Mcrd San Diego March 25, I 967 day one platoon 149. Semper fi. We were the honor recruite platoon. Made it through Vietnam. I'm proud to be a United States marine.
Having survived Boot Camp I graduated from Parris Island on 9 November 1965. I was in Platoon 183 and remember the bus ride from Atlanta to Savannah and from Savannah to Parris Island. This video brings back some interesting memories. (Although it has been edited for the viewing public, it gets the idea across.) Via "Together We Served" I have kept in contact with other Marines. I have also contacted my Senior Drill Instructor to say "Thank You" for his work in making me a Marine. As they say..."Once A Marine, Always A Marine". I am glad I can still get into my Dress Blues for those special events. I finally received a commission in 1971. At 70 it always feels good to put on my Dress Blues.
I was at PI from April through June, 1956. I can still hear the thunder of 75 pairs of boondockers going up or down the stairs of those wooden barracks. This was before Drill Instructors began wearing campaign covers, and the days when they used fists to correct your training errors. Semper Fi.
Excellent video and thanks for sharing. I was born in 1962 so I didn't have the ability to report to Parris Island until 1981. Long after I retired from our Corps, I had the honor of promoting a former JROTC Cadet of mine, a Drill Instructor in San Diego, to Staff Sergeant just this past November. (2015) The only "kindda racist" thing going on at Parris Island or MCRD San Diego, is the "kindda racist" crap people carry with them every day! Marines simply rock! Semper Fi.
I went through PI Jan-Apr 1962. I was in Platoon 304. Our utility jackets had button-down flaps over the breast pockets. We trained with M-14s. We wore the same PT gear as shown, but never did bucket drill. At that time, crossed rifles were added to the rank patches of NCOs, and the rank of LCpl had just been added. Our Sr DI was a gunny with the old-style patch; no crossed rifles. 3rd Bn was barracked in brand new brick buildings, while 1st & 2nd Bns were still in old WWII wooden barracks. Because we were so elegantly housed, we were known as “Disneyland” while 1st & 2nd Bns were “The Twilight Zone” & “The Outer Limits.” 304 won drill competition at the end of training. I still have my 304 Platoon Album, and often glance through it, enjoying the memories it evokes. During my early time in the Corps, we had brown shoes, dress gloves, barracks cover visor, and buttons on our “horse-blanket overcoats” and blouses. In 1965 we were issued a bottle of black dye to change the color of our shoes and visors. We used M-nu to change the color of our uniform buttons. The brown gloves were “grandfathered.” I made two cruises to the Caribbean for training on Vieques, PR, one to Spain for Operation Steel Pike, and one for 32 days aboard the USS Vermillion during the Dominican Republic insurrection. I spent time on the following ships: USS Mountrail APA-213, USS Raleigh LPD-1, USS Boxer LPH-4, USS Okinawa LPH-3, USS Guadalcanal LPH-7, USS Vermillion AKA-107, USS Montrose APA-212, USS Terrebonne Parish LST-1156, and USS York County LST-1175. The unit for which I have the fondest memories is Golf Co, 2nd Bn, 2nd Marines, 2nd MarDiv, FMF. To faithful brother Marines, not those participating in in Jan 6th or other treasonous or illegal events, take our motto to heart, and remain faithful: Semper Fidelis!
We arrived very late at night (1965).. and the DI was waiting, hands on hip with the Lights of the SquadBay behind him.. he was a shadow of mountain. Screaming, cursing, and yelling get the F... MSGT USMC Ret.
Yup, I arrived in the middle of the night, June 6th, 1968. Our barracks were quonset huts. Platoon 176, Ssgt Goodwin was our main DI. Old corps all the way. Ssgt Goodwin looked like the ultimate Marine. Almost like he was picked from Hollywood to resemble a Marine DI. I'll never forget my Marine Corps training. Parris island in the dead of summer was unforgettable to this day. Jeffrey Hoopes Corporal USMC 1968-72
My BROTHER STEVE was at Parris Island back in 1965 and many of HIS FRIENDS were also..He went on to Camp Lejuene.. then on to Camp Pendleton.. Then on to the LAND OF THE VIETNAM WAR....I know All Marines have pretty intense backgrounds of training....But those who survived in VIETNAM..I ENTRULY GOT TO GIVE TO THEM.. ..THAT WHOLE GENERATION OF MEN... DEFINITELY HAD TO PLAY HARD TO SURVIVE IT .... THE.MARINE CORP TAUGHT THEM WELL. I AM PROUD TO SAY MY BROTHER WAS A UNITED STATES MARINE....THAT FOUGHT AND SERVED FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT TO HELP OTHERS IN THIS WORLD..... ESPECIALLY of the VIETNAM WAR..That was a TOUGH ONE... SOMETIMES you have to FIGHT for your SURVIVAL whether YOU WANT TO OR NOT ..... otherwise ..SOMEONE or SOMETHING will TAKE OVER on YOU......and IT WON'T BE the DRILL INSTRUCTOR..IT is called DESENSITIZED and CHARACTER.. .....
Outstanding! From 0ne a member of Plt.224 from April-july in 1963.Senior Drill Instructor was SSGT.Clifford Schweingruber.Junior Drill Instructors were:Sgt.Rbt.S.Winston(now passed on) Cpl.R.J.Barker and later on a Sgt.Nicolopolous. Noticed in this film a man who was one of our recruits in Plt.224,who later became an officer was stationed once again at Parris Island as a series commander a one:Capt.Joe M.Hargrove(home was Canton,N.C.)He is in this film at 26mins/49secs to 26mins/54secs.(with clipboard) finally at:27 mins.42secs and againat 27mins/58 secs. Was down to visit Capt.Hargrove once again in summer 1965 before drawing orders as a Plt.Commander in Viet Nam.This was such a wonderful surprise to see Joe once again as we were quite close back then. Respectfully,Gregory L.Mitchell, formally (GySgt.G/2/25 4th Mar Div.Dover,N.J.)
