the scare factor for me was not having a clue what it was like to be in the military. Years ago they offered DVD's to people wanting to enlist, now you can see it all on RUclips, including what it is like to go through Special Forces selection.
@@AG-uh9bf wrong i never even thought about backing out of Royal Marine Course becuase i knew this woupd have been the only thing i would have known or have been good at
Nothing you see on videos like this or DVD even comes close to whats like in real life. They dumb it down so much cause the public can't handle how Marines are really made 💪🏽
One of my drill sergeants at Army BCT was a high school history teacher who was retired from the Army and came back on a one year contract to be a drill again because of a shortage. He was my favorite, gave us a lot of lessons in military history in the little free time we got.
Surely you jest. This is the worst advice I've ever seen. As a recruit you want to show up as a sack of shit and get sent to pcp. You want IT to be part of your daily routine. How else will you be at your peak of fitness if you don't do something to show them you are a go getter and want the extra PT? Afterward you will make artillery obsolete by being able to hurl the rounds by hand far into enemy lines without the aid of powder or a weapon.
+Jordan Clawson You are correct! Someone didn't do their research before they decided to air this story! Forty plus years ago I was on those footprints but I still remember USMC boot camp like it was yesterday.
My uncle was in the army and it's TRUE what marine Maldonado said it really saves you from a lot of bad things, my uncle was a thug was detained once when I was younger. He joined the army and he is a well respected sergeant, a great dad and uncle and overall a good friend.
I went through MCRD San Diego in the Summer of 1976. The first thing in my mind when I was coming of the bus and heading to those foot prints was; "Mommy!! I wanna come home! I made a mistake!" I think every other recruit that night had the same, or similar thoughts, because every one of us had the same, dazed, confused, and fear filled look on our faces. 12 weeks later, I walked off that Depot as a United States Marine. And I'm still a Marine to this day. Yeah, I'm 62, my body aches, I can hardly breath, my eye sight is lousy, I need hearing aids, and I have kidney stones...but I'm still a Marine, and could kick the ass of any enemy this country has. SEMPER FI.
Dude. That's pretty disrespectful. Also, you literally don't need to know anything because the drill instuctor will tell you everything you'll need to know.
It’s an interesting experience but I just remember being really nervous but telling myself “everyone here is feeling the same way, and every one serving has been through it so it will be ok.” You just listen to what they say and execute accordingly. I’m grateful for the experience. Yea a lot of it sucks but you learn some valuable lasting lessons about yourself and others.
I scrapped my old classroom management plan and created a new one based upon Marine boot camp. It works. My class is the best in the school, well-behaved, hard working, motivated.
An OCS classmate of mine who was a junior high teacher said the same thing about the paramilitary organization of his classroom- the other teachers can’t understand how he gets his students to behave so well, and the students love his class more than any other.
@@OscarDeltaSierra Since they’re young, (grades 3/4), I don’t scream in their faces, but I speak with the same military authority, stand with the same military bearing, and expect the same respect and obedience. Having dual grades is also helpful. The newbie third graders copy the fourth graders who’ve already been in the class for a year. Since there’s always peer pressure, make it work for the better.
Always has the biggest respect for the marines especially the DI’s. They scream like that to prepare you for war. My cousins were marines and as they explained once you start learning what your supposed to do they don’t get on your case as much. And once you graduate they’ll do anything in the world for you!!!!!!
My MTI (Military Training Instructor) shook each of our hands and congratulating each of for graduating basic training!! as well as welcoming us as permanent party US Air Force!
I always got the feeling that teachers didn’t see the military decision as highly as a four year college or even a community college but now teachers are getting a taste of it
What it was like to have my science teacher in the 7th grade who used to crew tanks. He was strict on us but it was because he cared. He was a great teacher and was fun to have. He even would make full metal jacket references towards us and is the whole reason I loved science that year.
I would voluntarily go to his class as a 66 year old, but I would be on my face for laughing at the comments from full metal jacket! I had world war 2 veterans for teachers, though it was not basic training, you knew your place in line and respect was demanded!
Wish the one at 1:22 was in my platoon; every morning, the first thing I'd see is her skivvies. Then she would look at my skivvies; nothing would ever change for about three months.
I went through boot camp in early 1961. I kept reminding myself never quit, never give up. It will all be worth it. I never regretted my decision to go into the Marines Corps.
Marine Corps Boot camp is definitely rough. It's hell. Not for everyone and being one in the fleet is a pain in the ass. If you need a drastic change, be a Marine. If not, join the other branches. My advice.
Bob Ross wasn't a drill sergeant. Or Military Training Instructor, as we call them in the Air Force. He WAS, however, a Med Group First Sergeant, and part of being a First Sergeant back then was chewing out a troop, sometimes.
