Hey guys, I'm glad to see this video being enjoyed by some vets who went through around the time the documentary was focused. I was Navy and didn't serve until 2013, so this was long before my time, but when I found this VHS amongst a bunch of home movies at my dad's house, I figured I would preserve and upload it. My father is a retired Marine and served from 1982 - 2002, and I am sure that some of you fell somewhere in that window of service. Thank you all for your service and enjoy the video! - Chris
graduated Oct 1995....Platoon 1018 Delta Company..Senior DI Sgt. Gibson, DI Sgt Fenton (the DI that made us marines for the most part) DI Sgt. Hunter and DI Sgt,.Willis
Lol "we don't yell at them here at receiving" bullshit lol. I got dragged around by my mohawk and cussed out by a DI in the airport basement before I even got to the Island. Then I got the same treatment up until the first haircut I even got to go in the head of the line
I was Platoon 2086 Golf Company, 08JAN96 - 29MAR96 Senior Drill Instructor Hess, Sgt Moffit, Sgt Collins, Sgt Stewart. We had the best Hog Board on the island.....
@@e4fc397 my was in 94 stg Collins was white but had glasses and sgt Stewart was black built and short, he had glasses but I don’t think any of the two need glasses they just probably had them for the look.
I didn't get on till nine years later, but I know exactly what you mean. We still had some of those old barracks back then; and boy oh' boy, the corps of today is nothing like what I experienced!
General Humble is wrong in his staement saying that in the first coupld of days that 100% of the recruits in the first couple of days "do not want to be here". When I joined in 1974, I was happy to be there, scared maybe, stressed out definitely, but myself and many of my fellow recruits felt like this where we belong.
I Joined the Corps in the 80’s and that for TV crap did not exist. The we’re trying to separate the weak from the worthy.. The first day in receiving they had 3 grown men crying and made them quit within the first 24 hrs on the island. This is not how they get off in you when there is no camera around. But now days the Corp has gotten much weaker due to these weak ass politicians involving themselves into the training of the Marine Corps. The have turn the color into a bunch of soft cloth puddly. Some of the BS that they allow to graduate with that USMC uniform from boot-camp now days they should be arrested and charged with a felony and kicked out of the Marine Corp for allowing such a thing to happen. The should be a shame to look that POS recruit in the face and say congratulations you are a marine now..but for those who deserved to be a leatherneck welcome. Congress needs to stay out of certain things. The marine corp is one of them.
Hey guys, I'm glad to see this video being enjoyed by some vets who went through around the time the documentary was focused. I was Navy and didn't serve until 2013, so this was long before my time, but when I found this VHS amongst a bunch of home movies at my dad's house, I figured I would preserve and upload it. My father is a retired Marine and served from 1982 - 2002, and I am sure that some of you fell somewhere in that window of service. Thank you all for your service and enjoy the video! - Chris
graduated Oct 1995....Platoon 1018 Delta Company..Senior DI Sgt. Gibson, DI Sgt Fenton (the DI that made us marines for the most part) DI Sgt. Hunter and DI Sgt,.Willis
Oh no! It definitely happened back then. It may not be quite as hands on and public as of today but yes it can and does still go on.
Lol "we don't yell at them here at receiving" bullshit lol. I got dragged around by my mohawk and cussed out by a DI in the airport basement before I even got to the Island. Then I got the same treatment up until the first haircut I even got to go in the head of the line
I was there as a DI in 97.
Damn i feel old. Lol
SDI Ssgt Simon was DI Ssgt Simon in my platoon, 1st Recruit Training Battalion Platoon 1096, May 31st, 1996! Semper Fi!
I was Platoon 2086 Golf Company, 08JAN96 - 29MAR96 Senior Drill Instructor Hess, Sgt Moffit, Sgt Collins, Sgt Stewart. We had the best Hog Board on the island.....
Did your Sgt Collins wear glasses?
and sgt stewart?
No glasses for collins as far as I can remember, also he was a white guy, Stewart was a black guy, built like a brick shit house..@@beltway95sports
@@e4fc397 my was in 94 stg Collins was white but had glasses and sgt Stewart was black built and short, he had glasses but I don’t think any of the two need glasses they just probably had them for the look.
I didnt know this was your video until about 10 min in!
Haha the sword fight. Yeah that Marine kicked your ass
7:43 that recruit on left thought he was already in the gun club.
Pretty good watch would recommend
Went thru this in 1981 . Old wooden barracks for receiving a whole lot more hands on approach...if you know what I mean. 😂
I didn't get on till nine years later, but I know exactly what you mean. We still had some of those old barracks back then; and boy oh' boy, the corps of today is nothing like what I experienced!
They mispelled "Sergeant".
General Humble is wrong in his staement saying that in the first coupld of days that 100% of the recruits in the first couple of days "do not want to be here". When I joined in 1974, I was happy to be there, scared maybe, stressed out definitely, but myself and many of my fellow recruits felt like this where we belong.
Seabees. I remember you clear!
I Joined the Corps in the 80’s and that for TV crap did not exist. The we’re trying to separate the weak from the worthy.. The first day in receiving they had 3 grown men crying and made them quit within the first 24 hrs on the island. This is not how they get off in you when there is no camera around. But now days the Corp has gotten much weaker due to these weak ass politicians involving themselves into the training of the Marine Corps. The have turn the color into a bunch of soft cloth puddly. Some of the BS that they allow to graduate with that USMC uniform from boot-camp now days they should be arrested and charged with a felony and kicked out of the Marine Corp for allowing such a thing to happen. The should be a shame to look that POS recruit in the face and say congratulations you are a marine now..but for those who deserved to be a leatherneck welcome.
Congress needs to stay out of certain things. The marine corp is one of them.