Chow Hall Procedures (Class 18-09)

[@nickmarsala3787]

Anyone notice the girl on the left was eating NOTHING

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Nick Marsala I pointed that out earlier

[@russjones585]

Nick Marsala she will eat later after the demo

[@tobywongitsme]

First, some people don't have food because they want to eat breakfast elsewhere with their families.

[@ericlewis1202]

Nick Marsala that’s not a girl marine boot camps are not unisex we don’t see or hear females a whole 3 months until graduation, only exception is church or medical.

[@flyingirishman8940]

This is Naval Officer Candidate school not Marine boot camp, I believe the confusion comes from the fact that they use Marine Drill Instructors instead of Navy ones.

[@Looking1231]

This is why I went into the Army!! I love and respect these guys but they are HARDCORE in everything and yeah, I know they know it is a good thing. We all fight for the same goals but wow. I am not ever going to complain about the Army basic training again!! :)

[@GETBENT1331]

this is not bootcamp. i do not know what it is but they are out of uniform. very wrong for marine corps bootcamp. and the print on their undershirts is not right for bootcamp either. i call it fake.

[@urdumb3623]

​@@GETBENT1331That's officer candidate school...

[@laellewis7787]

can't wear it gear to chow

[@Sickofsociety1]

I can't believe some of the naval officers I knew went through this.

[@johnslade9751]

Damn even when they're eating? Military is rough huh

[@genny1814]

Just marine shit

[@genny1814]

@Hunter Stockslager exactly? Just marine things. Fuckin bum

[@doge8825]

@Hunter Stockslager not sure why you’re getting angry he’s agreeing with you, or rather you’re agreeing with him

[@caspertap]

@Username4453 this is Navy training, but trained by Marine Corps DI's. this is only done during training, and only for this one program. other training programs do not necessarily eat like this. the lady at the corner is not eating anything because she wanted to eat a "real" breakfast with her family that morning. this is the morning of graduation, and this is a "perforamce" for our family to show them how we ate everyday.

[@jusnuts1443]

If you haven't lived it, you couldn't possibly understand it.

[@brabhamfreaman166]

Jus' Nuts I don't understand it. In particular, there are two Marines (that I can see) sitting before empty plates - they are 'eating' from an empty plate. Why, how, who, what for? Thank you.

[@ประสาทพรหลุยใจบุญ]

yes

[@ประสาทพรหลุยใจบุญ]

Jus' Nuts yes

[@petezimmerman3270]

Join and find out.

[@garrysutton3225]

Can some one explain to me what the hell this is all about and why and what does this bullshit achieve

[@gedisdiop]

I was in the Army for 23 years. Even is Basic, I've NEVER seen such bullshit.

[@trey87]

This is OCS. I never did this in Navy Boot Camp.

[@chris-bm7jh]

same here in air force boot camp never did this, but this is ocs where they take civilian graduates of college and turn them into officers in 4 months, compared to annapolis where they 4 years to turn you into officers, so the training is intense in the beginning.

[@denno3124]

I have...on Sand Hill. It was less pretty and without family there taking pics but overall not far off.

[@CraigSmithII]

Wilbur Snaffel I did my Basic at Fort Sill from November 1997- February 98 & this is some off the wall bullshit. The drill sergeants would be sitting at a table & would talk bad shit about us personally. We didn't do all these Mr. Roboto for the cameras shit

[@liamgallagher406]

Wilbur Snaffel, where's R. Lee Ermey when you need him?

[@sgtortiz641]

Call me crazy but there is something about this regimented training that makes me proud of my ten years in the Army. I still miss it!

[@gglenn991]

Why is that one recruit eating air lol

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

G Glenn it says in the description

[@datgirlperiodt5552]

😂 i m dying

[@beegee22]

Read the description - "First, some people don't have food because they want to eat breakfast elsewhere with their families. This is *graduation* day from Navy Officer Candidate School, so our families are there watching."

