The kill hats were the biggest surprise for me. They were literally demons running around like maniacs. Inhuman. No movie or bootcamp video ever shows it. Thanks for uploading
My SDi wasn't into playing with voices and screaming much ..he would yell it echoed and shook the gates at the entrance to the depot.Hard work ,pt, knowledge,and especially drill was what made him great.
All "fun" and "games" until you're actually in the eye of the storm. Real "fun" when it's singled out on you personally. The wrath is intense and hurts. No escaping no where for your mind to wander. The ultimate reality when your Drill Instructors comes crashing down on you. No where to go no where to hide. The wake up call to becoming a Marine. Very sobering and scary as hell.
Ahhhh the days 😍😍😍 you got 2 drill instructors counting over each other, another one running laps up and down the squad bay, 5 recruits are getting lit up on the quarterdeck, bags are being dumped, recruits running back and forth, it’s just pure chaos and there’s nothing like it.
alex martinez only wish someone had footage of when they make you do the stupid shit like scuzzing the squad bay with another recruit or drill movements with footlockers
This is soft. We had two recruits knocked out the first day on black Friday. We had water bowl IT sessions (puke covering the entire deck of the squad bay) constantly. Second phase we stole another platoons guide on since they took ours and had their drill instructor beat the living shit out of our guide while he just watched and smiled.
Always makes me remember what was going through my head on Black Friday. Nobody other than a marine can explain how amazing it was to shake the hand of a drill instructor and have him say “job well done, Marine” still brings tears just thinking of it. Semper Fi devil dogs
Little did we know at the time of being recruits that those 3 months on parris island would be some of the greatest 3 months of our lives. It was such an honor to just be able to say i survived parris island or san diego. Change is forever. S/F brothers
I graduated last year so yes in a way we were “babied” (we would still get thrashed but what happens in the squad bay stays in the squad bay. I miss my drill instructors
I still remember my first wakeup. All three DI's with batons banging on the inside of GI cans screaming at the top of their lungs. I was already up I was so nervous. I didn't take a dump for 7 damn days.
On the first day we had to throw all our boots in the middle. A drill instructor came through with a push broom and made one big pile. For all of boot camp, I had the wrong size boots. I never could find my own. My boots were too small. '93
Well, that makes ZERO logical sense whatsoever!!! If you can't walk, you can't fight!!! You think I'm staying in there without my shoes...? You got another thing coming!!!
Summer of 84 Parris Island...this is the most realistic video of old school boot camp...too bad nobody has one of when we did close order drill with our mattresses....that was fun😁
I don't regret ever serving in the Corp's. I served 3 years in the Army and I crossed over the discipline that was instilled in me from the Marine corps and proudly the Sargent's in the Army saw that. Marine Corps forever, Semper Fi !!!!!!!
I did the same thing and I also spent 3 years in the Army as well. I wished many of days that I reenlist back in the Corp, I had Sgt's that failed inspection because sgt major found chicken bones under his rack and had fellow soldiers fail drug test all the time. I thank God that I never went to combat with them, I always told people in my unit that I would go to war any day with my Marines than go with you all. I will say this last thing also the only thing that the Army does is promote faster, that's all I thank God that he bless me to get out before my unit went to combat because I really believe in my heart that I would not have made it back alive with the unit that I was in. Semper Fi !!!!!!!
This is what bootcamp should be like in every branch. It prepares you mentally for combat. I served in the Army and I wish we had this kind of indoctrination.
If I could go back in time I should’ve joined the marine corps and not the army. But now that I already joined, I never want to go through this type of experience again. The army sucked, and the marine corps is worse.
@@HateTheIRS Its a little funny you say that. I think back at all the craziness that happened in boot camp and everything I did and places I went in my short 4 years being in the Marine Corps and I can tell you Parris Island, while being very difficult for many different reasons, was among the best memories I have had. If I could go back and do boot camp again I would in a heart beat, there is no feeling like it. Yes it was extremely difficult but it made me who I am and what I am to my very core.
Hell this should be mandatory for EVERY 18 year old boy and girl in America to experience Marine basic training for 3 months after graduating high school. Enlisting beyond should still be completely voluntary, but this shit will turn every ill-mannered, self centered, gen-y and gen-z punk addicted to their cell phone with no comprehension of the real world into respectable, responsible, productive, hard working, and thoughtful young American citizens. I believe it would make our country vastly better. Exponentially better. If everyone had to go through 3 months of Marine basic training. It would teach everyone what truly matters in life, how to deal with disappointment and loss, how to solve problems, how to be responsible and productive, to be healthy...... my gosh, even if 90% would fail or drop out, they'd at least have an understanding that life ain't easy and to succeed you have to take personal responsibility. So then when they go off to college they don't go for the easiest degree that would be useless yet indoctrinate them in destructive liberal agendas but attain a degree they can actually apply in life and use to do something. Or go into the trades, constructions, machining........ I'm really imagining how much stronger America would be if everyone had just a taste of Marine training.
