Taking Leave During TBS?

[phrogdriver]

This scenario is the greatest: You buy a plane ticket for the weekend and get you out of bounds chit approved 3 weeks in advance. The thursday before you are planning on flying out of town, you have a land nav event, and you fail it by one box. You have to come in on saturday to redo the land nav event. Awsome.

My entire platoon says the TBS is the Marine corps way of teaching you how NOT to treat/train/lead your Marines.

And how many of the platoon have treated/trained/led Marines? 5?

You're in a SCHOOL. You're there to train for 6 months. The guy who said it was like a deployment is on the money. Everyone knows that if you fail land nav you make it up on the weekends.

Cutting breaks to Marines in your unit isn't the same as doing it for Lts in TBS. You cut a LCpl in your unit loose, you'll make it up on the flipside. At TBS there is limited training time and standards to be trained to. If you feel you're not getting any breaks, well, you shouldn't be.

Granted, there are probably bad platoons out there, so maybe yours is one, but TBS as a system has worked pretty well for a long time. It is a factory; you are the 100,000 widget rolling off the line. The preceding widgets have gone on to do pretty good things.While improvements in training are always possible, TBS generally works pretty well. If you think it's all hosed up, maybe you're the one who is.

 

[trongod46]

dont forget remedial land nav on saturday so forget about basically everything YEAH

 

[ArkhamAsylum]

I've heard of dudes going directly from college graduation to OCS, directly to TBS, directly to MOS school, then to their unit which doesn't grant leave during the first month. That's when it's time to create an emergency for yourself to get leave.