MARINE CORPS BOOTCAMP Plt 1127 Dec 1987 - Feb 1988

Pick up day for Plt 1127, C Co, MCRD San Diego Dec 1987 - Feb 1988.

[@James-akaRhino]

I was one of the Drill Instructors in the video. This is how things were done back then to most all who went through USMC boot camp in that era.

[@jermeycombs3602]

Dude, You treated those Guys like Prisoners,

[@mrpage1775]

He treated us like Marines! Thats why we are the most feared fighting force in the world.

[@DavidSmith-sp2td]

Sir, What were the infractions of the first recruits who were It'd, Sir?

[@robertdonahue2600]

Semper fi, i was plt 3011 sr di staff sgt barnes n0v 10 to march

[@suaiman4263]

Thats how it should be still

[@bigdmarine]

I went through Nov. 81-Jan. 82. It should still be this way. This era rocked!

[@alexanderwalle3568]

Woodlands make the man.

[@tideatmilehigh2727]

Probably the most authentic footage I’ve ever seen showcasing USMC boot camp.

[@joeferguson2606]

"anybodies son will do" is the best documentary on marine corps boot camp...its on youtube

[@profile2047]

Why is it so relaxed.

[@bogenious8474]

@@profile2047 NONE of the films you ever see old , new whatever , show what really happens do they ? they are always way toned down , i have never seen one yet i`m sure there is a reason as we all know this is tame compared to what it really is even on day 1

[@FormerVicePresidentDickVeiny]

@@zl2848 winter platoons are usually a lot smaller than summer platoons because of high school graduation. This could be why they didn't have 3 or 4. I figured 3 would be minimum. SDI, J-belt, and Kill Hat

[@rostamlong380]

@@profile2047 a lot more direct threats of bodily harm and death much more profanity and violent physical contact with impeccable military bearing different than nowdays but not even close to inferior.

[@mrpage1775]

Damn that brings back memories. I see Donnelly, Matuchi, Asmus, Goad. Platoon 1127 we were so young. Wow

[@alexanderwalle3568]

They have it set-up that you can't get up and go get another job, either--is why they watch you close.

[@hoodieso8858]

​@@alexanderwalle3568 Wtf are you babbling about

[@hoodieso8858]

​@@alexanderwalle3568 nvm I see what you meant. Although that's a generalization you just made. Everyone's experience is different

[@robertcastillo5109]

I'm an Air Force veteran...77-81... Honorable Discharge... I will always have the up most respect and admiration for the USMC...

[@alexanderwalle3568]

I was excited when I heard we'd be getting little green monsters. I couldn't believe they'd issue us pets, too--and tactical ones, it made sense but then I thought about what a little green monster liked to eat. Boot bands, probably; I decided to stock-up on those as soon as possible. Wouldn't want the little guys going hungry in the field.

[@fredop3682]

I’m so happy I will die knowing, I earned the title, we earned it. Semper Fi.

[@DismaliciousX21]

This is the most accurate boot camp video I’ve came across. Not the typical interview ones where they just yell but can’t actually show what happens because of mothers of America lol

[@alexanderwalle3568]

"Mothers of America watching me" was in our cadences (I know what it means now) but I had no idea what they were talking about at the time; I didn't know what a Democrat or Republican was until I started hearing about them in the FMF (they were some sort of animals living on base).

[@jaygonztx]

It's still like this today. This is exactly what it was like meeting my DIs in 2013. From the airplanes taking off across the fence to the rattling off of the most colorful expletives in the english language. That's what I love about the Corps. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

[@nsudatta-roy8154]

There's no way bootcamp is still like this today. Back then recruits would routinely get hands put on them. It wasn't allowed, but I've witnessed the hands. I also know someone who punched a drill instructor in the mouth. There was no court-martial because the DI challenged the recruit and got knocked the fvck out. We also didn't have co-ed platoons.

[@jaygonztx]

@@nsudatta-roy8154 In boot camp, the rule was that they couldn’t touch you unless you touched them. I remember our JHat once stood behind a recruit walking backward, so when the recruit bumped in our DI- he grabbed him by the blouse and flung him the other way. That same DI kept kicking sand in our faces before he kicked me over on my side when bear crawling through a pit during the crucible. So yes, it still happens but not as frequent and DIs are more creative. Also, there are no “Co-Ed” platoons in boot camp today. The same way females train at MCRDPI now do it at MCRDSD.

[@jaygonztx]

@@nsudatta-roy8154 I will add that many smaller changes happened since 2013. They stopped using wooden footlockers because DIs kept throwing them across the squadbay and shattering when they found locks unsecured.

[@nsudatta-roy8154]

@@jaygonztx "The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is a congressional directive mandating the Marine Corps to integrate training at boot camp fully. MCRD San Diego has until 2028, and Parris Island has until 2025 to comply with the mandate. On January 5, 2019, the Marine Corps integrated about 50 female recruits into 3rd Recruit Training Battalion India Company."

