@@lailonnietukes4456 I went at the tail end of the old era & the beginning of the new. They were already experimenting with different classes with "not yelling at them," "not being physical with them," and perhaps some other variants. We weren't allowed to be "hit" but I'm thankful that we were allowed to be at least as verbally [/ psychologically] """""abused""""" as our predecessors.
Physical abuse doesn't make you tough what marine corps needs to do is start sending people home who aren't cut out for the marine corps! Beating someone doesn't make them a better marine
If new recruits can't handle the stress from boot camp, how can they handle the stress from combat where instead of being called mean names, people are actively trying to kill you?
CheckMyDoubles Would you rather fight amongst brothers in arms that went through training blood sweat and tears or the 3 guys that jumped you and told you not to tell anyone. Id rather defend my brothers that i trust then bullies in the military on a power trip beating people. If your active military you need to rethink.
I bet you didn't even watch the video, some of the things they are facing court martial for is withholding food from recruits and drinking alcohol while on the job.
Well those drill instructors under court martial are accused of physically abusing recruits, and using homophobic and racist slurs. Name calling isn’t that bad but touching someone is.
@@jpeg.600x2 bruh, I had the shot beat out of me. If you don't want a Drill Instructor putting their hands on you, then join the Army. Marines are a different breed
I am an X-Marine. I went through Marine boot camp in 1968 at San Diego Recruit Depot. My platoon got west pac orders, meaning Vietnam. I was lucky, I stayed stateside. I seen recruits abused as well as I was abused. Upon graduating from boot camp, I remember a drill instructor saying, "if you hate us when you leave here, we did our job." If your thinking about going into the Marine Corps watch the movie , "Full Metal Jacket." Hollywood got this one right.
@@Darksky1001able not anymore but back in the day open palm slaps, being grabbed and thrown around, sometimes slammed on the ground if you put others in danger. They don't do it anymore really.
If you can't handle a criticism, some harsh words, a little food deprivation, or even the occasional punch to the gut by your drill instructor, then how in the hell are you going to fight a war with bullets whizzing by your head after just reading your Dear John letter and being stranded behind enemy lines with no rations for 5 days? We've raised a generation of completely adolescent, sissified crybabies. Boot camp is supposed to suck because war sucks. Anything less than suffering won't prepare you.
devwreck127c you gotta realize that the people are going there in there with there own will but also its still messed up if they are slapping, choking and getting punched in the gut? Also calling someone a terrorist and drinking all of that is still unacceptable laws are still there you can't just start choking somebody
devwreck127 Marine Boot is supposed to be tough and getting screamed at called names and whatever else is all part of the process to break down and build back up but I don't think physically attacking someone is ever a justified training excuse. You are going to be brothers in arms on the same side. There is most definitely a way to be disciplined, tough and harsh in training without beating the fuck out of someone. They'll find out when they go to war what it's like if they have a combat MOS. Then again nothing can truly prepare you for war. You don't know till you're there in it. Kinda like boot.
yes everything you said is true but there has to be a line of respect and thats what the marines or any other branch is supposed to teach you and its clear that these instructors have failed to do so
Marcus Figueroa if he’s a Marine then he knows what happened, it’s always been this way. If you can’t take it, then don’t join the Marine Corps. If you don’t want a drill instructor to put their hands on you, then join the army. Marines are almost always the first ones into the fight, and if they aren’t true warriors, then they will be slaughtered in combat.
Dylan Gregory shutup. Because a lot marine drill sergeants are the same and the exact same thing happens everywhere. And when an officer says this kind of things should not be happening. It shouldn't be happening. Listen to orders from the officers! You don't know how to follow orders?
jay kim what I was saying is then when you get IT'd in the sand pits the Drill Instructors make you do push ups a lot and when they give the command you literally have to drop like a rock to the push up position and usually when that happens sand gets kicked up into your mouth
I am a product of Parris Island, Plt 3014, 1988-1989, it's supposed to be tough, and the brutal hazing part of the program. I know what I was getting into when I joined. I'm tired of this punk ass people wanting to make Marine bootcamp soft. if you can't hack it don't join our beloved Corps...Oorah!
Apparently people dying in recruit training as a result of these tactics isn't cause for concern to you. Only that in your world, it's indicative of them "not being tough" Pound sand, jarhead boy.
That kid killed himself as a result of 18 years of parental indulgence and victim baiting. It wasn't the Marine Corps. He should've never enlisted if he had mental issues. Drink Starbucks, candy ass...
I didn't say, "liberal...," genius. By the way, your punctuation and writing convention are superb. You must have a college degree. I don't buy it because I went through recruit training and it's safe from any kind of abuse or hazing. You're a sensationalist and you're quick to react with your feelings rather than logic and reason. Of course there's an investigation, dummy; a recruit killed himself! As for the other recruits? No evidence but since your safe zone was violated, somebody has to pay even if they're innocent of the charges. That's the truth and those are the facts. Go troll someplace else OK?
Oxi' Batz' I agree, that kid had mental issues, beyond what those drill instructors could've done. I've had plenty of times where I was bullied in school, work and abused by my parents, wishing I was dead, but I never killed myself. If you have suicidal tendencies innate within you, you are going to do it, if it wasn't the Marine D.I.'s that sent him over the edge, it would've been something else, eventually. Suicidal people will almost always find an excuse to kill themselves at some point.
@@GandalftheWise Hua says it all, you could never be a Marine, and yes crayons taste better than the Sharpe you sniff, stay out of it pony boy, that's why we call ourselves Marines and not toy soldiers.
..... I was given a stress card... but guess what, the Drill Sergeants don't tell you that its a Stress Card. It was an Army Values card, and they said to keep it on you at all times, and its an inspectable item. I agree, that the Military is being Pussified, but its the ENTIRE military. The Army was forced to go soft first because its the largest branch.
You don't join the Military to be "Respected and treated like a Human"... You are a Tool or a Gear in a Machine, known as the US Armed Forces, that is designed to protect the US and obliterate anyone who disagrees. If you are a Serviceman, you are not special. You are a weapon.
I went through Paris Island in 68, and if they were not as mean, rotten and nasty as they were, I would have never made it through Vietnam!!!! Thank You Drill Instructors.
