Ahh.. the memories of bootcamp..
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Topic: Ahh.. the memories of bootcamp..
Posted By: Linus
Subject: Ahh.. the memories of bootcamp..
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 8:56pm
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Remember when you forgot to report your http://youtube.com/watch?v=77Ahdxk_b1g&mode=related&search= - 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.... |
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 9:03pm
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Heh heh heh. I don't think they were actually saying anything, just yelling in his ear... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 9:09pm
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. |
DeTrevni wrote:Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 9:26pm
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Flocked by DI's. What a scary/comical image... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 9:30pm
Scary when there, comical when not. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 9:37pm
| That's just lame. Bet they feel like big men. |
Posted By: Pate
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 10:12pm
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LOL the guy closests tot he camera at about 22 seconds is awesome.
KAWW KAWWW KAWW!!! ------------- 
It feels good to be a gangster |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 10:15pm
| Wow, that's not... insane. |
Posted By: Funky
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 11:12pm
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So.. is his goal not to laugh? ------------- 
"Don't you hate pants?" |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 15 April 2007 at 11:13pm
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So did you actually make it through boot?
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Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 1:54am
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 2:04am
The goal isn't to make themselves feel like 'big men' but to make the person they are training to feel like less of one. Can't build 'em up the way you want 'em until you break them down and start from scratch. One of the D.I.'s in there looks really familiar. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 7:17am
| hahha thats from Ears Open Eye Balls Click. Nice little documentary on MCRD San Diego. Nothing like Parris Island though. |
Posted By: c4cypher
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 8:11am
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AFBMT isn't nearly as long or as gueling physicly as the Basic experiences of the other branches, but I still have good memories from basic.
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 8:41am
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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................. ------------- 
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 10:55am
You have sand fleas.... yipee. And 1 chow hall per battalion.. we had 1 chow hall for all 4 battalions. Do you guys have your own version of the Reaper? (Our DI's said we'd get in pissing matches with PI Marines  )
And OS, they still use "corrective motivation".... atleast in my old company they did. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 11:08am
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Can you complain about something other than America for once? ------------- 
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 12:09pm
Word. I have a tendency to laugh at the worst possible times.
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. ------------- 
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Posted By: c4cypher
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 12:51pm
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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. |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 1:01pm
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I wasn't refuting the DI part or anything that has to do with that, just hoping that through my sarcastic post, SSOK would realize how moronic and idiotic his post was. -------------
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Posted By: c4cypher
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 1:03pm
| LOL, I was agreeing with you Gatyr, most of my comments were directed at Choopie's original post ... plus a lot of my own personal feelings/memories. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 1:10pm
Where did I say anything about the states? That could have been any military, even canada, and I'd have the exact same comment to make. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 2:04pm
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How do you not say anything when a marine walks through the hatch? I mean, not even a "Good afternoon sir!" Heh.
As for DI's getting physical, I'm sure they knew the cameras were there. If you're stupid enough you're going to get jacked up, even if they aren't supposed to. DIs are constantly being watched and evaluated, if you screw up it reflects badly on them, and poop rolls downhill.
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Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 2:31pm
| they did know the cameras were there. like i said before, its from Ears Open, Eye Balls click. a documentary on MCRD San Diego. |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 2:41pm
I thought that too before I went. I thought it wouldnt get to me and I would just laugh in their faces when they yelled. That was definatly not the case though. The yelling and everything gets to you eventually. Its not a matter of if they will break you, its a matter of when. |