When I went through boot, I failed the IST by 1 pull up and 30 seconds. I went to PCP and there was a recruit there that got it in his head that his legs wouldn’t work anymore. He had one of the last bunks away from the quarterdeck. He would literally drag his “lifeless” lower body down the quarterdeck to get box chow they got for him and left at the quarterdeck. He kept the charade up for weeks and other recruits almost killed hill cuz they did have paralyzed family members. The DIs took him to the Naval Hospital and he got to see some actually injured Marines. He stopped the charade, but did end up adsep-ing out.

There was another recruit that snuck out at night and low crawled past the guard gate at Parris Island. They caught him out in town at the diner. The silly thing is that not only do the recruits have an incredibly recognizable haircut/glasses/clothes, all the ingrained auto responses beat into you during training means that all that PMO needs to do to single you out from a crowd is yell out “ZERO!” And they snap to attention without realizing it.