Steve Bunting

So at first I'm like, is that the wrong answer?

I'm thinking I'm going to get yelled at.

And they're like, no, it's not the wrong answer.

They kind of wrote it down.

And they start giving you an opportunity in boot camp to do the dive motivator prep.

So they start sending you to the pool every day and things like that.

And I remember once I started walking that path, I asked them, I was like, hey, if I don't make it through this process, do I still get to be a corpsman?

And they're like, no, you're not.

And I was like, okay.

I was like, so maybe I should wait.

Maybe I shouldn't sign the dotted line right now.

Maybe I should wait till I get through core school and then figure it out from there.

I was really scared that if, you know, I didn't make it through buds, then I was going to be, you know, a deck seaman or something.

I didn't know what it was going to be at the time, but I knew it probably wasn't going to be good.

Didn't sound interesting.

Did not sound like, and the risk wasn't worth the reward because my trailer park barely had a six foot pool and it was half filled half the time.

So I knew I was like something about that water is going to eat me up.

So I kind of waited off, but they still kind of pull you out.

And then once you get to core school, the main battle for them is to get people to go greenside.

And while I was there, I had a mentor who was a recon corpsman named Dave.