I was there in 72' there just as tough as back then it's a blessing to see the DI is the same. I laugh watching now believe me I was scared shit when I went threw it.
Ijeffrey Trian That is the great thing about the Marine Corps. We take pride in our heritage and feel an obligation to live up to the high standards set by those that are the uniform before us. People like you set a high standard and passed it on to the next generation. It looks like the new generation are trying to do the same. Semper Fi!
Thank you for the flashback of P.I. I arrived as a Recruit in the early morning hours of Jan 2, 1992 and graduated from Plt 3025, 3rd Btn, L Co. on March 27th. Never will forget my 13 weeks there.
The MEMORIES!!!! I went thru boot camp back in 2004 @ PI. AND WE GOT DESTROYED!!!!! LIMA CO. Was the shit!!!! My kill hat was soo bad our Senior had to keep him away from us sometimes!!! Some of the best/worse times of my life but it definitely made me into who I am today!!! Semper Fi Marines!!!!
I was one of those "confused" recruits walking around confused, and I tell you what you DO NOT want to be one of those "confused" recruits because you're TARGET NUMBER 1 for a bad smoking session with some "corrective training" add in on the quarter deck. The whole experience would often bring me to tears because the stress got to me so much. This place is NOT for light weights, you better have thick skin and better know how to think on your feet or will you get eaten alive by those DIs as they correct your constant screw ups.
@@jheartbeats3294 yeah man sometimes people aren’t meant for certain things in life and don’t get me wrong it was a hard experience and not every person can be a marine but I’m glad I still attempted it or I would of wondered my whole life if it was for me or not. But I’ve learned a lot about myself and new principles! I still talk to my friend Jacob( he was a poolee that was with me when I got quarantined for a month) and he likes the marines sucks ass😂. 1017 was the platoon I was in before I got dropped to RSP🥹. Them mofos In RSP was different breeds of people😂
It’s always good to see where I came from, makes me proud of who I am today and reinforces the very basic fundamentals of success in life. God bless SF 🦅 🌎 ⚓️
I was at mcrd san diego around this time. Really captures it well. I really love these guys, they're some of the most impressive people I've ever met. This intensity is really constant, they never break character. For 3 months. At first you really start thinking 1 good sucker punch on one of them would be worth the dishonorable discharge. But it turns, our senior literally told us the day it would "click" and it did. Part of that is realizing how hard these guys work. They changed my life, and I could never thank them enough.
I was in Parris Island 1982....Wow! I remember the Drill Instructors knocking over racks with mattresses, sheets and blankets strewn all over the squad bay!
Somewhere in there is a bully who use to pick on ppl. Who used to take advantage of the vulnerable. And who didn't think the Corps was this way. Yes thats him, stressed out, yelled at, gear kicked around and he is not able to call home and leave...he is stuck in a lions den. And it is very humbling.
I was super blessed, I had a Drill Instructor Sgt. Jones. He was Force Recon. He called Cadence as the Sun was coming up we were in a couple of miles on a decent passed Run. He is running circles around the platoon we are singing back it was super motivation, he simultaneously is doing super man chest bumbs on the wet grass next to us never missing a beat.... Fucking Outstanding... 40+ years ago.. my minds eye See's it clearly. WOW... I sometimes fantasize about the Rifle Range. Once In the fleet, it was the Best times. I can smell black powder....hmmm
There was a DI when i was at MCRD San Diego on the mid 80s. He was a Force Recon unit team leader. And he would run circles around the platoon as we were on our runs. This guy was an animal. He would run ahead of us and do push-ups till we caught up then do chest bumps on the trees then run around the platoon a few more times. That brings back some great memories.
Been quite a few years since I've been there, I still don't miss it. They don't show what happens when the cameras aren't rolling, my DI used to quote the sign on Parris Island that said, "Let no man's ghost come back here and say, 'if only your training had done its job.' " he knew he was training us for combat, war, and death, and they didn't hold anything back.
We had a guy start screaming to no end during one of those school circles; they took him out on a stretcher, I had no idea he was having a breakdown for many years having no idea what a breakdown was, it was quiet as class went on and then he lost it--screaming and screaming for no reason, still sitting with his legs crossed. I was also too stupid then to think he might have faked it; they made us all turn and face the bulkhead until some EMS-type folk took him out. It scared the crap out of me and probably other people, too, I was sweating cold over it, and if it was fake, it worked (I don't think it was). He being one of those beefy dudes in first phase who'd been around you knew would make it easy; I still remember what he looked like, a little.