[@danpatton3891]

This brought back memories. I didn't know every platoon did this. We had an SDI and 3 DIs for First Phase. All four of them were wrecking havoc our first night with the DIs; even the SDI. I remembered dumping the sea bags, but I couldn't remember why. When we dumped our trash, we had plastic bottles of Listerine rolling around on the deck. I can still hear them being kicked or thrown, hitting whatever was in their path; including recruits. We had stuff all over the squad bay. It took days, maybe even a week, to get the gear straightened out. This was also the night we were told what a Drill Instructor could not do, then found out within an hour, the DIs did these things anyway. Nothing was being filmed back then, so DIs didn't have to worry about being caught doing... Whatever. I got thumped that night, as did many others. Thank You for the memory. Platoon 2086, Parris Island, 1977 Arrived at the Island on 13 July and Graduated on 4 October, 1977

[@robertvondran1317]

Ssgt: Foster, was my recruiter during my enlistment and poolee status. Ssgt: Foster shipped before I had the opportunity to thank him. i came across this video. Semper fidelis!. My platoon assembled and formed into Plt: 1103, Bravo Co. 1st. Recruit battalion. M.c.r.d. San Diego. Senior Drill instructor Ssgt: Guerra was our senior drill instructor. Good times! I wished I had that time in my life again.

[@TuanPham-ds3tm]

My journey began on the Thanksgiving weekend of 1985 and graduated on February 14, 1986 . At this time we still go to San Onofre for second phase .

[@b.entranceperium]

This was great to watch. I felt so motivated afterwards. Thanks for sharing

[@user-kd3oi9wv8v]

37 years ago and i still remember all my DI's SSgt Chatlein, sgt Montoya, sgt Cabellero, sgt Whitten platoon 1054

[@badgermike1231]

I graduated just 4 months prior to this. Sgt Cordera was a D.I. in a sister platoon of mine. What great memories! Semper Fi

[@alexanderwalle3568]

If I knew they had sister platoons, at that age I would have been excited at the chance of meeting them.

[@skywarp1]

I wore those old woodland camos back in the late 90s. MCRD PI Plt. 3018 3rd Batallion "Mike" Company. Nov 98-Feb 99. Got out of the Marine Corps in 2003

[@waycoolrob35]

I arrived in Aug of 88 plt 3081. Thank you for posting this!

[@strider4life696]

I was regular Army from 2012 to 2016, and it would've been an honor to fight alongside you guys if I ever deployed.

[@bluecollarvet2759]

2005-2011 here 3rd ID.

[@thesadprepper3722]

2019-2024 Regular army veteran here

[@Casperthefriendlyghost82]

This year made me the man I am. And a complete success. 1988 PI. The best decision of my life

[@pvanduyk6781]

I had SSgt Chandler & Sgt Cordera the following cycle (1025). I also had 1st Lt Graden & SSgt Foster however the Series Commander was 1st Lt Philadelphia. We witnessed SSgt Chandler get promoted, he was a real motivator.

[@saviour4743]

As a Marine, damn this is intense as shit. Only 2 instructors, but that’s enough.. the unseen footage I can only imagine

[@bobbyallen7977]

LOL you got that right? I graduated from boot in 79

[@doubleemcastillano464]

I graduated in 2015, my first company was about this intense. Within the first 8 days there was a DI under investigation after a recruit ended up with his head split and had to get staples. Part of me is grateful I got to experience some of the randomness I experienced. I realize it’s pretty rare these days I guess.

[@alexanderwalle3568]

Our Senior sometimes had us all to himself; the others had days off here and there that I noticed but our Senior alone was like five at once. We didn't get over one bit just because it was him--in many ways, he was worse than all three.

[@hoodieso8858]

​@@alexanderwalle3568When senior puts on his green duty belt. That's when you know you fucked up

[@mr.bighud518]

Brings back so many memories. I was in bravo company platoon 1097 Sept 1987 to December 4, 1987 Senior Drill Instructor Sgt.Reynolds, Sgt Ketchum, Sgt Hines, Sgt Lonergan and Sgt Patterson for a while.. I graduated right before these recruits started...Bootcamp was no joke back then.

[@MariaRamirez-nq4is]

Good To Go! I was in Fox Co., 2nd Bn (Plt. 2091) from *01SEP87- 20NOV87* which means we virtually were there at the same time...getting BENT!! Does a DI Sgt VINE sound familiar? maybe in another Platoon in your company? Just wonder'g & thx' (it's all good if no response

[@patrickscherrer6170]

I was in 2099 Echo company the week behind you.

[@248BLACKwater]

When I went through it it seem more intense then in this footage. Not only that before 96 there was no crucible or reaper hike or a zombie hike. I will say 3 day event no sleep at all, no chow, over 50 miles of hiking and going up the reaper and hiking all the way back to the squad bay ( ZOMBIE HIKE ) is tougher then a punch to the gut

[@jarheadlife]

Was there Sept to 2 Dec 1987. 2nd Bn just across the parade deck.

