Yeah I knew it was bad, but not this bad. You have to really want to be a DI to go through this shit. Boot camp was something I only wanted to go through once.
I wasn't lucky enough to be drill instructor but the explanation I got from my old buddy was they teach you the way you're ment to teach. which ment being treated like a recruit again.
As I inch closer to the end of my first enlistment I think to myself: Hmm, it might be badass to be a drill instructor. I have formally decided...Screw that.
Number of B Billets you can do, just make sure you do them at Sergeant. Recruiter, Ugg, Embassy Duty, not to bad or career Jammer (Planner) But make sure you make the choice and not the Marine Corps.
When I enlisted in 1997, only one DI, our kill hat was a grunt. And the meanest of them all. But I’ll never forget what he told me on graduation day. “If we do not instill discipline now, you will die in combat.” Never forgot those words.
One of the first times he says eyeballs, they al say “click sir”. All at once, they had boot camp flashbacks and their brains switched back to recruit mode 😂
Getting destroyed by a pack of Gunnys, that is out-friggin-standing. This is one reason Drill Instructors deserve so much respect, not only to they build new Marines and OSC Candidates, but they get to be "Boots" twice, as it were. Semper Fi Drill Instructors!
Gunny Bass was my Gunny once I hit the fleet and he took a unit and a company with back to back dui's every weekend to one of the commandants pride and our own pride- Bravo nation was one of the best places I ever grew in- Gunny Bass if you ever see this- thank you for everything you did to us and for us
Haha I’m pretty sure every drill instructor I had was a pog and air wing at that they act like they were all infantry then in the end you find out none of them were
Caleb Corn true! Had one DI (sgt) who told so many war stories yet had one rack on his chest, we didn’t know any better during boot camp. Turned out the dude was admin.
I remember the day that I reported to DI School at MCRD San Diego. After finishing my 16 weeks of DI School, and graduating, I served on the Drill Field as a Junior DI, Senior DI, Series Gunny, and Chief DI of the company. It was some of the toughest, but, most rewarding duty of my Marine Career.
Phil Sutherland the marine corps was good at turning something seemingly fun and enjoyable into a clusterfuck. However you can’t argue with results I suppose. If I could do it again I would have opted for Navy OCS after completing my degree as an enlisted Marine. Ironically they more recently decided to combine navy and marine OCS (non combative MOS) into the same program.
Cuz harassing defenseless kids day in and day out is enjoyable. Lol jk my brother did basically what you did. I just still detest my DIs to this day. Semper
How did you guys not lose your voice on a daily occasion? What kind of maintenance did you do to protect your cords? Always wondered, Im former army but DI's and Marine are some next level WOAH!
I’ve never seen NCO’s reverted back to the mind of a trainee so fast in my life, when they were done and staring straight ahead they were completely different people....
Because in the military, the importance of following orders under duress is extremely important in hardening a soldiers focus on their task at hand despite whatever is going on around them in combat.
Drill Instructors never steal....but they will make recruits go buy 10 packs of razor blades they won't need over 3 months and pocket 6 packs of the 10 xD.
Ours showed us how to polish dress shoes. The pair our kill hat polished happened to be his size so he kept them. This was when the corfam shoes started being issued.
My drill instructor ordered me to buy 5 canteens because I lost my own, i said fuck that im not spending 50 dollars on canteens, so i just accepted my faith and got it’ed later on in the quarterdeck
"Gentlemen what just took place just took place to wake you up. That is in no way how you will be treated throughout the rest of DI school" 50 men just silently cried tears of joy in that moment.
Chad Mower There’s programs where they train international members of the military at US training facilities. During my training with the USCG, there were classes with members of the Philippine and Jamaican Coast Guard training to be Boatswain Mates or Gunners Mates alongside the members of the US Coast Guard.
Lifeguard Mike Beating isn't the right word, but US marines I've talked to will recognize an ROK marine's tough as nails attitude. They say ROK marines will jump into a lake in the middle of a snowy winter as a morning swim. Not that it's supposed to prove how combat effective they are, but it does show that the ROK marines aren't to be fucked with
Lmaoo I thought the same. I had a guy go through basic and ait with me, and he was just coasting through the whole thing. I guess he was a badass back in S. Korea cuz he was a DS E7 over there and swole as hell, super disciplined too
I went there 30 years ago in March 87. Class 4-87. After the first briefing when the mean looking instructors were introduced and the CO and 1stSgt speeches they yelled at us to form for inspection outside in front of DI School. The Staff Sergeants and above were higher ranks and had the awful job of being in charge of forming us for inspection. They got yelled out alot. The first day you revert back to recruit status because most of us had never been back there at MCRD after graduation. So looking at the smokey the bear, you revert back to boot camp. After the first few hours of shock treatment, the whole process is like a very strict NCO school environment. The hardest thing was learning those teach backs. Parts of the Drill manual you had to recite verbatim yelling out loud to an instructor about 30 feet away and you used a fellow squad member as demonstrator. They kept telling us DI School was not a PT academy. Don't believe it. They PT your ass off. Best to get in great shape before you go or else you will be sucking wind hard. I had to drop my 3 mile run time down 3 minutes just to be able to be keep up for training. Put myself through weeks of doing to old school high impact aerobics done back in the 80s to mimic like getting PT for 45 minute straight. Ran during lunch chow at work, went aerobics after work. Then stop at a junior high school that had a track and ran for 2 miles. Did this for 3 months to get prepared. Never did the old school 20 kip pullups in the fleet. In DI school I finally did it. Our class average for the old PT test was 292 out of 300. For you potential students out there, here is cold hard truth. You will not graduate in 10 weeks of DI school and cross the street thinking you will be just like the salty veteran DI's who have been out there for awhile. I kept wondering when the magical transformation would occur and I would sing marching cadence like I was on soul train and know how to train the recruits in close order drill and everything else. Doesn't happen. You learn all that stuff by osmosis. Spending hundreds of hours in boot camp then suddenly, you get it.....Back then as a DI student we actually slept in the open squad bays. Notice you didn't see any bunks in the video. They let the students live in the Recruit Training Regiment permanent personnel barracks eventually. A friend of mine went through back in 94 and he was living in the barracks. And my former squad mate was in his class for his second tour, challenging the course. He was a gunny then. And many years later in 2011 I met his former wife at my job. He had a unique last name and I asked her if she had any members ever in the Corps. Well she used to be a WM at MCRD. Met my squadmate and married him. She actually attended our DI School graduation. Of course we didn't remember each other because of the decades ago. I even looked at my old photos of the graduation to see if I spotted her in uniform there but I did not. I do remember former Commandant retired General Barrows came to our class to give us a motivation speech. I seen him in person before at Camp Scwab, Okinawa and he was just a few feet from me. I wondered if he remembered me. I doubt it. That was in 1983 when I was a Lance Corporal. Little did I know that 4 years later we would meet again in DI school. Here is a funny story. My staff sergeant from 3rd bn, 11th Marines was a Di and we went to his graduation. I laughed at him because he was even skinnier than before. He laughed at me and told me hey you will be next! I laughed and said hey, I have only been a sergeant 8 months, no way would they send me down here. ha ha. Well they did about 5 months later. All the NCO's in my battalion were putting in requests for DI school. I never did. I just got orders one day. And the next day at DI School when they were yelling and sweating us on the grinder, the first sergeant said this what all of you asked for!! I was the only one there who didn't put in for it. Failure was not an option. We started with 45 students and only 27 made it through. There were 3 marines with the last name of Davis. One was in my squad. Not one of them graduated for one reason or the other. After the first couple of weeks, the delusions of graduating number one went to the wayside. All I wanted to do was survive and graduate with out getting sent back to the same unit. Back then there were only two acceptable excuses for not graduating DI School. One was if you failed the psychological 3 hour test. Because marines like marines who are psycho right??? And the other is medical. You broke your ankle or leg. No harm no foul. One staff sergeant in my squad was freaking out. He had came down from Whidbey Island in Washington state. Small detchment of jarheads there. He told me, hey man I can't fail and get sent back.. Dude they through me a big banquet before I left!! So I graduated and was all prim and proper DI student. Got to my company and one of the DI's there welcomed me and my squad mate with the greeting..."welcome aboard", you ready to start killing some privates! Our newbie DI ears were so shocked on that statement...Little did we know we learned what he was talking about later... Hey this was the 80s. Things were different. It was what it was. And I am sure each previous generation from the 70s, 60s, would say our generation was a cake walk....