We had a dude break down in basic too, all crying and shit. It was towards the end of BCT and even the DS were like wtf is wrong bro? Turns out he blew out his appendix. Poor dude.
We had a guy on our first day we got our DIs. I forget what that day is called, but he was a heavy set guy that obviously didn't know what he got himself into. He's on the quarterdeck with all 3 DIs standing around him screaming exercises & he's just sitting there rocking forward and back slapping the floor with his hands every time he goes forward & screaming YES SIR! over & over again crying like a baby. We never saw him again after that. DEAD SIR! we all yelled when he was mentioned later by the senior DI.
It was 1st phase, just after reveille......... I was taking a leak in the head next to another scrawny kid such as myself, who was telling everyone he was about to quit..... I recall telling him that was a bad idea, but he ignored me & the other recruits advice to NOT do that...... So we started doing field day, and that's when he told one of the DI's to fuck off and then proceeded to run out of the squad bay into the lovely grounds of MCRD San Diego.............We saw him again, shortly after. He was in hand-cuffs, courtesy of the MP's, and we all saw it, class room style, in that squad bay. Crying like a toddler as the MP's treated him FAR worse than the DI's...The battalion commander arrived, had a chat with the Drill Instructors, and decided he's gotta' go back home............Semper Fi.
One dude the first day--if not the first five minutes of first phase--said he wasn't going to do shit so sat on a rack, or they put him as far to the back of the squad-bay as possible--away from all the chaos. The DI's were all nice like in "Tribes" with Jan-Michael Vincent, asking in low voices "'Are you going to do this..?' 'Naw, I ain't doin' nothin.' 'You sure?' 'Yep.'" And he was gone just like that while the rest of us were treated like we were in boot camp
The Di's formed us up outside. While we waited we could hear the DI's totally destroying the squad bay. While we stood at attention outside all you could see through the windows were pillows and bed sheets flying across the room. A rack on each end was tipped over which caused a domino effect of all the racks falling over. The sound of foot lockers being dumped all over, and us recruits muttering softly outside "we're fucked." The DI's came outside and told us "you have exactly 3 minutes to unfuck that mess." When three minutes were up and didn't have it cleaned up by then (impossible) we were told "you're done, get back outside." We looked through the squad bay windows to racks toppling over again. Footlockers being dumped and pillows and bedsheets flying across the squadbay. Ahhh boot camp! I wouldn't trade my boot camp time for anything.
How do you even get a recording. I would think the Marine Corps would not allow recording of this kind of thing. It’s so difficult to get the actual of what happens in boot camp these days since the Marine Corps doesn’t want civilians to know what really happens to not scare them to join.
Bring back lots of memories from when I went through Boot In the 60's when u had 3 weeks of forming and then a Pt. Test before u started your 12 weeks of Boot Camp but if u did pass your Pt. Test u went to conditioning Plt. But I passed my Pt. Test
This is one of crazy stuff that made me rebook at boot cam. But after completing bootcamp there is that feeling. If you graduate then you are part of a high skilled warrior.
It brought back lots of memories from when we got picked up and was taken to 3rd Bat.and we were on the 3rd deck and the seabags were sure heavy after marching from receiving to 3rd bal. Caring those seabags I thought we were never going to get there and and having these Di's yelling at us the whole way and I dropped my seabag a few times and that was a mistake because I had 3 Di's all over me, but over all boot camp was a good thing for me
If you're talking about P.I., I guess I was lucky because I was in 2nd Bn and our barracks was diagonally across the street from the old wood building where Receiving was.
Yr 1999, went through during that Summer at MCRD graduated at the end of July that year, had my 19th Birthday on the quarter deck, getting smoked. PI recruits always hating on us Hollywood Marines, same intensity, different area. Up North at Camp P, edson range was rough, the first time I ever slept standing up going through the crucible. I could go on, but am forever thankful to the Corp, Semper Fi. "Yuuuuut" 0311 3/3
lol- the memories- sgt hayward-sgt pickering- sgt gagne. have to say this video is tame compared to when i was at PI in 1960-they kicked the shit out of us. but it made us tough.
@@itsAmeOFP I am glad to hear it and thanks for your Service, Brother! That is crazy, the dude got it that bad...!? I can imagine it would be quite comical and just as worrisome. Now, if that happens, the guy would be sent home at the end of Basic, correct?