[@JayDeLart]

They aren't expected to do this for the entirety of their service. It's a training tool. You mentioned worth in discipline; I agree. This is part of that.

[@johnharrington4963]

OCS uses these methods to train candidates to pay attention to detail. It also weeds out those that don't have the intestinal fortitude to push through the difficult times. I've been through it and it works.

[@LSUBOY41]

lol Marines eating after intense battle: "You forgot to snap your head back up"

[@AndyDaClimber]

Thank god my time in the marines is over. This stuff is so depressing

[@FormerTrucker]

Don't tell me you always had to do that while in the Marines?

[@irishnessie]

Yes you do. My boyfriend was in the Marines. They don't show this kinda footage anywhere. Probably cause they don't want the public to see it 😂

[@dip5174]

@@chuck33478 you're right. We do things similar things to this but not during chow. I graduated boot camp last month. The Marine Corps isn't that hard

[@genny1814]

@@dip5174 really? Family member of mine said this is what they did. And if not done properly they’d get chewed out

[@FunkafiedBandit]

@@FormerTrucker this isn't marine bootcamp, this is naval officer candidate school.

[@GreenTeaGirl17]

This made me smile. When I went through Navy boot camp when we were in the chow hall the whole goal was to shove as much food in your face before you had to leave again. Since I was tall I was always at the back of the line and had about five minutes to eat each meal. I would have starved eating like these marines. lol

[@GETBENT1331]

i dont think they are marines, recruits or in ocs. they are wearing pt uniforms in the chow hall.

[@MHadron]

It's one thing to discipline or punish someone for screwing up, but not feeding them is crossing the line. We were never starved, even if we had one minute to eat we still ate something.

[@jmowreader]

Since this is OCS, I can totally understand: about 90 percent of the crap they do to you in officer-accession schools is to see just how bad you want to be an officer. The Army had "square meals" where not only did you have to raise your fork straight off the dish until it was level with your mouth then bring the fork straight into your mouth (and eat at the position of attention), all the things on your plate had to form an exact square. Army warrant officer school had "deficiency cards" - for instance, your mattress had to be aligned exactly with the rails on your bunk on both sides, but the mattress was wider than the rails so you had to write deficiency cards explaining why the standard wasn't met...and you had to make new ones every day. The Marines...well, the USMC should patent "fucking with the troops" because they've got that shit down to an exact science, but if you go to Marine OCS they really fuck with you. Not sure what the Air Force does but I assure you it's no gentleman's course.

[@Zerospacedude]

In Marine OCS you grab your food from the line bring it to your seat and then go get 2 glasses of drink while leaving your food on the table. I swear sometimes the Sergeant Instructors would take your food while you were gone and throw it away, you’d come back to the table not knowing where your food was. Happened a couple of times to a few people. I swear it was the instructors fucking with us, but I never saw them do it; its up there with Bermuda Triangle and Area 51 for sure

[@caidthegod2686]

Did anyone see the lady or male with no food on the tray😂😂😂

[@daverobison6960]

I wondered about that also ???

[@MrFlyboy1313]

This is a demonstration of how to eat chow being done for their families prior to graduation day. The candidates not eating real food are going to spend the day with their families and eat later with them. I will assume that the ones with breakfast food will not spend time with anyone outside the class that afternoon.

[@baberaider18]

It's only for the first 3 weeks. After that it's easy. And on the grad day, they show the families what it was like for the first 3 weeks.

[@jfbrko290]

Clearly the best use of government money I've ever seen in my life on training of the utmost importance right here.

[@johnritcher5751]

Clearly you dont understand by your stupid civ comment.

[@takinoborudesu]

@John Ritcher BOOT

[@jfbrko290]

@@johnritcher5751 lol ok b00t

[@caspertap]

@Madvillane that's our class drill instructor!!! he made gunny shortly after we graduated.

