Last year, more than 30,000 young Americans became U.S. Marines. They did it through the efforts of their drill instructors. Watch what it takes to make a Marine.
@@BigDictator5335 So.....I was on duty one night, and company CO comes through our squad bay. I greeted him good and LOUD! "Good evening, SIR"....I forgot to f'ing salute. I know, reeeeeeeeeee! All he said was "I guess we don't salute officers now?" I'd have rather been smoked!
USMC Rebels I used to be in the British army, as a privet I went to salute a officer. I said good morning sir only to then find out the officer I was saluting was a woman. We don’t really do the hole shouting at privets like the us marines but damm she went off on one with me. All 6 foot 6, 24 stone (About 330 pounds I think) I found out later that allot of new guys make the same mistake with this particular officer as she was a bit of a tom boy. Fast forward 6 months and we were doing some battle pt (What we call a beasting session) everyone always avoided me on out battle pt sessions as I was a big heavy guy that no one wanted to try and carry. And look who’s late. She got paired up with me because she was late and I knew all the others were enjoying watching her suffer as she was always so keen to jump on privets. Now this 5 foot 5 officer had to carry me in various ways, some of us think the pti’s knew what was going on and they made us do a extra hour of pt. Ohh I enjoyed that beer that night at the scoff house (Dinner hall)
@@Imperialismusic Funny thing...In the US Military, it's appropriate to call an officer of any gender "sir"or "mister". It even gets referenced in (nerd alert) Star Trek.
I still remember middle of third phase - our platoon kill hat got pissed off at something, grabbed the guidon, lit it on fire, and threw it into the sand pit like a spear. For two weeks we marched with a trash bag with our platoon number on it...
they get damn pissed out of nowhere....then next thing you know is the platoon guidon is speared in the dirt, flag down., especially during BWT..or any hump for that matter..doesn't happen to all, but antics like this do happen
+THATfoolJOSH He's an officer and a gentleman. I remember during Sergeant Major inspection in the Army I lucked out having our company commander (Captain) inspect me and my wall locker. (My buddy across from me got the Sergeant Major's wrath. I was of course, nervous and the Captain ordered me to about face while he inspected my locker. I somehow did a right face, and the Cpt. turned to me with a puzzled look and asked "What was that a half about face?" I replied "Just a little nervous, Sir." He smiled and said, "I know. Good work on your locker." Meanwhile my buddy is still getting his ass reamed by the Sergeant Major because he left a thumbprint on his enlisted US brass.
+James Robert Officers also know that putting an unknown person in front of a recruit, and that person being a Captain, can be intimidating as hell. Recruits won't know to deal with them, so it's also an officer's job to remain determined but calm.
Alex K. It's just like that senior DI stated in the video about how the recruits have a 'brain dump' when someone new is put in front of them. I remember all of our officers in the Army were pretty cool, like our CO who upon seeing me and another guy from our company walking to the motorpool stopped in his POV and gave us a lift. Our CO and XO were both awesome in my opinion. We of course had a couple of officers whom we nicknamed 'Sergeant' so-so because they acted like NCO's in the way they thought they had to get their hands on everything instead of letting the NCO's do their job. It was the same thing reversed with a couple of our NCO's whom I loathed because they thought of nothing but looking good in front of officers for their own advancement at our expense.
I guess you failed to notice the pinky was in the flash suppressor. Index was in the breech. The FS was dirty so he showed him the pinky that he just got residue onto.
OooRah! Those yellow footprints bring back memories of the summer of '65, Platoon 348 at Parris Island with Sgt Pitts (SDI) with Sgt Groshans and Cpl Bess as Junior DIs.
4 years and 4 days into my enlistment (as a reservist), I miss the simplicity of life in boot camp. I owe a lot to my drill instructors. They made me who I am today. As an infantry Marine, I do wish more of the drill instructors had an infantry background, but they still accomplished their mission and made me the Marine that I am today. I survived my tour in Iraq and thanks to their training, I'm confident that I'll survive my upcoming tour in Afghanistan (as a fireteam leader). Ooh-Rah Marines!
That Sgt in the thumbnail is Sgt Espinoza. He was my knowledge hat in boot camp. One of the best I've ever met in the corps. Seriously, a great mentor.
I do agree with this statement. As important as it is to know who can hang, DI's know that it takes more time and paperwork to get rid of a recruit than to successfully train one, as well as more rewarding.
I had a guy in my division in navy boot camp with a similar situation. He had a SEAL contract in DEP but he lost it due to his eyesight. Never got down about it, never blamed anyone, he just pushed through it. He deeply cared about everybody, he was in charge of PT. He helped a lot of guys make it through boot camp, everybody loved the guy. About 3/4th the way through boot camp, He got med separated for a hearing test. I promised him I'd make it to the SEAL Teams for him
All that dressing to make sure it's perfect. After my brother graduated, we were walking around and the Sergeant Major spotted something off about his belt. He approached all of us and asked, calmly, if he could take my brother for a moment. What happened beyond that door, I do not know... We made sure to stay clear of him the rest of the day lol.
