived a Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, started to yell out "Get off of the bus and get on my yellow footprints!""  PFC Andrews

So starts the saga of an American Citizen becoming a Marine.  The process will take some 3 months but you'll get the benefit of coming aboard after the recruit has finished the initial training.

"Well, as we were coming into PI, the bus driver said that ..I should sit up front.
I wasn't sure why, but by that point I was ready to pay attention to what anyone told me to do, so I did.

It turned out that me and another guy were at the head of the line when the Drill Instructors yelled at us to "Get the hatch, get the hatch!"

 Now most people would likely have a confused look on their face at this point, and ask "What Hatch?"  The first thing the DI's do is remove the use of normal English.  They can't call it a door.  They can't call the things you stand on the floor, or the ground.  Nope, moments after the recruit arrived at Paris Island, English had already taken a casaulty.  "Door" was forever lost to the recruits' vocabulary.  (Army Veterans don't lose that vocabulary.)

To read the stories of a Marine Recruit through the lens of her parents visit their site. 

You'll have to go there to read the rest of the story.  And with this being the beginning of a USMC story, you have years of reading ahead of you.