Inside Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego | Boot Camp

[@bookwren]

Stood in those same yellow footprints summer of '66. What terrified 58 yrs ago make me giggle today. Hoorah, Bothers and Sisters.

[@teetaunjj7894]

It's so funny today especially with the wms

[@goppledanger]

Is it true that they have been forced to lighten up because of PCness? I have friends who were in the Army who said boot camp has completely done a 180 over the past 20-30 years.

[@bookwren]

​@@goppledangerFrom my own experience 58 yrs ago compared to what I see on KZbin: then, much tougher in terms of emotional torment but today far tougher physically. F**king maggots was about the kindest name we were called, but we didn't have to do any thing like the Crucible.

[@joshuasingleton8235]

@@bookwren I watched the transition in the Marine Corps. When I got to bootcamp in 06 bootcamp was physically like you see in this video, but we still got cussed out nonstop and would get our asses handed to us by the drill instructors whenever we were out of sight of common areas. If you mouthed off or were a "shitbag" you got your ass physically beat in the big gear locker in the barracks. Guys were getting smacked with footlockers etc. Good times! Lots of hazing, lots of physical and mental torment. After Obama took office that all changed. Still physically demanding but you could tell that the new drops to the fleet hadn't gone through the same emotional trauma that we had. Too bad... I think it's necessary for a fighting force than can face anything. Hoorah

[@jesussouless5124]

Ive been out for twenty years and i miss it so much. Miss my brothers and sister from Ammo Co., miss the smell of the Camp Pendleton wilderness, i miss the barracks drinking parties.

[@AlexanderMartinez-sn3cp]

should’ve stayed! Re-enlist 🤞🏽 what’s there to lose besides your life 😂

[@teetaunjj7894]

Lmao

[@CopingLoser]

My platoon had to fireman carry our partners up and down basilones hill. We did it like 5 times. It was funny how we gave up and just sled down

[@ShadowGhost-n8d]

War is a racket -Smedley Butler usmc turned dissent against rogues, lies of war, propaganda, capitalism greed

[@bigpapij0sh]

Same happened to us, we had 4 "casualties" on that hill and our SDI made us go up and down over 4 timez

[@easty11]

@@bigpapij0shrookie numbers

[@Maru_Apex_Fan_6900]

My stick leader didn’t give proper greeting to our SDI and made us run it another 6 times xD

[@williambilunas503]

I had those same receiving drill instructors when I went in July

[@medinadan]

Many thanks to the DI's and the TI's for teaching, guiding, instructing our young men and women to be the most lethal force on the Planet...

[@teetaunjj7894]

Lmao... not hardly

[@PiercedLight]

@@teetaunjj7894 ?

[@XtrmTJ97]

MCRD San Diego June 1, 1978 to August 31, 1978. PLT 1043. I stood in those very same yellow foot prints. Once a Marine... Always a Marine !!! Semper Fi Brothers!!!

[@XtrmTJ97]

@NetGoonSmith-z6y Beg your pardon Sir, there's no such thing as an "ex Marine ". Once you have EARNED the title United States Marine, you will be a Marine the rest of your life. Other veterans will say, "I was in the Army or I was in the Navy " A Marine veteran will say "I am a United States Marine. "

[@mondo9.2.5]

not no more you got out lol

[@Locknload1967]

Semper Fi Devildogs !!!! One of the best decisions I ever made was joining the Marine Corps when I was 19 Years old. Served proudly 87-91 MCRD Platoon 2041 April 1987. Camp Lejeune and Okinawa Japan. MOS 0842 Radar Operator. Oohrah 🇺🇸

[@fitkrispie1222]

Wait till those cameras turn off

[@ethanbradbary1002]

Was told they didn’t hit you anymore but witnessed someone get spartan kicked

[@xabraxasx]

@@ethanbradbary1002 one of my buddies had a bad attitude and got punched in the face and the back of his head got split open when it hit the corner of his rack lol....he later won "recruit of the year". He was a POS

[@breezycheese3677]

⁠@@xabraxasxSimilar experience, not near as extreme as that. For me it was in the Army Infantry at Fort Benning. It happened this year, we had a trainee saying something he wasn’t suppose to be saying to a drill and got shoved to the ground (kid had it coming not gonna lie. Was a small bully.). Later on that same drill sergeant that pushed him (horrible drill sergeant maybe of the entire company) got the “drill sergeant of the cycle” or some shit like that.

