The Man who played Pvt Madison was Sgt Joseph Holmes he was a DI at MCRDSD when the movie was filmed and he was hand picked by Jack Webb , he was a Korean War Vet and would got to Vietnam , he would retire as a MGYSGT in 1984 , he was my father.He passed away in July of 2021 and his legacy will forever noted by DIs through the Corps
@ J H - Hey, one of the GREAT military movie scenes of ALL TIME ! I copy off this ALL the time and it is a LOT of fun. Many ,many kudos to the good Sergeant, and May He Rest in Peace!
Hand Salute Semper Fidelis to Your Dad, & you. My Dad woke me up at 0200 hrs or so when I was a kid to watch The D.I. with him. It made an effect on me & I joined & went to MCRDSD as my Dad did then he went to Korea. All the Best Blessings
In Jarhead, the DI asked him why he was in the Corps, and the recruit answered, " because I got lost on the way to college sir." Then the DI bounced his head off the wall. That reminds me of my father and I. The old man would take his 4 rock hard sausage fingers, and use the tips to tag my forehead. He called it thumping. He asked me why I did something I shouldn't have, and I had about 5 different answers, all of which were smart ass. He didn't bounce my head off the wall, but he would thump me. All these lines were not acceptable: I don't know I did it because it was a slow Tuesday, It seemed the the thing to do at the time I felt like it I wanted to see what would happen next.
I knew a Marine Corps captain who had actually enlisted just that way. He dropped out of high school to join the Navy but the recruiter told him he couldn’t enlist without a diploma. He said though he didn’t know it at the time the Navy recruiter called the Marine recruiter a she was leaving. The marine recruits was waiting for him at the door and said, “So. You’re too dumb to be a sailor huh boy! Show me your fingers.” He enlisted in the Marines that day and went on to make captain before he retired.
Back in 73' at MCAS Iwakuni, I and four fellow Marines watched the DI one night, and the next day we all went over to our career planner office and reenlisted. Never regretted it.
This movie brings back so many hopeful moments. I spent four years on active duty as a US Marine. Now honorably Discharged a SGT E-5. I'm 65 and with what I've experienced I wish I could do it all over again. I'm not saying every moment was happy and joyful, but one thing is I really learned a lot about people. One thing I know about being a Marine is that there is brotherhood always among Marines.
Bigotry has its place when you are relatively safe but when you’re in fear of being killed the black, Hispanic, Asian or gay Marine covering your ass, somehow bigots and atheists are not to be found!
Years ago I worked with a WW2 marine vet. He was shipboard at Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea and Midway. Landed at Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima. One of the nicest people I have ever met.
Did my stint in the corps in 66-70 made Sgt E-5. Married a young lady who's dad was in the corps on Guadalcanal etc. As a forward spotter artillery. Also one of the nicest people I ever met.
Remember very well when I was on "Fire Watch" at my barracks. Those General Orders were branded in my brain whenever the occasion an officer or NCO approached my Post - was ready to recite them all!
My dad told me the General Orders were by far one of the main reasons he got smoked so bad. Thinking everything was funny was the next main reason why he got smoked. In the end, he learned them so well, he didn't let the MTI in the dorm as she was not on the authorized list. Of course, he was cussed out six ways from Sunday, threatened with all kinds of things and yelled at so loud, a few it was a Hertz shy of being beyond the hearing range of human ears. Of course he was absolutely in the right and did exactly what he was supposed to do. At the time he joined the USAF, circa 1978, all the branches used the same 11 General Orders for sentries. I know nowadays they've changed. The Army has condensed it to three as far as I know but still conveys the gist of the original 11 format. As far as I know, only the Navy, Marines and Air Force still uses the original 11 General Orders format.
Yeah. We went to see this at a drive in when my Dad was Stationed at MCRDSD. This was the way it was supposed to be. _Full Metal Jacket_ is the way it was in 1970 when I was there as a Recruit. .
I bet this scene was the inspiration for the "do you believe in the Virgin Mary?" scene in Full Metal Jacket. In both scenes, the recruit who was being tested never fell for the ruse and responded just as he should.
USAF Fifth general order "If you finish the coffee, make a new pot! And don't eat the Colonel's donut!" 8 years (1972-Christmas Eve 1979), flew for 5 of those years, and loved every minute... especially my jarhead brothers! Not sure if I could have done what they did. I think Chesty would have liked this movie.
Love this bit...0:13......That menacing look in his eyes is the quote......"Sargent Moore Good DI......?" and the light/shadow play from the Smoky Bear, this scene rocks...
Much preferred to Navy's 12th general order -- at least when I joined in 1976: "To walk my beat, beat my meat, and f__k anything within 15 feet." Try this now, either as an RDC or a recruit, and you'll spend 20 days in the brig on your way out with a BCD.