Its understandable that the DIs hit and called them names but someone died under supervision of the DI do you really think that there should be no investigation for the death of the recruit
To all you Jarheads, Grunts, Coasties and Squids, thank you for your outstanding service and sacrifice throughout the history of our great country. Without your diligent service, I would not have been able to enjoy 22 years of 9 to 5 bliss in air-conditioned comfort while in the Air Force :) love you all!!
@capnhands maybe that's why so many Marines were sadistic sociopaths who committed war crimes any chance they could get back then. I'm SURE this wouldn't have any correlation to the veteran suicide rate in this country....
If the commanding general says it's not permitted to act like that, then it's clearly a problem. Its ASSAULT. They are to be trained yes and hazed yes. But assaulting your rectruits and threatening that if they told the truth they'll get stitches will make them not trust you or want to defend you or fight by your side. And that's how we should think. Would you want to defend your brothers in arms that support you or a bully that is on a power trip in the military abusing his power? And the fact that people think this is fine is a problem. They support eachother more then abusing. Trust in key. Not abuse. It's astounding that people believe bullying is the solution to better fighters and soldiers.
What gets me is this sort of asinine training has only been around for what? 120 years or so? And some modern military branches think it's totally necessary... even though evidence shows the exact opposite, that hazing/abuse etc creates division amongst units. If it was necessary, armies would have been doing it for the last 50,000 years you military morons.... instead of just being a 20'th century phenomenon. Do military branches not study their own military history? It amazes me how people in the 20th/21st centuries follow like sheep all this baseless, groundless unproven nonsense. What's more is, the only. reason tough guys get away with it is because the person they're abusing isn't allowed to fight back. If these fake "tough guy" drill sergeants tried this crap with soldiers back in various historical periods that had less of this fake 20'th century "civilization" they would have probably gotten their heads cut off by people they were "training" Instead we have the modern world where only people with government backing can get away with acting uncivilised.
my buddy is stationed in nc and came home the other day and was telling me about this and i assumed shoving the guy in a dryer thing was a joke but holy shit man
I'm a Navy Desert Storm Veteran, and what the hell is happening to our Military? Can't call them names? wtf? I took beat downs when I got to the fleet, and I enjoyed the camaraderie with my shipmates. I wouldn't trade my military brothers and sisters in for nobody!
If physical abuse is going to be part of recruit training, recruits have a right to know that before they take the oath. It’s not fair to tell them that it’s not permitted, and then when it happens, tell them that they signed a contract, took an oath, etc. Yes, they took an oath, but the Corps did also, in the form of rules. If the Corps doesn’t hold up its end, why should the recruit?
I think I'll join the Marine Corps. Mom said that it will be easy and they won't hit me or call me names. Really? Join the navy or air force already. How do you turn a spoiled, oversensitive civilian into a marine in 13 weeks. Not by being tender hearted and delicate.
@@Adam-bq2vw Yes, and who is it that joins the Marine Corps and doesn't already know this? No one told me it wasn't allowed and I wouldn't have believed them even if they had.
James S. Who? Eighteen year olds. You make it out like it’s the responsibility of recruits to see past the b.s., NOT the job of the Marine Corps to be honest. You’re making excuses.
@@Adam-bq2vw Look, no one tells you they can't hit you or call you names when you enlist. Everyone knows that when you join the Marine Corps it is going to be a lot rougher than joining the navy or army. In my platoon of 63 recruits there was no one who said "I didn't expect this".
Aww... Too soft... Too soft... Well i got kicked, slapped, chocked, punched, hit, so many damn times.. N now im here..still alive. Still on service. Now im a corporal. Damn...bcos of tht i learn how to handle stresses.
We cannot allow our military, Marines or any other branch, to be weakened and infected by our civilian societies hypersensitivity. War requires tough servicemembers, not fully grown man-children whose feelings and body can't handle a bit of a beating.
Something needs to be done it’s October 15, 2023. My daughter almost died she’s been complaining she was sick for two weeks now Monday she started coughing up line Saturday. They sent her to meds finally and now she’s in the hospital with severe pneumonia and the flu. She’s not doing good she’s mentally and physically unstable. She wants to come home and they giving me a problem.
I was there when all this happened it was all we recruits could talk about when the kid was in the dryer. It seemed like something new happened every week after that.
A Marine Corps drill instructor gets respect by teaching you to be a Marine. Tough, hard core and able to handle the stress and horrors of war. The physical and mental issues shown in this video are usually early in the training when they are trying to get rid of your civilian bad habits and poor upbringing. They only have a short time to do this. They've been doing this for a long time and have turned kids into one of the best fighting forces in the world. Look at the history of the United States Marine Corps. Change this to be politically correct and that history will be all that is left.
I agree. It's the Marine Corps. I went in with a bad attitude. I was punched, chocked, hazed, and it was the toughest time if my life. I may not have known it then, but it made me tough and learned how to manage brutality. I can honestly say, everything I learned and went through in boot camp saved my life in Iraq, a number of times. You can't go into war with a weak mindset or think the enemy is going to care about your feelings. That is literally what can get you and others killed
If you pay attention and follow simple instructions, the drill instructors will never even learn your name. Personally, I appreciated all of the stupid recruits who kept sky-lining themselves because it kept the drill instructor’s attention away from me.
Let’s all get together and cry with tissues. May I remind you, there are people in different countries that can’t wait to test our military. We need tough recruits, and even tougher Marines and soldiers. No room for this politically correct sissified military. That doesn’t work in the real world of combat.
It's one thing to be strict; dehumanizing recruits is another. Besides, experts say that a straight up invasion of the US mainland is next to impossible. Besides there literally being more guns than people, the terrain of the US would make invasions not worth it.
I got punched in the chest as soon as I got off the bus and was standing on the yellow footprints. I had sunflower seeds in my mouth. The DI asked what the F*&K was I eating. I replied sunflower seeds...can't you tell? Boom...I was on my ass the next second. That was 1981. I deserved it...being a punk ass recruit. I saw guys kicked in the ass. Slammed against the wall or to the floor. I thought it was normal stuff. Nobody complained. It was the price we paid to be a member.
Future Jarhead01 If you referred to your fellow Americans as "Hajis" Than you don't deserve to serve in the United States Military. Keep that Garbage to yourself and stay out of the military, you trash human being.
You are getting warm. It's all about mental illness. Some of the DI'S are straight up psychopaths. Cluster b personality disorders are rampant in the service just like the police and other authority based occupations.