[@DavidDiaz-zl2vp]

This brings back crazy memories 😂MCRD SD Alpha Co. Plt. 1026, SDI SSgt. Hamidi, SSgt. White, SSgt Huff, SSgt Johnson, & Sgt Pierce. 1991.

[@tbob8212]

46:17 Oh yeah! Getting IT'd, smoked, bent or whatever for the first time in boot camp. I can only imagine what they are thinking because I remember my first time on the San Diego quarterdeck back in 1994. Running in place "Knees higher aye aye sir!" "Arms higher aye aye Sir!" "Flutter kicks aye aye Sir!" and we counted them "One, two, three, discipline! One, two, three, discipline!" and so on, and so on.... :)

[@JRUlZJR]

Crazy how it hasn't changed one bit.

[@jameseagon1142]

I graduated in January of 1988 . plt 1006 1st battalion B CO. Parris Island. My senior drill instructor was SSGT Kenneth , SSGT Reese , SGT Marsh , SGT Cook. We were also an Honor platoon .

[@TheColalpha12]

I CO. Plt .3006 1988Parris Island. (Sen DI) SSGT Thompson. SGT. Camper Sgt. Carrsco Sgt. Armstrong

[@larrymccaslin9827]

I graduated Golf Company platoon 2083 August 1987. This brings back memories.

[@JT-nu1oi]

2117 golf co. 1988

[@alexanderwalle3568]

I recall doing some field-op at P.I., it was hot, humid and miserable and I was being bit by bugs, probably mosquitoes, but I had been trained not to scratch for any reason, or wipe away sweat, so I just laid there with my rifle like a boss and didn't move; such a mind-set will come handy later in life when I shit myself involuntarily.

[@pantera29palms]

In Bootcamp, San Diego, 2003 (during wartime). Black Friday was pure f’ing chaos.

[@eugeneparra3894]

Nov 30 1972 PLT 2150, MCRD San Diego USMC and loving it!

[@robprice1283]

I graduated from PISC in DEC 1985

[@NgJackal1990]

20 years ago wow. Some dudes in this video died already. Some made it to officers and some made it to sergeant majors.

[@RaininMortars]

It was 30 years...most of those recruits are probably in their 40s, early 50s. And u don't become an officer when ur an enlisted ...u have to go to officer candidate school not just basic training like these recruits. The drill instructors are probably in their late 50s

[@NgJackal1990]

@@RaininMortars Duh, that's why I said "made it to officers". I'm also in the service son. I know as much.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@@RaininMortars more than 30

[@michaelmaglier3915]

Many Marines I served with have become officers from that time period! Yes, the GWOT helped many enlisted become Warrant Officers and Officers!

[@levig6375]

1988 to 2018 = 20 years... We don't need math in the corps😂

[@rostamlong380]

Awesome video India Company Plt 3111 Oct/Dec 1986 MCRD San Diego...

[@user-rm9rp3no2j]

Exactly how it was..and yes there was more.circa 1982 for me MCRD San Diego CA.

[@Eric_B_59]

A lot different than our 1977 pick up day. Our DI's got us from the receiving barracks and herded us all the way back to our new squad bay. Then they told us who they were and what to expect. Platoon 1097 MCRD San Diego.

[@alexanderwalle3568]

These guys probably got there the same way we did; how we got to our barracks was we packed our trash in Receiving, then humped a sea bag all the way to hell on Earth: aka Third Battalion.

[@hoodieso8858]

​@alexanderwalle3568 exact way how we got to ours. kilo company 3225

[@Kevsadone]

Brings back memories, 1989. That's how it should still be.

[@ccreech1000]

I went through a 1989. Parris Island 2nd battalion Fox company 2093 and after MRP Hotel company 2106

[@flight2k5]

How is this different than today?

[@broaddusmarines]

@@flight2k5 well, during the modern SDI speech, the recruits will hear “Physical abuse will not be tolerated.” I joined in 1988 and my SDI never mentioned anything about physical abuse not being tolerated or reporting if it happened. I didn’t hear it in this video either. I’m not one of these crusty old Marines that say the Marines has “gone soft”. The spirit of the Marines has not changed since 1918. That being said, to ask has what changed from when this video was made (almost 35 years ago) to 2021 is insane. Watch ANY boot camp video made after 2000. There are tons of them. You can definitely tell the difference. Heck, even in this video you see a couple of recruits get smacked a little. That’s unheard of in any modern boot camp video I’ve seen. I’m not even going to start on the verbal abuse I’ve heard just in the short time of this video. I was probably called “a bitch” (while my DI’s hand was wrapped tightly around my throat) about ten times a day when I went in. Like I said, I joined in August of 1988. It was brutal. I WISHED my Drill Instructors were as “nice” as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket was and I’m not even exaggerating. I know Full Metal Jacket is the standard, but Hartman had nothing on Sergeant Flynn (one of my Kill Hats). This black DI in this video looks like the 1980s “bad cop” type DI that would probably drag a recruit in the Whiskey Locker and beat the living hell out of him.....