@ mmtb - I guess the Marine Corps deserves LOTS of credit for not accepting me for OCS ( Quantico ?) ,as we could ALL be speaking Vietnamese about now . . . Speaking of those boots, I saw a Marine officer ,years ago , coaching the Naval Academy lightweight football team in a rainy, muddy game. He asked for a towel at halftime so that he could wipe off and then shine his shoes ( he was in full uniform that day ) . I saw him bring back the shine in those shoes . . . just so he could walk right back out there in the mud to coach his team . . . .
The Marine Sgt in this scene was the only Parris Island Marine in this movie. He was picked because of his voice. He was in the 1st Recruit Training Battalion and was considered the best DI at Parris Island during this tour there and won more than one best Platoon of the cycle while there. The DI was shown at PI and Cpl Brown and a bunch of us from 1st Battalion all sat in the front row. Brown had the very best drill voice of them all and believe you me, I should know after listening to all of them 24 hours a day for 3 years.
I read somewhere on line years and years ago that he left the Corps and headed for Hollywood, married an actress maybe, then he fell off the earth. Anybody know if any of that is true and what happened to this fellow. I always loved that inflection and demeanor in DIs and would've paid money to have this guy as my DI. "That's not what I asked you idiot." Luv it.
If I recall most of the cast was active duty Marines and one dad had pointed out was Technical Sergeant, that rank no longer exists , equivalent to a Gunny Sergeant if I recall.
It was the first thing you were required to remember upon arriving at boot camp. In sequence. Out of sequence. Woe unto the recruit who failed to answer correctly.
Note that Sergeant O'Neil tried to trick him by asking "Moore your DI?" Now if he answered "Yes Sir," he would have been severely reprimanded for not saying "Sergeant Moore"
@@richardwoodell5772 and be able to mix em up so no matter what, you can randomly spit em out. "WHAT'S YOUR 4TH, 2ND, AND 11TH GENERAL ORDERS? SOUND OFF!!!" Hahaha
@@SPEEDPAINTER1 Sir! My 4th General Order is: To repeat all posts more distant from the guard-house more distant than my own! Sir! My 2nd general order is: To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing! Sir! My 11th general order is: To be especially watchful at night during that time for challenging. To challenge all person's on or near my post, and allow No one to pass without proper authority!
@@richardwoodell5772 YOU JUST SAID THE GENERAL ORDERS OUT OF ORDER. ALL MARINES AND BOOTS ON THIS POST ARE DEAD BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW YOUR GENERAL ORDERS IN ORDER!!!! (D.I. head Games--- gotta love 'em) Hahahaha
Been just over 40 years since I graduated from US Navy boot camp and I still remember them! Pretty good job of burning something into your head in just 8 weeks!
Great movie! I saw it about a month before I went to Parris Island in January 1974. It helped me know what I was in for. Especially, about the sand fleas. I never budged a millimeter when the sand flees were biting into me, though it felt like getting a needle.
Hahahaha...I had a D.I. count the fleas behind my ear once...5...told me "they better FUCK and make 2 babies before he came back"...it was all I could do to NOT lose my shit when he said that...i swear I laughed my way through P.I....Platoon 141-1969
@@mauricepowers8079 that old crap about Do you think I'm FUNNY? Is just that. CRAP. It may earn you more push ups, but : 1 it'll make you stronger. 2: it'll make your Mates stronger. Y'all have a Goodn.
My cousin's son is a DI with the Marine Corps. Wonder if he can recite them that fast?? The kid was a screw off in high school Who'd thought he'd become a Marine and a DI?
Note that the Gunnery Sgt was disciplining his junior, while personally "under arm" (.45 on hip) and UNCOVERED himself. Strictly against Marine Corps Regs.
As I understand it, if one is either symbolically ie: just the cartridge belt, no sidearm or actually under arms, ie: sidearm, rifle or both and indoors, the cover is not necessary. Outside, then yes you are covered....right?
Man! does that bring bring back memories of Basic Training in 1964 Fort Ord , and Jump school at Benning was even worse. made a man out of a 17yr old .
Platoon 282. March 1966. 90% Draftees. I recall those General Orders well but can't exactly remember all of them after 55 years. Sure wish I still had my little red book with all the info. I could stand again in formation "at ease" and read it like we did so many times.
Just curious, your DI's first name wouldn't happen to be Francisco, would it? He was of Panamanian extraction and went by the nicknames Francie or Cholo.
At Ft. Bragg we had the 14th Tick and Chigger Div. First major action, the American Revolution. Biggest action, American Civil War, in which it fought on both sides.
"Private Madison" was a Gunnery Sergeant when I knew him... a good person. I was a young Marine back then. Gunny Holmes was with a HAWK Missile Battalion back then.
