Its amazing for a month or 2 sucker punching one of these dudes was definitely possible. As it turns, they become some of the most impressive people you'll ever know. That hand shake or kind words and looking after someone in your position, its very significant.
windell0121 yeah man im not in the US army but when i passed my countries basic a few weeks before passing out parade they gave us implicit instructions not to give them gifts or hug them or thank them at the time we thought that they were joking but no they we'rent by the end we did want to give them gifts we got around the rules though what we did was each section (squad) in the platoon got together and during leave we all chipped in to by gifts then just left them on our desks (4 people to a room where i am) with notes not directed at anyone when we left my section got our Corporal a bottle of blue label you spend 3 months with these guys you get attached to them
i dated my SDI's daughter while i was in fleet. pretty funny when i met her parents and realized it was SDI SSGT Rowland. he was cool . really great guy
To: Azian 093: This is what it's all about: someone in your face, to mold you *AND YOU ACCEPT THIS.* Harken back to the old platitude: *This is what you signed up for!* Anything less, would have been a disappointment, would it not? Not everyone is cut out for this. Well done, all of you.
Yeah same here, my dad and Brother came to graduation and when I was showing them around the barracks my Dad asked if I wanted to introduce them to the DI's...I said Dad I just want to get the hell out of there. My DI's, especially our Senior, were some mean brutal SOB's...3rd Battalion, H Company, Platoon 329, Parris Island, the summer of '72
I'm trying to get into the Active Reserve right now so I can eventually go back to active. Only thing holding me up is I've been out three years and haven't PT'd since 2012. Gotta get back into shape.
Randall Schlegel You can do it, bro. How I got fit: look at sugar on food labels -> treat it like poison. It is poison. Just cutting out sugar is generally enough to cut down weight at least 8%. Eat less carbs too. I eat all the meat, butter and fats I want and I lose weight. I'm never hungry and always eating good stuff. Eggs in the morning - always too.
+Randall Schlegel I agree with captaincarl1 do that, eat organic mostly if you can afford it, be simple like our grandparents ate, PT from the bottom up and what I mean is, start up slowly, do bodyweight exercises, go jogging, and then slowly move up the difficulty until you can keep up with it at a good pace. As far as the Reserves go, it's not as bad as people say it is, it's just balancing your military career, along with your civilian career/school/life/etc. You will just need to be able to multitask and organize a lot more but it's not impossible to do so. You'll find Marines like myself, who have done that, like organizing your personal career, education, home, kids, pt, AND the military. And as always, if you ever need help, don't be afraid to ask brother, we're here to help.
Graduated October 1966. Our DI's, as did everyones in those days, had to push as many through as they possibly could, which translates into--they beat us like rented mules. Boot camp was generally brutal, you never caught a break until Sunday morning--for two hours. I had four DI's. Two went back to Vietnam and were killed. I remember them telling us to look around-- the person next to you will be killed in Vietnam because he didn't pay attention. They were right.
So... When i was in school i used to tease this one obese Teenager, When i signed up for the Royal Australian Navy, First person i saw when i got off the Bus was him, Staring right into my soul with a Smile on his face... He knew, I knew. And that was the most painful 4 Months of my life.
Good thing you fat shamed him it motivated him he was grateful He smiled cuz he lived to appreciate what you did for him Good looking out bro. Dont listem to the retards they been indoctrinated they think backwards they're compete morons.
This is why i'm glad I went through this sh- during my life because I got humbled during the process and because of it I am who I am now, and thankful to God for all the people I met along the way. To every and all Marines on here, Semper Fi from a fellow brother, and to those soon to be hitting the yellow footprints, keep your head high, DON'T QUIT, give it 100%, and you will get something out of it!!
You might not even know it but even 6 years later after you made this comment on a single video on the Internet, it continues to make an impact. Semper Fi!
Introducing your family to these guys and them to speak in a positive way of you and a handshake as a Marine was a significant event. You may have hated these dudes for weeks or months. As you turn and realize how impressive they are, the respect grows hugely. Great day there.
This D.I, Stevenson is straight out of Hollywood casting for a Marine Drill Instructor, these kids coming in see him and those like him as THE standard they want to reach some day.
