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Instead of thinking of it as building toughness, picture it as them trying to kill you inside lol It’s more akin to that. The DI saying he hopes the recruit dies is exhibiting behavior that the recruit probably experienced some of, hence leading him to wanna jump to his death lol. Maybe that helps put that mindset and environment into perspective for you somewhat
My Cousin joined army 2001 immediately post 9/11 I think he was in Fallujah with 10th mountain. Probably not as deep and combat heavy as the Marines but Ive never really spoke to him much about his time in combat other than about his 2 purple heart wounding incidents. One from a mortar blowing a sand bag into his head and another from a really massive Car Bomb IED that hit his Humvee. They said it was basically a miracle the 4 guys survived. He was passenger seat and it blew up on the drivers side from maybe 1-3 road lanes away. Car filled with multiple rigged artillery shells. He did 2 tours in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan. He got out in O8 or 09. The guys who came back from those early days like him but stayed longer were probably battle hardened savages and probably raised some tough soldiers but used some questionable means to do so. A lot of them were probably fucked up from their experiences too and what they saw probably desensitized them to the recruits complaints and underperforming during trainin and they had zero tolerance.
He chose to traumatize those around him and force some random corpsman to clean him up, he's not to be respected, he was a liability and a danger to his own. Now, boot camp is designed to train people to perform a job under extreme mental and physical stress, it is not for everybody or even most people. It demands so much because the enemy will demand even more, so there is zero point in pretending any of this is wrong because it's not. The standards need to be high and the experience brutal because war is going to be significantly worse than anything the DI can throw at them. Nobody is forced to be there, anyone can leave at any time and it's fine to do so, nobody is going to think less of somebody that admits it's not for them. The worst thing that possibly could and now has happened is taking all of this away as then you get ineffective troops that will fold under fire and have wasted precious resources on creating a civilian militia instead of a professional force of warriors.
2006 Marine Corps bootcamp was the f'n thunder dome. Seen DI's physically beat recruits, recruits seizuring from severe dehydration during quarter deck sessions, breaking their legs during up downs, having recruits knock each other out, it was wild.
You're speaking truth. My husband's good friend was in at that same time at MCRD. Took a flying squirrel kick to the chest by a DI, was regularly elbowed, and even said aDI put a kids head through a glass window (the kids got all cut up, and when the higher ups investigated, the DI's told the kid to say he slipped and fell through the glass). For better or worse, the Moms of the Marine Corps organization seem to have simmered things down greatly since then, he said.
I always tell civilians , u want to be Rambo go active , u want a gut check go reserves , right before graduation you’ll see all the active duty guys wishing they went reserves , and if u love the suk , just go active duty , gives yourself options , that what life is all about and I do respect 4th battalion WM’s best booty you ll ever find , Semper Fi
Truth. I went through in Feb 07. That shit was crazy. A guy in the deck above ours got his head split open with a moonbeam. We got stiffed armed across footlockers by DIs. They were old school. All of my SOI instructors were Fallujah/Ramadi vets who were in the shit there. Hardcore dudes with a lot of experience. We learned a ton and our senior NCOs were hard on us. Paid off on deployment
Seeing it as a marine probably would have been a lot worse, do you regret your decision? I find everything about Marines and Iraq so damn fascinating ty
@@JoshuaDavoli Combat is combat no matter who you are with. When you are in the middle of it is just as bad as what the Marines are doing. Getting hit won't hurt any less because you are a Marine, although a lot of them want you to believe that! I was in a Cav. unit. A little different than the Average ground pounder. It seems like in the Cav you do a little of everything. Especially if you were a scout. I was a Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist. I was in a recon platoon. We did a lot of scout work and did it better than the guys who were scouts by MOS. We beat them at ranges all the time! Good times!!!
@@nf1370 Something different. I knew I was going to go to Germany if I went in the Army so I went in, became an NBC specialist and got into an NBC Recon platoon with 3/7 Cav. Mannheim Germany. Got a German wife. Been married 36 years.
I’ll never forget this. I served in the usmc ‘91-‘95. During boot camp at parris island we had a kid drown during pool training. I was sitting in the office getting ready to meet the platoon commander and I overheard 3 drill instructors making fun of the dead kid. I got so fvkng angry 🤬
Was in 91-97 - Parris Island plt 3073. I don't recall anyone drowning but there was a kid in our series jump out a 3r deck window. DIs didn't care, openly said it was too bad he lived.
@@robertpaulson6388 i was platoon 1036. How far did you go in pool training? I passed phase 1 of pool training and they sent me to do extra conditioning in the pool. It was roughly during this time that it happened. I got in super deep shit with my senior drill instructor because I actually had an incident with a swimming instructor. We were just doing laps over and over. I became fatigued and got scared because I almost drowned as a kid. When the fear set in I grabbed the buoy rope to keep my head above water. The instructor wasn’t having any of that 🤣. He grabbed me from behind and yanked me off the rope but when he did he yanked me down too and pulled my head underwater. I freaked the fvk out and came back with an elbow trying to push his nose out the back of his skull 😂😂😂😂😂 well, that didn’t go over well and was told immediately to get the Fvk out of the pool and never come back. 😂. Well life went on or so I thought. Then something weird AF happened. They pulled every single recruit in the entire training battalion out of whatever TF they were doing and put us all in a huge classroom with desks. Then a colonel came in and talked to us. Asked if any of us had any “bad” experiences in the pool. He promised there were going to be no repercussions for honesty. Then they handed everybody a piece of paper and pencil and told us to write down anything that we remembered. Of course I was stupid enough to tell the truth. 🤷♂️😂. Then they cleared everybody out and I got called in and questioned about my response. Then it got worse only I was too fvkng stupid to understand. They put a ton of pics in front of me and told me to pick out the instructor, which of course I easily identified him. Then I was sent back to the barracks. The minute I walked in the door I knew I had fvked up. Everybody was sitting on footlockers and cleaning weapons. I kept my mouth shut sat down on my footlocker to clean my weapon. All I heard was MYERS GET FVK IN HERE!!! Went to stand before my senior drill instructor surrounded by all the other drill instructors. And yeah, it wasn’t pleasant 🤦♂️
@@smyers820gm I did fine in the pool and passed (whatever) on 1st go. We had a guy from PR at the time that spoke no English and frankly had no idea where he was at. He couldn't swim for shit & nearly drowned. The DIs kept kicking him off the side and pushing him out back into the water. Eventually they fished him out and told him to go get into some dry clothes. Like I said he no habla Ingles, so he showed back up pool side buck naked. It was a wolf pack on this little guy & he punched a Lt. series CO (Lt..Golden) - he got his ass kicked & off to no who's where, never seen again. We were told not to talk about it while he got hauled off. Honestly, looking back it was bad what happened to that kid, he never should have been allowed to join & as a Marine it was best he didn't make it and hit the fleet.
@@smyers820gm You were probably there about the time a recruit took himself & an instructor out at the grenade range. The bunker I threw out of was freshly painted over & the DIs and instructors were a little more nuts than usual -I was there May - Aug 1991 My pick-up platoon there was 55 guys, 28 of us marched on time. It was tough.
Had a guy hang himself when i was in Army basic in 1983. The private on fire watch found him and ran to wake up one of our drill instructors. The drill instructor stood there looking at him hanging for probably 10 seconds, seemed like forever, then told a couple of us to untie him. He was fucking blue but still breathing. A few other drill instructors came in and carried him away and that's the last we saw him.
That's horrific and I'm sorry you had to see that. Do you know if he survived? And was there a lot of violence against recruits while you were in basic?
We had a guy drink Brasso. I’m not sure how much long term damage it caused him but the fact that he wanted out bad enough to take it that far was enough to get him booted out.