@@keithstephens940 I was one of the young Marines that received training to repair HAWK missiles and launchers at the Redstone Arsenal back in 1969, and he was one of my instructors. I am sorry I don't remember much about the unit structure, so I do not know for certain whether he was officially part of the missile battalion, or just associated with the Marine unit there in Huntsville. I do remember the day he spoke to the class about his experience in the movie. I remember him as a very nice person. I was about as young and dumb as any Marine that ever enlisted back then.
I am starting with I was a civilian employee with the Department of Defense on a military base. An order had been given that several NCO's were promoted to 2nd lieutenants. Some were very nice some weren't. One of the weren't's were terrible he went around the offices yelling at soldiers orderingthemtoget his coffee and whatever else he could think of. One such egotistical stink weeds came into my office. He thought I was military 🪖 and barked at me orderingme to run some errands, get his coffee and a few other things. I just looked at him, not saying a word. He got furious and ordered me to tell him my job. I told him I was the official camel 🐫 spotter. And everytime one passed the windows I counted them and at the end of the day I went to the Colonel and gave him my count. He turned purple he was so angry. He went to the Colonel and complained about what I had told him. He expected that I would be in serious trouble. The Colonel told him "she doesn't respect anyone who talks down to her. He went out of the Colonel's office and the civilian that typed his next station orders (he didn't know she was a civilian too) he grabbed the orders and ripped them up. The Colonel came out of his office and told him that he could type his own orders. This person learned a good lesson that day show respect and get respect.
My recruiter gave me a copy of General Orders and said I might take a look at these and memorize them...I didn't..I had never memorized anything but the Cub Scout Motto up until then...Hollywood 70-74
On my 17th birthday I joined the Marines, kind of teenage know it all, who knew nothing but I had memorized the 10 General Orders of which I puzzled the MCRDSD Marines; they must have thought I was some kind of prodigy.
@@w.p8960 Gunny: Marines' Darth Vader Sergeant Major: Army or Marines Tarkin Captain (O-3 if talented) or most of the time, Major (O-4) and above, who Gunny or Sergeant Major answers to: Army/Air Force/Marines' Palpatine
@@chrismc410 I was in 1962. The enlisted ranks went from 7 to 9 ranks in 1958. There were still those who had not been promoted so they held the title but not the pay grade. E6 Gunny and E7 Gunny for instance. Sgt Major in the old system was a title not a rank. Finally in 64 those under the old rank structure lost the title. E6 Gunny went to E6 Staff Sgt. etc. you got crossed BB guns in your chevrons.
Glad my general orders in the army were a whole lot different and there was only three first general order do what you're told and nothing else 2nd general order remember the first general order 3rd general order try to remember the first two general orders and when all else fails get a mop and look busy
That's why the Navy and Marine Corps rule. 11 General Orders and you better know and obey them all. Today's snowflake military is a bit different, though.
And in the end, poor recruit most likely still had a date with the sand pit and/or quarterdeck if not smoked right then and there. Part of the whole MCRD experience. You will be smoked for doing something wrong. Smoked for doing something right. Smoked for something someone else did or didn't do or in some cases, no reason at all.
I learned 10 General Orders before going to Great Mistakes RTC, IL. After I transferred to the Army, Soldiers only knew three G.O.s. For some reason the Army reduced the amount of orders for Rickey recruits. I was flabbergasted.
Can't argue with the discipline...imagine i was an E1 navy airman crazy enough to walk into a barracks full of grunts ...made it out but it was touch and go
I had those memorized, and I mean REALLY memorized. I was so terrified of my DI’s there was no way in Hell I was going to flub those General Orders. Noooooo sir!
“Sargent Moore good di?” “Actually, not really. Sargent Moore has become preoccupied with Private Owens. His personal feud with this kid is getting out of hand. The other day, instead of actually training, Moore had us digging all day for a dead sand flea that Owens killed. Owens doesn’t want to be here but Moore insists on keeping him and it’s getting in the way of our training, sir!”
Cool! Is it just me or were the apperances of Parris Island Drill Instructors with their campaign covers, swagger sticks and pistol holsters--with or without pistols themselves--similar to those of highway patrolers and southern prison guards, whether in this movie or in reality between 1956 and 1959 or both?
I remember guard duty at boot camp in 1978. It was early in the morning, long before day break and it was frigging cold but I only had my OG’s on. I heard this awful racket and ran to the corner and there, on a branch, was a squirrel killing and eating a bird. I grew up in the county in Oklahoma and this was Missouri, but I had never seen a squirrel do this before. Freaked me out, still to this day. I told the SOG when he came around and he laughed and said they do that on Fort Leonard Wood in the Fall. Something about storing protein for the winter. I’ve never seen it again. Don’t f* around with a Missouri squirrel, those things are killers!😁
I'm a Navy Vet graduated from Great Mistakes 8Nov1991. I was asked once, didn't know my GO's, but knew the Code of Conduct. Being the genius I am, I thought I'd get bonus points for reciting that. Nope, it didn't work out for me.