Inflicting physical harm is absolutely uncalled for, but everything else verbally and mentally is absolutely not only called for but required. This is the Marines. In battle the enemy ain’t gonna be nice to you. Basic training MCRD is when those who cannot handle that must be rooted out. The only policy change that needs to happen is for those who can’t handle a complete verbal assault on everything from your looks to your faith to your sex and sexual orientation should be sent home and permanently discharged by the Marines and never again permitted into any branch of the American armed forces. I say this with every bit of respect to every single person to steps off that bus and on to the yellow footprints. If you’re not mentally prepared to do hand-to-hand and face-to-face combat with the worst enemies and bad guys on this planet, who would torture you physically and mentally in ways you can’t comprehend, the time to find that out is during basic training. And not when you’ve been captured. Not everyone can, or should, be a Marine.
When I went there, they beat us and called us every name in the book. That’s just how it is. If you can’t take that, how are you going to handle combat?
I was kicked, punched, pinched, slapped, grabbed, thrown. Constantly stressed and then yelled at and mentally and verbally abused even when i was doing perfect. However that is the whole point, that is what i signed up for. My resolve was tested and then strengthened. To this day being yelled at has nearly no effect on me, i can be called all sorts of names and it does not break me, physically i am not afraid of others. If you don't have stress training like this and you go in to combat it could potentially be the thing that ends you.
It's one thing to be strict and install discipline; it's another to dehumanize recruits and especially to discriminate against minorities who serve our country despite the crap they have to deal with.
I went to bootcamp in 2012 expecting something like Full Metal Jacket. I was kinda disappointed honestly but it still managed to weed out some people that couldn’t handle it.
Lol at everyone blaming liberals and millennials..who raised millennials? That's right, you dropped the ball there. It's your fault. And I'll tell you what, all you need to do to "trigger" a right winger is to make a joke about Jesus..easiest thing ever
Actually liberals are nothing new. Liberal parents raise liberal kids. Kids reflect their parents and their upbringing, or lack of it. The whole idea of fairness is not reality in the real world. Who promised you that life would be fair. Who ever thought that joining the Marine Corps would be fair or politically correct? Should have joined the navy or the air force where the sensitive and caring people reside.
lol i choked, slapped, punched in the gut, canteen poured on my head when i fell asleep in class, called every possible name you can think of, ordered to drag my face in the sand pit, i didnt complain. and that was in 2011. its scary to see how soft its getting in such a small amount of time. its boot camp, its supposed to suck lol
All of what the reporter mentioned, specifically the drinking, hazing, and even false reports on the young guys/recruits if they have an issue with them. If you speal up against beating another recruit etc you'll be targeted. It's very sickening. Go investigate in NC infantry and find the recruits that are hurt and intimidated by these bullies!!
It has been over a half century since I went through USMC boot camp the DI’s had very creative ways of motivating us yes there were some beatings they just wanted to weed out the week ones it was tough though mostly mentally. I think that infantry training was much tougher physically but then we were marines and in boot camp we were recruits. I enlisted when I was 17 you can take a lot when your are young I have no regrets and I’m glad that I did it I certainly wouldn’t want to do it over again. I like to think that I’m still in great physical condition but I do not think I could make it through Boot Camp and infantry training again.😁👍
What these Drill Sergeants have to remember is that these people are going in to serve the United States of America but at the same time the recruits have to realize that they're not going there for summer vacation they're going there to become United States Marines it's not a walk in the park.
I'm not one of those 'ooh-rah, kill bodies' type of Marines, but hear me out. I find it somewhat interesting that because a muslim recruit (Its cool, Muslim it up- Our country was founded on religious freedom) took the coward's way out, we're supposed to be outraged. There was a protestant recruit in the cycle before mine that hung himself in the shower, though I bet you'll never hear his name. The double-standard is complete and utter bullshit. Having completed recruit training some time ago (and gone on to be a relative success by a Corporal's standards), I think some degree of what you might refer to as 'hazing' is necessary. I've had to put mustard in my Gatorade (Oh no! Write the President!) and I can think of an occasion where I was actually choke-slammed into a rack, but you best believe I deserved it. I don't hold any contempt for how I was treated, because I believe that it all served a greater purpose. The bottom line, I guess is that recruits need to think long and hard about whether they truly want to be a Marine; it isn't a title that is conferred lightly. If you can't handle hating your life for 3 months, go join the Air Force- Its okay, really. The Marine Corps isn't for everyone. That's not to say that we wouldn't be better served by improved mental health screening at our entry processing centers and at every level of our recruiting process, and Lord knows that I've seen that proven first-hand time and time again. I see MEPS as the true point of failure, not recruit training.
If physical abuse is part of training, recruits have a right to know it going in. It’s not fair to tell them that it’s not permitted and then when it happens say “you signed a contract.”
Went to Parris Island basic in 1976, my Drill Instructors were Vietnam Combat Soldiers,who taught us war is tough, and we would be trained in a tough manner to survive, bas is was hell, but has made me the man I am today with the same drive and determination
I was in the Devil Pups when I was 16, if you dont know what that is google it. we were put through the same training as regular marines and on the last day we were lined up on our foot lockers and the DI came and punched each one of us in the chest to prove we were marine tough, I still to this day at 57 think on this as a day I'm proud of boot camp is not meant to be easy
Yeahhhh you're not using your brain people start losing pride in the country when their instructors beat them and call them out more than instruct them on how to be in the military.
Marine Corps boot camp is the only boot camp left that people on the outside look at and say, wow that is really tough, you must have balls to get through that. Even the other branches know what Marines went through in boot camp and acknowledge it as the toughest. Lets keep it that way. There's a reason prior Army soldiers still have to go through Marine boot camp if they decide to join the Marine Corps..
When I was stationed in Pensacola with a bunch of Marines they would tell absolute horror stories of abuse. But, they wore it like a badge of honor and took it as a way that the Marine Corps needed to be to accomplish its goals. Our Marine brothers and sisters deserve to be trained without tragedy.
Yeah heaven forbid we induce stress on our future Marines via harsh words and simulated combat.... ...what’s next. West Point grads wearing high heels...?
Training is supposed to be tough but not cruel and detrimental to someone’s race, gender, religion or ethnicity. Marines have a high standard and image to uphold to the United States.
They want to push you and tear you down and rebuild you and being aggressive but theres something called being too aggressive that will result in a injury that puts them out of training
They’re referring to names that are racist, homophobic, and islamaphobic. That was one of the issues at Paris Island was Muslim recruits were being constantly abused.
