Ah yes, hearing the airplanes and wishing you were on one. Or staring at the homes on the hills and San Diego skyline on a beautiful sunny day in April wishing you could just simply walk around. I miss it.
@@krane15 yup, I remember my second week into recruit training wishing I joined the Air Force. Those airplanes and staring into downtown San Diego while confined was so brutal.
@@krane15I had the top rack on the 3rd deck of the barracks closest to the airport facing it. First night I still had soap all over me after we got thrown out of the shower and someone elses tshirt when they destroyed the place and I couldn't find mine. I watched those planes and kept muttering to myself "what is wrong with these people, why would they do this" until I passed out. Still was the best thing I ever did and would go back in a second😂
It was brutal hell when I went through in 1967, so brutal that we looked forward to going to ‘Nam (Vietnam). I remember thinking while I was in ‘Nam that I would rather spend the rest of my life there tha go through Boot Camp again. For forty years are ‘Nam my nightmare were more often about being back in Boot Camp, than of things that happened in ‘Nam.
I had forgotten that 30 inch step with left foot thing until i saw this. The sneakers when you first get there, the absolute madness of that first night. Good times! Was there in 1982, havent been back since, that would be pretty cool to see it now.
@@Inspadave When were you at Parris Island? What battalion? I was at Parris Island back in 1982 with Platoon 2071. We started with and funished with the infamous "sir."
This was filmed the month before I went to DI School there. Thanks for the memories hearing the sounds of that good ole 80s DI cadence. I am sure I was in those barracks as it is Charlie company 1st Battalion. I also went to boot camp there in 1981 but further down in 3rd Battalion Mike Company.
I knew a former DI Sandness while stationed at Miramar 95-98. Can’t remember his first name. Maybe it was Brian but not 100% sure. We were neighbors on base housing he and his wife went to church with us for a little while. He had won a push up contest at church one Wednesday night he did 100
This broken-down old man was there January - March 1988. Platoon 1007. 1st Battalion, Bravo Company. Things didn't come together for me until the last month. 😂😂
I retired from the Corps in 2014. I went to Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego in 1993 and in the last few years of my career I had gone through there a few times. One time was for a part of SNCO Advanced Course around 2011 and before that going through Recruiting School in 2008. I actually felt kind of motivated running the 3 mile course at the PT field / runway area, the same ground I went over when I was a nasty Recruit. It felt strange being back there after so long, seeing Digital Cammies instead of the Woodland rip-stop cammies that were issue when I went through there. But the sounds, the cadencies, seeing platoons getting smoke checked at the PIT, Recruits getting IT,d, doing their training was still immediately familiar. As you said, just change the weapons (M16A2 in my time there) and uniforms, it's still pretty much the same. Drill Instructors still setting an amazing example, goddamn impeccable as always.
There is an atmosphere that seems hauntingly sentimental especially on the parade deck. I believe it is the voices echoing off of the acoustical there. MCRD is a special area.
I was standing next to a bunk bed talking to a fellow recruit one evening. The DI snuck up behind me and slapped me up side the side of my head. "Stop flapping your lips!!" he yelled out. "Sir, the private fucked up sir!!!" I replied. "Drop and give me 20!!!" "Sir, yes sir!"
I spoke to soon about the 1st phase recruits. If you go to the 12:28 mark there is a great view of the stairway to heaven with no SAFETY PAD at the bottom, you should see it today. Thx for posting this old video devil dog, I was there about 11 months before.
@@pjcolceri1619 I just did a Google aerial view of MCRD and looks like all the Confidence Course obstacles have safety pads or something? When I was there it was just wood chips. The only incident we had was the helo-drop from the tower. Dopey recruit went from the top and landed on his ass at the bottom. He had some stoppage on the way down, so it wasn't a complete freefall. DI's were like WTF kind of descent was that?! I'm also not seeing a sand pit behind the PX, it's a parking lot now. Oh those memories.
I saw a few idiots at P.I. do the same thing but the exact amount of chips to stop you from breaking your back must have been spread because they got up and ran away.
1987... Wow! I had been OUT for 20 years by 1987. Time sure is shrinking all around me! (BTW - Rght now I've got 54 years-in-grade as an E-5 Sergeant; was promoted on my 22nd birthday.)
Thank you very much, Sir! I guess old Marines never really die, they just get more & more wrinkled ~ this coming June I will turn 80... Coupla thoughts occurred to me while watching this video. In 1961, we were doing the manual-of-arms with M-1s, and most the airplanes taking off were propeller driven. (Oh, yea ~ I'll have 58 years in-grade as a Sergeant E-5)
I was also a recruit at MCRD SD from Oct. 19th, 1987 thru Jan. 8th, 1988. HOTEL CO 2ND BTN- PLT 2105. SDI. SGT. BATISTA, DI. SGT RITTER- DI. SGT. BARKSDALE- DI. SGT. RITTER- DI. SGT. LEE , thank you so much for this motivating video, it sure brings back great memories.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was there that year PLT 2031 Feb through April 1987 I was probably there for this. I still remember running singing big ol jet airliner in my head the entire time. How we slept that close to an airport is beyond me. Exhaustion I suppose. Brings back a flood of memories
@@billryan9613 do you remember doing silent cadence on visitor Sunday? That was some epic shit. Still amazed we didn’t embarrass ourselves. My brother was waiting for me, he was a corporal at the time. When we pulled that off his exact words were “WTF was that shit?”. I wonder if Sgt Fant stayed married. Good times. Take a sip of San Miguel! Semper Fi Bill.