Wow. Finally a real video of what it's like! Is this Hollywood or Parris Island? I'm guessing San Diego because I dont recognize the barracks but I could be wrong
Yah. Is pretty rare to see! Our commanding officer was pretty awesome to share with us. We edited his video to only show footage our platoon but the original captured and brings back great memories.
The kill hats were the biggest surprise for me. They were literally demons running around like maniacs. Inhuman. No movie or bootcamp video ever shows it.
Thanks for uploading
Thanks Nick. Had a lot of fun as a “Kill Hat”. Was a lot of work, but came naturally. You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
They forgot to mention slapping you around, or popping you in the nose with the DI cover and cutting it!
My SDi wasn't into playing with voices and screaming much ..he would yell it echoed and shook the gates at the entrance to the depot.Hard work ,pt, knowledge,and especially drill was what made him great.
Yeah they were! Especially the heavy. Terrifying! SDI was like the dad who would show up and calm them down occasionally.
All "fun" and "games" until you're actually in the eye of the storm. Real "fun" when it's singled out on you personally. The wrath is intense and hurts.
No escaping no where for your mind to wander. The ultimate reality when your Drill Instructors comes crashing down on you. No where to go no where to hide.
The wake up call to becoming a Marine. Very sobering and scary as hell.
Ahhhh the days 😍😍😍 you got 2 drill instructors counting over each other, another one running laps up and down the squad bay, 5 recruits are getting lit up on the quarterdeck, bags are being dumped, recruits running back and forth, it’s just pure chaos and there’s nothing like it.
ahhhhhh this is more like it. finally someone posted what its really like
alex martinez only wish someone had footage of when they make you do the stupid shit like scuzzing the squad bay with another recruit or drill movements with footlockers
Pretty weak Army Artillery fort sill 05 was like this and more.
@@GODWITHUS0712 Man the Army really is as stupid as everyone says you are.
@@patrickmac9403 you are a dumbass if you think so 🤣. The only people on youtube who make comments like you just did are people that never served .
This is soft. We had two recruits knocked out the first day on black Friday. We had water bowl IT sessions (puke covering the entire deck of the squad bay) constantly. Second phase we stole another platoons guide on since they took ours and had their drill instructor beat the living shit out of our guide while he just watched and smiled.
Always makes me remember what was going through my head on Black Friday. Nobody other than a marine can explain how amazing it was to shake the hand of a drill instructor and have him say “job well done, Marine” still brings tears just thinking of it. Semper Fi devil dogs
It doesn't bring back memories it brings nightmares the horror the horror
Little did we know at the time of being recruits that those 3 months on parris island would be some of the greatest 3 months of our lives. It was such an honor to just be able to say i survived parris island or san diego. Change is forever. S/F brothers
I graduated last year so yes in a way we were “babied” (we would still get thrashed but what happens in the squad bay stays in the squad bay. I miss my drill instructors
@@julianvilla5536 You miss your Di? I fucking hated mine. Semper fi
@@julianvilla5536 u were Not babied Devil Dog!!!
So we'll put. Semper Fi
@@julianvilla5536 I miss my Drill Instructors because they taught me so much. But I never want to step foot on that island again.
Still scares the crap out of me and I was there in 1975
James Ullmer, Jr. your old.
@@chickenflinger5002 And still harder than you.
@@ryanveach5222 i mesn too many pussies in now sooooo....
@@chickenflinger5002 you don't even know how to type, so I wouldn't talk about someone else...
@@b.entranceperium well im not typing from a laptop
I still remember my first wakeup. All three DI's with batons banging on the inside of GI cans screaming at the top of their lungs. I was already up I was so nervous. I didn't take a dump for 7 damn days.
This is one reason why you thank someone for their service. This training is hardcore
@Leeroy Jenkins in the USMC you are trained to be a infantryman, deployed or not. The USMC might be the most stereotypical military branch.
@Leeroy Jenkins guess who protects "Muh Freedom"?
On the first day we had to throw all our boots in the middle. A drill instructor came through with a push broom and made one big pile. For all of boot camp, I had the wrong size boots. I never could find my own. My boots were too small. '93
Well, that makes ZERO logical sense whatsoever!!! If you can't walk, you can't fight!!! You think I'm staying in there without my shoes...? You got another thing coming!!!
Summer of 84 Parris Island...this is the most realistic video of old school boot camp...too bad nobody has one of when we did close order drill with our mattresses....that was fun😁
I was there that same summer. Platoon 1074, B Co, 1st Bn - Arrived 5/28/84. Grad 8/84. Semper Fi Brother!
P.I Aug 17 to Nov 5 1963. Semper Fi
close!!!! Footlockers!!!!!!
