Making Marines and Graduation Nov 21, 2001

[@Ambitious_ty1911]

I’m in this video. Platoon 3100 Killa Kilo Company! I never watched my VHS of this but look how things just come back and find you… nearly 22 years later. God bless whoever posted this!

[@Thenightstalker1244]

is this really from 2001? I graduated Sep, 7th 2001. Thought you guys were already issued the new digital cammies and tan belts.

[@diamondhair11]

My daughter is the recruit marching next to Drill instructor Campbell (Black woman D. I.) at 8:45-8:53. My daughter graduated on October 19, 2001..... It was a tense time, right after 9-11. We had to have special passes to get on Parris Island for family day, and to pick up our new Marines, but what an amazing day. This is not my daughters graduation day, but it looks exactly the same. Of course with new recruits coming all the time, they kind of almost overlapped....Some of this video was from the Discovery channel on Parris Island. They were there to film The Making of a Marine, 2001. Then 9-11 happened, everything is in the original VHS movies. I bought the whole set to watch and my daughter was in the video multiple times.

[@MinnieTyko]

I look lost AF 🤣

[@gruntpup8152]

This just popped up. My 1st day of boot was sept 15th 2001. I cant believe it was that long ago. Being a Marine is the single proudest part of my life. Semper fi devils

[@Lord_Baker]

I knew what I was getting into as a 3rd generation Riflemen that enlisted in 09, but these Marines was in recruit training during 9/11 ... heavy!

[@diamondhair11]

You are right...... My daughter is in this video and she was in boot camp during 9-11. She graduated Oct. 19th, 2001. She is the young recruit marching right next to the Black woman Drill instructor, (Campbell) at 8:45. What a day that was. Mostly because I missed my daughter, but you had to have a special pass to even get on Parris Island. It had to be in your car window at the corner. If you didn't have it, you didn't get in.....Then each car had to be searched....(we set in a line that stretched around that exit ramp that went in a circle for probably 2 hrs.) before even getting in Parris Island. I was so happy for my daughter that day, but so sad for some of the Marines. Some of them had parents who worked in the twin towers.

[@NoahsNam]

My Marine son was 15 on 9/11 - Ground Zero is right across the Hudson from our town so we watched the tragedy unfold first hand. Years later, after his 1st deployment, he told me that was the day he decided to become a US Marine. We watched this film together several times. He graduated Parris Island in 2006 (proudest day of our lives!), did 2 deployments - Iraq and Afghanistan and among other decorations earned his "Good Cookie" and a Meritorious Mast. Semper Fi to all Marines and their Moms!

[@MinnieTyko]

My mom posted this video and told me she found me in it. Watching it brought back so many feelings, even beyond boot camp…this will always be a part of me no matter what I go through in life.

[@diamondhair11]

Can I ask what Platoon were you in? Graduation day? It's possible that you knew my daughter.

[@philbrown9764]

As a second generation Marine Nam Vet 68-69, my dad 38-46 WW2 Vet. I remember the movies that were made of the time I was in Boot Camp. No...wait...no I don’t. No one cared back then.

[@diamondhair11]

I would have given anything to see boot camp videos of that time. You are right. Vietnam Vets were treated horrible when they came back.... All my uncles were in every branch of military. 1 uncle in WWII Bob Houser Army, 1 uncle Raymond Houser Army in the Korean war, 2 uncles in Vietnam both Army Johnny Houser and Cecil Houser. Then my brother Jerry Darst Air Force, My daughter is a Marine, Graduated October 19, 2001, right after 9-11. I remember my uncle Cecil telling us the airport stories. People would spit at him, call him baby killer, he said no one met him at the airport except for family. You know how now days groups of people show up with flags, cheering for men, women they don't even know......It wasn't like that then....... other than that he never told us any stories.... He was very secretive about Viet Nam. He said he just wanted to forget it.

[@moneyjordy]

Love watching P.I Marines Grad and i get to see 1st Battalion again in the background

[@bigwillietheb]

TO ALL THOSE MARINES WHO SERVED I SAY THANK YOU

[@zipchtkdn7804]

Don't even have Robert Dawson hand up being a pretty badass Marine staff sergeant

[@nr30199]

I remember graduation day so vividly even though it was 23 years ago. Good to see my old SDI

[@GAMarine137]

Nice video. I was on the island back in 2002

[@Antares_451]

Nice Video.. 1st Bn Aco Plt 1050. July 6th 2001... Semper Fi..

[@Thenightstalker1244]

At 37:47, is he checking a cell phone?? There were no smart phones at that time. Could be something else.

[@jasonthompson7245]

I graduated Feb 2, 2001 3rd Battalion, Lima Company platoon 3014. SDI Ssgt Shuman, DI’s Sgt Wyatt and Sgt Crouch. Brings back a lot of memories.

[@tonycarver9570]

I graduated on 23 Dec 1983. I'll never forget it. Ooh-rah! I won the Series High Shooter Award. 2nd Battalion D Company.

[@irockz281982]

I graduated Boot 12th Oct. 2001. 3rd Btln India Co Plt 3096. Semper Fi. Stay Salty and above all else Stay Disciplined Motivators!

[@thewatcher4552]

All these Marines served in Iraq some probably never came back home.

[@2Tall03XX]

Not all, but a good bit served in Iraq I’m sure. And probably Afghanistan

[@skuminc3564]

lol not all

[@dlstewart1]

@@2Tall03XX Either or smartass they served the GWOT. I graduated earlier that year....Pretty sure they went somewhere trust me.

[@2Tall03XX]

@@dlstewart1 no shit, you don’t think I know that.