I gotten smoked several times for not knowing my general orders in the army, one day I was asked the one general order I could remember in formation and he looked at me and went over to the next one and started smoking him for not knowing them. To this day I can't remember them, been over 40 years ago.
The Man who played Pvt Madison was Sgt Joseph Holmes he was a DI at MCRDSD when the movie was filmed and he was hand picked by Jack Webb , he was a Korean War Vet and would got to Vietnam , he would retire as a MGYSGT in 1984 , he was my father.He passed away in July of 2021 and his legacy will forever noted by DIs through the Corps
Thank you for sharing that.
SEMPER FI MARINE REST EASY
@ J H - Hey, one of the GREAT military movie scenes of ALL TIME ! I copy off this ALL the time and it is a LOT of fun. Many ,many kudos to the good Sergeant, and May He Rest in Peace!
My father was a Marine during Korea. He went through boot camp at Parris Island. Thank you for sharing your fathers story.
Hand Salute Semper Fidelis to Your Dad, & you. My Dad woke me up at 0200 hrs or so when I was a kid to watch The D.I. with him. It made an effect on me & I joined & went to MCRDSD as my Dad did then he went to Korea. All the Best Blessings
There was a time I could recite them like that
YES I know the feeling....
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Same here...
Me too.
Me too, decades ago!
2026/1985
Great movie. The best line is when DI asks Casto why he joined the Marines. His answer was "because I couldn't get into the Navy, Sir".
In Jarhead, the DI asked him why he was in the Corps, and the recruit answered, " because I got lost on the way to college sir." Then the DI bounced his head off the wall.
That reminds me of my father and I. The old man would take his 4 rock hard sausage fingers, and use the tips to tag my forehead. He called it thumping. He asked me why I did something I shouldn't have, and I had about 5 different answers, all of which were smart ass. He didn't bounce my head off the wall, but he would thump me. All these lines were not acceptable:
I don't know
I did it because it was a slow Tuesday,
It seemed the the thing to do at the time
I felt like it
I wanted to see what would happen next.
The General Orders had not changed in t30 between that movie, and my enlisting in the Navy.
@@mt3311 "According to the known laws of physics, it was supposed to work."
I knew a Marine Corps captain who had actually enlisted just that way. He dropped out of high school to join the Navy but the recruiter told him he couldn’t enlist without a diploma. He said though he didn’t know it at the time the Navy recruiter called the Marine recruiter a she was leaving. The marine recruits was waiting for him at the door and said, “So. You’re too dumb to be a sailor huh boy! Show me your fingers.” He enlisted in the Marines that day and went on to make captain before he retired.
Back in 73' at MCAS Iwakuni, I and four fellow Marines watched the DI one night, and the next day we all went over to our career planner office and reenlisted. Never regretted it.
Love that FU kiss Jack Webb blew
Pretty sure the kids made the movie.
That was an in your face moment.
This movie brings back so many hopeful moments. I spent four years on active duty as a US Marine. Now honorably Discharged a SGT E-5. I'm 65 and with what I've experienced I wish I could do it all over again. I'm not saying every moment was happy and joyful, but one thing is I really learned a lot about people. One thing I know about being a Marine is that there is brotherhood always among Marines.
Well, sort of.
Bigotry has its place when you are relatively safe but when you’re in fear of being killed the black, Hispanic, Asian or gay Marine covering your ass, somehow bigots and atheists are not to be found!
Semper Fi Brother
Always Faithful True, Semper Fi@@bobbelles8440
Years ago I worked with a WW2 marine vet. He was shipboard at Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea and Midway. Landed at Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima. One of the nicest people I have ever met.
Did my stint in the corps in 66-70 made Sgt E-5. Married a young lady who's dad was in the corps on Guadalcanal etc. As a forward spotter artillery. Also one of the nicest people I ever met.
That's because they've got nothing to prove to anybody, they've served their time in hell.
@@beb7691 forward arty spotter!! On the Canal! Yikes.
Not your normal shipboard duty!!! Loved to have met him. You don't know what ships he was on when he was shipboard, do you?
After surviving 3 battles, every day is gravy…good gravy.
Remember very well when I was on "Fire Watch" at my barracks. Those General Orders were branded in my brain whenever the occasion an officer or NCO approached my Post - was ready to recite them all!
My dad told me the General Orders were by far one of the main reasons he got smoked so bad.
Thinking everything was funny was the next main reason why he got smoked.
In the end, he learned them so well, he didn't let the MTI in the dorm as she was not on the authorized list. Of course, he was cussed out six ways from Sunday, threatened with all kinds of things and yelled at so loud, a few it was a Hertz shy of being beyond the hearing range of human ears.
