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Mar 18, 2016

The First Weeks Of Navy Boot Camp — Info For Families

The MEPS Visit — The boot camp experience starts at MEPS. A recruit is poked, prodded, tested, and questioned until he or she is pronounced fit for the US Navy and is presented with a contract. There are two important things about the…

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Jul 14, 2016

Marine Corps Boot Camp Training Matrix

Marine Corps Drill Instructors try to keep recruits guessing and on their toes throughout boot camp. The “Unknown” is a part of boot camp, but having a good idea of what you’ll be doing each week will help you to prepare and remove unnecessary stress.

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Apr 18, 2016

What NOT to bring to Navy Boot Camp

Our last post was a list of items that recruits have to bring to boot camp with them, but what…

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Feb 26, 2016

5 Tips when writing to someone at Basic Training & Boot Camp

Over the past year Team Sandboxx has delivered thousands of letters to those at basic training and boot camp. From talking to hundreds of family, friends and recruits ,these are the five pieces of letter writing advice that…

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Apr 18, 2016

Navy Boot Camp — Tips before you ship

Before you ship to Great Lakes, IL for Navy boot camp, here are some of the top pieces of…

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Aug 3, 2016

Funny Boot Camp Stories — Volume 1

Boot camp and basic training are high stress environments. That, combined with some genius/cruel Drill Instructors leads to pretty funny incidents.

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May 25, 2016

Phrases to know before Army Basic Training

The following is advice from Josh Hartmann and lists the tops terminology and phrases that you need to know before shipping out to basic training. You can download the Sandboxx app before basic training here.