[@dlstewart1]

@@2Tall03XX ok tough guy

[@srednaz]

I was in this video! Holy crap. 22 years later on youtube!! Wow!

[@rickystarling2863]

i graduated from 2nd Battalion Echo Company in September of 2000.....seeing how dated this video is makes me feel hella old lol

[@megiloth3634]

I was MCRD San Diego Aug-Nov 1989. If they graduated in November 2001, they literally went to boot camp a few weeks before 9/11. That's crazy. For me, a year later after graduation, I completed technical training and was on the same day Hussein went into Kuwait. I was sent over there soon enough.

[@Villah496]

February 2001 Lima company Platoon 3127

[@videosuperhighway7655]

you can see the smart one using the rifle as a tool to keep that wire away from the body. Remember work smarter not harder.

[@charltonboyd2349]

Graduated 6 September 1972 1st Bn. A Co. Plt.162. Retired MGYSGT

[@yeoyeo9788]

Damn, they'd be hitting their 20 year mark.. also, major oooof 14:15

[@terrancewalker3169]

imagine sitting at your foot locker in bootcamp & finding out that you’re going to war

[@matreyles]

1st RTR, Delta Company, platoon 1093, MCRD 2001

[@mugshot749]

Only 11 weeks US Marines basic training, the Royal Marines Comando course is 28 weeks, it's about 50 years since I did it and I still have nightmares about it.

[@pw1277]

13 weeks plus 1 month of mct if your a non combat mos and then job school

[@carlmaster9690]

What is the name of the Sergeant at 5:42! I've seen him in another video giving the "Drill Instructor Pledge" but it [the video] starts whilst hes talking about reporting abuse.

[@2Tall03XX]

Many of these Marines would later go on to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan

[@zipchtkdn7804]

This video has been chopped

[@blakman7]

I think that the USMC did away with the "Sir Sandwich" by the time that this was filmed, if I'm not mistaken.

[@JohnnyRebKy]

Must have. I was there in 2005 and have no idea what your talking about?? Sir Sandwich ?

[@blakman7]

@@JohnnyRebKy The sir sandwich is a term used when a recruit says "sir" as the first and last words out of their mouth. Like "Sir, this recruit requests permission to make a head call, sir." Nowadays, you only say "sir" at the end of saying something, no longer at the beginning.

[@JohnnyRebKy]

@@blakman7 oh ok. When I was on the Island in 2005 we never said sir first. We only said sir at the end. But I noticed videos from San Diego they say sir first and last like your talking about. I guess there are still some differences between San Diego and the Island. Honestly I think San Diego is the better training camp. There's some shady stuff that goes on in the swamp. My first night there the Dis in receiving was allowing some corporal to run around sticking a knife to recruits throats. It was crazy. He didn't do it to me but I was prepared for it. I was going to fight to the death if he did. So on day 1 in the swamp my career almost ended. I never heard of that happening anywhere else. San Diego seems to be more squared away. My dad was there in 1965 and he was kinda shocked by some of the things i told him about the island.

[@hectorpacheco4419]

I was there that day it wasmy step brothers graduation.

[@nicholasdesanto7308]

37:54. Dude checks his phone, gunnery Sgt sees him do it. Looks like he's got a a dip in too. During the national anthem on top of it all. Crying right now.

[@Thenightstalker1244]

I dont think there were smart phone at that time. The Gunnery Sergeant did not look his way. Its probably a remote control for something.

[@Finn-gx6ir]

its 5 : 00am in the morning with the volume low and i scroll down to the comment section and i hear yelling. i thougth someone was outside but it turns out the D.I was just yelling and it sounded like some crazy dude was outside honestly scared me didnt expect that haha. was born that same year and month but im not a marine im a fat cilvian !

[@thale2422]

October 30 2001-January 26 2002 alpha co 1006

[@charlievoss718]

I left the drill field there in April 2000

[@scrripting]

I was back on the island in 1911 platoon 1 with 1st 1st battalion

[@JohnnyRebKy]

I will NEVER forget the bayonet course. I got in trouble for doing a confederate southern rebel yell instead of just going ahhhhh lol. One DI chewed me out whole the other could hardly keep from laughing lol. I got nicknamed JohnnyReb the rest of my life 👍 If you don't know...during the civil war southern soldiers did a rebel yell in battle. They were told to scream like demons on the attack. Being a southerner I gave out a rebel yell while attacking the tires in boot camp lol. Some of the southern DIs knew exactly what I was going and tried so hard not to laugh while the other thought I was just being silly

[@RodeoBullRider]

YEE YEE

[@zipchtkdn7804]

They're filling out the part where they interviewed the Dawson and the Smiths the tall Southern girl the accent from Kentucky and Tennessee

[@GenX_US_Marine]

Ah the PG version. Wait until those camera's are turned off.

[@อรทัยฟรีบี]

Freedom of information dear friend just be happy

[@waynegray1010]

Grad. 12/12/03 - 3rd Bn Lima Co.

[@wolfgangresch1650]

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[@rogersmith1936]

Semper...plt 3076 Kilo "The Dirty 3rd"

[@SirJohnKnight]

on my 8th bday this happend

[@JohnnyRebKy]

I wish I could go back

[@อรทัยฟรีบี]

How i can know i never been USA

[@อรทัยฟรีบี]

Im the War this it's my friends US Navy's Marines Soldiers airport the best heroes power from USA CA ❤️ California City Wales England dear

[@FFEMTB08]

Makes me wonder how many of these young kids die within months or years of this being made.

[@zipchtkdn7804]

This video been diced up.and edited

[@alphaomega6224]

4th Battalion still looking stupid