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Beating up recruts? Not ideal.
Name calling? Come on. It's the military...
^facts
I agree..I went to the Air Force..they stayed yelling..HURRY UP! LETS GO CRY BABIES! ALL KIND OF FUCKERY BUT WE MADE IT!💪🤞
@@lailonnietukes4456 I went at the tail end of the old era & the beginning of the new. They were already experimenting with different classes with "not yelling at them," "not being physical with them," and perhaps some other variants. We weren't allowed to be "hit" but I'm thankful that we were allowed to be at least as verbally [/ psychologically] """""abused""""" as our predecessors.
Lmfao I was gonna say they called me and my fellow recruits all the names in the book when I went to boot camp
Yea but the rules are watching language. They want professionals it’s a new era.
Tough yes, cruel to an extent. But putting a recruit into a dryer, eh, that's a bit much.
gotta prepare em for that hot middle eastern heat!
That’s what ITX is for ^
but did he turn it on?
Physical abuse doesn't make you tough what marine corps needs to do is start sending people home who aren't cut out for the marine corps! Beating someone doesn't make them a better marine
They have washers and dryers??? What happened to the bucket for washing clothes?? They never had it so good!
I guess these guys never saw Full Metal Jacket.
Daniel T. or Jarhead
How accurate is that movie though?
Leonardo Chavez yeah
That man who played the sergeant was a actual sergeant so there was athentic acting
Ya know it's a movie right?
It’s called a movie
If new recruits can't handle the stress from boot camp, how can they handle the stress from combat where instead of being called mean names, people are actively trying to kill you?
There is a difference between calling someone names and choking them or forcing them into a clothes dryer.
Gammareign sur pls es nu yurs n teh dreyurs r ful
Mean names is not the only reason he was charged.
CheckMyDoubles very smart man
CheckMyDoubles Would you rather fight amongst brothers in arms that went through training blood sweat and tears or the 3 guys that jumped you and told you not to tell anyone. Id rather defend my brothers that i trust then bullies in the military on a power trip beating people. If your active military you need to rethink.
As long as they don’t put their hands on you or be racist they have every right to call you names and scream at you to toughen you up.
Thats how I feel.
Space Whale Yep.
NO THEY DON'T! MARINE DRILL INSTRUCTORS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EXAMPLES OF HOW A MARINE SHOULD ACT AND TREAT OTHERS.
Space Whale your right but choking kids and putting them in clothes dryers is to extreme
Lol my DIs were super racist against everyone but Mexicans.
The ultimate disservice by a drill instructor is to send a young man to war knowing he is not mentally and emotionally prepared for combat.
Looks like the Marine Corps is getting soft...
@@chrism6904 how about you move on with life instead of trying to relive your oh so difficult youth
@@chrism6904 just stop 🤦🏽♂️
@@restinpeacekobe987 Stop what?
Been soft a while now.
Politically correctness should stay out of the military
that is true
I bet you didn't even watch the video, some of the things they are facing court martial for is withholding food from recruits and drinking alcohol while on the job.
It has stayed out of the military, im sure your confusing pc with bieng humane to the recruits
And you speak with prior military experience I assume......🤔
john smith Well...also for “using homophobic slurs” and calling recruits “terrorists”
“Drill sergeants” cause we’re in the army now right??
chuck36 x they are sergeants
average players but not drill sergeants drill sergeants are army drill instructors are marines big difference
joshua blair different name not a big difference
average players it doesn't matter it's not their Title of address
fishaholic It’s a very big difference.
USMC You Signed a Motherfucking Contract
Joshua Lee Wah I see what you did there 😉
usmc=university of science math and culture
Not to die during basic
LOL
Joshua Lee Wah doesn’t give anybody the right to abuse or lay hands on a recruit
My drill instructors were professionals but yet tough. They had no favorites and equally hazed everyone. Everyone got smoked
Bruh, name calling? I thought this was the military.
said the weeb white knight
Well those drill instructors under court martial are accused of physically abusing recruits, and using homophobic and racist slurs. Name calling isn’t that bad but touching someone is.
@@jpeg.600x2 huh?
@@jpeg.600x2 bruh, I had the shot beat out of me. If you don't want a Drill Instructor putting their hands on you, then join the Army. Marines are a different breed
@@dylangregory9855 Or join in with some bathtub warriors in the navy, or play with some puddle pirates rather than being a crayon eater
Anyone else catch the reporter referring the Drill Instructor as a "Drill Sargeant"...
*sergeant
I am an X-Marine. I went through Marine boot camp in 1968 at San Diego Recruit Depot. My platoon got west pac orders, meaning Vietnam. I was lucky, I stayed stateside. I seen recruits abused as well as I was abused. Upon graduating from boot camp, I remember a drill instructor saying, "if you hate us when you leave here, we did our job." If your thinking about going into the Marine Corps watch the movie , "Full Metal Jacket." Hollywood got this one right.
Are they really allowed to beat you?
@@Darksky1001able not anymore but back in the day open palm slaps, being grabbed and thrown around, sometimes slammed on the ground if you put others in danger. They don't do it anymore really.
There’s no such thing as an ex marine, you’re one forever
There are no 'Ex Marines" unless you get kicked out.
Sounds like something a p**sy would say.
If you can't handle a criticism, some harsh words, a little food deprivation, or even the occasional punch to the gut by your drill instructor, then how in the hell are you going to fight a war with bullets whizzing by your head after just reading your Dear John letter and being stranded behind enemy lines with no rations for 5 days? We've raised a generation of completely adolescent, sissified crybabies. Boot camp is supposed to suck because war sucks. Anything less than suffering won't prepare you.
devwreck127c you gotta realize that the people are going there in there with there own will but also its still messed up if they are slapping, choking and getting punched in the gut? Also calling someone a terrorist and drinking all of that is still unacceptable laws are still there you can't just start choking somebody
Massman121 they know what they signed up for if they pussy out of this maybe they should try something watered down like the army
devwreck127 facts
devwreck127 Marine Boot is supposed to be tough and getting screamed at called names and whatever else is all part of the process to break down and build back up but I don't think physically attacking someone is ever a justified training excuse. You are going to be brothers in arms on the same side. There is most definitely a way to be disciplined, tough and harsh in training without beating the fuck out of someone. They'll find out when they go to war what it's like if they have a combat MOS. Then again nothing can truly prepare you for war. You don't know till you're there in it. Kinda like boot.
yes everything you said is true but there has to be a line of respect and thats what the marines or any other branch is supposed to teach you and its clear that these instructors have failed to do so
If you can't handle some name calling and shoving maybe you shouldn't be on the front line protecting this country
They denied them food u idiot
Also they shoved a kid in a clothes dryer
WholeSome Homie because in war you don’t always get three meals a day
Lourdes T. Nah if people can’t handle that I would not wanna fight beside them lol
wetdog200 - I’ll bet they all got a good laugh out of that 😂 I would have
Get out of my marine corps then!!! Air Force is for u
Scott W I wouldn't judge if you weren't there. You don't know what happened.
