Editing Leonal Drizzt (section)

===Marine Boot Camp: Parris Island, Earth===
Parris Island is a masochists dream, a one year primary program where fresh boots or crewman out of either the Academy or Crewman School are thrown together without any previous rank and whom find their heads stuffed full of deadly ways of making war. Cadets find themselves run into the ground, brought up at all hours for watch, and taught the intricacies of basic combat tactics and all the advanced weaponry which separate the Marine Corps from ground-based Starfleet Tactical forces. 

Leonal took to it like a babe to milk. He was already a very athletic man, and his competitive edge had been honed by years worth of training in hand-to-hand and stick combat. With the physical aspect behind him, something most boots were having the most problems with, he had the mind-space to watch the Marines around him and pay special attention to the classes and demonstrations of each basic class. Like any boot, he had the right to test for any Marine position he chose, and with only two months left of Boot Camp, he took the necessary physical, mental and psychological testing and passed all  for Combat Engineering… what was perhaps the single most difficult and dangerous job the Marines had to offer. 

Combat Engineering was, for lack of better definition, the special forces of the Marines. They cleared landing zones, engaged in Counter Terror and a slew of other jobs that varied from noble to malicious. The entire concept intrigued Leonal, and he got his entire boot-squad drunk the night he found out he had been accepted to the CE Training program on condition he passed Boot Camp… much to their displeasure the next morning.

The last couple months of Boot Camp flew by, and he found himself a newly christened Marine, ready to stand the Line for Starfleet and the Federation.