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"Is that a YAWN?!? Are you falling alseep on me, Private?
Do you need coffee? Do you need stimulation??
Do you see any five-dollar hookers here, Private?
No?? Well, then we'll just have to improvise - DROP!!!"

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T LIKE SANDFLEAS? THOSE ARE MARINE SANDFLEAS, AND YOU WILL GIVE THEM ALL THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU SCRATCHING THEM IN FORMATION AGAIN! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?

(Personal note: My training was Army, but my BIL was stationed down at Cherry Point for a while and I was a journalist for a small military paper... so I got a tour of Parris Island besides the normal stuff.

(If I had to trust the life of my daughter or grandchild in the hand of a total stranger, I would do so with a United States Marine Drill Instructor. They are truly the finest of the Corps. Their training is intense and only the best get through. Off duty, they are the kindest and most considerate men and women. And it is no kindness to half-train an 18-year-old and send them into the furnace of battle. Ask our jihadi enemies that.)