[@nicklausmclean5099]

Damn. And I thought the Army was ridiculous when it came to chow time. The Marines take it to a whole new level.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

the navy candidates ate three hot, prepared meals per day for ten weeks while at OCS? at Army OCS, we ate about twenty meals at our 'dining facility' in our four month class. we had to get 200 candidates through there in seven minutes, starting with 12 chin ups at the entry door. i was the first student First Seargent, and when i called it a chow hall, as i was moving the platoons to our first 'meal' there, the TAC officers attacked me for calling it that, and made me low crawl in front of the company as i marched them over to the dining facility. it was across the street, beyond a big field. good times.

[@johnfreeman5012]

i remember being given 4 minutes to throw down as much food as i can...

[@SquidCrafter]

That’s plenty of time 😂 laughs in Marine 😂

[@ThePilotGuy]

Because she is going to go eat with her family. They tell you not to get any food if you are going to go eat with family. When they tell them to eat regularly, they release those wanting to eat with family.

[@JossinJax]

WHat the hell did I just watch?

[@DVS1USMC]

Navy Officers...

[@armitagesoulshroude9815]

Programming... the life and the way it always has been. Oorah!

[@justinloeffler965]

Boats n hoes You need a college degree to become an officer so, they all have degrees lmao

[@justinloeffler965]

Boats n hoes Fucking keyboard warrior lmao.

[@justinloeffler965]

Boats n hoes I'm not in the military anymore lmao. I got retired for knee problems and i make about 30k while i go to college with my gibill so who's the little beta in this conversation?

[@ibuprofenPill]

My career Marine Corps next door neighbor told me this only happened to him once or twice. Even in basic, he said you're not subject to drills like this every meal. He said they bust your ass like this when you first arrive, but toward the end of boot camp no one cares how you eat.

[@faz1991]

What was with the two who had empty plates and were pretending to eat?

[@manictiger]

I think they're trying to "retrain" them, that is, make them unlearn what might cause problems on the field and then learn what the military wants them to. Efficacy is debatable, obviously, but I'm sure that, if someone devises a better system, it'll (eventually) be put into practice.

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Why is she pretending to eat when there's nothing on her plate?

[@pineytheelder3898]

😂😂😂😂

[@rubendasoccerpro5063]

for real😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Darklg23]

OK I'm ex-military myself Army to be exact. Any way I see a lot of people are kind of down trotting the military as a whole. Now the drills yelling in your is for a purpose, not for them to cruel. In all actuality the drills are there to give you encouragement and to make sure that when or if friends, family, husband or wife were ever to face combat they'll remember what there drills taught them.

[@rossbryan6102]

THE ARMY IN 1963 TO 1967 WAS TOTALLY STUPID BUT NOTHING AS STUPID AS THIS! I HAD SOME FRIENDS TRY TO CON ME INTO JOINING THE MARINES INSTEAD, BUT DIDNT BITE!

[@MrDjg8]

I wish people would read the description.

[@DarthTwilight]

those of you complaining, this isn't a method of cruelty. this is to program their brains to the ideal of discipline, to follow orders the way they are given without question, and to operate with a team mindset. while it may seem petty, this type of psychological programming may save their lives and or the lives of others on the battlefield.

[@lineygoblue4252]

When I served back in the 70's the chow hall was one of two places where you could not be harassed by DI's or anyone. You had to be left alone when you ate. Also, they could not prevent you from attending chapel services on Sunday, or bother you on the way to or from the chapel. I guess things have changed. For the worse.

[@bethcooper4200]

John on wives computer. Served in the CG from 1963 to 67. Once you were in the mess hall you were expected to eat all you had put on your plate(mess tins were phased out the week I got there) Now, per CG video, a recruit gets a ration of bs in the chow hall. Completely disagree with this tactic where ever it is done and that would include the academies, OCS, enlisted boot camp etc. Enough training should be sufficient outside the mess hall. This is nonsense no matter who gives an answer to the contrary.