You need to really get in the habit (as a marine) to make sure your uniform is properly worn. If someone above your rank, such as Sergeant Major, sees the fact the smallest thing from your buckle to medals are off, you can get your ass chewed. That’s what he’s saying about the beginning of the video.
@doceinholeite The drill instructor is saying, "What is your rifle's serial number?" All recruits in boot camp are issued a M-16 A2 service rifle and must memorize the rifle's individual serial number. Thanks for your comment. -Cpl. K.
Be proud and thankful that you ever got to walk on a marine corps base. I can't ever enlist because I became an amputee at age 11 going on 12 (in 2000). I wish that I could have at least gotten as far as you did.
It's like myself Sargent always told us, "MEN!!! 50 of you are going in only 25 of you are coming back" That was the most encouraging thing the Sargent told everyone.
Nice to see the old Third Battalion barracks. I understand the new for newer and better squad bays, but it does break my heart knowing that the buildings where I became a Marine are no longer there.
Fellow former Marine’s DIs marched his platoon to supply. Each recruit checked out two rifle range eye patches. They then were marched to the base theater…after a horrible rifle range week in which several went “unq”, and had to shoot a re-qual, to watch a movie. The platoon was seated, placed an eye patch on each eye and proceeded to sit in the theater during the feature! Best most hilarious, devious “HAT” story ever!
We were getting ready to stand inspection and our SDI was doing a final walk through before the series commander came out and he reported that we were formed for inspection. I noticed the SDI's ribbons had come undone and had shifted. I wasn't about to let my SDI report to the series commander like that so a freaked out and lost protocol. "Pssst! Gunny! Your ribbons are falling off." I thought he was going to kill me then he saw what was happening and adjusted his uniform. He looked at me, gave a sigh of relief and said "thank you." I realized then that they were just like us and they were under a microscope as well. The second time I realized DI's were just like us was at BWT. I was passing out the MRE's and there was one left which should have been mine. I called out "who didn't get an MRE?" And a recruit said "this recruit didn't get one." (Yes I remember his name and his face to this day.) I tossed it to him and went to sit down with nothing to eat. The drill instructor was sitting there watching and called me over. He asked "where is your meal?" I replied "this recruit gave the last meal to the recruit that didn't have one." So he drags me over by his shelter, grabs a brown bag and hands it to me. "My wife packed this for my meal, you take it! That was good to go back there! Don't get caught with this!" So there I was enjoying a ham & cheese sandwich, pringles, and a brownie. Geez this was early 1990's and I can still taste that meal, LOL!
It is real super to see how they learn everything.They are growing and showing in what they are doing is good work .Thank you marines.And the Drill instructor of course.Bless you all 🙏🫡
Thank you to your beautiful country. Thank you is not enough for liberating Europe a long time ago. I will always be grateful for your country. Hello from France
I was on training day 58 when my lung collapse. Till this very day i will never know that feeling of finishing. Seeing all of my fellow recruits graduate while i sit at the RSP window watching them all go on the Prairie Deck killed me. After that another two platoons walked as i rot away in rsp. Being home isnt bad at all, but to be denied to ever become a marine in this life time haunts me everyday. Seeing all these videos made me remember all the times that i had. I miss all of it.
Did you let that define you? There are lots of opportunities in the world, challenging, prestigious, demanding, where you really had to earn it. Did you accomplish those instead?
Please, be comfortable in the fact you had the balls and guts to even sign up for the US Marines. Every single man and woman in the Navy, Air Force and Army, no matter how good they are, didn’t sign up for the US Marines. You, gave it your best shot, and you didn’t chose a bad lung. USMC US ARMY
Im a drill instructor in the Swiss army ground troops infantery and its really interesting to see the similarities between our basic training and the marines, I know exactly what the DIs are talking about when they say they want to teach the recruits something for life...its an experience you can only learn in the military, I too was a recruit once now I know how it feels to be on the other side. Props to the DIs it costs a lot of energy to do this job.
I remember Bn Command Inspection, and finally 3rd Phase. Platoon 395, India Company, 3rd Battalion MCRD Parris Island, Oct-Dec 73. Last platoon to be dismissed for 1973.
Sir, I wish to join the military, and reading you're comment, you are a marine more then anyone else, because you fought and tried. I respect you as a warrior, you don't need a piece of paper to show you that.
in 1984 when i went through MCRD parris island, my series, B co. 3016, was the last series to wear the old steel pot helmet, after that was the kevlar helmet, my series was also the last to be issued the solid OD unis...then when I went to AIT was issued 2 sets of cammies, had to buy the others
@kniperr Recruits act much different when they're being screamed at all the time. It creates a much more intense environment, and it instills the "Marine" way of thinking.
As a former DI (84-86 PISC) what happens when you begin a cycle is you loose your voice within 5 minutes, losing your voice forces you to force air from your diaphragm to be heard, as a result of using your diaphragm instead of your vocal chords you are actually louder than the 70 recruits. So for 3 months you have a really loud voice but a week after you graduate your platoon and stop using your diaphragm to speak loudly you lose it. When you pick the next platoon it starts all over again.
