The kill hats were the biggest surprise for me. They were literally demons running around like maniacs. Inhuman. No movie or bootcamp video ever shows it. Thanks for uploading
My SDi wasn't into playing with voices and screaming much ..he would yell it echoed and shook the gates at the entrance to the depot.Hard work ,pt, knowledge,and especially drill was what made him great.
All "fun" and "games" until you're actually in the eye of the storm. Real "fun" when it's singled out on you personally. The wrath is intense and hurts. No escaping no where for your mind to wander. The ultimate reality when your Drill Instructors comes crashing down on you. No where to go no where to hide. The wake up call to becoming a Marine. Very sobering and scary as hell.
alex martinez only wish someone had footage of when they make you do the stupid shit like scuzzing the squad bay with another recruit or drill movements with footlockers
This is soft. We had two recruits knocked out the first day on black Friday. We had water bowl IT sessions (puke covering the entire deck of the squad bay) constantly. Second phase we stole another platoons guide on since they took ours and had their drill instructor beat the living shit out of our guide while he just watched and smiled.
This just shows why the Marines are the very best. I was a paratrooper in the Army, but my boot camp was tough, but nothing like this. We would be in groups talking at the airport, and Marines would walk by, and the conversation stopped, and just like me, everyone was staring with that same look. There is something about the US Marine, and it's the boot camp, which is ten times tougher than any of the other armed services, PERIOD. That's why they get that look, its the look of admiration, cause they EARNED that awesome uniform with the eagle, globe, and anchor. SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪💪
@@wolfgangresch1650 I went to Infantry OSUT at Harmony Church, at Ft. Benning. It was brutal. Lots of physical and mental abuse. Ask anyone who went there what went on. Don't be so quick to assume that just because your boot camp wasn't like what you saw in a video was the same for all soldiers. You weren't Infantry.
@@tdcninja4143 relax brother, we're all on the same team 🇺🇸 I was OSUT Too, -40 for weeks. Just comparing standards. Marines have to qualify rifle at 500 yards or no graduation.
MCRD San Diego, Platoon 3075 Summer/Fall 1989. This is amazing footage. I remember being in Receiving for a couple days and wondering where all the yelling was. Then one day we all form it up and march down a couple blocks to a new squadbay. We stack all our seabags outside and sit down on the quarterdeck. The officer did his thing, the Senior DI did his thing and walked back into the duty hut...and then this happened. Holy shit! I was 18 right out of high school. Full Metal Jacket already came out by the time I enlisted prior to my senior year in 1988, so I was expecting that. Compared to what happened, GySgt Hartman was a teddy bear. Within 5 minutes I'm wondering what the hell I got myself into. The echoing sounds of this in our own squadbay as well as the other new platoons being picked up going through the same thing still give me chills. And the sounds of the planes taking off just on the other side of the fence, will never forget that. I love the genuine looks of fear at 0:54 and 1:56, and I can't tell you how many times I got the hand in the face at 2:10 . Also the seemingly effortless flinging of footlockers and seabags while kicking recruits trash into obscurity is sheer ballet. The devastation and complete chaos of your gear left in the wake of this first day is only comparable to trying to find your stuff by the time you hit the rack. I lost plenty of stuff, or ended up with other peoples gear. I do remember losing my "Knowledge", but finding it on fire watch that night! If you are the DI in this video wreaking havoc on these new recruits, you are to be commended. I guarantee you are still being talked about today by the recruits you turned into United States Marines.
I went in 91.. thank God we went in when shit was REAL... I thank God everyday that I went in the full tilt REAL Marine Corps boot camp and not the WOKE bullshit now ... one of the things I hated at MCRD SD was 1. I was always the 4th squad and they always fucking shouted ONE TWO THREE FOUR ATTACK THE CHOW HALL while only like once in a blue moon they would say FOUR THREE TWO ONE... and 2. was the fucking jets... we had the LAST bay on the closest edge to the airport fence so the fucking jets would literally SCREAM in and out all fucking day and night.. .. I have like 5% hearing lose and my doctor thinks its from that.. oh yeah.. I was Winter 91 1100... oh BTW second phase was like the Russian Front in the winter... SD had one of the worst winters in like 50 years ... I was literally wet and pissed on for two weeks straight.. I was a 4.5 Marine but I always forgot the GO's I actually do not remember most of them to this day hahaahahah
Hollywood as well platoon 1119 Jan 12 2001 my fondest memory was holding my M-16a2 service rifle by the front sight post arm straight out 2 fingers on the front sight
@@charlesbukowski9836 Jeeezz Hollywood....what was it, like 50 degrees or something? Didn't they issue you ear muffs and mittens along with the sunglasses? I would have traded PI's July swelter for a good freeze any day.
