[armyinfmom63]

I want to add to this, but in a different way. My son in basics' suffered a "stress fracture" in his foot, and was out of the runs ect. for the last few weeks of basics. When he could resume running, his foot was still weak, but he was running, but not as fast as they was supposed to. He did get a lot of grief over that. But he did push on. He was still struggling with it when he got deployed. In fact, one of our last conversations before he left, he told me on the phone, that he was so worried that he would not be able to protect his fellow soldiers, that he was almost in tears. But he was still perservering and training and he has done just fine. His fears was for nothing.

Sometimes, and I have found this out with my personal trainer, it is not bullying, although at times you might take it like that, but just to get you in the frame of mind to push harder. (And you always can, to a degree. We all hit a place where we want to give up, but we can get past that, we just have to push beyond that.)

And USMC is right, no branch wants to see weakness. That will really bring them down on you. But I am sure he is fine and will come out being a great soldier and man from all of what he has to endure.