I saw a fellow recruit in the Army try to kill himself too. He was in a closed bathroom stall and there was blood all over the floors. The drill sergeant just laughs, busts open the stall door, and taunts the kid to kill himself, "Just fn kill yourself!" The recruit had slit his wrists. He didnt die, but i wonder what happened to that kid, and still wonder if hes okay today. Hed be in his forties cause that was in 2001.
Most likely was sent to medical to address the wounds, and was then locked in the psych ward until his paperwork cleared for him to go home. Not sure how long people are meant to be holdovers for, but Ft Leonard Wood was notorious for holding people for 2,3, or even 4 cycles (even as a non-training private; like, they werent being recycled, they were being sent home, but paperwork took 6 months).
@TravisG-lj9dz First & foremost, thank you for your service 🙏 🙏 ❤ & I will keep you & your family in my prayers 🙏 🙏 ❤ 😊...I am a widow of a United States Marine 🇺🇸 🪖 who served in the Persian Gulf War...We met one another after he returned from the Persian Gulf War...Began dating, became engaged 💍 😊 & got married ALL within about a 5 to 6 month period of time 😊 ❤...It was both of ours 2nd marriage, I had been a single mother for almost 4 years & I believe he had been divorced & single from his ex-wife for about 2 years...We had been married for 10 years when I lost him 😢 💔 🙏 🙏... I pray 🙏 🙏 for this drill instructor who stated the extremely cold hearted non-caring things that he did when the incident took place you speak about 😢 💔 💔 😢 🙏 🙏...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤️ to reveal Himself 🙏 ❤️ to this drill instructor & have the Holy Spirit 🙏 ❤ move upon him 🙏 ❤️ in a STRONG & UNDENIABLE way 🙏 ❤️...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for him to be HUMBLED 🙏 ❤ to be SHOWN the error of his ways 🙏 🙏 & for him to HUMBLY SEEK our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤️...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for him to get off of his WIDE path of destruction to Hell 🔥 🔥 & on his NARROW path to Heaven 🙏 ❤... The path to Heaven is NARROW with FEW while the path to Hell is WIDE with MANY...
@@ryanm7832 i had bipolar disorder before i joined the army...i didnt know it..i lied at meps saying i had sleeping issues..well i didnt sleep during bootcamp..i ended up in a psychward for about 2 - 3 weeks and got discharged pretty quick..i went to ft leonardwood in 2011
DI** and nope that’s not why, met ur DI after bootcamp n their the nices ppl ever, they just want u to stay alive n that guy that hung himself was weak and would have got a whole unit killed in combat
lmao what do you think this is pre school? This was durning 06-2010. Some dudes were going from boot camp to SOI and to getting deployed into combat right after that. Where believe it or not people die. Marines didnt get the reputation for being the best fighting force in the world by being Nice to everyone...
Platoon 2079 SDI Sgt. Madrid. Graduated May 19th 2006. That shit was crazy! I’m glad you told the story of the recruit that thew himself off the building. I get the feeling most people never believed me. You explained DI’s the way I remember them. Terrifying! The way I see it is if an occasional recruit doesn’t die in boot camp Marines aren’t made. It’s gotta be that tough considering the places we deploy. Your entire story and message is spot on. Thank you and Semper Fi.
Some of these guy's join because they want to be big bad Marines and when they get there it isn't what they expected. You have to know what you are getting into before hand. It's very hard and no joke. I knew! I had 1 friend who went before me plus I researched on my own. I had 3 or 4 other guy's who went around the same time I went and me and one other guy actually finished our contracts. The others got themselves kicked out in basic. I was not going to go home disgraced like that! I had to make it or die trying. I got out in 81 and joined the Army in 85 for another 6 years of fun in the sun!!! Deployed to Desert Storm with the 1st Cav. Division out of Ft. Hood Texas!
We lost 3 reservists on my 2nd pump in Helmand to an insider attack....attached to my line platoon. Rest in Peace Ssgt. Dickinson, Cpl Rivera, Lcpl Buckley
None of those Marines were reservists. They were from Kbay in Hawaii, 3rd Reg, attached to 3/8 for an ETT. They were murdered by a chai boy on FOB Delhi, while they were working out at the makeshift gym.
Was thinking the same thing. 2 njp's, busted down once and I still made E-5 in a 5 year contract. Haven't watched the whole video yet. Maybe he had a short enlistment.
Another Great interview❤. Thank you for your service Marine. I Am happy to hear you've succeeded. Hope in the near future we can build homes for our homeless military personnel. Gratitude 🎉💝🕊️
I was a Corpsman in the Navy. I once had to recover the body of a fellow saior who killed himself. This was in Japan in the summer. He was discovered about 3 days after he did what he did. I am not going to go in detail because it was too awful and disturbing. I can remember too much detail. It was one of the worst memories of being a Corpsman. It was the worst part of the duty.
@@edwinwilliams8767 Study some basic math and reading comprehension skills. Score high enough on the ASVAB and keep a clean record. Absolutely no drugs. Work on your physical condition and get in shape. You could be on a ship or Marine unit. Corpsman can be physically demanding. Patient care in a hospital is physically demanding. Be able to stand, lift, bend, stoop, and reach. Keep a positive attitude and be able to keep information confidential. You are trusted with sensitive patient information. While it isn't quite the same as a National Security Clearance, you do have to know not to disclose any information about patients' personal lives. Don't be a gossip. Don't listen to gossip and stop others from running their mouths. It's a good career feild.
Be prepared to go to a hospital and be a baby catcher in a room where the mom to be has no desire to have a male 20 something stranger in her delivery room.
I went to boot camp in 2010, was 3rd BN on PI. I’ll tell you that 3rd BN was off in the woods, and our DI’s did not fuck around. Even watched two of them duke it out while we are in formation doing rifle manual. Then because they fought we disappeared for 4 hours in the woods
@@Matthew-s4vmy pops was a Nam vet, and grand pa was pacific theater vet. My dad always said “it’s not your grandpa’s marine corps”. In family day my dad made a point to talk shit to the DI’s
I was at PI in 2010 as well 1st battalion, there was some shit going on with 1st battalion barracks at the time so I spent my entire book camp at the rifle range barracks, talk about being in the back of the woods that was about as far back as you could get there haha.
As a retired RUC officer we had a lot of our colleagues take their life due to mental illnesses and PTSD! It is far too common unfortunately. Salutations from Belfast Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
I was an MP at MCRDSD when that kid jumped. He left a dent in the ground. Couple years later another recruit jumped but his DI somehow caught him by his boot and yanked him back up. Really messed with that DI.
Hancock, you missed zero. My cousins, 65-66 Nam, 66-67 Nam, my uncle 68-69 Nam, myself 78-82 USMC Iranian Hostage Rescue. You my friend our blessed. In 2005 my cousin Bill took his life at a poker game in front of 8 Vets. He picked up a pistol and ended it. The other cousin had 3 children born ( still born) and deformed. Before they knew how bad Agent Orange was. He was literally sprayed everyday by helicopters while on patrol. My uncle was an M 60 gunner, he was at 9th Army ammo dump up North, attacked every day. I feel blessed years later only having 1 deployment that went totally South. I’m glad you are successful. Semper Fi.
May our Heavenly Father Lord God 🙏 ❤ & our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤ bless, watch over, protect, give guidance, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, discernment 🙏 🙏 ❤ along with healing, comfort, peace & strength 🙏 🙏 ❤ to you, your family, your friends/family friends & community 🙏 🙏 ❤ 😊...I TRULY believe you ALL 🙏 🙏 ❤ 😊 are covered by our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤ when you ALL place your FAITH, BELIEF & TRUST in Him 🙏 🙏 ❤ 😊...Hallelujah 🙏 ❤...