Marcus Figueroa if he’s a Marine then he knows what happened, it’s always been this way. If you can’t take it, then don’t join the Marine Corps. If you don’t want a drill instructor to put their hands on you, then join the army. Marines are almost always the first ones into the fight, and if they aren’t true warriors, then they will be slaughtered in combat.
Dylan Gregory shutup. Because a lot marine drill sergeants are the same and the exact same thing happens everywhere. And when an officer says this kind of things should not be happening. It shouldn't be happening. Listen to orders from the officers! You don't know how to follow orders?
You mean the chair force...
Marcus Figueroa Officers actually don't have your best interest in hand, nor do they actually care.
When I went through boot camp we ate sand. All day long. That was our chow.
so you ate tiny fragments of rocks for a meal???
jay kim you ever been IT'd?
+shoeking77 no but im pretty sure they wouldnt have you eat sand for a meal
jay kim what I was saying is then when you get IT'd in the sand pits the Drill Instructors make you do push ups a lot and when they give the command you literally have to drop like a rock to the push up position and usually when that happens sand gets kicked up into your mouth
shoeking77 k
LOL! I thought that shit was normal??!!?
You mean choking? I don't think so.
Martin Rodriquez "ARE YOU THREW GRIINNING?!??!"
John Hunt Choking shouldn’t happen. But they’re there to degrade you. It’s no a playground. Recruits signed a contract.
It's not allowed.
I am a product of Parris Island, Plt 3014, 1988-1989, it's supposed to be tough, and the brutal hazing part of the program. I know what I was getting into when I joined. I'm tired of this punk ass people wanting to make Marine bootcamp soft. if you can't hack it don't join our beloved Corps...Oorah!
Apparently people dying in recruit training as a result of these tactics isn't cause for concern to you. Only that in your world, it's indicative of them "not being tough"
Pound sand, jarhead boy.
That kid killed himself as a result of 18 years of parental indulgence and victim baiting. It wasn't the Marine Corps. He should've never enlisted if he had mental issues. Drink Starbucks, candy ass...
Yeah sure he was. None of that happened. You've been watching too many Hollywood movies. Go bait somebody else with the victim rhetoric.
I didn't say, "liberal...," genius. By the way, your punctuation and writing convention are superb. You must have a college degree. I don't buy it because I went through recruit training and it's safe from any kind of abuse or hazing. You're a sensationalist and you're quick to react with your feelings rather than logic and reason. Of course there's an investigation, dummy; a recruit killed himself! As for the other recruits? No evidence but since your safe zone was violated, somebody has to pay even if they're innocent of the charges. That's the truth and those are the facts. Go troll someplace else OK?
Oxi' Batz' I agree, that kid had mental issues, beyond what those drill instructors could've done. I've had plenty of times where I was bullied in school, work and abused by my parents, wishing I was dead, but I never killed myself. If you have suicidal tendencies innate within you, you are going to do it, if it wasn't the Marine D.I.'s that sent him over the edge, it would've been something else, eventually. Suicidal people will almost always find an excuse to kill themselves at some point.
the new soft generation.
Michael Byrnes every year people will be weak
The old generation feared people of color drinking out of the same water fountains. They're both pretty soft.
I think the softer ones were the ones who sat there and took it and didn't do shit about drinking for the nasty colored fountain.
Michael Byrnes
try hitting me lets go old school fight it out lol. highers will not fight meat heads just smaller people fu*k power trippers
Your generation creative bronies that's all I have to say
In the 70's , 8/74-11/74, I saw Recruits hit called everything in the world but that is how Marines were made to stand the rigors of war. Semper Fi.
Did you still enjoy crayons back then? Should have joined the Army like a real man!
-Active duty soldier, HUA
@@GandalftheWise Hua says it all, you could never be a Marine, and yes crayons taste better than the Sharpe you sniff, stay out of it pony boy, that's why we call ourselves Marines and not toy soldiers.
@BloodMoon That's why the Japanese thought marines were mentally ill by how motivated they were in world war 2.
If you wanted to be respected and treated like a human, you should've joined the Army.
Speedy McGee yes
Jay M air force* best branch
..... I was given a stress card... but guess what, the Drill Sergeants don't tell you that its a Stress Card. It was an Army Values card, and they said to keep it on you at all times, and its an inspectable item.
I agree, that the Military is being Pussified, but its the ENTIRE military. The Army was forced to go soft first because its the largest branch.
actually, if you want to be respected and treated like a human you join the best branch, The Air Force.
You don't join the Military to be "Respected and treated like a Human"... You are a Tool or a Gear in a Machine, known as the US Armed Forces, that is designed to protect the US and obliterate anyone who disagrees.
If you are a Serviceman, you are not special. You are a weapon.
I went through Paris Island in 68, and if they were not as mean, rotten and nasty as they were, I would have never made it through Vietnam!!!! Thank You Drill Instructors.
Today's Corps has been pussified on purpose.
Blame the millennials.. not the core. This is the military, you're government property when you sign that contract
Fuckin A
xAmRcNx The Marines need the Millennials to survive...if not...who would join? Ghost?
Not all millenials are cunts. A lot of them are however.
And the abusers are government property as well. And they were ordered not to abuse the recruits
Its understandable that the DIs hit and called them names but someone died under supervision of the DI do you really think that there should be no investigation for the death of the recruit
To all you Jarheads, Grunts, Coasties and Squids, thank you for your outstanding service and sacrifice throughout the history of our great country. Without your diligent service, I would not have been able to enjoy 22 years of 9 to 5 bliss in air-conditioned comfort while in the Air Force :) love you all!!