@@specialk9424 he did end up with master sgt though and here is a quote from him about the period of time where he was a drill sgt "I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”
@@bees8390 True, I've heard him say that several times. And yes, he was a Master Sergeant. You have to be at least a Master Sergeant, before you can be a First Sergeant, it's a Senior NCO position. In the Air Force, 1st Sgt is not a rank, it's a position. A special duty. In the Army and the Corps, it's a rank and a position. And sometimes, you'd have to do all the things he says in that quote. If an airman fails his room inspection enough times, the 1st Sgt gets involved, and does exactly what Bob did: chews your ass until you make your bed. But a TI never yells at you for being late to work, because you're at work as soon as the lights go on, and you don't go anywhere, unless he marches you there. Bob's quote DOES sound like an MTI's job, but I haven't found anything, anywhere, stating he was one. Only that he was a Med Group 1st Sgt. One look at his ribbon rack, and I could tell you for sure.
It must be nice to walk on all that flat land. It must be nice to not have to run up hills everyday. No hate to the east coast. I just love to instigate shit 😂
It was nice of them to attend a taste of boot camp. Knowing you will soon be warm and fuzzy back home tends to diminish the mental and physical aspects of 89 days & nights of endless repetition, punishment and exhausting drills. We were in boot two weeks before we could call home, my parents were not home so I had to wait two more weeks. To graduate you must complete all the drills, rifle range, marching and endurance tests. Every day was like a fire drill with yelling and punishment. If you are lacking a one of the check points you are sent back to start boot camp over. You don't simply pass time to graduate. My friend private Page spent six months in boot and they offered him a discharge that he refused. He stuck it out. Private Elliot had an injury and after I graduated he was still in boot. We had clean and comfortable quarters and plenty of great food, that made it a bit more tolerable. After boot we went to infantry training. It wasn't as rigid, but still an endurance test. Finally done! They with held some of our pay (72.50 per month total and they took taxes out) so everyone had money to travel home. Next was the interminable wait to see your first set of orders which had your next destination as a full fledged Marine!
I entered the Fall of 1983. The courage is in facing adversity. You will be exposed to it, but also taught how to deal with it. The trick is how to understand it and focus on the problem. Coming to terms with fears, you realize there was nothing to fear but your limitations. Boot Camp is a wild adjustment. DIs are in place to keep you focused on tasks at hand. Now retired, my wife can't believe I once led my own recruits. Being aware of her still does not make me blink hard.
the kid who graduated and talked about how he hated it, but then liked it actually makes me want to go, because he kept it real and actually said something honest about the situation on joining the army
This happened while I was in boot camp. They had some of our guys stay back from PT one day so the teachers could talk to the recruits and ask them questions and stuff
I think the true fear of being a marine lies within a PTSD diagnosis, and not being able to readjust to civilian life. The stress of basic training is so minuscule to what a marine can face in his/her military career, depending on their MOS of course.
Yea. Basic isn’t really a traumatic experience in my opinion. There’s yelling and there’s challenges but unless you have a really hostile drill who’s breaking rules and is out to get you then it’s really just a big game where you’re tired, hungry, stressed out (and likely sick a couple times) for a few weeks. It’s designed to build you, physically and mentally, into a soldier and a lot of that is about accountability for yourself, your equipment, and your comrades.
Way different when u actually enlist and this is your life vs the ‘I get to try out this marine thing for a day’ lmao DI screamed hurry up and the teacher just kept walking
My mother was in the Marine Corps. She was a Lance Corporal (E-3) and went to Arizona for boot camp. They had all kinds of intense training routines. Swimming 500 meter laps with full gear on, holding the M14 rifles with outstretched arms for 5 minutes, field stripping and cleaning the rifles in 2 minutes, and then there was the Crucible. 2 weeks of what is considered almost torture. Severe lack of sleep, intense training, lack of proper nutrients, and an angry Drill Sergeant yelling at you the whole time. Almost like Navy SEALs Hell Week, but a step down. During the grenade training, one of the girls tried to throw the grenade over a 7 foot wall (I think) but she barely lobbed it, it hit the wall, bounced back, and the instructor had to dive in to protect them. Nobody was killed, but the instructor was very injured. That lady never touched a grenade again. My mother was the only Expert marksman and could shoot from over 100 meters and hit the bullseye every time. She would shoot 5 bullets, but you would only see one hole.
Son, Marines are made in only 2 places: Parris Island, South Carolina or MCRD San Diego and until recently, women only became Marines at Parris Island. Also, all recruits are required to rifle qual at 100, 300 and 500 meters. I'm not going to say your making stuff up but you at the very least are incorrect. USMCRD, Plt 2022, Feb - May 88. Semper Fi.