I agree with everything everyone else has said. Just because you had an accident, does not mean you didn't deserve to walk across that parade deck. You were there, and you will always be a marine at heart. hang in there!
Both my dad and brother are United States Marines. I'm 17 going into my senior year here in a few months, I cannot wait to enlist and go to bootcamp. It's an experience I've been hearing of since I was little.
I tip my hat out of respect for the USMC! I just wish the Air Force would incorporate some of the USMC training into our basic training to make airman more battle ready.
Damn I'm getting flashbacks. I graduated from boot camp June 18. 1982 Parris Island.3rd.battalion. I company. Great experience did my time got out in 1985.never regretted it.SEMPER FIDELIS TO YOU ALL MARINES. OOOH RAH
The Corps has changed so much since the 60's and early 70's. Sorry to say that I am not impressed with today's Marine Corps boot camp. I attended a graduation on October the 7th of 2016 for Lima, and I was totally shocked. Totally out of step once the command of forward march was given, no cover and alignment, and some uniforms were out of, well you get the meaning. As a former Drill Instructor back in the very early 70's, I would have taken every boot and D.I. to the pit, and P.T.'d them til I got tired of watching.....Which would have been never. I blame "Mothers of America" for this, and not today's D.I.'s. When you can't have total command and hands on training, then there will be setbacks....big time! I love the Corps deeply, but I recommend that it goes back to the days of, for instance, the movie "Full Metal Jacket" boot camp. That's how I was trained and I don't regret it. Semper Fi!!
Can definitely agree with you. I was actually a part of Lima Company, Plt 3080 but I got dropped from training entirely during the end of phase 1. Back to the point though, I could definitely tell the Drill Instructors wanted to go that little extra step but obviously they couldn't. Especially not with that Muslim kid jumping off Kilo's deck and killing himself and the following investigation.
And if he did? Who cares. It's boot camp. The Drill Instructors are supposed to make life a living hell for the recruits. That's how the Marines are supposed to be made. Now we have all these whiny ass parents and bleeding hearts screaming foul and abuse. Next thing you know recruits will be able to start giving "triggered" warnings to their drill instructors without being smoked for it and bitching out of training when they have an upset stomach. Also God Bless You 09jitters and thank you for your service.
No one even knows what Mothers of America is anymore. Marine Corps Boot Camp has changed over the generations. A "Full Metal Jacket" type DI would get punched through the bulk head if hetried his games on a 26 year old WW II recruit raised in the depression.From the 60's through the 80's the Corps could get away with "Full Metal type" Boot campantics because they were dealing with a generation reared on respecting authority figuresand the vast majority refused to tell about what really was going on out of peer pressureand wanting to prove something to themselves.Todays generation would never tolerate getting cold cocked by a DI for being out of stepor not knowing right from left. Any DI who pulled that these days would be facing prisontime and would be thrown under the bus by the Marine Corps your head would spin.The quickest way to get women mixed in with men in Marine Corps Boot Camp is to letone DI put on the nostalgia glasses and try to go back to a time that will never come again.Not in this age of the Internet and not when you have a generation raised to report abusefrom authority figures and institutions ranging from the church, teachers and sport coaches.What happens in Boot Camp is no longer a matter that active duty Marines can put behind them and old salts can fondly remember. it will get out, Congress will freak out and the Corps will promisechange.I went through Marine Boot Camp in 1986,served as a Rifleman for 6 years and still love the Corps.I think it's not helpful and even a bit dangerous to the Corps future when you have old salts pineingaway for the good old days when a DI could literally commit Battery on a Recruit, because it was "Character Building"
"whiney ass parents" have been a concern of the Corps since Ribbon Creek in the 50's.The Corps saw it as abuse when a drunken DI over stepped his authority and got some kidskilled for nothing. thats why another layer of oversight in the form of the Series Commanderwas created to prevent such B.S.The Corps has to take orders like every other service. Saying "It's Boot Camp" to cover upthe few bad apples who can't walk the fine line between tough and abusive will not be tolerated.It's the attitude that the Corps doesn't have to evolve it's Basic training with the times the way itdoes it's weapons systems,is the very reason we can't have nice things.
Your opinion matters, only not with me. Privates that were going to Vietnam had to learn that what they were going thru with us was nothing compared to what they were going to see and live through. The Corps will always live in my blood, but after the mid- seventies, it went to shit. There was a reason for hands on training, and it was delivered for a reason. Second guessing was NOT and option. You have your opinion and I have mine. We will never agree. Semper Fi!!
Nothing ever does when you are watching. Sky diving, pro sports, Indy racing, equestrian jumping, even boxing never seen that hard when watching. Then you try it. Like Ranger school videos here. Doesn't seem that awful. They can't show the fact the guy hasn't slept in 3 days, is malnourished, his feet are bleeding, his whole body is chaffing and scabbing up, etc.
Very sad story man hope you are doing good.. dont worry sometimes things are meant to be like that...I know it's sad but who knows maybe that incident even saved you from being injured or dead in the battle field. All you can do now is look up and be proud knowing that you are a Marines by heart.
ive been there, theres nothing like it, as a matter of fact doing the BWT course in the night time was actually fun for me, its real interesting the rush and adrenaline you get from it, extreme training, i luv it..