Of course he was absolutely in the right and did exactly what he was supposed to do.
At the time he joined the USAF, circa 1978, all the branches used the same 11 General Orders for sentries. I know nowadays they've changed.
The Army has condensed it to three as far as I know but still conveys the gist of the original 11 format.
As far as I know, only the Navy, Marines and Air Force still uses the original 11 General Orders format.
Sir, my twelfth general order is to walk my post from. To flank and not take shit from. Any rank.
Yeah. We went to see this at a drive in when my Dad was Stationed at MCRDSD.
This was the way it was supposed to be.
_Full Metal Jacket_ is the way it was in 1970 when I was there as a Recruit.
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The sand flea scene in this movie is absolutely terrific.
I bet this scene was the inspiration for the "do you believe in the Virgin Mary?" scene in Full Metal Jacket. In both scenes, the recruit who was being tested never fell for the ruse and responded just as he should.
I have watched this movie a hundred times. God Bless the USMC.
USAF Fifth general order "If you finish the coffee, make a new pot! And don't eat the Colonel's donut!" 8 years (1972-Christmas Eve 1979), flew for 5 of those years, and loved every minute... especially my jarhead brothers! Not sure if I could have done what they did. I think Chesty would have liked this movie.
Understood
This film is part of my movie collection and one of my favorites.
Love this bit...0:13......That menacing look in his eyes is the quote......"Sargent Moore Good DI......?" and the light/shadow play from the Smoky Bear, this scene rocks...
That's not what I asked you, idiot.
And to his credit, he didn't even FLINCH.
My 12th General Order is "To walk my post from flank to flank and take no shit from any rank." OORAH MARINES!!!!
Much preferred to Navy's 12th general order -- at least when I joined in 1976: "To walk my beat, beat my meat, and f__k anything within 15 feet." Try this now, either as an RDC or a recruit, and you'll spend 20 days in the brig on your way out with a BCD.
"Walk my post a mile a minute, 'cause my M1 ain't got a damn thing in it."
"Walk my post a mile a minute, tote my rifle with nothing in it, when there's a fire ring the bell, do an about face and run like hell."
Or swabbies
@@briane173 or be more smoked than a Smithfield Ham. All of the above is also a possibility.
I used to help my big brother go through those over and over before he went in. I used to buff his boots. That's what little brothers do
My little brother was too damned lazy to buff my boots.
@ mmtb - I guess the Marine Corps deserves LOTS of credit for not accepting me for OCS ( Quantico ?) ,as we could ALL be speaking Vietnamese about now . . . Speaking of those boots, I saw a Marine officer ,years ago , coaching the Naval Academy lightweight football team in a rainy, muddy game. He asked for a towel at halftime so that he could wipe off and then shine his shoes ( he was in full uniform that day ) . I saw him bring back the shine in those shoes . . . just so he could walk right back out there in the mud to coach his team . . . .
The Marine Sgt in this scene was the only Parris Island Marine in this movie. He was picked because of his voice. He was in the 1st Recruit Training Battalion and was considered the best DI at Parris Island during this tour there and won more than one best Platoon of the cycle while there. The DI was shown at PI and Cpl Brown and a bunch of us from 1st Battalion all sat in the front row. Brown had the very best drill voice of them all and believe you me, I should know after listening to all of them 24 hours a day for 3 years.
Hank Maze I heard they tried to get in touch with him years later but could find him?
I read somewhere on line years and years ago that he left the Corps and headed for Hollywood, married an actress maybe, then he fell off the earth. Anybody know if any of that is true and what happened to this fellow. I always loved that inflection and demeanor in DIs and would've paid money to have this guy as my DI. "That's not what I asked you idiot." Luv it.
CPL JON BROWN
Nonsense. The cast was full of active duty Marines.
If I recall most of the cast was active duty Marines and one dad had pointed out was Technical Sergeant, that rank no longer exists , equivalent to a Gunny Sergeant if I recall.
What memories, I was 17 when I joined and I am 59 now. I can't spout off the orders like that anymore, but I still can recite them all...Semper Fi.
It was the first thing you were required to remember upon arriving at boot camp. In sequence. Out of sequence. Woe unto the recruit who failed to answer correctly.
Note that Sergeant O'Neil tried to trick him by asking "Moore your DI?"
Now if he answered "Yes Sir," he would have been severely reprimanded for not saying "Sergeant Moore"
This is my favorite scene of the movie.
The closeup of the private's lips spitting out those general orders---- classic cinematography!
I tell anyone joining the Marine Corp to download this, and be able to repeat it word for word!
@@richardwoodell5772 and be able to mix em up so no matter what, you can randomly spit em out. "WHAT'S YOUR 4TH, 2ND, AND 11TH GENERAL ORDERS? SOUND OFF!!!" Hahaha
@@SPEEDPAINTER1 Sir! My 4th General Order is: To repeat all posts more distant from the guard-house more distant than my own!