[@rodolfomendez6886]

Yes time to learn 😂😂😂😂

[@chuckiepeoples]

That’s when the gay porno starts, am I right?

[@carloshernandez6716]

Damn they got the cameraman doing the 3 mile 😂

[@pswallace]

-OR- between takes, he was riding in a HMV. 😅

[@alvarorestrepo260]

Best thing in the world that I ever did was step on those yellow foot prints on Dec 15 1987 PLT 3123 .. MCRD San Diego .. Retired Military after 26 Years!!

[@ftdraglet1753]

RAAAHHH!!!! Much respect fellow marine😎😎😤🔥

[@rossbabcock3790]

Semper Fi dog! Platoon 3013, April 24, 1977 San Diego. I think we all asked that question getting off the bus...'What did I get into?'

[@wonderz_808]

Did you do marines your whole career?

[@JohnBarnett-q1l]

Thanks for this posting, John Barnett revisited December 20 2024 2:38. ❤❤California Love to All ❤ Semper Fi, RUGRATS

[@muraum6039]

52:25 "AAAA-" the scream cut is so funny LMAO

[@mavindraganga3398]

Drill sarge lost his voice before it even started

[@user-Bdot]

Drill sarge ?? lmaoo you can’t be fr right ?

[@brucebanner3566]

That's not the Marines dude.

[@mavindraganga3398]

@user-Bdot my bad in the navy there recruit drill commanders I don't know about other branches

[@JarheadCrayonEater]

It's Drill Instructors in the Marines.

[@teetaunjj7894]

Wm s as drill instructor for guys... lmao... what a joke the corps has become

[@terryfleckster197]

I thought we all arrived at night.

[@davidmartin8275]

Semper Fi my Brothers, San Diego July 68-Sept 06. No Camera's on us, Many beatings and profanity's in abundance. But once in NAM, we all understood our lessons learned in Boot Camp. Plt 2039, 4 hrs base liberty, then off to Camp Pendleton for ITR. 4 years we shall never forget.

[@randallknapp7528]

I stood on those very same Yellow Footprints at MCRD SD on 6/4/86. I am in touch with my SDI these days. He is age 67. Semper Fi, 3063!

[@brian_s3castro305]

would you reccomened a 25 year old join? i really wanna change my future/career

[@geedubbya4432]

I have been searching for mine, bootcamp book just has initials for first name so it is hard. Funny, I ran into the one I hated the most in line behind me at CamLej when I was buying beer....LMAOFL

[@ST3PH3NBLUND3TT0]

that is incredible. you two should get married.😀

[@Aiden_06]

Damn I just graduated from MCRD today and man it feels great to be home

[@juicetin9981]

Lima?

[@Aiden_06]

@@juicetin9981 Bravo

[@Maru_Apex_Fan_6900]

Yoooo bravo!!?? I was 1035!

[@Aiden_06]

@@Maru_Apex_Fan_6900 so was I! Who were you?

[@tims708]

Get some sleep. SF

[@Shreadington]

Oh the memories...I hit the MCRD yellow footprints around 2am June 3rd 1997. Boot Camp was my favorite part. Bravo Co 1108. I loved the mental and physical challenge. We were one of the last few companies to go through under the "old" hazing before Gen Krulak changed them. Female recruits only went to PI. West of the Mississippi River went to MCRD. East of the Mississippi River went to PI. Ooh Rah Leathernecks!

[@NetGoonSmith-z6y]

heck yeah ex-marine!

[@ItsPong]

This brings back memories, my cousin just left and should of met his DI for Black Friday today haha

[@Sondwichhe]

Just graduated today, never missed home so much.

[@BoilingHotCoffee]

20:52 that drill sergeant got some Chester Bennington level screams

[@cnn787-i9e]

6:02 He parted that sea faster than Moses.

[@jesussouless5124]

1:32 I didn’t know Jack Skeleton was a Staff Sergeant and a DI in the Marine Corps!!!