I went through the Corps 1972-1976. Today's boot camp appears more difficult and leaning towards more combat training. I often asked myself why we didn't receive more combat training in boot camp. My MOS 3041 supply administration. Received little combat training at the time. I remained state side my whole tour. I thank God every day I did. I didn't want to get the Gunt next to me killed just because I was a pog. SEMPER FI MAC.!!
I've often wondered the same thing. I was right after you 1973 to 1977. I was a 3531 Truck Driver and hated it. When I was transferred to Camp Foster Okinawa, they asked me if I would like to work in the Company Office. After that worked at Bn S-1, then changed my MOS to 0151 Admin-Personnel. Then back to Camp LeJeune H&S Co H&S Bn 2nd Force Service Support Group, for my last 2 years. I worked at the Company Office and my last 2 years and not ONE day in the field. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
OH MY GOD, I swear to god I know that DI at 1:00 .. he used to be a Marine that yelled at us and stuff in the YM program on Camp Pendleton. I remember him, what a great Marine. God bless the Marines and Semper Fi.
"That was an interesting interpretation of inspection arms."
And thus the little recruit realized he had just massively fucked up.
Thenextworldwar the DIs must've ripped him in two 🤣
@@davecrupel2817 disappointing an officer is worse than pissing off your DIs. You don't get punished, but it hurts your soul.
@@BigDictator5335 So.....I was on duty one night, and company CO comes through our squad bay. I greeted him good and LOUD! "Good evening, SIR"....I forgot to f'ing salute. I know, reeeeeeeeeee! All he said was "I guess we don't salute officers now?" I'd have rather been smoked!
USMC Rebels I used to be in the British army, as a privet I went to salute a officer. I said good morning sir only to then find out the officer I was saluting was a woman.
We don’t really do the hole shouting at privets like the us marines but damm she went off on one with me. All 6 foot 6, 24 stone (About 330 pounds I think)
I found out later that allot of new guys make the same mistake with this particular officer as she was a bit of a tom boy.
Fast forward 6 months and we were doing some battle pt (What we call a beasting session) everyone always avoided me on out battle pt sessions as I was a big heavy guy that no one wanted to try and carry. And look who’s late.
She got paired up with me because she was late and I knew all the others were enjoying watching her suffer as she was always so keen to jump on privets. Now this 5 foot 5 officer had to carry me in various ways, some of us think the pti’s knew what was going on and they made us do a extra hour of pt.
Ohh I enjoyed that beer that night at the scoff house (Dinner hall)
@@Imperialismusic Funny thing...In the US Military, it's appropriate to call an officer of any gender "sir"or "mister". It even gets referenced in (nerd alert) Star Trek.
"Being as silent as fu-... as possible." Lmao
I looked for this comment right away
Lolz
Yep 😂
6:24 lmfao
Is it funny that the Dutch Army works on their brains too ?
I still remember middle of third phase - our platoon kill hat got pissed off at something, grabbed the guidon, lit it on fire, and threw it into the sand pit like a spear. For two weeks we marched with a trash bag with our platoon number on it...
lmao! Yess!
@ WolfGang2299 It most certainly did, but there's no way I can prove it to you.
+hellyeagetsome I believe you
hellyeagetsome yep
they get damn pissed out of nowhere....then next thing you know is the platoon guidon is speared in the dirt, flag down., especially during BWT..or any hump for that matter..doesn't happen to all, but antics like this do happen
really like how the captain gently grabbed the recruit's rifle
+THATfoolJOSH He's an officer and a gentleman. I remember during Sergeant Major inspection in the Army I lucked out having our company commander (Captain) inspect me and my wall locker. (My buddy across from me got the Sergeant Major's wrath. I was of course, nervous and the Captain ordered me to about face while he inspected my locker. I somehow did a right face, and the Cpt. turned to me with a puzzled look and asked "What was that a half about face?" I replied "Just a little nervous, Sir." He smiled and said, "I know. Good work on your locker." Meanwhile my buddy is still getting his ass reamed by the Sergeant Major because he left a thumbprint on his enlisted US brass.
+James Robert Officers also know that putting an unknown person in front of a recruit, and that person being a Captain, can be intimidating as hell. Recruits won't know to deal with them, so it's also an officer's job to remain determined but calm.
Alex K. It's just like that senior DI stated in the video about how the recruits have a 'brain dump' when someone new is put in front of them. I remember all of our officers in the Army were pretty cool, like our CO who upon seeing me and another guy from our company walking to the motorpool stopped in his POV and gave us a lift. Our CO and XO were both awesome in my opinion. We of course had a couple of officers whom we nicknamed 'Sergeant' so-so because they acted like NCO's in the way they thought they had to get their hands on everything instead of letting the NCO's do their job. It was the same thing reversed with a couple of our NCO's whom I loathed because they thought of nothing but looking good in front of officers for their own advancement at our expense.