James, thanks for the story. I went to DI School as a corporal; there were three of us in Class 3-78. We busted our ass so as not to look like punks to the SNCOs. In fact, the honor grad was a corporal; I think I graduated 9/37. Your story sounds very familiar with the exception of pickup. We were never treated like boots the first day; that nonsense must have filtered in during the 80s. However, school was incredibly intense and rigorous, from PT to classes to teaching drill to constant inspections. God, I hated teaching the drill verbatim. Once I got across the grinder, I dumped most of the rote memorization of drill instruction. Eventually pushed 7 platoons, four of them as a senior. I earned two meritorious promotions and was selected to receive the General Gerald C. Thomas Award by the Navy League of the US. Went to Washington DC to receive the award. Those two years on the drill field were two of the best years of my Marine Corps career.
I like your story. There is nothing like having done a tour on the drill field. Alot of hard work. The best of the best. Memories for a lifetime! Congrats for your service! I later taught drill in my post Marine Corps life for our departments academy. Albeit was only about an hour of basic COD instruction with movements and no marching whatsover. It was fun putting back on the campaign cover and doing some yelling but nothing like we did in the Corps.
"You went through boot camp years ago...The Marines will be fine now", they said. "You should become a Drill Instructor because you love being in the Marines so much", they said. "You are already a Marine, DI School will be like a walk in the park", they said. Letter home to father who is a former Navy Seal... "Hi Dad. This is HARD AS F*CK !!! This is like Boot Camp times 10 !!! Please send power bars..."
Honestly, NCO's need to go thru something like this as soon as they pick up. The rank of Corporal is literally becoming a joke in the Marine Corps. We need to be reminded of who we are and what we represent.
brandon683685 it doesn't help when there's 100 NCOs and 30 E3 and below. I felt like they were handing out rank like candy . a lot of Incompetent NCOs forget what are role is .
That doesn't make sense and is just illogical and the results would only highlight the problems in the Corps. Good applicants will result in good marines, a leopard cannot change his spots. You can cover him with paint but eventually the paint comes off and the spots are once again visible. Berating NCO's serves no purpose.
Oh Hell No..... Not (Gunnery) Sergeant Rodriguez! This dude was my DI when I went through Boot Camp in 1997. OOHRAH 3030 Kilo Company- Graduation Date 2/6/1998
It takes a very special individual to say “send me back in” to go and become a drill instructor. You earn the title as a recruit and know you’ve went through something unbelievable. To go back as an instructor, to train the next generation of war fighters, to endure the rigors of being honed towards the very heart and soul of the Corps spirit, that definitely says a lot to those men and women. I knew a fellow Marine who did just that, and I’m damn proud of her for making it though. Those that wear the campaign hat and walk the drill field, they have my respect.
Yeah but these are Marines that have a new objective to keep their eyes on... getting some payback on recruits after they earn the right to... still I couldnt even imagine it.
My Great Uncle who served in WWII AND Korea in the USMC was a Marine Drill Instructor. You can only Feel for his 6 sons. They went through Boot Camp Every Day of their life. Imagine getting up at 6 am like these guys.
I went to boot camp in San Diego in 1998. One of the recruits in my platoon later returned and attended drill instructor school. The chief instructor of DI school at the time was none other than one of our DI's from boot camp. Talk about coming full circle!
What a lovely sight. A DI's job is a hard one which is executed in a short period of time. These guys have honed the elements of training practice to a fine art. What a treat to see in action.
WOW, times have surely changed!!! I went to Drill Instructor School Parris Island, SC Oct 1983, class 1-84 as a Sergeant! Although it was very stressful indeed, we were't yelled at like this however, there was a high stress morning wake up one day. We started with 110 students, including 5 Gunnery Sergeants, we graduated 60 something, Marines were getting dropped everyday for anything!!!!! I can say it was the hardest thing I have ever undertaken in my LIFE... DI SCHOOL WAS NO JOKE!!!!!!!!, I'm elated I had the unique opportunity to be amongst the very top teir of professional Marines ever !SEMPER FI. Ronald L.Higgins Sr. Master Sergeant USMC RET
9:57 lmao the korean dude is a Sangsa - equivalent to E-8 Master Sergeant or First Sergeant. If you really wanted to split hairs you could say he outranks all the Gunny's yelling at him.
wfnabors it's worse. Those students are Marines. That means, you screw up, they can keep you up all night and fuck with you. Recruits are guaranteed sleep at night. Once you are a Marine, that goes out the window.
ive heard its only like this for the first 4 weeks, it gets more chill after that. its basically a wake up call to marines who havent been in a boot camp environment in over 4 years
lol 12:40 a first sgt get up and explains that they were only treated like that to wake them up and let them know where they are at and that it wouldnt be like that for the entire 13 weeks, i guess i heard correctly lol
Never gets "chill." Because you are too busy trying to survive and live up to expectations of becoming a Marine Drill Instructor. The standards are very high. I never knew if I was going to graduate until the the last few days. They kept telling us we don't care if we don't graduate any of you....Out of 45, only 27 made it. That first week Marine NCO's were dropping like flies. You never get comfortable ever.
Such an important clip. If the general audience realized that all of these students had signed up for this and that most of these students were veterans of a not so popular prolonged war... I wish that university had an option to a degree or degrees under the same format. Thank you everyone that is in this clip.
