Ahh.. the memories of bootcamp..

Remember when you forgot to report your post?

Sure, its funny now that it's over with... but in the moment you're freaked the hell out.

I hated being a gear guard....

DeTrevni wrote:

Heh heh heh. I don't think they were actually saying anything, just yelling in his ear...

You dont know how right you are.. sometimes they just do random words and noises.

It still amazes me how someone with such a raspy voice can have such a high pitches squeal.

Though 4 DI's doing that isnt bad. If you screw up during MCMAP you have 20+ doing that... now THAT is hell.

Edited by Linus - 15 April 2007 at 9:09pm

DeTrevni wrote:

Flocked by DI's. What a scary/comical image...

Scary when there, comical when not.

LOL the guy closests tot he camera at about 22 seconds is awesome.

KAWW KAWWW KAWW!!!

It feels good to be a gangster

So.. is his goal not to laugh?

"Don't you hate pants?"

Funky wrote:

So.. is his goal not to laugh?

Id fail.

///AMG What?

hahha thats from Ears Open Eye Balls Click. Nice little documentary on MCRD San Diego. Nothing like Parris Island though.

Today's basic training is kindergarden compared to pre-73. Drills in all services could use "corrective motivation" (ie strike the soldier) for instances. FMJ is the way it was all over. Today we have people here who just do not understand. The goal here is to take a bunch of individuals, focus them into one identity, one purpose, to hate me the Drill, and succeed as a TEAM, despite all I can throw at them. And many said it was the 80's that was the "me" generation, I sit and laugh.

I remmember getting off the bus, we lined up on the pre-painted footprints on the tarmac, counted off by 4's and the following was yelled at us: " All the #1's step foward, you will die in Vietnam, All the #2's step foward, you will be seriously wounded and crippled in Vietnam, All the #3's step foward, you will be seriously wounded and lose a limb in Vietnam, All the #4's step foward, you will be wounded in Vietnam, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, Listen, Learn and Live, *******,be an individual and you will DIE.................

choopie911 wrote:

That's just lame. Bet they feel like big men.

Can you complain about something other than America for once?

Gatyr wrote:

NiQ-Toto wrote:

Funky wrote:

So.. is his goal not to laugh?

Id fail.

Word. I have a tendency to laugh at the worst possible times.

SSOK wrote:

choopie911 wrote:

That's just lame. Bet they feel like big men.

Can you complain about something other than America for once?

Yeah, quit complaining about America, and all countries it encompasses. If you don't like how the DI's treat people, then you should leave.

It may look demeaning ... hell ... it IS demeaning, but there IS a point to it, it's not simply about ego, and I couldn't tell you if there was a better method for turning civvies into servicemen, but what does happen in basic IS effective in doing what it is supposed to do.

It's nigh impossible for me to possibly explain why basic is the way it is, I don't have all the facts or reasoning, but what I do know is that when I left basic training, I feel that I was a better person for it IN SPITE of certain things that I felt were stupid, unfair or plain wrong. I did emerge changed, trained and ready to take the next step in becoming a functioning serviceman.