First and the ONLY DEP meeting for me.

So, today my recruiter's office held their monthly DEP meeting. Out of 36 DEP Recruits, only 15 or so were able to make it. We first started out by reciting the Sailor's Creed as a whole, then our RINC (Recruiter In-Charge) gave out awards and paygrade raises to those who have successfully completed their DEP PQS book or have given at least 2 referrals. Two DEP recruits today immediately went from paygrade E-1 to E-3 by doing this.

After reciting the Sailor's Creed, we then jogged roughly 3.5-4 miles as a group. Once we came back to the office, we then went over a few ceremonial traditions and practices which then proceeded to us simply giving input as to what our recruiters can do to make the monthly DEP meetings better and what else we can do as DEP recruits to better ourselves before we ship out for basic training.

29 days to go...