Semper fi.....platoon 1082 Parris island...next to the swamp, 13 June 84 day 1, graduation early September 84....Happy 4th of July
Semper Fi my friend...platoon 1082...arrived June 13 1984.
I don't regret ever serving in the Corp's. I served 3 years in the Army and I crossed over the discipline that was instilled in me from the Marine corps and proudly the Sargent's in the Army saw that. Marine Corps forever, Semper Fi !!!!!!!
I did the same thing and I also spent 3 years in the Army as well. I wished many of days that I reenlist back in the Corp, I had Sgt's that failed inspection because sgt major found chicken bones under his rack and had fellow soldiers fail drug test all the time. I thank God that I never went to combat with them, I always told people in my unit that I would go to war any day with my Marines than go with you all. I will say this last thing also the only thing that the Army does is promote faster, that's all I thank God that he bless me to get out before my unit went to combat because I really believe in my heart that I would not have made it back alive with the unit that I was in. Semper Fi !!!!!!!
This is what bootcamp should be like in every branch. It prepares you mentally for combat. I served in the Army and I wish we had this kind of indoctrination.
If I could go back in time I should’ve joined the marine corps and not the army.
But now that I already joined, I never want to go through this type of experience again. The army sucked, and the marine corps is worse.
I think because of society wanting to make shit easier and being so much more soft is because of the way army bct is but idc I'm still joining
@@HateTheIRS Its a little funny you say that. I think back at all the craziness that happened in boot camp and everything I did and places I went in my short 4 years being in the Marine Corps and I can tell you Parris Island, while being very difficult for many different reasons, was among the best memories I have had. If I could go back and do boot camp again I would in a heart beat, there is no feeling like it. Yes it was extremely difficult but it made me who I am and what I am to my very core.
@@eviljack1687 I wouldn’t feel the same way lol
Hell this should be mandatory for EVERY 18 year old boy and girl in America to experience Marine basic training for 3 months after graduating high school. Enlisting beyond should still be completely voluntary, but this shit will turn every ill-mannered, self centered, gen-y and gen-z punk addicted to their cell phone with no comprehension of the real world into respectable, responsible, productive, hard working, and thoughtful young American citizens. I believe it would make our country vastly better. Exponentially better. If everyone had to go through 3 months of Marine basic training.
It would teach everyone what truly matters in life, how to deal with disappointment and loss, how to solve problems, how to be responsible and productive, to be healthy...... my gosh, even if 90% would fail or drop out, they'd at least have an understanding that life ain't easy and to succeed you have to take personal responsibility. So then when they go off to college they don't go for the easiest degree that would be useless yet indoctrinate them in destructive liberal agendas but attain a degree they can actually apply in life and use to do something. Or go into the trades, constructions, machining........ I'm really imagining how much stronger America would be if everyone had just a taste of Marine training.
I was there in 72' there just as tough as back then it's a blessing to see the DI is the same. I laugh watching now believe me I was scared shit when I went threw it.
Ijeffrey Trian That is the great thing about the Marine Corps. We take pride in our heritage and feel an obligation to live up to the high standards set by those that are the uniform before us. People like you set a high standard and passed it on to the next generation. It looks like the new generation are trying to do the same. Semper Fi!
Those DIs are currently smoking the shit out of all 8 people who disliked this video.
hahahaha
Thank you for the flashback of P.I. I arrived as a Recruit in the early morning hours of Jan 2, 1992 and graduated from Plt 3025, 3rd Btn, L Co. on March 27th. Never will forget my 13 weeks there.
I was there from Jan 20 1992 to April 18. I just missed you but probably saw you in the fleet somewhere
The MEMORIES!!!! I went thru boot camp back in 2004 @ PI. AND WE GOT DESTROYED!!!!! LIMA CO. Was the shit!!!! My kill hat was soo bad our Senior had to keep him away from us sometimes!!! Some of the best/worse times of my life but it definitely made me into who I am today!!! Semper Fi Marines!!!!
after 20 years .... I still love this stuff ! semper fidelis !
After 42 I do too
@@bobbyallen7977 35 + years ... all these memories engraved into my "brain-housing group"
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is LOL! Yep that brain housing group has a way of doing that 😂
I was one of those "confused" recruits walking around confused, and I tell you what you DO NOT want to be one of those "confused" recruits because you're TARGET NUMBER 1 for a bad smoking session with some "corrective training" add in on the quarter deck. The whole experience would often bring me to tears because the stress got to me so much. This place is NOT for light weights, you better have thick skin and better know how to think on your feet or will you get eaten alive by those DIs as they correct your constant screw ups.