@@Atombender ²
Calm, cool, and collective it’s the quietest guys in the room that’d the deadliest he don’t need to try and act tough
6:23 he wanted to drop an f-bomb haha
WarhawkLieutenent I know XD
I was in the Navy, but I will always be impressed by Marines.
thats right
0:57 touches the inside of barrel with index finger*
points pinky finger at recruit*
"I guess we didnt clean our weapon did we!"
*DISGUSTING*
*AYE SIR* rofl
😂🤣😂🤣
I’m dead from that comment
Eagle eyes
I guess you failed to notice the pinky was in the flash suppressor. Index was in the breech. The FS was dirty so he showed him the pinky that he just got residue onto.
got lost on the way to college
Michael Fredrick (slams head into chalkboard) 🤕
Dont worry, be happy
Michael Fredrick PRIVATE JOKER
Morky God - bugle tryouts
No shit, what do we got here a fucking comedian private joker?
DI: SCREAM AAAAAHHHHH
Recruit: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
OooRah! Those yellow footprints bring back memories of the summer of '65, Platoon 348 at Parris Island with Sgt Pitts (SDI) with Sgt Groshans and Cpl Bess as Junior DIs.
Ooh! That was during Nam. I can imagine what boot camp was like back then! 😬😱😮
I consider myself to have a decent grasp of the English language but I usually can't understand a single word when they're yelling.
+sErgEantaEgis12 Yep... you just respond with AYE SIR and hope it wasnt a yes/no question
+Trevor Anderson well then. I'm gonna have an interesting time when I join
Oh, I'm sure most recruits learn pretty fast what it is they're saying, haha.
Ohhh I'm a city boy too, but when I went to parris island I picked it up very very quickly!
sErgEantaEgis12, once you been in combat, baptized by fire all the yelling and games you played in bootcamp all make sense.
4 years and 4 days into my enlistment (as a reservist), I miss the simplicity of life in boot camp. I owe a lot to my drill instructors. They made me who I am today. As an infantry Marine, I do wish more of the drill instructors had an infantry background, but they still accomplished their mission and made me the Marine that I am today. I survived my tour in Iraq and thanks to their training, I'm confident that I'll survive my upcoming tour in Afghanistan (as a fireteam leader). Ooh-Rah Marines!
how'd you do?
@@dalemay9912 I think Hes dead 💀lol
Yeah howed you do?
How u do
You still around bro?
This videos has made up my mind. I'm joining the Marines!
good luck haha...
I hope you realize when you make that choice its final... and it will change your life forever.
Semper Fi
Just remember: its never personal, just training. Good luck
Semper Fidelis!
That Sgt in the thumbnail is Sgt Espinoza. He was my knowledge hat in boot camp. One of the best I've ever met in the corps. Seriously, a great mentor.
I like how they conveniently leave out the endless hours of drill practice that is pretty much 75% of bootcamp.
Does anybody notice the MAI instructor at 8:37. I am dying laughing 😂
Every DI wants you to become a marine, not watch you fail... I plan to join in the summer that I graduate.
Noble goal, good luck.
Which one are you going to ? Parris Isl or San Dieg ?
*Marine
+Robert Jr. Brown. Good luck, I wish you well. I plan on joining the MCJROTC as soon as possible, then going to Parris Island. Again, I wish you well.
I do agree with this statement. As important as it is to know who can hang, DI's know that it takes more time and paperwork to get rid of a recruit than to successfully train one, as well as more rewarding.
You graduated yet?
Wow! It's easy to see why you Marines are the elite.
I had a guy in my division in navy boot camp with a similar situation. He had a SEAL contract in DEP but he lost it due to his eyesight. Never got down about it, never blamed anyone, he just pushed through it. He deeply cared about everybody, he was in charge of PT. He helped a lot of guys make it through boot camp, everybody loved the guy. About 3/4th the way through boot camp, He got med separated for a hearing test. I promised him I'd make it to the SEAL Teams for him
Did you??? Lol
This a marine we all work together supposed to anyway
@@HateTheIRS he didnt 😂
All that dressing to make sure it's perfect. After my brother graduated, we were walking around and the Sergeant Major spotted something off about his belt. He approached all of us and asked, calmly, if he could take my brother for a moment. What happened beyond that door, I do not know... We made sure to stay clear of him the rest of the day lol.
You need to really get in the habit (as a marine) to make sure your uniform is properly worn. If someone above your rank, such as Sergeant Major, sees the fact the smallest thing from your buckle to medals are off, you can get your ass chewed. That’s what he’s saying about the beginning of the video.
cloudykai he probably got his ass chewed. Perfection and nothing less. A mistake on a uniform disrespects the Corps.
@doceinholeite
The drill instructor is saying, "What is your rifle's serial number?" All recruits in boot camp are issued a M-16 A2 service rifle and must memorize the rifle's individual serial number. Thanks for your comment.
-Cpl. K.
M-16 A3 at least in the mid 90's. It is nice for the lefties to not get hot brass under their collar at the range
Thank you US Marines, Your the best. Thank you for everything you do.
Be proud and thankful that you ever got to walk on a marine corps base. I can't ever enlist because I became an amputee at age 11 going on 12 (in 2000). I wish that I could have at least gotten as far as you did.
