I love the comments from people about the "yelling?" A Drill Instructor NEVER yells. They simply speek in a tone of voice, that ensures they will not be misunderstood, misquoted, or ignored.
Jason Ryan Huge waste of tax payer money. The Army has units that do the exact same thing. Studies have shown that the Marines are no longer needed and that they should be integrated into the Army.
Daniel Torluemke No. The huge waste of tax money is allowing you to speak nonsense out of your ass on the internet without knowing what it takes to become a marine. Now do everyone a favor, turn on CNN, and proceed to brainwash your peanut sized civilian brain.
I got here from Cuba in 1995 and I joined after 911. I spoke English but not that good. I couldn't understand what they were saying most of the time. I would look at the recrute next to me to figure out what they wanted me to do. A living night mare . semper Fi , God bless America. Democracy and capitalism.
That brings me back my basic training days! You do things there that you don't nowhere else. It's a crazy time and very scary. But after you finish boot camp you understand that the drill instructor has just Few weeks to make you a marine no matter where you came from or what you know. They break you down and then they build you up.
Hated every minute of it but I’m proud of every second. October 1,1965 till September 30,1969. Plt.194 USMC San Diego (Hollywood Marine). As you drive down the street you will see the Marine Corps flag along the way. Not to under rate the other branches of the service but you never see their flag.Sempre Fi, always proud.
I have a person that works with me who did a tour as a DI. In the USMC at the 10-14 year mark you have to either go to recruiting or become a DI. He told me he would rather be a DI.
Of course, those are Marine barracks and not the holiday inn... When I was in boot in South Carolina all we had at night we a couple of huge fans that all they did was blow the hot air around. That was the middle of the summer time. I lost 35 lbs in 2 months.
3:30 the parting of the Red Sea and the first shark attack. I personally feel for that lone guy in the middle as there is no hiding from the DI as you are front and center in his view. A5C-1 Fort Knox Aug-Nov 84.
I went in 05. It was like this every day for the first 3 weeks. Nothing we did was correct. Even if it was. They didn't lighten up even a little until just before we went into 2nd phase. My kill hat was put on admin leave..twice...for abuse allegations. One of them was true...he instructed the squad leaders to scrub a recruit with scuzz brushes who wouldn't shower. Nearly took his skin off. Never got in trouble though because no recruits would talk. Another DI stomped a recruits finger for playing in the dirt at PT while we sat left hand left knee...he didn't get in trouble either. My kill hat physically picked me up by my collar off the ground and threw me into my rack so hard it hit the wall. My kill hat was awarded DI of the series at our graduation. Idk what boot camp is like now but we got thrashed constantly. We learned...but we got thrashed. Alpha Co, Plt 1106, Senior DI Sgt Baeza. Rah.
@@this_mfr I've read they became more strict on DIs abusing kids after the incident when the kid fell 3 stories to his death because he was running from the DI and the DIs came in drunk and said "where is that terrorist" and put the kid in a dryer for 5min while it was on. This happened in 2016. But abuse is still probably happening, the recruits are probably scared to speak up though.
Our pick up day started at the old WWII wooden barracks in the hell hole that was called Receiving in '75 on Parris Island. They marched/walked us asshole to belly button with our full sea bags all the way to 3rd Battalion. We were literally asshole to bellybutton the entire way, just a big mob. It was humiliating and we were exhausted by the time we got there. I don't remember anything else other than all the foot locker and bunk inspections that went on through the nite. We couldn't do anything to their satisfaction and it was mass PT followed by thrown foot lockers and dumped mattresses and do it all over again. When they finally put us down for the nite I lay there thinking OMFG what have i gotten myself into, i can never do this for 13 weeks. I slowly talked myself down and finally decided to just get some sleep and face what came in the morning. I was just starting to drift off when I heard a blood curdling scream and saw a recruit run by my rack at full speed screaming. I then heard a loud BANG!!! as he had run into the rear metal fire door. He then stood up and still screaming ran the length of the squad bay and BANG!!! ran full speed into the other door. By then the lights were on and two fully dressed DI were up along with one his boxers/tee (and cover)...by then everyone was up in their bunks watching...the DI's got to him and started trying to get him under control but he was a big guy and was fighting back...it looked like the cartoon fights where all you see is a whirling ball of faces and fists...the DI's beat the crap out of him and then two drug him away. The third DI in boxers and cover just walked back to his hutch and screamed "Now Stay the Fuck in your Racks!!!" and lights were out again...I laid back down and thought...Well welcome to Parris Island.
Morning times in the military... dead ass asleep then the lights go on and it's just pure screaming to get up and get ready for morning PT in about 5 minutes. It's such a head f*ck.
What does the drill instructor do when he has lost his voice? These guys seem close to losing theirs, they must have various techniques for resting their voices and soothing the chords?