GySgt Pagan (now 1st Sgt Pagan, retired) was one of the Senior Naval Science instructors of my njrotc unit during high school. One of the most influential male figures I ever had in my entire directionless life at that point. He was the image of what I wanted to become. 1st Sgt Pagan is as real as they come and all of my most highlighted memories during my time in njrotc had something to do with 1st Sgt Pagan, not only for me but for most people that ever stepped foot in the drill hall. I'm glad I was able to find this video on my own again, years later after another cadet had found it while we were still in school. A character defining person.
So as the 1stSgt said,all the harasment in the beginning was a 1 time thing,to get their attention. The rest is normal operations and growing thick skin while being there. Semper Fi. 1977-1990.
Great leadership is hard to find. That being said, not all NCO's will become exceptionally great leaders, but most will be very good leaders/mentors. Been out of the Corps for more than 30 years and yet, have rarely met ok leaders, if any at all. This has been my hardest adjustment to civilian life. They just don't get it or have a clue what our culture is and what it stands for. No other experience will give you the satisfaction of being around so many professionals, leaders and mentors than those you will find in the military! Relish in you achievements, inspire those around you and always lead by example! Semper Fi!
On my vacation to Parris Island in 1967 the week that we were assigned outside assignments I was sent to the D.I. school to work and all the D. I. student were very nice and accommodating which I found a nice change up.
I graduated Drill Sergeant School U.S. Army 1998. This is harder than what we went through. I was a Staff Sergeant when i went to DS School. Great Video!
Its weird because DS have to be atleast E5(P) to E7 to attend, marine corps it's all E4 and E5 DI's from my understanding which is why its confusing because we were taught in the army NCO Corp that E6 was the rank you were to be trusted with more responsibility
When I went through DI school at MRCD San Diego in 1986, we were not treated like bunch of recruits. We were treated firmly and professionally. We were high stressed usually at PT. During my 27 year career in the Marine Corps, in my mind, it's was the best leadership school I attended. The traning and experience sticks with you forever.
Outfreakin standing! When I graduated Boot one of the DI's warned us that if we don't want to get embarrassed to stay away from the Drill Instructor School area on Family Day.
lol so it's basically the same speech as they give the new recruits, only just added "drill instructor" instread of marine. you would think the speech would be different.
I went to DI school 1977 at MCRD San Diego, no DI school instructor yelled at anyone. My squad DI instructor was a Chosin vet and he never raised his voice. We had a fellow student with a Navy Cross and two with the Silver Star from Vietnam, I think a bunch of us would have told the instructors treating us like recruits to get lost and laughed at them. All the students went thru boot camp and know one needs to remind us what boot camp is like. I think some idiotic officer came up with this idea of treated Marine SNCO/NCOs like recruits.
I got screened by HRST about a year before I got out. There was another guy in my squadron who also got screened and told the team "Oh, no, I want to be a drill instructor". They made sure he got that option. From what I understand, now you get screened by one team for both recruiting and drill instructor so you are basically going to get one or the other. At the time, my daughter was on the Exceptional Family Member program so they told me they couldn't select me, but encouraged me to get in touch if she ever got off it... "Roger that". About 10 months later, EAS'd. But, not before the big green weenie got one last balls-deep fucking and I went to Sgt's Course and had to spend a shit ton of money getting all the gear and uniform items up to speed... only to turn around three months after Sgt's Course and sell all that shit after I got out.
During my stay at MCRD we had a working party during 1st phase that was sent to clean this place. It was a great day and was an honor to be in that place.
I was honorably discharged 1/7/07 as a Sergeant, and I was actually thinking about becoming a PIDI. 3rd Battalion Style, but of course I changed my mind, and went back to school for kinesiology. Now I’m a personal trainer, and still just as in shape (really better shape) than I was as a Marine at the age of 35. 2/18/84. Yep I still continue to kill, and over train my body today, not because I got to, it’s because I want to. I’m addicted to fitness because of the Marine Corps. Yes I was a nasty fat bodied recruit that had to be placed on food restrictions. I loss a lot of weight as a result, and I can’t thank the Corps enough, for assisting me with my love for fitness. SEMPER FI!!!!
I was in recruit training in 1994. To this day if one of my DIs walked into the room and told me to jump out the window, I would do it without a moments hesitation. They really do know what they are doing.
The saddest part of all this, is that most of these Marine students, (to probably include the ROK Marine as well) were "vol-un-told" by their respective commands to attend the DI School.
i spent some time with two at 29 palms the ROK Marines where both where a bad ass and had my Respect that was in 1979 they where there just like me new equipment that was coming out for the both ROK and Fleet force was getting at the time them like the Aussies are someone you want on your side if someone shooting at you
Hey if you're in the Corps and you receive orders to DI School like I did, you have no choice to go. And don't even think of dropping out. Because they send you right back to your unit and you have to face your peers and the humiliation and rumors why you didn't make it. Only two excuses accepted. A medical (broke arm) or you failed the psych exam. (Marines like crazy!).
James I didn't reenlist after my 4 . you don't get to choose your specialty school ? Like msg school di school or recruiter school , what ever that would be like .
Captain Howdy He was ordered to go. He was the only student out of everyone who went who didn't ask to be there. He was just that good. Not speaking for him or anything; just don't know if he'll reply.
only like this on day one. GySgt Lett and GySgt Sanfford were both my squad instructors... first weekend was killer but after that wasnt that bad. It wasnt nearly as bad as i expected it to be..
Lord Apophis There’s a joke in the US Military that the ROK Marines are so scary that we’re actually in South Korea to prevent them from invading South Korea😂😉
Epic! The purpose is two-fold. One, the student know they will no sandbag in this course. Achieve the standard or return to the Operating Forces, Two, they demonstrate what the student WILL do when they pick up a recruit platoon. Brutal shock and awe! SNCO's bringing the fire! Semper Fi brothers! DI SCHOOL, 2004-2005.
This was dated 2007. DI School is definitely not like that now (graduated as a hat in 2012). You are treated like the rank you come as, not as a recruit unless you want to act like one. You still have to have to be thick skinned and able to take very... very constructive criticism. You will be demanded of, you will be stressed out, you will see others try to quit, but you will not be yelled at in your face like that as if its recruit pick up. Things happen/change for a reason. It is what it is like the change or not. (they also do not give that modified Drill Instructor Creed, but its been a few years... and things have a way of coming full circle). Regardless, its the best time of your life!
Basically you end up yelling 16 hours a day during the very beginning of picking up a recruit platoon. You do not develop this frog voice in DI School. Your throat gets very sore where you can barely speak. But you keep on doing it. Every new DI experiences this. Over the days/weeks your throat muscles get torn up and then strengthen. Think of lifting weights in the gym until exhaustion and muscles are sore right? Then they grow and get stronger...Same thing. That is how you get the frog voice or deep voice. Some get the frog more than others...Just depends. Like the Chicago PD show the old sergeant has a naturally thick deep voice so any enhancing makes it deeper. Try yelling at the top of your lungs for 16 hours a day. When I was DI I took my platoon out for drill competition and my Sergeant Major said I had the loudest voice on the depot (MCRD San Diego). All from being a DI spending hundreds of hours yelling....