It's like myself Sargent always told us, "MEN!!! 50 of you are going in only 25 of you are coming back" That was the most encouraging thing the Sargent told everyone.
I saw Cowboy from FMJ at the start of the video 😂😂😂
Nice to see the old Third Battalion barracks. I understand the new for newer and better squad bays, but it does break my heart knowing that the buildings where I became a Marine are no longer there.
Fellow former Marine’s DIs marched his platoon to supply. Each recruit checked out two rifle range eye patches. They then were marched to the base theater…after a horrible rifle range week in which several went “unq”, and had to shoot a re-qual, to watch a movie. The platoon was seated, placed an eye patch on each eye and proceeded to sit in the theater during the feature! Best most hilarious, devious “HAT” story ever!
Wtf ?
We were getting ready to stand inspection and our SDI was doing a final walk through before the series commander came out and he reported that we were formed for inspection. I noticed the SDI's ribbons had come undone and had shifted. I wasn't about to let my SDI report to the series commander like that so a freaked out and lost protocol. "Pssst! Gunny! Your ribbons are falling off." I thought he was going to kill me then he saw what was happening and adjusted his uniform. He looked at me, gave a sigh of relief and said "thank you." I realized then that they were just like us and they were under a microscope as well.
The second time I realized DI's were just like us was at BWT. I was passing out the MRE's and there was one left which should have been mine. I called out "who didn't get an MRE?" And a recruit said "this recruit didn't get one." (Yes I remember his name and his face to this day.) I tossed it to him and went to sit down with nothing to eat. The drill instructor was sitting there watching and called me over. He asked "where is your meal?" I replied "this recruit gave the last meal to the recruit that didn't have one." So he drags me over by his shelter, grabs a brown bag and hands it to me. "My wife packed this for my meal, you take it! That was good to go back there! Don't get caught with this!" So there I was enjoying a ham & cheese sandwich, pringles, and a brownie. Geez this was early 1990's and I can still taste that meal, LOL!
I really enjoy seeing these videos, and learning about you fantastic Marines. Thank you so much. Semper Fi Marines
At the time, most of us hated this. Looking back, I can only smile. Grateful for the experience.
It is real super to see how they learn everything.They are growing and showing in what they are doing is good work .Thank you marines.And the Drill instructor of course.Bless you all 🙏🫡
Thank you to your beautiful country. Thank you is not enough for liberating Europe a long time ago. I will always be grateful for your country. Hello from France
I was on training day 58 when my lung collapse. Till this very day i will never know that feeling of finishing. Seeing all of my fellow recruits graduate while i sit at the RSP window watching them all go on the Prairie Deck killed me. After that another two platoons walked as i rot away in rsp. Being home isnt bad at all, but to be denied to ever become a marine in this life time haunts me everyday. Seeing all these videos made me remember all the times that i had. I miss all of it.
I was on that platoon got discharge cause od eye problem... i have the same situation as your... just move on
To try is important, to succeed is given to you by God, if you first do not succeed, God is telling you that is not you
You tried that’s all that matters. Things happen beyond your control.
Did you let that define you? There are lots of opportunities in the world, challenging, prestigious, demanding, where you really had to earn it. Did you accomplish those instead?
Please, be comfortable in the fact you had the balls and guts to even sign up for the US Marines. Every single man and woman in the Navy, Air Force and Army, no matter how good they are, didn’t sign up for the US Marines. You, gave it your best shot, and you didn’t chose a bad lung.
USMC
US ARMY
Im a drill instructor in the Swiss army ground troops infantery and its really interesting to see the similarities between our basic training and the marines, I know exactly what the DIs are talking about when they say they want to teach the recruits something for life...its an experience you can only learn in the military, I too was a recruit once now I know how it feels to be on the other side. Props to the DIs it costs a lot of energy to do this job.
Son I'm so very proud of you if you see this I think of you every day and I love you and I support you always. Love mom
My father was a Korean War POW for 16 months and you will need much more of this training to survive. Appreciate the video.
I remember Bn Command Inspection, and finally 3rd Phase. Platoon 395, India Company, 3rd Battalion MCRD Parris Island, Oct-Dec 73. Last platoon to be dismissed for 1973.
This is amazing. I'm learning alot from this.
OOH-RAH, thank's for that. I'll be sure to remember your encouragement when I'm going through the course.
Sir, I wish to join the military, and reading you're comment, you are a marine more then anyone else, because you fought and tried. I respect you as a warrior, you don't need a piece of paper to show you that.
Did u
Takes me back to 3rd Battalion Kilo company platoon 3039 in 1998. I was probably the 2-3rd crucible course at the time. Semper Fi.
in 1984 when i went through MCRD parris island, my series, B co. 3016, was the last series to wear the old steel pot helmet, after that was the kevlar helmet, my series was also the last to be issued the solid OD unis...then when I went to AIT was issued 2 sets of cammies, had to buy the others
6:22 the instructor wanted to say Fuck
Oh bootcamp. The best decision of my life. And I'm glad I never have to do it again.
@kniperr Recruits act much different when they're being screamed at all the time. It creates a much more intense environment, and it instills the "Marine" way of thinking.