We didn’t undo our top button on jackets until after the range, just before graduation we were allowed to blouse our boots. Writing letters home required, DI made sure we wrote them even if we wrote the DI.
Brings back many memories. Left for PI one week after graduating from high school in June of 65. It really was the tail end of the peacetime Marine Corp. Only our senior DI had seen overseas duty during the Korean War. The junior DI’s had a good conduct medals and that was it. They were good shape, nothing like the muscle bound DI’s you see now in recruiting films and commercials. But the one thing all three possessed was a sense of brutality and they were not afraid to practice it on all 70 of us. Good lord they were tough. No one escaped their wrath when one of us or all of us screwed up. It was a very long summer at Parris Island. I think all eventually shipped out to Vietnam and not all of us came back and some who did come back were not whole. I did my tour from 2/68 thru 3/69. Came back to Camp Lejune to finish out the rest of my enlistment before discharge. Was a twenty two year old E5 with four rows of ribbons, including 2 Purple Hearts. When I was out and about non of the lifers who had not been over seas never gave me any petty bullshit or chicken shit. They did not mess with us returnees. After discharge, went to college and made a career in the business world. No regrets.
Holy dog sh***t, i went through 1968 SanDog, this film is definitely made for censoring eyes. The beatings started the minute we got to the yellow footprints, I know it had to be worse in 1967, How many of those brothers in arms did not make it out of NAM, Semper Fi my brothers, i was on of the lucky ones to make it home safe, but not sane😊🇺🇸
I'm sure you remember 1968 was a much worse flu year than 2019 (or maybe not since it probably wasn't plastered everywhere) yet I doubt any of those Marines in '68 could have been told to wear a mask in basic or on duty!
You can tell this is a propaganda film --- otherwise the "maggots" would be moving at 120mph everywhere they went. In 1956, a DI's method of correcting your mistakes was with a swift, hard punch to your gut. You caught on very quickly. Also, when we did pugal stick fighting we had no protective helmets or padding. Semper Fi.
Platoon 259 . Senior DI was Sergeant F P Navarro. Absolutely the toughest man that ever lived. 7 -1-64. Through 9-23-64 then off to Geiger for a month. “Trial by fire.” Semper Fi !
Harious! My husband had to shovel jis food down while still going thru the line rapidly then had to throw what was left in the trash at the end of chow line!!!!
In June of 1960, I arrived in the afternoon via flight from Philly to MCAS Beaufort, SC. It was like leaving the earth and landing on a foreign planet named Parris Island
I had never realized that dark green Marines don't swim until Pool Week. I had fire watch over the pool. Guarding the empty pool with an equally empty M16 my Captain walked up in civilian clothes and demanded that I give him my weapon for inspection. I proudly did so knowing it was clean. I got reamed out and did not get my weapon back until the next day. I have spent so many hours cleaning weapons that I am now very reluctant to pull a trigger.
I'm sure you remember 1968 was a much worse flu year than 2019 (or maybe not since it probably wasn't plastered everywhere) yet I doubt any of those Marines in '68 could have been told to wear a mask in basic or on duty!
MarineBeast_86 curious about that myself. Everyone was dressed so conservatively. I think the drug culture of the sixties is what changed that. Now people wear all sorts of stupid ass shit. Also, no one here is overly obese. Processed food dates back to the 1940s. I’m not entirely sure but I think sugar is the culprit. Maybe salt, too.
I was. Hollywood Marine in 66...this was interesting to watch!... being mostly not true!..it was a farsight harder then shown!...you screwed up you paid for it!...I have talked with many of my Marine brother's most would rather pull a another Combat tour than go threw boot again
Motivation platoon--"here they will receive instruction that will stimulate their desire to return to training".... ha ha ha. What really happened was the DIs beat the living shit out of them for a week. We got one into our platoon at about week 10 and he was a shell of a human being. Semper fi...Platoon 260, Parris Island, 1967
Went thru P.I. in April-June '66, Platoon 281. We inherited two rejects from Motivation Platoon. One of our junior D.I.'s, the one who whipped us into shape, told both of them from the beginning that he was going to get rid of their sorry asses, and he did just that. One of the two was constantly fucking up deliberately because his older brother, a Marine stationed in 'Nam, kept writing to him in boot camp about the horror stories he experienced and saw in 'Nam. It scared his younger brother so much that he deliberately fucked up to get kicked out of boot camp. But it didn't work. Eventually after he left our platoon, someone down the line must have straightened him out, because I heard he graduated from his last platoon as Pfc, which is only given out to the best one or two men in each platoon. Semper Fi.
1965 I enlisted to get the background to become a policeman. Was told I was too small. After Vietnam as an 0331 with H 2/9 I worked as a uniformed city policeman for 39 years and retired in Ohio and then W.Va. If I had it to do over I’d have stayed to eventually wear 1st Sgt or Sgt Major stripes with 7 hash marks. Once a Marine, always a Marine! M.P’s were only T.A.D. Anyway.
Culture shock was learning to shit with no privacy whatsoever. I started chowing down on little boxes of Kellog's Raisin Bran at breakfast. Also hit the NCO coffee urn. Finally passed a stool about 3 days in. Later I was introduced to C rations.