[@1903A3shooter]

Well I live near Langley Air force Base, and Fort Eustis along with about 6 other military bases. This are is full of them and I dont know what any of the mess halls look like, except the ones I have been in. You might be right but there is no way to know for sure. My son is a Navy pilot and did OCS at Pensacola Fl. and this is the way things are. By the way I live about 200 yards from the Amtrak line here, also worked for Chessie system for 2 years, I like trains also.

[@bendover-st4bq]

i would laugh my ass out if i was doing that:)

[@LinkRocks]

I laugh at all of these boot camps videos because they're so ridiculous. The military is a joke anyway, we spend too much money on it and train these kids to be animals. It's dumb.

[@USNDavid]

While in boot, you CANNOT be denied less than 3 meals a day. It is standard to have a galley that serves 3 meals a day or in the case of no galley provided, you will be paid BAS to compensate for no galley. If you get denied food where a galley is present the person or person who denied you the ability to eat may be subject to article 93 of the UCMJ.

[@swordfish3720]

I bet they help each other pee, too. God bless the navy.

[@TheBlitzvideo]

the definition of soldier is someone who takes orders.

[@Looking1231]

Must be the Marine way of thinking. I was in the Army and the only thing they gave you was a certain amount of time to eat your meals but as long as you were outside in formation at a certain time, they didn't care if you ate slow or fast or in unison or whatever. This way would drive me insane!!!!

[@pockEclipse]

you should have read the description. This is Navy officer candidate school. In USMC boot camp - parris island anyway - chow was one of the few times they didn't do shit like this. You just had to inhale it bc chow time went quick. of course, you have to consider that this is navy personnel being trained by marine corps instructors, so naturally the instructors take special pleasure in this work.

[@Looking1231]

Thank you for the information. I totally understand it now. I should have realized it but thank you!

[@petezimmerman3270]

Part of training and discipline of why Marines win so many more battles.

[@ragintexan1]

NACY OCS CHOW HALL PROCEDURE!!! AHHH the memories! lol... this is just a practice session for families so all that are worried about eating, trust me you ate, but very slowly and with steadyness. Listen to the explanation from the Drill Instructor. That's how it was folks... for months. These "candidates" are about to graduate and their families are there watching this procedure. Now, the real thing is going on behind the scenes where you hear the DI chewing someone. Now that! Was chow hall lol.

[@duncancallum]

ABSOLUTE FUCKING SHIT IS THE BULL SHIT THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH

[@bobafett7558]

Just learning to obey is what they are teaching.

[@BcfFergie]

Sounds like you need a taste of military life by the way you speak. Have some respect for you and others text English!

[@pockEclipse]

you mad bro?

[@Shane23Armada]

I know right ..getting fucking hungry here. let me eat in peace

[@kylok5338]

they signed up for it

[@whiskeyify]

In the Navy they wanted us in & out fast so we gobbled down our food. The Navy now brings the meals to the barricks, this saves time, you don't have to march across the field to the mess hall.

[@calebnutter-truehart767]

Why is the girls plate empty?

[@HypersonicWave]

Plus another one, the black guy on the right. I have no Idea why they have no food on their plate.

[@HypersonicWave]

Every single thing there is done on orders, so the drill sergeants must have had something to do with it.

[@SuaveTito]

This is during the "hi moms". They're just about to graduate and they give their families a crash course on what training was like. She's probably eating with her family afterward, so she wasn't going to get more food.

[@TET2005]

She is on a diet!

[@gunsite45]

Yes. All the way until Candidate Officer phase which occurs at the end of week Nine. So that's nine weeks of 3 meals per day eaten only with a spoon in your left hand for nine weeks. I remember the first week my class only had about 3 spoonfuls of food per meal for 2 days. I don't miss chow hall procedures!!!

[@antonioespino2166]

now ... why is that lady and that guy has to imagine the food ??? damnnn ... that's so fucked up .

[@jagergaming2281]

they probably chose water. or it was a punishment for something they have done earlier. also there are no females at that table.