James Thank you for explaining! I always tried to figured out how Drill Instructors got that voice. Much respect to you and every other Drill Instructor out there! Semper Fi!
Glad to hear that. We were treated firmly but with respect from day 1 in 1978, not like a boot. That nonsense must have been a phase through the 80s-90s.
12:45 he say It was to wake them up to realize where they are. He says You will not be treated like that through out DI school. I think a lot of people are just ignoring that part or not watching it through.
DI School Grad 2-96. MCRD San Diego. I was in that same barracks and classroom. It is like bootcamp all over but more intense. A lot of studying and PTing your asses off. My class avg on the PFT was 287 out of 300. Those are posted in the DI School by class and year. I still have my DI Hat over my Bed and I retired in 2002 after 20 yrs. Tough School, but glad I have forever earned the Title of U.S. M. C. Drill Instructor. You live in the B.E.Q not in the barracks but you maintain it like a squad bay with your uniforms and all in the Barracks. You clean it daily and have uniform inspections on a moments notice. They don't give any quarters and you better be tough or you will not make it. Semper Fi. Marine DI's are on their feet 19 hrs a day training future Marines. These Squad Instructors are the best of the best. He is right you think you are a stud till you get there where everyone in the School was a stud in his unit. There were 37 of us and the 1st day PFT I ran a 19:20 3 mile and finished 19th. The fastest was a 15:45. Humbled really quick never not been top 10 guy in any unit. OORAH
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It all makes complete sense now... the reason DIs are so angry all the time is because they had to go through boot camp twice....
p0wer5000 lmao 💀💀
And they have to keep going through it as instructors
Twice? Try four times a year.
😂😂😂😂
Yeah I knew it was bad, but not this bad. You have to really want to be a DI to go through this shit. Boot camp was something I only wanted to go through once.
When you finish a game and start a new playthrough under New Game+ mode.
I like that, hahah
With the saved skins from the old game
This is some Dark Souls shit right here, Holy Shit...
@@lennymota4973 I'm thinking more along the lines of God of War. Souls games get harder until ng+7.
Life is not a video game
*me eating dry cereal in my barracks room*
“Damn that looks hard”
Why did you have to call me out like that?
*gets HSST’d
Eating Mac and cheese 🤣
i loved going through it.
Would rather do this than recruiting fuck recruiting
Imagine being a harden NCO with years of experience, then all of a sudden getting treated like a 18 year old new recruit.
happens in OCS too.
Never stop learning.
@@crowbar5150 Beat me to it. We had chiefs and even a senior chief at Navy OCS.
I wasn't lucky enough to be drill instructor but the explanation I got from my old buddy was they teach you the way you're ment to teach. which ment being treated like a recruit again.
That's why you EAS and get back to normal life.
As I inch closer to the end of my first enlistment I think to myself: Hmm, it might be badass to be a drill instructor. I have formally decided...Screw that.
Number of B Billets you can do, just make sure you do them at Sergeant. Recruiter, Ugg, Embassy Duty, not to bad or career Jammer (Planner) But make sure you make the choice and not the Marine Corps.
Be a badass embassy marine
It’s not like this at PI
Formally..lol
Be a recruiter. Good luck with that.
mad props to the South Korean dude for changing his vpn location to be on US.
hehe 9:56
ROK Marine
When I enlisted in 1997, only one DI, our kill hat was a grunt. And the meanest of them all. But I’ll never forget what he told me on graduation day. “If we do not instill discipline now, you will die in combat.”
Never forgot those words.
@mightymacdiesal12 did you get out before 9/11 🤔
@@mickfunny4185 No. I was enlisted for 8 years. Artillery.
@@mightymacdiesal12 an operator or mechanic?
One of the first times he says eyeballs, they al say “click sir”. All at once, they had boot camp flashbacks and their brains switched back to recruit mode 😂
@Jose time stamp?
@Jose there is no 19:90.... let alone 19 min of video. Hha
@Jose its fine. I meant to reply to the OP asking him where in the video, was the part he was referring to. I seem to be blind and cant find it
Its wild to fast forward and now 'GySgt Ruiz - 2nd Squad Instructor' is now the SgtMaj of the Marine Corps
I was literally just about to comment it, it took me a second to recognize his face.
Getting destroyed by a pack of Gunnys, that is out-friggin-standing. This is one reason Drill Instructors deserve so much respect, not only to they build new Marines and OSC Candidates, but they get to be "Boots" twice, as it were. Semper Fi Drill Instructors!
Gunny Bass was my Gunny once I hit the fleet and he took a unit and a company with back to back dui's every weekend to one of the commandants pride and our own pride- Bravo nation was one of the best places I ever grew in- Gunny Bass if you ever see this- thank you for everything you did to us and for us
Sometimes the chief instructor is a master sergeant
Ehhh pretty gay brother I’m glad I got my top secret clearance and went MSG after 2 tours.
@@Wandering_Chemist semper fi master sergeant
The only difference the Marines do not have that scared recruit look on their face.
Bayas M
Well yeah alot of them have been to battle so wtf is thus stupid ass school compared to god damn combat. Fuken nothing bitches
Haha I’m pretty sure every drill instructor I had was a pog and air wing at that they act like they were all infantry then in the end you find out none of them were
Caleb Corn true! Had one DI (sgt) who told so many war stories yet had one rack on his chest, we didn’t know any better during boot camp. Turned out the dude was admin.
They may not have that scared look but they still have that “fuck my life” look lol
Caleb Corn what’s even worse is finding how boot they used to be as junior marines on their facebook
I remember the day that I reported to DI School at MCRD San Diego. After finishing my 16 weeks of DI School, and graduating, I served on the Drill Field as a Junior DI, Senior DI, Series Gunny, and Chief DI of the company. It was some of the toughest, but, most rewarding duty of my Marine Career.
Phil Sutherland the marine corps was good at turning something seemingly fun and enjoyable into a clusterfuck. However you can’t argue with results I suppose. If I could do it again I would have opted for Navy OCS after completing my degree as an enlisted Marine. Ironically they more recently decided to combine navy and marine OCS (non combative MOS) into the same program.
Cuz harassing defenseless kids day in and day out is enjoyable.
Lol jk my brother did basically what you did. I just still detest my DIs to this day.
Semper
What's up with gunnys all being super swole?
Yut
How did you guys not lose your voice on a daily occasion? What kind of maintenance did you do to protect your cords? Always wondered, Im former army but DI's and Marine are some next level WOAH!
DI: "Eee Zero!"
Recruits: "Sir! E-0 in the Marine Corps is, Recruit! He wears nothing because HE IS NOTHING, SIR!!!" 😂😂😂
Our ditty was he wears one glow strap.
Ok no scream. I find your volume disrespectful
Yep
“you wanna fuck with my volume, huh?” “No sir!” “OPEN YOUR FAT MOUTHS, PLATOON!” “NO SIR!”
I’ve never seen NCO’s reverted back to the mind of a trainee so fast in my life, when they were done and staring straight ahead they were completely different people....
Recruit PTSD engaged.
