Hello all~
I recently got back from a four-month stay at MCRD San Diego...
In other words, I was at bootcamp trying to become a United States Marine.
I injured myself while I was in training, just two days before finishing the first phase of training, it was a stress fracture to my right patella(knee) and it prevented me from staying with my training platoon.
So...
Off I went to Medical Rehabilitation Platoon/MRP. Now, being gay, I was actually quite nervous about letting people know about it... especially since I was stuck there with them. So at first, I never told anyone; although someone had guessed and told another recruit, and then he blabbed to everyone else within the same day. Also... that was only day two for me in MRP, and I was there for about three and a half months. It was honestly not as bad as I had been originally been told to believe.
However...
They liked to ask questions, a lot of questions. Questions that I've never either been asked, or even thought to answer myself. But the ones I really didn't like were the basic ones just about every recruit asked me.
"How long have you known?" "What makes men attractive to you?" and just other sorts of stupid s**t. All in all, I answered a lot of questions, maybe not the way they would've preferred, but I did it while questioning their mental stability. Eventually the questions stopped coming, and they let that little topic die down... a little. But then, this was very close to the point in time where I would be told I was going home, but the drill instructors for MRP
closed the door to the duty hut one day, when I was in there supposed to be making a call home. They told me that they were told by other recruits, which made me both upset and extremely uncomfortable, that I was gay. Now they were asking me questions about myself while I was trying to leave a ******** voice mail for my mom. It pissed me off greatly because, as Drill Instructors, and even more as Marines, I actually expected a bit of professionalism and maybe even a little... respect, to the situation and the topic? Well, none was to be had there. I honestly wish I had talked about it to the CO, but at that point I was ready to just go home.
TL;DR
I hate being asked stupid questions about my sexuality when it's no one's ******** business.
mad