Sir! My 2nd general order is: To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing!
Sir! My 11th general order is: To be especially watchful at night during that time for challenging. To challenge all person's on or near my post, and allow No one to pass without proper authority!
@@richardwoodell5772 YOU JUST SAID THE GENERAL ORDERS OUT OF ORDER. ALL MARINES AND BOOTS ON THIS POST ARE DEAD BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW YOUR GENERAL ORDERS IN ORDER!!!! (D.I. head Games--- gotta love 'em) Hahahaha
This motion picture ought to televised and made mandatory viewing if not for the entire country then for Congress - put some spine back into us.
I loved that movie when I was a kid. My father was in the Air Corps but he always respected the Marines. I wish I could get my wife to do that.
good luck
Oohra
I haven't seen this Movie since about 1981 or 82 , on.TV when.they used to have old movies, It doesn't seem.to be available anymore! Really good one!
Check Warner Archives as it was available at least recently.
@@muffs55mercury61 I'll look again, I can't figure out some of those things, is that something You have to pay for?
Been just over 40 years since I graduated from US Navy boot camp and I still remember them! Pretty good job of burning something into your head in just 8 weeks!
NTC San Diego. 1973
NTC Great Lakes January 1986. Good memories. I would do it all over again.
I never get tired of this scene from The DI. I remember being chewed out a few times from not knowing my General Orders--US Army Vet; 1966 to 1968.
Some things remain the same. USCG 1977-81
Great movie! I saw it about a month before I went to Parris Island in January 1974. It helped me know what I was in for. Especially, about the sand fleas. I never budged a millimeter when the sand flees were biting into me, though it felt like getting a needle.
Hahahaha...I had a D.I. count the fleas behind my ear once...5...told me "they better FUCK and make 2 babies before he came back"...it was all I could do to NOT lose my shit when he said that...i swear I laughed my way through P.I....Platoon 141-1969
@@mauricepowers8079 that old crap about Do you think I'm FUNNY? Is just that. CRAP. It may earn you more push ups, but : 1 it'll make you stronger. 2: it'll make your Mates stronger. Y'all have a Goodn.
@@floydvaughn836 yup...sure did...some guys just never got it though. They suffered and of course we all suffered but we all made it through.
My cousin's son is a DI with the Marine Corps. Wonder if he can recite them that fast?? The kid was a screw off in high school Who'd thought he'd become a Marine and a DI?
I was a screw off in high school, got to boot camp where I learned to get my s-t together.
Note that the Gunnery Sgt was disciplining his junior, while personally "under arm" (.45 on hip) and UNCOVERED himself. Strictly against Marine Corps Regs.
As I understand it, if one is either symbolically ie: just the cartridge belt, no sidearm or actually under arms, ie: sidearm, rifle or both and indoors, the cover is not necessary. Outside, then yes you are covered....right?
@@chrismc410 No, cover is always on when you are under arms, indoor and outdoor.
Man! does that bring bring back memories of Basic Training in 1964 Fort Ord , and Jump school at Benning was even worse. made a man out of a 17yr old .
Platoon 282. March 1966. 90% Draftees. I recall those General Orders well but can't exactly remember all of them after 55 years. Sure wish I still had my little red book with all the info. I could stand again in formation "at ease" and read it like we did so many times.
Ah , the Little Red Monster , the Island in 75 , Ooorrahh !
Jeremy Holmes: That's fantastic! You have reason to be proud.
Awesome scene. Classic.
Ahh the memories! Thank you Senior Drill Instructor SSgt Cervantes, wherever you are. Platoon 2036 MCRD San Diego May 1978 to August 1978.
Just curious, your DI's first name wouldn't happen to be Francisco, would it? He was of Panamanian extraction and went by the nicknames Francie or Cholo.
@@jchapman8248 It might have been. He was a shorter Marine, built with a triangular upper body, that allowed him to be a pull up machine!
They were shortened a bit in that scene but the idea was conveyed. Great movie.
I love that Raspberry Sgt. Moore blows to his counterpart at approximately 1:15.
I like jack Webb..watch Adam 12 and Dragnet..plus I’m an old movie junky…can’t believe I missed this one
Just for the record; This movie was not originally called "The DI." The original title for the movie was "The Sand Flea".
At Ft. Bragg we had the 14th Tick and Chigger Div. First major action, the American Revolution. Biggest action, American Civil War, in which it fought on both sides.
This brings some memories
Such a great response. I don't remember my general orders. Too many years gone by
Spit 'em out anyway, clown.
Whew, he let 'em fly I couldn't go that fast in '66. Can't remember them now in '21 at 72 years old.
@@teller1290 sir my first general order is....sir
@@teller1290 Excellent!!