Sir the enemy wont stop shooting at me sir
my uncle would see this as normal when he was in Marine boot camp in the 60's
Well ur uncle ain’t alive anymore and this ain’t the 60s old buddy
@@bluefly5185 he's still alive and he's disgusted how pussified our military has gotten
Yeah in the 60’s racism was still normalized stop w/ the bs evolve don’t stay in the past
@capnhands maybe that's why so many Marines were sadistic sociopaths who committed war crimes any chance they could get back then.
I'm SURE this wouldn't have any correlation to the veteran suicide rate in this country....
Normal? I call it soft
If the commanding general says it's not permitted to act like that, then it's clearly a problem. Its ASSAULT. They are to be trained yes and hazed yes. But assaulting your rectruits and threatening that if they told the truth they'll get stitches will make them not trust you or want to defend you or fight by your side. And that's how we should think. Would you want to defend your brothers in arms that support you or a bully that is on a power trip in the military abusing his power? And the fact that people think this is fine is a problem. They support eachother more then abusing. Trust in key. Not abuse. It's astounding that people believe bullying is the solution to better fighters and soldiers.
What gets me is this sort of asinine training has only been around for what? 120 years or so? And some modern military branches think it's totally necessary... even though evidence shows the exact opposite, that hazing/abuse etc creates division amongst units. If it was necessary, armies would have been doing it for the last 50,000 years you military morons.... instead of just being a 20'th century phenomenon. Do military branches not study their own military history? It amazes me how people in the 20th/21st centuries follow like sheep all this baseless, groundless unproven nonsense. What's more is, the only. reason tough guys get away with it is because the person they're abusing isn't allowed to fight back. If these fake "tough guy" drill sergeants tried this crap with soldiers back in various historical periods that had less of this fake 20'th century "civilization" they would have probably gotten their heads cut off by people they were "training" Instead we have the modern world where only people with government backing can get away with acting uncivilised.
We had to do pushups naked in the showers, there was a Korean girl, that every time they said "hit it" she had to sing gagnum style lmao
Nick Royal
Hahaha
Everytime I heard hit it I had to sing Jason aldeans Texas was you because they caught me singing while cleaning
agent whoagents who said there were men in there?
The new Gen Z recruits: 'OMG the drill instructor called me a name! I'm gonna go tell my mommy! CBS News: Recruit abuse is on the rise
We won't need the Marines once we get drone soldier technology pushed through.
The Gay Expat bro,did you watch the whole video?
my buddy is stationed in nc and came home the other day and was telling me about this and i assumed shoving the guy in a dryer thing was a joke but holy shit man
I'm a Navy Desert Storm Veteran, and what the hell is happening to our Military? Can't call them names? wtf? I took beat downs when I got to the fleet, and I enjoyed the camaraderie with my shipmates. I wouldn't trade my military brothers and sisters in for nobody!
i got the the barrel of an M16A1 jabbed in my chest plenty of times of the Parade Deck.. good times lol
If physical abuse is going to be part of recruit training, recruits have a right to know that before they take the oath.
It’s not fair to tell them that it’s not permitted, and then when it happens, tell them that they signed a contract, took an oath, etc.
Yes, they took an oath, but the Corps did also, in the form of rules. If the Corps doesn’t hold up its end, why should the recruit?
I think I'll join the Marine Corps. Mom said that it will be easy and they won't hit me or call me names. Really? Join the navy or air force already. How do you turn a spoiled, oversensitive civilian into a marine in 13 weeks. Not by being tender hearted and delicate.
James S. That doesn’t address my point. Do you believe recruits have the right to know the truth before they sign up?
@@Adam-bq2vw Yes, and who is it that joins the Marine Corps and doesn't already know this? No one told me it wasn't allowed and I wouldn't have believed them even if they had.
James S. Who? Eighteen year olds. You make it out like it’s the responsibility of recruits to see past the b.s., NOT the job of the Marine Corps to be honest. You’re making excuses.
@@Adam-bq2vw Look, no one tells you they can't hit you or call you names when you enlist. Everyone knows that when you join the Marine Corps it is going to be a lot rougher than joining the navy or army. In my platoon of 63 recruits there was no one who said "I didn't expect this".
Aww... Too soft... Too soft... Well i got kicked, slapped, chocked, punched, hit, so many damn times.. N now im here..still alive. Still on service. Now im a corporal. Damn...bcos of tht i learn how to handle stresses.
As a Marine from 1964 to 1968, I salute you.
We cannot allow our military, Marines or any other branch, to be weakened and infected by our civilian societies hypersensitivity. War requires tough servicemembers, not fully grown man-children whose feelings and body can't handle a bit of a beating.
ALl these "tough guys" who have never been abused by a drill instructor. Makes them feel macho to belittle the abused recruits.
Everything the Drill Instructors did was to my benefit.
Thank you Sgt. Bryant. Semper Fi.
A video of two kids who died because of bad drill instructor and here you are thanking yours. Jesus...
How long where you in a dyer for?
Something needs to be done it’s October 15, 2023. My daughter almost died she’s been complaining she was sick for two weeks now Monday she started coughing up line Saturday. They sent her to meds finally and now she’s in the hospital with severe pneumonia and the flu. She’s not doing good she’s mentally and physically unstable. She wants to come home and they giving me a problem.
Queue the “back in my day...” lol
America is a superpower in decline.
If they can't handle being called names and touched? Are they even marines?
Acrophobia if you can’t handle being chocked slapped and shoved in a dryer can you be a marine? WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.!
U have phobia in your name.
Recruit strangles DI: Recruit gets thrown in the brig.
DI strangles recruit: DI gets paid leave.
Our DI's threw 4 recruits in a closet and emptied a bottle of bleach on the floor. They came out with eye burns.
That's retarded. If the DI's are allowed to do that, the recruits should be able to defend themselves without worrying about NJP
Yeah, I bet your Drill Instructors would have had a hard time explaining that to command if those recruits lost their vision permanently.
its a cult...if you dont fit into their cult..you are a goner.
I was there when all this happened it was all we recruits could talk about when the kid was in the dryer. It seemed like something new happened every week after that.
Jesus, I don't think I'd be able to finish training after witnessing that.
toolittoquit and that’s why you couldn’t be in the military
toolittoquit and that’s why you should just stick to your desk job , because you’re too soft
@@ryandaugherty1 chill out bruh. There's no need to undermine a "desk job" as you call it.
