can you bring a Mizpah coin to bootcamp and actually wear it? I’m assuming it’s a no, but i heard that you could bring religous items, and i don’t know if that counts…
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can you bring a Mizpah coin to bootcamp and actually wear it? I’m assuming it’s a no, but i heard that you could bring religous items, and i don’t know if that counts…
You can bring anything you want. Boom boxes, all your Bling, your Mom. Just that as soon as your off the plane they all have to go home. I don’t believe even religous items. Or they will be kept for you somewhere until later on. Get ready, lineup nut to butt. You wanna go home but you left your right. Hooorah!
You will have a TINY chunk of personal storage space, about half the size of a loaf of bread, give or take. You can keep letters, stationary, stamps, pens and pencils, religious articles, photographs, etc. in this space. The Drill Instructors may search this space for contraband but will normally leave it alone. You will NOT be allowed to wear any non-uniform items in boot camp for safety reasons.
So, the short answer is yes, you may bring it with you. You’ll probabaly be allowed to keep it in your personal space, possibly even in a pocket on occasion. You will NOT be permitted to wear it.
Bring nothing. They wouldn’t even let me keep my wedding ring when I got there. Trust me, dont make waves.
LOL you can bring whatever you want but they will take everything you bring with you and put it into a box so that its not lost in a Drill instructor tornato. Then religios things are reissued at church.
When I was there you where given a roseary… but remember your not supposed to wear a roseary around your neck.
your best bet is to just bring yourself and nothing else. In bootcamp you will have nothing and whatever you bring with you will have to be shipped back home as soon as you arrive.
You can bring whatever you want, but it’ll be taken from you and returned only upon graduation. That’ll include Mizpah coins. It’ll also include your personhood. You’re a nobody, a nothing. You’re a boot, a maggot. You are NOT a Marine! You are a subhuman creature that may, by the grace of your Drill Instructor, eventually earn the coveted title. But child, before that happens, the Corps will tear you apart and put you back together again. It can not be otherwise; you MUST be remade into something you could never be without boot camp. A poorly trained Marine is a dead Marine. Same thing if you were to attend Army basic training: we will tear you down and rebuild you the way WE want you to be. Anything less is dereliction of duty. America’s young people are too valuable to waste through improper and insufficient training. You WILL go where you’re told and do what you’re told, no matter how you feel regarding the justification for war. The warrior – that’s you and me – does not get to choose the war in which he or she is sent to fight. Good luck!
All religious items are permitted. As far as everything else bring only clothing that you don’t mind discarding. It is a big hassle to store them and by the time you can wear civilian clothing again they probably will not fit. Best to buy new at the store on base. Do not take anything with you, even religious items, that would be a great hardship to lose. You will be very busy for awhile and things do get lost or damaged. The only thing you really need to bring is the attitude that thousands of people have made it through this before you and that you are going to make it too. The military wants people who can keep control of themselves under stress. So they will provide a lot of stress and watch how you handle it. Just remember that it is all part of the program and that none of it is personal and you will do fine. Sorry you did not go Army but Jarheads are not bad folks just a little primitive.
it ‘should’ be allowed, i can explain what i know about boot camp. If it is a small chain with a religious symbol on it he should be able to keep it. Trust me dont make it something that you cant stand him losing. He will have a foot locker (3f wide and 2 ft tall) for all of his items, along with what he wears. This chain could break, get lost or stolen very very easy.
If i would suggest any religious symbol, use a stainless steel chain (CHEAP) and go cheap on the medalion also. His footlocker will be emptied and thrown about a number of times, all of his gear will get mixxed up. So dont depend on him having it at the end of the 3 months.
See there is an X-factor here aswell, at any time the drill instructors could decide that it is not allowed and take it away, and then its gone. One thing is for sure, DONT MAIL IT TO HIM, he wont get it then. Im sorry but the best anyone can tell you is ‘maybe’.
When you first get to boot camp, you go through in-processing. empty all your pockets and dump them in a table, then they tell you what you can keep for boot camp, what you can put in a bag for storage until graduation, and what gets thrown away. Hopefully he gets lucky.