Goldeneagle360 I'm pretty sure theres was still hitting up to the early 2000s some say it still goes on every now and then but people keep it on the downlow
I read in a book a DI told his platoon if they wanted to settle some matters with fists they could, and 80% of the platoon stepped forward. It said they were from New York, probably urban camp legend but still funny.
The M-14 was an updated version of the M-1 Garand. It used a 7.62 round (.308) vs a 30-06 round for the Garand. The 7.62 round is shorter, allowing for a slightly faster cycling time between rounds. The long wooden stock of the Garand was shortened, and the upper barrel is shrouded with a lightweight bakelite shroud vs the original longer wood shroud. The gas piston is also shorter, and the bolt has rollers to guide the bolt in the receiver during cycling and locking the round in the chamber. The original Garand bolt just had metal lugs protruding on the sides as guides for cycling, which accelerated wear between receiver guide slots and bolt. The M-14 also has a flash suppressor which the M-1 does not. The rounds are very similar balistically, with the 30-06 having a slight edge. I recall one statistic I read where the .308 round of the M-14 dropped 8" more at 500 yards than a 30-06 round. From what I've also read online, the muzzle velocity of the 30-06 is about 100 feet per second faster, which is not that much, so the two are comparable there. The advantage of a 20 round magazine of the M-14 over the 8 round clip of the M-1 is evident. Another advantage of the M-14 is the availability of attaching a selector switch, making the M-14 fully automatic, perhaps comparable to the Browning BAR of WWII fame, at the expense of accuracy due to recoil. I believe the sights, both front and rear, were nearly identical. I'm sure there are other minor differences but I think I've covered the major ones. Semper Fi.
No Hutch,thats' SOS,"shit on a shingle"it was creamed chip beef on toast.I never ate it in some 15 years,but some men loved it. Semper Fi,(Former) GySgt.Gregory L. Mitchell, New jersey
I had SOS for the nine months I was stationed at Camp Hague, Okinawa in '67 & '68. It was made from ground hamburg mixed in a white gravy made with flour and water. Every morning for breakfast I used to eat 6 toast topped with 6 hard fried eggs smothered with SOS. Great start to the day before going to the ammo dump to hump ammo. Gave me all the calories I needed to begin the day. Semper Fi.
thewall-usa.com says there are 58,195 names on The Wall. You can go online to the "Virtual Wall" and do a search for anyone you know who didn't come back home. Five from my hometown didn't make it back.
Ronbo710 'Do you expect me to believe you don't know left from right' dude I saw the 8:00 part and I'm like did he mess up and then rewatched it and was like he did mess up lol
SIR ! recuit ( your full name ) requests permission to speak to Senior or Drill Instructor ( his name ) Sir!!!!...then he would say "Louder i can't hear you" this goes on for awhile while hitting -real hard- a red board right by the entrance to thier office .....ill never forget "I -I... Sir!!!! ...a salute and an about face.....plt 3001 Parris Island...1980..81....then off to... Camp Shawb Okie..The Rock... urahh!!!!
To put it one way recruits literally died during training back then. A lot more than they do now with more safety regulations and such put in place. Google the "Ribbon Creek Incident" it was a few years before this was filmed but still you'll get the general idea.
Just read it up. Honestly, I think the DI wasn't at fault and a lot of undue guilt was pressured into him. A big question that was popping up in my head as I read about it was this: what kind of a fucking MARINE doesn't know how to swim?
Let me tell you friend,in 1963 Plt.224 we had several men who couldn't swim.They were thrown into the pool in the deep end with swimming instructors in the water if they couldn't learn then and there,some did others were dragged out before they drowned GySgt.Mitchell(Former)
yeah I served , army national guard , from the early 80's to 2009 , I had about 3 breaks in service because of jobs and location changes , did 3 deployments , retired in 2009 after 21 years combined.
+jeffblacky....I thought so. I had a 20 year old husband that went thru Parris Island n 68. Then off to Camp LeJune for more training, then home before off to Calif for shiping out to Vietnam. I am partial to the Marine Corps and have very strong sentiments concerning the Vietnam war. I just hate like hell, to have draft dogers, politically correct persons and idiots bitch, moan and gripe about something that they can NEVER UNDERSTAND. i'm sorry if I have offended you and Thank You for your Service to our Country.... Friends???
Marine Corps is not known for being liberal with ribbons. After four years, I got out with three between 94 to 98. No war right? Fast forward, I served with the National Guard between 03 and 06, serving a year deployed for OEF. Then again, from 09 to 12. I came back with 8 ribbons after overseas. Now, some of those DI's never went to war because of their M.O.S. and they are required to do a B billet for promotion. A B billet is either recruiting duty or DI duty. That happened to a friend of mine who retired a master gunnery sgt. He said he had about 15 years in and was a good recruiter, but he didn't like only having a few ribbons after being in that long, so he volunteered for Vietnam. He was so good at recruiting they kept him recruiting and the corps is notorious for that stuff. They kept me on Parris Island for four years.
@@platoon1026 Thanks for the reply sir. Squads? I remember being in a squat holding of head and/or doing up and shoulders with my M-1. I wasn't aware of the films, thanks for that. I arrived in PI JULY 59, out in October.
Definitely propaganda film. In this video every one is moving slowly, especially during the forced march to Elliot's Beach. We were running most. of the time with full field transport packs! When we got there we all had large bruises from the pack straps and the rifle butt banging on our hip. Still proud to this day of having survived Parris Island and becoming a Marine. Platoon 247, 1957.
i got there at nite yammass e-----stayed there till busses got us -----i knew i was in a world of shit i was 17 i wanted to go home----let me tell you i knew i was in a world of shit-----but 4 years i was fucking everywhere ----still young -anf fix boyonrts ---any knew sgt loftus head di ??