We had a dude get pulled because of the way he answered a mental health question. After that we had 2 other people think it was the easy way to get out of basic… it was AF basic, it’s not like it was hard! But I ended up pulling guard duty in my flight, then having to go down to a squadron CQ bunk area where these guys laughed about it and then 2 days later return back like it wasn’t a big deal. I was so pissed! The one kid that got flagged and pulled out of training was still there long after I left.
We came back from chow on sand hill Benning, the buffer machine was hanging out the window, well there was a guy tied to the other end of the power cord
When they say "some people aren't build for war" they're not just talking strength and endurance they mean humanity as well which is why psychopaths climb rank fast. Humanity and empathy will kill you on the battlefield, if you're standing face to face with someone that wants you dead and you hesitate for a split second thinking about either your family or the dude you have the barrel of your weapon pointed at's family he will win the engagement and you will die. It takes a special kind of person to thrive in that situation which is why you see so many of these heroes come home mentally fucked, the ones that don't come home mentally fucked usually means they may have not been all there at the start, the ones that come home most mentally scarred are the ones who's humanity was broken for them to be able to act that way and now that they're home their humanity starts to heal and they realize all the inhumane shit they did overseas now that all comes back in a tsunami of mental fuckary and if they don't have a really really good support system lined up than they're gonna be looking down the barrel of their own gun before they know it. I don't mean to sound harsh but this is coming from someone that had 3 uncles and 2 cousins go to war, come home and suffer in silence only to end their lives by their own hand. War is HELL and just because we've been doing it since the dawn of man doesn't mean we should be.
Dude! SSgt Gant was my platoon sergeant in 3/7 Lima Co. Dude was actually a very cool and calm guy in the fleet but could go back to that DI mode in an instant.
Sounds like you needed what I needed. The ability to fight and cause chaos but in a controlled environment with consequences. It just took me 20 years to realize that and I miss that environment and the deployments every single day. 1995-2015 10th Marines Arty
That lack of the value of human life is sad…. Just sad and pathetic. You can think you are hard and tough or whatever but without compassion to back it up you’re just evil.
You are the weakest of the bunch without compassion in my opinion. I don’t care if you can push your brain and body to the limit, if you can’t have any compassion and empathy then I have zero respect.
I went to MCRD SD in FEB 2006 . I’m pretty sure this dude and I were in the same company based off his story of the kid jumping off the 3rd Deck. That happened to a kid in my company. Currently still serving and I remember that incident very clearly.
It’s good to see it was like that. My son followed in my footsteps. He’s a Sgt combat engineer that just reenlisted. He didn’t have boot camp like that but SOI and engineer school was fighting. Glad I raised a scrapper. I know exactly how he feels about getting out without scratching that itch. That’s why I became an arborist
When I was in Boot in san diego in 05 we were like 2 weeks from graduation and heading to the chow hall on a saturday morning, a new recruit that had just got done with black friday jumped off the 3rd story back entrance of his barracks that was right next to the chow hall and hit the pullup bar and exploded his head all over the pavement... The DI that was outside the building right where it happened came running across the field to my DI and said "that stupid mother fucker just jumped off the 3rd deck" then joked about it being one less POS hes gotta deal with... We all had to turn around and sit cross legged on the ground with our heads in our laps while paramedics came and scraped him off the ground, Then we went to chow and moved on like nothing happened...
As the odd one out civilian I get that you have to be tough as nails as marines (ESPCIALLY marines 😮) but damn it seems like all the war experiences made him desensitized to death permanently. Although I can only imagine the di once retired having a big care for life and being all soft and cuddly with his little daughter, and him not having the balls to tell her ever about what he said 😂😂
I never witnessed a suicide attempt however the Senior Drill Instructor gave us instructions on how to slash our arteries the correct way so death would be about 99 per cent.
I had a usmc drill instructor till me go up to the next deck and jump off and sing "I believe I can fly" lol we was on the first deck in the medical platoon mrp
25:30 Marine Reservists got slayed as much as Active Duty. We had reservists with us, and I saw plenty reserve companies out front. Many of those guys had a crazy operational tempo.
Yeah, that’s the thing I don’t think many people understand is that reserve Marines and active duty Marines all go to the same Bootcamp and really you have no idea who is who until you get to know some of the guys. I went to boot camp in June 2006 MCRD SD. Loved hearing this interview.
@@thelegionisnotamused8929 you’re right. I was reserve and deployed with Austin as an 0352 too. 2 years prior, I deployed with 3/25 to the same AO. Our tempo with 3/25 was insane.
I don’t think I’ve been to a single range out here where I saw any other dude that looked like they could do a pullup let alone weighted ones. The physical fitness thing needs to be harped on more especially for the “come and take it” crowd.
Started from the bottom now he's here. Carmel Valley, dope cars, selling the dream. Some dudes are wired like this. Probably stacking up a roster of viewers for his workshops from this episode. Congrats to this dude, genuinely. However, Wolf of Wall Street has a third act. Rich Piana was 46 when he died. Leave some rubber on the tires man. That's all I got.
19:05 “Private Shmuckatelly” 😂 I’ve been to boot camp.. there’s always that one guy. They don’t last. I was Navy though so I’m sure it’s different. 36:35 he mentioned the Seabees - that’s what I was. Reserve too, so I can relate to his description of his feelings of regret in not just going active duty.
Fun and inspirational video. His going through boot camp and having DIs riding them hard to weed out recruits who they claim could get them killed reminds me of Full Metal Jacket. I wonder if he saw this movie.
I joined in 2000, the towers fell while i was deployed to okinawa. We were in a typhoon. Its so bizarre for me, thinking about how laid back Afghanistan was for me compared to iraq after that. Met my current wife out there, both of us being marines lol, 20 years and more to come. Lost a lot of people i called brother, saw a lot of people die that i called my enemy. What a crazy time to be alive.
floor? window? no comprende. porthole, deck, bulkhead, overhead, hatch, quarterdeck, apron, etc. IP = Irish Pennant. glad to hear Pvt Schmuckatelli was still there in 2006 from 1985
Hell yeah man I'd love to learn how to get out of being an ac diagnostic tech lol I had a framing crew up in Michigan and Illinois for a while but man I've never figured out how to not kill myself every single day Your an inspiration man
Holy shit. Dude said “drill instructor Sgt gant” after saying he had a salty 6’6” di in 06…. And I did the math. I served in 3/3 2012-2016 there was a gunny Gang in weapons company. Bout 6’6” black dude. Gotta be the same dude. Scary as hell, but that was a good dude. Well respected Marine. I had few interactions with him, but even as a lance, he was cool to me.
Army Basic 89 Texas. This guy tried to O.D. on pills and gets his ass kicked for failing! He didnt speak any english and had no idea where he was! Good job recruiters!😮
I would have thought as a older man your father would have known someone comes to YOUR PROPERTY make sure you are 100% prepared to take it to what ever level he needed
Dude you hit just in time to get in. I had just gotten to PI in 07, and worked for the 6 shop to expand the old weapons barracks into Quebec company, to support the "surge". There were an ass of people on that island during that year or so. Ileft PI August 08, EAS's to Army. Kept pay grade and drove self to fort Gordon.
Sound almost like my story getting in to the Army in 1990. Was a troubled teen in Tacoma from the 80's and 90's. Records of ex-sponged. Met a few guys that got the same deal joining the service during the time of war. Became a Scout active duty then a Foward Observer in the Wa. national guard. Got wounded in IOF2 x3. Loved my time in both branches 🇺🇸
Since you were assigned to guard high ranking people and VIP's they intentionally moved them in relatively safe areas. You don't have to be a door kicker on the front line to be a man. Showing up for your family every day is more rewarding brother.
Dudes like this are the reason nobody wants to be in or stay in, and it's crazy to me that it's the same dudes that will always complain about the workload.... like my brother in Christ, you are the reason we are two guys doing a five-man job.
Thankfully that's a problem that's almost exclusively in the inner cities. Kids from any other areas almost always have way more respect for life than that.