I like this Drill Instructor. He's there talking to a {now} Young Marine and his family telling them how good he did and telling them they should be very proud of him. That's a good man. It reminds me of the day of my graduation one of my Drill Instructor, Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Martinez. That was 44 years ago this past April and I remember almost every day of it. I just started writing a book about my days in Boot Camp.
Marine Corps Drill Instructors may be mean, tough and sometimes it feels like they are mentally abusive but they do care about their recruits. They take their job very serious. It's probably the hardest job in the Corps and they've become Drill Instructors because they love the Marine Corps so they want to be one of the very few that can become Drill Instructors. They are proud of the Marine Corps, they're proud to be a Drill Instructor and on graduation day they are proud of each one of their recruits that are now Marines. I have so much respect for all three of my Drill Instructors. I think I was very lucky to have each of the three Drill Instructors that I had. We graduated Honor Platoon. We were the best platoon, Platoon 1041 out of the four platoon in Series 1041. We were our Senior Drill Instructor's first platoon as a Senior Drill Instructor and after we graduated he was promoted from Staff Sergeant to Gunnery Sergeant. We took 1st place in Drill and inspection in first phase of Boot Camp, we were 1st place at the rifle range, In third phase we were 1st place in drill, inspection and for the final written and oral exam and that's because we had the best Drill Instructor in the Series, the Company and probably the Battalion. Graduation day was the proudest day of my life and it was because of the help of three hard charging Marines. All had been to Vietnam and one of them told me and a few other guys that he was at Khe Sanh and was wounded twice in the first few weeks but couldn't get evaced out of there for six weeks. They were all bad Mother Fuckers !!!!!!!
I've seen other videos of this dude smoking recruits while getting other recruits dressed. It was a beautiful sight. His voice is the 8th wonder of the world.
God Marines are amazing... Its not just about war and killing the enemy, its about making you into a responsible, respectable and better person. You learn absolute control of yourself...
the morning of my graduation, the SDI stopped dead in the middle of his speech and glared at me like he caught me motorboating his wife... and said... "who the hell are you?" Proudest moment of my life.
@@Onecooltop75 i wont say i did everything right because the kill hats knew my ass lol 🤣 i always took it as i was unrecognizable compared to when i had arrived, or because he only knew me by the top and back of my head from being face down on his quarter deck pushin' 'em out. i was a knucklehead that a judge took mercy on and gave me a choice of going to prison or going into the MC. This was a couple years before 9/11 so i chose the MC... but i resisted at first and thought I'd rather be in prison... but i started to respect them and what they were trying to do for me.
In 1993, I met my DIs alone. All other recruits had their families. I was embarrassed. But my DIs met me as a Marine, for a few seconds. I wondered around after than wondering how I was going to get to the airport.
I camped years ago at nearby Hunting Island SC with a DI from Paris Island. His camp site was directly across the road from mine. He and his family were very nice people with a good sense of humor. He went fishing at the Hunting Island fishing pier along with me and my brother in law. I thought that he was an LEO but when he told me he worked at Paris Island it amazed me. He was a very nice guy 👦 👍. He was very exact in everything he said. He said he and his family was on leave for a week of camping with his travel trailer.
If you’re wondering why he isn’t being intense in the woods it’s because it’s towards the end and they dial it back a little bit so they can try and teach basic tactics and fieldcraft. What’s funny are the recruits who get relaxed, not realizing that it’s worse than ever in the Crucible.
Thanks to all the Men and women for their service they are true heroes and for the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country you shall never be forgotten RIP 🇺🇸 Semper Fi
Bullshit. They're total assholes 24/7. Punks who bully defenseless 17-year olds. If they tried that aggressive, loud-mouthed posturing in a civilian environment, they'd get their asses kicked.
If those "defenseless 17-year olds" went into combat without that, many of them would break down crying for mommy. also, they signed up for that. i doubt you have ever trained to be better in a fight, or you would understand the need for stressful training. you're spouting shit out of your mouth, try to keep it down to exiting your body out of your ass
as i've always said " if you can get thru parris island, you can handle anything in life" marines might seem hard but with civilians and ex marines( marines always have a good bond with each other ) they can be your best pal or help folks out or take charge of a bad situation when folks want a decisive leader, unofficial or otherwise they can count on. my family was mainly army but respected all branches of the services . my dad,some of my uncles and 1 nephew joined the local national guard to keep their training up to snuff and retired from same. my nephew did 5 tours of afghanistan/iraq duty and came home safely to retire last year.