Near the end our Senior Drill Instructor told us there would be days where he went home (on those occasions that he even *did* get to go home) that he would walk to the bathroom and cough up blood and sheddings from his throat. And the only thing to do is just deal with the pain and keep screaming from the chest the next day. There was a point at which any one of our drill instructors had lost their voice. And what they do is keep yelling with a distinctly different voice. Some know how to shift into a different range that uses different parts of their physiology (EG the frog voice) but a whole lot of them just sound like they''d lost the entire lower range of their voice and spoke in permanent voice cracks. So... I'm not sure. I believe there are suggested techniques, but there's really no getting around the fact that they just *will* lose their voice during the cycle and that the must carry on. I think the myth of their impenetrable vocal chords is supported by the fact that most videos either show them at poolee functions in town or within the first week of having their platoon (which is to say, they haven't been shouting constantly for the last month at these points)
Parrish Island Feb.-May 1974 Platoon 313 , You had to be there to fully comprehend what training we had to endure to become a U.S. Marine. I was laundry #1, next to DI hut. Gear locker body also. You had to keep your sh-t together or you were gone in the middle of the night. Best thing ever happened to me as an 18 year old. Yeah, you got roughed up, they had all the tricks to game you with. All in all you become a proud man, a prouder Marine for life! Thank God for the DI's and God Bless all Marines and our Great Country! I would join again if they would let me...Oohrah...Semper Fi...Always!
I tend to find it irritating that these moto clips always have ridiculous "epic" orchestral tracks layered in. Like what the actual experience isn't intense enough for itself? It makes me think of the video on US army basic training versus USMC bootcamp. The implication was that Marine Recruits have it harder, but all of the army footage was actual footage versus the Marine footage just being slow-mo clips of DI's shouting while lux eterna plays over it. But making such cheesy presentation decisions almost cheapens what you're seeing. It just makes boot camp look ridiculous. It would honestly be better without the soundtrack.
Jeff Martin The US military has one of highest rates of post traumatic stress out of any western military force, so does this really help people function in stressful situations
I can’t find the video for some reason now but I actually know one of the DI from the video, he would often tell me we don’t yell we just speak an a higher octave than most
@@adeptusmechanicus1029 I was an DS in the Army. There is still damage to our voices either way. Marines get the frog voices, I got the fog voice. I admire the USMC DI
At ft Benning our army drill sergeants didn’t wake us up every morning. Maybe they did the first morning or two but after that they smoked that crap out of us if we didn’t all get to PT formation on time. They made it our responsibility right away to wake our selves up as a team or else their was hell to pay. This was mid 90s also so our basic wasn’t much different than MCRD when it came to IT. Heck we even got smoked the first week with our bath towels on or in the shower 😂
You'd had to have been a part of it to understand what is being said. That said, that's not a language. There are no words. It's just 110% speed and a lot of context. Very rarely do they say an actual word when they are going batshit crazy.
I would quickly be in trouble because the head D.I.'s barrage of scream-babbling commands in this video is unintelligible to me. I would much rather be in SSgt Nichols' training group - he is very firm and demanding, but very articulate and sensible-in-context.
Holy Jesus ,, what is that , what the fuck is that ? What is this Pvt. Pyle ? Sir a jelly donut sir. , A jelly donut . Sir yes sir. How did it get here ? Sir I took it from the mess hall sir. Is chow allowed from the barracks Pvt. Pyle. Sir negative sir . Then why did you hide a jelly donut in your footlocker Pvt. Pyle? Sir because I was hungry sir... (Full Metal Jacket).
And this is watered down because cameras are there. A famous quote that almost all Soldiers say of the basic for the army. We Marines don’t care about a worthless camera
lol...I went thru P.I. in '75 and back then when they called school circle you'd get in the circle standing and then they'd give you the Reeeady SEATS! command and you'd have to drop right down onto your ass (yep on the concrete floor). If they didn't like how you dropped you'd get the "Get up" and do it again...Reeeeady SEATS!!! It was great fun, especially right after getting the tetanus shots in your ass...that brought a smile to the D.I.'s faces. From watching the modern boot videos that is the biggest difference I see, today it is just softer whereas back in the day it was just a damn cruel place to be for 13 weeks and three days.
Memories, sometimes it's to bad you can't relive some parts of your life all I have are pictures now and two tattoos. I wonder why they don't let Corporals on the drill field anymore? 3rd Bn I Co "Insane India" Parris Island 1979
Well in 1987 they would let female Marines on the drill field but I would have had to extend my enlistment. Looking back 30+ years I should have done it but back then I wanted out. I wanted my freedom. Four years was plenty.
To marines out there: are the drill instructors acting different in front of the camera? From other videos people always say they are a lot worse without the camera
Nope. I would say for the first month they are on you like that constantly and you cannot do anything correctly. They ease up some as time goes by but not much. Our Senior Drill Instructor chewed us out on graduation morning, told us he hated us all and if any of us tried to shake his hand after graduation he would punch us in the face.
Brian, this is just a small view of what happens daily. You won't know unless you go or have been there. It's intense from the moment you get off the bus. It does ease up a little once you're on the 1st floor and ready to graduate.
I can still see the destroyed squad bay from those lunatics. It looked like someone was doing laps in a car to see how fucked up they could make things.
@@rvr1892 no way,. They are just getting their bunks and their personal shit is still in duffle bags. Most assuredly day three or two even. And when I was in this was a daily routine until about 2nd phase
BACK IN THE 50’s WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE OLD CORPS BOOT CAMP, THERE WAS NOT ALL OF THAT UNNECESSARY SCREAMING. HOWEVER EVERYONE RECEIVED AN OCCASIONAL RABBIT PUNCH, OR RIFLE BUTT TO THE MIDSECTION, WHETHER YOU DESERVED IT, OR NOT. THE NEW CORPS POLICY IS HANDS OFF THE RECRUITS. I THINK THE OLD CORPS TRAINING WAS BEST. T. Sr.
Well... As they say... The enemy is not going to keep his hands off you. I think a bit of physical abuse should occur because random physical abuse is going to happen in close combat and you need to be able to get over it and perform.