@@billryan9613 Bill Ryan : you are *My BROTHER* becuz' you mentioned my Senior DI Sgt. Fant!!!!! I too went to BootCamp in '87 (but in my case= PLATOON 2091, Fox COMPANY, 2nd BATTALION MCRD-SD) from *01SEP87- 20NOV87* ... my DI's were Sgt. Auld & Sgt. Rivera... [I still remember Sgt. Threatts at Receiving]
@@robertspickard7525 YES!!!!! Senior DI Sgt. Fant took it upon himself to pain-stakingly teach us "Silent Drill" & we MASTERED IT!!!!! (It must've been his specialty or something). BTW: Senior DI Sgt. Fant must've been hell-bent on winning the Series/Company *Final Drill Competition* becuz' >that final week before graduation he had us out on the parade deck/"GRINDER" learning some trick/"Monkey" Drill (I specifically remember trying to learn "To The Winds" & a few other obscure commands- needless to say our Platoon couldn't quite pull those off & SDI Sgt. Fant was getting P**SSED OFF... /Our Platoon was definitely "Locked On" when it came to drill (thx' to SDI Sgt. Fant especially) so I think he over-stretched by taking that last week *trying* to get us to nail down those "Monkey" Drill commands (but we still beat everyone in our Sister Series anyways
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is drill instructor Sgt fant. Always had a stutter...unless of coarse he was yelling at you!! I heard later he got a DUI and got kicked out of the core or somthing like that.
I was stationed at Pendleton in 87 . I used to go to San Diego on the weekend every so often and watch boot camp . Maybe I saw some of these platoons . Semper Fi
Memories...planes...houses... ocean 🌊🌊...Plt.1008.…SDISSGT.DELPH...badass...1-73...Vietnam Era...still the same... Oooorrraahh...the Grinder 😠... semper Fi Devil Dogs!!!
I was there Feb 1984 to May 1984, 1st Battalion, Delta Co, Platoon 1018. Then went to ITS, 0331, then went to Barracks Duty in Yorktown, VA. Then got orders back to Pendleton, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, Dec 1986 to Feb 1988 and EAS as a Corporal. While with 2/5, deployed to Okinawa for 6 months. Best times of my life. I was 18 years old right out of high school when I went to boot camp.
Great video! Takes me back. My son just graduated Marine boot camp. Things have changed so much from what I observed. It’s the same but different if that makes sense. It seems like this generation shortens everything. We always would repeat the command then say aye aye sir. Example platoon dismissed, sir, dismissed aye aye sir. My son told me they were discouraged from saying aye aye sir they were told to just say aye sir. Cadence calling sounded different too. I don’t know if I’m making sense. I think that millennials and GenZ think and act very different and it reflects in the culture of the Marine Corps. Somebody said “what’s up devil?’ Instead of devil dog. Or they say Rah instead of Ooh Rah. Oh well. This video looked to be a homemade video but was edited really well and took me back to my time at MCRD in March of 1986. Semper Fi Marines!
That’s very funny because I was stationed at Naval training Centre San Diego at the same time I was a staff petty officer working on the naval training centre side. I remember the airplanes would takeoff and when we had quarters in the morning it was on top of Building, 202, and I swear I could see the peoples faces in the airplanes when they were taking off. I also remember having some R&R and we did softball on the Marine Corps side, and Mark Hamill came and was doing some sort of commercial and we met him and it was a great time to be alive. Would never change those memories.
Great video, I was there in the summer of 1982 3rd Battalion Plt. 3044. Bends and thrust, faster, faster, mountain climbers, dig me a hole. Great Times.
We wore these same uniforms and marched to the same cadence in the early 2000s for MCROTC. I feel lucky. Probably one of the youngest guys left to wear that uniform even if it had a rotc patch on it.
Plt 3215 India. Graduation March 2016. It’s crazy to see absolutely nothing was different. And crazy to see the day to day activities again of all the random drill and marches all over base you forget about over time. Such great memories. SF Marines. “Never Above, Never Below, Always By Your Side”
Plt 3215 2011. I love seeing this video my uncle was in during this time. All the barracks are the same weird hearing some different cadence being called
Great memories? As in good memories? Boot Camp must have changed completely. It was pure hell with corporal punishment, and fear every moment in 1967, just as it had been for my father 30 years earlier in 1937. But, then again when you allow guy people in, and train with females, what can you expect.
