Do you think that drill instructors in the marines and Drill Sergeants in the army be allow to hit recruits like during the Vietnam War and before. War is much more cruel then boot camp and if you can't survive a punch to the gut because you made a mistake there how will you survive in war. Also I've heard from my cousins in the marines that Drill instructors will still hit you if you mess up in boot camp when the media isn't around is that true?
Well i wouldnt say beat you but the hamd does slip every once in awhile. I graduated from marine bootcamp in 07 amd the change i see now to be honest the standards are going down. Everytime new marines come into the unit they want to be sensitive bout everything. I am in a combat MOS and we dont need teddy bears around. I am disappointed as to what bootcamp has become. I had some tough drill instructor and i myself was hit but i never took it personally. Its there job to train and toughen us up for wat is to come.
I was in The Corps right as Vietnam was ending and the rule against laying hands on recruits was not yet in place. It is nothing like it was but I've heard from some more recent marines that things still happen but nothing like it used to be. I saw a guy get spin kicked when standing at attention in the barracks by a DI who was some kind of a kung fu badass and saw a number of recruits get punched. I personally got punched in the gut pretty hard. I also saw a guy get led around by a string tied around his dick on the parade field with his pants around his ankles for screwing up a marching formation. FYI my platoon also had a guy jump from our 3rd story barracks down to the hard deckwe never heard if he lived or died, nothing was ever told to us and the DI's just went ahead with training like nothing had happened. Parris Island was not for the faint of heart back then.
Marines in combat for the past 11 years have survived just fine without having to be abused while in boot camp, so there goes your wonderful theory.
While war is always going to have its ugly moments, training for it has become harder to do since the violence and hazing is strictly forbidden these days. Recruits today will NEVER go through what I went through in 1982 to pass boot camp. Discipline and good order in 2013 also means with a gentler, kinder hand - and yes, it might be making us a bit softer. But out-and-out physical violence is not ever going to be a part of future basic training.
THATs BS Your Cousins LIE! - In Boot - We are NOT your Mother. You have to be MADE into a man, and a lot of boots come from LIB-privilege lives, so we have to change that, because other lives depend on this recruit being a MAN when it's time. That's why BootCamp is 8 weeks (2 months) so we have time to undo what Mommy Daddy did. THEN-Training Nobody Beats recruits, and i take GREAT offense at YOU for using that word. I retired as a drill Instructor from Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA as a DI after serving in NAM. WE NEVER BEAT recruits!!! Rough them up - Yes, keep them up late get them up early? - YES, Yell scream? YES! - Because Mommy Daddy Didn't teach them RESPECT! Nobody was EVER Beat in any of our Squads, Platoons or Companies EVER! . You can take that to the Bank **** @Al Bundy - FOAD!
