Posted on 04/21/2023 7:12:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Glad he was jabbed or he might have had the Cold-19.
If he was already a PFC, then he was likely the honor graduate from his platoon.
I’m wondering if this is from physical requirements, such as weight, being eliminated or relaxed in recent years.
Nah I entered the army as a PFC because of university hours.
They give it to some Marines entering boot camp if they have some college experience or ROTC, etc...
Anyhow, most Marines automatically get it after 6 months. Well that was the case 30 plus years ago. Not sure what it is today?
We use to say,
PFC = Pretty much F**king Civilian
I don’t believe these younger generations are designed for military service. JMO.
I was wondering the same thing. But he was a PFC, so he’s been in a while and was probably fit. I could see the new relaxed standards resulting in new recruits arriving flabby and dying from over-exertion.
Unless they changed it, in the Marine Corps, you don’t wear it during bootcamp. It gets awarded upon graduation- with the exception of honor grads— they get it at final inspection because their uniforms have to be straight.
Yep, but they are not wearing PFC in bootcamp....unless they changed things.
Ok thanks I didn’t know that.
A ripe old age for a vaccine recipient.
Right because they have not graduated.
They have to graduate first, but they still do get PFC pay.
Here’s a possible reason why this recruit did not report he was sick or injured based upon my experience with my daughter when she was a recruit in 2005:
If a recruit falls out from sickness or injury, they are reassigned to a physical training company while they recover. In the meantime, that recruit’s original company continues on to graduation.
The sick or injured recruit is put on hold at the week they went out and have to wait for a new company to come up to that same week and then they are reassigned to complete their training.
My daughter came down with pneumonia in week 10. She had to wait 4 weeks to join a new company. In her case the DI’s treated her and 4 other recruits like shit and not part of the company. Even during their pinning ceremony during Family weekend (graduation) they were put at the end of the line. The DI’s didn’t process their paperwork to spend time with their families after the Pinning Ceremony and we and the other families had to wait nearly 6 hours for processing before they could join us.
They’re lowering medical standards. “Hey,this kid’s EKG doesn’t look too good”. “Oh well,he as a pulse”.
Assuming the Marines are like the Army: At Fort Knox in '69 they did *everything* they could to discourage you from going on sick call. Everything! Presumably they did it to discourage malingering but it's easy to imagine a recruit with a genuine problem not having it seen to.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
On this page, scroll waaaaay down to the circular buttons you can click. Click the Weekly Deaths By Age button and then just below to the left is Update Dashboard.
Then scroll a few more lines and there are graphs of weekly deaths seperated to age groups. In Excess Deaths, the last few weeks will always show a plummet downwards because it takes a few weeks for the numbers to tabulate.
Regardless, the smudged gray line are the years 2016-2019, pre virus. Those are the normal death counts of ALL CAUSES for those age groups.
You’ll notice there is no significant departure of younger age group deaths from the pre virus years. And, of course, that also means pre-vax years.
No departure. No difference. Young people have always died at a non zero count.
Under delayed entry it's possible to have the Pfc. (E-2) rank while a recruit. I've attended graduation ceremonies at Parris Island while celebrating re-unions with my platoon and some recruits graduate as L/Cpl. (E-3). Back in my day, if you were awarded meritorious Pfc. at graduation that was a big deal.
He looked pretty fit, so sorry. That wasn’t it. We know what it was
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