I was there August-November 1989. 00:28 I totally forgot about the "Sir, take a 30 inch step with the left foot, aye aye Sir" bit. Go-Fasters, unbloused, the name tags, trying to march in cadence but just looks like one big gagglefuck (the technical term)...tell tale signs of first week recruits. Roadguards, daylight so no Moonbeams required. My wife (Air Force in the 90's) gives me shit about big tough Marines and our Moonbeams :) 4:30 - The sound of those planes taking off from San Diego Airport on the other side of MCRD taunted me every day. 6:38 - Diddy-bopping like you're back on the block! 7:22 - If this was shot on April 26th, 1987, that is literally two months before Full Metal Jacket was released and the whole world got a little insight into our training. 14:20 - So were you jamming to Bon Jovi or Cinderella? April 1987 I was in 10th grade and that was the big concert of the year a few weeks prior in Kansas City. Nice trip down memory lane. Good camera work too!
Hey my DevilDog Brother... jus' lett'g u know I've seen you post'g some GREAT comments on various USMC-related videos; I can tell you're a kool dude who (like me) likes to shoot theshit every now & then about "way back then..."
@@JimSheaffer I actually learned "clusterfuck" in bootcamp, & also: you reminded me of when the DIs would yell "Asshole- To- Bellybutton" (remember That?) As in when we would sit down in single file during "P.T." & waiting for the Pull-Up Bars, Sit-Ups etc... or/ when cramming into the Head to "get bent/thrashed" "I.T.'d" when the DI's *really* were pissed at the Entire Platoon (we all knew that HELL was awaiting us for the next hour or so...
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is I was two weeks into my U.S.M.C. boot camp experience. Sitting in the squad bay with my fellow maggots and polishing my boots, I came to a conclusion. I had made a mistake by joining the Marine Corps. So, I had to come up with a plan. “I know what to do!”, I said to myself. I will just march over to the D.I.’s office and declare that I had made a mistake by joining the Corps. Certainly he will understand my situation and make the report that Private Sheaffer needs to be excused from service. I proudly walked over to Sgt. Gomez’s office and shouted with confidence, “Sir! Private Sheaffer requests permission to…” WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!!” He yelled. “Sir! The Private feels that he made a mistake by…” “GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!” He roared. I ran back to my bunk and thought to myself, “Shit! I’m stuck here! There is no escape”
We were the last company issued those old cammies at MCRD San Diego. Hotel Co. 13 Sept 2002!!! I personally don’t like what’s happening there now with them having to integrate.
Hi Jim Sheaffer, I see your video allows for remix, but I still wanted to ask you if you mind if I take some pictures off your video, and maybe use it as a background on one of my videos.
MCRDSD Plt. 2081 Hotel Co. under the care of SSGT. Tibbits / SGT. Starling / SGT. Matthews and SGT. Bock. Graduation Day Nov. 2nd 1984 SEMPR FIDELIS To all my Bros.
0:11 The red stripes on the sweatshirts mean they were in PCP (Physical Conditioning Platoon) but everyone called it "Pork Chop Platoon". For fat boys and kids too skinny to hack it.
Not true in 1989 I was kilo 3085 MCRD SD the diet privates were in our platoon they just did not get to eat much and were worked hard in front of the squad bay (mountain climbers etc) now if they could not do things after a certain period they were dropped to PCP platoon and then picked up later with another platoon but all our diet privates lost there weight and completed tasks anyway Semper Fi
Red Stripes meant diet private. PCP was for recruits who couldn’t pass the PFT with minimum score. We had one recruit in 1984 in our platoon who couldn’t get 3 pull ups so we never saw him again. He went to PCP. Do not know if he was ever able to recycle to the next company. I was skinny when I went in but I was able to get 14 pull ups, 70 sit ups and a 20 minute 3 mile run. I went into the infantry. I was always able to bang out 20 pull ups, 80 sit ups and my fastest run time was 18:45. I ended getting very athletic and in the best shape of my life thanks to the Corps.
I was recycled back in 85’ to PCP and was glad I did. I came out better than I ever imagined and graduated about two weeks after my original platoon. Started out in 3rd Battalion and ended with the 2nd. My DI’s always called me the “pick up” which actually motivated me to do more than I thought I could. I remember running a PFT in the fleet about a year later and running 3 miles in 17:19. How bout that !
@@davidwarner3326 There is a whole lot of law on this but enlisted people get forced out at different pay grades. E-5 about 15/16 years E-6 20 E-7 23 E-8 26 E-9 30 I just read where O-6 and above can stay to 35 ish but for the most part you advance you move up. No promotion you are force retired. Yet the military can still recall you.
@@tbob8212😅I did 4.5 1987-1991 PLT 1026. Got smarter and went Air Force. The AF still wouldn't let me put my hands in my pockets. So I got out after 17 years in the AF. 😂
I came in April 1988. I can see my old barracks. Funny I have no memory of climbing those towers. Must have blocked that part out I guess? Anyway, too bad the average filmmaker can't make these kinds of videos anymore. The 80s was a peacetime period. @4:20 seem to have lost all that military discipline and morphed into Sonny Crockett.
I love this because there are no chick drill instructors, ruining the scene and shrinking the balls of men while they're training. I would never take a command from a female DI. USMC. 11/20/1981. - 9/09/1985. Ooorah, MEN of the Corps!!