What were those things they were sitting on when they got to meet their senior DI? Those weren't there when I stepped on those footprints. One of the most important lessons is one these people don't get to understand... on those yellow footprints stood some of the greatest treasures this country has ever known. (Since its MCRD San Diego), some of the Men that once stood there gave every other Marine something to live up too. A standard that one can't achieve just by trying hard everyday or by living to a certain decree. You have to be put in an unbelievable, impossible situation, that isn't up to deciding, because you must just react. Some of those Marines that stood there left whoever they were back on the bus and lived for the men standing with him. Throughout bootcamp, before, during, or after strenuous events, stories are told of Marines that risked and sometimes gave everything for our brothers. The selfless determination they exhibited to get their brothers home became a desired, yet almost unachievable standard to live up to. The hard part about it is realizing that their heroism was and could never be practiced or planned. You won't understand if you haven't seen the bad side of war, the sickening fear and fight going on and the perfect chaos of everything around you. Learning that gave me a whole new understanding of significance of stepping on those footprints. I feel bad for these people because they didn't get to hear and understand the power in those yellow footprints.
I was actively discouraged by teachers in my school. I learned more in 4 years in the Marine Corps than I ever did in 12 years of public school. And it has done more for me in 20 years I have been out than any other single thing I have ever done or experienced.
I learned a lot about VD in a few hours from those who'd been to Okinawa; putting those stories together with film-strips we watched in grade school, I never went to Okinawa.
they showed up at recruit depot San Diego in the daytime!? WTF!? You're supposed to get there at 1am. Your first day in the Marine Corps is 32 hours long. From the moment you take off from MEPS usually at 9am that day does not end until 10pm the next day.
Some? Every... single... one of them! They need to see what it takes to build a combat ready soldier, last president we ever had that went through the hoops, served and warned about using war as a business was Eisenhower.
Instructors to Recruits: HURRY UP GET OFF THE BUS HURRY UP. NOW WHEN I SCREAM YOU SCREAM "YES SIR". Instructors to camera crew: Its fine you can record us.
Khallil A. Marshall Exactly, it’s because of the color contrasts. I mean he probably does have clean teeth but it’s because his skin pigment is dark black so of course white teeth are going to look really white....
Hahaha Sgt. Castellanos, my favorite Drill Instructor. Echo Platoon 2103 in 2011. He trusted me to do a lot of tasks for him and he'd take care of me. Usually. We had a new Kill Hat halfway through the cycle that was trying to break me in 3rd phase for laughing. I was about 200 pushups and however many crunches and flutter kicks in, but I could do those for days. I couldn't help but chuckle when this shorter, less intimidating DI would get in my face. But, Sgt. Castellanos knew me better. He walked in to the front of the squadbay, and he just stopped, kind of looked over like "wtf". He then started walking away and just yelled, "MOUNTAIN CLIMBERSSSS". My laughs quickly subsided
Death Zap I think so. I’m not positive though. Call the Toll Free Marine Corps Toll Free Line for Info. The number is 1 (800) Marines [1(800) 627 4637]
I think the scare factor for recruits is way worse because they know it's a real decision they've made
the scare factor for me was not having a clue what it was like to be in the military. Years ago they offered DVD's to people wanting to enlist, now you can see it all on RUclips, including what it is like to go through Special Forces selection.
@@AG-uh9bf wrong i never even thought about backing out of Royal Marine Course becuase i knew this woupd have been the only thing i would have known or have been good at
@@ricksanchez1710 Yeah sure kid.
Mad_DentistHD
Yeah
Nothing you see on videos like this or DVD even comes close to whats like in real life. They dumb it down so much cause the public can't handle how Marines are really made 💪🏽
'They all shave their heads' than they show a bald teacher lol.
Jackson One 😂😂😂😂the best part
He was the reporter
Most of them bold already
I know, "awkward" lol
What's funny is typically even if you're bald or buzzed when you get in they still 'shave' your head cause it's already paid for lol
They should make politicians do this...
@Kenneth E. LMAO.
Yes
AHHEM *COUGH COUGH * HILLARY CLINTON AND AHHEM HAMMEM *COUGH DONALD *TRUMP* LOL😂
average Canadian your coughing seems odd are you okay ?
They're too old man
Sr drill instructor towards teachers: 😡🤬😤
Sr drill instructor towards camera crew: 😌😌😌
This comment is pure gold if you've been there!
Yes
Oh ye
They actually didnt cuss to the fucking teachers
@@belowaveragearab3212 maybe the DIs are christian and cant curse
Imagine there was a teacher who was a military veteran experiencing boot camp again
For some reason your pfp reminds me of a6d's.