@@ryandaugherty1 you like being hazed?
What's next? turning in rifles for standard issue pillows and having pillow fights with the enemies?
No, it's racist torture.
Icy King stfu ur the racist one
A professional drill instructor can gain respect without hazing.
A Marine Corps drill instructor gets respect by teaching you to be a Marine. Tough, hard core and able to handle the stress and horrors of war. The physical and mental issues shown in this video are usually early in the training when they are trying to get rid of your civilian bad habits and poor upbringing. They only have a short time to do this. They've been doing this for a long time and have turned kids into one of the best fighting forces in the world. Look at the history of the United States Marine Corps. Change this to be politically correct and that history will be all that is left.
I agree. It's the Marine Corps. I went in with a bad attitude. I was punched, chocked, hazed, and it was the toughest time if my life. I may not have known it then, but it made me tough and learned how to manage brutality. I can honestly say, everything I learned and went through in boot camp saved my life in Iraq, a number of times. You can't go into war with a weak mindset or think the enemy is going to care about your feelings. That is literally what can get you and others killed
If you pay attention and follow simple instructions, the drill instructors will never even learn your name. Personally, I appreciated all of the stupid recruits who kept sky-lining themselves because it kept the drill instructor’s attention away from me.
Get politics out of the military. Harsher training saves lives in combat the more you sweat in training the less you bleed in combat
Army veteran here...I concur. Struggles in training, strength in combat. HOOAH!
Exactly.
Name calling?
That's the reason I graduated to be a marine.
Ppl know what recruit training is like before going so if you know you can’t handle it dont go
Let’s all get together and cry with tissues. May I remind you, there are people in different countries that can’t wait to test our military. We need tough recruits, and even tougher Marines and soldiers. No room for this politically correct sissified military. That doesn’t work in the real world of combat.
It's one thing to be strict; dehumanizing recruits is another. Besides, experts say that a straight up invasion of the US mainland is next to impossible. Besides there literally being more guns than people, the terrain of the US would make invasions not worth it.
Full metal jackets opening scene should be mirrored in my opinion
Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
Weak
Cruel and Unusual is why I joined.
Keep your baby boys home mommas, the Corps doesn’t need them.
I got punched in the chest as soon as I got off the bus and was standing on the yellow footprints. I had sunflower seeds in my mouth. The DI asked what the F*&K was I eating. I replied sunflower seeds...can't you tell? Boom...I was on my ass the next second. That was 1981. I deserved it...being a punk ass recruit. I saw guys kicked in the ass. Slammed against the wall or to the floor. I thought it was normal stuff. Nobody complained. It was the price we paid to be a member.
I mean isn't what what drill sergeants do in the military anyway prepare them for combat ?
You can do that without dehumanizing recruits.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl doesn’t the hazing end once you complete basic training, it’s more of a right of passage
@@Jumpman90 Hazing has led to suicide and murders and thus should be strictly illegal carrying hefty consequences.
Semper Fi to my Brothers and Sisters.
My drill instructor smoked me hard and pushed me beyond my capabilities. I graduated bootcamp and he gave me a hug with tears of joy.
The Drill Instructor probably had PTSD from serving in Iraq or Afganistan thats probably why he choked the haji
No, he was just using his authority to turn them to men.
Future Jarhead01 If you referred to your fellow Americans as "Hajis" Than you don't deserve to serve in the United States Military. Keep that Garbage to yourself and stay out of the military, you trash human being.
john you must not fit in well man lol. Nobody likes the "grow a set of balls" guy.
You are getting warm. It's all about mental illness. Some of the DI'S are straight up psychopaths. Cluster b personality disorders are rampant in the service just like the police and other authority based occupations.
Inflicting physical harm is absolutely uncalled for, but everything else verbally and mentally is absolutely not only called for but required. This is the Marines. In battle the enemy ain’t gonna be nice to you. Basic training MCRD is when those who cannot handle that must be rooted out. The only policy change that needs to happen is for those who can’t handle a complete verbal assault on everything from your looks to your faith to your sex and sexual orientation should be sent home and permanently discharged by the Marines and never again permitted into any branch of the American armed forces.
I say this with every bit of respect to every single person to steps off that bus and on to the yellow footprints. If you’re not mentally prepared to do hand-to-hand and face-to-face combat with the worst enemies and bad guys on this planet, who would torture you physically and mentally in ways you can’t comprehend, the time to find that out is during basic training. And not when you’ve been captured.
Not everyone can, or should, be a Marine.
When I went there, they beat us and called us every name in the book. That’s just how it is. If you can’t take that, how are you going to handle combat?
They mentioned the racist name calling because it's implied that they were picking on him for his race and nothing else
I was kicked, punched, pinched, slapped, grabbed, thrown. Constantly stressed and then yelled at and mentally and verbally abused even when i was doing perfect. However that is the whole point, that is what i signed up for. My resolve was tested and then strengthened. To this day being yelled at has nearly no effect on me, i can be called all sorts of names and it does not break me, physically i am not afraid of others. If you don't have stress training like this and you go in to combat it could potentially be the thing that ends you.
It's one thing to be strict and install discipline; it's another to dehumanize recruits and especially to discriminate against minorities who serve our country despite the crap they have to deal with.
I went to bootcamp in 2012 expecting something like Full Metal Jacket. I was kinda disappointed honestly but it still managed to weed out some people that couldn’t handle it.
They say its not for every one.
Lol at everyone blaming liberals and millennials..who raised millennials? That's right, you dropped the ball there. It's your fault. And I'll tell you what, all you need to do to "trigger" a right winger is to make a joke about Jesus..easiest thing ever
Actually liberals are nothing new. Liberal parents raise liberal kids. Kids reflect their parents and their upbringing, or lack of it. The whole idea of fairness is not reality in the real world. Who promised you that life would be fair. Who ever thought that joining the Marine Corps would be fair or politically correct? Should have joined the navy or the air force where the sensitive and caring people reside.
Drill Sagents Are So Mean To People!!
I thought that was the general rule, you can't hit them.
tell that to R Lee Ermy
@@waynedenson7508 Can't, he's dead from being shot by the man he hit
@@josephchavez1489 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......Damn that was funny😆😆😆😆😆
My dad was one of these drill sergeants.
He was accused for smacking recruits in the cheeks when they answer his questions wrong.