[@flight2k5]

@@broaddusmarines aaaww the myth of the marine corps. A propaganda machine that is almost on par with Stalin’s

[@broaddusmarines]

@@flight2k5 uh, okay. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@capncmonkey3261]

Man looking at this makes me want to go to marine boot camp even sooner, I’ve always wanted to be a marine ever since I could grasp the concept of a marine.

[@puqbit028]

Damn I just want to do it because I know there isn't another Job in the world I would rather prefer.

[@doubleemcastillano464]

@@puqbit028 Theres jobs in the Marine Corps. Bootcamp is anywhere from 3-6 months of your life if you make it. If you get injured, maybe a year depending on the severity. You gotta think about what the next 3-6 years might be like. It all depends on your job. I'll tell you the honest truth: If you pick infantry, you'll leave with maybe a bit of confidence and the knowledge of killing...but that's it. If infantry isnt your thing and you dont know what to choose, think about something that will be a high value job when you get out. If you want to make a career out of it, pick something you enjoy. In reality, only the first 7/8 to 12 years will be spent in your MOS. I've seen some people do everything to stay in their unit and job. But at some point you will go to a duty assignment, embassy guard, DI school or a few others I cant recall currently. You might return to your job after 3 years of that. Then at some point, a decade and some change down the line, you'll pick up a staff admin billet and start being shipped to all types of units. At some point it becomes less about who you are and your skill and becomes partly about how people feel and think about you. Most people bail out at or even before the end of their first contract. Dont go in assuming you'll love it. That's how you end up with a 5 or 6 year contract and all your boys end up getting out and you're still chilling in the suck. If theres anything you wanna know, let me know. Shoot, join a FB group with the MOS you want and ask for advice there too.

[@MariaRamirez-nq4is]

@@doubleemcastillano464 that's cool You gave good advice...99% of people wouldn't take the time to do that (including me) & who knows- that just might make something of a difference to them 2 future DevilDogs ...Big Up To You! I seen your comments a few months ago on DI JAMES thread & since I know you're legit I'll take the time to answer YOUR questions: [I'm on my wife's account]

[@MariaRamirez-nq4is]

@@doubleemcastillano464 you asked if there was a time in the past when us recruits referred to themselves as "Recruit"...when I was in boot (Sep - Nov 1987, MCRD-SD, which is the exact same era as this video) we DID say "This Recruit" & *Not* "Private"

[@MariaRamirez-nq4is]

@@doubleemcastillano464 as far as when we Actually got our *EGA,* I remember the night before we graduated during our Platoon's final night count before lights out, when we were still on line The Senior & all the DI's told us that when we woke up the next morning we had earned the title by successfully completing bootcamp & would be Marines... He handed us the little plastic bags with EGA's & told us we were going to put them on our Alphas 'cuz that's what we graduated in

[@NPCHSN]

God, what a day! Thanks for uploading this.

[@oldtruthteller2512]

3rd RTBN, Kilo Company, Plt 3056, graduated 15 Sept 1989. SDI Sgt Gardner, DIs Sgt Williams, Sgt Hazlet, & Ssgt King.

[@bennoah9780]

Ahh yes Those were the days. Was there in 83. One of the recruits in my platoon 3040 complained in a letter home. A few days later he had lots of knots and bruises all over his head and face.

[@Lasurge1982]

“Put it in the footlocker now asshole!” 😂 ahh memories. Man these DIs were savages. I went thru in 2006 fox co plt 2089. Best times of my life

[@JackAnderson5linx]

Wow brings back memories Platoon 1103 Company C 1st BN San Diego 1991

[@marvet9573]

such bittersweet memories this brings LOL Crazy how such abusive yet meaningful events bring us all together, Semper brothers

[@alexanderwalle3568]

It's amazing that I tolerated this for three months let alone an hour-long video; I wish I was like that now--I would have no idea I was being taken.

[@joedills3509]

june to august,1976,plt.150,parris island,ssgt thomas,sgt brown,sgt.jinwright great marines

[@Coreyspr89]

I was in Platoon 1060, 1987 with Senior Drill Instructor Staff Sgt. Foster was my SDI, Staff Sgt. Davis and Pettigrew were my Junior Drill Instructors. They made me the man that I never knew I was or could be. May God Bless them wherever they are!!!!! Honor Platoon 1060!!!! Let me hear you 60!!!!!!

[@tykit9230]

Platoon 1050 B Company PI 1986, Our DI's hardly ever cussed, heard more cussing in this than the whole time at PI

[@donmcc6573]

I was in the Depot Band. I probably played for their graduation.

[@davidrl41]

like it was yesterday... nov 83 - Feb 84 First phase was pure hell

[@carlosdiaz5400]

MCRD 3rd Btn Lima Co Plt 3069 July 84-Oct 84 The worst part was when I got off the bus

[@davidrl41]

@@carlosdiaz5400 Damn i dont even remeber the bus haha. 1st BN Delta Co PLT 1122. Semper Fi brother

[@denniswaterford9753]

Well, that's the the first hour of boot camp... only about a 1,000 more to go!!! OOoooRaaaah!!