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Ah yes, hearing the airplanes and wishing you were on one. Or staring at the homes on the hills and San Diego skyline on a beautiful sunny day in April wishing you could just simply walk around. I miss it.
I remember on fire watch hearing them planes lol platoon 2117 golf company
I remember waking up the first night after joining and looking out wondering what I was thinking.
@@krane15 yup, I remember my second week into recruit training wishing I joined the Air Force. Those airplanes and staring into downtown San Diego while confined was so brutal.
Those were "Freedom Birds". We had to clap on a run when they went over, to keep in step.
@@krane15I had the top rack on the 3rd deck of the barracks closest to the airport facing it. First night I still had soap all over me after we got thrown out of the shower and someone elses tshirt when they destroyed the place and I couldn't find mine. I watched those planes and kept muttering to myself "what is wrong with these people, why would they do this" until I passed out. Still was the best thing I ever did and would go back in a second😂
Still think the old woodland cammies look sharper than today’s digital pattern cammies...thanks for sharing this trip down memory lane Semper Fidelis
I agree
Along with the black Cadillacs! Wich I think sound a lot better when marching!!
My dad was in the Army when the Marines started wearing the woodland pattern and thought it looked silly.
@@jarheadlife way worse for your feet though
The new Digi woodlands make you invisible at low light/night conditions
It was brutal hell when I went through in 1967, so brutal that we looked forward to going to ‘Nam (Vietnam). I remember thinking while I was in ‘Nam that I would rather spend the rest of my life there tha go through Boot Camp again. For forty years are ‘Nam my nightmare were more often about being back in Boot Camp, than of things that happened in ‘Nam.
I was a recruit at MCRD SD Oct 1987. Thanks for the step back in time.
Was there an 85! Man brings back memories.
"Sir, take a 30 inch step with the left foot, aye aye sir!" Plt 2089, Nov 1985...
We Graduated Sept, 85 Plt. 3067, we covered sand with our sweat at the same time!!
I had forgotten that 30 inch step with left foot thing until i saw this. The sneakers when you first get there, the absolute madness of that first night. Good times! Was there in 1982, havent been back since, that would be pretty cool to see it now.
Was it a San Diego thing to start and end everything you say with sir? We didn't do that at PI.
@@Inspadave When were you at Parris Island? What battalion? I was at Parris Island back in 1982 with Platoon 2071. We started with and funished with the infamous "sir."
Or “30 inches back to chest” !
This was filmed the month before I went to DI School there. Thanks for the memories hearing the sounds of that good ole 80s DI cadence. I am sure I was in those barracks as it is Charlie company 1st Battalion. I also went to boot camp there in 1981 but further down in 3rd Battalion Mike Company.
Did you tell your recruits to not say “sir yes sir”
@@LiveChrist365 "sir, request permission to use the head, sir!" ... "sir, request to speak, sir!" ...Etc...
Mike company 3023 1993 Rah
My dad was with Delta Company 1105 from oct. 12th, 1987- Dec. 31st 1987 Drill Instructors were Sgt. Booker and Staff Sgt. Sandness
I knew a former DI Sandness while stationed at Miramar 95-98. Can’t remember his first name. Maybe it was Brian but not 100% sure. We were neighbors on base housing he and his wife went to church with us for a little while. He had won a push up contest at church one Wednesday night he did 100
This broken-down old man was there January - March 1988. Platoon 1007. 1st Battalion, Bravo Company. Things didn't come together for me until the last month. 😂😂
MCRD San Diego, 1974 platoon 3136. Watching this brings back many a memory. Cept we were in fatigues.
March 1982 is when I landed at Receiving Barracks. Great memories of MCRD.
We used to finish the Rock and Roll Marathon San Diego at MCRD.Loved the finish with the guys cheering you on when you are feeling beat.Hooyah.
Them go faster did not fade away at all 😂
I was there in ‘89! God Bless the Corps!
This brings back so many memories. Platoon was at the end near sick bay 1982
I was in the Depot Band in 1987. I probably played for their graduation.
Thanks for the memories. Semper Fi
Thanks for sharing your video it brought back many memories, 1983-1987 I served
Thanks for watching and Semper Fi!
My platoon was 1103
Gosh! Tearful memories of pain and laughter
Looks the same as when I went in 2019 minus the uniforms haha
Semper fi
Semper Fi! Thanks for watching.
Thought the exact same thing
Were u in Kilo company
I retired from the Corps in 2014. I went to Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego in 1993 and in the last few years of my career I had gone through there a few times. One time was for a part of SNCO Advanced Course around 2011 and before that going through Recruiting School in 2008. I actually felt kind of motivated running the 3 mile course at the PT field / runway area, the same ground I went over when I was a nasty Recruit.
It felt strange being back there after so long, seeing Digital Cammies instead of the Woodland rip-stop cammies that were issue when I went through there. But the sounds, the cadencies, seeing platoons getting smoke checked at the PIT, Recruits getting IT,d, doing their training was still immediately familiar. As you said, just change the weapons (M16A2 in my time there) and uniforms, it's still pretty much the same. Drill Instructors still setting an amazing example, goddamn impeccable as always.