I was too man! Sucks ass tbh but hey props to u if u made it through🤘🏼 I ended gettin out over leg injuries…
@@jheartbeats3294 yeah man sometimes people aren’t meant for certain things in life and don’t get me wrong it was a hard experience and not every person can be a marine but I’m glad I still attempted it or I would of wondered my whole life if it was for me or not. But I’ve learned a lot about myself and new principles! I still talk to my friend Jacob( he was a poolee that was with me when I got quarantined for a month) and he likes the marines sucks ass😂. 1017 was the platoon I was in before I got dropped to RSP🥹. Them mofos In RSP was different breeds of people😂
How a person can move that fast In quarter frames is just impressive
FUCK I MISS THIS SHIT !!!!!
They all deserve an Oscar...... best actors in the world !!
That DI loves his job(one kicking shit)
Shoulda been a soccer player!
Really did love the job. Was an honor!
@@dohertyranch7886 Is that you?
It’s always good to see where I came from, makes me proud of who I am today and reinforces the very basic fundamentals of success in life. God bless SF 🦅 🌎 ⚓️
I was at mcrd san diego around this time. Really captures it well. I really love these guys, they're some of the most impressive people I've ever met. This intensity is really constant, they never break character. For 3 months. At first you really start thinking 1 good sucker punch on one of them would be worth the dishonorable discharge. But it turns, our senior literally told us the day it would "click" and it did. Part of that is realizing how hard these guys work. They changed my life, and I could never thank them enough.
I was in Parris Island 1982....Wow! I remember the Drill Instructors knocking over racks with mattresses, sheets and blankets strewn all over the squad bay!
How was the feel.of P I. In 82 ?
Marine Corps Drill Instructors…. The Fathers of my youth. Semper Fidelis 🇺🇸
Absolutely agree. USMC 1979-1983.
@@billrahn8723 I was in from 1983-1989
Still shittin boot camp chow
This is more like it. I’ve been waiting to show my wife a video which somewhat exemplifies my Friday, March 13 09. This is awesome, hope all is well.
Somewhere in there is a bully who use to pick on ppl. Who used to take advantage of the vulnerable. And who didn't think the Corps was this way. Yes thats him, stressed out, yelled at, gear kicked around and he is not able to call home and leave...he is stuck in a lions den. And it is very humbling.
I was super blessed, I had a Drill Instructor Sgt. Jones. He was Force Recon. He called Cadence as the Sun was coming up we were in a couple of miles on a decent passed Run. He is running circles around the platoon we are singing back it was super motivation, he simultaneously is doing super man chest bumbs on the wet grass next to us never missing a beat.... Fucking Outstanding... 40+ years ago.. my minds eye See's it clearly. WOW... I sometimes fantasize about the Rifle Range. Once In the fleet, it was the Best times. I can smell black powder....hmmm
There was a DI when i was at MCRD San Diego on the mid 80s. He was a Force Recon unit team leader. And he would run circles around the platoon as we were on our runs. This guy was an animal. He would run ahead of us and do push-ups till we caught up then do chest bumps on the trees then run around the platoon a few more times. That brings
back some great memories.
Yep takes me back to the good ole days. MCRD Parris Island, Plt 3014, November 21, 1988-February 14, 1989... Oorah!
Been quite a few years since I've been there, I still don't miss it. They don't show what happens when the cameras aren't rolling, my DI used to quote the sign on Parris Island that said, "Let no man's ghost come back here and say, 'if only your training had done its job.' " he knew he was training us for combat, war, and death, and they didn't hold anything back.
This just took me back! Good ol days. Not digital cammie recruits.
We had a guy start screaming to no end during one of those school circles; they took him out on a stretcher, I had no idea he was having a breakdown for many years having no idea what a breakdown was, it was quiet as class went on and then he lost it--screaming and screaming for no reason, still sitting with his legs crossed. I was also too stupid then to think he might have faked it; they made us all turn and face the bulkhead until some EMS-type folk took him out. It scared the crap out of me and probably other people, too, I was sweating cold over it, and if it was fake, it worked (I don't think it was). He being one of those beefy dudes in first phase who'd been around you knew would make it easy; I still remember what he looked like, a little.
We had a dude break down in basic too, all crying and shit. It was towards the end of BCT and even the DS were like wtf is wrong bro? Turns out he blew out his appendix. Poor dude.
We had a guy on our first day we got our DIs. I forget what that day is called, but he was a heavy set guy that obviously didn't know what he got himself into. He's on the quarterdeck with all 3 DIs standing around him screaming exercises & he's just sitting there rocking forward and back slapping the floor with his hands every time he goes forward & screaming YES SIR! over & over again crying like a baby. We never saw him again after that. DEAD SIR! we all yelled when he was mentioned later by the senior DI.