*ah shit here we go again*
hello DI my old nemesis...
One of my drill sergeants at Army BCT was a high school history teacher who was retired from the Army and came back on a one year contract to be a drill again because of a shortage. He was my favorite, gave us a lot of lessons in military history in the little free time we got.
I’ve sent former active duty Marines back to Parris Island. They love it
To future recruits going to the military, I can't stress this enough but BE PHYSICALLY READY before you go to bootcamp.
Surely you jest. This is the worst advice I've ever seen. As a recruit you want to show up as a sack of shit and get sent to pcp. You want IT to be part of your daily routine. How else will you be at your peak of fitness if you don't do something to show them you are a go getter and want the extra PT? Afterward you will make artillery obsolete by being able to hurl the rounds by hand far into enemy lines without the aid of powder or a weapon.
RIGHT ON. I was watching an Army video and died when I saw WWAYYYYY overweight peeps thinking they were ready! OMG!
no be mentally ready. They will get you physically ready, thats the easy part. be mentally tough, The body follows the mind.
There is no "ready" but one should practice and be able to pass the standard PT test before basic training
Kopihucky nigga shut up.
If they were normal Recruits they would have came at night
LMAO right and stay up like 36 hours hahaha
@@hogwartsstudent980 lol fort Leonard Wood kept me up for close to 50 hours. My CAC looks like I belong to the Aryan brotherhood lol.
I always c̱̠̰̺͍͇̰̀̿ͦ̈̇̃͊o̢҉ṃ̗̦͓̪̦͕̼͖̤̗̌̑̌̇ͭ̽ͯͥͩ̈́ͤ̀e̐̑̇͛͛ͭͥ̎ͦͧ҉͜ at night
@@General_Eisenhower1945 fuck thats where the recruiter told me i was going
@@juangiraldo8765
R.I.P
Private Juan 🙏
Anyone else wanna see their teachers at this workshop?
MisterTofu me fam
Dude my teachers works out 6times a week and he looks like a drill sergeant for the marines.
Meeeeeeeeeeee
MisterTofu yup cause there all like 70
@@TheVoiceofWisdom... Drill Instructor not Drill Sergeant - thats Army.
They forgot to add that you must enjoy the taste of crayons...
Jesse Sidhu I prefer to make a BLT out of my crayons.
What
I must say I *love* the green ones
Blue is my favorite crayon
@Richard Peck all due respect, I do not believe it is a traitorous flag and I believe both can be set side by side.
Next step is to get your hair cut.
*camera shifts to a bald headed man*
Lets shave his skincells if he doesn't have hair !
“All must serve the cycle, remove your trousers Mr.Smith”
OH/PENN Moto *OBP* 😂😂😂
@@quintenchaplin8222 Next step is to get your hair cut.
camera shifts to a bald headed man
63 days? no it's 13 weeks
+Jordan Clawson You are correct! Someone didn't do their research before they decided to air this story! Forty plus years ago I was on those footprints but I still remember USMC boot camp like it was yesterday.
63.. 91... who's counting?
oh.. I guess the miserable recruits are.. nvm
I think they meant like DEP "training" but i could be wrong
Brody McNutt there really isn't any DEP training requirements, its more of a physical evaluation to make sure you're fit.
Cpl Atkins yeah I went through it for the army I didn’t know if it was different for the marines
My uncle was in the army and it's TRUE what marine Maldonado said it really saves you from a lot of bad things, my uncle was a thug was detained once when I was younger. He joined the army and he is a well respected sergeant, a great dad and uncle and overall a good friend.
I was glad to hear that the young recruit stuck with it and graduated boot, I wish him nothing but success in his military career.
Every time they looked down at their canteen they were disappointed that it never had any notifications.
I went through MCRD San Diego in the Summer of 1976. The first thing in my mind when I was coming of the bus and heading to those foot prints was; "Mommy!! I wanna come home! I made a mistake!" I think every other recruit that night had the same, or similar thoughts, because every one of us had the same, dazed, confused, and fear filled look on our faces. 12 weeks later, I walked off that Depot as a United States Marine. And I'm still a Marine to this day.
Yeah, I'm 62, my body aches, I can hardly breath, my eye sight is lousy, I need hearing aids, and I have kidney stones...but I'm still a Marine, and could kick the ass of any enemy this country has. SEMPER FI.
This story is literally piccolo training gohan during the saiyan saga. Look up piccolo training kid gohan if you don’t know what I mean
no. not everyone wants to watch dragon ball 💀
How did you know what their faces looked like if you were standing at attention?
