A group of teachers from the Austin/San Antonio area recently attended a Marines Educator Workshop in San Diego. The workshop gave the teachers a week-long and hands-on experience at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot.
the scare factor for me was not having a clue what it was like to be in the military. Years ago they offered DVD's to people wanting to enlist, now you can see it all on RU-vid, including what it is like to go through Special Forces selection.
@@AG-uh9bf wrong i never even thought about backing out of Royal Marine Course becuase i knew this woupd have been the only thing i would have known or have been good at
Nothing you see on videos like this or DVD even comes close to whats like in real life. They dumb it down so much cause the public can't handle how Marines are really made 💪🏽
One of my drill sergeants at Army BCT was a high school history teacher who was retired from the Army and came back on a one year contract to be a drill again because of a shortage. He was my favorite, gave us a lot of lessons in military history in the little free time we got.
Surely you jest. This is the worst advice I've ever seen. As a recruit you want to show up as a sack of shit and get sent to pcp. You want IT to be part of your daily routine. How else will you be at your peak of fitness if you don't do something to show them you are a go getter and want the extra PT? Afterward you will make artillery obsolete by being able to hurl the rounds by hand far into enemy lines without the aid of powder or a weapon.
+Jordan Clawson You are correct! Someone didn't do their research before they decided to air this story! Forty plus years ago I was on those footprints but I still remember USMC boot camp like it was yesterday.
Dude. That's pretty disrespectful. Also, you literally don't need to know anything because the drill instuctor will tell you everything you'll need to know.
I went through MCRD San Diego in the Summer of 1976. The first thing in my mind when I was coming of the bus and heading to those foot prints was; "Mommy!! I wanna come home! I made a mistake!" I think every other recruit that night had the same, or similar thoughts, because every one of us had the same, dazed, confused, and fear filled look on our faces. 12 weeks later, I walked off that Depot as a United States Marine. And I'm still a Marine to this day. Yeah, I'm 62, my body aches, I can hardly breath, my eye sight is lousy, I need hearing aids, and I have kidney stones...but I'm still a Marine, and could kick the ass of any enemy this country has. SEMPER FI.
My uncle was in the army and it's TRUE what marine Maldonado said it really saves you from a lot of bad things, my uncle was a thug was detained once when I was younger. He joined the army and he is a well respected sergeant, a great dad and uncle and overall a good friend.
I scrapped my old classroom management plan and created a new one based upon Marine boot camp. It works. My class is the best in the school, well-behaved, hard working, motivated.
An OCS classmate of mine who was a junior high teacher said the same thing about the paramilitary organization of his classroom- the other teachers can’t understand how he gets his students to behave so well, and the students love his class more than any other.
@@OscarDeltaSierra Since they’re young, (grades 3/4), I don’t scream in their faces, but I speak with the same military authority, stand with the same military bearing, and expect the same respect and obedience. Having dual grades is also helpful. The newbie third graders copy the fourth graders who’ve already been in the class for a year. Since there’s always peer pressure, make it work for the better.
I always got the feeling that teachers didn’t see the military decision as highly as a four year college or even a community college but now teachers are getting a taste of it
Always has the biggest respect for the marines especially the DI’s. They scream like that to prepare you for war. My cousins were marines and as they explained once you start learning what your supposed to do they don’t get on your case as much. And once you graduate they’ll do anything in the world for you!!!!!!
My MTI (Military Training Instructor) shook each of our hands and congratulating each of for graduating basic training!! as well as welcoming us as permanent party US Air Force!
Wish the one at 1:22 was in my platoon; every morning, the first thing I'd see is her skivvies. Then she would look at my skivvies; nothing would ever change for about three months.
It’s an interesting experience but I just remember being really nervous but telling myself “everyone here is feeling the same way, and every one serving has been through it so it will be ok.” You just listen to what they say and execute accordingly. I’m grateful for the experience. Yea a lot of it sucks but you learn some valuable lasting lessons about yourself and others.
Bob Ross wasn't a drill sergeant. Or Military Training Instructor, as we call them in the Air Force. He WAS, however, a Med Group First Sergeant, and part of being a First Sergeant back then was chewing out a troop, sometimes.
@@specialk9424 he did end up with master sgt though and here is a quote from him about the period of time where he was a drill sgt "I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”
@@bees8390 True, I've heard him say that several times. And yes, he was a Master Sergeant. You have to be at least a Master Sergeant, before you can be a First Sergeant, it's a Senior NCO position. In the Air Force, 1st Sgt is not a rank, it's a position. A special duty. In the Army and the Corps, it's a rank and a position. And sometimes, you'd have to do all the things he says in that quote. If an airman fails his room inspection enough times, the 1st Sgt gets involved, and does exactly what Bob did: chews your ass until you make your bed. But a TI never yells at you for being late to work, because you're at work as soon as the lights go on, and you don't go anywhere, unless he marches you there. Bob's quote DOES sound like an MTI's job, but I haven't found anything, anywhere, stating he was one. Only that he was a Med Group 1st Sgt. One look at his ribbon rack, and I could tell you for sure.