"Private Madison" was a Gunnery Sergeant when I knew him... a good person. I was a young Marine back then. Gunny Holmes was with a HAWK Missile Battalion back then.
Do you know which Hawk Missile Bn and when?
@@keithstephens940 I was one of the young Marines that received training to repair HAWK missiles and launchers at the Redstone Arsenal back in 1969, and he was one of my instructors. I am sorry I don't remember much about the unit structure, so I do not know for certain whether he was officially part of the missile battalion, or just associated with the Marine unit there in Huntsville. I do remember the day he spoke to the class about his experience in the movie. I remember him as a very nice person. I was about as young and dumb as any Marine that ever enlisted back then.
I am starting with I was a civilian employee with the Department of Defense on a military base. An order had been given that several NCO's were promoted to 2nd lieutenants. Some were very nice some weren't. One of the weren't's were terrible he went around the offices yelling at soldiers orderingthemtoget his coffee and whatever else he could think of. One such egotistical stink weeds came into my office. He thought I was military 🪖 and barked at me orderingme to run some errands, get his coffee and a few other things. I just looked at him, not saying a word. He got furious and ordered me to tell him my job. I told him I was the official camel 🐫 spotter. And everytime one passed the windows I counted them and at the end of the day I went to the Colonel and gave him my count. He turned purple he was so angry. He went to the Colonel and complained about what I had told him. He expected that I would be in serious trouble. The Colonel told him "she doesn't respect anyone who talks down to her. He went out of the Colonel's office and the civilian that typed his next station orders (he didn't know she was a civilian too) he grabbed the orders and ripped them up. The Colonel came out of his office and told him that he could type his own orders. This person learned a good lesson that day show respect and get respect.
Outstanding soldier!!!
That's Sea Soldier / Marine, Semper-Fi.
Sweet, sweet memories.
“The Marines are first in… and when you’re first, you gotta be the BEST!” Great movie!
Added to my favorites. Imma just play this when I need to remember them lol.
I recommend quarterly. That'll suffice until you're called back up. (RIP Lee Ermey, btw.)
Who's Imma?
Marlena Linne if you didn’t learn in boot camp or by now, it’s not my place to tell you.
@@slowpoke96Z28 Wasn't in boot camp so my military training is rather limited.
My recruiter gave me a copy of General Orders and said I might take a look at these and memorize them...I didn't..I had never memorized anything but the Cub Scout Motto up until then...Hollywood 70-74
On my 17th birthday I joined the Marines, kind of teenage know it all, who knew nothing but I had memorized the 10 General Orders of which I puzzled the MCRDSD Marines; they must have thought I was some kind of prodigy.
A buck Sgt screwing with a Gunny is taking one hell of a chance
Considering a Gunny is supposed to be one of God's chosen in the Corps, right?
@@JnEricsonx at the time of this film there was only one enlisted rank higher.
@@w.p8960
Gunny: Marines' Darth Vader
Sergeant Major: Army or Marines Tarkin
Captain (O-3 if talented) or most of the time, Major (O-4) and above, who Gunny or Sergeant Major answers to: Army/Air Force/Marines' Palpatine
@@JnEricsonx and depending on who you ask, Sergeant Major pretty much IS GOD
@@chrismc410 I was in 1962. The enlisted ranks went from 7 to 9 ranks in 1958. There were still those who had not been promoted so they held the title but not the pay grade. E6 Gunny and E7 Gunny for instance. Sgt Major in the old system was a title not a rank. Finally in 64 those under the old rank structure lost the title. E6 Gunny went to E6 Staff Sgt. etc. you got crossed BB guns in your chevrons.
I love Jack Webb. I used to watch Dragnet on Nick at Nite when I was a kid.
Glad my general orders in the army were a whole lot different and there was only three first general order do what you're told and nothing else 2nd general order remember the first general order 3rd general order try to remember the first two general orders and when all else fails get a mop and look busy
That's why the Navy and Marine Corps rule. 11 General Orders and you better know and obey them all. Today's snowflake military is a bit different, though.
Back in this time period there were 21 in the army and then 14 then down to three.
Last General Order is to walk my post from flank to flank, and take no shit from any rank.
SEMPER FI‼️🍻
And in the end, poor recruit most likely still had a date with the sand pit and/or quarterdeck if not smoked right then and there. Part of the whole MCRD experience.
You will be smoked for doing something wrong. Smoked for doing something right. Smoked for something someone else did or didn't do or in some cases, no reason at all.
I love this movie
I used to rock them just like that. 1979
Me too. September 1979 Parris Island.
1977 MCRD, San Diego
1992 MCRD, San Diego here.
MCRD '66
San Diego
I learned 10 General Orders before going to Great Mistakes RTC, IL. After I transferred to the Army, Soldiers only knew three G.O.s. For some reason the Army reduced the amount of orders for Rickey recruits. I was flabbergasted.