Semper
That's the spirit can't keep an old marine down hell still go out fighting
Serg : what your papa teach u
Teachers: math
Teacher: THIS IS HELL
Students: YEA HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW?
You teacher teaches military training? Otherwise, wait, ARE YOU SAYING SCHOOL IS BOOT CAMP HAHAHAHAHA, NO NO NO. HAHAHAHA your wrong.
@@caelahgarlejo8393 Not even close.
@@caelahgarlejo8393 I was with the 27th infantry division, school is a cake walk compared to here. Suck it up and stop over reacting.
😂😂
@@gamevoid3684
Mr. Tough military man.... woah so scary, you must be pretty tough lmfaoooooooo
Worst part about boot camp was all the criss cross sitting
Tyler Meeds my legs are still recovering
Packed in like sardines, no space for your family jewels, hurry up and wait
All I rememeber is shine splints.
Tyler Meeds fuckkk no worse part was kneeling posisition during grass week or grass week in general 😂
Kaan Dogan all i remember was bitches complainin bout shin splints and stress fractures
They should've got teachers from California it would've been way more entertaining
Everyone in California needs to get smoked and wake tf up
How so?
@@gemcutter187 I've infiltrated there ranks, commiefornia ill fall
Speccy Boo Because they're all liberals
Tony lmao mad salty
“Marine stands for muscles are required intelligence not essential”
-my mom
She must be really motivational
Dude. That's pretty disrespectful.
Also, you literally don't need to know anything because the drill instuctor will tell you everything you'll need to know.
yet your mum is probably an unemployed housewife.
"Marine stands for muscles are reacquired intelligence not essential" - My NSI
deathmeat has Air Force recruiters be like “It’s my job to recruit, but I mean how bad do you want it?”
It’s an interesting experience but I just remember being really nervous but telling myself “everyone here is feeling the same way, and every one serving has been through it so it will be ok.” You just listen to what they say and execute accordingly. I’m grateful for the experience. Yea a lot of it sucks but you learn some valuable lasting lessons about yourself and others.
You got that right and should see my spit-shined Crocs.
I graduated MCRD San Diego on July 10th 1981 Joining the Marines was the best thing I ever did.
My father was in dragons platoon 29 during that period. Thank you for your services marine!
Thank you for your service
An old reiterd HM (FMF) said Simper Fi!
somehow politicians and congress earn their paychecks and pensions, yet teachers and service members don't???
Pr0xy that's government for you.
Wolfboy2012 lmao, true!
Pr0xy that's because the politicians are shoving it down your throats that they are really working harder than anyone else. Big pack of lies no doubt
The journalist who made this news story makes more money than any lower level Marine
Let that sink in
Service members don't get a pension anymore, its going to a 401K system. Good luck saving for retirement in a 401K plan on an Enlisted soldiers pay.
Man, they watered it down so damn much for these teachers. Should’ve signed some more waivers.
I scrapped my old classroom management plan and created a new one based upon Marine boot camp. It works. My class is the best in the school, well-behaved, hard working, motivated.
Ya ok
An OCS classmate of mine who was a junior high teacher said the same thing about the paramilitary organization of his classroom- the other teachers can’t understand how he gets his students to behave so well, and the students love his class more than any other.
@@OscarDeltaSierra Since they’re young, (grades 3/4), I don’t scream in their faces, but I speak with the same military authority, stand with the same military bearing, and expect the same respect and obedience. Having dual grades is also helpful. The newbie third graders copy the fourth graders who’ve already been in the class for a year. Since there’s always peer pressure, make it work for the better.
@@mariekatherine5238 Based
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Always has the biggest respect for the marines especially the DI’s. They scream like that to prepare you for war. My cousins were marines and as they explained once you start learning what your supposed to do they don’t get on your case as much. And once you graduate they’ll do anything in the world for you!!!!!!
Anything?... 🤔
last part is not true lmao
My MTI (Military Training Instructor) shook each of our hands and congratulating each of for graduating basic training!! as well as welcoming us as permanent party US Air Force!
Nothing changes- When a recruit gets a letter, it;s like gold.
been there ....done that ...sitting here 65 yrs old...and proud of it....
This is great - I agree every politician must attend before they run
I always got the feeling that teachers didn’t see the military decision as highly as a four year college or even a community college but now teachers are getting a taste of it
You can hide from college there for about four years.
What it was like to have my science teacher in the 7th grade who used to crew tanks. He was strict on us but it was because he cared. He was a great teacher and was fun to have. He even would make full metal jacket references towards us and is the whole reason I loved science that year.
I would voluntarily go to his class as a 66 year old, but I would be on my face for laughing at the comments from full metal jacket! I had world war 2 veterans for teachers, though it was not basic training, you knew your place in line and respect was demanded!