It was 1st phase, just after reveille......... I was taking a leak in the head next to another scrawny kid such as myself, who was telling everyone he was about to quit..... I recall telling him that was a bad idea, but he ignored me & the other recruits advice to NOT do that...... So we started doing field day, and that's when he told one of the DI's to fuck off and then proceeded to run out of the squad bay into the lovely grounds of MCRD San Diego.............We saw him again, shortly after. He was in hand-cuffs, courtesy of the MP's, and we all saw it, class room style, in that squad bay. Crying like a toddler as the MP's treated him FAR worse than the DI's...The battalion commander arrived, had a chat with the Drill Instructors, and decided he's gotta' go back home............Semper Fi.
One dude the first day--if not the first five minutes of first phase--said he wasn't going to do shit so sat on a rack, or they put him as far to the back of the squad-bay as possible--away from all the chaos. The DI's were all nice like in "Tribes" with Jan-Michael Vincent, asking in low voices "'Are you going to do this..?' 'Naw, I ain't doin' nothin.' 'You sure?' 'Yep.'" And he was gone just like that while the rest of us were treated like we were in boot camp
The Di's formed us up outside. While we waited we could hear the DI's totally destroying the squad bay. While we stood at attention outside all you could see through the windows were pillows and bed sheets flying across the room. A rack on each end was tipped over which caused a domino effect of all the racks falling over. The sound of foot lockers being dumped all over, and us recruits muttering softly outside "we're fucked." The DI's came outside and told us "you have exactly 3 minutes to unfuck that mess." When three minutes were up and didn't have it cleaned up by then (impossible) we were told "you're done, get back outside." We looked through the squad bay windows to racks toppling over again. Footlockers being dumped and pillows and bedsheets flying across the squadbay. Ahhh boot camp! I wouldn't trade my boot camp time for anything.
TOO SLOW!!!! Get back outside, *NOW!!!!!* Fall In!
Damn. Finally some real footage, not watered down. I was in Golf Co. 2004. Semper Fi.
How do you even get a recording. I would think the Marine Corps would not allow recording of this kind of thing. It’s so difficult to get the actual of what happens in boot camp these days since the Marine Corps doesn’t want civilians to know what really happens to not scare them to join.
I just got a copy of the video. Someone else made the video.
Parris Island plt 3086 1990 it feels like it was yesterday watching this video.. Now I can laugh at it …Semper Fi …
This is why I have nothing but respect for the Marine Corps.
I went through PI in 1975....this video is pretty much how it was, except for the lack of flying mattresses, footlockers, and racks.
...& recruits
That was the toughest part of basic. Getting your shit thrown everywhere. It’s for a reason though.
Once you’ve earned the title......
Once a Marine Always a Marine
Only those that have completed training get it.
Semper Fidelis
1969- 1973
The fear in those kids eyes. Building body stackers! Forged out of the ashes of mount Doom!
The hand in the face "get away from me get away from me" oh boy is this video truly accurate with no bullshit way to play it soft for the camera
WOWZA! you know from a civilian perspective im glad to get a glimpse ... I have a genetic disorder Marine Corps people keep me going!
Bring back lots of memories from when I went through Boot In the 60's when u had 3 weeks of forming and then a Pt. Test before u started your 12 weeks of Boot Camp but if u did pass your Pt. Test u went to conditioning Plt. But I passed my Pt. Test
This is one of crazy stuff that made me rebook at boot cam. But after completing bootcamp there is that feeling. If you graduate then you are part of a high skilled warrior.
I went though this in 1977, oh such memories!!! Semper Fi
With all due respect... where is part 3
This was calm compared to PI in 1970!
God I love this shit! Finally an accurate video of boot camp!
We thought we were gods, fearless. We thought we could do anything. Cocky bastards. Loved it! S/F
OORAH! A real boot camp video lol
Yes, the good old days. MCRD Parris Island S. C. Takes me back to 1979.
Ooh Rah! USMC June 29 1979-31 Jan 2005
It brought back lots of memories from when we got picked up and was taken to 3rd Bat.and we were on the 3rd deck and the seabags were sure heavy after marching from receiving to 3rd bal. Caring those seabags I thought we were never going to get there and and having these Di's yelling at us the whole way and I dropped my seabag a few times and that was a mistake because I had 3 Di's all over me, but over all boot camp was a good thing for me
If you're talking about P.I., I guess I was lucky because I was in 2nd Bn and our barracks was diagonally across the street from the old wood building where Receiving was.