Some? Every... single... one of them! They need to see what it takes to build a combat ready soldier, last president we ever had that went through the hoops, served and warned about using war as a business was Eisenhower.
It must be nice to walk on all that flat land. It must be nice to not have to run up hills everyday. No hate to the east coast. I just love to instigate shit 😂
What it was like to have my science teacher in the 7th grade who used to crew tanks. He was strict on us but it was because he cared. He was a great teacher and was fun to have. He even would make full metal jacket references towards us and is the whole reason I loved science that year.
I would voluntarily go to his class as a 66 year old, but I would be on my face for laughing at the comments from full metal jacket! I had world war 2 veterans for teachers, though it was not basic training, you knew your place in line and respect was demanded!
Marine Corps Boot camp is definitely rough. It's hell. Not for everyone and being one in the fleet is a pain in the ass. If you need a drastic change, be a Marine. If not, join the other branches. My advice.
Way different when u actually enlist and this is your life vs the ‘I get to try out this marine thing for a day’ lmao DI screamed hurry up and the teacher just kept walking
This happened while I was in boot camp. They had some of our guys stay back from PT one day so the teachers could talk to the recruits and ask them questions and stuff
It was nice of them to attend a taste of boot camp. Knowing you will soon be warm and fuzzy back home tends to diminish the mental and physical aspects of 89 days & nights of endless repetition, punishment and exhausting drills. We were in boot two weeks before we could call home, my parents were not home so I had to wait two more weeks. To graduate you must complete all the drills, rifle range, marching and endurance tests. Every day was like a fire drill with yelling and punishment. If you are lacking a one of the check points you are sent back to start boot camp over. You don't simply pass time to graduate. My friend private Page spent six months in boot and they offered him a discharge that he refused. He stuck it out. Private Elliot had an injury and after I graduated he was still in boot. We had clean and comfortable quarters and plenty of great food, that made it a bit more tolerable. After boot we went to infantry training. It wasn't as rigid, but still an endurance test. Finally done! They with held some of our pay (72.50 per month total and they took taxes out) so everyone had money to travel home. Next was the interminable wait to see your first set of orders which had your next destination as a full fledged Marine!
I think the true fear of being a marine lies within a PTSD diagnosis, and not being able to readjust to civilian life. The stress of basic training is so minuscule to what a marine can face in his/her military career, depending on their MOS of course.
Yea. Basic isn’t really a traumatic experience in my opinion. There’s yelling and there’s challenges but unless you have a really hostile drill who’s breaking rules and is out to get you then it’s really just a big game where you’re tired, hungry, stressed out (and likely sick a couple times) for a few weeks. It’s designed to build you, physically and mentally, into a soldier and a lot of that is about accountability for yourself, your equipment, and your comrades.
as long as you understand that no matter haw loud they yell , and no matter what they do they whant what is good for you behind it all they loose their intimidation factor.
the kid who graduated and talked about how he hated it, but then liked it actually makes me want to go, because he kept it real and actually said something honest about the situation on joining the army
@@scottg5588 am a junior in hs currently; that being said I'm not interested, because I am confidently pursuing money making. In my 20's, ill be planning on doing some sort of combat training, from boxing to even an army level version of training. The risk of my life being taken is too much for me to take with the impact I'm willing to make on the people around me. Thank you for asking and reminding me of this tho.
I think its funny that they're not that hard on them, but yet, if you enlist, they treat you way different. And also, i wonder if they did the gas test.
Khallil A. Marshall Exactly, it’s because of the color contrasts. I mean he probably does have clean teeth but it’s because his skin pigment is dark black so of course white teeth are going to look really white....
Hahaha Sgt. Castellanos, my favorite Drill Instructor. Echo Platoon 2103 in 2011. He trusted me to do a lot of tasks for him and he'd take care of me. Usually. We had a new Kill Hat halfway through the cycle that was trying to break me in 3rd phase for laughing. I was about 200 pushups and however many crunches and flutter kicks in, but I could do those for days. I couldn't help but chuckle when this shorter, less intimidating DI would get in my face. But, Sgt. Castellanos knew me better. He walked in to the front of the squadbay, and he just stopped, kind of looked over like "wtf". He then started walking away and just yelled, "MOUNTAIN CLIMBERSSSS". My laughs quickly subsided