But in the army you meant to be tough why he get kiked out.
“You can’t handle the truth!”
USMC 1981 tough as hell got hit, slapped , spit on that's where I wanted to be. USMC for life
they’re really adjusting to gen z ❄️❄️
You never forget bootcamp. Ever
lol i choked, slapped, punched in the gut, canteen poured on my head when i fell asleep in class, called every possible name you can think of, ordered to drag my face in the sand pit, i didnt complain. and that was in 2011. its scary to see how soft its getting in such a small amount of time. its boot camp, its supposed to suck lol
They put you in the clothes dryer too?
I just started to look for funny videos of drill instructors beating up recruits and I found this.
I just started looking for videos of drill instructors throwing tantrums and I found nothing.
All of what the reporter mentioned, specifically the drinking, hazing, and even false reports on the young guys/recruits if they have an issue with them. If you speal up against beating another recruit etc you'll be targeted. It's very sickening. Go investigate in NC infantry and find the recruits that are hurt and intimidated by these bullies!!
the harder we sweat and bleed in training the less we do so in war.
Only 1% of the cases actually get reported.
It has been over a half century since I went through USMC boot camp the DI’s had very creative ways of motivating us yes there were some beatings they just wanted to weed out the week ones it was tough though mostly mentally. I think that infantry training was much tougher physically but then we were marines and in boot camp we were recruits. I enlisted when I was 17 you can take a lot when your are young I have no regrets and I’m glad that I did it I certainly wouldn’t want to do it over again. I like to think that I’m still in great physical condition but I do not think I could make it through Boot Camp and infantry training again.😁👍
What these Drill Sergeants have to remember is that these people are going in to serve the United States of America but at the same time the recruits have to realize that they're not going there for summer vacation they're going there to become United States Marines it's not a walk in the park.
I'm not one of those 'ooh-rah, kill bodies' type of Marines, but hear me out.
I find it somewhat interesting that because a muslim recruit (Its cool, Muslim it up- Our country was founded on religious freedom) took the coward's way out, we're supposed to be outraged. There was a protestant recruit in the cycle before mine that hung himself in the shower, though I bet you'll never hear his name. The double-standard is complete and utter bullshit. Having completed recruit training some time ago (and gone on to be a relative success by a Corporal's standards), I think some degree of what you might refer to as 'hazing' is necessary. I've had to put mustard in my Gatorade (Oh no! Write the President!) and I can think of an occasion where I was actually choke-slammed into a rack, but you best believe I deserved it. I don't hold any contempt for how I was treated, because I believe that it all served a greater purpose. The bottom line, I guess is that recruits need to think long and hard about whether they truly want to be a Marine; it isn't a title that is conferred lightly. If you can't handle hating your life for 3 months, go join the Air Force- Its okay, really. The Marine Corps isn't for everyone. That's not to say that we wouldn't be better served by improved mental health screening at our entry processing centers and at every level of our recruiting process, and Lord knows that I've seen that proven first-hand time and time again. I see MEPS as the true point of failure, not recruit training.
Redacted very good points
If physical abuse is part of training, recruits have a right to know it going in.
It’s not fair to tell them that it’s not permitted and then when it happens say “you signed a contract.”
They mentioned one who committed suicide and one who attempted suicide who was white. Your racism is showing.
@@dealincat933 bruh
Went to Parris Island basic in 1976, my Drill Instructors were Vietnam Combat Soldiers,who taught us war is tough, and we would be trained in a tough manner to survive, bas is was hell, but has made me the man I am today with the same drive and determination
I was in the Devil Pups when I was 16, if you dont know what that is google it. we were put through the same training as regular marines and on the last day we were lined up on our foot lockers and the DI came and punched each one of us in the chest to prove we were marine tough, I still to this day at 57 think on this as a day I'm proud of boot camp is not meant to be easy
Its permitted sir. In the time of combat we need to ensure combat readiness, obedience to orders, and resilience.
AWWW...POOR LITTLE MAGGOTS !!!.....SHOULD SEEN WHAT WE WENT THROUGH IN 1972 !!!
Did you watch the video? You probably didn't even serve.
This generation is too soft.
These kids need to grow some balls and realize that THIS IS THE MARINES.
Yeahhhh you're not using your brain people start losing pride in the country when their instructors beat them and call them out more than instruct them on how to be in the military.
@MrHoppers002 these are the Marines * or this is the United States Marine Corps* . "The Marines" isn't a branch
Marine Corps boot camp is the only boot camp left that people on the outside look at and say, wow that is really tough, you must have balls to get through that. Even the other branches know what Marines went through in boot camp and acknowledge it as the toughest. Lets keep it that way. There's a reason prior Army soldiers still have to go through Marine boot camp if they decide to join the Marine Corps..
Ok, so what do these recruits think will happen when they run out of food during a firefight and supplies are cut
doil 9 well they probably won’t be put in a clothes dryer
Proud to be a Marine from the Old Corps but glad I'm not in the Corps today. It's not the Corps of 50 years ago.
I graduated in 2000, it was much different then compared to today.
00:40
See it in his face..doesnt like being questioned.
Because you can't create marines without knocking out the wannabe gangsters
When I was stationed in Pensacola with a bunch of Marines they would tell absolute horror stories of abuse. But, they wore it like a badge of honor and took it as a way that the Marine Corps needed to be to accomplish its goals. Our Marine brothers and sisters deserve to be trained without tragedy.
Yeah heaven forbid we induce stress on our future Marines via harsh words and simulated combat....
...what’s next. West Point grads wearing high heels...?
Training is supposed to be tough but not cruel and detrimental to someone’s race, gender, religion or ethnicity. Marines have a high standard and image to uphold to the United States.
How is being thrown in a dryer simulated combat?
Don’t grab a recruit, name calling is one thing. Racism is something else.
*joins marine force* lays on finger on him
*Sue's the sergeant for harrassment & abuse*
They want to push you and tear you down and rebuild you and being aggressive but theres something called being too aggressive that will result in a injury that puts them out of training
The can they get called names part killed me ..😂😂😂
They’re referring to names that are racist, homophobic, and islamaphobic. That was one of the issues at Paris Island was Muslim recruits were being constantly abused.
Tell the recruits to toughen up.
Bro That's my platoon doing pt at the end LOL
Remember when the USMC was tough and badass? Why waste all that money in our military, if the USMC is turning soft and weak.