Because in the military, the importance of following orders under duress is extremely important in hardening a soldiers focus on their task at hand despite whatever is going on around them in combat.
Holy smoke that ROK marine in BDU is jump master and E8, bad ass
Lol there is literally nothing they can do at that school to faze him.
@@adrianchatman5734 who?
@@juancontreras1075 the ROK Marine.
as far as i know, he is not rok marine, he is rok army special forces ,that is similar with us green beret.
How is he even there? I'm genuinely curious.
Drill Instructors never steal....but they will make recruits go buy 10 packs of razor blades they won't need over 3 months and pocket 6 packs of the 10 xD.
Stealing those damn boots from swim qual LOL
Ours showed us how to polish dress shoes. The pair our kill hat polished happened to be his size so he kept them. This was when the corfam shoes started being issued.
My drill instructor ordered me to buy 5 canteens because I lost my own, i said fuck that im not spending 50 dollars on canteens, so i just accepted my faith and got it’ed later on in the quarterdeck
The good ol' quartdeck. My home away from home. "Who owes me?"
MrIrish725 seriously?
aren't these guys like E-5/ E-6? getting yelled at like they E-1
Drakken CSGO Yes
Drakken CSGO yea. But that's not that point look how well they respond. It's to snap them back to where they are
It's drill instructor school. What do you expect. ?
Yes, and just think a good majority are probably combat vets.
Sir E-0 in the Marine Corps is Recruits we wear nothing because we are nothing SIR!
"Gentlemen what just took place just took place to wake you up. That is in no way how you will be treated throughout the rest of DI school" 50 men just silently cried tears of joy in that moment.
When you turn on Auto captions it says
[Music]
[Applause]
Oh how wrong they could be.
And that is why Artificial intellegence doesn't scare me
I've always wanted to join the military for the music and applause
Lol same
Damn I just watched my Drill instructor get hazed hahahahahaha!
😭
Mad props to that Korean marine.
No! He is South Korea Army special force.
@@ForgetUbro South Korea, you can see their national flag patch on his sleeve.
YS Shim same shpiel
Chad Mower There’s programs where they train international members of the military at US training facilities.
During my training with the USCG, there were classes with members of the Philippine and Jamaican Coast Guard training to be Boatswain Mates or Gunners Mates alongside the members of the US Coast Guard.
Why is the South Korean guy there
That Korean guy was probably like fuck this shit lmao
Isaac Sohn You wish buddy
Lifeguard Mike
Beating isn't the right word, but US marines I've talked to will recognize an ROK marine's tough as nails attitude. They say ROK marines will jump into a lake in the middle of a snowy winter as a morning swim. Not that it's supposed to prove how combat effective they are, but it does show that the ROK marines aren't to be fucked with
No, the ROK Marines are hard as woodpecker lips.
“And this is why kids you should put in a package for MSG should you decide to stay in!”
Exactly! If you can get the clearance go for it!!
Lol
The ROK Marine is like “Lol these dudes are crazy”
Lmaoo I thought the same. I had a guy go through basic and ait with me, and he was just coasting through the whole thing. I guess he was a badass back in S. Korea cuz he was a DS E7 over there and swole as hell, super disciplined too
The ROK Marines are just as crazy
I went there 30 years ago in March 87. Class 4-87. After the first briefing when the mean looking instructors were introduced and the CO and 1stSgt speeches they yelled at us to form for inspection outside in front of DI School. The Staff Sergeants and above were higher ranks and had the awful job of being in charge of forming us for inspection. They got yelled out alot. The first day you revert back to recruit status because most of us had never been back there at MCRD after graduation. So looking at the smokey the bear, you revert back to boot camp. After the first few hours of shock treatment, the whole process is like a very strict NCO school environment. The hardest thing was learning those teach backs. Parts of the Drill manual you had to recite verbatim yelling out loud to an instructor about 30 feet away and you used a fellow squad member as demonstrator. They kept telling us DI School was not a PT academy. Don't believe it. They PT your ass off. Best to get in great shape before you go or else you will be sucking wind hard. I had to drop my 3 mile run time down 3 minutes just to be able to be keep up for training. Put myself through weeks of doing to old school high impact aerobics done back in the 80s to mimic like getting PT for 45 minute straight. Ran during lunch chow at work, went aerobics after work. Then stop at a junior high school that had a track and ran for 2 miles. Did this for 3 months to get prepared. Never did the old school 20 kip pullups in the fleet. In DI school I finally did it. Our class average for the old PT test was 292 out of 300. For you potential students out there, here is cold hard truth. You will not graduate in 10 weeks of DI school and cross the street thinking you will be just like the salty veteran DI's who have been out there for awhile. I kept wondering when the magical transformation would occur and I would sing marching cadence like I was on soul train and know how to train the recruits in close order drill and everything else. Doesn't happen. You learn all that stuff by osmosis. Spending hundreds of hours in boot camp then suddenly, you get it.....Back then as a DI student we actually slept in the open squad bays. Notice you didn't see any bunks in the video. They let the students live in the Recruit Training Regiment permanent personnel barracks eventually. A friend of mine went through back in 94 and he was living in the barracks. And my former squad mate was in his class for his second tour, challenging the course. He was a gunny then. And many years later in 2011 I met his former wife at my job. He had a unique last name and I asked her if she had any members ever in the Corps. Well she used to be a WM at MCRD. Met my squadmate and married him. She actually attended our DI School graduation. Of course we didn't remember each other because of the decades ago. I even looked at my old photos of the graduation to see if I spotted her in uniform there but I did not. I do remember former Commandant retired General Barrows came to our class to give us a motivation speech. I seen him in person before at Camp Scwab, Okinawa and he was just a few feet from me. I wondered if he remembered me. I doubt it. That was in 1983 when I was a Lance Corporal. Little did I know that 4 years later we would meet again in DI school. Here is a funny story. My staff sergeant from 3rd bn, 11th Marines was a Di and we went to his graduation. I laughed at him because he was even skinnier than before. He laughed at me and told me hey you will be next! I laughed and said hey, I have only been a sergeant 8 months, no way would they send me down here. ha ha. Well they did about 5 months later. All the NCO's in my battalion were putting in requests for DI school. I never did. I just got orders one day. And the next day at DI School when they were yelling and sweating us on the grinder, the first sergeant said this what all of you asked for!! I was the only one there who didn't put in for it. Failure was not an option. We started with 45 students and only 27 made it through. There were 3 marines with the last name of Davis. One was in my squad. Not one of them graduated for one reason or the other. After the first couple of weeks, the delusions of graduating number one went to the wayside. All I wanted to do was survive and graduate with out getting sent back to the same unit. Back then there were only two acceptable excuses for not graduating DI School. One was if you failed the psychological 3 hour test. Because marines like marines who are psycho right??? And the other is medical. You broke your ankle or leg. No harm no foul. One staff sergeant in my squad was freaking out. He had came down from Whidbey Island in Washington state. Small detchment of jarheads there. He told me, hey man I can't fail and get sent back.. Dude they through me a big banquet before I left!! So I graduated and was all prim and proper DI student. Got to my company and one of the DI's there welcomed me and my squad mate with the greeting..."welcome aboard", you ready to start killing some privates! Our newbie DI ears were so shocked on that statement...Little did we know we learned what he was talking about later... Hey this was the 80s. Things were different. It was what it was. And I am sure each previous generation from the 70s, 60s, would say our generation was a cake walk....