Gomer would have never made it. And back then, if they found out ol' Gomer the gobbler was not tellin' when asked he would have never been accepted. Gollee Sgt.
1960. DI all combat vets. One was Choosen frozen and nuts. Series mvp was lateWWII and he was even more crazy. After Ribbon creek thing in 1st battalion, they asked did we want old corp or new corp. What do you think we all yelled out? Got my ass handed to me several times. "you come see me when we get back" meant tighten up for gut punch coming.
Mcrd San Diego March 25, I 967 day one platoon 149. Semper fi. We were the honor recruite platoon. Made it through Vietnam. I'm proud to be a United States marine.
My grandfather went here, I know from a photo. I’m proud of my grandfather being a marine
Having survived Boot Camp I graduated from Parris Island on 9 November 1965. I was in Platoon 183 and remember the bus ride from Atlanta to Savannah and from Savannah to Parris Island. This video brings back some interesting memories. (Although it has been edited for the viewing public, it gets the idea across.) Via "Together We Served" I have kept in contact with other Marines. I have also contacted my Senior Drill Instructor to say "Thank You" for his work in making me a Marine. As they say..."Once A Marine, Always A Marine". I am glad I can still get into my Dress Blues for those special events. I finally received a commission in 1971. At 70 it always feels good to put on my Dress Blues.
+Phil Williams.......Semper Fi devil dog, SEMPER FI
Did you know of or hear of a Luckey? I'm just looking for folks who knew my dad.
Did you hate your instructors too?
"Private Pyle, you've been born again hard!" "Hell, I might even make you a rifleman in my beloved Corps!"
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He should've been put in the "overweight section". "That you John Wayne" !!!
@@majorsmythe1 That's called "fats man platoon"
I was at PI from April through June, 1956. I can still hear the thunder of 75 pairs of boondockers going up or down the stairs of those wooden barracks. This was before Drill Instructors began wearing campaign covers, and the days when they used fists to correct your training errors. Semper Fi.
Did you hate your instructors too?
Do you remember the Ribbon Creek incident?
Beautiful Greyhound buses back then. :)
Excellent video and thanks for sharing. I was born in 1962 so I didn't have the ability to report to Parris Island until 1981. Long after I retired from our Corps, I had the honor of promoting a former JROTC Cadet of mine, a Drill Instructor in San Diego, to Staff Sergeant just this past November. (2015) The only "kindda racist" thing going on at Parris Island or MCRD San Diego, is the "kindda racist" crap people carry with them every day! Marines simply rock! Semper Fi.
Did you hate your instructors too?
I went through PI Jan-Apr 1962. I was in Platoon 304. Our utility jackets had button-down flaps over the breast pockets. We trained with M-14s. We wore the same PT gear as shown, but never did bucket drill. At that time, crossed rifles were added to the rank patches of NCOs, and the rank of LCpl had just been added. Our Sr DI was a gunny with the old-style patch; no crossed rifles. 3rd Bn was barracked in brand new brick buildings, while 1st & 2nd Bns were still in old WWII wooden barracks. Because we were so elegantly housed, we were known as “Disneyland” while 1st & 2nd Bns were “The Twilight Zone” & “The Outer Limits.” 304 won drill competition at the end of training. I still have my 304 Platoon Album, and often glance through it, enjoying the memories it evokes.
During my early time in the Corps, we had brown shoes, dress gloves, barracks cover visor, and buttons on our “horse-blanket overcoats” and blouses. In 1965 we were issued a bottle of black dye to change the color of our shoes and visors. We used M-nu to change the color of our uniform buttons. The brown gloves were “grandfathered.”
I made two cruises to the Caribbean for training on Vieques, PR, one to Spain for Operation Steel Pike, and one for 32 days aboard the USS Vermillion during the Dominican Republic insurrection. I spent time on the following ships: USS Mountrail APA-213, USS Raleigh LPD-1, USS Boxer LPH-4, USS Okinawa LPH-3, USS Guadalcanal LPH-7, USS Vermillion AKA-107, USS Montrose APA-212, USS Terrebonne Parish LST-1156, and USS York County LST-1175.
The unit for which I have the fondest memories is Golf Co, 2nd Bn, 2nd Marines, 2nd MarDiv, FMF.
To faithful brother Marines, not those participating in in Jan 6th or other treasonous or illegal events, take our motto to heart, and remain faithful: Semper Fidelis!
We arrived very late at night (1965).. and the DI was waiting, hands on hip with the Lights of the SquadBay behind him.. he was a shadow of mountain. Screaming, cursing, and yelling get the F... MSGT USMC Ret.
Wow Parris Island has changed alot of the last 50 years.
They got rid of the old 3rd battalion brick squad bays and chow hall now.
+Michael Glaze Yeah that's true.
Yup, I arrived in the middle of the night, June 6th, 1968. Our barracks were quonset huts. Platoon 176, Ssgt Goodwin was our main DI. Old corps all the way. Ssgt Goodwin looked like the ultimate Marine. Almost like he was picked from Hollywood to resemble a Marine DI. I'll never forget my Marine Corps training. Parris island in the dead of summer was unforgettable to this day. Jeffrey Hoopes Corporal USMC 1968-72
I love the Music...so sweet and happy!! lol
This was different than when I was there in 1966!! --David.