What he says about looking for the fight while you are punching a clock leaves a guy with his tank half full. I went from a super kinetic deployment to a jobsite and it wasn't good. I was fortunate to meet the right people and got on a great path but it's hard to say killing people is a great thing but battle is highly addictive and you need to find an outlet quickly upon departing active service. This brother did it right and is living proof you do not have to have an MBA to be successful but you have to go get it!!!
Man i totally get the itch for getting into TICs but having been in alot of em id rathrr have a calm quiet day compared to combat. I joined to be a grunt and had to get a wavier to enlist too but went active duty first then did an additional 2 yrs reserves, having done active duty first and doing a combat deployment ,the reserves was soo much easier then active duty. I was 10th mountain 3rd brigade combat team afghanistan was our bread n butter. 06 was a 16th month then 09 12 month and then in 2011 12 month and then got out and they guys went back in 2013 i think. So lirerally every 2 yrs gettin deployed and if ur in a line plt guaranteed to get trigger time
I was stationed at MCRD San Diego in the late 80s.I processed recruits during the day and drank with the DIs at night. There was some really great DIs and there were some real assholes.
No such a thing as friends much, just coworkers in the military, don't get personal with anyone, no such thing as friends. Alot of rats as in fake friends, backstabbing.
@DREKOWICK69 I will never trust anyone in the military again once I go back into the military again. No friends, just coworkers, that is all, yes, still talk to other's and treat others as humans with respect and have fun and stuff but still...not friend's, best to avoid it all by accepting it still to be coworkers and to avoid things getting personal, negativity, grudge, etc.
Sounds like you you've got some issues, dude. My husband is former Army. His best friends to this day are guys he's served with. Seems to be the case for most guys that were in.
Some dude snuck off to the porta shitters in itb by himself and shot himself in the head while we were staging our gear, they made us sprint to the next range with all our gear and it started pouring down rain. We had to stand still for at least 16 hours while each instructor individually grilled us about what happened and told some kids it shouldve been them instead. A couple days after that was the split and idk about the weapons platoon but that next month was literal hell. They started turning marines against eachother, dudes getting head injuries from getting slammed on concrete during the night. Chinese field days every weekend. I think theh tried to sweep it all under the rug, told the family it was just an accident to my knowledge. I was just a reservist so when i got back i just started smoking a ton of weed. Lucky me my first weekend of duty there were random drug test and i got kicked out. I have buddies that had incredible experiences. Your milage may vary.
I was at MCRD-San Diego in June-September 2006 as well and so much of this has hit right home. We heard about the guy trying to kill himself and there was actually another one we heard of a guy that tried to hang himself. Probably happened to every class at the time given the recruit pool. We tried to throw one of our “shit bags “down the stairs to break his legs to get him dropped out of our platoon too because he couldn’t march and he was constantly getting the whole platoon fucked up. It was basically the same 5 to 8 guys fucking up every time getting the whole platoon in trouble. Our drill instructors, all of whom are exactly like this Marine is explaining, just back from Iraq, not wanting to let weak recruits through, (mine were Sr. Drill Instructor SSgt Glenn, DI SSgt Reyes, DI SSgt Spears and DI Sgt Reid), were like hissing snake super heroes. A lot of the DI’s develop this “DI Voice” were it is super raspy because they have completely lost their voice but still have to scream. I could go on and on about stories from that time. I had a very similar story to Austin growing up and after high school. I needed a boot up my ass fast or I was going to be dead or in prison. I always wanted to be a Marine for some reason. I’m a successful Chef today and I have the United States Marine Corps to thank for MUCH if not MOST of it. Life CERTAINLY wasn’t peaches and cream after but it set me on a path that I wouldn’t have gone down otherwise, a positive one. They always told us one day we were going to wish we could go back and do it all over again. I don’t know if that’s 100% true but I would sure like to go back and re-live a little bit of it over again. Peace Y’all. 🤘✌️
So a guy is short and can’t do the runs the same way that everyone else can see you try to break his fucking legs. This is psychotic give him a job that he will do good at making him make him a cook give him a job that he will excel that instead of giving him shit or something that he is genetically not design to do
He goes in the new marine corps with old stories form a long time ago. This dude has a complex. Talking and buying his way to the top. Anyone who knows, knows the new military and old military.
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Bro,
Your story is the same as my son's. He is now a Gunny and will retire in four years.
Fuckin love the stories brother. I'm learning more and more about all these bad motherfuckers that served their country. Proud to be an American.
I understand building toughness but damn that's fucked up. Thats still a American kid that already had signed the oath.
Those DIs lost some of their humanity out there.
They wanted absolute men ready as they can be without actually seeing combat yet.
Instead of thinking of it as building toughness, picture it as them trying to kill you inside lol It’s more akin to that. The DI saying he hopes the recruit dies is exhibiting behavior that the recruit probably experienced some of, hence leading him to wanna jump to his death lol. Maybe that helps put that mindset and environment into perspective for you somewhat
An oath to not destroy gov property and not suicidal tendencies before joining
My Cousin joined army 2001 immediately post 9/11 I think he was in Fallujah with 10th mountain. Probably not as deep and combat heavy as the Marines but Ive never really spoke to him much about his time in combat other than about his 2 purple heart wounding incidents. One from a mortar blowing a sand bag into his head and another from a really massive Car Bomb IED that hit his Humvee. They said it was basically a miracle the 4 guys survived. He was passenger seat and it blew up on the drivers side from maybe 1-3 road lanes away. Car filled with multiple rigged artillery shells. He did 2 tours in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan. He got out in O8 or 09. The guys who came back from those early days like him but stayed longer were probably battle hardened savages and probably raised some tough soldiers but used some questionable means to do so. A lot of them were probably fucked up from their experiences too and what they saw probably desensitized them to the recruits complaints and underperforming during trainin and they had zero tolerance.
He chose to traumatize those around him and force some random corpsman to clean him up, he's not to be respected, he was a liability and a danger to his own. Now, boot camp is designed to train people to perform a job under extreme mental and physical stress, it is not for everybody or even most people. It demands so much because the enemy will demand even more, so there is zero point in pretending any of this is wrong because it's not. The standards need to be high and the experience brutal because war is going to be significantly worse than anything the DI can throw at them. Nobody is forced to be there, anyone can leave at any time and it's fine to do so, nobody is going to think less of somebody that admits it's not for them. The worst thing that possibly could and now has happened is taking all of this away as then you get ineffective troops that will fold under fire and have wasted precious resources on creating a civilian militia instead of a professional force of warriors.
2006 Marine Corps bootcamp was the f'n thunder dome. Seen DI's physically beat recruits, recruits seizuring from severe dehydration during quarter deck sessions, breaking their legs during up downs, having recruits knock each other out, it was wild.
You're speaking truth. My husband's good friend was in at that same time at MCRD. Took a flying squirrel kick to the chest by a DI, was regularly elbowed, and even said aDI put a kids head through a glass window (the kids got all cut up, and when the higher ups investigated, the DI's told the kid to say he slipped and fell through the glass).
For better or worse, the Moms of the Marine Corps organization seem to have simmered things down greatly since then, he said.
Went through in 2020 got my senior to use my body to bust racks apart lol told the LT I slept hard real hacksaw ridge shit but grateful it was hard
I always tell civilians , u want to be Rambo go active , u want a gut check go reserves , right before graduation you’ll see all the active duty guys wishing they went reserves , and if u love the suk , just go active duty , gives yourself options , that what life is all about and I do respect 4th battalion WM’s best booty you ll ever find , Semper Fi
Truth. I went through in Feb 07. That shit was crazy. A guy in the deck above ours got his head split open with a moonbeam. We got stiffed armed across footlockers by DIs. They were old school. All of my SOI instructors were Fallujah/Ramadi vets who were in the shit there. Hardcore dudes with a lot of experience. We learned a ton and our senior NCOs were hard on us. Paid off on deployment
I guarantee they wouldn't do much of that. If they knew for a fact, they would get hit back.