Sir! My 12th general order is; To walk my post from flank to flank and take no shit from any rank. Sir!
You got it all wrong in the Navy our 12th general order is to know the first 11. But because I have a lot respect for Marines I'll let it go.
Can't argue with the discipline...imagine i was an E1 navy airman crazy enough to walk into a barracks full of grunts ...made it out but it was touch and go
Thank you for the Great video
"Boondocks operated, C-Ration fed, little green amphibious animals that thrive on chicken shit"...Semper Fi
Outstanding!!
I had those memorized, and I mean REALLY memorized.
I was so terrified of my DI’s there was no way in Hell I was going to flub those General Orders. Noooooo sir!
God bless all of them.
THIS, is the movie we seen before leaving for MCRD, San Diego..Spooky thoughts started creeping in, Too late.. dutch
At San Diego,they were Drill Instructors,not DI.Woe to the recruit who said DI
That recruit knew his 13th General order
My my my!!! *throws everything *
Awesome!
I was the professional watch in boot camp. I could recite these perfectly so I stood watch during all inspections.
ooh rah!
I was the family clown, when this movie came out I could rip those general orders off (in my own version tho) and crack everyone up. Classic movie!
"...to walk my post from flank to flank, and take no shit from ANY rank!!!"
USMC 1980-1992.
Great movie!
The memories.
And thats the name of that tune....!
Like Jack Webb's work.
Ha! I would have failed. I couldn't remember the general orders if my life depended on it. But I remembered my cover size. 😅😅😅😅😅
Almost 45 yrs to the day and i can still do that. Scary i know
Platoon 2026, 1969. 4 years I wouldn't trade for anything. God Bless USMC.
0:36 DI flinched
Is that because he realizes that this kid is about to recite off all the orders perfectly?
O'neil total badass
Note, the harshness is all for a purpose. The other DI lets him finish his recitation.
I saw this movie while in Boot Camp at MCRD San Diego. Oohrah,
We isaw this movie in Washington DC in '67 at Henderson Hall. Cheered the recruits as they get it right. Oohra!
My??? No. Gunnery Sergeant Moore is this recruit’s drill instructor, sir.
“Sargent Moore good di?”
“Actually, not really. Sargent Moore has become preoccupied with Private Owens. His personal feud with this kid is getting out of hand. The other day, instead of actually training, Moore had us digging all day for a dead sand flea that Owens killed. Owens doesn’t want to be here but Moore insists on keeping him and it’s getting in the way of our training, sir!”
Thev12'th general order:
To walk my beat,
To beat my meat,
To take no shit from service week.
That's how I rememberbit... But its been over 50 years.
Cool! Is it just me or were the apperances of Parris Island Drill Instructors with their campaign covers, swagger sticks and pistol holsters--with or without pistols themselves--similar to those of highway patrolers and southern prison guards, whether in this movie or in reality between 1956 and 1959 or both?
My kind of trooper.
I remember guard duty at boot camp in 1978. It was early in the morning, long before day break and it was frigging cold but I only had my OG’s on. I heard this awful racket and ran to the corner and there, on a branch, was a squirrel killing and eating a bird. I grew up in the county in Oklahoma and this was Missouri, but I had never seen a squirrel do this before. Freaked me out, still to this day. I told the SOG when he came around and he laughed and said they do that on Fort Leonard Wood in the Fall. Something about storing protein for the winter. I’ve never seen it again. Don’t f* around with a Missouri squirrel, those things are killers!😁
Here in Florida, I saw a squirrel chase down and kill a Gecko then discard it, purely an act of hate not survival.
Imagine if jack Webb were president of the United States? The world would’ve be a lot better off.
The Mean Green Machine!
Classic!
O'Neil looks just like Jack Warden the actor.
who? Jack WARDEN, maybe? I don't see it but I don't know of "Jack Warren." Just curious.
this is how i learned my general orders before leaving to PI
Now in 2021.....the Marines are not like that now. They too,
HAVE GONE WOKE.
SO SAD for my USMC
Word for word as I learned them 30 years later!
I'm a Navy Vet graduated from Great Mistakes 8Nov1991.
I was asked once, didn't know my GO's, but knew the Code of Conduct.
Being the genius I am, I thought I'd get bonus points for reciting that.
Nope, it didn't work out for me.
Luckily I learned my general orders in high school (jrotc)
I gotten smoked several times for not knowing my general orders in the army, one day I was asked the one general order I could remember in formation and he looked at me and went over to the next one and started smoking him for not knowing them. To this day I can't remember them, been over 40 years ago.
Your Division sergeant major is All Alone on the Battalion field
Don Dubbins Pvt Owens ... was in 5 Dragnet episodes was a good friend Jack Webb...