[@nv4_fallout]

She was caked up in the beginning

[@OskarAwesomeSauce]

Dawg…

[@SocoolTocool]

Fr

[@JvR1029]

I'm going in November, holy sh*t 🤣 This is gonna be a heck of an experience

[@falloutnuke_9259]

Good luck pvt

[@JvR1029]

@@falloutnuke_9259 thx

[@shoobruh3973]

take it one day at a time bro. Chow to chow. Just keep your head up and push thru it. Iwent in feb 20th and graduated may 17th. It sucked yeah, but the bonds youll make with your platoon will be awesome. Open up to ur peers and get along with them, youll be with them for 3 months after all. You'll face ups and downs with them but once you make it to the crucible and finish it with them itll be one of the greatest feeling (for me at least). And now im almost done with my school house and will be stationed at hawaii which is fire. Also GO TO ANY RELIGIOUS THING TAKING PLACE ON SUNDAY, trust me, or you'll end up getting yelled at and cleaning the squad bay lol goodluck rah

[@VanillaGorilla21]

November is a good month to go

[@JvR1029]

@@VanillaGorilla21 why? Isn't too cold?

[@Brian-qg9bm]

I stood on the yellow footprints in 1991. I showed up for boot camp with a peach fuzz mustache and a mullet all the way down to the middle of my back. There was no one there to greet us when we got dropped off, so we spontaneously got in line on the prints to wait. A moment later, a door opened and we got our first look at what we had coming. The DI who stepped out to receive us, myself and six guys from Hawaii, didn't say a word as he slowly walked the line and looked us up and down. When he got to me, he stopped. I could not wait to get my @#%^ head shaved! How it makes me laugh! ...now.

[@Startz01]

Holy boot ass drill instructors. If only these recruits knew these DI’s haven’t gone anywhere different than they have.

[@467076]

back to the olden days lol the gap between Vietnam and the gulf war and then the gulf war and Afghanistan.

[@azzizzsallahh]

no lies told

[@TheDeathboy-bz3kw]

It’s almost like we haven’t been in an actual conflict or have real deployments in like damn near ten years lol

[@pr1nce.b33]

Shit you right they should’ve been born earlier so they could enlist and get some chest candy lol

[@467076]

@@pr1nce.b33 lol for reals. I joined in 2012, my entire artillery regiment rarely saw any combat. Except maybe like 2 combat deployments during that 6 years I was in. So maybe like 250 people out 2500 saw combat in 6 years lol

[@XpDaYungin]

21:19 my guys is getting after it 🆙

[@Yoboyemmanuel-dk]

I will look forward to joining in 6 years sir

[@xxcdhajimmyxx231]

Hoping to go here in the near months!

[@miguelitosanchez]

@.02 "Sit up straight and look at me!!!" "Aye aye, Maam, Sir!!!"

[@ejhuggs6061]

That white drill instructor at 1:32 was my drill instructor during receiving week

[@Nighttimebandit]

I leave for bootcamp on monday 😂MSG

[@CalvinMorris-cf8jk]

fine looking group of young fighting men all ready for the pit and the classroom bad stuff happens in the classroom very bad stuff.

[@ShadowGhost-n8d]

War is a racket -Smedley Butler usmc turned dissent against rogues, lies of war, propaganda, capitalism greed

[@arkalonalan]

"Get in the classroom!!!" Not what you wanna hear in boot camp '75 MCRD San Diego 1st Bn

[@reezydrips_drips6823]

I might be the first recruit to ever laugh in the DI’s face😂I hope I don’t laugh

[@CodedBruhment]

You won’t lol, trust me

[@kennethadams8021]

You may laugh. Once.

[@urmom-vu8ye]

i know id either be laughing or crying or pissing myself

[@xxriahxx5275]

I’ve been telling myself this. Hardest part is going to be not to laugh.

[@pswallace]

The barracks inside look the same as they did in '94. Hotel Co. Plt 2082. Semper Fi!

[@efromhb]

Rah! Just went down the YT rabbit hole and saw some silly thing about USAF bootcamp...it was a joke. Awe MCRD San Diego is a much different experience. Semper Fi brothers. The Depot is sacred...but not sure if I'm used to seeing WM DI's there.

[@ShadowGhost-n8d]

War is a racket -Smedley Butler usmc turned dissent against rogues, lies of war, propaganda, capitalism greed

[@clover_shockwave4009]

I was there Lethal Lima 3255 (July 8 2024) good times

[@bdubyascott]

So many memories

[@igm1397]

Aww she’s so cute in her little uniform with her little instructor voice.

[@joie8465]

I know its almost laughable at this point😂

[@teetaunjj7894]

Very laughable... what a joke wm

[@candlesurf]

lol it’s so calm with the cameras around. Or the USMC has gotten soft.

[@Life_of_Lorne]

Semper Fidelis

[@terryfleckster197]

WM's at San Diego now, second thing I've learned from this video.