I got out of the Marines in 1981 and didn't get to scratch that itch. I joined the Army in 1985 and finally got down range in 1991, Desert Storm.
If you'd stayed in im sure that you would've seen desert storm as a Marine. But hey, it happens that way sometimes.
Seeing it as a marine probably would have been a lot worse, do you regret your decision? I find everything about Marines and Iraq so damn fascinating ty
@@JoshuaDavoli Combat is combat no matter who you are with. When you are in the middle of it is just as bad as what the Marines are doing. Getting hit won't hurt any less because you are a Marine, although a lot of them want you to believe that!
I was in a Cav. unit. A little different than the Average ground pounder. It seems like in the Cav you do a little of everything. Especially if you were a scout. I was a Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist. I was in a recon platoon. We did a lot of scout work and did it better than the guys who were scouts by MOS. We beat them at ranges all the time! Good times!!!
What made you choose the Army on your 2nd enlistment
@@nf1370 Something different. I knew I was going to go to Germany if I went in the Army so I went in, became an NBC specialist and got into an NBC Recon platoon with 3/7 Cav. Mannheim Germany. Got a German wife. Been married 36 years.
I’ll never forget this. I served in the usmc ‘91-‘95. During boot camp at parris island we had a kid drown during pool training. I was sitting in the office getting ready to meet the platoon commander and I overheard 3 drill instructors making fun of the dead kid. I got so fvkng angry 🤬
Was in 91-97 - Parris Island plt 3073. I don't recall anyone drowning but there was a kid in our series jump out a 3r deck window. DIs didn't care, openly said it was too bad he lived.
@@robertpaulson6388 i was platoon 1036. How far did you go in pool training? I passed phase 1 of pool training and they sent me to do extra conditioning in the pool. It was roughly during this time that it happened. I got in super deep shit with my senior drill instructor because I actually had an incident with a swimming instructor. We were just doing laps over and over. I became fatigued and got scared because I almost drowned as a kid. When the fear set in I grabbed the buoy rope to keep my head above water. The instructor wasn’t having any of that 🤣. He grabbed me from behind and yanked me off the rope but when he did he yanked me down too and pulled my head underwater. I freaked the fvk out and came back with an elbow trying to push his nose out the back of his skull 😂😂😂😂😂 well, that didn’t go over well and was told immediately to get the Fvk out of the pool and never come back. 😂. Well life went on or so I thought. Then something weird AF happened. They pulled every single recruit in the entire training battalion out of whatever TF they were doing and put us all in a huge classroom with desks. Then a colonel came in and talked to us. Asked if any of us had any “bad” experiences in the pool. He promised there were going to be no repercussions for honesty. Then they handed everybody a piece of paper and pencil and told us to write down anything that we remembered. Of course I was stupid enough to tell the truth. 🤷♂️😂. Then they cleared everybody out and I got called in and questioned about my response. Then it got worse only I was too fvkng stupid to understand. They put a ton of pics in front of me and told me to pick out the instructor, which of course I easily identified him. Then I was sent back to the barracks. The minute I walked in the door I knew I had fvked up. Everybody was sitting on footlockers and cleaning weapons. I kept my mouth shut sat down on my footlocker to clean my weapon. All I heard was MYERS GET FVK IN HERE!!! Went to stand before my senior drill instructor surrounded by all the other drill instructors. And yeah, it wasn’t pleasant 🤦♂️
@@smyers820gm I did fine in the pool and passed (whatever) on 1st go.
We had a guy from PR at the time that spoke no English and frankly had no idea where he was at. He couldn't swim for shit & nearly drowned. The DIs kept kicking him off the side and pushing him out back into the water.
Eventually they fished him out and told him to go get into some dry clothes. Like I said he no habla Ingles, so he showed back up pool side buck naked.
It was a wolf pack on this little guy & he punched a Lt. series CO (Lt..Golden) - he got his ass kicked & off to no who's where, never seen again.
We were told not to talk about it while he got hauled off.
Honestly, looking back it was bad what happened to that kid, he never should have been allowed to join & as a Marine it was best he didn't make it and hit the fleet.
@@smyers820gm You were probably there about the time a recruit took himself & an instructor out at the grenade range. The bunker I threw out of was freshly painted over & the DIs and instructors were a little more nuts than usual -I was there May - Aug 1991
My pick-up platoon there was 55 guys, 28 of us marched on time.
It was tough.
@@smyers820gmI'm confused. Why would you get in trouble for telling the truth.
Had a guy hang himself when i was in Army basic in 1983. The private on fire watch found him and ran to wake up one of our drill instructors. The drill instructor stood there looking at him hanging for probably 10 seconds, seemed like forever, then told a couple of us to untie him. He was fucking blue but still breathing. A few other drill instructors came in and carried him away and that's the last we saw him.
That's horrific and I'm sorry you had to see that. Do you know if he survived? And was there a lot of violence against recruits while you were in basic?
The Army has Drill Sergeants. The Marines have Drill Instructors.
We had a guy drink Brasso. I’m not sure how much long term damage it caused him but the fact that he wanted out bad enough to take it that far was enough to get him booted out.
He was still breathing and yall just let him die?
@@tonyjones1560 what's brasso
I saw a fellow recruit in the Army try to kill himself too. He was in a closed bathroom stall and there was blood all over the floors. The drill sergeant just laughs, busts open the stall door, and taunts the kid to kill himself, "Just fn kill yourself!" The recruit had slit his wrists. He didnt die, but i wonder what happened to that kid, and still wonder if hes okay today. Hed be in his forties cause that was in 2001.
Most likely was sent to medical to address the wounds, and was then locked in the psych ward until his paperwork cleared for him to go home. Not sure how long people are meant to be holdovers for, but Ft Leonard Wood was notorious for holding people for 2,3, or even 4 cycles (even as a non-training private; like, they werent being recycled, they were being sent home, but paperwork took 6 months).
Y’all had stalls…. Y’all got money
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I pray 🙏 🙏 for this drill instructor who stated the extremely cold hearted non-caring things that he did when the incident took place you speak about 😢 💔 💔 😢 🙏 🙏...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤️ to reveal Himself 🙏 ❤️ to this drill instructor & have the Holy Spirit 🙏 ❤ move upon him 🙏 ❤️ in a STRONG & UNDENIABLE way 🙏 ❤️...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for him to be HUMBLED 🙏 ❤ to be SHOWN the error of his ways 🙏 🙏 & for him to HUMBLY SEEK our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ 🙏 ❤️...I pray 🙏 🙏 ❤ for him to get off of his WIDE path of destruction to Hell 🔥 🔥 & on his NARROW path to Heaven 🙏 ❤...
The path to Heaven is NARROW with FEW while the path to Hell is WIDE with MANY...
@@ryanm7832 i had bipolar disorder before i joined the army...i didnt know it..i lied at meps saying i had sleeping issues..well i didnt sleep during bootcamp..i ended up in a psychward for about 2 - 3 weeks and got discharged pretty quick..i went to ft leonardwood in 2011
U guys had stall doors?
The DS saying he hopes the recruit had unalived himself. Yeah that is the reason why 22 veterans do it every day.
DI** and nope that’s not why, met ur DI after bootcamp n their the nices ppl ever, they just want u to stay alive n that guy that hung himself was weak and would have got a whole unit killed in combat
and they wonder why no ones enlisting??????? guys come on! come get your depression with a V6 mustang to cry in
lmao what do you think this is pre school? This was durning 06-2010. Some dudes were going from boot camp to SOI and to getting deployed into combat right after that. Where believe it or not people die.
Marines didnt get the reputation for being the best fighting force in the world by being Nice to everyone...
