By Austin Taggett and Jacob Hatfield
Caswell school, grade 4 and 5
To us a marine is a person who fights for their country and for freedom. To some people being a marine is easy but we think it is difficult. These are the steps you need to follow.
Step 1 “Get into Shape”
You have to do a physical fitness test every 6 months. A perfect score (300) is 20 dead-hang pull ups in 30 seconds, 100 crunches in 120 seconds which is two minutes, and a three mile run in 18 minutes. Make sure you can do five pull ups, 60 crunches and run 1.5 miles in 11 minutes.
Step 2 “Deciding what job you want”
By doing a little research you should be able to find what suits you best. Marine corps how you every job you can do from infantry, which is to show you what to do when you fight on the ground with little weapons, to photography, to truck drivers.
Step 3 “Talk to a recruiter”
Guides will guide you from paperwork and everything else.
Step 4 “Take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery” (ASVB). They put you through a test to find which job fits you.
Step 5 “Tell your family”
Expect someone to hear you crying and whining. Stick to your weapons if you want to. Then wait until you graduate, your family will be crying their eyes out.
Step 6 “Go to boot camp”
You will go to the marine Corps Recruit Depot if you live east of the Mississippi and if you’re a female you go to the Parris Island in San Diego. If you live west of the Mississippi you go to MCRD in San Diego.
Step 7 “Officer”
Contact your recruiter after your first year of college. They would take a look at your grades and see if you can be a marine officer. If you go, good luck.
We think becoming a marine is cool because we want to fight for our country. We also want to be Marines because we want to fight for our family that have died in war. Would you like to be a Marine?
