Enlisted in the Marine Corps

[Growler]

You have a full year to increase your physical fitness level at your own pace, so take advantage of it. If you are less miserable physically then you will be able to be more attentive to the mental challenges ("head games") of boot camp. Boot camp is mostly about changing your mental habits, because it is the things you habitually do that will keep you alive and make you effective as a Marine.

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle