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gunny scared me back to that time. oh shit! you forget the guy who knew he was a bullseye 73 to 79 no training after boot camp. great at picking up cig butts a painting rocks white. wright after Vietnam. bent m16 barrel. no tools to work on trucks, on parts. NO! on request for training. Told to get OFF THERE BASE when Discharged. I GOT MY HONORABLE DISCHARGE. FUCK EM
Had a DI make a recruit give up his rifle and carry a plant. When another DI asked why he was carrying a a plant he had to reply” to replace some of the oxygen I am stealing from other recruits
When they were filming this movie, when doing multiple takes for these scenes where Ermy was going at them like this, the man never used the same insult twice. He ALWAYS had another.
PS He is the world record holder for fewest takes in a Kubrick film. They became best friends and would spend Sundays planning the next week's shoots. He was the only one to just ask The K what was he looking for.
Actually Kubrick was always on set with his typewriter. Everything he said was indeed improvised once but then had to be repeated identically in every scene. As far as movie making goes, Stanley was a tough SOB.
My director of security was at Paris Island and he said one recruit asked if they could have a Christmas tree in the baracks. The Drill instructors covered him with Christmas lights and made him stand like a Christmas tree for hours
my brother had one recruit that accidentally looked at a plane while learning their drill, so he was out in a garbage can and told to jump and try to catch the airplane for 2 hours😂
One guy turned left on a "Right Face" command, so the Drill Sergeant made him carry a rock in his right hand to remind him. A little later the Drill didn't see the rock in his hand and asked him where it was. "It's in my pocket" said the Recruit. The Drill Sergeant started throwing a fit stating "You smothered my best rock in your nasty pocket, you god damn murderer".... The whole Company had to perform a Military Funeral for the murdered rock afterwards.
@@billstocker6216 Oh I know, I was in the Army. Drill Sergeants were mean but not Marine Corp mean. We were trained to hide behind tree's and rocks. Not many of those on a beach. I do love my bulletproof Marine Brothers trained to charge.
Had a buddy once in Idaho say that someone in his group farted. DI asked who it was. Guy said it was him. DI told him he had to go around and look for his fart. After 15 minutes or so, the guy felt embarrassed running around looking for a fart so he pretended to catch his fart in his hands and reported back. DI looked at him incredulously and asked him "You found your fart?" The guy said he had. DI then instructed him to dig a hole in the ground to bury it. After it was buried, the DI instructed him to hum Taps.
An airmman was caught humming. The TI opened his wall locker & ripped everthing out. Told the airman to get in the locker. He got in & the TI slammed the door shut, threw a quarter through the air slot & said "start singing". The airman sang the worst version of "Lady in Red" I've ever heard. It was hilarious!
While in basic training for the Air Force we had a trainee that was caught throwing a rock at a rabbit during a march. Our DI made him walk on the inside and salute every rabbit we passed. In Texas there were a lot of rabbits.
I was an Army drill sergeant and got a medal for telling a candidate “I will be in your face so bad every day, the day you get married, you will turn to kiss your wife and see me!”
I had a friend was a drill sergeant, I’m a civilian. I told him he wasn’t that tough he told me to give him him my best shot- I made him cry and we don’t talk no more. Full disclosure tho I probably couldn’t survive the military. I have authority issues and they would probably discharge me before they could break me unless they identified some special skill in me worth riding me for but doubtful.
I actually got one of my drill instructors to laugh. He called me a rock, basically stupid. I told him "This recruits parents are from Stonehenge" he cracked a smile shook his head and walked off.
I was cutting 550 cord with a knife I got at the PX during our final FTX. One of the drills called me over and asked if I had a knife. I told him "We're not allowed to have knives." He said "Don't bullshit me." I replied "I'm not bullshitting you, drill sergeant. We're really not allowed to have knives." He just rolled his eyes and walked away.
Thats awesome.. I never got a DI to laugh but I did get called Astro for about a month.. A recruit was getting smoked by Senior and a Green Belt came flying out of nowhere.. Me being the smartass I was whispered, " Whut WoooW." A DI just happened to be behind my rack.. He just glared at me and walked away.. About 2 hours later.. He yelled, " Astro get your ass on my Q-deck," and smoked me lol
The physical attacks happen when there are no cameras and no officers or civilians in sight or hearing. My name is Downer I was called recruit Down syndrome. 😂
I was Drafted in 1958 8 Years fo me I heard all that when I was in and there was hazing when I was in don’t know what they’re doing now the DI go to class to learn they art on how to be a DI so they all pretty much sound alike and do the same thing but it definitely works
When we were in garrison, and training in plain sight, the DI's would make us sprint into a wall to hurt us. One time a DI made a recruit sprint into a bush and about 4 rabbits ran out. I burst out laughing, but then got bent--reallly bad for losing my bearing.
R.I.P. Gunny Hartman. He was magnificent. There's the story, that he originally shouldn't play the role but advise the real actor for this role. But while testing him in advance, he insulted non stop for a quarter of an hour while the crew threw him off with tennis balls, the crew was so impressed that they gave him the role. 😂
R Lee Ermey was our guest at a Marine Corps Ball one year. He opened his first speech with his monologue from the movie. It was one of the best times I've ever had, the entire regiment loved it. From my own experiences, this movie is far more accurate that almost all others.
Yeah hooray let's celebrate the breaking of people's will into the meatgrinder of the poor countries of the 3rd world, such heroes thank your for your service our freedoms are so much safer knowing the oil barons are getting another trillion next year while veterans are rotting homeless on the streets of the U S of A, I love our country its the best in the world we are no.1#
Funniest thing one of my drill instructors said to a recruit was "Over a million sperm running a race and you were the one that won. Jesus Christ I can't imagine the result if you had lost!"
my drill instructor asked me where i was from and i told him New York. and he screamED WELL I BE DAMMED YOU CAME HERE ALL THE WAY HERE FROM NEW YORK JUST TO PISS ME OFF
Mine ask where I was from and I said Detroit. He responded “Detroit, isn’t that where they used to make cars”? I simply responded “yes drill sergeant”. He was right after all lol.
6:28 FUN FACT: that wasn't "Pvt. Laurence Pyle" not keeping a straight face, it was Vincent D'Onofrio after something like 13 takes, they decided to just rewrite the scene with his smirk, and let Erney feed off it. and what we got was pure gold.
I never thought of this before, but do you get the rank of private before you finish boot camp? Or I guess what I'm asking is, are you technically a marine before finishing boot camp? Or are you enlisted, with a rank, and then officially become a marine after boot camp?
@@Mockturtlesoup1 I don't know how the Marines do it, but in the Navy (when i was in boot 26 years ago) we earned our pay according to our rate (E1, E2, E3) but we were never addressed by rank.
You are a "recruit". You dont get called a Marine until you climb the stairway to heaven and get your EGA the last day of the crucible (year 2000 - MCRD San Diego). And they dont say recruit like its a normal word, either. They spit it like its disgusting. Also anyone NOT in the Corps was purely known as "nasty civilian". Being referred to in the derogatory for 3 straight months made finally being called Marine one of the greatest rewards of all time.
@@Mockturtlesoup1 Technically you are a private as soon as you join. That is the first rank. Some people can recieve a meritorious promotion while they are in the DEP (like I did), and become a PFC (private first class), but that isnt common. Even so, you will not be referred to as an actual Marine, and def not by your rank, until the end of your 3rd month in boot. Your rank is "recruit" or "nasty recruit" until then.
I prefer the 'It looks like the best part of you ran down the crack of your Mummas ass and became a brown stain on the mattress. But really they're all amazing.
Then they had a night march and some recruits died in the swamp by drowning so big changes were put in, no longer allowed to punch but I did see it happen once. Thumping was even more effective and we did get plenty of that, because it leaves no marks.
Fun Fact, R. Lee Emrey was a marine Drill Instructor. He was hired to be a technical adviser. He was dissatisfied by the what the writers had setup. He put together an instructional tape where he goes on a tirade against a few extras to show how the DI would have been and the director decided to have him play the part.
at 18:12 when Gomer changes mags, he purposely places the feed end away from Gunny. As you may notice, there is a round still left in the magazine that Gunny doesn't see. This is how Gomer managed to sneak a live round into the barracks. Great piece of barely noticeable filmography from Stanley Kubrick. But whether or not it would actually work in real life is a different question.
Yeah, he had a fist full of rounds and loaded at least 5-6 before he locks and loads in the scene (and the mag already had bullets in it). It wasn't just a single round or two. At the end of the day, though, it is unimportant how he got that much live ammo. He did so the scene could happen lolol
Can’t speak for the corps, but in the army not possible. Mags weren’t kept and we did a full shake down after the range with the drills inspecting our pockets and making us shake our uniform for hidden rounds.
he wasn't a D.I he was a marine, he was brought in to advise. He originally didn't want to take the role when offered because he didn't think he would do it justice.
Had a female recruit that failed to salute. CC made her stand on a 5 gallon paint bucket and salute seagulls. Hahahaha. "Morning, Mister Seagull!!" Cape May 2002.
Not me, definitely not me (haha), passed two officers. Gave the greeting of the day and forgot to salute. Front, back, go, salute. And repeat for a while.
Ha Ha awesome! My company was marching back to the barracks and the DI was chatting with another cadre. We always turn left at a certain point to enter the parade grounds so we did...without the order. He lost his stack, to say the least, and stopped the formation to give us a real good chewing out. "You never anticipate the command and if I march you off a GD cliff, you will keep singing cadence and match step all the F*%king way down." So since we felt we were kids back on the block he was going to treat us like children. In rows of four, we held hands and skipped across the parade grounds singing "Tra la la...Tra la la" all 300 of us. It made quite a spectacle and cacophony of sound matched only by the laughter of the other companies we passed. It was also much harder to try and sink up with 3 other guys all in full gear and the M16 slapping you in the back the whole way. We got the point.
In Cape May, we had a recruit get caught with his hands in his pockets. He had his arms taped to his sides, with his hands in his pockets, running around our company. He was required to yell, "beep beep, I am a satellite." It was the funniest thing I had ever seen, and it was so hard not to smile. I didn't want to join him. Golf - 126
Was in platoon 1066 at PI in 69. One night we woke up to the fire watch screaming for the duty DI. He found a recruit laying on his bunk, bleeding out,after cutting his wrists with his bayonet. Somehow the guy got up and ran out the fire escape at the end of the squad bay. Went right over the railing 3 stories down. The only thing that probably saved him was that it had been raining all day and the ground was soft. Still he had 2 broken legs along with other injuries. You would have a hard time understanding the mental stress your under in boot camp unless you actually were there. Some can handle it better than others.
Had a guy in boot camp (around week three) complain that he wanted to call back home and talk to his mother...well...the CC's obliged...they set up a box by the window, had him stand on it and yell "MOM" for about 3 hours...afterwards they stopped him and asked him if she answered...he said no...and they proceeded to tell him that's because she didn't want to talk to him and that he needed to man up and get through boot camp without his mommas help...needless to say he made it through.
My husband and all our USMC buds told me they got the crap beat out of them. They aren't allowed to do that anymore but.............Vietnam if you could breathe you could be drafted. BTW my husband enlisted
@@jackies56tbird Worst thing ever happened. Vietnam was no ones business and still the president couldnt let it go and stick his nose where it doesnt belong to, i say this all in respect that many soldier lives could have been saved without this vietnam war which vietnam won anyway.
@@blaynegreiner9365 In war, is there ever any winning? I mean really. Lives are still lost. Families are broken. New mental problems such as PTSD. I have nothing but respect to the men and women who serve, but in war, there is no winner. Only a conclusion.
Hartman said in an interview that during the Vietnam war, the Marine Corps shortened Boot Camp to eight weeks and so the training was compacted and drill instructors were forced to train recruits more harshly in order to get them ready for combat quicker. The drill instructors knew that many of the recruits were going to die in Vietnam and they were just trying to prepare them in order to give them a fighting chance in combat. He said that everything in the movie was authentic to the time. Fun fact: Hartman sat in a restaurant after his medical discharge (shrapnel in Vietnam), and read the stars and stripes every morning in order to read the Marine death lists so that he could find out which of his recruits had died in Vietnam each day. He was deeply saddened by every Marine that he had trained that was listed.
The source material is a book titled 'The Short-Timers', written by an ex soldier wwho went through exactly this. Kubricks goal was maximum authenticity.
Worse than the shortened training, they had something called "Project 100,000". The military recruited mentally retarded guys who all got killed or got other troops killed. There would've been a lot of guys there like Pyle.
Drill Sergeant Weave let us know one day that seeing the name of a trainee he'd had in boot camp was enough to tear him apart a little and he'd need a couple of days to get back to himself.
The DIs called us 'home sick pukes'. It kind of intimidated us at first but after a few weeks, it was hard not to chuckle even when the DI was screaming.
I got to meet and take photos with Gunny a few years before he passed away. I mentioned I served in the Corps and because of my short height he knew I had been “appointed” to be a house mouse (recruits in charge of cleaning the Drill Instructor’s quarters and personal effects). The other recruits assumed things were easier for us because the drill instructors always protected us but what they didn’t know was we were getting yelled at more and bending more because we were always with them. I told Gunny when I met him that his portrayal in Full Metal Jacket almost scared me into not joining. He responded by saying “But you did join and you served. Not everyone can be a Marine. Semper Fi Devil Dog.” And then he shook my hand. The whole exchange gave me chills and an overwhelming sense of pride. Others waiting in line clapped and shook my hand after, thanking me for my service. RIP Gunny.
Cool story. My uncle was a marine and a veteran of the veitnam War. He served 2 tours of duty and got 2 purple hearts and a bronze star for his service. After the marines, he went on to be a California highway patrol officer. We lost him in 2015 to a short battle with ALS. After his death, we found out how big a deal he really was with the CHP. Although he didn't die in the line of duty, the California state flag was still hung at half mast at the state house. All of that being said, he never cared much for the CHP. It really was just a job for him. The United States marine Corp was the greatest organization in the history of man kind, in his opinion. The young marines that folded his flag and fired the salute for him would have been all he ever asked for his service. My uncle was my HERO. Far and away the toughest man I've ever known. Much respect to you guys. Thank you for your service.
@@thetumans1394 don't blame a person for serving. blame the government for getting involved in wars in countries it never should've been in. for millions of people, the military is the only/best way to actually get an education/a decent paying job/pension. tl;dr - don't hate the player. hate the game.
We were marching back from chow and our DI kept yelling "Get in step!" We were getting nervous because we WERE in step. He finally started getting insanely irate and kept yelling "GET IN STEP! AAARRRGGH!!!!" we look over to what the hell was going on. He was out there yelling at pigeons and Soul Chickens and chasing them around. All of us lost it. Platoon 3100 India company August 2000. Oohrah.
Always had 3 drii instructors around us. Yes, i had my head smashed against the chalk board. Also gave 2 blanket parties to shit birds who just couldn't get it. They did after that!! Platoon 3090. P.I. 1979.
We used to pray our sr. drill instructor would come and give us a break from the 3 maniacs. I wish I could get in touch with some of the guys in my platoon!!!!. If you're out there guys, holla back. Parris Island, platoon 3090, 1979. Ooorah!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Wentworth, Nalborn, Gibson were the 3 MANIACS. Will NEVER 4get them!!
R Lee Ermey was my uncles drill instructor when he was in Boot Camp before he went to Vietnam. He said his diatribes and insults in Full Metal Jacket were very much what he was like in real life.
@@fn0rd-f5o Oh I'm sure, I'll bet he promised them fried chicken and watermelon at graduation lol, he was nice alright, as he says he's tough but he's fair! Marine DIs job is to kick your arse into a man, i.e, break you down and build you up not give you a swat on the keyster for good work !
How do people learn to talk like this? Is this a culture of people talking like this in the military? How do people think of insults this fast and have so many?
In basic training we had a thief steal cigarettes from the mess hall staff. We had physical training for about two hours. Constant grass drills and cannon cockers. Screamed at by 5 drill sergeants. Finally, finally someone confessed around 2000. Brutal
We had a guy mouth off and he got smacked in the face with a plastic red clip board. It exploded. He actually kept a piece until graduation and got it signed by the DI.
one private answered Senior Drill instructor Gunnery Sergent Encinias with a "yes Ma'am". Don't remember what he was called up for.The next thing to happen from the door of the duty hut was a 5x8 file card box to his forehead. THEN we went out (as a platoon) to pt, and "make it rain". Anyone who was at MCRD Hollyood knows about them there sandburrs. Yet another lmao for the types who "steal valor"
Americans might think this is a wise way to train. I suggest the SAS training is far better. No need to be Unprofessional or Abusive. American Cops are the same. See Gurkha training videos to lean a wiser alternative.
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R McGuire America has the greatest military God has ever known so, your suggestion falls flatly on its face. As for American cops, you would have to understand the deplorable hiring practices and the policing for profit motive to know why that is what it is. But to that point, they mostly seek PTSD laden vets or those who wish they had served, devoid of all empathy and now, want their piece of the action. Either way, it’s a bad situation.
We had a recruit named Ramirez, he was having issues shooting his rifle on the range. All over the place… DI SSGT Holt said, “Hey Ramirez I bet if we get you a lowrider and let you hang out the window you might be able to hit something…” 😂🤣
Sure got my vote. Cant Imagine they could make this movie today with all the people acting on virtues now days instead of truth. We are Being bullied to see things their way. I love America...
I took my youngest Son (Jason) to see it when it First came out. After the Movie he asked Me "Daddy was it really like that for you too ?" I told him "YES Son, Every Bit of it." Which now that I think about it, is probably the reason He Joined the ARMY.
First off, thanks to the author for your service. As for the abuse, it is absolutely needed because in a combat situation, the soldier must be able to take incoming fire and still achieve the mission objective. And oh, being accustomed to abuse will be a very good experience if ever a POW.
DI didn't like how my arms were swinging when I marched. Had to run around the platoon swinging my arms like the robot from lost in space screaming "Danger Will Robinson, Danger"
Every time our DIs got pissed of for sloppy marching, whether real or imagined, they would just yell "Asshole to belly button"!!!!!, and if you're a Marine, you know that's not cool LOL
The actor (R Lee Ermey) was a real Marine drill instructor. He was originally brought in as a consultant. But he did such a good job that Kubrick just had him play the character.
"Git some, GIT SOME!!!" Joker: How can you kill women, and children? "Easy, ya just don't lead so much. Ain't war hell?" Best war film ever. It literally gets better with age.
We had a recruit smuggle a cookie back into the barracks. At hygiene inspection time, the Sr. Drill Instructor found a cookie in his footlocker. We got lucky. The Sr. only IT’d him. For the rest of boot camp, his name was the Cookie Monster.
I had a similar experience. During Army Basic Training, someone in 4th platoon put one of those small peanut butter packets in his pockets because it didn't fit on his tray. Three Drill Sergeants saw him, smoked him with pushups for a solid 10-15 minutes, and dubbed him as the "Peanut Butter Bandit"
lol i remember something similar. My bunk mate smuggled in a packet of candy and hid it between some clothes in his locker. that fucker forgot about it for a couple days and eventually we had an ant problem. my DI came and turn the entire bunk inside out.
I still have nightmares about DI Sgt Pridgen, that dude hated me, swear to God he was trying to kill me. He shook my hand first thing as I walked off the Parade Deck, told me I was his favorite, that he loved to stress me cause of the was I always looked " Like his 6 month old with a dirty diaper" he actually said that to my mother. God I miss that.
I had a similar experience....the DI that always singled me out and harassed me I thought hated me...I ended up getting rolled back after team week for stress fractures and ended up in a different platoon...that same DI came to my graduation
Ermey was a real drill instructor that was initially brought in to be a consultant to someone that was supposed to play the part, but they figured why just not have him in the movie cause he really didn't have to act it, he lived it.
No he was not. He was from Greensboro, South Carolina. To tell the truth, I could care less. Joining the Marine Corps was a dream of mine. To this day, no words hurt me. Only lies and betrayal hurt. So no words from what I knew was a “training attitude” would break me. As a matter of fact, all my Marine friends had some sort of story if their DIs punishing them to the extreme or saying something about the island. Me, I didn’t want to be left out. To this date I remember him, the day he said it, how he said it, his breath stench when he said it. My answer and what came afterwards. Quarterdeck, but no heart pain.
In basic training at Fort Benning a private in my platoon pissed himself during a long march so the drill sergeant called him "Piss-in-boots"! This soldier's name was Greathouse, which a drill sergeant updated to Outhouse! Drill sergeants are quick witted and can crack jokes instantly!
My summer camp often had privates like you guys volunteering as counselors, and there was one counselor we had that was similarly called "Pee Pee" because he pissed himself while they were standing attention!
We had a guy that was getting smoked and scrambled eggs came out of his cargo pocket. The Drill Sergeant asked him why the hell he would put scrambled eggs in a pocket. He said “they were hard boiled when I put them in there drill sergeant!” 🤣
once watched a kubrik interview about this movie and he said "R. Lee Ermey is a genuinely nice dude, very down to earth and cares about his people but the moment he got into that uniform he was like a changed man"
R Lee was hired as a military advisor for the actor who was supposed to to be the di. Kubrick watched him on set and hired him.. literally made this movie.
10:56 we were forbidden from walking around with no shoes on. You had to have either your boots on or you had to have your "shower shoes" ie-flip flops. If they caught you shoeless, you were in for it.
We had a guy who kept answering "yeah". Our DI made him go to every toilet, yell "yeah" into it, and flush; just to get rid of it! All the while we were all trying not to laugh! That was 1995 and I remember it like it was yesterday.
This is what I've always wondered. How do you not laugh at some point when they're screaming in your face and trashing you and your squad mates with funny ass one liners? I guess that gets knocked out of you pretty quickly?
My father told me of a story from his time in Navy Boot camp back in the mid 50s. Was After lights out, and several men were making noise. DI came in and said he better not hear another peep, After he turned of lights and shut door, someone yelled peep. No one owned up. DI made every get up put on full gear and March all night. Father said a couple nights later the jokester was the guest of honor at a "Blanket party"
I remember recruit training in 1975 and it was fairly physical and the mental harrassment was intense during the first few weeks. I had a migraine for a couple of days and one of the people in our company messed up badly and wouldn't own it. I discovered that intense physical training was a cure for the migraine. The young man who messed up was the recipient of a "blanket party". It took me a couple of years to understand that everything the company Commander did was designed to turn us from civilians sailors
The guy who says in the helicopter “you just don’t lead em so much” was supposed to be the actual DI However ermey was a stand in or something and after awhile of persistence he got the roll
@@shuneughu4244 afaik Emey was hired as a teacher for that actor, and as a consultant for all things regarding boot camp and while excersizing the actor Kubrick came along when Emey was cussing things Kubrick never heard of, so Stanley got interested and finally Emey got the role.
Had a friend who served in the army recently tell me that when he was in basic, a guy in his unit chuckled at a drill sergeant who was yelling at a guy about something and the drill sergeant heard him. The sergeant ran over and yelled at the guy with the “do clowns make you laugh” scene from The Devil’s Rejects. That only made the guy want to laugh even harder, but he held it in. He lookes like a puffer fish and his face was red, but he held it together.
I almost busted out laughing the 1st time 1 of our DI.'s called us a"gaggle of effing "ass-bgs"!1nce I was out in the FMF, "assbag" became 1 of my favorite insults.
Actor R. Lee Ermey ad libbed throughout the movie. Much of what he said wasn’t apart of the script. Even the director was shocked with some of the things he would say. R. Lee Ermey created his own script and the other actors would just follow along. R. Lee Ermey was himself a drill Sergeant in Vietnam. Actually, he was just being himself.
Without Ermey, I don't think this movie is as successful. His portion is at the beginning and his authenticity just sucks you into the movie. Plus, the main demo of the movie were the ones went through this and survived. It's up there with the greatest ~10 minute clip of a movie ever. Didn't knew he was ad libbing, which makes the scenes and other actors abilities that much more impressive.
@@9mmsleepingpill851 Yep. He was great. One really remarkable thing to me is: Ermey had already played a drill instructor in another movie, ten years earlier.. but wasn't very good. No offense meant. He was mediocre as a drill instructor in an earlier movie, but brilliant in this. Kubrick brought the genius out of him.
One recruit responded to the receiving DI: "yes maam", the DI took his smokey hat and looked at him straight in the eyes and said: "do I look like a bitch to you"? It was funny.
As enlisted, I was pretty lucky, I kept my mouth shut and stayed under the radar. I liked the fuckups because they drew fire away from the rest of us. However, when I went to OCS, for whatever reason, the main TAC Officer did not like me, and I was always getting dogged out. But hallway through the program he eased off. About 5 years later, I ran across him, asked what I had done wrong, he said nothing, he wanted to see how I would act under pressure. Lucky me, not LMAO!
March 1972 2030 pl was slap by DI San Diego for wrong movement D I BROKE PVT barney took him to duty hut later Barney cut his wrist in the head sent the mice to clean up
My brother who was in the marines said that the night before graduation someone left a peach pit on the floor, and no one confessed to it, so the morning of, the DI had them clean the whole barracks
This guy in high school, he was just mean, said cutting things all the time. He was even mean and heartless to girls. He went into the service. He said boot camp was really hard. The guy in the bunk under him used to talk all the time after lights went out that he couldn't take it. He said he'd look down at him and say, its just a while longer, you'll make it. The guy kept saying he couldn't make it. About one week left he said to him "It's just one more week, you can get through". The guy kept saying no, no, I can't make it. They found him in the morning, dead from hanging himself. That guy that was mean in high school, at the 10 year class reunion, he was the nicest, most polite, most gentle spirited guy you could ever meet. Everyone was stunned, everyone. I asked him, what happened to you. He said, boot camp, and this guy in the bunk below me killed himself. It changed him. No one could understand it, how he was an entirely different person.
I'm a USMC & US Army Veteran 1974-88, most of this this really happened back in the 1970's, a blanket party happened, 3 DI's screaming at me instead of just one, slapped on the side of the face, punched in the stomach, a boot in the butt, etc. One thing that happened in my USMC Boot Camp was somebody asked to watch TV, most of us thought it was a great idea, so the senior DI rolled out a TV on a cart, we had to assume the TV watching position toes & elbows touching the deck hands on our chins as we watched a unplugged TV, the 3 DI's made sure we did not let anything but our toes & elbows touched the deck, it seamed like hours, but it was probable only half an hour, we never asked to watch TV again. One thing that was wrong was that no ammo or magazines were allowed off of the firing range, they were all strictly accounted for.
I am a Marine Corps veteran of the Desert Storm era, I can honestly say that Full Metal Jacket was dead on! I can recall during a series instruction class, of which the topic was the various battles in which Marines fault and never quit, the whole "Death Before Dishonor " thing, I made the mistake of asking " Is there EVER a time when a Marine retreats? I had every DI of every platoon barking and yelling at me, accusing me of calling the class instructor of being a coward! Repeating over and over, Did you just call him a coward? You're calling us cowards, He said the "R Word", over and over, for at least twenty minutes! All to end with the class instructor saying, "MARINES DON'T RETREAT, WE ADVANCE IN THE OTHER DIRECTION" ! That for me was the Defining Moment! The reason why, till this day, some 35 years later, " I'VE ALWAYS" worn The Eagle Globe and Anchor, on my person, Be it a dressed suit or birthday suit, It's on me ALWAYS, and "ALWAYS " WORN WITH PRIDE!!!! SEMPER FI!
Aaaaand that's why America loses everything. The arrogance. Let's see: show up late for WW1 with a million men, don't open a second front in WW2,til 1944 by which time the Red Army had won the European war, in fact really opened it to keep western Europe from communism, dropped atom bombs to defeat Japan, completely ignore the contribution of Allied troops in island hopping...since then, one long litany of defeat. You can only win little police actions with overwhelming force, and you get millions of civilians killed. Now attempting to bully tiny nation of north Korea to give up their defenses...really, why should they? Rogue nation! It's not N Korea killed millions in Indonesia, its not N Korea seeks to impose its will on other nations...I'd would so love to see the USA try and beat them
My grandfather was a vietnam era marine. He was my D.I and he was exactly like R. Lee Ermee in this movie. He was also the nicest man (if you did what you were told) in the world. He did not even make it easier on you even if you were related to him. Still i Love him and miss him to this day
Fun Fact During filming, R Lee Ermey was told to improvise his lines. He actually had written 150 pages of insults. So just imagine what things that this man came up with in those pages.
The rumors go around as to how Ermy got the role. He was already a fairly successful actor--remember in Apocalypse Now when they assaulted the beach--he was the Chopper pilot in that scene. But he got a call from his agent not for an onscreen acting gig but to teach actors Vincent D'onofirio and Matt Modine the ropes of Marines. Seems that day that Stanley Kubrick was going over the script with his team while off a ways, Ermy was ranting and he came to the part where he told Snowball, that he "wouldn't even give me a reach around". Seems Kubrick stopped in his tracks--he had never heard the term. "Who is that guy:"..."Oh, he's showing the cast about Marine Basic". Kubrick says "Not anymore, I want that guy for my Sgt Hartman"...and over many years I have seen Ermy, he was always putting in how grateful he was that Kubrick happened to be there in right place and right time--seems like our destiny really is in 'the stars" as Caesar said
My Dad was a DI from the mid 60s to late 70s. Never yelled at me or my brothers like that. I never even knew what a DI really was or what they had to do until I was a teenager. My Dad rarely talked about it , but when he did we listened. He said once his only job was to do whatever it took, say whatever needs said to give those kids the best chance to make it back home. I seen him crying once in later years about the deaths. He said they tried not to let it get personal but sometimes it just did and it was at times horrible.
Navy "Boot Camp" 1971. Yikes. Slapped, a soft blow to your Nuts, Chocked out, spit in your face. If it is really bad, DI sends in the Black Aigullettes wearing DIs to rough up everything in the barracks. Then there's Jumping Jacks, 500, and Screaming each jump. After a week or two your only fear was being sent back to start over. Boot camp made life easier and better in the Seabees. Overseas we worked up to 30 hours, and then there was hunger. One meal a day, then kill something to eat.
I received my draft notice in Februay 1968. It was 5 months before my 22nd Birthday and after 4 years of avoiding the draft. I believe the reason was the TET offensive as we had to report in 14 days for induction. I went to Fort Bragg for Basic Training and I was in the exact same area for Basic at Fort Brag where my day was in the 36 Combat Engineers in 1942. The first week was zero week testing, hair cut, recieving my issue and whatever. After zero week we were assembled in an area to board buses to go to the Basic Training Area. As I sat there I noticed this big black mean looking Drill Sergeant and I though to my self with my luck I'll bet he is going to be my Drill Sergeant. I was the first to be called and board the bus so now I'm in the back of the bus. The last one on the bus was the Drill Sergeant, my guess was correct. He didn't say a word until we got to the Basic Training Center. The bus stopped, the Drill Sergeant stood up and yelled you have 10 seconds to un-ass this bus. I'm the last guy off. I got off the bus and there was a bunch of Drill Sergeants yelling and screaming at us. I think I ran over top of at least a dozen guys. Later when our Drill Sergeant was working us over with all kinds of commands my first thought was to feel sorry for myself and wonder why me. Then I would enter a real pissed off mood and think to myself give me a chance you might beat my ass but I just want to put one on you. After that feeling I would look around at everyone and see how stupid we all looked and what he was yelling at us, now the real problem started, and that was to laugh as the whole thing looked ridiculous. I thought don't let him catch me laughing. As it turned out that big black mean looking Drill Sergeant was Staff Sergeant Archie Jones and he was a real super guy. I never forgot him. Sure he broke our stones and he was tough but most of all he was fair. After a few weeks and we were squared away he sat us down and explained why he did what he did and broke our stones and said okay that's now over. If a guy had a problem Jones had an ear and woud help him. I'll never foget him. I can recall being on a forced march at the Field First, Senior Drill Instructor, was yelling at me. I got pissed and yelled back at him. To my surprise he comment to me was, "That's right lean and mean." He was enjoying my come back! When I went to Fort Sill for advanced individual training I had Drill Sergeant Loggins. He was a Sergeant First Class and was in the first class of US Army Drill Sergeants who where trained by the Marines. He made sure he told us every morning. I was the Assistant Platoon Guide. Jim Wolver was the Platoon Guide. Jim was a big guy from the Tennessee Mountains. He was strong but he was a real nice guy. Drill Sergeant Loggins was riding Jim somehting terrible. Jim came to me almost in tears. Needless to say it lit me off and I approached Drill Sergeant Loggins again with my attitute "you may kick my ass but I just want to put on you." I said Drill Sergeant I ant to talk to you in a commanding voice. Drill Sergeant Jones looked at me and said you do? I said lay off Jimmy , year driving him in a hole. Loggins came back and said I'm trying to drive him out of a hole. My response was is not working he getting ready to crack up. What a surprise to me Loggins took it all in and I didn't get punished. Later he wuld brake my stones. If we were in formation and he was telling us something to do he worul look over to me and say is that okay with you Lonabaugh? The point is Drill Sergeant Loggins was like Drill Sergeant Jones. I decend guy. Years later when I watched the Movie Officer and a Gentleman I was first shocked how muct Lou Gosset resembled Drill Sergeant Loggins. No doubt Gosset spent some type on a post learning how a Drill Sergeant / Drill Instructor operates. As such I was able to predict the final scene of the Movie. This is the way I found Drill Sergeants in the Army. If you screwup admitted, stand up on you two feet and be a man and do what's right. To me that seems to be what they were looking for. I applogize for rambling on, it's the way I found it.
Thank you for a great story , I have a half dozen Friends that went through United States Army Basic & told me similar stories , I'm going to tell you none of that would have ever happened in Parris Island Boot Camp or Camp Lejeune Infantry Training , at least not in the late 60's when I was there........
@@danielcarroll5667 My Army Advanced Individual Training was Field Artillery, Fire Direction Control (FDC). We did all the calcultions for the guns including weather corrections, ammo registratrations, height defference guns versus target and transcribed observer taget line of site (direction to the target) to gun target line of site (direction to the target) and also forward observer. We had 8 weeks to learn averthing. After the first two weeks we were going to class all day and after dinner. We even went to class on Saturday. There wasn't much time for other trainging even PT so we didn't see much of our Drill Sargeant after the first two weeks. Field Gunnery Manual 6-40 or what I called the Artillery Bible.
can’t remember where i heard it from but “If brains were gasoline you wouldn’t have enough juice to drive a piss ants go cart two laps around a cheerio!”
@@josemartinez5366 the way I always heard it from my old man was "if your brains where gasoline you couldn't ride a piss ant's motorcycle around the inside of a thimble."
The gunny used what he had done years before, it was all natural and that is why it worked, I know many actors could with time and much effort put something together, but this was 1 time that the only way for it to work was to have a real DI fill this roll, Semper Fi Gunny.
Try going through boot when your Senior DI is best friends with your uncle. And your uncle was the Navy Corpman Master Chief for 12 years at Paris Island. It was a brutal time for me.
Someone probably already told you this, R. Lee Ermey was a real-life Marine drill instructor, in San Diego CA from 1965 to 1967. So, he probably came up with that stuff himself. He was nominated for a golden globe for that performance.
He did not come up with that himself , I was in Parris Island in 1969 , I heard some of his exact insults and even "better" , years later when I spoke to People that had been there before him they said the same
@Daniel Carroll that simply doesn't make sense... he was a drill instructor from 1965-1967, so he predates your time in boot camp. Also, he was a drill instructor in San Diego, not Parris Island.
In USMC boot camp you never say "You". If a recruit does, a common retort from the DI is something like "Oh, 'ewe', huh? Like I run around with a wool blanket going 'baaaa'? The DI said that to one recruit in my platoon, Perez, and Perez replied "Sir, this recruit does not know what the DI does in his spare time, sir!" The DI was trying his hardest to not laugh and all he could say was "Push!" Afterwards Perez always said it was worth it.
We had one of those guys, our Perez was named Lester Mexico. He was the funniest dude I ever met. He only made it a few days (popped on the piss test we took during pick up). I swear they let him stay for a few days longer than they would normally have because of how funny he was. He broke the SDI's bearing on the first night in the squad bay with a one liner.
We had a big ol country bubba kid in our Company who would sneak food out of the galley or chow hall all the time. He finally got busted when the Company Commanders (Navy Boot Camp DI's) found his canteen filled with grapes. They made him eat each grape one by one slowly while saying "Grape Ape loves Grapes" . All the while we were doing 8 count body builders for like 30 mins straight. He was known as Grape Ape from then on out. Man, the military was a good time in my life.
"...are you allowed to eat GRAPES recruit Grape Ape???" ~ROFL~ ...i was lucky enough in the 80s to have had my dad in Navy, older cousin in Air Force so they warned me and kept asking "...are you SURE you want to go in the marines???" XD
The advice I was given at 18: Don’t be first... don’t be last. You’re %^cked either way. You’re going to get targeted. Just realize you’re gonna screw up. They rig it that way. I was told to learn to “ fail upwards” (Fail/Learn/move on) And dont let yourself get hung up mentally. The man my mom was dating when I was a kid was a Vietnam era vet. I got some good pre conditioning wisdom due to that. No matter what they say to you, realize it’s for a reason. It’s not personal. They’ve seen everything before, just keep going and move on. Additionally He said: :Take responsibility wherever possible.. Don’t make any excuses or pass the buck. Just fix it ASAP ...and square it the fuck away. “Shit rolls downhill kid, so just Shut up, and start shovelling.” He also said : Don’t go in physically unprepared. If you’re focused on dragging ass and being exhausted while trying to learn what they are teaching it doubles your stress and ridicule. You’ll be hating life. “Play a contact sport ‘panty hands’. “ ( this was his name for anyone who was too soft ) Preferably wrestling or football. Wrestling was what I chose. It’s builds a highly aggressive instinct in you. It makes you extremely uncomfortable and pushes you out of your comfort zone. The mental toughness helped me deal with a lot of adversity later on. Plus i became insanely fit. This one REALLY helped: He made sure I Got used to being emasculated. Lol. Bernie used to call me “ Jennifer “ if I ever balked at running at 5 am before school during wrestling season. I hated Jennifer. So I GUT STOMPED her out of me whenever i heard that name.. The point is : Dont let their insults hurt your feelings. It’s not personal. Use it as fuel and move the fuck on. Lastiy: Bernie was adamant about this one. He chased me off of casual dating the whole year before. Don’t go in with some broad on your mind. If things go sideways at home with her then you’ll be comprised. Lots of young Guys become totally combat ineffective when Jodi shows up. Bernie was a hard ass but he never steered me wrong. It’s all brutal - But my mentality was. 1000s of people have done this before and made it. So I knew it was possible to succeed even if it felt impossible at times. AND they gotta feed me... So I figured :just get to the next meal. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Lol All that being said. I was still surprised, stressed, scared and unprepared for certain things. I was sure happy I had some of this wisdom going out in the world though. No one will ever be a perfect recruit, and that’s the point. You can’t be... but it’s how you handle the shit storm that counts.
Good observation, I came home from Boot Camp and every who’s name began with J got a word from me. In Infantry, when we began being trained with C4, dynamite 🧨 and such, we were told what we could do to Jody!
First time I opened my footlocker some anonymous sage had written "you're in a world of sh-t prive" on the inside of the lid. The first Pillar of Wisdom.
That's what I did. I was just "another face in the crowd." I did just a little better than average in most things. The only time I was ever noticed was when I made the sort of mistakes that everyone else made. The DS ends up having to chew someone out every day, and I was just another one of those routine ass-chewings. When I committed my worst fuckup, I was part of a group who had done the same thing, which made it easier to stay anonymous. They did notice me trying to not be noticed, but when they asked me basic skills questions or had me demonstrate my proficiency, I always got it right. I guess they decided to leave me alone since I was learning, performing to standard and staying out of trouble; I was the least of their concerns.
First day the senior Drill said, "You need to know something about me: I HATE my family. I am going to live with you to avoid going home to my piece of shit kids." It wasn't funny, it was scary lol
I was really quiet in Army Basic Training (1973) Drill Sergeant Jarvis came and sat on the step with me. We could do our own thing on sunday for a few hours. He asked me where I grew up, and stuff. I remember thinking "What is wrong with this guy". I figured that he must think I'm getting weird on him 'cause I'm too quiet. I told him "Believe it or not I kinda like the Army, and my home life growing up was way way more fucked up than you guys. He acted like he was relieved, and that he had got an answer he did not expect, but that made sense to him.
@John I wonder if he was concerned that you could be the "silent suicidal" or "silent psychopathic" type, wanted to get to the bottom of it, and was relieved to find out you were just very well conditioned for the military, because you'd grown up with worse. Do you think he chose not to give you a harder time of it because he figured you had already "paid your dues" and had already reached the mental toughness from such pressure so it was unnecessary? Or did they go harder on you to push you further?
@@mrfixitusa6165 Your first paragraph nailed it in my opinion. He was not hard, or easy on me, and like I said I kinda liked the Army even basic training. Were you also a military man?
@@JOHN-km8dh no, I tried to join at 18 & 19 but that was back in the early '90s and as soon as they found out that I'd had "childhood asthma" they all rejected me. My best friend and I had wanted to be Marine snipers since we were 10 or 11 years old. Even as a young kid, Carlos Hathcock was one of my heroes, and as I entered my teens, I viewed the "ultimate achievement" as becoming a Navy SEAL But because of the childhood asthma, first the Marines rejected me, then the army. In my mind the only goal left was the dream to become a SEAL, but I knew if the Marines wouldn't take me, there's no way I'd get accepted to try out for the teams, even if I could somehow manage to get into the Navy ....and the thought of being stuck on a floating bathtub sounded like torture, so I figured that dream was over. By the time I'd heard they had changed the requirements so that asthma wasn't a problem, I was too old and that ship had sailed... But for some reason most all of the friends I've had through years were military law enforcement or both and I've always had high respect for each of them, and try to understand things they deal with, as best as I can as a civilian.
@@mrfixitusa6165 You had the best of intentions. You wanted to serve, that is just as good as having served. You just got dealt the wrong hand with having asthma.
From my own experience at MCRD in San Diego back in 1980, I thought everything was exactly the way it was in real life EXCEPT the DIs couldn't touch you. They'd go face to face with us, with the brim of their covers shoved into our foreheads, but never anything physical. Someone told me these days that they can't even insult your mother. Not sure if that's factual or not. Maybe someone can verify?
Many people don't know the Naval Academy (which are both USN and USMC) get their instruction from USMC Sergeants. In WW2, yes, game on, USMC was in charge.
To be honest, the gunnery seargents of these days served a purpose. They tried to harden their rookies into soldiers. I mean, even with THIS kind of treatment, vietnamese partisans considered american soldiers as weak and spoiled. They were not considered as real soldiers who were eager to serve to a greater good. And in these (modern) days, a drill seargent is not even allowed to break them by insulting them or punching them?! What will they experience, when they happen to be get captured or even tortured by the enemy? They will be completely helpless and afraid, because they have not experienced even a bit of bad treatment, at all... There may be a place for weak persons in civil life, yes. But not in the military. As a firefighter, myself, I never had much acceptance about other firefighters who were complaining about their clothing (a suit with a tie) because they should have been used to some uncomfortable clothing, having to wear fire proof clothes and a quite heavy oxygen tank on their back in the case of actual fire-fighting. If they even can not endure that moderately inconvinient clothing, how will the behave when the shit will really be on steam?! I am proud to be not weak, but to be able to endure some punishment. As these soldiers were surely, too, in the past. They survived boot camp. It surely gave them, at least, some self-confidence. It is the least you can do to your soldiers, you are going to send into places, where they will have to endure the real hell of mankind... PS: In Germany, there was a reverend called Hans Milch who said: "Man muss immer lieben, aber die Liebe erfordert Härte!" which can be roughly translated into: "You have to love. Always. But loving someone, always includes being firm to them." I believe in these sentences. And I was raised with that believe. Sometimes you have to be firm to your loved ones, BECAUSE you DO value (and love) them. Instead, sometimes, "love" does not make people strong and independent, but instead, weak and dependent on someone else...
We had a guy in the troop that was a little overweight. The Drill Seargent pointed at his stomach with his staff and told the recruit he was afraid. The Seargent asked him, "Do you know why I'm afraid private?" No Sergeant. "I'm afraid right now, because I worried that something is going to come out of that and attack me around my neck!"
We had a guy who just couldn’t remember the historical knowledge the DIs were trying to drill into our heads, so our knowledge hat made him do pull-ups while screaming out the names of the Korean War and WW2 battles and then had him walk around the barracks and apologize to every recruit and DI for wasting their oxygen. He was carrying a potted plant at the time.
My father was a drill sergeant and a veteran of three wars: World War II, Korean War, Vietnam war his way of leading the troops was a lot different he was strict regimen but he really rarely raised his voice. In the Vietnam War he did not lose one man in his whole group he was a tanker in the black horse regimen
Your father sounds a lot like my grandpa. He was born in 1900 so he was in WW1 WW2 Korea and Vietnam. The dude was kind of intimidating so he never really had to raise his voice. But my grandpa was a field medic early on and later on was a medic/gunner on the helicopter. Dude was in his 60s out in the field. He was crazy.
One of my drill instructors asked the really short recruit to my left during a hygiene inspection where he was from. When the recruit sounded off " Alaska, Sir", the drill instructor said, "No wonder you're so damned short... YOU LIVED IN A FRIGGIN Igloo DIDN'T YOU"!
@@new2POOL208 You know, I have to add also that the drill instructor was so short that the recruit from Alaska was the only person in the platoon shorter than the drill instructor. Also, the drill instructor looked like a dead ringer for a live-action Elmer Fudd. I got in so much trouble when I fell out laughing behind the igloo crack! :)
@@curtraick6242 A guy who kept screwing up and getting the whole squad roasted on a regular basis was given what we called a "sock party", which was just a different name for blanket party. He got pinned down with his blanket in his top bunk a few hours after lights out, while people in the squad beat him with socks filled with bars of soap...few guys even got licks in with their boots. Those who did not participate just pretended to sleep and didn't say a damn word to the chain of command. He was "voted out" shortly after and certain "evidence" was planted in his locker, the result of which being he was recycled back two weeks because even the beating wasn't enough to set him straight...meaning he had to go back and train with another squad who wasn't as far along, and not graduate with us. Don't know what happened to him after he was recycled... Craziest part of this was the Air Force early 2000's, and we are known for being amongst the "softest" of the branches.
He was originally hired as a consultant, but no one could sell the role as well as the real deal. Teaching someone to pretend to be a DI was no substitute.
They werent all improv and i dont know how that rumor started considering him and Kubrick went and made lines for himself and even had the lines from the previous actor.
@@darrengarcia4937 According to sources, it's about 50% script and 50% improv, but improvised lines during filming are pretty common depending on the type of film. Dialogue as set dressing is a lot less likely to need scripting than dialogue that drives the main plot.
While at bivouac, we were getting our gear together to make the trek back to the barracks.. i found a cool looking bird feather, so I put in the rubber of my steel pot and forgot it was there .. Got into formation , started our march back , when the DI called halt , calls me up to the front and asked me “ wtf is this? “ slaps my steel pot off my head, he had me running around the formation for like 3 miles screaming “ cock a doodle do!!” From that point on I was “ Chicken Head” lmao
Marine to Navy boot camp marine horror story: Someone make a head call without permission. He did not flush the toilet lest he alert the Fire Watch. The DI was outraged. "Who took a dump without permission!?" Nobody fessed up. "Squad Leader! Get that turd and bring it here!" He then had the squad leader hold it up for all to see. "Anyone recognize who this belongs to!?" No answer. "You will pass this turn up and down the line! Each one of you will carefully examine it and determine if you recognize whose asshole it came out of!"
BS story. You could get up during the night to make a head call, why would fire watch try to stop you??? Why not flush the toilet??? Did the DI get up each morning and go look in every shitter so see if anyone didn't flush??? Handing a turd from recruit to recruit.....That don't pass the "smell test" dude. That is over the top even for the Marines. PS when I was a teacher we had an incident of a kid smearing feces on the bathroom wall, I had a school counselor tell me that people who play with human feces are very, very often the victims of sexual abuse. So if a DI actually did this......hmmmmm. Reminds me of the GI Jane Navy Seal movie where they dump all their breakfast food in a trash can and give it to them for dinner and they scarff it down because they are staving. Ok, imagine all those guys at sick call for food poisoning the next morning....sets back training several days, a week, what ever. IF they ever did actually make them eat out of a trash can it was a trash can cleaned with boiling water, food dumped in, then put in a walk-in refrigerator and then brought back out at the end of the day. No food poisoning but a great story about how tough they are. We went on humps in boot camp and in infantry school and was told it was 10 miles when I know damn good and well it wasn't even 5 miles. BS stories to make us all feel tough. Sorry but it's true.
@@313-v9k in Army basic i could get up and use the latrine no questions asked. In Navy Boot, the head is on lockdown until morning. Maybe the firewatch wouldn't say anything, but also maybe the recruit is scared of the firewatch because they have to take logs of everything that happens in minute detail. Especially in the beginning of boot when nobody knows eachother yet and all scared of the RDCs. The stories are endless and never cease to surprise even the most senior RDCs, DI's, and Drill Sergeants. Privates/Recruits do dumb shit.
Talking about private Pyle to choke himself..one of our DI'S told a recruite to beat his face.. he starts hitting himself and DI told him push ups not hit himself
In the uniform code of military justice,there is a clause that basically says you are government property. And as such, if you damage that property, are subject to a court martial. IE Like maybe getting a severe sunburn and not being able to do your assigned duties for a few days.
cpu554 well I’m sure that most DI’s will be careful enough to not hit TOO hard, so that it doesn’t give long term bruising, but enough for them to feel it sting for the day. Though I’m sure there were DI’s that hit way too hard as it’s bound to happen.
Another one was the DI's made a recruit run in place in front of a mirror, and say over and over again, "I'm not crazy, you're crazy." While pointing at himself and his reflection.
We had a dead beat recruit, and we were outside washing our skivvies, when a bird dropped a turd on him and the DI shouted out "even the f$%^'n birds know your worth recruit!" Classic!
@@Socialisten that's what the military does. they make the weak strong so that they can survive if they were attacked or attacking. the military is clearly not for you fucking Pussy if you don't like the military why are you even watching this ?
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He was a drill sgt during vietnam
Gunny did a video on this and he said that he was period accurate for the DI ... and he would know . that is when he was one
@18:00 No drill instructors allowed on rifle range anymore, only shooting instructors.
To prevent recruits from shooting DIs.
They didn't script his insults. They told him to speak freely, and told the actors to respond accordingly.
gunny scared me back to that time. oh shit! you forget the guy who knew he was a bullseye 73 to 79 no training after boot camp. great at picking up cig butts a painting rocks white. wright after Vietnam. bent m16 barrel. no tools to work on trucks, on parts. NO! on request for training. Told to get OFF THERE BASE when Discharged. I GOT MY HONORABLE DISCHARGE. FUCK EM
Had a DI make a recruit give up his rifle and carry a plant. When another DI asked why he was carrying a a plant he had to reply” to replace some of the oxygen I am stealing from other recruits
Love that one.
Dude, that made me laugh out loud. I can totally hear them doing that.
That's comedy gold!
*lol*
Its 1am and I'm laughing into tears
The only reason that Gunny Ermey didn't win the Best Supporting Actor award is because - he WASN'T acting !
And because hes not a supporting actor, hes a main character
Kubrick told him "I want it to look real". He said back "I cannot do it any other way".
Ermey was legend. R.I.P
He really was a DI before he was an actor.
**TRUTH**
My brother's DI said, "If your brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your fuckin nose!"
oooh.....
Not bad😂
Funny seeing you here!
Funny seeing you here!
Holy shit😂
When they were filming this movie, when doing multiple takes for these scenes where Ermy was going at them like this, the man never used the same insult twice. He ALWAYS had another.
Love that detail! Never the same insult twice!!!
PS He is the world record holder for fewest takes in a Kubrick film. They became best friends and would spend Sundays planning the next week's shoots. He was the only one to just ask The K what was he looking for.
Sgt. Hartman is the Picasso of profanity 😎
Actually Kubrick was always on set with his typewriter. Everything he said was indeed improvised once but then had to be repeated identically in every scene. As far as movie making goes, Stanley was a tough SOB.
Read that he screamed once attention on deck and everyone standed up to attention even Kubrick
My director of security was at Paris Island and he said one recruit asked if they could have a Christmas tree in the baracks. The Drill instructors covered him with Christmas lights and made him stand like a Christmas tree for hours
Bwahahahaha! I can so believe that...epic action by the DI's. lol
Classic!
PRICELESS!!
my brother had one recruit that accidentally looked at a plane while learning their drill, so he was out in a garbage can and told to jump and try to catch the airplane for 2 hours😂
You know the old saying, "Boot camp is the funniest place you're not allowed to laugh"
One guy turned left on a "Right Face" command, so the Drill Sergeant made him carry a rock in his right hand to remind him. A little later the Drill didn't see the rock in his hand and asked him where it was. "It's in my pocket" said the Recruit. The Drill Sergeant started throwing a fit stating "You smothered my best rock in your nasty pocket, you god damn murderer".... The whole Company had to perform a Military Funeral for the murdered rock afterwards.
That's hilarious
Yeah,there is no such thing as a drill sergeant in my glorious Marine Corps bub.
...they just wanted another excuse to brutalize us!!! ~ROFL~ (like they NEEDED a reason)
@@billstocker6216 Oh I know, I was in the Army. Drill Sergeants were mean but not Marine Corp mean. We were trained to hide behind tree's and rocks. Not many of those on a beach.
I do love my bulletproof Marine Brothers trained to charge.
Never in my life did I expect to read “You smothered my best rock in your nasty pocket, you goddamn murderer”
Had a buddy once in Idaho say that someone in his group farted. DI asked who it was. Guy said it was him. DI told him he had to go around and look for his fart. After 15 minutes or so, the guy felt embarrassed running around looking for a fart so he pretended to catch his fart in his hands and reported back. DI looked at him incredulously and asked him "You found your fart?" The guy said he had. DI then instructed him to dig a hole in the ground to bury it. After it was buried, the DI instructed him to hum Taps.
This made me laugh. 😂😂😂
and after "taps" make it rain.
Lmfao this made me roll
That's some of the funniest shit I ever heard
LMAO oh holy shit im crying over here🤣🤣
An airmman was caught humming. The TI opened his wall locker & ripped everthing out. Told the airman to get in the locker. He got in & the TI slammed the door shut, threw a quarter through the air slot & said "start singing". The airman sang the worst version of "Lady in Red" I've ever heard. It was hilarious!
Man really turned him into a jukebox.
@@Samuel152
Yep & it was glorious.
Wow that's abuse was he trying to kill him? So in the military does the DI just get to assault recruits whenever he feels like it?
this sounds so hilarious 😂😂😂
That was actually pretty common but it’s no longer allowed unfortunately
Had a DI say "Even bob ross couldn't paint the shit i'm looking at right now". Lmao
Bob Ross was D.I I'm sure you know 👍👍
How in the fuck would it be possible to keep a straight face? I'm gonna chuckle, I'm gonna die.
@@Swaggaccino Not with how intense they are id bet.
@@MinnWasTaken Yeah but sometimes the quiet word and how it's said can be much more sinister...
@@TheClaptonisgod1 I just was saying people are not going to laugh since they know there could be consequences.
While in basic training for the Air Force we had a trainee that was caught throwing a rock at a rabbit during a march. Our DI made him walk on the inside and salute every rabbit we passed. In Texas there were a lot of rabbits.
That's hilarious 😂
I bet he never looked at rabbits the same again hahahahahaha!!
lol...bunch of pu$$ies
..in the USMC boot camp that recruit would have been sent back 2 weeks in training
@@RichWeigel 🤣😂😂😂
Marine Corps boot camp is the funniest place on earth where you dare not laugh
That would make the best comedy club where the comedian is the Drill Instructor and the routine is try not to laugh.
I was an Army drill sergeant and got a medal for telling a candidate “I will be in your face so bad every day, the day you get married, you will turn to kiss your wife and see me!”
No doubt. The army gives out a ribbon if you pass basic training.
I wouldnt last long in the military. I'm glad I didnt join.
I had a friend was a drill sergeant, I’m a civilian. I told him he wasn’t that tough he told me to give him him my best shot- I made him cry and we don’t talk no more.
Full disclosure tho I probably couldn’t survive the military. I have authority issues and they would probably discharge me before they could break me unless they identified some special skill in me worth riding me for but doubtful.
@@M335h1 What did you do to him?
Daniel Brewster - He told him that his best friend had been banging his wife while he was deployed.
I actually got one of my drill instructors to laugh. He called me a rock, basically stupid. I told him "This recruits parents are from Stonehenge" he cracked a smile shook his head and walked off.
I was cutting 550 cord with a knife I got at the PX during our final FTX. One of the drills called me over and asked if I had a knife. I told him "We're not allowed to have knives." He said "Don't bullshit me." I replied "I'm not bullshitting you, drill sergeant. We're really not allowed to have knives." He just rolled his eyes and walked away.
Hilarious. He *cracked a smile
because you automatically contradicted him with your intelligence!
You're a comedian huh! FROM NOW ON YOUR NAME WILL BE PRIVATE JOKER.
Thats awesome.. I never got a DI to laugh but I did get called Astro for about a month.. A recruit was getting smoked by Senior and a Green Belt came flying out of nowhere.. Me being the smartass I was whispered, " Whut WoooW." A DI just happened to be behind my rack.. He just glared at me and walked away.. About 2 hours later.. He yelled, " Astro get your ass on my Q-deck," and smoked me lol
Awesome.
The physical attacks happen when there are no cameras and no officers or civilians in sight or hearing. My name is Downer I was called recruit Down syndrome. 😂
I am sure they gave him a lot of sh-t
LMAO really???
I was Drafted in 1958 8 Years fo me I heard all that when I was in and there was hazing when I was in don’t know what they’re doing now the DI go to class to learn they art on how to be a DI so they all pretty much sound alike and do the same thing but it definitely works
DevilDogOfWar 1984 😂😂😂
When we were in garrison, and training in plain sight, the DI's would make us sprint into a wall to hurt us. One time a DI made a recruit sprint into a bush and about 4 rabbits ran out. I burst out laughing, but then got bent--reallly bad for losing my bearing.
R.I.P. Gunny Hartman. He was magnificent. There's the story, that he originally shouldn't play the role but advise the real actor for this role. But while testing him in advance, he insulted non stop for a quarter of an hour while the crew threw him off with tennis balls, the crew was so impressed that they gave him the role. 😂
not quite right
R Lee Ermey was our guest at a Marine Corps Ball one year. He opened his first speech with his monologue from the movie. It was one of the best times I've ever had, the entire regiment loved it. From my own experiences, this movie is far more accurate that almost all others.
Outstanding! (thank you for your service btw). Luv that. Awesomeness
@@christian19701 I'd love to been there. Thanks for your service
Kubrick was making a criticism. Don't you people see that? Hoo Raw!!!
@@brandonbeil6736 Marines dont say Hoo Raw, we say Ooohrah
Yeah hooray let's celebrate the breaking of people's will into the meatgrinder of the poor countries of the 3rd world, such heroes thank your for your service our freedoms are so much safer knowing the oil barons are getting another trillion next year while veterans are rotting homeless on the streets of the U S of A, I love our country its the best in the world we are no.1#
Funniest thing one of my drill instructors said to a recruit was "Over a million sperm running a race and you were the one that won. Jesus Christ I can't imagine the result if you had lost!"
Hahahahahahahah
LOL...LOL....
That’s…surprising
now thats funny
Outstanding 😂😂
my drill instructor asked me where i was from and i told him New York. and he screamED WELL I BE DAMMED YOU CAME HERE ALL THE WAY HERE FROM NEW YORK JUST TO PISS ME OFF
in army my drill instructor did this saying, this my rifle this my gun . one for shooting one is for fun. march and sing this saying for 5 miles.
lmao
LMAO
😭😭😭😭😭
Mine ask where I was from and I said Detroit. He responded “Detroit, isn’t that where they used to make cars”? I simply responded “yes drill sergeant”. He was right after all lol.
How is nobody talking about the random 2 minute music interruption??? 😂
What was that?
@@66jediknight 1984
never mind the weird subliminal flashes at 1:30 to 1:35 (on the original video, not JT)
they had that call of duty soundtrack going 😭🤣
what about the snoring?
6:28 FUN FACT: that wasn't "Pvt. Laurence Pyle" not keeping a straight face, it was Vincent D'Onofrio after something like 13 takes, they decided to just rewrite the scene with his smirk, and let Erney feed off it. and what we got was pure gold.
I never thought of this before, but do you get the rank of private before you finish boot camp? Or I guess what I'm asking is, are you technically a marine before finishing boot camp? Or are you enlisted, with a rank, and then officially become a marine after boot camp?
@@Mockturtlesoup1 I don't know how the Marines do it, but in the Navy (when i was in boot 26 years ago) we earned our pay according to our rate (E1, E2, E3) but we were never addressed by rank.
You are a "recruit". You dont get called a Marine until you climb the stairway to heaven and get your EGA the last day of the crucible (year 2000 - MCRD San Diego). And they dont say recruit like its a normal word, either. They spit it like its disgusting. Also anyone NOT in the Corps was purely known as "nasty civilian". Being referred to in the derogatory for 3 straight months made finally being called Marine one of the greatest rewards of all time.
@@rexsaint-onge9995 thank you. Do they call you private in boot camp? Meaning you have an actual rank?
@@Mockturtlesoup1 Technically you are a private as soon as you join. That is the first rank. Some people can recieve a meritorious promotion while they are in the DEP (like I did), and become a PFC (private first class), but that isnt common. Even so, you will not be referred to as an actual Marine, and def not by your rank, until the end of your 3rd month in boot. Your rank is "recruit" or "nasty recruit" until then.
i'm sorry that "you're so ugly you could be a modern art master piece" is the best line.
It's fucking genius.
That got golling
Edit: wtf did I try to type? That got me rolling?
I love he skips the one guy and just go straight to pile. Lol lawrence what of Arabia
I've seen this clip so many times, and that still was the highlight that cracked me up again.
I prefer the 'It looks like the best part of you ran down the crack of your Mummas ass and became a brown stain on the mattress. But really they're all amazing.
Drill sergeant told one guy he looked like he fought off Downs in the womb and barely won
Oh shit! That one made me actually laugh hard!
Almost crapped my pants laughing.
That's funny as hell
Ha!
That’s hilarious
"If you screw up... Just take the beating" Those are words to live by.
My friend told me his DI said "I could eat alphabet soup and shit out a better question than that". Lmao
hahahaha!! i am gonna use this some day at work. i will make sure to give credit due becaise i know its gonna make people laugh
@@sunofpeter2 spread the love right 😂
Rumour has it that DI’s are specially trained to come up with witty remarks or else they don’t pass and cant become a DI.
I read that in Ermey's voice. 🤣
Dead💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I went to Boot Camp in 1957, and YES they “did” talk that way, and even punch you.
Then they had a night march and some recruits died in the swamp by drowning so big changes were put in, no longer allowed to punch but I did see it happen once. Thumping was even more effective and we did get plenty of that, because it leaves no marks.
1972 - US Army and no body held back as I remember it.
@@RONBN56A my dad was at Paris Island when that happened.
Fucking ooh rah
Justin McCoy i- well god damn
Fun Fact, R. Lee Emrey was a marine Drill Instructor. He was hired to be a technical adviser. He was dissatisfied by the what the writers had setup. He put together an instructional tape where he goes on a tirade against a few extras to show how the DI would have been and the director decided to have him play the part.
Stanley Kubrick isn't just a director!! But yes R Lee was a gift to the movie. He drove the first part himself
fun fact, the machine gunner we see later in the film was originally supposed to be the DI
@@egb625able was that Adam Baldwin? It has been forever since I saw that movie.
@@Farinhir oh whoops, i should have clarified, no the machine gunner in the helicopter who screams GET SOME as he kills vietnamese people
R. Lee Ermey may have been my Dad's Drill Instructor. He was a Drill Instructor at the time my Dad went through Boot Camp.
at 18:12 when Gomer changes mags, he purposely places the feed end away from Gunny. As you may notice, there is a round still left in the magazine that Gunny doesn't see. This is how Gomer managed to sneak a live round into the barracks. Great piece of barely noticeable filmography from Stanley Kubrick. But whether or not it would actually work in real life is a different question.
Had to be two rounds or more remember. One for gunny, one for gomer
He loaded a full magazine, not just one or two rounds.
Yeah, he had a fist full of rounds and loaded at least 5-6 before he locks and loads in the scene (and the mag already had bullets in it). It wasn't just a single round or two. At the end of the day, though, it is unimportant how he got that much live ammo. He did so the scene could happen lolol
Can’t speak for the corps, but in the army not possible. Mags weren’t kept and we did a full shake down after the range with the drills inspecting our pockets and making us shake our uniform for hidden rounds.
it would not. and you would pay dearly.
The actor playing the drill instructor was a real drill instructor they told him to improvise on each actor.
don't think R. Lee Ermey was an actual Gunnery Sergeant. I know he made Sergeant though.
he wasn't a D.I he was a marine, he was brought in to advise. He originally didn't want to take the role when offered because he didn't think he would do it justice.
@@alexreid-wh9gq He was a D.I.
D3adCy11nd3r he was a di
I stand corrected. Saw it in an interview or time, guess it was wrong.
So R. Lee Emery was brought into this movie as a consultant and he earned the roll after they heard him giving guys the business on the set.
He was a real drill instructor in the Marines, thus the reason for being a consultant and being given the part.
Stanley Kubrick: "R. Lee Emery is gonna kick ass"!!
He beat out the guy who plays the door Gunner towards the end of the movie.
@@matty7006 Animal Mother isn’t it?
@@thesausage351 Does "Easy, you just don't lead em so much ", ring a bell?
Had a female recruit that failed to salute. CC made her stand on a 5 gallon paint bucket and salute seagulls. Hahahaha. "Morning, Mister Seagull!!" Cape May 2002.