There is an atmosphere that seems hauntingly sentimental especially on the parade deck. I believe it is the voices echoing off of the acoustical there. MCRD is a special area.
PLT 3017. 9 Feb 86 - 2 May 86.
A glorious day.
I still have to remind myself I did that.
I Claimed the title United States Marine.
Wow.
I’m lucky.
I was standing next to a bunk bed talking to a fellow recruit one evening. The DI snuck up behind me and slapped me up side the side of my head. "Stop flapping your lips!!" he yelled out. "Sir, the private fucked up sir!!!" I replied. "Drop and give me 20!!!" "Sir, yes sir!"
I'm surprised you were able to film back then. Looks like a lot of 1st phase maggots lol
I spoke to soon about the 1st phase recruits. If you go to the 12:28 mark there is a great view of the stairway to heaven with no SAFETY PAD at the bottom, you should see it today. Thx for posting this old video devil dog, I was there about 11 months before.
@@pjcolceri1619 Thanks for watching! I was there in 1981.
@@pjcolceri1619 I just did a Google aerial view of MCRD and looks like all the Confidence Course obstacles have safety pads or something? When I was there it was just wood chips. The only incident we had was the helo-drop from the tower. Dopey recruit went from the top and landed on his ass at the bottom. He had some stoppage on the way down, so it wasn't a complete freefall. DI's were like WTF kind of descent was that?! I'm also not seeing a sand pit behind the PX, it's a parking lot now. Oh those memories.
I saw a few idiots at P.I. do the same thing but the exact amount of chips to stop you from breaking your back must have been spread because they got up and ran away.
1987... Wow! I had been OUT for 20 years by 1987. Time sure is shrinking all around me! (BTW - Rght now I've got 54 years-in-grade as an E-5 Sergeant; was promoted on my 22nd birthday.)
Happy birthday, Sir!
Thank you very much, Sir! I guess old Marines never really die, they just get more & more wrinkled ~ this coming June I will turn 80... Coupla thoughts occurred to me while watching this video. In 1961, we were doing the manual-of-arms with M-1s, and most the airplanes taking off were propeller driven. (Oh, yea ~ I'll have 58 years in-grade as a Sergeant E-5)
Yes! That’s Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego!
I was also a recruit at MCRD SD from Oct. 19th, 1987 thru Jan. 8th, 1988. HOTEL CO 2ND BTN- PLT 2105. SDI. SGT. BATISTA, DI. SGT RITTER- DI. SGT. BARKSDALE- DI. SGT. RITTER- DI. SGT. LEE , thank you so much for this motivating video, it sure brings back great memories.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hey I had SGT Batista Hotel Co platoon 2011 1987 Jan- Apr
I was there that year PLT 2031 Feb through April 1987 I was probably there for this.
I still remember running singing big ol jet airliner in my head the entire time. How we slept that close to an airport is beyond me. Exhaustion I suppose. Brings back a flood of memories
Platoon 2031, courage, discipline and killer instinct keep us alive. The blood thirsty recruits of Sr drill instructor Sgt. Fant! OORAH
@@billryan9613 do you remember doing silent cadence on visitor Sunday? That was some epic shit. Still amazed we didn’t embarrass ourselves. My brother was waiting for me, he was a corporal at the time. When we pulled that off his exact words were “WTF was that shit?”. I wonder if Sgt Fant stayed married. Good times. Take a sip of San Miguel! Semper Fi Bill.
@@billryan9613 Bill Ryan : you are *My BROTHER* becuz' you mentioned my Senior DI Sgt. Fant!!!!! I too went to BootCamp in '87 (but in my case= PLATOON 2091, Fox COMPANY, 2nd BATTALION MCRD-SD) from *01SEP87- 20NOV87* ... my DI's were Sgt. Auld & Sgt. Rivera... [I still remember Sgt. Threatts at Receiving]
@@robertspickard7525 YES!!!!! Senior DI Sgt. Fant took it upon himself to pain-stakingly teach us "Silent Drill" & we MASTERED IT!!!!! (It must've been his specialty or something).
BTW: Senior DI Sgt. Fant must've been hell-bent on winning the Series/Company *Final Drill Competition* becuz' >that final week before graduation he had us out on the parade deck/"GRINDER" learning some trick/"Monkey" Drill (I specifically remember trying to learn "To The Winds" & a few other obscure commands- needless to say our Platoon couldn't quite pull those off & SDI Sgt. Fant was getting P**SSED OFF... /Our Platoon was definitely "Locked On" when it came to drill (thx' to SDI Sgt. Fant especially) so I think he over-stretched by taking that last week *trying* to get us to nail down those "Monkey" Drill commands (but we still beat everyone in our Sister Series anyways
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is drill instructor Sgt fant. Always had a stutter...unless of coarse he was yelling at you!! I heard later he got a DUI and got kicked out of the core or somthing like that.
PLT 3023, July 1993.
Very cool video as it was the same a few years after when I went through. Love that Toyota Xtra Cab at the end too.