Dead sheep are you kidding me? Their voice is damaged from yelling all day everyday
Nah that's just a frog voice
As a former DI (84-86 PISC) what happens when you begin a cycle is you loose your voice within 5 minutes, losing your voice forces you to force air from your diaphragm to be heard, as a result of using your diaphragm instead of your vocal chords you are actually louder than the 70 recruits. So for 3 months you have a really loud voice but a week after you graduate your platoon and stop using your diaphragm to speak loudly you lose it. When you pick the next platoon it starts all over again.
wow, u set a great example for what a marine should be.
I agree with everything everyone else has said. Just because you had an accident, does not mean you didn't deserve to walk across that parade deck. You were there, and you will always be a marine at heart. hang in there!
Finally watching a Boot Camp video old enough that it has the M16A2 I was trained on and BWT instead of The Crucible.
@quangngo6001
Your Drill Instructors will make sure you get it memorized...It will be the least of your concerns. Good luck and Semper Fi!
-Sgt M
Cirhs
Both my dad and brother are United States Marines. I'm 17 going into my senior year here in a few months, I cannot wait to enlist and go to bootcamp. It's an experience I've been hearing of since I was little.
i remember those days... good times good times
Rip drill instructors voice
I was a Marine once....then i woke up
BEEFBURGER BURGER then follow ur dreams
BEEFBURGER BURGER go to college
wow bro thats deep
PrinceSombraTheBrony Vlogs marines arent dreams. Theyre nightmares.
If you want to be a marine..you go to college...and then get lost on the way.
I'm joining soon... Can't wait.
I cant wait to join! These videos are making want to leave to boot.
he was about to let it go and say as fucking possible. 6:23
I tip my hat out of respect for the USMC! I just wish the Air Force would incorporate some of the USMC training into our basic training to make airman more battle ready.
Short round you're eloquence is in keeping with our tradition -Semper Fi
brings back so many memories! i was in plt 3062 so my squad bay was right downstairs
6:24, Almost... almost
3:25-3:37 my favorite part lol
"LET ME CATCH ONE OF YOU... WE GONNA HAVE
P R O B L E M S."
Damn fine video work!! Semper Fi
Damn I'm getting flashbacks. I graduated from boot camp June 18. 1982 Parris Island.3rd.battalion. I company.
Great experience did my time got out in 1985.never regretted it.SEMPER FIDELIS TO YOU ALL
MARINES. OOOH RAH
All I Have to say is.....OORAH!!!
God I wish I could be a marine
*Marine
Me too man, I wasn't willing to Lie about my past drug use so the recruiter wouldn't let me go to Mepps.
PTownConcealed go to another recruiter and lie
TheGambler CrisisIsFake They'll find it anyway, they have pretty thorough drug tests dude.
Matt Persiani As long as he stays clean.
Love the ending
i'm italian...US marines...so great!!!
The Corps has changed so much since the 60's and early 70's. Sorry to say that I am not impressed with today's Marine Corps boot camp. I attended a graduation on October the 7th of 2016 for Lima, and I was totally shocked. Totally out of step once the command of forward march was given, no cover and alignment, and some uniforms were out of, well you get the meaning. As a former Drill Instructor back in the very early 70's, I would have taken every boot and D.I. to the pit, and P.T.'d them til I got tired of watching.....Which would have been never. I blame "Mothers of America" for this, and not today's D.I.'s. When you can't have total command and hands on training, then there will be setbacks....big time! I love the Corps deeply, but I recommend that it goes back to the days of, for instance, the movie "Full Metal Jacket" boot camp. That's how I was trained and I don't regret it. Semper Fi!!
Can definitely agree with you. I was actually a part of Lima Company, Plt 3080 but I got dropped from training entirely during the end of phase 1. Back to the point though, I could definitely tell the Drill Instructors wanted to go that little extra step but obviously they couldn't. Especially not with that Muslim kid jumping off Kilo's deck and killing himself and the following investigation.
And if he did? Who cares. It's boot camp. The Drill Instructors are supposed to make life a living hell for the recruits. That's how the Marines are supposed to be made. Now we have all these whiny ass parents and bleeding hearts screaming foul and abuse. Next thing you know recruits will be able to start giving "triggered" warnings to their drill instructors without being smoked for it and bitching out of training when they have an upset stomach.
Also God Bless You 09jitters and thank you for your service.