@@neilpopovich4966 Completely agree. These guys are being trained to kill. Not trained to shoot rainbows at each other an dance around like fairies.
@@neilpopovich4966 shit still happens
Platoon 2079 SDI Sgt. Madrid. Graduated May 19th 2006. That shit was crazy!
I’m glad you told the story of the recruit that thew himself off the building. I get the feeling most people never believed me. You explained DI’s the way I remember them. Terrifying!
The way I see it is if an occasional recruit doesn’t die in boot camp Marines aren’t made. It’s gotta be that tough considering the places we deploy.
Your entire story and message is spot on. Thank you and Semper Fi.
That was my platoon number too! 2079, Echo company, 2nd battalion. SDI SSGT. Harma. Graduated Feb. 17, 1995. Semper Fi.
"If an occasional recruit doesn't die in boot camp, Marines aren't made."
Some of these guy's join because they want to be big bad Marines and when they get there it isn't what they expected. You have to know what you are getting into before hand. It's very hard and no joke.
I knew! I had 1 friend who went before me plus I researched on my own. I had 3 or 4 other guy's who went around the same time I went and me and one other guy actually finished our contracts. The others got themselves kicked out in basic.
I was not going to go home disgraced like that! I had to make it or die trying. I got out in 81 and joined the Army in 85 for another 6 years of fun in the sun!!! Deployed to Desert Storm with the 1st Cav. Division out of Ft. Hood Texas!
We lost a guy to suicide and when they carried him out "he wasn't cut out for it" was all that was said
We lost 3 reservists on my 2nd pump in Helmand to an insider attack....attached to my line platoon. Rest in Peace Ssgt. Dickinson, Cpl Rivera, Lcpl Buckley
1/10? Those names sound super familiar
None of those Marines were reservists. They were from Kbay in Hawaii, 3rd Reg, attached to 3/8 for an ETT. They were murdered by a chai boy on FOB Delhi, while they were working out at the makeshift gym.
@Hostile_x I always thought they were reserve MPs. I was with Kilo Co at Dehli
Nah, they were motor T originally back in Kbay, but active duty. RIP.
RIP
Got out as a terminal lance...he definitely had fun..SEMPER FI Brother!!
😂 FACTS
Was thinking the same thing. 2 njp's, busted down once and I still made E-5 in a 5 year contract.
Haven't watched the whole video yet. Maybe he had a short enlistment.
Glad to hear the military gave him the discipline and structure he needed.
👊🏼
They are pretty good at that
That's just sad. Who can you look to in a hellish warzone when even the mentor that made you his brother in arms would say that
Another Great interview❤. Thank you for your service Marine. I Am happy to hear you've succeeded. Hope in the near future we can build homes for our homeless military personnel. Gratitude 🎉💝🕊️
I was a Corpsman in the Navy. I once had to recover the body of a fellow saior who killed himself.
This was in Japan in the summer. He was discovered about 3 days after he did what he did. I am not going to go in detail because it was too awful and disturbing.
I can remember too much detail. It was one of the worst memories of being a Corpsman. It was the worst part of the duty.
Why'd he do it?
@chasechiamulera7704 He probably had mental health problems. There were a lot of rumors. The reality is that only he knew why.
@@barbaramatthews4735this may be super random but I’m hoping to be a corpsman, what’s some good advice?
@@edwinwilliams8767 Study some basic math and reading comprehension skills. Score high enough on the ASVAB and keep a clean record. Absolutely no drugs.
Work on your physical condition and get in shape. You could be on a ship or Marine unit. Corpsman can be physically demanding. Patient care in a hospital is physically demanding. Be able to stand, lift, bend, stoop, and reach.
Keep a positive attitude and be able to keep information confidential. You are trusted with sensitive patient information. While it isn't quite the same as a National Security Clearance, you do have to know not to disclose any information about patients' personal lives. Don't be a gossip. Don't listen to gossip and stop others from running their mouths.
It's a good career feild.
Be prepared to go to a hospital and be a baby catcher in a room where the mom to be has no desire to have a male 20 something stranger in her delivery room.
Really enjoyed his conversation-
Great job Marine
Thank you
I went to boot camp in 2010, was 3rd BN on PI. I’ll tell you that 3rd BN was off in the woods, and our DI’s did not fuck around. Even watched two of them duke it out while we are in formation doing rifle manual. Then because they fought we disappeared for 4 hours in the woods
3BN Mike Company, 2008... was WILD. 😂 that sh*t could never be done today.
Thumpin Third
@@Matthew-s4vmy pops was a Nam vet, and grand pa was pacific theater vet. My dad always said “it’s not your grandpa’s marine corps”. In family day my dad made a point to talk shit to the DI’s
I was at PI in 2010 as well 1st battalion, there was some shit going on with 1st battalion barracks at the time so I spent my entire book camp at the rifle range barracks, talk about being in the back of the woods that was about as far back as you could get there haha.
I was in PI in 2010 as well, Aug time frame, then went to SOI for Nov, shipped out for work up to Afghanistan a few months later. Was in 1st BN C Co.
38:30 The Iraqi interpreter who learned most of his English from mafia movies 😂😂😂
Fughettaboutit
I can’t imagine an Iraqi talking like Joe Pesci lol
As a retired RUC officer we had a lot of our colleagues take their life due to mental illnesses and PTSD! It is far too common unfortunately.
Salutations from Belfast Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Bless you sir.
Yeah being a traitor is mentally ill. At least they’re in hell with the queen
I was an MP at MCRDSD when that kid jumped. He left a dent in the ground. Couple years later another recruit jumped but his DI somehow caught him by his boot and yanked him back up. Really messed with that DI.
In 06? Because I thought there was more than one during that year or two years.
@@profile2047 maybe 06 maybe 07. I was there 06-09 so it all gets muddled.
The strength that takes is fu c k ing insane @@jorgi86
Hancock, you missed zero. My cousins, 65-66 Nam, 66-67 Nam, my uncle 68-69 Nam, myself 78-82 USMC Iranian Hostage Rescue. You my friend our blessed. In 2005 my cousin Bill took his life at a poker game in front of 8 Vets. He picked up a pistol and ended it. The other cousin had 3 children born ( still born) and deformed. Before they knew how bad Agent Orange was. He was literally sprayed everyday by helicopters while on patrol. My uncle was an M 60 gunner, he was at 9th Army ammo dump up North, attacked every day. I feel blessed years later only having 1 deployment that went totally South. I’m glad you are successful. Semper Fi.
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We had a dude in boot camp jump and another dude hang himself. One in receiving and another in Company. I also heard a DI say about the same thing.
We had a dude get pulled because of the way he answered a mental health question. After that we had 2 other people think it was the easy way to get out of basic… it was AF basic, it’s not like it was hard! But I ended up pulling guard duty in my flight, then having to go down to a squadron CQ bunk area where these guys laughed about it and then 2 days later return back like it wasn’t a big deal. I was so pissed! The one kid that got flagged and pulled out of training was still there long after I left.
We came back from chow on sand hill Benning, the buffer machine was hanging out the window, well there was a guy tied to the other end of the power cord
You got any more details?
When they say "some people aren't build for war" they're not just talking strength and endurance they mean humanity as well which is why psychopaths climb rank fast. Humanity and empathy will kill you on the battlefield, if you're standing face to face with someone that wants you dead and you hesitate for a split second thinking about either your family or the dude you have the barrel of your weapon pointed at's family he will win the engagement and you will die. It takes a special kind of person to thrive in that situation which is why you see so many of these heroes come home mentally fucked, the ones that don't come home mentally fucked usually means they may have not been all there at the start, the ones that come home most mentally scarred are the ones who's humanity was broken for them to be able to act that way and now that they're home their humanity starts to heal and they realize all the inhumane shit they did overseas now that all comes back in a tsunami of mental fuckary and if they don't have a really really good support system lined up than they're gonna be looking down the barrel of their own gun before they know it. I don't mean to sound harsh but this is coming from someone that had 3 uncles and 2 cousins go to war, come home and suffer in silence only to end their lives by their own hand. War is HELL and just because we've been doing it since the dawn of man doesn't mean we should be.