Yr 1999, went through during that Summer at MCRD graduated at the end of July that year, had my 19th Birthday on the quarter deck, getting smoked. PI recruits always hating on us Hollywood Marines, same intensity, different area. Up North at Camp P, edson range was rough, the first time I ever slept standing up going through the crucible. I could go on, but am forever thankful to the Corp, Semper Fi. "Yuuuuut" 0311 3/3
lol- the memories- sgt hayward-sgt pickering- sgt gagne. have to say this video is tame compared to when i was at PI in 1960-they kicked the shit out of us. but it made us tough.
Can't beat the Marines!!! I married one!!
He's like 5 in 1 slaying all day long
Ahh, the fond memories of Parris Island. Ooh Rah!
Wow this video is a great. Thanks for uploading this gem.
wtf was the music in the beginning
I wonder how many of these Recruits had a bit of OCD, and tried to keep track of where all of the items from their Seabags went? Lol.....
@@itsAmeOFP Dayum, that's messed up..... Mentally, I'm picturing the ol' Jelly doughnut seen from FMJ, except you were the one getting smoked. Lol!!!
@@itsAmeOFP I am glad to hear it and thanks for your Service, Brother! That is crazy, the dude got it that bad...!? I can imagine it would be quite comical and just as worrisome. Now, if that happens, the guy would be sent home at the end of Basic, correct?
It was easier when I went through, we had Quonset huts, not squad bays.
My biggest pet peeve was having my shit scattered everywhere
There was no point to organizing your footlocker. It would be dumped and all over the squad bay before evening chow.
I remember that first day when you meet the Drill Instructors. Indeed it was CHAOS! I didn't understand it then, but I do now.
This is the real deal right here.
Bro this was good times plt. 2135 Fatal Fox MCRD San Diego 2016-2020 miss this shit its wild lol
Wow. Finally a real video of what it's like! Is this Hollywood or Parris Island? I'm guessing San Diego because I dont recognize the barracks but I could be wrong
@@itsAmeOFP Thanks brother. I was thinking the same thing. It’s been awhile since I was at Paris Island so I wasn’t sure. What ship did you serve on?
What year is this I’m guessing 1998ish?
0:54 That dude looked like he was about to shit himself
Yeah he definitely was like" what the hell have I gotten myself into" lol
SSgt Gomez was my Senior D.I. that looks and sounds like him. This was 20 years ago. Tomorrow is my Graduation anniversary actually.
Please upload clip 3!
The low quality adds a nice touch to this
C Company Platoon 1045. This is very accurate
VHS recording nice! 2001 MCRD San Diego for me. 3rd Btln India Co Plt 3096 2001. Semper Fi. Insane India!
I was one of the FIRST SDI's to film a live pickup in Feb of 1996 and I had to get the Commanding Generals's approval to do so
Yah. Is pretty rare to see! Our commanding officer was pretty awesome to share with us. We edited his video to only show footage our platoon but the original captured and brings back great memories.
Academy award winning ham actors.
MCRD SD 2nd BN G Co Plt 2065 March 2002... It still scares the crap out of me today.
What year was this?
Ahh yeah! We are about to play games! If you can’t keep up, we are going to go by the numbers!
What happened to part 3?
NOW this is boot camp. I'm eating a sandwich watching this lol
1st Battalion Delta Co. Parris Island 1997
The best...love this!!
Platoon 1050 Bravo Company PI 1986 Semper Fi!
I remember you. Lol. I was lead lead series with Ssgt Collins. Dec 2001-March 2002. Good shit.
Who is firegrunt03
When was this aired?
I would love to experience this now. Too bad I'm a 48 year old army vet
Man, that's crazy. Glad I'm going USAF
At this point your like WTF was I thinking
What year is this??
Watch one of the older videos (like this) vs. one of the new ones (present) day and you’ll see the difference in how DI’s act towards recruits.
Which year
Chesty would approve.
Semper.
Now that is quite a compliment. Thank you.
@@dohertyranch7886 If you know, you know.
It’s still like this. They just act sweet infront of the cameras now🤣🤣
You want to take that hill... send the Marines! Enuff said!
What year was this filmed?
Heck yeah! Took me back to Nov 2000👍 WoW🇺🇸
How dedicated are the instructors to be "on" like that? Next level 🔥🔥🔥... Hated 'em? At the time, yeah... In retrospect--"hats off" to the hats!
Ahhhhh, the older Corp.
What year and Training Battalion was this?
This was in the mid 90's
It wasn't in the 90's, this was like 2003 Charlie Co. Ssgt Gomez and Sgt Doherty. The 90's ???? Come on dogg