James. I went to boot camp PI 1989, It was was very intense.
James Very interesting story.
James, thanks for the story. I went to DI School as a corporal; there were three of us in Class 3-78. We busted our ass so as not to look like punks to the SNCOs. In fact, the honor grad was a corporal; I think I graduated 9/37. Your story sounds very familiar with the exception of pickup. We were never treated like boots the first day; that nonsense must have filtered in during the 80s. However, school was incredibly intense and rigorous, from PT to classes to teaching drill to constant inspections. God, I hated teaching the drill verbatim. Once I got across the grinder, I dumped most of the rote memorization of drill instruction. Eventually pushed 7 platoons, four of them as a senior. I earned two meritorious promotions and was selected to receive the General Gerald C. Thomas Award by the Navy League of the US. Went to Washington DC to receive the award. Those two years on the drill field were two of the best years of my Marine Corps career.
I like your story. There is nothing like having done a tour on the drill field. Alot of hard work. The best of the best. Memories for a lifetime! Congrats for your service! I later taught drill in my post Marine Corps life for our departments academy. Albeit was only about an hour of basic COD instruction with movements and no marching whatsover. It was fun putting back on the campaign cover and doing some yelling but nothing like we did in the Corps.
James Wow, you must have graduated D.I. School just before I got to Boot Camp as a recruit. I was there from June 1 to August 21 1987.
6:48 that dude was out of there
Under rated comment
Someone had to give him that tip haha he was just waiting to go
You can tell this shit was fun to him. They already experienced when they became Marines so this is just reliving nostalgia.
That dark green Marine looks tough as Hell.
ROK Marine.
"You went through boot camp years ago...The Marines will be fine now", they said.
"You should become a Drill Instructor because you love being in the Marines so much", they said.
"You are already a Marine, DI School will be like a walk in the park", they said.
Letter home to father who is a former Navy Seal... "Hi Dad. This is HARD AS F*CK !!! This is like Boot Camp times 10 !!! Please send power bars..."
Honestly, NCO's need to go thru something like this as soon as they pick up. The rank of Corporal is literally becoming a joke in the Marine Corps. We need to be reminded of who we are and what we represent.
brandon683685 I've been saying this for the longest.
yea ill pass on that
brandon683685 it doesn't help when there's 100 NCOs and 30 E3 and below. I felt like they were handing out rank like candy . a lot of Incompetent NCOs forget what are role is .
Yeah fucking right.
That doesn't make sense and is just illogical and the results would only highlight the problems in the Corps. Good applicants will result in good marines, a leopard cannot change his spots. You can cover him with paint but eventually the paint comes off and the spots are once again visible. Berating NCO's serves no purpose.
Oh Hell No..... Not (Gunnery) Sergeant Rodriguez! This dude was my DI when I went through Boot Camp in 1997. OOHRAH 3030 Kilo Company- Graduation Date 2/6/1998
Killer Kilo!
We bleed blue! I graduated last Friday January 17th, 2020. Off to MCT on tuesday. Killer Kilo all the way!
Gunnery Sergeant Pagan was my SDI. Was Staff Sergeant Pagan then. Bravo CO. Plt 1078 9-10-99
You graduated a week before me in 98, I was 2nd BN Fox Co Parris Island
Kilo 3089 Grad Date 12/05/20 Semper Fi Brother
Respect to the Korean Marine for doing this
It takes a very special individual to say “send me back in” to go and become a drill instructor. You earn the title as a recruit and know you’ve went through something unbelievable. To go back as an instructor, to train the next generation of war fighters, to endure the rigors of being honed towards the very heart and soul of the Corps spirit, that definitely says a lot to those men and women. I knew a fellow Marine who did just that, and I’m damn proud of her for making it though. Those that wear the campaign hat and walk the drill field, they have my respect.
Your literary going thru boot camp all over again.
A lot of them go against their will😂
I had a First Sergeant that did DI twice. One hell of a Marine
GySgt USMC retired.
6:48 lol that guy is out of there with the spin juke
Randy Nielsen lmao that was funny
That's what you would call, walking with purpose and determination.
Ugh... I cannot imagine repeating a more physically demanding version of bootcamp at this pay grade. This appears to be much less fun than OCS.
Yeah but these are Marines that have a new objective to keep their eyes on... getting some payback on recruits after they earn the right to... still I couldnt even imagine it.
Pretty gay too...MSG was such a blast my friend. Just have to get that Top Secret clearance.
4:55: "A Marin- A Drill Instructor!!" Gotta be perfect bro!
Hahaha
This prepared me for my first marriage....Semper Fi my brothers !
Jesus lmao
Lol
Glad you said first because it’s not gonna be your only one.
My Great Uncle who served in WWII AND Korea in the USMC was a Marine Drill Instructor. You can only Feel for his 6 sons. They went through Boot Camp Every Day of their life. Imagine getting up at 6 am like these guys.
so who trains the drill instructors drill instructor
Mofo So Dope the drill instructors,drill instructor drill instructor
Serious response here: It's usually a Staff NCO Drill Instructor that's assigned over to the Drill Instructor School.
Seasoned SNCOs who have already completed a tour as a DI
Optimus Prime
At 15:30 he sais the best chief drill instructors
This stuff warms my heart. It's almost enough to make me consider going back in. The power of nostalgia.
You only remember the good parts 😂
I went to boot camp in San Diego in 1998. One of the recruits in my platoon later returned and attended drill instructor school. The chief instructor of DI school at the time was none other than one of our DI's from boot camp. Talk about coming full circle!
12:16 “gonna be a long 3 months already, I can tell.”
That fucking voice. That’s the voice I remember.
Much respect to the Marines (and ROK). From a US Army soldier
2:26 when you realize you've made the same mistake twice.
Underrated comment 😂
🤣🤣🤣
What a lovely sight. A DI's job is a hard one which is executed in a short period of time. These guys have honed the elements of training practice to a fine art. What a treat to see in action.
Being a drill instructor for drill instructors…pretty fucking dope
WOW, times have surely changed!!! I went to Drill Instructor School Parris Island, SC Oct 1983, class 1-84 as a Sergeant! Although it was very stressful indeed, we were't yelled at like this however, there was a high stress morning wake up one day. We started with 110 students, including 5 Gunnery Sergeants, we graduated 60 something, Marines were getting dropped everyday for anything!!!!! I can say it was the hardest thing I have ever undertaken in my LIFE... DI SCHOOL WAS NO JOKE!!!!!!!!, I'm elated I had the unique opportunity to be amongst the very top teir of professional Marines ever !SEMPER FI. Ronald L.Higgins Sr. Master Sergeant USMC RET
What were they getting dropped for?
