Most of the time they’re not even genuinely mad. It’s their job and its called “command presence” and a great act…….That’s why R Lee Errmey was so good at the acting role in full metal jacket because he was a former DI. Same thing if a state trooper pulls you over and seems to be loud and mad, they’re not mad either. They’re just letting you know who is in charge. That’s why it’s a sad disgrace that the army got rid of the shark attack.
@@tritontransport I was 3rd Battalion Kilo company in boot @PI. Youve no clue what theyre capable of until they have platoons half size of 1st & 2nd battalion. Started with 68 and graduated with 47. Went on to 3/5 1st Marines after.
Rage gives them joy and joy makes them rage, ultimately making them the utmost terrifying thing to exist cuz they are at all times happy to rip you a new one
Waiting to receive my first letter from my daughter, but not sure it could be worse than her safe arrival call home. Its a sound so very scary, unnerving, unfamiliar and semi heart wrenching. It makes a mom feel helpless. With all that being said she best not send me a letter like that. Lol
😂😂 I have 4 children and 3 are in the military my daughter was the first to join and then her baby bro went she tried to get him to get in shape before he left nooooo on our weekly call he was like I’m coming home and I replied you going to let your.sister out do you. Never heard it again. lol my oldest just graduated last week.
"Before the sun comes up, the group of Drill Instructors sets out in search of easy prey, usually in the form of unsuspecting recruits." - David Attenborough probably
@@haydenTenno- it wasn't like any of the other drills that were vaugely human, it was much more akin to swimming with a bull shark or encountering a hungry mountain lion. he would keep his brim low so you couldn't see his eyes. I say the chow hall staff were scary because I got food poisoning 5 times and it ended up getting me restarted because I was sick too much.
I met a drill instructor at his home. I was putting new flooring in. He was a very nice man. He said being a drill instructor was the hardest but most rewarding thing thing he'd ever done. The instructors wake up before the recruits. Get in their uniforms, and look emaculate. Running around yelling all day takes a lot out of you. When the recruits go on a long march, the instructor is marching with them. They turn young punks into respectful confident men.
We are nice-at home. He is right; for me outside of giving birth, it was the most difficult job I had in the Army, however; it was the most rewarding. Field Artillery, when you are a female - is a beast. I appreciated being treated by my male counterparts as my title. Trust me, they made me work my two points of contact off!
Its sort of like construction demo guys. They get it all out at work. Calmest people you will ever meet. Though, even then, the DI is the one I wouldnt fuck with. They take shitheels and train them into warriors, by example.... Always love stories of DIs doing shit that break the recruits concept of what is physically possible, like the one hiding in a locker just to pop out right as a recruit said something off color. Or the one of the DI who had the other recruits grab his legs slide him under the stall horror movie style to deal with a recruit who was abusing a doctors order to excuse them from whatever they were doing deal with constipation as they had not shit since they got there....Needless to say the matter was handled. Or my favorite, the one that slowly combat crawled under the bunks to sneak up on night watch, a recruit looked over the side of his bed just to be eye to eye with their massive samoan DI with war paint on and a knife in his teeth, DI just looked at him and held his finger to his mouth in a 'ssshhhh' motion and kept crawling. DIs will find your weaknesses, and teach you how to kill them. Its up to you to learn.... ∠('ー' )
With all due respect i didnt serve in the army so i cant speak on there behalf of Recruit slayers but please do not try and compare a DI and a drill Sargent lmaao same job sure, you can say that, but how they get there and just the intensity level of trainning they go though literally screaming trainning.. Drill instructors are walking epitomes of perfection, and no im not taking away from the original comment they are incredibly layed back ppl outside of recruit trainning, just had to point that out.@karinmoten6436
This is most likely the senior drill instructor inspection, most of the drill instructors from the company inspect each platoon one at a time, and yes they run in just like that lol
When I went through basic for the Army in 05 fill day had the drill sergeants from other companies come. Each platoon in companies in the AIT portion of OSUT sent all but one DS. We had like 30 Drill Sergeants on our fill day
they also have something or did before they pussied down basic training called the shark attack where they all swarm you. It’s almost a right of passage but the new army decided for whatever reason god only knows that it was inappropriate for recruits. To all of you who didn’t experience this attack, well aren’t you lucky. Don’t know about the marines but I do know the army does or did do that.
