Hello Marines, I have heard this Moment of Truth phrase used several times, reffering to recieving at Recruit Training, while I've been in the DEP. I am just curious what exactly it is. Thanks in advance Marines.
Moment of Truth is your last chance to come clean at MEPS (just prior to shipping) on information, facts, details that you either forgot, neglected, withheld or lied about to fraudulently enlist. When you're caught, you will face disciplinary actions by the Marine Corps legal system, sentenced, jailed in the brig, and given a "dishonorable" discharge. So what are you hiding? Believe us... we always find out.
There is also a moment of truth the first or second day of reception that I think the OP is referring to. They basically take a whole bunch of you that arrived together (about a platoon sized group) into a big clasroom at the recieving building. A Marine will come in and give you a hard-nosed, no BS tough talk about what could turn up if you should you get hurt and they search your med records and find asthma in your past or if you refuse to train and try to get out and they search you criminal record and find stuff you don't disclose. He says this is your last chance to give up any info without having a HARSH penalty. Anything that turns up after that point is grounds for prosecution for fraudulent enlistment.
After the speech he or she has everyone who doesn't have anything to disclose leave the room. Everyone else says what they have to disclose. Everyone that was in there from my platoon came back out and continued training, most graduated. The ones who didn't grad got dropped for issues during training that had nothing to do with the MOT.