Jack roper - 1969- last day of boot camp, got slapped in the face ,hard, 4 times by a folded up Platoon Commander belt by another platoon’s DI, for having a sloppy formation. A friend stuck a broom in between the legs of my four man formation as we got back from turning in the platoon’s laundry. Stumbled. Laughing. Over 50 yrs ago. Remember it like yesterday. Semper Fi
Graduated 3/76 from PI. Wish like hell I could see something close for memories sake. I loved boot camp. My prior life prepared me for such. So much for the long haired rebellion. I ended up in the Corps. Yet watching these vids just can't seem to bring me in. OOOFukinRA!
My senior was a dick on parent visitation day.. he advised us not to send her parents into his office to meet him or he would tell them exactly how we were.. he got all butt hurt because we lost battalion drill. He called column half right and we marched off the parade deck until he corrected it it was his fault we were the first platoon in Parris Island history to ever March off of the parade deck during battalion drill. Surprisingly enough we came in second because another platoon had a guy that dropped his rifle. He threw our motivation table at us he was genuinely pissed. My dad died while I was on my second week there he drove me to the bus station and opened up to me said he was passed over for the gunny twice and if he didn't get it this time he was getting out.. he was a 12-year staff sergeant..
in the Marines 1971. our platoon commander was very cold. never ever saw him smile. But Sgt. gentz was cool. You never forget those times! M.C.R.D. 0311
+## SAVINGS yep I had a friend speak of his tenure and experiences in the marine corp but I made the mistake of saying, "so you were a marine?" He then said "no I AM a marine til the day I die. ONCE A MARINE ALWAYS A MARINE THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS WAS OR WERE....."
I realize what the term "outtake" represents in this video, the outtakes are the recruits during the graduation ceremony. We take them in, they "outtake" themselves as our Marine. Oorah.
we left P.I. and went straight to ITR at Camp Geiger after finishing training I was assigned permanent duty at Geiger on a weekend pass my D.I. was in the bar I went to, he had just dropped off a group, shocking how these guys could just turn it on and off bought him a beer that night and never saw him again.
JOHN BLACK : John Wayne was a pussy, never served in anything, had the longest line of wimpy excuses for not serving, and for every excuse he had, someone had and did serve. For real check it out.
I had a friend speak of his tenure and experiences in the marine corp but I made the mistake of saying, "so you were a marine?" He then said "no I AM a marine til the day I die. ONCE A MARINE ALWAYS A MARINE THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS WAS OR WERE....."
Graduating Navy boot camp was not like this it was the ceremony drill and our RDC's (DI) didn't give any fucks about our families they left immediately lol.
At 2:43 the e6 on the right. I'm pretty sure there is a poster of him with a female DI at the Camp Pendleton MCX. Its in the back on the end of an aisle where they sell uniforms. I could be wrong but it looks like him.
My parents couldn't make it to family day unfortunately and after graduation I was in such a hurry to leave my parents never got to meet my drill instructors I kinda regret it now
My sdi was actually a cousin of a friend of mine. He had said he had family where I was from at the beginning, and after basic my friend to me that was her cousin lol
2 of my last DI's were kill hats and would slay us everyday and we were so afraid of them. Come the warriors breakfast and we find out they were radio operators. We thought they were infantry
@Jawan T so every service member is a piece of shit? And their hearts are bad? Geez you literally are very and I mean very intelligent. I think if another country ran America and decided there’s no need for our military, it would only prove how truly wise you are. We’d never get attacked, we’d never have to help others from being attacked. 🙄 I know there’s a lot of messed up things that happen and that mostly is from the big wigs pulling the strings up top. You obviously got bullied or something from a service member and yea some are shitbags but not all. Some are great people and sacrificed everything being the servant to a tyrannical government of rich and greedy human beings. Those are the ones with the evil hearts. But hopefully your rant helped you blow off some steam.