The drill instructors being nice for the teachers
Wish the one at 1:22 was in my platoon; every morning, the first thing I'd see is her skivvies. Then she would look at my skivvies; nothing would ever change for about three months.
I went through boot camp in early 1961. I kept reminding myself never quit, never give up. It will all be worth it. I never regretted my decision to go into the Marines Corps.
Oh man, i wanna see my feminist teacher in there !
SSgt Salcido. That was my senior drill instructor 8 years ago lol. How times fly's. He was a badass for sure. Good leader.
Marine Corps Boot camp is definitely rough. It's hell. Not for everyone and being one in the fleet is a pain in the ass. If you need a drastic change, be a Marine. If not, join the other branches. My advice.
If you're in your sixties and a Drill Instructor is in your face you've made a poor choice.
Building a functional team is never about the individual. Marines are excellent team builders. Love my Marine brothers and sisters
If you wanna hear a drill Sargent when they're not screaming in the faces of military recruits, watch Bob Ross
Bob Ross wasn't a drill sergeant. Or Military Training Instructor, as we call them in the Air Force. He WAS, however, a Med Group First Sergeant, and part of being a First Sergeant back then was chewing out a troop, sometimes.
@@specialk9424 he did end up with master sgt though
and here is a quote from him about the period of time where he was a drill sgt
"I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”
@@bees8390 True, I've heard him say that several times. And yes, he was a Master Sergeant. You have to be at least a Master Sergeant, before you can be a First Sergeant, it's a Senior NCO position. In the Air Force, 1st Sgt is not a rank, it's a position. A special duty. In the Army and the Corps, it's a rank and a position. And sometimes, you'd have to do all the things he says in that quote. If an airman fails his room inspection enough times, the 1st Sgt gets involved, and does exactly what Bob did: chews your ass until you make your bed. But a TI never yells at you for being late to work, because you're at work as soon as the lights go on, and you don't go anywhere, unless he marches you there. Bob's quote DOES sound like an MTI's job, but I haven't found anything, anywhere, stating he was one. Only that he was a Med Group 1st Sgt. One look at his ribbon rack, and I could tell you for sure.
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l went through Marine Corps recruit training back in the summer of 1982. What an experience.
One of my teachers would have loved this, we used to be a marine and was considered a mean teacher but he was pretty cool in my eyes
Once a Marine always a Marine! Semper Fi!
Thank u fr the service
Goddamn, I got chills down my spine just like I did back in 1965 at MCRD San Diego where I became an integral part of Marine Platoon 347!!!
I'll remember that first day forever, quit school on 17th birthday and joined next day...what an awakening
From the Army.... OORAH! Continue doing amazng thing MARINES!
What a great video...chuckle...love it. Hats off to the teachers for being good sports about this.
Parris Island is the true home of the Marines.
Nothing like burying a sand flea. Semper Fi!
Ain’t nothing beats a swamp dog
Parris Island has no hills....... 🙄
It must be nice to walk on all that flat land. It must be nice to not have to run up hills everyday.
No hate to the east coast. I just love to instigate shit 😂
They're both homes of the Marines. Unless youve tried both you're just talking out of your piehole. Semper Fi from the other side
It was nice of them to attend a taste of boot camp. Knowing you will soon be warm and fuzzy back home tends to diminish the mental and physical aspects of 89 days & nights of endless repetition, punishment and exhausting drills. We were in boot two weeks before we could call home, my parents were not home so I had to wait two more weeks. To graduate you must complete all the drills, rifle range, marching and endurance tests. Every day was like a fire drill with yelling and punishment. If you are lacking a one of the check points you are sent back to start boot camp over. You don't simply pass time to graduate. My friend private Page spent six months in boot and they offered him a discharge that he refused. He stuck it out. Private Elliot had an injury and after I graduated he was still in boot. We had clean and comfortable quarters and plenty of great food, that made it a bit more tolerable. After boot we went to infantry training. It wasn't as rigid, but still an endurance test. Finally done! They with held some of our pay (72.50 per month total and they took taxes out) so everyone had money to travel home. Next was the interminable wait to see your first set of orders which had your next destination as a full fledged Marine!
THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!! Semper Fi!!!!
I entered the Fall of 1983. The courage is in facing adversity. You will be exposed to it, but also taught how to deal with it. The trick is how to understand it and focus on the problem. Coming to terms with fears, you realize there was nothing to fear but your limitations. Boot Camp is a wild adjustment. DIs are in place to keep you focused on tasks at hand. Now retired, my wife can't believe I once led my own recruits. Being aware of her still does not make me blink hard.