Ahhhh the days 😍😍😍 you got 2 drill instructors counting over each other, another one running laps up and down the squad bay, 5 recruits are getting lit up on the quarterdeck, bags are being dumped, recruits running back and forth, it’s just pure chaos and there’s nothing like it.
Always makes me remember what was going through my head on Black Friday. Nobody other than a marine can explain how amazing it was to shake the hand of a drill instructor and have him say “job well done, Marine” still brings tears just thinking of it. Semper Fi devil dogs
Little did we know at the time of being recruits that those 3 months on parris island would be some of the greatest 3 months of our lives. It was such an honor to just be able to say i survived parris island or san diego. Change is forever. S/F brothers
I graduated last year so yes in a way we were “babied” (we would still get thrashed but what happens in the squad bay stays in the squad bay. I miss my drill instructors
The chaos on Black Friday is my favorite memory from bootcamp. The guy next to me puked on me. The guy across from me was crying. I got caught laughing at him. I was legitimately having fun although I could do without the puke. This is probably the only video I've seen that shows the insanity, I love it.
I don't regret ever serving in the Corp's. I served 3 years in the Army and I crossed over the discipline that was instilled in me from the Marine corps and proudly the Sargent's in the Army saw that. Marine Corps forever, Semper Fi !!!!!!!
I did the same thing and I also spent 3 years in the Army as well. I wished many of days that I reenlist back in the Corp, I had Sgt's that failed inspection because sgt major found chicken bones under his rack and had fellow soldiers fail drug test all the time. I thank God that I never went to combat with them, I always told people in my unit that I would go to war any day with my Marines than go with you all. I will say this last thing also the only thing that the Army does is promote faster, that's all I thank God that he bless me to get out before my unit went to combat because I really believe in my heart that I would not have made it back alive with the unit that I was in. Semper Fi !!!!!!!
I still remember my first wakeup. All three DI's with batons banging on the inside of GI cans screaming at the top of their lungs. I was already up I was so nervous. I didn't take a dump for 7 damn days.
On the first day we had to throw all our boots in the middle. A drill instructor came through with a push broom and made one big pile. For all of boot camp, I had the wrong size boots. I never could find my own. My boots were too small. '93
Well, that makes ZERO logical sense whatsoever!!! If you can't walk, you can't fight!!! You think I'm staying in there without my shoes...? You got another thing coming!!!
Military discipline is instilled while in boot camp. You learn to work as a team, and obey orders in order not to get yourselves and your fellow Marines killed in combat.
Thank you for the flashback of P.I. I arrived as a Recruit in the early morning hours of Jan 2, 1992 and graduated from Plt 3025, 3rd Btn, L Co. on March 27th. Never will forget my 13 weeks there.
@@jtcusa7288 That must have been a Hollywood thing. It's so humid on Parris Island, that it would have only taken 2 minutes. Not nearly enough time for a good thrashing. It's dry enough in San Diego to make that sound like hell.
@@Savage3OO6 I wasn’t in the marines, but they took it as a challenge in the Navy during the colder months in Great Lakes to “make it rain”. It would have been a piece of cake during the summer which was surprisingly miserable at the time.
@@bigwilly43729 Sounds like good times! My dad went to Great Lakes back in the 60s, I will ask him if they did it back then too. I'm not sure what time of year he was there though.
I had 2 of my DIs haze the shit out of me and two other guys. They had us do mountain climbers, burpees, jumping jacks, etc for some stupid shit I don't remember. But we went at it for like 2 hours straight and I felt like I lost 10 pounds then and there lmao good times
Summer of 84 Parris Island...this is the most realistic video of old school boot camp...too bad nobody has one of when we did close order drill with our mattresses....that was fun😁
I was one of those "confused" recruits walking around confused, and I tell you what you DO NOT want to be one of those "confused" recruits because you're TARGET NUMBER 1 for a bad smoking session with some "corrective training" add in on the quarter deck. The whole experience would often bring me to tears because the stress got to me so much. This place is NOT for light weights, you better have thick skin and better know how to think on your feet or will you get eaten alive by those DIs as they correct your constant screw ups.