9:57 lmao the korean dude is a Sangsa - equivalent to E-8 Master Sergeant or First Sergeant. If you really wanted to split hairs you could say he outranks all the Gunny's yelling at him.
GySgt Rodriguez was my 1st Sgt as a recruit...he was tremendous..and then I became a Drill Instructor..PIDI...
Michael Lopez GySgt Ruiz served as the 1stCEB SgtMaj when I was there
so it's basically boot camp all over again?
basically yes. lol. everything has to be perfect.
wfnabors it's worse. Those students are Marines. That means, you screw up, they can keep you up all night and fuck with you. Recruits are guaranteed sleep at night. Once you are a Marine, that goes out the window.
ive heard its only like this for the first 4 weeks, it gets more chill after that. its basically a wake up call to marines who havent been in a boot camp environment in over 4 years
lol 12:40 a first sgt get up and explains that they were only treated like that to wake them up and let them know where they are at and that it wouldnt be like that for the entire 13 weeks, i guess i heard correctly lol
Never gets "chill." Because you are too busy trying to survive and live up to expectations of becoming a Marine Drill Instructor. The standards are very high. I never knew if I was going to graduate until the the last few days. They kept telling us we don't care if we don't graduate any of you....Out of 45, only 27 made it. That first week Marine NCO's were dropping like flies. You never get comfortable ever.
Such an important clip. If the general audience realized that all of these students had signed up for this and that most of these students were veterans of a not so popular prolonged war... I wish that university had an option to a degree or degrees under the same format. Thank you everyone that is in this clip.
Military from Korea:
- What the hell is going on?!
You do know that South Korea and the US military work very close together even the ROK marines have similar uniforms to the usmc
GySgt Pagan (now 1st Sgt Pagan, retired) was one of the Senior Naval Science instructors of my njrotc unit during high school. One of the most influential male figures I ever had in my entire directionless life at that point. He was the image of what I wanted to become. 1st Sgt Pagan is as real as they come and all of my most highlighted memories during my time in njrotc had something to do with 1st Sgt Pagan, not only for me but for most people that ever stepped foot in the drill hall. I'm glad I was able to find this video on my own again, years later after another cadet had found it while we were still in school. A character defining person.
So as the 1stSgt said,all the harasment in the beginning was a 1 time thing,to get their attention. The rest is normal operations and growing thick skin while being there. Semper Fi. 1977-1990.
Great leadership is hard to find. That being said, not all NCO's will become exceptionally great leaders, but most will be very good leaders/mentors. Been out of the Corps for more than 30 years and yet, have rarely met ok leaders, if any at all. This has been my hardest adjustment to civilian life. They just don't get it or have a clue what our culture is and what it stands for. No other experience will give you the satisfaction of being around so many professionals, leaders and mentors than those you will find in the military! Relish in you achievements, inspire those around you and always lead by example!
Semper Fi!
It’s inside of us 🤣 the ability to revert back to this in a heartbeat.
On my vacation to Parris Island in 1967 the week that we were assigned outside assignments I was sent to the D.I. school to work and all the D. I. student were very nice and accommodating which I found a nice change up.
The navy called our di school hip hop school. Went in 1978, nothing like this. But I did train 8 companys of 86 men each before I retired in 1981.
I graduated Drill Sergeant School U.S. Army 1998. This is harder than what we went through. I was a Staff Sergeant when i went to DS School. Great Video!
Its weird because DS have to be atleast E5(P) to E7 to attend, marine corps it's all E4 and E5 DI's from my understanding which is why its confusing because we were taught in the army NCO Corp that E6 was the rank you were to be trusted with more responsibility
When I went through DI school at MRCD San Diego in 1986, we were not treated like bunch of recruits. We were treated firmly and professionally. We were high stressed usually at PT. During my 27 year career in the Marine Corps, in my mind, it's was the best leadership school I attended. The traning and experience sticks with you forever.
That’s how you should be treated, this right here is beyond stupid. I joined i 84 and was asked to go to DI school, I always said no.
Outfreakin standing! When I graduated Boot one of the DI's warned us that if we don't want to get embarrassed to stay away from the Drill Instructor School area on Family Day.
lol so it's basically the same speech as they give the new recruits, only just added "drill instructor" instread of marine. you would think the speech would be different.
8:56 when u spike ur water bottle with a lil' somethin before shipping off to MCRD.
Whoa 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this video and audio.
Seeing the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps young is insane.
Glad I'm not going crazy, what a wild coincidence
8:34 "I should've picked recruiter SDA
I did DPAA duty instead hahahaha
😂😂😂😂😂😂
holy shit gunny Ruiz is now a sgtmjr this is mad old.
Widley Laguerre no way really? He was our co. First sergeant in 3/4.
I remember when he was a ssgt plt 3091
He was my drill instructor also for platoon 3091. Glass how are you doing buddy?
POG
Now he’s top of the food chain
Discipline is the most important thing..I served 4 years in the Army...I admire these men.
I went to DI school 1977 at MCRD San Diego, no DI school instructor yelled at anyone. My squad DI instructor was a Chosin vet and he never raised his voice. We had a fellow student with a Navy Cross and two with the Silver Star from Vietnam, I think a bunch of us would have told the instructors treating us like recruits to get lost and laughed at them. All the students went thru boot camp and know one needs to remind us what boot camp is like. I think some idiotic officer came up with this idea of treated Marine SNCO/NCOs like recruits.
Went to PI in 1979,no regrets,did two hitches n got out,became a stonemason next 30 years,semper Fi Marines!
9:28 with the banshee scream lmao
I laughed once. Big mistake. Got thrashed until I couldn't feel my arms and legs.
I got screened by HRST about a year before I got out. There was another guy in my squadron who also got screened and told the team "Oh, no, I want to be a drill instructor". They made sure he got that option. From what I understand, now you get screened by one team for both recruiting and drill instructor so you are basically going to get one or the other. At the time, my daughter was on the Exceptional Family Member program so they told me they couldn't select me, but encouraged me to get in touch if she ever got off it... "Roger that". About 10 months later, EAS'd. But, not before the big green weenie got one last balls-deep fucking and I went to Sgt's Course and had to spend a shit ton of money getting all the gear and uniform items up to speed... only to turn around three months after Sgt's Course and sell all that shit after I got out.
During my stay at MCRD we had a working party during 1st phase that was sent to clean this place. It was a great day and was an honor to be in that place.
Going through bootcamp once was enough. More power to these Marines.
I was honorably discharged 1/7/07 as a Sergeant, and I was actually thinking about becoming a PIDI. 3rd Battalion Style, but of course I changed my mind, and went back to school for kinesiology. Now I’m a personal trainer, and still just as in shape (really better shape) than I was as a Marine at the age of 35. 2/18/84. Yep I still continue to kill, and over train my body today, not because I got to, it’s because I want to. I’m addicted to fitness because of the Marine Corps. Yes I was a nasty fat bodied recruit that had to be placed on food restrictions. I loss a lot of weight as a result, and I can’t thank the Corps enough, for assisting me with my love for fitness. SEMPER FI!!!!