What does that last sentence mean?
the kid who graduated and talked about how he hated it, but then liked it actually makes me want to go, because he kept it real and actually said something honest about the situation on joining the army
Marines
Did you go?
@@stergiannos572 Good plan. Try to become as independent and hard to kill as possible. Good luck young man.
A good opportunity to humble yourself and realize that you are way smaller than you thought you were!
I forget a lot of things in my older years...but I will never forget the names of my DI's
I graduated from boot camp on September 23rd, 2016. After watching this video, i would definitely do it all over again!
This happened while I was in boot camp. They had some of our guys stay back from PT one day so the teachers could talk to the recruits and ask them questions and stuff
The Marines are awesome!...Great Service
1:27 I don't think he got the memo that they were skipping that part...
Golden
plot twist, they raised their hands and made the oath, now theyre in for 3 years
Four years*
Lol when they said shaved head they showed a bald guy
Educando educadores. O Brasil precisa disso.
The short, Asian woman is the one thinking about a jelly donut; after doing this for awhile, you just know.
I think the true fear of being a marine lies within a PTSD diagnosis, and not being able to readjust to civilian life. The stress of basic training is so minuscule to what a marine can face in his/her military career, depending on their MOS of course.
That's any dangerous job...you have a better chance of facing a traumatic event as a firefighter than most soldiers do. Again based on what you do
Yea. Basic isn’t really a traumatic experience in my opinion. There’s yelling and there’s challenges but unless you have a really hostile drill who’s breaking rules and is out to get you then it’s really just a big game where you’re tired, hungry, stressed out (and likely sick a couple times) for a few weeks. It’s designed to build you, physically and mentally, into a soldier and a lot of that is about accountability for yourself, your equipment, and your comrades.
San Antonio Texas, Lackland Air Force Base was a great experience for me during my military career!
Way different when u actually enlist and this is your life vs the ‘I get to try out this marine thing for a day’ lmao DI screamed hurry up and the teacher just kept walking
Everyone gangsta until one teacher starts crying
Marines are one of the best soldiers in US Army.
I like your style 😎
Jesus. Are you joking or just uneducated LMAO 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤠🤠🤠🤠
MCRD San Diego is a special kind of hell. I’ll never forget it. San Diego, 2003, platoon 2078.
I’d pay good money💰 to see some teachers and/or professors get smoked. 🍿
That one looked like she liked it
1:22 she is trying to leave with a marines’s number lol
Isn't the marines the hardest one to get into?
The real fear is when you realize you are going to see him and hear him every day and night.
Even adults can get yelled at! This is a great lesson for them!
I wouldn't have stopped until I saw mascara staining the floor.
The teachers who are vets are getting a kick out of it, the civilians are melting like ice cubes in Hell.
This makes me unbelievably excited
33 years ago today I steeped on those same yellow footprints. Only college I ever needed
I know this is old but we just did 75 days in the Army plus another 60 days holdover thanks to Corona. Holdover was harder than
Army BCT.
OORAH Austin born and bred. They treated me real nice during my vacation at MCRD San Diego lol
My mother was in the Marine Corps. She was a Lance Corporal (E-3) and went to Arizona for boot camp.
They had all kinds of intense training routines. Swimming 500 meter laps with full gear on, holding the M14 rifles with outstretched arms for 5 minutes, field stripping and cleaning the rifles in 2 minutes, and then there was the Crucible. 2 weeks of what is considered almost torture. Severe lack of sleep, intense training, lack of proper nutrients, and an angry Drill Sergeant yelling at you the whole time. Almost like Navy SEALs Hell Week, but a step down.
During the grenade training, one of the girls tried to throw the grenade over a 7 foot wall (I think) but she barely lobbed it, it hit the wall, bounced back, and the instructor had to dive in to protect them. Nobody was killed, but the instructor was very injured. That lady never touched a grenade again.
My mother was the only Expert marksman and could shoot from over 100 meters and hit the bullseye every time. She would shoot 5 bullets, but you would only see one hole.
Son, Marines are made in only 2 places: Parris Island, South Carolina or MCRD San Diego and until recently, women only became Marines at Parris Island. Also, all recruits are required to rifle qual at 100, 300 and 500 meters. I'm not going to say your making stuff up but you at the very least are incorrect. USMCRD, Plt 2022, Feb - May 88. Semper Fi.
And nothing even close to SEALS Hell Week lol.
My Dad is in this video and me and him both laughed at it 😂
I stepped on those yellow footprints many years ago and have never regretted it. Semper Fi.
