Marine Corps Recruiting – Long Beach

I remember going here, ¹⁶⁄₁₇ in high school, fresh from reading Making the Corps by Thomas Ricks and the staff there is professional, helpful, and knowledgable.
You’ll meet high caliber recruiters and staff who will answer your questions to the point. It is better to know somethings before walking into a recruiters office and you’ll understand the lingo. They even help me start a NROTC packet, which I ended up not completing (I ended up going to a state school and going to USMC OCS instead). If I had known the things I do now I would have been recruited into the reserves and followed a different path.
The recruiters change every couple of years so experiences may vary. The lead recruiter when I went was an older Filipino Gunnery Sergeant, with a scar from is eyebrow to the bottom of his jaw. You can bet when you saw him you were freaking motivated and also absorbed in that ultimate question «So, why do you think you deserve to be in my Marine Corps?»
It’s better to walk in here being able to PT later in the day so you can prove you can hack it. Read Making the Corps, join a couple team sports, keep your grades up, and hang with a better crowd.