It's not like being in the Fleet. At all. The typical USMC L/Cpl would walk into a PLC platoon and run the joint.
PLC is just basic training for USMC reserve officers, enough to satisfactorily transform a college student to a 2nd Lt. If you pass the test, you've just survived the first washout attempt, that's all.
The Basic School is where they really see who makes the cut to be a US Marine officer.
So, basically, this shmuck from Alaska is pretending he was in the Marines. Okay, technically he was... for six weeks.
nah...basically he wasn't a Marine. He was training to earn the right to be a Marine. Most of my brothers use that as the benchmark of what they are. They are Marines first and everything else just kinda pales in comparison.
No matter what you do after you're discharged, you're a Marine.
Pilots that are dc'd are former Marine who happens to be a pilot. CEOs of a company is a former Marine who happens to be a CEO of a company. ..... an actor in Hollywood is a former Marine who happens to be an actor.
That's how it works.... unless you're Dan Rather and friends... Then you're an a##hole that wishes he had become a Marine but was afraid of dying, discipline or just didn't like the food.
Either way this seeker of the truth needs to have the big bright light put on him and let's all gather as the cockroach runs and hides under his frickin rock. POS.... Pvt. French..... ya just gotta know he got some sh#t when he was training.