[@js-un4tf]

Black Friday. Just when you were in receiving thinking, “this ain’t so bad”. Then comes this day…..when all hell breaks loose.

[@Joe-qh4ft]

Glad to see it hasn’t changed much. There’s more yelling nowadays, but not by much. Marine infantry 05 - 09. Rah.

[@andyseman5005]

I was in Platoon #1023 December 10, 1987 Graduated March 4. 1988 Senior Drill Instructor Sgt Corneliouson , Sgt Cozine , Sgt Ingrim. OOH Fuckin RAHH!!!

[@raygambol2773]

Graduated India Company, Aug 1990, MCRD San Diego. SSgt Manson, SDI; SSgt Avara, Heavy DI, SSgt Drummond, and Sgt Rodriguez. We had other DI's roll through during third phase, but don't remember their names. It was pretty challenging physically and mentally. Great times and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

[@alexanderwalle3568]

Any Manson in California is bound to come with worries.

[@JoRoWi83]

Weird to think about But I went to Boot 14 years after this made... and tbis video depicts something almost 30 years ago. Hi, I’m old Semper Fi

[@scallen3841]

50 shades of semper Fi

[@cadena562]

Platoon 1094 senior drill instructor Sgt Ramsey, ready to fight ready to kill ready to die but never will! MCRD San Diego 1997!

[@zephaneas]

Brings back memories

[@Inspadave]

When I went through PI in the summer of 1990 we had stopped prefacing all speech with "sir". We damn sure ended everything with it, though.

[@USMC-pt7rw]

Semper fi Marines, Oct. 19th, 1987 graduated Jan. 8th, 1988 HOTEL CO 2ND BN PTL 2105, MCRD SAN DIEGO CA.

[@angelguzman8737]

I went to boot camp in 2012 and damn this is different, it’s more relaxed now

[@amaliya.jovanovski]

Some say it hasn't changed?

[@angelguzman8737]

@@amaliya.jovanovski it has and as someone who went to parris island twice in 2002 and 2012 even from that time span it has changed. I got sent home in 02 for torn acl came back 10 years later and was able to earn the title of Marines

[@amaliya.jovanovski]

@@angelguzman8737 was it difficult? Mental or physical demanding

[@angelguzman8737]

@@amaliya.jovanovski no it was so much easier in 2012 than in 2002

[@CCFootballManiacs]

That’s interesting I went through in 2017 and mine was a lot more intense then this. Maybe it just depends on your drill instructors

[@broaddusmarines]

I’m a proud 80s Marines. MCRD San Diego First Batallion Charlie Company Platoon 1091 SSgt Rosario Sgt Flynn Sgt Buchanan Graduated November 9th, 1988 Semper Fi

[@alexanderwalle3568]

If George Santos went down there he would be so sorry they would name an entire platoon after him and he'd never graduate even if he called his Congressman.

[@victorjackson805]

I took Basic June 1, 1981, through August 21, 1981. Platoon 2035. definitely the way it was.

[@1987mule]

October 19, 1987 Hotel Co. Platoon 2105 Senior D.I. SSgt. Bautista Sgt. Barksdale Sgt. Ritter Sgt. Lee 33 years and still remember our D.I.'s

[@James-akaRhino]

Maybe i ran into you in the chow hall . We were there same time. Me DI you a recruit. Good times!

[@1987mule]

See through gymist

[@jamessidehustle9945]

@Maria Ramirez You were at the depot as a recruit same time I was a DI.

[@jamessidehustle9945]

Outstanding! One of my squad mates in DI School ended up in Hotel Company. SGT. SAX.

[@jamessidehustle9945]

@Maria Ramirez No I do not remember that specific SDI. Since we were in different Battalions we wouldn't see your Company that much. I do remember a SGT Farley Simon that was in FOX Company that ran the 3 miles in 14 min something, Olympic caliber runner. He ran 3 miles in the multi-Battalion Field meet.

[@vinny46342]

I earned the EGA February 1987 MCRD San Diego Plt 3127 K Co. Oooh Rah

[@joeferguson2606]

i was platoon 1078 mcrd San Diego july-oct 1984 "anybody's son will do" is the best documentary on marine corps boot camp...its on youtube

[@suaiman4263]

thanks for that. I've never even heard of that one. it looks pretty good so far.

[@cjstory4442]

I was 1078 Parris island July-Oct 2018

[@aaronanthony5140]

I was platoon 1078. June- September 1999.

[@aaronanthony5140]

MCRD San Diego

[@alexanderwalle3568]

"We Need Bodies" is the real title.

[@jfleener1216]

I graduated platoon 3082 Oct 24th 1986 Seimper Fi .

[@mudkipsyrup8740]

Woah, times have changed...