Lol this is weird watching a bunch of Sergeants- Gunnery Sergeants being treated like recruits
Appreciate the video. I hope to see more videos on how Marines can be more prepared for D.I.School.
I was in recruit training in 1994. To this day if one of my DIs walked into the room and told me to jump out the window, I would do it without a moments hesitation. They really do know what they are doing.
Boot camp on steroids. I can only imagine how beyond perfection these gentlemen are going to have to be compared to initial recruit training.
The saddest part of all this, is that most of these Marine students, (to probably include the ROK Marine as well) were "vol-un-told" by their respective commands to attend the DI School.
Either DI School or Recruiting for most Staff NCOs - picking between the lesser of two evils I guess
Funny you said that, army here. I got vol-un-told for two schools I wanted nothing to do with
It’s funny how no matter how long you’ve been in you still manage to look lost when put in that situation… 😂😂
I love it.
First Sergeant Arvizu was my Senior DI in 1998. Glad to see he’s still training Marines.
This was 2007
GET SOME‼️
I noticed a ROK Marine in the class.
ghostbear200123 what is a ROK Marine?
ghostbear200123 why would a ROK marine train in a USMC drill instructor school?
My guess is he is going through D.I. school to learn and take away some knowledge to pass on to our Korean brothers.
Nariet Sy ROK stands for Republic of Korea
i spent some time with two at 29 palms the ROK Marines where both where a bad ass and had my Respect that was in 1979 they where there just like me new equipment that was coming out for the both ROK and Fleet force was getting at the time them like the Aussies are someone you want on your side if someone shooting at you
Actually enjoyed boot camp a bit. The yelling was funny to me. They fixed that come 2nd phase tho lol.
These guys are pros. You can tell bu the look on their faces they know how to drown out the noise
God bless all of you, the reason why I get up each day and enjoy my freedom is because of your sacrifice semper fi
nopenopenopenopenope. fuck no am I going through boot camp round 2
Hey if you're in the Corps and you receive orders to DI School like I did, you have no choice to go. And don't even think of dropping out. Because they send you right back to your unit and you have to face your peers and the humiliation and rumors why you didn't make it. Only two excuses accepted. A medical (broke arm) or you failed the psych exam. (Marines like crazy!).
James I didn't reenlist after my 4 . you don't get to choose your specialty school ? Like msg school di school or recruiter school , what ever that would be like .
Captain Howdy He was ordered to go. He was the only student out of everyone who went who didn't ask to be there. He was just that good. Not speaking for him or anything; just don't know if he'll reply.
I got hell of respect for marines and DI’s man this was intense.. I gotta answer my best friend call when he calls me.. he is going through this now..
One of the DI instructors, GySgt Ruiz was my regimental SgtMaj at my first unit!
The best of the best.
Total respect.
Semper Fi
only like this on day one. GySgt Lett and GySgt Sanfford were both my squad instructors... first weekend was killer but after that wasnt that bad. It wasnt nearly as bad as i expected it to be..
How were they as DI Instructors overall? Jerks? Chill?
Gunny Ruiz is now the SGT MAJ of the Marine Corps 🙌🏻
Attention on deck. badasses come through. Thank you
This is beautiful!! Semper fi !!!
Was heading to P.I D.I school in fall 2002. Instead, orders got scrapped to go with my unit 2/8 into iraq. Wasn't meant to be i guess. Lol
Those ROK Marines are pretty good.
South Koreans are very intelligent and extremely team oriented, so no doubt their Marines are not to be underestimated.
Lord Apophis There’s a joke in the US Military that the ROK Marines are so scary that we’re actually in South Korea to prevent them from invading South Korea😂😉
Spent a lot of time training with ROK Marines. No joke! Hard as nails they are.
Epic! The purpose is two-fold. One, the student know they will no sandbag in this course. Achieve the standard or return to the Operating Forces, Two, they demonstrate what the student WILL do when they pick up a recruit platoon. Brutal shock and awe! SNCO's bringing the fire! Semper Fi brothers! DI SCHOOL, 2004-2005.
Imagine telling yourself you are never going through that again just to go through that again
The Capt was my LT while I was in boot in 05. Small world.
This was dated 2007. DI School is definitely not like that now (graduated as a hat in 2012). You are treated like the rank you come as, not as a recruit unless you want to act like one. You still have to have to be thick skinned and able to take very... very constructive criticism. You will be demanded of, you will be stressed out, you will see others try to quit, but you will not be yelled at in your face like that as if its recruit pick up. Things happen/change for a reason. It is what it is like the change or not. (they also do not give that modified Drill Instructor Creed, but its been a few years... and things have a way of coming full circle). Regardless, its the best time of your life!
drawingturtuga How do Drill Instructors get the frog voice?
Basically you end up yelling 16 hours a day during the very beginning of picking up a recruit platoon. You do not develop this frog voice in DI School. Your throat gets very sore where you can barely speak. But you keep on doing it. Every new DI experiences this. Over the days/weeks your throat muscles get torn up and then strengthen. Think of lifting weights in the gym until exhaustion and muscles are sore right? Then they grow and get stronger...Same thing. That is how you get the frog voice or deep voice. Some get the frog more than others...Just depends. Like the Chicago PD show the old sergeant has a naturally thick deep voice so any enhancing makes it deeper. Try yelling at the top of your lungs for 16 hours a day. When I was DI I took my platoon out for drill competition and my Sergeant Major said I had the loudest voice on the depot (MCRD San Diego). All from being a DI spending hundreds of hours yelling....
James Thank you for explaining! I always tried to figured out how Drill Instructors got that voice. Much respect to you and every other Drill Instructor out there! Semper Fi!
Glad to hear that. We were treated firmly but with respect from day 1 in 1978, not like a boot. That nonsense must have been a phase through the 80s-90s.
12:45 he say It was to wake them up to realize where they are. He says You will not be treated like that through out DI school. I think a lot of people are just ignoring that part or not watching it through.
Outstanding ❤️👍🏾
DI School Grad 2-96. MCRD San Diego. I was in that same barracks and classroom. It is like bootcamp all over but more intense. A lot of studying and PTing your asses off. My class avg on the PFT was 287 out of 300. Those are posted in the DI School by class and year. I still have my DI Hat over my Bed and I retired in 2002 after 20 yrs. Tough School, but glad I have forever earned the Title of U.S. M. C. Drill Instructor. You live in the B.E.Q not in the barracks but you maintain it like a squad bay with your uniforms and all in the Barracks. You clean it daily and have uniform inspections on a moments notice. They don't give any quarters and you better be tough or you will not make it. Semper Fi. Marine DI's are on their feet 19 hrs a day training future Marines. These Squad Instructors are the best of the best. He is right you think you are a stud till you get there where everyone in the School was a stud in his unit. There were 37 of us and the 1st day PFT I ran a 19:20 3 mile and finished 19th. The fastest was a 15:45. Humbled really quick never not been top 10 guy in any unit. OORAH