@@jheartbeats3294 yeah man sometimes people aren’t meant for certain things in life and don’t get me wrong it was a hard experience and not every person can be a marine but I’m glad I still attempted it or I would of wondered my whole life if it was for me or not. But I’ve learned a lot about myself and new principles! I still talk to my friend Jacob( he was a poolee that was with me when I got quarantined for a month) and he likes the marines sucks ass😂. 1017 was the platoon I was in before I got dropped to RSP🥹. Them mofos In RSP was different breeds of people😂
I used to always hate the drill instructors when I saw videos of them acting crazy like this. But watching this particular video, I have to say, there have been times where I seriously wanted to do exactly this to a random group of people. It must be liberating to be able to let out your inner mad man. Tough on the vocal cords. I’m glad those of you who have served remember this experience fondly.
I was there in 72' there just as tough as back then it's a blessing to see the DI is the same. I laugh watching now believe me I was scared shit when I went threw it.
Ijeffrey Trian That is the great thing about the Marine Corps. We take pride in our heritage and feel an obligation to live up to the high standards set by those that are the uniform before us. People like you set a high standard and passed it on to the next generation. It looks like the new generation are trying to do the same. Semper Fi!
The MEMORIES!!!! I went thru boot camp back in 2004 @ PI. AND WE GOT DESTROYED!!!!! LIMA CO. Was the shit!!!! My kill hat was soo bad our Senior had to keep him away from us sometimes!!! Some of the best/worse times of my life but it definitely made me into who I am today!!! Semper Fi Marines!!!!
I was at mcrd san diego around this time. Really captures it well. I really love these guys, they're some of the most impressive people I've ever met. This intensity is really constant, they never break character. For 3 months. At first you really start thinking 1 good sucker punch on one of them would be worth the dishonorable discharge. But it turns, our senior literally told us the day it would "click" and it did. Part of that is realizing how hard these guys work. They changed my life, and I could never thank them enough.
It’s always good to see where I came from, makes me proud of who I am today and reinforces the very basic fundamentals of success in life. God bless SF 🦅 🌎 ⚓️
This is what bootcamp should be like in every branch. It prepares you mentally for combat. I served in the Army and I wish we had this kind of indoctrination.
If I could go back in time I should’ve joined the marine corps and not the army. But now that I already joined, I never want to go through this type of experience again. The army sucked, and the marine corps is worse.
@@HateTheIRS Its a little funny you say that. I think back at all the craziness that happened in boot camp and everything I did and places I went in my short 4 years being in the Marine Corps and I can tell you Parris Island, while being very difficult for many different reasons, was among the best memories I have had. If I could go back and do boot camp again I would in a heart beat, there is no feeling like it. Yes it was extremely difficult but it made me who I am and what I am to my very core.
Hell this should be mandatory for EVERY 18 year old boy and girl in America to experience Marine basic training for 3 months after graduating high school. Enlisting beyond should still be completely voluntary, but this shit will turn every ill-mannered, self centered, gen-y and gen-z punk addicted to their cell phone with no comprehension of the real world into respectable, responsible, productive, hard working, and thoughtful young American citizens. I believe it would make our country vastly better. Exponentially better. If everyone had to go through 3 months of Marine basic training. It would teach everyone what truly matters in life, how to deal with disappointment and loss, how to solve problems, how to be responsible and productive, to be healthy...... my gosh, even if 90% would fail or drop out, they'd at least have an understanding that life ain't easy and to succeed you have to take personal responsibility. So then when they go off to college they don't go for the easiest degree that would be useless yet indoctrinate them in destructive liberal agendas but attain a degree they can actually apply in life and use to do something. Or go into the trades, constructions, machining........ I'm really imagining how much stronger America would be if everyone had just a taste of Marine training.
This is how we got disciplined at bootcamp, I can guarantee it made us better because we never wanted days like this again ... If we were doing good they would still do this to keep us on our toes
I can still smell the Bulldog aftershave when walking through the Depot (used this to mop the desk during field day). And watching my Drill Instructors ooze sweat out of their Creighton shirts. Thanks for sharing this @Doherty Ranch. Brought back memories - Plt 2101, Company F, Graduated Oct 1998
Damn near right there with you. Fall 1983, 3089. I didn't want it to end. I already knew changes had already taken place. My run time dropped from over 24" to under 19". I lost weight, but did not know it was in the 50# range.