Mike Co. Plt 3085 3rd BN MCRD SD. 1985. So many memories. Thank you for the upload.
That’s before they installed more bars on 3rd deck to and roof to prevent suicide.
I was stationed at Pendleton in 87 . I used to go to San Diego on the weekend every so often and watch boot camp . Maybe I saw some of these platoons . Semper Fi
Awesome! Was the same at RTC Orlando. Planes coming and going and me asking “how much longer”😂
Memories...planes...houses... ocean 🌊🌊...Plt.1008.…SDISSGT.DELPH...badass...1-73...Vietnam Era...still the same... Oooorrraahh...the Grinder 😠... semper Fi Devil Dogs!!!
Yup…through the door in 84’ and out the gate in 88’ . Great memories…
Good job man. Plt. 2078 E company, 2003. I don’t miss it. 👍
I was there Feb 1984 to May 1984, 1st Battalion, Delta Co, Platoon 1018. Then went to ITS, 0331, then went to Barracks Duty in Yorktown, VA. Then got orders back to Pendleton, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, Dec 1986 to Feb 1988 and EAS as a Corporal. While with 2/5, deployed to Okinawa for 6 months. Best times of my life. I was 18 years old right out of high school when I went to boot camp.
Great video! Takes me back. My son just graduated Marine boot camp. Things have changed so much from what I observed. It’s the same but different if that makes sense. It seems like this generation shortens everything. We always would repeat the command then say aye aye sir. Example platoon dismissed, sir, dismissed aye aye sir. My son told me they were discouraged from saying aye aye sir they were told to just say aye sir. Cadence calling sounded different too. I don’t know if I’m making sense. I think that millennials and GenZ think and act very different and it reflects in the culture of the Marine Corps. Somebody said “what’s up devil?’ Instead of devil dog. Or they say Rah instead of Ooh Rah. Oh well.
This video looked to be a homemade video but was edited really well and took me back to my time at MCRD in March of 1986.
Semper Fi Marines!
Platoon 2005 E Co. 1987. Jan thru March.
That’s very funny because I was stationed at Naval training Centre San Diego at the same time I was a staff petty officer working on the naval training centre side. I remember the airplanes would takeoff and when we had quarters in the morning it was on top of Building, 202, and I swear I could see the peoples faces in the airplanes when they were taking off. I also remember having some R&R and we did softball on the Marine Corps side, and Mark Hamill came and was doing some sort of commercial and we met him and it was a great time to be alive. Would never change those memories.
God damn mcrdsd looked the same in 2004 .
I bet the stinging smell / deafening sound of jets is still the same.
I went to bootcamp in 1987 at PI, funny to see those privates drilling for the first time.
Graduated June 1966, no Barracks just Gomer Pyle huts.
Plt 2042 summer of 1977 thanks for memories Oooorah
Great video,
I was there in the summer of 1982 3rd Battalion Plt. 3044.
Bends and thrust, faster, faster, mountain climbers, dig me a hole.
Great Times.
We wore these same uniforms and marched to the same cadence in the early 2000s for MCROTC. I feel lucky. Probably one of the youngest guys left to wear that uniform even if it had a rotc patch on it.
USMC MCRD San Diego alumni May 1989
June 2nd 1987 1064 Charlie and 2061 fox after hospital stay.. ooh rah!! Semper Fidelis..
I was there platoon 2117 senior drill Instructor Montoya ,Malik and Marquez
Me to! Pvt West
Plt 3215 India. Graduation March 2016. It’s crazy to see absolutely nothing was different. And crazy to see the day to day activities again of all the random drill and marches all over base you forget about over time. Such great memories. SF Marines. “Never Above, Never Below, Always By Your Side”
Lol, I was 3215 too in March of 2017. Came in a year after you, I got out a month ago. Good times, remain insane!
Plt 3215 2011. I love seeing this video my uncle was in during this time. All the barracks are the same weird hearing some different cadence being called
Great memories? As in good memories? Boot Camp must have changed completely. It was pure hell with corporal punishment, and fear every moment in 1967, just as it had been for my father 30 years earlier in 1937. But, then again when you allow guy people in, and train with females, what can you expect.
@@majorronaldmandell7835thank you sir. People need to hear this. Semper gumbi
I was there August-November 1989.
00:28 I totally forgot about the "Sir, take a 30 inch step with the left foot, aye aye Sir" bit. Go-Fasters, unbloused, the name tags, trying to march in cadence but just looks like one big gagglefuck (the technical term)...tell tale signs of first week recruits. Roadguards, daylight so no Moonbeams required. My wife (Air Force in the 90's) gives me shit about big tough Marines and our Moonbeams :)
4:30 - The sound of those planes taking off from San Diego Airport on the other side of MCRD taunted me every day.
6:38 - Diddy-bopping like you're back on the block!
7:22 - If this was shot on April 26th, 1987, that is literally two months before Full Metal Jacket was released and the whole world got a little insight into our training.
14:20 - So were you jamming to Bon Jovi or Cinderella? April 1987 I was in 10th grade and that was the big concert of the year a few weeks prior in Kansas City.
