Not Knowing General Orders

[Y0937]

Originally Posted by Auridan

Unless you literally hock a giant loogie in your chief's morning coffee, and he actually catches you doing it, no. I know you're stressing, and people telling you not to isn't really going to help, but don't stress. You'll be tired and off-balance just like everyone else, and you'll get through, just like everyone else.

I don't mean to cheapen anyone's sense of achievement for making it through. It's just that you really don't have anything else to focus on while you're there, so things will actually come surprisingly easily to you.

Yup, definitely stressing, lol. That actually does put me at ease, at least more than I was before. I don't come from a military family at all so I can't get any advice from that area, and with the recruiter's job being to push me through...I trust him, but at the same time there's still that annoying voice saying that he's just telling me what I want to hear. Hearing that from an outside source does help a bit, thanks!

[NavyCalifornia]

I haven't been to boot camp yet so I can't really chime in, but from working with my recruiter he has been more forgiving when I at least know the gist of each one and then after that make progress toward the wording. If you're really cramming I would probably try to make sure you at least know what each one's about so that if you get asked, at least you're close and not like "I can't remember at all." type of deal. Best of luck to you!