Try this in California, you will have them in tears for just mentioning this. Hats off to the Texas teachers
Nice job well shot and produced. My Son is a Marine and I work in TV. I would love to shoot a story like this
I wish all the troublemakers, bullies, tough and cool dudes from my school were drafted into the Marines, instead of the serious guys enlisting.
What were those things they were sitting on when they got to meet their senior DI? Those weren't there when I stepped on those footprints. One of the most important lessons is one these people don't get to understand... on those yellow footprints stood some of the greatest treasures this country has ever known. (Since its MCRD San Diego), some of the Men that once stood there gave every other Marine something to live up too. A standard that one can't achieve just by trying hard everyday or by living to a certain decree. You have to be put in an unbelievable, impossible situation, that isn't up to deciding, because you must just react. Some of those Marines that stood there left whoever they were back on the bus and lived for the men standing with him. Throughout bootcamp, before, during, or after strenuous events, stories are told of Marines that risked and sometimes gave everything for our brothers. The selfless determination they exhibited to get their brothers home became a desired, yet almost unachievable standard to live up to. The hard part about it is realizing that their heroism was and could never be practiced or planned. You won't understand if you haven't seen the bad side of war, the sickening fear and fight going on and the perfect chaos of everything around you. Learning that gave me a whole new understanding of significance of stepping on those footprints. I feel bad for these people because they didn't get to hear and understand the power in those yellow footprints.
As a Texan this is awesome, and should be a requirement for politicians and teachers, this is great! 🤣
I was actively discouraged by teachers in my school. I learned more in 4 years in the Marine Corps than I ever did in 12 years of public school. And it has done more for me in 20 years I have been out than any other single thing I have ever done or experienced.
I learned a lot about VD in a few hours from those who'd been to Okinawa; putting those stories together with film-strips we watched in grade school, I never went to Okinawa.
Who wants to see their teacher in boot camp?
they showed up at recruit depot San Diego in the daytime!? WTF!? You're supposed to get there at 1am. Your first day in the Marine Corps is 32 hours long. From the moment you take off from MEPS usually at 9am that day does not end until 10pm the next day.
Those d.i.s may be rough but they will save those recruits life when he goes into combat.
This should be done with all media
And politicians
Some politicians need to go through the same procedure too
Some? Every... single... one of them! They need to see what it takes to build a combat ready soldier, last president we ever had that went through the hoops, served and warned about using war as a business was Eisenhower.
Instructors to Recruits: HURRY UP GET OFF THE BUS HURRY UP. NOW WHEN I SCREAM YOU SCREAM "YES SIR".
Instructors to camera crew: Its fine you can record us.
... Should of made them still have their heads shaved lol!!!
Damn his teeth are white
Breanna Sumner nah he's just really black 😂
Khallil A. Marshall Exactly, it’s because of the color contrasts. I mean he probably does have clean teeth but it’s because his skin pigment is dark black so of course white teeth are going to look really white....
He only eats the white crayons, lol.
I did army basic in February 1981. Some of the instructors used a lot of profanity all the time. Do they still swear at recruits?
Teacher getting angry
Later
Your marine dad show up
Lol at 1:28 the only guy that looked sad about having to be bald was the bald guy 😂
Did I just watch some toddlers go to daycare? COME ON, SHOW THEM WHAT ITS REALLY LIKE
What they saw was enough.
Hahaha Sgt. Castellanos, my favorite Drill Instructor. Echo Platoon 2103 in 2011. He trusted me to do a lot of tasks for him and he'd take care of me. Usually. We had a new Kill Hat halfway through the cycle that was trying to break me in 3rd phase for laughing. I was about 200 pushups and however many crunches and flutter kicks in, but I could do those for days. I couldn't help but chuckle when this shorter, less intimidating DI would get in my face. But, Sgt. Castellanos knew me better. He walked in to the front of the squadbay, and he just stopped, kind of looked over like "wtf". He then started walking away and just yelled, "MOUNTAIN CLIMBERSSSS". My laughs quickly subsided
Lmao all teachers need to go through this.
Excellent, after 37 years teaching I hope some of my ex-student go there. Colleagues, tell them.
Are they accepting GED's?
on 2018
Death Zap I think so. I’m not positive though. Call the Toll Free Marine Corps Toll Free Line for Info. The number is 1 (800) Marines [1(800) 627 4637]
1 800 we look good and kick your as_ too is the number
Death Zap when I joined they were doing about 1% a year with 15 college units will work.
Yes but you need a higher minimum asvab score
these teachers look adorable and innocent
And addicted to the cafeteria.
I’d love to see how many California teachers could do this😂
Nah most of them would start crying and want a safe place to hide
Jace Werner
I'd love to see Chicago gang members do this. New York and others as well. Idk why but it would feel satisfying.