Nice trip down memory lane. Good camera work too!
Thank for the great review of my Boot Camp video. Glad you had a nice trip down memory lane. Semper Fi!!
Hey my DevilDog Brother... jus' lett'g u know I've seen you post'g some GREAT comments on various USMC-related videos; I can tell you're a kool dude who (like me) likes to shoot theshit every now & then about "way back then..."
@@JimSheaffer I actually learned "clusterfuck" in bootcamp, & also: you reminded me of when the DIs would yell "Asshole- To- Bellybutton" (remember That?) As in when we would sit down in single file during "P.T." & waiting for the Pull-Up Bars, Sit-Ups etc... or/ when cramming into the Head to "get bent/thrashed" "I.T.'d" when the DI's *really* were pissed at the Entire Platoon (we all knew that HELL was awaiting us for the next hour or so...
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is I was two weeks into my U.S.M.C. boot camp experience. Sitting in the squad bay with my fellow maggots and polishing my boots, I came to a conclusion. I had made a mistake by joining the Marine Corps. So, I had to come up with a plan. “I know what to do!”, I said to myself. I will just march over to the D.I.’s office and declare that I had made a mistake by joining the Corps. Certainly he will understand my situation and make the report that Private Sheaffer needs to be excused from service. I proudly walked over to Sgt. Gomez’s office and shouted with confidence, “Sir! Private Sheaffer requests permission to…” WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!!” He yelled. “Sir! The Private feels that he made a mistake by…” “GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!” He roared. I ran back to my bunk and thought to myself, “Shit! I’m stuck here! There is no escape”
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is Love to shoot the shit!
MCRD San Diego March 1966…Semper Fi!
Semper fi
"Recruit Sheaffer, come on out! We wanna hear you scream & shout..."
Oooo RAH!!!
@@JimSheaffer louder!!!!!!!
@@JimSheaffer "...Take It On The *Left Foot* ... the Mighty Mighty *Left Foot* ..."
We were the last company issued those old cammies at MCRD San Diego. Hotel Co. 13 Sept 2002!!! I personally don’t like what’s happening there now with them having to integrate.
What month was this filmed? I was there from July to October.
Platoon 2082, G Co., 2RTBN. Aug - Oct. 1987
I was right there with you! Platoon 2091, Fox Co., 2nd Bn. *01SEP87- 20NOV87*
Semper Fi! Thanks for watching.
graduated oct 1977 Plt 2066 SDI SSgt Macamal Sgt Lamay Sgt canoy Sgt Gonzalez. Thank you .
I WAS APRIL 1 - JUNME 15, 1987.
Semper Fi, Leatherneck!!
Is that one by San Diego Near old town ..? Marine house/base/station
This is in San Diego by the airport.
I was a Paris Island Marine...those are Hollywood Marines..😎👍
Yeah, we were the best
Me and my best friend, to this day, were there Jan-Mar 87 2nd Bn E Co Plt 2002 SDI Sgt Martin, JDI’s Sgt Vaughn Sgt Barr and Sgt Hartman
Still looks like the same hell hole to me. Am I mistaken or is that 1041?
...right on... i was right behind you.. MCRD SD, 2nd rtb, hotel co., plt 2087, 24Nov82... can't believe i lived these images...
9:39 he looks like my senior DI SSgt. Rosario from Plt 1091 (1988)
Semper fi Brother. I was in Platoon 1091 as well.
SSgt Rosario
Sgt Flynn
Sgt Buchanan
Lol good times huh?
Kilo Company August -November 87
Was there in 86 ,platoon 3106
Ty for the flashbacks
SIR YES SIR!!! Semper Fi.
Graduated October, 85’ Parris Island 2079
1987 San Diego Hotel Platoon 2011 Jan-April SDI SSG Vreeland
Suprised, no comments
What time of the year did you film this? I stood on the footprints on 12/7.
I have no idea what time of year this was. It was a long time ago!
This is Mid-April 1987. The Receiving platoons were 1041-1047 Delta Company. The other platoons were Alpha Company. I graduated in March of 1987.
@@TheScribe114 Thanks. I graduated in Feb 88.
stepped on the yellow footprints 14Aug63 Plt. 263
Crazy how I went to bootcamp last year and besides the uniforms, everything is exactly the same.
Hi Jim Sheaffer, I see your video allows for remix, but I still wanted to ask you if you mind if I take some pictures off your video, and maybe use it as a background on one of my videos.
Yes, you can use the video for a background on your video. Thanks! Semper Fi!
My god nothing changed ever since. The buildings looks exactly the same there today.
‘92-00, 0311.
S/F
India Co, 3rd Battalion Plt 3074 July 1985.
Plt 1009 Delta Co. Grad april 18, 1986. Good times. DI's were a bit leaner in those days. Same in 87, apparently.
Charlie Co. Plt 1061 graduated August 29 1986.
Our senior DI was pretty lean but two of the kill hats were pretty yoked out
I was there nov17-feb5 platoon 2117
Oh those first phase go fasters
3049 K Co. Graduated August 87
I graduated (Lima Company, Platoon 3134) a little over a month before this (March 6, 1987). Semper Fi'
James were you motor t? ever make it to Korea?