Crazy there’s nothing change till nowadays. Keep on the tradition ❤
My BROTHER STEVE was at Parris Island back in 1965 and many of HIS FRIENDS were also..He went on to Camp Lejuene.. then on to Camp Pendleton.. Then on to the LAND OF THE VIETNAM WAR....I know All Marines have pretty intense backgrounds of training....But those who survived in VIETNAM..I ENTRULY GOT TO GIVE TO THEM.. ..THAT WHOLE GENERATION OF MEN... DEFINITELY HAD TO PLAY HARD TO SURVIVE IT .... THE.MARINE CORP TAUGHT THEM WELL. I AM PROUD TO SAY MY BROTHER WAS A UNITED STATES MARINE....THAT FOUGHT AND SERVED FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT TO HELP OTHERS IN THIS WORLD..... ESPECIALLY of the VIETNAM WAR..That was a TOUGH ONE... SOMETIMES you have to FIGHT for your SURVIVAL whether YOU WANT TO OR NOT ..... otherwise ..SOMEONE or SOMETHING will TAKE OVER on YOU......and IT WON'T BE the DRILL INSTRUCTOR..IT is called DESENSITIZED and CHARACTER..
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bro u just blabbering 😂💯
@@syna59 blah blah blah..🤣 🇺🇸..Bro...That's Me..Don't Knock It..
Let me guess, your brother died?
@David-vt3hn... Yes Sir He Did..From Agent Orange Dioxin..You Have A Smart Mind....
@@cynthiamodny1388 Even after all these years, how do you cope with that?
Outstanding! From 0ne a member of Plt.224 from April-july in 1963.Senior Drill Instructor was SSGT.Clifford Schweingruber.Junior Drill Instructors were:Sgt.Rbt.S.Winston(now passed on) Cpl.R.J.Barker and later on a Sgt.Nicolopolous. Noticed in this film a man who was one of our recruits in Plt.224,who later became an officer was stationed once again at Parris Island as a series commander a one:Capt.Joe M.Hargrove(home was Canton,N.C.)He is in this film at 26mins/49secs to 26mins/54secs.(with clipboard) finally at:27 mins.42secs and againat 27mins/58 secs. Was down to visit Capt.Hargrove once again in summer 1965 before drawing orders as a Plt.Commander in Viet Nam.This was such a wonderful surprise to see Joe once again as we were quite close back then.
Respectfully,Gregory L.Mitchell, formally (GySgt.G/2/25 4th Mar Div.Dover,N.J.)
SGT. R. S. Winston was my JR.DI in platoon 200 - JAN-MARCH 1963
Wow this looks swell fellas! Just like summer camp at Lake Campanchulata! And that DI looks like a reasonable man! Let’s go sign up boy howdy!
There is nothing reasonable about boot camp. You find out REAL FAST who's normal and who can go right to hell!
Only thing worse than the instructors were the damn recruits I had to live with. Scum of the earth. Real bad kids!
We didn’t undo our top button on jackets until after the range, just before graduation we were allowed to blouse our boots. Writing letters home required, DI made sure we wrote them even if we wrote the DI.
Don Adams who played Maxwell Smart in the TV series was apparently a DI in the Marines before his acting career . I don't know which depot~~
Over open sights
M14’s. Best rifle ever made.
Semper Fi
1967-1970
I was trained w/a m-14 on my ship. Concour with your analogy Sir.
I carried an M-14 in Baghdad Iraq in '04-'05. I got V device awards because of what that rifle allowed me to do.
Semper Fi
1973-1977
Uh, yeah, no. I'll keep my AR-15
Agree for semi-auto and slow fire, BAR was better for full auto Semper Fi 63-67 and 77-82
Brings back many memories. Left for PI one week after graduating from high school in June of 65. It really was the tail end of the peacetime Marine Corp. Only our senior DI had seen overseas duty during the Korean War. The junior DI’s had a good conduct medals and that was it. They were good shape, nothing like the muscle bound DI’s you see now in recruiting films and commercials. But the one thing all three possessed was a sense of brutality and they were not afraid to practice it on all 70 of us. Good lord they were tough. No one escaped their wrath when one of us or all of us screwed up. It was a very long summer at Parris Island.
I think all eventually shipped out to Vietnam and not all of us came back and some who did come back were not whole.
I did my tour from 2/68 thru 3/69. Came back to Camp Lejune to finish out the rest of my enlistment before discharge.
Was a twenty two year old E5 with four rows of ribbons, including 2 Purple Hearts. When I was out and about non of the lifers who had not been over seas never gave me any petty bullshit or chicken shit. They did not mess with us returnees. After discharge, went to college and made a career in the business world. No regrets.
Does anybody else think that old school boot camp was scarier and more intimidating
Looks scary to me.
It looks like that one recruit got his hair cut with a weed whacker! LOL!
Holy dog sh***t, i went through 1968 SanDog, this film is definitely made for censoring eyes. The beatings started the minute we got to the yellow footprints, I know it had to be worse in 1967, How many of those brothers in arms did not make it out of NAM, Semper Fi my brothers, i was on of the lucky ones to make it home safe, but not sane😊🇺🇸
I'm sure you remember 1968 was a much worse flu year than 2019 (or maybe not since it probably wasn't plastered everywhere) yet I doubt any of those Marines in '68 could have been told to wear a mask in basic or on duty!
Yeah this video really bothers me in how it makes everything seem like a pleasant vacation with the music and everything.
You can tell this is a propaganda film --- otherwise the "maggots" would be moving at 120mph everywhere they went. In 1956, a DI's method of correcting your mistakes was with a swift, hard punch to your gut. You caught on very quickly. Also, when we did pugal stick fighting we had no protective helmets or padding. Semper Fi.
Platoon 259 . Senior DI was Sergeant F P Navarro. Absolutely the toughest man that ever lived. 7 -1-64. Through 9-23-64 then off to Geiger for a month. “Trial by fire.” Semper Fi !