[@iloveamerica5047]

Thank you men and women 🙏 ❤️

[@Jo-oo1mx]

Things have changed a bit since '09 I see.

[@conorboyland4323]

tbh the hardest part for me would be all the shit you have to memorize. I mean, everything else would be super hard too but dang

[@void4954]

Damn they got rid of the telephone on the wall

[@jaayytaps7238]

That’s what I came to check. I just got my younger brothers phone call and received the call from his personal cell phone. I guess you can take your phone now.

[@papi1999]

The phones dont work anymore i did what they said shit was just broken so everyone used their cellphones and obviously they take them away after you cant have your phone

[@kennethadams8021]

Parris Island, 3rd battalion, platoon 3084. Graduated 14, August, 1985. Or got there 14 August. It's been a minute.

[@hankb4570]

Parris island,3rd battalion 3072 Hotel company graduated in November 1980.

[@visoroverwatch3247]

San Diego is too nice for a boot camp. They need to move that to 29 Palms or Alaska.

[@patriciavelazquez325]

THIS IS RUBEN AMEN 🙏💪🙏

[@mustang7603]

A whiskey Mike DI is not scaring any male marine

[@williampace4773]

Platoon 308, January 1965.

[@axszzzzz]

i just graduated yesterday from charlie company

[@dylanp4394]

I graduated with Charlie this time last year. Who was your SDI and DI's?

[@axszzzzz]

@@dylanp4394 I had senior drill instructor SGT Montterubio, and Drill instructor SGT manning, you wouldn’t know my kill hat or knowledge hat they were on their first cycle.

[@Orangegaterhey]

Why do they have that one guy sleeping in middle row all alone? 😂

[@soxbearshwks8988]

stepped on the yellow footprints MCRDSD 14Aug63 Plt.263 USMC 63-67

[@gagewtff]

funny enough i stepped on the footprints aug 14 2022

[@imsiyrenz]

@@gagewtff Hotel?

[@teetaunjj7894]

1066 Charlie Co July 1990

[@mikemelina9607]

Now you know why marines will run towards the sound of gunfire: they are smelted in a crucible of fire after which they can do anything.

[@leatherneck62]

Dec 1981, Golf Co. Platoon 2100, 😁

[@HowtoLivewithaSmile]

Could you do this? i could not. Semper Fi.

[@mrjsreadingcorner9915]

I thought the Marines are taking a softer approach these days or am I wrong here?

[@kennethcole1886]

Having the cameras on is the softer approach. Lol

[@AndrewM.DeLeonSr]

That's crazy ....I never seen a female DI yelling at a bunch of mail recruits

[@Doingitforviews-o9c]

I had the first female drill instructor that entered the bus at the beginning of the video during my receiving week. God she hated me and I kinda understand cause I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.

[@danielayala2300]

Any tips bro I leave soon? I have no idea about any of the things they were saying. Fitness is not an issue, but I’ve never fired a weapon and I’m pretty nervous😭

[@vu5997]

They didn't show any recruits who quit or failed the PFT. I think they got rid of PCP.

[@spudysz]

Nah it's still there , I was dropped for an injury and had to "test" out in pcp to get back into a training company.. pcp is an absolute shit show, bunch of unmotivated fat bodies

[@sonofkarma5461]

At least these recruits got to Join the Marines, I can’t serve because of my Autism (They think that it’s a “Disability” which in actually is a Different Ability)

[@luiscobian7269]

they didnt let you join because you were diagnosed with it or you went out of your way to get diagnosed. understand? I'm sure autistic people have and will continue to join.

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

They should follow Israel and allow neurosivergents into the military. I'm thankfully either undiagnosed or I don't have autism, but I do have a lot of stuff on my records, still trying to get into the army

[@SaintMKSII]

Well I got denied because of my hearing loss, tough loss.

[@sonofkarma5461]

@@SaintMKSII maybe yours is more understandable, but mine is merely because I’m Different than most People

[@toyotawitha20mm35]

@sonofkarma5461 it's really stupid they have those policies, MEPs are assholes. Autism is a spectrum and not all cases should prevent people from serving in the military.

[@b.escobar2061]

This video is giving me ptsd, lmaooo

[@SXDSCXM]

23:49 i'm pretty sure that was my SDI sgt davis

[@neighborhoodhopefiend5804]

I love!! Some of the DI's were my junior Marines! I created monsters!! Fucking eh!!