[@jorgep-rez4834]

Probably was a punishment

[@Btrain23B]

the reason for this is so you understand and get use to repetition..knowing certain ways to do things without error, teaching your brain to do things in a precise order

[@jordanjones8120]

yeeeaaaah.....this is a little much

[@JeffSpehar-ov1cn]

Too much for you pussy,

[@Dover939]

@@JeffSpehar-ov1cn nah dude, it's just stupid and there's no actual point. Also, knock off the macho shit. You're impressing nobody.

[@optio256]

That girl was eating air! 🍽

[@RunnerGunner2020]

Some might see this as puppets or robots. In truth it’s about taking orders and doing things as a team. My brother is a Marine and this is necessary in order to create the strongest of the American fighting force. There not called devil dogs for nothing now 😉

[@petezimmerman3270]

Laser, you nailed it. Those that aren't Marines won't understand. Will go into battle any day, and have, with Marines, over any other branch who does not get it. Part of discipline and team work whether you understand it or not.

[@MrWiggles00706]

Not even that. This is pointless to the extent where you will never ever do this in your entire military career or get someone near that level of blind obedience. I get shove everything in while only having two minutes, believe I was there. But this is just pointless... it teaches to follow orders and traditions without second thought, to not think and adapt to the situation. Hell when I had 5 minutes to shower, shave, make my bunk, shit, and be there 15 minutes early of course. That teaches time management, urgency, tasks you'll probably have to do when you're deployed in a desert with cold ass water and rationing MRE's when on long convoys or patrols. This is just stupid.

[@noneofyourbusiness8251]

I remember boot camp being pretty hardcore, but not this intense! Wow time flies

[@TheStrongj12]

Seems like the most unproductive thing you could do.

[@petezimmerman3270]

Will go into battle any day, and have, with Marines, over any other branch who does not get it. Part of discipline and team work whether you understand it or not.

[@paolosebastiannavagonzalez1313]

Pete Zimmerman glad to spam mr soldier? HAHAHAH

[@onegai]

I don't know if they would enjoy their food with that kind of routine

[@samsemerau6802]

To all of those who say that the purpose of this is futile. Saying that "no other country's military in the world does this" is a poor argument. The United States has the most powerful military on the planet for a good reason. "Every other country" is just an example of what NOT to replicate

[@JaniceHope]

Yeah, the reason is money and politicians who use the military for their donors as world police force and steady income for the involved companies. The most powerful military has mastered how to eat like idiots, but can't win the war against terror since 16 years and counting. In fact the us-style warfare is the guarantee that this "war" will continue for years to come. More money will be thrown to the corporate donors while the ppl who can't afford college fees and basic health care will be the minds and bodies used (and hurt) in wars that claim to defend US Freedom in foreign countries in the middle east, aftica, asia and latin america, while at home the surveillance state (and corporate data hogs) undermine that "freedom" at every level of your life. That's US exceptionalism at work. Been an officer for 12 years in a combat MOS. You go back to sleep now, dude. But keep in mind: so far every empire has fallen at one point in time!

[@bugsybugs2253]

Samuel Semerau that's a very uneducated opinion!

[@cedine1]

I eat invisible food sometimes too. Mostly for lunch though

[@mirimar69]

I do not believe I have seen a more insane methodology of building esprit de corps. Just churning out sausages

[@petezimmerman3270]

Someone who apparently speaks and knows nothing about what he speaks.

[@caspertap]

@reynaMrecinos27 this is Navy Officer Candidate School at Naval Station Newport RI. basically it's kind of a boot camp for officers in the Navy but also involves Marine Corps DI's. (like the movie, "An Officer and a Gentleman" with Richard Gere).

[@izzylagi4539]

Robots eating lol

[@98028676]

Almost identical to boot camp, the DI's voice echoing is very eerie, yet motivating

[@BANE760]

Wtf fuck that . And I thought about joining

[@BcfFergie]

You need to learn to read and write proper first. The way you talk you must have a low iq

[@cobysayo3701]

+Bcf1967 Fergie And the way you talk sounds like you have a stick up your ass. Chill the fuck out.