Dude! SSgt Gant was my platoon sergeant in 3/7 Lima Co. Dude was actually a very cool and calm guy in the fleet but could go back to that DI mode in an instant.
That’s Awesome AF 👊🏼
@@austin.hancock1
Platoon 3077 I remember you Hancock. Glad to see you’re crushing it brother
-Gant
@@Vincent-cn6xg Thank you! I appreciate all of you guys, a short but massive part of my life I am very thankful for.
@@austin.hancock1 when did you graduate ?
which company ?
@@TheBerdaguer Mike Company 3077 2006
I will never become an asset of the us government.
Mad respect to this guy, thank you for your service and sharing your story sir o7
Austin rocks!🤘Looking forward to listening
THANK
YOU! 👊🏼
You were in the good old boys group. Sick deployment.
Sounds like you needed what I needed. The ability to fight and cause chaos but in a controlled environment with consequences. It just took me 20 years to realize that and I miss that environment and the deployments every single day.
1995-2015 10th Marines Arty
And now you're the beach guy. It's cool how life can come full circle.
Ole Nst
Awesome interview
Thank you 👊🏼
That lack of the value of human life is sad…. Just sad and pathetic. You can think you are hard and tough or whatever but without compassion to back it up you’re just evil.
Welcome to the living idoit
You are the weakest of the bunch without compassion in my opinion. I don’t care if you can push your brain and body to the limit, if you can’t have any compassion and empathy then I have zero respect.
I went to MCRD SD in FEB 2006 . I’m pretty sure this dude and I were in the same company based off his story of the kid jumping off the 3rd Deck. That happened to a kid in my company. Currently still serving and I remember that incident very clearly.
Just imagine how it was in the "old school" days when hazing was the norm. Semper Fi DD!
What an inspiring tale. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for listening🤙🏼
It’s good to see it was like that. My son followed in my footsteps. He’s a Sgt combat engineer that just reenlisted. He didn’t have boot camp like that but SOI and engineer school was fighting. Glad I raised a scrapper. I know exactly how he feels about getting out without scratching that itch. That’s why I became an arborist
Your son is a pussy
When I was in Boot in san diego in 05 we were like 2 weeks from graduation and heading to the chow hall on a saturday morning, a new recruit that had just got done with black friday jumped off the 3rd story back entrance of his barracks that was right next to the chow hall and hit the pullup bar and exploded his head all over the pavement... The DI that was outside the building right where it happened came running across the field to my DI and said "that stupid mother fucker just jumped off the 3rd deck" then joked about it being one less POS hes gotta deal with... We all had to turn around and sit cross legged on the ground with our heads in our laps while paramedics came and scraped him off the ground, Then we went to chow and moved on like nothing happened...
As the odd one out civilian I get that you have to be tough as nails as marines (ESPCIALLY marines 😮) but damn it seems like all the war experiences made him desensitized to death permanently. Although I can only imagine the di once retired having a big care for life and being all soft and cuddly with his little daughter, and him not having the balls to tell her ever about what he said 😂😂
I never witnessed a suicide attempt however the Senior Drill Instructor gave us instructions on how to slash our arteries the correct way so death would be about 99 per cent.
I had a usmc drill instructor till me go up to the next deck and jump off and sing "I believe I can fly" lol we was on the first deck in the medical platoon mrp
🤣😂 you never forget your DI’s 💯
In the military I met some of the most respectable people, but I also met a lot of deadbeats and downright bullies. Glad I left and never look back.
25:30 Marine Reservists got slayed as much as Active Duty. We had reservists with us, and I saw plenty reserve companies out front. Many of those guys had a crazy operational tempo.
Yeah, that’s the thing I don’t think many people understand is that reserve Marines and active duty Marines all go to the same Bootcamp and really you have no idea who is who until you get to know some of the guys. I went to boot camp in June 2006 MCRD SD. Loved hearing this interview.
@@thelegionisnotamused8929 you’re right. I was reserve and deployed with Austin as an 0352 too. 2 years prior, I deployed with 3/25 to the same AO. Our tempo with 3/25 was insane.
@@BrianCripps-y1lis it true that marines are gay ?
Austin, you keep showing up on my feed lol. Proud of you brother.
🤙🏼🇺🇸👊🏼 appreciate it brother
I had charges. Got a deal joined in 2006. Got out 2011 same story. Semper terminal combat lance.
I don’t think I’ve been to a single range out here where I saw any other dude that looked like they could do a pullup let alone weighted ones. The physical fitness thing needs to be harped on more especially for the “come and take it” crowd.
Plt 2115 San Diego recruit swan dove from the third deck from my platoon. Was not chill the least bit in 08 as well
Started from the bottom now he's here. Carmel Valley, dope cars, selling the dream. Some dudes are wired like this. Probably stacking up a roster of viewers for his workshops from this episode. Congrats to this dude, genuinely.
However,
Wolf of Wall Street has a third act.
Rich Piana was 46 when he died.
Leave some rubber on the tires man. That's all I got.
What a shocking screen promo
I don’t understand why the military was so ruthless when it comes to there own soldiers
I joined in 07 and shit was a little intense
same, 06
100%
Same, 04 😂
Oorah
Same 2006-2010
0621 2/5
I shipped to P.I March 2007 ..I agree!
It's unsettling seeing how much this guy smiles and smirks as he relives his violent actions
Good service. Thank you
I went to MCRD San Diego in 06 too. Then OIF and then OEF. Glad to hear some boot camp stories that sound familiar.
19:05 “Private Shmuckatelly” 😂
I’ve been to boot camp.. there’s always that one guy. They don’t last.
I was Navy though so I’m sure it’s different. 36:35 he mentioned the Seabees - that’s what I was.
Reserve too, so I can relate to his description of his feelings of regret in not just going active duty.
Fun and inspirational video. His going through boot camp and having DIs riding them hard to weed out recruits who they claim could get them killed reminds me of Full Metal Jacket. I wonder if he saw this movie.
I joined in 2000, the towers fell while i was deployed to okinawa. We were in a typhoon. Its so bizarre for me, thinking about how laid back Afghanistan was for me compared to iraq after that. Met my current wife out there, both of us being marines lol, 20 years and more to come. Lost a lot of people i called brother, saw a lot of people die that i called my enemy. What a crazy time to be alive.
floor? window? no comprende. porthole, deck, bulkhead, overhead, hatch, quarterdeck, apron, etc. IP = Irish Pennant. glad to hear Pvt Schmuckatelli was still there in 2006 from 1985
Thank you for the inspiration.
Interesting story especially the last part
What a dope come up story, definitely inspirational.
I was a cold war Marine 1982 to 1992
His teenage stories sound a lot like mine. I love when people are real and don’t hide their stories.
Hell yeah man I'd love to learn how to get out of being an ac diagnostic tech lol
I had a framing crew up in Michigan and Illinois for a while but man I've never figured out how to not kill myself every single day
Your an inspiration man
Holy shit. Dude said “drill instructor Sgt gant” after saying he had a salty 6’6” di in 06…. And I did the math. I served in 3/3 2012-2016 there was a gunny Gang in weapons company. Bout 6’6” black dude. Gotta be the same dude. Scary as hell, but that was a good dude. Well respected Marine. I had few interactions with him, but even as a lance, he was cool to me.
Army Basic 89 Texas. This guy tried to O.D. on pills and gets his ass kicked for failing! He didnt speak any english and had no idea where he was! Good job recruiters!😮
I would have thought as a older man your father would have known someone comes to YOUR PROPERTY make sure you are 100% prepared to take it to what ever level he needed
So inspiring
Great story. Thanks.