Love it! Puts me back in a squad bay just like this one! 😂 Platoon 2107 1997 My senior DI gave a soft speech, and said “let us train you”… And then this happened! 😂
Been quite a few years since I've been there, I still don't miss it. They don't show what happens when the cameras aren't rolling, my DI used to quote the sign on Parris Island that said, "Let no man's ghost come back here and say, 'if only your training had done its job.' " he knew he was training us for combat, war, and death, and they didn't hold anything back.
Somewhere in there is a bully who use to pick on ppl. Who used to take advantage of the vulnerable. And who didn't think the Corps was this way. Yes thats him, stressed out, yelled at, gear kicked around and he is not able to call home and leave...he is stuck in a lions den. And it is very humbling.
I was super blessed, I had a Drill Instructor Sgt. Jones. He was Force Recon. He called Cadence as the Sun was coming up we were in a couple of miles on a decent passed Run. He is running circles around the platoon we are singing back it was super motivation, he simultaneously is doing super man chest bumbs on the wet grass next to us never missing a beat.... Fucking Outstanding... 40+ years ago.. my minds eye See's it clearly. WOW... I sometimes fantasize about the Rifle Range. Once In the fleet, it was the Best times. I can smell black powder....hmmm
There was a DI when i was at MCRD San Diego on the mid 80s. He was a Force Recon unit team leader. And he would run circles around the platoon as we were on our runs. This guy was an animal. He would run ahead of us and do push-ups till we caught up then do chest bumps on the trees then run around the platoon a few more times. That brings back some great memories.
I was in Parris Island 1982....Wow! I remember the Drill Instructors knocking over racks with mattresses, sheets and blankets strewn all over the squad bay!
As Robert Tucker said with his platoon, when we had a red flag day and no training outside, we closed all the portholes in our WOODEN barracks squad bay, posted a recruit at each hatch to watch for officers, and ran the obstacle course. We climbed over the top bunks and crawled under the bottom bunks all the way around our squadbay and kept doing it until the DI was satisfied. The red flag meant it was in the 90's with high humidity outside. But, inside I am sure it was over 100. Our WOODEN barracks had no fans nor air conditioning.
Somedays I look back at boot camp fondly. Remembering how much of a shock it was those first few days. Obviously the yelling doesn't just stop after that you just get more adept at handling the chaos of it.
Absolutely spot on. This marine for one, thanks these drill instructors, these gods among us mere mortals, for all the skills, the discipline, and the ability to remain calm under fire. You have saved my life so many times and you continue to save it now. Yut, rah, and kill. Semper fi and thanks to all the marines before me and who will come after. I don't know what the future holds for you but the Marine in me hopes you get a target rich environment. The civilian in me hopes you never have to go through the things we and others have. Those unvelievably long nights when a thump in the night sits you straight up, waiting to hear impact and/or sirens and the return fire. Is tonight the night for me? So many things I want to do, so many places I want to see.... somehow thankfully and sadly, it wasn't your night. But it was your best buds night. Didn't even say goodbye to him.... didn't tell him you were sorry about that thing that you did and got him swept up in it too on accident... didn't get a chance to get a last message for a young wife and mother. Fuck man, semper fi.
I needed this, I have been having a week to top it off with a day. Good times, sometimes I wish I could go back through boot camp and an enlistment again, kind of realign things.
Outstanding and for those not in the know, these recruits have 30 seconds to retrieve all their OWN trash, square it away, and 20 of those seconds are already gone...MOVE! If I had it do all over again, I would in a heartbeat. Thirty years later, I appreciate it more every day than I did then. SF
A war broke out on every Black Friday ( pick up day ) you have young New hats on every DI Team, they are the worse because they are trying to prove themselves. The heavy which is the next in line behind the senior drill instructor, he is the one trying to make senior DI and get his own platoon, then it becomes a 9 to 5 day and off on Saturday. The rest of the team grinds your ass up daily 16 hrs a day 6 days a week. 8 hr on Sunday. But you as a recruit will eventually conform/ transform into a a recruit then a potential Marine.
