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		<title>Other Resources for Basic Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my readers emailed me a note about a book published for the very purpose for helping one get ready for &#8220;Boot Camp:&#8221;

&#8220;The Ultimate Basic Training Guide Book&#8221; by Sergeant Michael Volkin.  An OIF Vet, he&#8217;s got the background for the topic. Here&#8217;s a link to the publisher&#8217;s site.Update 11/28/2007:  There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Group Think&#8221; &#8211; Yes, It&#8217;s a Good Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basic training, in any military form, seems to be characterized as a place that indoctrinates &#8220;us&#8221; into mindless aoutmatons, subject to &#8220;group think&#8221; like behaviors.
Yes, it sure does.Â Â  But, I&#8217;d say if you overlay that on our sports addicted culture, it should not be stated with a tone of contempt, but one of admiration.
Why?Â  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And a Dash of Chaos, If You Please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Hangin&#8217; Together or Hanging Alone posts, I indicated the beginnings of your military life would be, shall we say (seemingly) &#8220;unstructured.&#8221;Â  Some would use the word &#8220;chaos&#8221; as a descriptor of the circumstances.Â  They are right and not right all at once.
They are right in that just many parts of your day will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Grose Goes to MCRD, San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Grose&#8217;s USMC Recruit Training
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		<title>Websurfing Intelligence &#8211; Military Women Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Located tonight while looking for pictures of DIs yelling at advising new recruits for the header of the blog:  Boot Camp Stories and Advice.
The posts cover all services, and range in time from 1999 to 2003, mostly written by new recruits, but an entry under the Army section for Apr 2000 from a former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangin&#8217; Together or Hanging Alone &#8211; Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part I is here.
So here you are with all these new people, trying not to be overly &#8220;bossy,&#8221; yet you may be the one with the answer, or not (but you think you do). Controlled anarchy will ensue. I discussed some reasons for haning together in the first part. Now what happens if you decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangin&#8217; Together or Hanging Alone &#8211; Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point in the within the first few moments of arriving at any place of military indoctination, you will be joined with a large number of complete starngers and you will be forced to begin bonding, in a common defense against the people who are yelling at you, using all sorts of unintelligible terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a Head Start on Retirement, or the Future in General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a slightly different post, but I thought of a conversation I had with a friend about 5 years ago. He said, and he couldn&#8217;t reveal much due to his position as a financial manager, this of a man who was nearing his 20 year mark:
&#8220;He could retire today and not work another day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Info on the Marines &#8211; Specifically Boot Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was wandering about the net and foound a link to a site with a whole lot of info on entering the Marines&#8230;.
And as a bonus, I found this article:
&#8220;Surviving Marine Corps Basic Training&#8221; by Rod Powers.
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		<title>On Leadership by Sgt Hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sgt Hook has been around the block a lot of times and also around the blogs. He&#8217;s one of the the early Milbloggers&#8230;
He recently posted a story on leadership, which begins as he entered AIT:
Twenty-four hours after walking across the parade field of Fort Dix, I found myself in a Greyhound bus, recovering from a [...]]]></description>
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