[@UlyssesAlpha]

+Coby Sayo I guess it takes one to know Juan

[@cobysayo3701]

+Ulysses um okay? What kind of argument is that LOL

[@tlsrob6772]

+Coby Sayo ya'll need to chill, its a demonstration. Its ridiculous at first but it gets relaxed as time progresses.

[@robbiesmith1381]

I didn't think the military could deny a soldier the right to eat, but we see clearly it happens.

[@bumbelbee242]

what for a shit I was in German Army we must eat fast too but this is harassment

[@whiskeyify]

I remember Navy boot camp it was like just go in and eat fast...they didn't want us spending a lot of time in the chow hall...the less time spent there meant more time for training. etc.

[@PurdyBear1]

LOL! This is hilarious. I don't think we do anything remotely like this in the UK. Yep they do have lessons on silver service etc, but nothing as bad as this. I wonder if the US Army personnel have a history of stomach ulcers, gastric problems, constipation etc. Over here, they soldiers do line up before mess hall but then get dismissed and it's their time when they are within that hall. They can eat with who they like and what they like. It's just like a lunch hour at school, they get a time to get back but the rest of it is their time. I think the American way can teach discipline, but it also treats everyone like a complete idiot, thus not really helping on the initiative scale.

[@hodgesjoshuab]

Thus why the uk has one of the weaker military command

[@jorgep-rez4834]

PurdyBear1 I remember being put in a line for chow, outside the dining facility (dfact), the last two privates would hold the doors.open. yell things as ordered and then sent in. I just remember being yelled at to yell what I was supposed to yell. I was in the army for 5 months and never passed basic.trainjng. hell of an experience thougb

[@petezimmerman3270]

Why your not world renowned Marines.

[@Eddyisrich403]

This is United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School on M.C.B. Quantico, VA

[@troyb8579]

worse than prison... way worse

[@johnkirchner9183]

If you were never in the Marines you just don’t get it

[@johnkirchner9183]

Semper Fi

[@Pitchithard]

Navy boot camp you filed in a height line . Depending on how tall you were you might get 3or 4 minutes to eat during the first couple weeks.

[@LordWellington15]

The American military is stupid. Here in New Zealand, and every other Commonwealth Armed Forces we dont need to be told how to eat or how to brush, its plain stupid.

[@fishersmith54]

lol call us stupid. but the American military would roll your country over before it knew what happened.

[@snappy9b]

johnson long lmao so true

[@erikthackston1609]

johnson long hell yeah.

[@LordWellington15]

Come back and talk to me when you learn how to eat your food by yourself

[@GhillieproductionsJR]

LordWellington15 Its not about eating food or whatever you think kid. Look into it before you hate on it. You're probably some immature kid who doesn't even know the facts. You're the problem with the world.

[@rebelchamp93]

It's attention to detail and following orders. There is a purpose in everything done there...I did Navy OCS, i know.

[@L3fty233]

It was always the greatest when the drill sgt would go around after everyone at a table sat down and, proceed to take the weapons from under them that didn't get secured lol. (Army)

[@1903A3shooter]

This is O.C.S. officers candidate school. The point is to weed out the slugs that don't really have the heart and desire and commitment to fly navy jets or command ships. Things get much better after graduation from O.C.S. flight school is lots of work but much fun.

[@arllag5732]

In USA you eat food like this in the army, in Soviet Russia you eat like in school

[@601salsa]

from what i see stuff like this happens across all training aspects no matter which country, this way seems to work for the USA, UK and other countries do it differently. its purpose to find out just where your mental weaknesses are and train you to overcome.

[@GarielBee]

If you keep the man's head occupied, he will not notice when you will send him to do the wrong thing. He will just plug the right lever.

[@kenaldri4923]

Synchronized eating. A new Olympic sport someday maybe.

[@chechnya]

The days of fighting WWII style hand to hand combat are over, and even the military sees this with the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles, less troops on hand, etc.