The Di's formed us up outside. While we waited we could hear the DI's totally destroying the squad bay. While we stood at attention outside all you could see through the windows were pillows and bed sheets flying across the room. A rack on each end was tipped over which caused a domino effect of all the racks falling over. The sound of foot lockers being dumped all over, and us recruits muttering softly outside "we're fucked." The DI's came outside and told us "you have exactly 3 minutes to unfuck that mess." When three minutes were up and didn't have it cleaned up by then (impossible) we were told "you're done, get back outside." We looked through the squad bay windows to racks toppling over again. Footlockers being dumped and pillows and bedsheets flying across the squadbay. Ahhh boot camp! I wouldn't trade my boot camp time for anything.
This is one of crazy stuff that made me rebook at boot cam. But after completing bootcamp there is that feeling. If you graduate then you are part of a high skilled warrior.
Ah ... the old Corps, 69 Hollywood Marine here. Those were the days when the laying on of hands was not only anticipated, it was routine until we got used to it and squared ourselves away!
We had a guy start screaming to no end during one of those school circles; they took him out on a stretcher, I had no idea he was having a breakdown for many years having no idea what a breakdown was, it was quiet as class went on and then he lost it--screaming and screaming for no reason, still sitting with his legs crossed. I was also too stupid then to think he might have faked it; they made us all turn and face the bulkhead until some EMS-type folk took him out. It scared the crap out of me and probably other people, too, I was sweating cold over it, and if it was fake, it worked (I don't think it was). He being one of those beefy dudes in first phase who'd been around you knew would make it easy; I still remember what he looked like, a little.
We had a dude break down in basic too, all crying and shit. It was towards the end of BCT and even the DS were like wtf is wrong bro? Turns out he blew out his appendix. Poor dude.
We had a guy on our first day we got our DIs. I forget what that day is called, but he was a heavy set guy that obviously didn't know what he got himself into. He's on the quarterdeck with all 3 DIs standing around him screaming exercises & he's just sitting there rocking forward and back slapping the floor with his hands every time he goes forward & screaming YES SIR! over & over again crying like a baby. We never saw him again after that. DEAD SIR! we all yelled when he was mentioned later by the senior DI.
It was 1st phase, just after reveille......... I was taking a leak in the head next to another scrawny kid such as myself, who was telling everyone he was about to quit..... I recall telling him that was a bad idea, but he ignored me & the other recruits advice to NOT do that...... So we started doing field day, and that's when he told one of the DI's to fuck off and then proceeded to run out of the squad bay into the lovely grounds of MCRD San Diego.............We saw him again, shortly after. He was in hand-cuffs, courtesy of the MP's, and we all saw it, class room style, in that squad bay. Crying like a toddler as the MP's treated him FAR worse than the DI's...The battalion commander arrived, had a chat with the Drill Instructors, and decided he's gotta' go back home............Semper Fi.
One dude the first day--if not the first five minutes of first phase--said he wasn't going to do shit so sat on a rack, or they put him as far to the back of the squad-bay as possible--away from all the chaos. The DI's were all nice like in "Tribes" with Jan-Michael Vincent, asking in low voices "'Are you going to do this..?' 'Naw, I ain't doin' nothin.' 'You sure?' 'Yep.'" And he was gone just like that while the rest of us were treated like we were in boot camp
Bring back lots of memories from when I went through Boot In the 60's when u had 3 weeks of forming and then a Pt. Test before u started your 12 weeks of Boot Camp but if u did pass your Pt. Test u went to conditioning Plt. But I passed my Pt. Test
This is a good place of "educating" some liberals,who live simping for communism,russians,socialism and so on to start loving and respect their country and their people and start thinking using brain cells,not emotions. Happy Birthday USA! Bless brave men and women who serving and served! Love from occupied Belarus,Europe!
lol- the memories- sgt hayward-sgt pickering- sgt gagne. have to say this video is tame compared to when i was at PI in 1960-they kicked the shit out of us. but it made us tough.
Yr 1999, went through during that Summer at MCRD graduated at the end of July that year, had my 19th Birthday on the quarter deck, getting smoked. PI recruits always hating on us Hollywood Marines, same intensity, different area. Up North at Camp P, edson range was rough, the first time I ever slept standing up going through the crucible. I could go on, but am forever thankful to the Corp, Semper Fi. "Yuuuuut" 0311 3/3