[@YaBoyAshyy]

Literally same lol

[@S650Nathan]

Cell phones now? What happened to the land line call

[@kbryant8425]

alpha 1030 aug-oct 95 semper fi

[@TraceyClinker-o6b]

Perez Richard Hernandez Angela Robinson Christopher

[@chiefyahoka3546]

Di in the beginning thick

[@kisukisubE]

brother looking at the nice things i see

[@brenden223]

Wait a min they changed the phone call now you can use your cell phone to call home….

[@jaayytaps7238]

Apparently, my brother shipped today and I just got his phone call from his personal cell phone number.

[@nevillesquad6061]

Nope

[@bigunk2667]

Wow looks like fun.. where do I sign up.

[@AstroAlpha9624]

parris island south carolina is way harder i heard

[@HowtoLivewithaSmile]

And I am a daughter of a Marine,

[@DrunkenOperator13]

Anyone notice how flinchy the Asian kid was…. Looks like he already has ptsd

[@evanventers7550]

leave for bootcamp the 6th!!

[@Barrenthevampire]

Wish you the best of luck, remember it’s all a game. Pay attention to detail and instruction and you’ll get through. Your DI’s want you to pass just submit to the hazing

[@anthonyh3129]

Good luck man! I leave the 3rd maybe I’ll see you there if you’re going to San Diego

[@rolandoduran8339]

They are old enough to send to War but no rights to drink.

[@study7794]

What exactly does drinking even do for you? Also we aren’t even at war right now.

[@rusty7984]

@@study7794 It’s just the irony. Old enough to fight and die for your country but heavens forbid you drink a beer. Also the call to war can happen at any moment I don’t think the recruits and drill instructors on September 10th 2001 were even considering what was about to happen.

[@study7794]

@@rusty7984 War and drinking is way different. Obviously war is bad but that’s it’s own things and so is military. Drinking is something people do daily and happens as its own thing too.

[@WestCoastIrk]

SCREAM IT LOUDER xD

[@Hzmtfc]

When did the WM’s DI’s start to train male recruits

[@kennethadams8021]

That would have been been a deal breaker for me. Sorry, just not gonna go through that. Pretending to be all freaked out by a female? Nope.

[@Marissa-ys4qp]

"dsfjhu sdfyerydfuedhffh fudshfuds do you understand!" ........🤥"yes...sir...ma'am?"

[@Accuracy617]

Veddy good 👍

[@geedubbya4432]

Not the same effect when it is during the day, among other things I disagree with.

[@Sharpaye11]

They bring their phones to bootcamp?!?! And get to call their parents off them for their initial phone call?!?

[@theduck22]

Nope, all personal items get stuffed away

[@MarthaMijares-e3h]

Yes, my son is at bc and he called me from his phone, after that call they took it away

[@doom4067]

Receiving in broad daylight?

[@kikofromthesouth2863]

Them Receiving DIs aint got not stacks 😂

[@xinitialc]

what war?

[@koolkidxxl4267]

Balder the head the meaner the DI

[@dinokingty]

east coast best coast

[@Loading...2740.]

I cant understand a damn thing the drills are saying

[@svenvath3226]

During corona, the DI shouted through the mask?

[@marcoalvarez8743]

Gyatt sargent

[@ScottTurczyn-y7h]

I can't understand what they are saying when they yell

[@wildnsavage3389]

DIs have gotten smaller lol and since when did they start having female DIs in SD for male boots

[@Dainus77]

Absolutely hilarious 😂😂 I'd just stand there with the instructors going mental in my face, pause, then turn to them and go "Dudes, you done??"

[@tedmichel3107]

Badass 😎

[@bman2617]

I only came on here thinking I'd see more comments about the drill sgts dumper... disappointed

[@stuart4341]

what year is this from? there's a picture of Obama on the wall

[@VanillaGorilla21]

I’m surprised it’s not aye aye them/they

[@poopypants8737]

shut up

[@simplyclean4907]

I will lose my voice all year round

[@DylanDominick-lp2sj]

What if i cant swim? :0

[@ren3171]

They teach those who can't swim... At least the navy does and the marines are kind of part of the navy so I assume they teach too.

[@rossbabcock3790]

Does everyone still get the Mr. Mofo experience?

[@williamsantillanes9322]

what?

[@claychandler3468]

Some of this is pointless

[@williamsantillanes9322]

cant here a wird they say?