[@suaiman4263]

sure have - PI class of 86-87

[@setwave]

Graduated Dec, 1987. Plt. 1107.

[@Mc007-]

I graduated bootcamp 86

[@DevDog1108]

I wore those red racing stripes of a Diet Recruit, lost about 30-40 pounds getting my tray inspected every meal, lol

[@alexanderwalle3568]

That was the worst shit I ever saw down there; PCP had to be worse than prison. I saw some of those guys and knew they were probably never going to lose that weight--but I'll bet they did.

[@mightymacdiesal12]

Man I thought going to MCRD San Diego in 1995 was tuff, this shit here is pure brutality. Those DI’s were straight savages. And keep in mind they probably tamed it down a bit for the camera. Whew.

[@broaddusmarines]

This is a home made video. This video was not made for the public. They were made for DIs to look at with their fellow DIs and laugh. I joined in 1988. Our DIs made videos like this. They held nothing back in their videos either. These videos were not made for public KZbin consumption.

[@p-jayhall3174]

I went to PI in Dec 2000, they were brutal then too. I even got punched in the stomach for not having all my gear 😂😂😂

[@bobbyallen7977]

Should have gone through in the 70s 😂.This was fairly close with the cameras on

[@DP-uw7mt]

Yup, can attest, this is authentic. ‘07-‘15

[@nsudatta-roy8154]

Oh the games!

[@applianceremovalflatfeeapp6996]

San Diego 1987. Plt 1010 San Diego. Ssg Saylor...Sgt Sandness....Sgt. Threats....Sgt Bahney. Bend and thrust

[@meecebloke]

Holy shit, DI Sgt Bahney! He came over to Plt 1111. That man was harder than woodpecker lips! The first day he was in 1111 he caught me with 4 pieces of bread and said I was a disgusting fat body and to see him on the front quarterdeck. Painted the old diet stripes on all my skivvie shirts and I stayed a diet private until graduation. I became a permanent fixture on the front quarterdeck. I weighed 165 lbs when I arrived and 143 lbs when I graduated. Never ever, have I ever, had 4 pieces of bread again in my life! S/F brother

[@30pvfd]

Plt 1050 1981 MCRD Sept 25 Sr DI Diaz

[@sarahdollarhide7644]

I was in Plt 1050 1981 MCRD along with Sgt Campbell I was the Company High PFT due to my running Fun Times

[@sarahdollarhide7644]

My name is Joel Dollarhide

[@JT-nu1oi]

Oh let the games begin!!! Outfreaking Standing!!!

[@rmooremarine]

Parris island 1985 for me. This is what first phase was exactly.

[@jumperman1773]

87’ Marine here. We were all elite........

[@alexanderwalle3568]

And worshipped Samantha Fox having little clue it was never going to happen.

[@andrewworksource9278]

Holy crap I was Plt 2030 F Co MCRD San Diego Mar 1988 - May 1988

[@andrewworksource9278]

@Maria Ramirez I had SSGT Angelo, SSGT Moss, Sgt Hernandez, SSgt Galloway. Moss was our Senior.

[@andrewworksource9278]

Do they still have hog boards of all the recruits girlfriends in the front classroom. Hahaha the shit you would get over those pictures.

[@MikeVal1369]

Summer of 89, brings back memories. I'm surprised the recruits were allowed in the "DI Highway" in this vid though.

[@oldtruthteller2512]

So was I. Kilo Company, Plt 3056

[@matthewdriggers8662]

The instant and willful obedience to orders

[@tbob8212]

Yes that is "Discipline" Semper Fi

[@coffey8653]

I came through 9 months later. PI.1st Bn Charlie Co, Platoon 1022. We also had a 3 Hat team. A Senior, a heavy and one “J”. SDI white, DI Roseberry and DI Marinda. They were a bit more assertive but very similar. It was a lot of in your face and hands on. Yep the dropped the F, MF, FN, B, Sh, D, GD, POS, and any other word that crossed their mine at the time, Or came out their mouth. You got the business for sure. It got more and more intense as the day went one. They broke you mentally and physically. Because if you really want to be a Marine it was easy to break you. Because your desire to earn the title was greater than failing. But if you were there thinking that you were going to slip through ( wrong ) you were the one that stuck out like a sore thumb and they were going to hunt, zero in, attack you like a fighter jet locked on target and break them down to the point they would be crying like babies begging to be dropped to go home! They would turn it up on them even more from that point. Then they would tell them they were not going home. To get the “F” away from them, then that would drop them all the way back to the first week of training to another platoon that was just starting. Then those guys would have to start all over from day one. Depending wherever you were in training you might end up being on the island from 15 weeks to 8-months. Back then you could get recycled twice, once to PCP weight control/ medical, and Once for a training failure meaning if you failed any test or qual….. they were no joke back then. But it was some great training. You see what out training did for us in the first gulf war. The war ware was over before it started. That was due to how the branches trained back then, and had a President, congress and joint chiefs of staff that understood the importance of a powerful military fighting force…………now days we have to many outside influences from none military people ( civilians) that wanted to be in the military but didn’t have the heart or the physical ability to cut it that became politician’s and started tampering with something that they have zero clue of how it works. Now you have all of these upper brass members that are afraid of their promotion opportunities as appose to standing up for what’s right to maintained a strong fighting force. Everything now is vote driven for these politicians. They will sell the country out for a vote to keep a political seat and a full Cush retirement after holding a office for 3 -7 years.