Harious! My husband had to shovel jis food down while still going thru the line rapidly then had to throw what was left in the trash at the end of chow line!!!!
Ive have yet to hear a Marine say that they arrived in the daytime!! always was at night!!!
Correct for us Comanche Spirit,in april 1963 Platoon 224...
I showed up in the evening. Still daylight out. It usually stays light out longer in the summer anyway.
We rolled in around Sunset, but it was still a little bit of daylight. We had to ride to the Depot with our heads between our legs. 12 years ago.
In June of 1960, I arrived in the afternoon via flight from Philly to MCAS Beaufort, SC. It was like leaving the earth and landing on a foreign planet named Parris Island
Night for me
I was there. Every kid male/ female out of High school. Should do at least 2 years in the Marines. SEMPER FI
..."In the evening, recruits are given 1 hour of free time"...oooookaaaay, sure we had an hour of free time every night.
I had never realized that dark green Marines don't swim until Pool Week. I had fire watch over the pool. Guarding the empty pool with an equally empty M16 my Captain walked up in civilian clothes and demanded that I give him my weapon for inspection. I proudly did so knowing it was clean. I got reamed out and did not get my weapon back until the next day. I have spent so many hours cleaning weapons that I am now very reluctant to pull a trigger.
Platoon 380 formed August 29, 1960
August 19th. 1968 50 years ago I earned the title US Marine Corps at Parris Island, SC. 2nd. Bn. Plt.277.
I'm sure you remember 1968 was a much worse flu year than 2019 (or maybe not since it probably wasn't plastered everywhere) yet I doubt any of those Marines in '68 could have been told to wear a mask in basic or on duty!
Was it hard?
Those were the barracks at 3rd recruit training battalion. I was sad to hear they tore them down.
Kilo company
PLT 3085
2006
That looked like 2nd Battalion. In 1959 they had wooden barracks. 3rd battalion had huts. I was in Platoon 369.
So strange to see Ssgts back then with 2 or 3 ribbons, plus all these recruits were skinny as hell, probably a lot less processed foods at that time
MarineBeast_86 that and more stay at home moms cooking homemade meals every day.
MarineBeast_86 curious about that myself. Everyone was dressed so conservatively. I think the drug culture of the sixties is what changed that. Now people wear all sorts of stupid ass shit. Also, no one here is overly obese. Processed food dates back to the 1940s. I’m not entirely sure but I think sugar is the culprit. Maybe salt, too.
Dennis Teti Processed foods are more widespread than they were in the 60’s. Most Marines come from rural areas it seems like, less processed foods.
MarineBeast_86 its because they didnt have video games, phones, and tons of junk food at their disposal
@Kal El can you even define liberal?
My friend just came back from Parris Island, I assume the instructors didnt go full vicious because of the cameras?
ClassActKrabs safe assumption
I was. Hollywood Marine in 66...this was interesting to watch!... being mostly not true!..it was a farsight harder then shown!...you screwed up you paid for it!...I have talked with many of my Marine brother's most would rather pull a another Combat tour than go threw boot again
Motivation platoon--"here they will receive instruction that will stimulate their desire to return to training".... ha ha ha. What really happened was the DIs beat the living shit out of them for a week. We got one into our platoon at about week 10 and he was a shell of a human being. Semper fi...Platoon 260, Parris Island, 1967
Went thru P.I. in April-June '66, Platoon 281. We inherited two rejects from Motivation Platoon. One of our junior D.I.'s, the one who whipped us into shape, told both of them from the beginning that he was going to get rid of their sorry asses, and he did just that. One of the two was constantly fucking up deliberately because his older brother, a Marine stationed in 'Nam, kept writing to him in boot camp about the horror stories he experienced and saw in 'Nam. It scared his younger brother so much that he deliberately fucked up to get kicked out of boot camp. But it didn't work. Eventually after he left our platoon, someone down the line must have straightened him out, because I heard he graduated from his last platoon as Pfc, which is only given out to the best one or two men in each platoon. Semper Fi.
Lol
Old school Parris Island...wow
Not 1960. M14 which wasn’t issued until 1962 is being issued.
Spent four years there as well, training recruits on the range.
15:04 Is that you R. Lee Ermey? Is this me?
1965 I enlisted to get the background to become a policeman. Was told I was too small. After Vietnam as an 0331 with H 2/9 I worked as a uniformed city policeman for 39 years and retired in Ohio and then W.Va. If I had it to do over I’d have stayed to eventually wear 1st Sgt or Sgt Major stripes with 7 hash marks. Once a Marine, always a Marine! M.P’s were only T.A.D. Anyway.
My dad told me about the hours of snapping in.
that music tho haha!
lmfao! Yo word!
Paris Island 1964 Platoon 318 was no joke .
8:10 The old 3rd Bn barracks!
@1:01 since when did Forrest Gump become a marine officer?
RIP to my wife’s uncle Lcpl Perez - 2nd Bn. 27th Marine Regiment Golf Company - 0341 KIA Quang Nam Province Vietnam 1969
Plt. 253; 2nd Battalion; June - Sept. 1960; Aye, Aye, Sir !!!
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
The ole Greyhound bus arrives at Buford SC.....must of us w/our butts so tight, couldn't even fart.....
Culture shock was learning to shit with no privacy whatsoever. I started chowing down on little boxes of Kellog's Raisin Bran at breakfast. Also hit the NCO coffee urn. Finally passed a stool about 3 days in. Later I was introduced to C rations.
Beaufort.
In the Navy, they teach you how to spell. Not necessary for a jarhead.
