Im planning to get married after basic and need to know how much money i will have after buying hair cuts personal hygene products pictures ect.
for some reson no one can tell me this and I need to know so I can see how much I can spend on wedding rings Can some one please help me ?

My friends mom whos son is a Marine told me that he left Boot without any money cuz u pay for everything. Im not sure how accurate that is though.

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Prodigy, although I joined in 1984, I left Boot Camp with about $500.00.

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Originally posted by Sabbatical_Prodigy:
Im planning to get married after basic and need to know how much money i will have after buying hair cuts personal hygene products pictures ect.
for some reson no one can tell me this and I need to know so I can see how much I can spend on wedding rings Can some one please help me ?

Prodigy,
There have been threads on here about getting married as a junior Marine. Please do some searching for that. It may save you some headaches in the future.

Do yourself, girlfriend and your future NCO's a favor and DON'T get married.

I left boot with about $1500

Lord, wait to get married....

You have to pay for the haircuts? That's pretty lame.

You will be paying for a lot stupider stuff than that, as politely suggested by DI's.

"Everyone going into the PX WILL buy 2 bottles of bleach, 2 bottles of Simple Green, And core dressing....Let me catch one of you little cumstains exiting the PX without that stuff and you all will be assured a night of Hell...."

I was in 1st squad and my friend in 2nd. The DIs said "recruits from each squad will buy items for the platoon on a rotational basis".

My Kill-Hat always took us to the Recruit PX and had first buy all the required things. It all added up, and after boot, when my friend and I compared our account statements, I had a great deal less than him. Last day, our whiskey locker still had tons of unused items we bought.

But, whatever.

Even if you loose a little money, you'll get over it. What will hurt you is when you're the boot LCpl that decides to put money down on a Dodge Charger when you get to your duty station and has to eat crackers and mess hall food for the next 20 years.

Nope, those are gone. I'd keep those things around! It'll be really neat-o someday.

I just found a US Army Air Corps award box while moving things around the house. Inside, I found aviator's wings, photos, news clippings, and an old USAAC leather cigarette case belonging to my great uncle. He was a P38 Ligtning pilot in the ETO. At Normandy, he had the little-known honor of being the first pilot to land his plane on newly liberated French soil.

Oh Sheet , forgive me for that ...I asked if they still had " Chit Books " in Boot

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I just found a US Army Air Corps award box while moving things around the house. Inside, I found aviator's wings, photos, news clippings, and an old USAAC leather cigarette case belonging to my great uncle. He was a P38 Ligtning pilot in the ETO. At Normandy, he had the little-known honor of being the first pilot to land his plane on newly liberated French soil.

Thats cool

Thanks! Stuff like that I'm hiding from certain "grabby" relatives.

A $100 set of rings or just a simularily priced wedding band to start is appropiate for any young couple starting out, particularily as a military family.

As a Sergeant, I paid $400 for my wife's rings at the Da Nang 327 PX. I wore them on my dog tag chain taped to my dog tags with black electrical tape for several months until I returned to the states. After 40 years Ann still wears them.

It should also be noted that I had saved several thousand dollars while in Vietnam. We used this money to buy furniture for our first home. We still use some of it.

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I was to get married in my 2nd year to my High School girl friend. Like many others I got Dear Johned, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. It's best to be single and a Marine. So many times I saw couple break up due to the deployments or money, when I was in the Marines had a 58% divorce rate. Think long and hard about it. Listen to the Marines here, don't get mearried unless you have to as in there is a Kid involved that's yours.

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Originally posted by Sabbatical_Prodigy:
Im planning to get married after basic and need to know how much money i will have after buying hair cuts personal hygene products pictures ect.
for some reson no one can tell me this and I need to know so I can see how much I can spend on wedding rings Can some one please help me ?

How old are you and your fiance? Have you even thought this through?

No one can stop you on what you're about to do, but think long and hard about this one.

As the saying goes, "If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife They'd issue you one!".
Each time I came back from a WestPAC almost all of the married boots had divorce papers waiting for them. Both you and your fiance have no idea what or where you are in for, try to stay together though a deployment then see if you both still want to get hitched.
Keep in mind getting married disqualifies you for some things like MSG (embassy) Duty (at least back in the 90's).

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Keep in mind getting married disqualifies you for some things like MSG (embassy) Duty (at least back in the 90's).

Still true...

Depending on how much your DI likes shopping, my platoon left with anywhere between 1500-2100ish. Depending on the person and how much they avoided buying in the PX.