No one even knows what Mothers of America is anymore. Marine Corps Boot Camp has changed over the generations. A "Full Metal Jacket" type DI would get punched through the bulk head if hetried his games on a 26 year old WW II recruit raised in the depression.From the 60's through the 80's the Corps could get away with "Full Metal type" Boot campantics because they were dealing with a generation reared on respecting authority figuresand the vast majority refused to tell about what really was going on out of peer pressureand wanting to prove something to themselves.Todays generation would never tolerate getting cold cocked by a DI for being out of stepor not knowing right from left. Any DI who pulled that these days would be facing prisontime and would be thrown under the bus by the Marine Corps your head would spin.The quickest way to get women mixed in with men in Marine Corps Boot Camp is to letone DI put on the nostalgia glasses and try to go back to a time that will never come again.Not in this age of the Internet and not when you have a generation raised to report abusefrom authority figures and institutions ranging from the church, teachers and sport coaches.What happens in Boot Camp is no longer a matter that active duty Marines can put behind them and old salts can fondly remember. it will get out, Congress will freak out and the Corps will promisechange.I went through Marine Boot Camp in 1986,served as a Rifleman for 6 years and still love the Corps.I think it's not helpful and even a bit dangerous to the Corps future when you have old salts pineingaway for the good old days when a DI could literally commit Battery on a Recruit, because it was "Character Building"
"whiney ass parents" have been a concern of the Corps since Ribbon Creek in the 50's.The Corps saw it as abuse when a drunken DI over stepped his authority and got some kidskilled for nothing. thats why another layer of oversight in the form of the Series Commanderwas created to prevent such B.S.The Corps has to take orders like every other service. Saying "It's Boot Camp" to cover upthe few bad apples who can't walk the fine line between tough and abusive will not be tolerated.It's the attitude that the Corps doesn't have to evolve it's Basic training with the times the way itdoes it's weapons systems,is the very reason we can't have nice things.
Your opinion matters, only not with me. Privates that were going to Vietnam had to learn that what they were going thru with us was nothing compared to what they were going to see and live through. The Corps will always live in my blood, but after the mid- seventies, it went to shit. There was a reason for hands on training, and it was delivered for a reason. Second guessing was NOT and option. You have your opinion and I have mine. We will never agree. Semper Fi!!
Half the instructors sound like dying sheep.
What's with that?
Loss of voice from all the yelling
Maybe not using the diaphragm to project their voices
@SuperDrRockzo bootcamp is all a mind game. don't ever quit.
shipping out november 6!!!! freaking stoked!
Doesn't seem that hard
Then go do it yourself.
+GHP lol thats whats so funny I did years ago
I'm sorry for that lol, I'm going in next summer
Nothing ever does when you are watching. Sky diving, pro sports, Indy racing, equestrian jumping, even boxing never seen that hard when watching. Then you try it. Like Ranger school videos here. Doesn't seem that awful. They can't show the fact the guy hasn't slept in 3 days, is malnourished, his feet are bleeding, his whole body is chaffing and scabbing up, etc.
SeanP7195 i know i went yrs ago looking back its a 90days to remeber
Dad said to watch this !
So this person is !
Thank you hero's for your services Sir's & Ma'am's !
Sincerely, a young man !
Very sad story man hope you are doing good.. dont worry sometimes things are meant to be like that...I know it's sad but who knows maybe that incident even saved you from being injured or dead in the battle field. All you can do now is look up and be proud knowing that you are a Marines by heart.
ive been there, theres nothing like it, as a matter of fact doing the BWT course in the night time was actually fun for me, its real interesting the rush and adrenaline you get from it, extreme training, i luv it..
Oh hell I remember 10 year ago. I'm up, they see me, im down. OH GOOD YOU DONT WANT TO SCREAM GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING!!!!
Ahhhh...the memories...
aye,aye sir.Means I understand and will comply.
God bless you.....
Super awesome job Marines
thanks for the info
I went through the Corps 1972-1976. Today's boot camp appears more difficult and leaning towards more combat training. I often asked myself why we didn't receive more combat training in boot camp. My MOS 3041 supply administration. Received little combat training at the time. I remained state side my whole tour. I thank God every day I did. I didn't want to get the Gunt next to me killed just because I was a pog. SEMPER FI MAC.!!
I've often wondered the same thing. I was right after you 1973 to 1977. I was a 3531 Truck Driver and hated it. When I was transferred to Camp Foster Okinawa, they asked me if I would like to work in the Company Office. After that worked at Bn S-1, then changed my MOS to 0151 Admin-Personnel. Then back to Camp LeJeune H&S Co H&S Bn 2nd Force Service Support Group, for my last 2 years. I worked at the Company Office and my last 2 years and not ONE day in the field. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
Well I see you have that ol win hearts and minds by kickin asses attitude that is so endearing to the world God has living outside your borders.
You see how dis look right now?
Bettah stay like this.
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OH MY GOD, I swear to god I know that DI at 1:00 .. he used to be a Marine that yelled at us and stuff in the YM program on Camp Pendleton. I remember him, what a great Marine. God bless the Marines and Semper Fi.
strong spirit equal strong man👍💪
Navy here. Much respect for the Marines. Navy bootcamp is not even the same as the Marines by any means.
I'm about to leave in three months. I'm nervous, but excited. terrified, but excited xD
I love our military
Una bella esperienza, un Saluto DALL ITALIA, COMPLIMENTI A TUTTI.. GRAZIE MARINES.. LOVE
i agree with you completely
It really wasn't bad when your actually there, it's over hyped haha
What di you mean? This looks rough
God bless our Marines
Go for it bro
Damn, that was 11 years ago. I went to bootcamp in 2020 and that shit is almost exactly the same.
a lot has changed since i was marine corp boot camp at parris island ,sc in 1974.
My favorite time there was when it was raining... oh and when it snowed 23 Dec 1989.
Oorah! get some! good luck!!
Pampered