The difference between the years
Were DI's allowed to hit you back then?
Goldeneagle360 i believe my grandpa said his DI told them if they wanted to fight him they could take it to another room with no rank involved.
NDOMAKONG SUH wow no kidding
Goldeneagle360 I'm pretty sure theres was still hitting up to the early 2000s some say it still goes on every now and then but people keep it on the downlow
I read in a book a DI told his platoon if they wanted to settle some matters with fists they could, and 80% of the platoon stepped forward. It said they were from New York, probably urban camp legend but still funny.
This 100 per cent bullshit.I trained there and no one would dare!!
(Former Plt.224 Apr-July 1963) Former Gy Sgt.G.L.Mitchell '63-'78
Why do they yell and run after they're dismissed?
What rifle do the Marines have on here? it looks a good soldierly bit of kit!
M14...a auto/semi automatic version of the M1 garand
Damn Good M14 rifle.
The M-14 was an updated version of the M-1 Garand. It used a 7.62 round (.308) vs a 30-06 round for the Garand. The 7.62 round is shorter, allowing for a slightly faster cycling time between rounds. The long wooden stock of the Garand was shortened, and the upper barrel is shrouded with a lightweight bakelite shroud vs the original longer wood shroud. The gas piston is also shorter, and the bolt has rollers to guide the bolt in the receiver during cycling and locking the round in the chamber. The original Garand bolt just had metal lugs protruding on the sides as guides for cycling, which accelerated wear between receiver guide slots and bolt. The M-14 also has a flash suppressor which the M-1 does not. The rounds are very similar balistically, with the 30-06 having a slight edge. I recall one statistic I read where the .308 round of the M-14 dropped 8" more at 500 yards than a 30-06 round. From what I've also read online, the muzzle velocity of the 30-06 is about 100 feet per second faster, which is not that much, so the two are comparable there. The advantage of a 20 round magazine of the M-14 over the 8 round clip of the M-1 is evident. Another advantage of the M-14 is the availability of attaching a selector switch, making the M-14 fully automatic, perhaps comparable to the Browning BAR of WWII fame, at the expense of accuracy due to recoil. I believe the sights, both front and rear, were nearly identical. I'm sure there are other minor differences but I think I've covered the major ones. Semper Fi.
The commander was wearing the Silver Star
Looks the same almost as at did when I went in in 1994. One way on, one way off.
It was hard, and you learned how to hate. The only thing worse than the instructors were the damn recruits! Scum of the earth. 1987
What was the slop they put on the toast?? Grits?
Corned beef in gravy...commonly referred to as shit on a shingle.
No Hutch,thats' SOS,"shit on a shingle"it was creamed chip beef on toast.I never ate it in some 15 years,but some men loved it. Semper Fi,(Former) GySgt.Gregory L. Mitchell, New jersey
I had SOS for the nine months I was stationed at Camp Hague, Okinawa in '67 & '68. It was made from ground hamburg mixed in a white gravy made with flour and water. Every morning for breakfast I used to eat 6 toast topped with 6 hard fried eggs smothered with SOS. Great start to the day before going to the ammo dump to hump ammo. Gave me all the calories I needed to begin the day. Semper Fi.
Thanks guys, it looks fucking horrible!!! I won't bitch about the food we get in canada lol!
It's really good. I use to make it when I cooked there.
Wonder how many came back in a box from the Nam??
thewall-usa.com says there are 58,195 names on The Wall. You can go online to the "Virtual Wall" and do a search for anyone you know who didn't come back home. Five from my hometown didn't make it back.
Man how bc has changed. Now it’s all yelling as if a demon is inside of you. Back then it was just “hey here’s a gun now go shoot a baddy”.
My thanks go out to all marines.
i GOT THERE AT 2:30 AM!!!-DAVID.
Then at the end they realize they joined the wrong branch and started eating crayons
MCRD Parris Island, A Co. Platoon 1009, 84-85
Curly locks that just sounds flaming.
Did I hear the narrator say "gun"?
farpointgamingdirect He's referencing lyrics of the Marine Corps Hymn...
Randall Mellott no
Wow. A whole 8 miles.
The front platoon got to march, the other 3 got to run. The platoon in the back every step of the way.
They left out the part where we ( and there were many ) who got hit or punched in the gut in the 60s.
I read about the training in the 60's. It was a mean time.
Parris Island 1963 Platoon 260
Wasnt west coast marines trained at 29 palms? East coast went to paris island? Or is it just luck of the draw?
West coast was at San Diego I was stationed at 29 Palms in the 60s
Anything west of Mississippi went to 29 palm and east of Mississippi went to Paris inland
... *NOT* your head around the rifle !!! 8:00
Ronbo710 'Do you expect me to believe you don't know left from right' dude I saw the 8:00 part and I'm like did he mess up and then rewatched it and was like he did mess up lol
2011. current e4 0311 semper fi
SIR ! recuit ( your full name ) requests permission to speak to Senior or Drill Instructor ( his name ) Sir!!!!...then he would say "Louder i can't hear you" this goes on for awhile while hitting -real hard- a red board right by the entrance to thier office .....ill never forget "I -I... Sir!!!! ...a salute and an about face.....plt 3001 Parris Island...1980..81....then off to... Camp Shawb Okie..The Rock... urahh!!!!
I got so much respect for the USMC. Oooorahhh!!
Wow it wasn't as chaotic back then
Because it was ORGANIZED.
Drill instructors weren't as ripped back then, and it doesn't look like there was as much screaming.
They weren't allowed to film those parts, and back then basic was much tougher than it is now.
