USMC Squad Bay

Marine Corps Recruiting Command

About this app

The official U.S. Marine Corps Squad Bay training app challenges those who want to learn about the Marine Corps, including aspiring Marines to track fitness progress and prepare for the demanding and transformative process of Recruit Training or Officer Candidates School. Use Squad Bay to connect with Marine Corps Recruiters, challenge yourself physically and mentally, compete with your peers, and track your progress in real time.

Ratings and reviews

Good training advice, but slow and unreliable. The workouts and study guides are very helpful; however, the app's ability to track your progress and generally function is very slow and unreliable. It is common for it to lose all of the exercise progress from a workout session (less common to lose the whole week's exercises, but it still happens). Likewise, the color scheme commonly glitches out and you'll have a grey background with white text... Hopefully updates will improve the app.

I keep being logged out and have to sign back in after reopening the app from one day to the next. Would be nice if my login credentials would save. When reopening the app, it says "Something went wrong. Please try again later" and then sends me to the login screen. Other than that, really enjoying the app so far.

I personally have not used this application as I have already completed recruit training. However I would like to say to all you future Marines that using the resources this application provides, especially the knowledge, will make your experience on the island much smoother and less stressful. Passing the written tests, PFT, and CFT are graduation requirements so preparing for them now would be in your best interest. Stay motivated and remember to embrace the suck.

What’s new

The latest version of Squad Bay introduces the systematic updating of USMC user locations, enhancements, and bug fixes.