[@ministerjap8910]

The real bootcamp!!!

[@Mc007-]

Exactly!!!! The bootcamp these marines are going through now is weak

[@248BLACKwater]

@@Mc007- is evolved. Just like everything has . Times change but the Marine Corps is still the Marine Corps

[@Rountree1985]

It’s all real, fuck off.

[@alexanderwalle3568]

Now everything is automated; you can all die much faster and easier than before--a computer can waste the entire company and if a job is especially sticky, you don't call-up the guy from the brig who's capable of anything--that's how things were done in the old days. You get a robot to do it but if the robot says "Sir, AI doesn't know, Sir!" you know you're being bullshitted.

[@hoodieso8858]

​@@Mc007-Lol so soft that I got dropped kicked by a receiving DI. This was last yr. Mcrd san diego. Don't remember his name. Although he was a lengthy Hispanic dude who looked 33 but is probably only 25.

[@zealousideal]

I wasn’t a marine, but I went thru Army Infantry Ft. Benning back in the 90’s and it was also just like this back then! Boot camp wasn’t a joke. Not sure how it is now , but probably a joke.

[@bobbyallen7977]

Why are those pvts allowed on the quarterdeck? We use to run from our racks to the classroom,head or main hatch from behind our racks! (79 in San Diego)

[@Justin_GFM]

58:38 the DI on the right just bitch slapped the recruit 😭

[@JRUlZJR]

Attention to detail lol

[@b-8437]

Yo...🤣😭😭

[@francislumanog892]

Mighty Mike Co plt 3051 Feb-May ‘98 MCRD San Diego

[@Stewartaj2010]

At first I was thinking this isn't intense at all but as it went on i was like oh dam this is no joke, these DIs are ruthless lmao.

[@Stewartaj2010]

@@ministerjap8910 I have no idea what you meant

[@basicbodybuilding]

The last generation of DIs who were trained by Vietnam vets I believe

[@lesstark1183]

@@basicbodybuilding not really. This is 1987. I went to boot camp in 1984 and already by then none of the DI's were Nam vets. To be a DI you have to be a Sgt. Usually it takes about what, maybe six years to make Sgt. A perfect Marine might be able to make it in 4 years but some it might take 7 years or so. Eight at the most but if it takes you 8 years you probably are not a Drill Instructor. Most combat mission ended by 1973 though the Marines ended combat missions even before that. Maybe there were SOME combat fights in 74 and 75 but the war was mostly over for Americans by 73. If you were private helping with the evacuation when Saigon fell in 1975 by 1984 when I went to boot camp you'd be most likely a Gunny by then. But, very few Marines saw combat in Vietnam after around 1972. So in 1984 most DI's would have come in around the 78 or so, six years after the last Marine combat over there. From this video here in 1989 you'd have to go back another 8,9 or 10 years to get to the last Marines to be trained by Nam vets. I never met a staff sgt. who had been in Nam when I was in (84-87). Most gunnys and 1st seargents were not Nam vets but all the Nam vets I met from 84 on were at LEAST gunnys or 1st sgts. I'd say most of the Sgt. Majors were Nam vets too, but definitely not the drill instructors.

[@basicbodybuilding]

@@lesstark1183 assuming these DIs have already been in for 10 years. That means they went in in 1978, and if we said the same for their DIs. That means their DIs Went in 1968. I think it's fair to assume DIs back then had Atleast 10 years of service by the time you met them as seasoned drill instructors.

[@basicbodybuilding]

@@lesstark1183 I didn't say these Dis were Vietnam vets. I said these DIs has Drill instructors who were Vietnam vets. And that is the reasoning they are soo hard, their dis, their ncos(when they were younger) were probably hard on them at work.

[@andrewgonzalez4230]

I wonder how many of these guys had Okinawa as their first duty station. Would have been cool to see Oki in the 80s/early 90s.

[@5Ring]

I loved it. Schwab 88-89, Tried to stay for another year.

[@netsat8977]

My Dad got the opportunity to serve in Okinawa after Camp Pendleton in the late 80s.

[@mlhanlon99]

My dad went to Okinawa and hiked Mt. Fuji

[@andyseman5005]

@@5Ring I was the Rifle Range Tower. NCO at Schwab 88-89 CANNOT to this day match the Shrimp Yakasoba from Henoko

[@paulmorris6177]

3:30...when the jet takes off in the background and he CO has to pause, I DIED!! That was the most authentic part!! I went through in ‘86 and the DI’s wanted to shoot down every fucking plane because they had to pause whatever training was going on until the plane passed!