To put it one way recruits literally died during training back then. A lot more than they do now with more safety regulations and such put in place. Google the "Ribbon Creek Incident" it was a few years before this was filmed but still you'll get the general idea.
Just read it up. Honestly, I think the DI wasn't at fault and a lot of undue guilt was pressured into him. A big question that was popping up in my head as I read about it was this: what kind of a fucking MARINE doesn't know how to swim?
I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing. I'm just pointing out how DI's look like pro body builders now.
Let me tell you friend,in 1963 Plt.224 we had several men who couldn't swim.They were thrown into the pool in the deep end with swimming instructors in the water if they couldn't learn then and there,some did others were dragged out before they drowned GySgt.Mitchell(Former)
no sandals in the showers?
Arrived MCRD P.I. Nov 4th 1975.
plt 2020. pretty close.
SOS for breakfast...
I went in 75 and all my dis
Silver star recipients at 1:37 28:55 💯🇺🇸
your all going to Vietnam , son !
+jeffblacky.......WTF???
this boot camp training film , I would guess at least half of them went to vietnam
+jeffblacky.....Did you serve??? If so, where? and when?
yeah I served , army national guard , from the early 80's to 2009 , I had about 3 breaks in service because of jobs and location changes , did 3 deployments , retired in 2009 after 21 years combined.
+jeffblacky....I thought so. I had a 20 year old husband that went thru Parris Island n 68. Then off to Camp LeJune for more training, then home before off to Calif for shiping out to Vietnam. I am partial to the Marine Corps and have very strong sentiments concerning the Vietnam war. I just hate like hell, to have draft dogers, politically correct persons and idiots bitch, moan and gripe about something that they can NEVER UNDERSTAND. i'm sorry if I have offended you and Thank You for your Service to our Country.... Friends???
Anyone else notice the SSGT with only a good cookie and a national defense ribbon? holy shit
Marine Corps is not known for being liberal with ribbons. After four years, I got out with three between 94 to 98. No war right? Fast forward, I served with the National Guard between 03 and 06, serving a year deployed for OEF. Then again, from 09 to 12. I came back with 8 ribbons after overseas. Now, some of those DI's never went to war because of their M.O.S. and they are required to do a B billet for promotion. A B billet is either recruiting duty or DI duty. That happened to a friend of mine who retired a master gunnery sgt. He said he had about 15 years in and was a good recruiter, but he didn't like only having a few ribbons after being in that long, so he volunteered for Vietnam. He was so good at recruiting they kept him recruiting and the corps is notorious for that stuff. They kept me on Parris Island for four years.
Diet tray recruit!!!
Aye recruit.
PI 1964.
USMC ....BEST ♠️💀🇺🇸💪
1959 PLt. 343
ideaman99 Platoon 102 January 1959. Do you still remember how to do Squads right about?
@@platoon1026 Thanks for the reply sir. Squads? I remember being in a squat holding of head and/or doing up and shoulders with my M-1. I wasn't aware of the films, thanks for that. I arrived in PI JULY 59, out in October.
ideaman99 You should have still been doing 8 man squad drill, back then. Squads right; Right by twos; Squads right about, etc.
@@platoon1026 Oh! that!. Yes. I'm now the Vice Commandant of our Marine League. Color guards, Honor guards, parades.
today is jesus birthday, he has a hard on for marines, because we keep heaven full of fresh new souls. he plays his games and we play ours.
One of my all time Fave lines.
A simpler,kinder Marine Corp.
Half of them probably died in Vietnam
They did
Wrong. Not even close to half. More like 1 or 2 of them.
Definitely propaganda film. In this video every one is moving slowly, especially during the forced march to Elliot's Beach. We were running most. of the time with full field transport packs! When we got there we all had large bruises from the pack straps and the rifle butt banging on our hip. Still proud to this day of having survived Parris Island and becoming a Marine. Platoon 247, 1957.
i got there at nite--ssammay
i got there at nite yammass e-----stayed there till busses got us -----i knew i was in a world of shit i was 17 i wanted to go home----let me tell you i knew i was in a world of shit-----but 4 years i was fucking everywhere ----still young -anf fix boyonrts ---any knew sgt loftus head di ??
3rd Btn I co. Plt.3015
Dec.5 to Feb 27 85..
Sr Di ssgt.Haines
Di Sgt.George
Di Sgt.Thompson
Di Ssgt. Butler
lexi terrill...We must have passed each other. 3rd Bn I Co Platoon 3029. February 4th - April 30th.
Enjoy your stay in Vietnam fellas. You'll love it!
We were not encouraged to attend religious services. We were told, any guy with no religion, find one before tomorrow...everybody attends church.
Gomer would have never made it. And back then, if they found out ol' Gomer the gobbler was not tellin' when asked he would have never been accepted. Gollee Sgt.
Plt 371 Sept 1962
1960. DI all combat vets. One was Choosen frozen and nuts. Series mvp was lateWWII and he was even more crazy. After Ribbon creek thing in 1st battalion, they asked did we want old corp or new corp. What do you think we all yelled out? Got my ass handed to me several times. "you come see me when we get back" meant tighten up for gut punch coming.
Walt disney music dig
We were normal then.....what you saw was what you got.....no bugabus or phonies....
plt--101 1960
I'm rather curious, were there Jewish or Muslim Marines at the time? Not here to stir the pot, just curious.
Many Jews in all branches of service, throughout US history. Muslims -- no idea!
PeriscopeFilm II thanks! Wanted to check. The training video looked like it focused on primarily Christianity and wanted to look further.
Most official U.S. Government films that touched on religion, focused on Christianity in this era.
My di said that there is only one color marine corp green and today i still think that way