USMC Boot Camp: Confidence Course, Parris Island 2018

U.S. Marine Recruits with Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, and Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, complete the Confidence Course May 16, 2018, on Parris Island, S.C.
The course is comprised of 15 obstacles designed to help recruits build confidence by overcoming physical and mental challenges.

[@1121conan]

1976 I was stationed at MCRD Parris Island assigned to the Correctional Facility. On a few occasions four or five of us would go run the confidence course at night after the NCO club had closed. As we were in MP Company if the MPs showed up they would let us go. Good times!

[@darinbarfield8738]

I see the course has changed quite a bit,
Since i was there 34 years ago,
Quite a few more safety related alterations, rubber or cushions added to logs or edges.
Safety cargo netting under first 3rd of the slide for Life... when I was there, if you fell,
You just fell.
My Senior DI ordered me to let go once, 1st & only time I ever entered the water there...
I was being verbally reprimanded by my senior DI, then the Company Officer, in which I was told to stop my forward progress on the rope and hang, still( basically at attention while hanging with hands from the rope)
I assume they expected my strength to waiver & grip to loosen and I’d fall, adding to my punishment for being caught writing a letter in the rack the previous night.
They took turns back & forth for at least 2 mins, telling me this & that, meanwhile there was a DI at the top of the rope - yelling & shaking it feverishly telling me to get off his rope , as I was holding up the line, and another DI at the bottom yelling & doing the same , shaking the rope with me hanging on it back & forth,
Finally my SDI tells me to let go & drop into the water, I politely inform him, that I have the strength to pull my myself back up onto the rope & continue the pattern to the bottom.
He tells me a 2nd time, reminding me that this is an order.
So I dropped,
But once you drop,
You have to go back to the beginning & start over, now with wet clothes & about 10 lbs of dirt & sand in your boots ,
Much more difficult under those circumstances,
But I completely it successfully the 2nd time.

[@darlenebradley6756]

Maybe with the cost of health care so high, and the overall cost of even getting a poolie to the point of even getting on the bus, they figure a little cargo netting and padding here and there to reduce injuries was the fiscally prudent thing to do! You can bet it wasn't done for anyone's comfort!

[@zeesmythe8019]

I love how safe every thing is for the cameras. And look at that stress free environment. Beautiful 😂

[@michelleandalon]

The Stairway to Heaven changed A LOT. Also, when did they stop singing the Marines' Hymn if they fall in the water of the Slide for Life??

[@Tony-sl1ko]

I sang the HYMN... and the damn water was freezing!

[@cashopa]

Me: Ooh...the thought of splinters!

[@brandonm.4187]

That stairway to heaven is like half as tall as the one in San Diego and the logs are much closer together

[@ChapterMasterADO]

Bro the one in san d is a fucken monsters and the logs are waaay apart. Like the very top you gotta jump up. It sucks balls. Lot of dudes fall a d get hurt.

[@ianelliot1127]

Glad im going to pi the stairway to heaven is the only thing that makes me nervous but the one in pi doesn't look bad

[@royjames196]

You're dead on I went to San Diego and I'm watching this thinking wtf? That's not what I did

[@dr9205]

Those were the days! PlSC 1976

[@favrerules04]

2:44 CREAM CORN!!

[@johnwilliamson2276]

This was my favourite thing at Parris Island next to chow call. 1968-August 18. Semper Fi Brothers

[@atticusjackson722]

And sisters

[@hildadoe5964]

@@atticusjackson722 ok karen 😂

[@abdullahalhafiz7032]

These guys arere awesome.!

[@this_is_not_leanne6299]

I’m 5 foot I’m curious how to go through that course

[@michelleandalon]

I'm almost 5' tall and I was able to do it 24 years ago

[@ChapterMasterADO]

Lol not if your a man in san diego logs are way further apart. You just fall and hurt yourself. Lol

[@SVQ1972]

Muy bien!

[@Jonsey193]

Reminds me of Aussie bush camp

[@edwardcarmody3336]

Had a ball on slide for life, P.I., the course looks safer and smaller than when was there "72"

[@judith7425]

If they fall into the water, can they change clothes or do they have to stay in the wet uniform whole day ?

[@importantname]

out door phys ed?

[@ahmedbein7540]

good

[@bradynolan9328]

I am joining the Marine Corps right when I get out of high school but I am kinda freaked out about this cause o saw they had to climb this thing and I don’t know if there was any protection in case you are to fall. Is there any protection if something were to go wrong on one of these obstacles?

[@cappuccinosnephew1382]

On most of them there's a net or some padding, but for a couple of them you might be fucked if you fall

[@cap6159]

That's the idea bud. You are a lot stronger by the time you do the confidence course. You'll gain strength and do th O course first. But that's the idea. Don't fall, hence the name, confidence course.
USMC Paris Island, Dec of 1978. MOS 0321
Nothing is worth having if you don't earn it. Good luck if you join. It's a hard road but worth it in the end. Go in as a boy, come out a man.

[@cappuccinosnephew1382]

@@cap6159 Wrong. Come out a man AND a United States Marine.

[@cap6159]

@@cappuccinosnephew1382 I figured that was a given if you make it. But yes you come out a Marine and stay a Marine for life.

[@deven3914]

The idea for the stairway to heaven is to take it slow and precise slow and steady wins the race

[@marioribeirodeazevedoneto311]

O Exército brasileiro faz melhor! kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@rockade2408]

cattle fodder

[@the_queen_redeemed]

They look tired as hell

[@atticusjackson722]

They only get like 3 hours of sleep then they have to go out and do this

[@humbledaughter2219]

The women look so out of place.

[@atticusjackson722]

Fuck you