[@tbob8212]

My SDI and his DIs made us scream as loud as we could at those planes. MCRD San Diego 1994 :)

[@caldupi6569]

Why do they have to stop when a plane is flying?

[@paulmorris6177]

@@caldupi6569 the noise was so loud that we (as recruits) couldn’t hear him. We were LITERALLY, maybe 300 yards from the runway! Imagine trying to give someone instructions next to a runway at an INTERNATIONAL airport!

[@leemoore9933]

We had to say sir before and after as well this was back in the 70's MCRDSD this reminds me alot of how it was then with the cussing and shouldering and shoving. If the Mom's seen this they wouldn't let their sons go in, Lol. I don't think they can cuss or threaten or put their hands on you anymore from what ive been told. But I will say this Marines are still Marines either from the old days or today.

[@alexanderwalle3568]

With all those people getting greased on a daily basis, putting your hands on someone is exceptionally stupid--it's "stinkin' thinkin' for sure.

[@hoodieso8858]

They were technically never allowed to put their hands on you.

[@ervinbrooks6147]

PI Oct 87 to Jan 88 2nd Battalion

[@suaiman4263]

PI DEC 1986 - March 1987 plt 2020

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

When did they start screaming?

[@alexanderwalle3568]

If you flip a light switch on the screaming starts before the switch stops.

[@jarheadlife]

Smelling damned Burger King on fire watch at 0115. Thinking you could eat your toothpaste!!! We didn't have crayons yet!! Music from cars going by. A Harley pulling up and you knew Sr. was around..... Damned to do it again!!!!

[@robbyterrill5707]

3rd btn Ico. Plt.3015..1985. Parris Island...

[@NateTheGnat]

I wonder, anyone who has been through marine boot camp recently, how does it compare to this? I was never in marines, but I'm curious to know how its changed.

[@alexanderhamilton8585]

I went through boot camp in 1986. It was as you see. Now the DIs just scream all the time. It’s stupid. How can you tell if the DI is ACTUALLY UPSET if there’s NO DIFFERENCE in their behavior? It makes the privates tune out.

[@Justin_GFM]

In 2019 I shipped to Parris Island which is one of the two MCRDs, San Diego being the other that’s in this vid, and I can say that this is the most accurate boot camp video I’ve ever seen. No other video shows the cursing, threats, and general aura of Black Friday and 0400 wake up like this

[@rmb743]

Plt 1028 graduated april 15 87. Semper Fi 86-91

[@bigbuss7419]

Good ole cammies..

[@depwater12]

How USMC bootcamp changed. I went thru in Sept. 1998 at P.I. During 1st phase, one of the D.I's got busted down to E-4 and sent back to the fleet for choking a recruit in the middle of the night. He had his hands around his neck pinned against the pillar. The SDI was pissed off at the D.I. We all heard that D.I getting his ass chewed out by the SDI the next morning once he found out. Can't lay a finger on recruits anymore. They still cursed up a F-bombs though 😆

[@taoliu3949]

They were never "allowed" to touch recruits. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[@tbob8212]

Went through MCRD San Diego 1994. One of my DIs who came from the grunts/recon stabbed his pointing finger into my chest a few times to motivate me. No complaints here. It was what it was. I knew what I had to work on and it was good motivation. Semper Fi

[@alexanderwalle3568]

They don't have index fingers because all you need to know about the USMC is what they tell you.

[@CCFootballManiacs]

Sounds like they weren’t allowed to touch recruits back then either lol. I had a similar thing happen and I went through boot camp in 2017. So I’d say not much different

[@p-jayhall3174]

That’s the boot camp I remember! None of the Mickey Mouse bullshit 😂😂😂

[@cesarnavarro7372]

The is the real "Old Corp"

[@wesleywashoe8029]

I remember my older brother devin joined the marines in 1985 , he is just now talking about it at 53yrs old & laughing about all the stupid shit they made you do & how scared you were as a 17yr.old kid who don't know shit but hope you live thru the training. HE was with 2/9 marines grunts, i think their known as the walking dead.I will never forget the day i saw him in his uniform it inspired me to want to enlist in the military as soon as i was 17. (ASW3) WASHOE USN GULF WAR/SOMALIA "OPERATION RESTORE HOPE" DISABLED COMBAT VETERAN)

[@fsanmiguel666]

My brother was with the walking dead, but he was 1/9

[@gwolf6975]

Its not always as prominent as some may think to find military footage complete and in its entire depth as this from prior to 1990 s, especialy 2000 s. You see a lot of historical U.S. military vids from the 40s and 50s that is actual " home video" but without sound and only in clips spliced together. Leaves a lot to be imagined. I feel the further back you go in the 20th century, there was less " show" and demonstration and more just straight reality of the training and the jobs. Just matter of fact real shit.

[@brianriggin4560]

1:00:27 got that knowledge knot slapped. That joggles the brain when they catch you just right. SSGT. Leach told me that was called an "attention getter". Goddamn he hated me.