[A.A. Cunningham]

Personally I don’t like to joke about how California attitudes seep into Marine Boot camp just because of geographical location but......

MCRD has watched San Diego grow up around it. Blaming this on the culture of SoCal is misguided. What is a legitmate concern is that the WM CG of MCRD has had an adverse effect on what happens at the depot. If zeros wanted to, they could probably charge one DI from every platoon that has ever existed for abuse. It would be interesting to see a comparison of the number of cases involving DIs between Parris Island and San Diego since Salinas assumed command.

[usmcobra]

I haven’t heard of any cases at PI, have you?

Personally I was hit repeatedly by my DI’s and crawled through muck I believe was deliberately “enhanced” by various bodily secretions and byproducts for effect.

[Dick Vomer]

I believe they rotate DI's between the two....of course I might be wrong. If the DI's operating at San Diego are getting more abuse charges, either supervision is worse, scrutiny is tighter, men born west of the Mississippi are pansies or a combination of all 3....

No comment about the third choice, please.