[@C.L-g9u]

U have 15 minutes and 15 minutes only to finish your fine fine Navy chow.

[@sgtortiz641]

Bravo, I could not have said it better. Life is not a video game.

[@JENDALL714]

Take what you want, but eat what you take of this fine, fine Navy chow!

[@AdventureFreak86]

That's cute that the families could watch.

[@elijahjoym.fetalvero3888]

In every military school do you need to eat like this every day breakfast, lunch and dinner?

[@marial4048]

Dril sergeant: Chew at 07, swallow at 09. Me: can’t tolerate regulations regulating me food.

[@TheGUNSnKNIVES]

I think its a demonstration for the people who are filming like how they do their everyday process.

[@redtib2003]

@Augustahumbert it's Navy Officer Candidates School

[@caspertap]

@VinLawson no, they just made everyone eat like that. only left handed, only with a spoon. we didn't even get napkins until around 8th week.

[@wbrosen]

this was for show on graduation day, and the ones not actually eating anything already ate but were told to stand in to make the table full. "The daily routine of Chow Hall Procedures, presented on graduation morning for the viewing pleasure of our families"

[@Modifiedmortal]

Iv seen this happen to a US Airman, that don't clean their quarters or do bad on tests, basically screw up. But it's just a way to embarrass them in front of others

[@lewistasso8866]

All about listening, obeying orders, and learning procedures. Plus, you can't eat as much.

[@AstoriaGent]

What's the big deal? That used to be called having a "Square Meal" and was common at the service academies. It's the same as the ten point system but more detailed...You had to bring the food straight up from the plate pause,and then bring it staight to your mouth, all in a square motion. The eater was then required to chew that mouthful of food 27 times before swallowing; if they failed to chew 27 times they would then have to chew for a witness and then request permission to swallow.

[@UlyssesAlpha]

Looks like the numbers have more expectations in OCS than enlisted training.

[@JamesP5871]

@LastXdeth JROTC is not lame, it's just there only so much a High School student can do.

[@Texasmilitarydepartmentvid9654]

That has to be one of the nicest Mess Halls I have ever seen .

[@r5t6y12]

Take a look at the video series by "Chesty Puller" that's called "Marine Corps Basic Training Parts 1-5". I could have tolerated most of that. The DI's were very quiet and reassuring. They were persuading without being dictatorial. They were leading their recruits without dehumanizing them in the process.

[@franciscozahradnik8040]

After watching this weird video, "Full Metal Jacket" ( a Stanley Kubrick film) seems like the Disney version of the Marine Corps. It is absolutely bizarre, specially with the blonde and the fourth guy on the right eating invisible food.

[@caspertap]

@Alaska47Boy i know what you mean, but this is graduation day for all the friends and family to see, so it's a little bit of a performance really

[@ProChoiceJesus]

Do any of them ever crack a smile when they're looking straight across the table at someone else? Then, God forbid, start laughing? It's rare, but I've been in situations as silly-looking as this when I start laughing & have a hard time stopping. Often it's contagious.

[@JonahRy-en4iy]

Never learned anything from this at boot camp but oh well.

[@caspertap]

@irathon no, some people chose not to eat because they wanted to go have a "real" breakfast with their families later that morning.

[@caspertap]

@Rokovakian some people opted to not eat for this meal so they could go out and eat a "real" breakfast with their families out in town before the graduation ceremony.

[@briancuthbert4508]

This is just redicoulious. Who in their right mind would want to go through all this. Lifes just too short. 🙄🙄

[@Iratechromosome]

MEEEE AHAHAHAHAHHA MEEEEE I LIKE PAIN HAHAHA I LIKE SUFFERING I AM IN MY RIGHT MIND AND I HOPE MY LIFE GETS *SHORTER* BECAUSE OF THIS HAHAHAHHAHA ME EAT Synchronized.

[@Mkhalo3]

So this is where officer logic is born...