Dude you hit just in time to get in. I had just gotten to PI in 07, and worked for the 6 shop to expand the old weapons barracks into Quebec company, to support the "surge".
There were an ass of people on that island during that year or so. Ileft PI August 08, EAS's to Army. Kept pay grade and drove self to fort Gordon.
I did two pishups and now my titty hurts.
🤣😂🤣 give it time that’s all
@@UrbanValorTVI can’t with you 😂😂😂
Sound almost like my story getting in to the Army in 1990. Was a troubled teen in Tacoma from the 80's and 90's. Records of ex-sponged. Met a few guys that got the same deal joining the service during the time of war. Became a Scout active duty then a Foward Observer in the Wa. national guard. Got wounded in IOF2 x3. Loved my time in both branches 🇺🇸
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Love the new title card.
Since you were assigned to guard high ranking people and VIP's they intentionally moved them in relatively safe areas. You don't have to be a door kicker on the front line to be a man. Showing up for your family every day is more rewarding brother.
I wish i never got kicked out of The Marines in 1997. After only 1 year of service for poppin positive on a piss test for weed. Regret it everyday.
I feel that
Good story. I hope we cross paths one day.
I was in Haditha 2006, worked South down the Euphrates and Dulab. Delta Co 3rd AABN.
Dudes like this are the reason nobody wants to be in or stay in, and it's crazy to me that it's the same dudes that will always complain about the workload.... like my brother in Christ, you are the reason we are two guys doing a five-man job.
Im 17 now senior in hs and i wanna be a army ranger watching this make me think the corps might do me better
No it really won't. Go to the AF. You think you wanna be SF. No I promise you really don't.
What an inspirational story. Blessings!
I remember someone else talking about the interpreter speaking like someone from the mob i forgot where it was from 😂
Nowadays all these stories about him fighting people would end in death from a gun. So many cowardice teenagers and young adults carry guns illegally.
Thankfully that's a problem that's almost exclusively in the inner cities. Kids from any other areas almost always have way more respect for life than that.
@@YeseniaV92Where was Parkland? Inner city?
@@Bruss813lol you're funny 😁
@@YeseniaV92 True that.
@@YeseniaV92exactly. Country life is awesome
Idk that third deck story sounds like one that happened in 2016 dude nose dived off kilos third deck. Shit was kinda crazy fr.
I was there in 2017 that's what Lima company called kilo lol shit was f-ed tho you could still make out the blood stain
Way to better yourself! Marine! SALUTE 👏🏾 🫡
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That happened when I was in p.i. I was on first deck all we heard was yelling then a loud thud. He did a sailors dive onto the pavement
What he says about looking for the fight while you are punching a clock leaves a guy with his tank half full. I went from a super kinetic deployment to a jobsite and it wasn't good. I was fortunate to meet the right people and got on a great path but it's hard to say killing people is a great thing but battle is highly addictive and you need to find an outlet quickly upon departing active service. This brother did it right and is living proof you do not have to have an MBA to be successful but you have to go get it!!!
Man i totally get the itch for getting into TICs but having been in alot of em id rathrr have a calm quiet day compared to combat. I joined to be a grunt and had to get a wavier to enlist too but went active duty first then did an additional 2 yrs reserves, having done active duty first and doing a combat deployment ,the reserves was soo much easier then active duty. I was 10th mountain 3rd brigade combat team afghanistan was our bread n butter. 06 was a 16th month then 09 12 month and then in 2011 12 month and then got out and they guys went back in 2013 i think. So lirerally every 2 yrs gettin deployed and if ur in a line plt guaranteed to get trigger time
I was stationed at MCRD San Diego in the late 80s.I processed recruits during the day and drank with the DIs at night. There was some really great DIs and there were some real assholes.
No such a thing as friends much, just coworkers in the military, don't get personal with anyone, no such thing as friends. Alot of rats as in fake friends, backstabbing.
you wanna talk about it bub? I take it you got the broom stick treatment
@DREKOWICK69 I will never trust anyone in the military again once I go back into the military again.
No friends, just coworkers, that is all, yes, still talk to other's and treat others as humans with respect and have fun and stuff but still...not friend's, best to avoid it all by accepting it still to be coworkers and to avoid things getting personal, negativity, grudge, etc.
Sounds like you you've got some issues, dude. My husband is former Army. His best friends to this day are guys he's served with. Seems to be the case for most guys that were in.
Been out 20years and I’m still brothers with my old Marines
@YeseniaV92 No, not me of issues, as in me that is the problem.
I mean do wanna have friends but I realized the truth of it.
I was in the Marine Corps in 2004. Brutal
Wow we never got a weekend off when I was in the Marine Corps, 1979 Bravo Company 1092
Bro... Echo Co Oct 2006... DIs beat the ever living hell out of us daily
Some dude snuck off to the porta shitters in itb by himself and shot himself in the head while we were staging our gear, they made us sprint to the next range with all our gear and it started pouring down rain. We had to stand still for at least 16 hours while each instructor individually grilled us about what happened and told some kids it shouldve been them instead. A couple days after that was the split and idk about the weapons platoon but that next month was literal hell. They started turning marines against eachother, dudes getting head injuries from getting slammed on concrete during the night. Chinese field days every weekend. I think theh tried to sweep it all under the rug, told the family it was just an accident to my knowledge. I was just a reservist so when i got back i just started smoking a ton of weed. Lucky me my first weekend of duty there were random drug test and i got kicked out. I have buddies that had incredible experiences. Your milage may vary.
Just last year, my drill Sgt’s were making fun of a trainees botched unalive attempt.
Ironically the people I did basic training with in the Army who were reserve and national guard probably deployed but I never did as active duty.
I was at MCRD-San Diego in June-September 2006 as well and so much of this has hit right home. We heard about the guy trying to kill himself and there was actually another one we heard of a guy that tried to hang himself. Probably happened to every class at the time given the recruit pool. We tried to throw one of our “shit bags “down the stairs to break his legs to get him dropped out of our platoon too because he couldn’t march and he was constantly getting the whole platoon fucked up. It was basically the same 5 to 8 guys fucking up every time getting the whole platoon in trouble. Our drill instructors, all of whom are exactly like this Marine is explaining, just back from Iraq, not wanting to let weak recruits through, (mine were Sr. Drill Instructor SSgt Glenn, DI SSgt Reyes, DI SSgt Spears and DI Sgt Reid), were like hissing snake super heroes. A lot of the DI’s develop this “DI Voice” were it is super raspy because they have completely lost their voice but still have to scream. I could go on and on about stories from that time. I had a very similar story to Austin growing up and after high school. I needed a boot up my ass fast or I was going to be dead or in prison. I always wanted to be a Marine for some reason. I’m a successful Chef today and I have the United States Marine Corps to thank for MUCH if not MOST of it. Life CERTAINLY wasn’t peaches and cream after but it set me on a path that I wouldn’t have gone down otherwise, a positive one. They always told us one day we were going to wish we could go back and do it all over again. I don’t know if that’s 100% true but I would sure like to go back and re-live a little bit of it over again. Peace Y’all. 🤘✌️
You tried to intentionally break dudes legs? that’s crazy
So a guy is short and can’t do the runs the same way that everyone else can see you try to break his fucking legs. This is psychotic give him a job that he will do good at making him make him a cook give him a job that he will excel that instead of giving him shit or something that he is genetically not design to do
It happened alot back in those days....
"Why won't people join the military?"
Great story and post service recovery 👍
A lot of his story from being in trouble t boot camp etc... is like mine when I went in 88
He goes in the new marine corps with old stories form a long time ago. This dude has a complex. Talking and buying his way to the top. Anyone who knows, knows the new military and old military.