Posted on 08/23/2007 1:10:29 PM PDT by Ajnin
http://www.comegetyousome.com/viewvid.php?id=3802
Thanks!
I bet it does. I would imagine that some in the middle east would be pissin in their pants at the end of that one....LOL
About sums up what I experienced. LOL Made me a better man that’s for sure.
When I was in it was called “stereo”. Now I guess they’d call it THX, LMAO!
That recruit looked like he had too much hair to me.
I know. I know. Old Corps.
In our Platoon’s “Graduation Album” — my lip still showed the not fully split received about 11 weeks PRIOR to graduation....
Infraction?
My “Aye Aye Sir” wasn’t quite loud enough - and was interpreted to be an intentional insult... (It was)
In those days — “physical contact” was at the D.I.’s discretion..
Even after the tragic drowning event on P.I..
LOL! It wasn’t the AYE AYE.. It was the omission:
Aye Aye Sir, Left, Right, 1, 2, Aye Aye Sir!
Semper Gumby!
There was plenty of physical contact in 1967!
OK video, ho hum. easy stuff. been there. done that.
But what happened to the Bends and Thrusts? And why were they so low key? And what the heck is a RawCruit doin’ sittin?????????? And why is the recruit STILL sittin at the end of the video?? And why isn’t the rawcruit screamin.. YES SIR, NO SIR, AYE AYE SIR after each command??? :-)
I guess my Marine Corps is slackin off.
OOOhhhhRRRRaaaAAAAhhHHHHH
Semper Fi
Yeah ... I sunburned my lower lip at Parris Island and as a result it split ... not that bad
except every time it started to heal one of my DI's would take note and force it open again.
Sadistic bast**** that they were they thought it was great sport.
With this video you get 8 Cookies!
Those were the days!
Been there!! done there! 1965-66 At the time it wasn’t so funny!!!
Looking back???/ I have a good laugh at it all and, realize how it all made me a better person.
Thank you, (United States Army) for making a man out of me!!!
bflv
Home sick for the corps video ping?
Ah - those were the days...
Thanks for the memories!
Semper Fi
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At MCRD San Diego in 1969, I made the mistake of asking the Platoon Commander for my job back (had been a squad leader and got relieved). The DI’s response was similar to this video, so there are lots of memories coming back.
A couple days later, the Platoon Commander reinstated me and I graduated boot camp as a PFC.
Semper Fi,
nice vid....
Can you hear me now?
Then getting to the serious PT.
I just kept my mouth shut, didn't worry cause there is always somebody that is going to "get it"... I took my turn with everybody else.
We were all turds....
What you didn't want was to be somebody's "favorite" turd...bwahahahahaha or sh#t bird.
Damned right. Army, Ft Gordon GA.
I was at quonset hut city in June of 67. Oh those fond memories. NOT!!!!
If you wasn’t there, ya’ can’t get it.
Yeah, the 4-5 Quonset huts that I moved through in 1970 (I lost count). I remember the DI quietly pronouncing “platoon 1034 on the road” in a conversational tone and everyone in the huts was supposed to hear that from their bunks and begin scrambling into formation. Not responding would get exactly the reaction shown on the video.
The quonsets we lived in at ITR on Pendleton were later used to house the Vietnamese refugees in 75. All of the quonsets and concrete washracks dated from the 20s and 30s and were used by almost 50 years of recruits.
One of my buddies’s dad was a DI. Very much the absent dad. But I talked to him in the early 80’s and they had pretty much been stripped of the ability to hit recruits. He said he didn’t need to hit them. He said “I have the ability to send them home to their families in disgrace. I’ll make them go all the way through boot camp and then sit with their familes in the bleachers wearing civies and watch their buddies graduate”. Pretty sadistic/
mark
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