In basic I once got punished for that by the DS and he made me cut the lawn outside the barracks with a tiny pair of scissors for hours 😅 After that I did some other mistake later and the DS made me mop up the tarmac in the rain lol
"So you wanna embarass me in front of our series commander? Tight." - My senior, mere seconds before releasing every drill instructor in the company onto our deck.
It's supposed to be horrifying. That's the entire point. Hopefully it'll stay that way if our new woke-ass leaders don't turn our military into a bunch of cowering punks like our government
It's not like that I real life in real life it never goes down like training you have to learn your own technique it happens in the snap of a finger and it never goes from a to b to c its more like l to h to a to c
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@@kevinmoore9608 ah man that 360 Era. Reach and Vegas 2 was crazy for that. Vegas 2 was harder solo or Co-Op and you felt some lind of way after all those missions. But Reach, Reach just hit different. Watching Spartans die was just unprecendented
Y? Because of your ignorance?---Do you know who the,SDI was by looking at this? Do you even,k n o w ,,,, what an SDI IS???!!??? Or,,, are you basing your opinion upon,an Arrogant mindset???
Must be one or two Reservists mixed in with the Active Duty. I'm almost certain that last DI you mentioned gave me a ticket last month on Rt. 40 heading South! Ah well.😆👍🏽💯
Went thru that door! 1967 they wasted us 1/3rd came back! No win policy? Watch my C O’s pass away from heart attacks. Their soldiers were their children! Best care takers in the world 😢
In the movie Full Metal Jacket when Sgt. Hartman who was played by R. Lee Ermey asked Private Cowboy how tall he was, after Private Cowboy answered him, "Sir 5ft 9 sir.", Hartman said to him, "5ft 9 I didn't know they stack shit that high." 😂🤣
@@connorwalsh7033 since the OP mentioned the movie, it’s quite obvious he was talking about the character in said movie. Ermey received an honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant in 2002. Since he was a SSgt at the time of retirement, he was still SSgt Ermey when the movie was shot.
So just curious, this is actually fascinating to me and I don’t know much on this. Are other branches Sergeants, LT, drill instructors etc still above you/they can have the same authority over you? Even though it’s not even their branch? I would think that your higher ups would be pissed about that happening, but again I have no clue about this.
@@Talltrees432 it all depends, they still out rank you so you treat them as such but if they have no correlation with you or ur shop/job then no they wouldnt have say in what you do. Unless it was to like fix yourself or someshit like that.
@@JadlynChan_Ch also lmao if ur referencing wallflower, shes cute as shit def one of my favorite EQG mini movies, cant even remember the name 100% I think it was forgotten friendship or somethin
@@wokeamerica142 gotcha. This is something I never even thought about, my oldest brother was navy for 8 years and I have cousins that went army. So there’s of course some little differences but this is just something that I would think would be like stepping over boundaries almost!
The ones in the back are the officer and the senior drill instructor and yes the senior is the one you should fear the most, the officer just makes sure you are not dead by end of the ordeal.
I went 2008. I don’t remember a lot of names I graduated with, but know all DI names… with a photographic memory image of their face living rent free in the back of my mind.
Went in 97 & i seen people get hit for shit it ain't nothing like that today. 3 guys try killing themselves like 6 took off on a train nearby it was insanity. All male ft Sill Oklahoma man we went through hell
BIG TIME!!!! These recruits will talk about them until the end of time! I've listened to these boot camp stories for 30 plus years and never, ever, get tired of them.❤
Not really. This is just cringe asf. Grown ass men acting like this. I get it’s scary for newbies. But after doing time myself, I realized how dumb it all actually is.
Absolutely true my Dad is a bricklayer and he was working on a military base and he had Drill Instructors ask if he was going to stay to watch the show aka the arrival of new recruits.
Being in basic training at Fort Bliss was comical.Even in 1987 we knew they can’t lay a hand on you. It was a joke. Just go through the drills and you will be fine. Best days of my life.
@@MacTavishBlack I just happened to go through a medical disaster. Mentally and physically. I've taken up college and the criminal justice system. I'm still heavily discriminated against to this day for mistakes I made when I was younger. Charges were dismissed because I completed probation.
@@Odie1057 im not sure they dont seem to have waistband belts on at all and their hats dont have any special ribbons or bands that i can see they look either senior drills or d.i instructors
