To be a Marine, you have to brake a finger before graduating bootcamp. It can be any finger except your dominant index finger. This will give the right of passage. That's what made the Marine Corps the difference between all the other branches of service.
Years and years ago, I was fooled by this. When I actually went through bootcamp, there wasn't a day that passed that I didn't think about the day my finger was going to break. A week has passed, and nothing happened. As the weeks passed, it was finally time for graduation. I asked my colleague if the Drill Instructors were going to break our fingers for training. He laughed in my face and told me that they are not permitted to do this. A big relief. And that was that. Urban Legend - ZERO, Victor - ONE.
I'm not sure when in time i actually heard this, but after a year or two of being in the Corps, I was told that the "Mothers of America" made this up because they didn't want their 18 year old sons and daughters to be service members. Especially in a time when war is actually going on. Granted I still did the training... I was scared, but I'm glad I went through with it.
1 comment:
yea i heard that one too. i also heard the one where you have to kill a family member to become a marine.
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