Interesting how all these faces are familiar - but I was 2020-2024
Is that Kenny Powers dad!
Not much has changed
Everything looks and sounds the same except the sir yes sir part. Even the DI bringing in his dry cleaning in a company shirt is the same.
First thing my DI told us in 2009 was “don’t say sir yes sir, that shit only happens in movies”
MCRDSD Plt. 2081 Hotel Co. under the care of SSGT. Tibbits / SGT. Starling / SGT. Matthews and SGT. Bock. Graduation Day Nov. 2nd 1984 SEMPR FIDELIS To all my Bros.
0:11 The red stripes on the sweatshirts mean they were in PCP (Physical Conditioning Platoon) but everyone called it "Pork Chop Platoon". For fat boys and kids too skinny to hack it.
Not true in 1989 I was kilo 3085 MCRD SD the diet privates were in our platoon they just did not get to eat much and were worked hard in front of the squad bay (mountain climbers etc) now if they could not do things after a certain period they were dropped to PCP platoon and then picked up later with another platoon but all our diet privates lost there weight and completed tasks anyway Semper Fi
Red Stripes meant diet private. PCP was for recruits who couldn’t pass the PFT with minimum score. We had one recruit in 1984 in our platoon who couldn’t get 3 pull ups so we never saw him again. He went to PCP. Do not know if he was ever able to recycle to the next company. I was skinny when I went in but I was able to get 14 pull ups, 70 sit ups and a 20 minute 3 mile run. I went into the infantry. I was always able to bang out 20 pull ups, 80 sit ups and my fastest run time was 18:45. I ended getting very athletic and in the best shape of my life thanks to the Corps.
I was recycled back in 85’ to PCP and was glad I did. I came out better than I ever imagined and graduated about two weeks after my original platoon. Started out in 3rd Battalion and ended with the 2nd. My DI’s always called me the “pick up” which actually motivated me to do more than I thought I could. I remember running a PFT in the fleet about a year later and running 3 miles in 17:19. How bout that !
Dude in thumb nail looks like Mahomes dad… lmao
I wonder if any one of those recruits is still on active duty. 🤔
Of course! Lots of servicemembers do 35+ years.🤔
@@davidwarner3326 There is a whole lot of law on this but enlisted people get forced out at different pay grades.
E-5 about 15/16 years
E-6 20
E-7 23
E-8 26
E-9 30
I just read where O-6 and above can stay to 35 ish but for the most part you advance you move up. No promotion you are force retired. Yet the military can still recall you.
The guy with the mullet looks like Mr Noodle from Sesame Street
Marine Graduates 18 - 28 (1969 - 1959)
Marine Black Sergeant 30 - 1957
VietCong
What's Up??
HO CHIH MINH
You got a problem with
"Black Sergeant" ??
I was a recruit platoon 3081 August to November 6th 1987,semper fi brother
They didn't teach putting your hands in your pockets a boot camp did they?
Sir! No Sir!!!
"Get your hands out of your shorts...Sgt. says it gives you warts" (From the Boys In Company C with R Lee Ermey).
Hahaha! We called hands in your pockets "Air Force Gloves" lmao! Semper Fi! USMC 1990s :)
@@tbob8212😅I did 4.5 1987-1991 PLT 1026. Got smarter and went Air Force. The AF still wouldn't let me put my hands in my pockets. So I got out after 17 years in the AF. 😂
Danny McBride in the thumbnail
The time before drill instructors became 'roided out cartoon characters....
plt. 3003, jan-april 1984!
It pretty much looks the same
I came in April 1988. I can see my old barracks. Funny I have no memory of climbing those towers. Must have blocked that part out I guess?
Anyway, too bad the average filmmaker can't make these kinds of videos anymore. The 80s was a peacetime period.
@4:20 seem to have lost all that military discipline and morphed into Sonny Crockett.
@4:20 Hey, it was the 80's! My current haircut is regulation. Thanks for watching!
@@JimSheaffer wasn't gonna say anyth'g, but now that the cat's out of the bag, *BONO from U2* ...sorry! couldn't help myself
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is Bono??? Ha!!!
@@JimSheaffer just kidding BROTHER... hopefully no offense taken. BTW I was there at MCRD-SD *just* after this video was recorded on 1 Sep, '87
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is All good. I was there August 1981.
I heard San Diego was better because of the weather, Hollywood and the strip clubs lol 😂
If the exact same footage was put out with '2024' as the title you'd see 1000 boomers on here complaining about soft bootcamp is.
I love this because there are no chick drill instructors, ruining the scene and shrinking the balls of men while they're training.
I would never take a command from a female DI.
USMC. 11/20/1981. - 9/09/1985.
Ooorah, MEN of the Corps!!
FkkkYeah!! 100%AGREE
What’s disgraceful is people nowadays would consider you a defector for even saying this
White Man 43 - 1944
*YoMamaSan*
Coming from ...G O O K...
You got a problem with
"White Man" ??
Crazy. I got there in October 1988.