Not me, definitely not me (haha), passed two officers. Gave the greeting of the day and forgot to salute. Front, back, go, salute. And repeat for a while.
Ha Ha awesome! My company was marching back to the barracks and the DI was chatting with another cadre. We always turn left at a certain point to enter the parade grounds so we did...without the order. He lost his stack, to say the least, and stopped the formation to give us a real good chewing out. "You never anticipate the command and if I march you off a GD cliff, you will keep singing cadence and match step all the F*%king way down." So since we felt we were kids back on the block he was going to treat us like children. In rows of four, we held hands and skipped across the parade grounds singing "Tra la la...Tra la la" all 300 of us. It made quite a spectacle and cacophony of sound matched only by the laughter of the other companies we passed. It was also much harder to try and sink up with 3 other guys all in full gear and the M16 slapping you in the back the whole way. We got the point.
Coatie Saying hey... O-165. OS2
@@perception913 YN1/LN1 'sup shipmate! SP!
In Cape May, we had a recruit get caught with his hands in his pockets. He had his arms taped to his sides, with his hands in his pockets, running around our company. He was required to yell, "beep beep, I am a satellite." It was the funniest thing I had ever seen, and it was so hard not to smile. I didn't want to join him. Golf - 126
Was in platoon 1066 at PI in 69. One night we woke up to the fire watch screaming for the duty DI. He found a recruit laying on his bunk, bleeding out,after cutting his wrists with his bayonet. Somehow the guy got up and ran out the fire escape at the end of the squad bay. Went right over the railing 3 stories down. The only thing that probably saved him was that it had been raining all day and the ground was soft. Still he had 2 broken legs along with other injuries. You would have a hard time understanding the mental stress your under in boot camp unless you actually were there. Some can handle it better than others.
Than you for your service
Bro don't be a bitch. don't thank him for killing civilians of another country@@asonroer1064
Had a guy in boot camp (around week three) complain that he wanted to call back home and talk to his mother...well...the CC's obliged...they set up a box by the window, had him stand on it and yell "MOM" for about 3 hours...afterwards they stopped him and asked him if she answered...he said no...and they proceeded to tell him that's because she didn't want to talk to him and that he needed to man up and get through boot camp without his mommas help...needless to say he made it through.
Nice
@josedominguez6904 - That's hilarious! Harmless (just getting him to shout) but gets the point across!
did he? or is he one of the countless numbers of veterans that commit suicide or with chronic mental illness as a result of mental abuse like that?
@@manp1039 wimp
@@manp1039
My dad being a Vietnam vet always said this movie was the most accurate portrayal of boot camp for that era.
My dad said the same thing
My husband and all our USMC buds told me they got the crap beat out of them. They aren't allowed to do that anymore but.............Vietnam if you could breathe you could be drafted. BTW my husband enlisted
@@jackies56tbird Worst thing ever happened. Vietnam was no ones business and still the president couldnt let it go and stick his nose where it doesnt belong to, i say this all in respect that many soldier lives could have been saved without this vietnam war which vietnam won anyway.
@@firebrand981 Nah, there were no winners for that.
@@blaynegreiner9365 In war, is there ever any winning? I mean really. Lives are still lost. Families are broken. New mental problems such as PTSD. I have nothing but respect to the men and women who serve, but in war, there is no winner. Only a conclusion.
Hartman said in an interview that during the Vietnam war, the Marine Corps shortened Boot Camp to eight weeks and so the training was compacted and drill instructors were forced to train recruits more harshly in order to get them ready for combat quicker. The drill instructors knew that many of the recruits were going to die in Vietnam and they were just trying to prepare them in order to give them a fighting chance in combat. He said that everything in the movie was authentic to the time. Fun fact: Hartman sat in a restaurant after his medical discharge (shrapnel in Vietnam), and read the stars and stripes every morning in order to read the Marine death lists so that he could find out which of his recruits had died in Vietnam each day. He was deeply saddened by every Marine that he had trained that was listed.
The source material is a book titled 'The Short-Timers', written by an ex soldier wwho went through exactly this. Kubricks goal was maximum authenticity.
兩周2000 厲害
Worse than the shortened training, they had something called "Project 100,000". The military recruited mentally retarded guys who all got killed or got other troops killed. There would've been a lot of guys there like Pyle.
Drill Sergeant Weave let us know one day that seeing the name of a trainee he'd had in boot camp was enough to tear him apart a little and he'd need a couple of days to get back to himself.
I too write down exactly what Ermey said in the interview and then pass it off like I knew it the whole time
The DIs called us 'home sick pukes'. It kind of intimidated us at first but after a few weeks, it was hard not to chuckle even when the DI was screaming.
I got to meet and take photos with Gunny a few years before he passed away. I mentioned I served in the Corps and because of my short height he knew I had been “appointed” to be a house mouse (recruits in charge of cleaning the Drill Instructor’s quarters and personal effects). The other recruits assumed things were easier for us because the drill instructors always protected us but what they didn’t know was we were getting yelled at more and bending more because we were always with them.
I told Gunny when I met him that his portrayal in Full Metal Jacket almost scared me into not joining. He responded by saying “But you did join and you served. Not everyone can be a Marine. Semper Fi Devil Dog.” And then he shook my hand. The whole exchange gave me chills and an overwhelming sense of pride. Others waiting in line clapped and shook my hand after, thanking me for my service. RIP Gunny.
Lui Amador - Wow, that guy had a way of cutting right past any bullshit and saying exactly what needed to be said. :) BTW, thank you for serving!
I was latrine queen
Which one of America's most gross invasions did you have to risk your life for? How many brown people did you kill?
Cool story. My uncle was a marine and a veteran of the veitnam War. He served 2 tours of duty and got 2 purple hearts and a bronze star for his service.
After the marines, he went on to be a California highway patrol officer.
We lost him in 2015 to a short battle with ALS.
After his death, we found out how big a deal he really was with the CHP. Although he didn't die in the line of duty, the California state flag was still hung at half mast at the state house.
All of that being said, he never cared much for the CHP. It really was just a job for him. The United States marine Corp was the greatest organization in the history of man kind, in his opinion.
The young marines that folded his flag and fired the salute for him would have been all he ever asked for his service.
My uncle was my HERO. Far and away the toughest man I've ever known. Much respect to you guys. Thank you for your service.
@@thetumans1394 don't blame a person for serving. blame the government for getting involved in wars in countries it never should've been in. for millions of people, the military is the only/best way to actually get an education/a decent paying job/pension.
tl;dr - don't hate the player. hate the game.
We were marching back from chow and our DI kept yelling "Get in step!" We were getting nervous because we WERE in step. He finally started getting insanely irate and kept yelling "GET IN STEP! AAARRRGGH!!!!" we look over to what the hell was going on. He was out there yelling at pigeons and Soul Chickens and chasing them around. All of us lost it. Platoon 3100 India company August 2000. Oohrah.
Always had 3 drii instructors around us. Yes, i had my head smashed against the chalk board. Also gave 2 blanket parties to shit birds who just couldn't get it. They did after that!! Platoon 3090. P.I. 1979.
Or run back an forth every 3 minutes then right to the sand pit or have you lock you're rifles out for an hour "parallel to the deck"
We used to pray our sr. drill instructor would come and give us a break from the 3 maniacs. I wish I could get in touch with some of the guys in my platoon!!!!. If you're out there guys, holla back. Parris Island, platoon 3090, 1979. Ooorah!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Wentworth, Nalborn, Gibson were the 3 MANIACS. Will NEVER 4get them!!
3098 Kilo... Semper
Now that is funny! I can laugh now.. then not so much.. Outstanding!
R Lee Ermey was my uncles drill instructor when he was in Boot Camp before he went to Vietnam. He said his diatribes and insults in Full Metal Jacket were very much what he was like in real life.
That is so cool!
Lee says he was really nice to his recruits though.
@@fn0rd-f5o Oh I'm sure, I'll bet he promised them fried chicken and watermelon at graduation lol, he was nice alright, as he says he's tough but he's fair! Marine DIs job is to kick your arse into a man, i.e, break you down and build you up not give you a swat on the keyster for good work !
How do people learn to talk like this? Is this a culture of people talking like this in the military? How do people think of insults this fast and have so many?
@@thothheartmaat2833 Don't like your own post
So no ones gonna talk about the 3 minutes of straight music no sound
He must've talked about shit they don't want us knowing. But we can ask him what he said right?
Pretty sure that was put in after for copyright purposes
@@Cheeks117 ahh didn't even think about that 😂👊💥😵durr I had a moment 🤣🤣
lol
Listening to it rn, it’s 3 mins of this?
In basic training we had a thief steal cigarettes from the mess hall staff. We had physical training for about two hours. Constant grass drills and cannon cockers.
Screamed at by 5 drill sergeants. Finally, finally someone confessed around 2000. Brutal
We had a guy mouth off and he got smacked in the face with a plastic red clip board. It exploded. He actually kept a piece until graduation and got it signed by the DI.
thats epic
one private answered Senior Drill instructor Gunnery Sergent Encinias with a "yes Ma'am". Don't remember what he was called up for.The next thing to happen from the door of the duty hut was a 5x8 file card box to his forehead. THEN we went out (as a platoon) to pt, and "make it rain". Anyone who was at MCRD Hollyood knows about them there sandburrs. Yet another lmao for the types who "steal valor"
😂
Americans might think this is a wise way to train. I suggest the SAS training is far better. No need to be Unprofessional or Abusive. American Cops are the same. See Gurkha training videos to lean a wiser alternative.
R McGuire
America has the greatest military God has ever known so, your suggestion falls flatly on its face. As for American cops, you would have to understand the deplorable hiring practices and the policing for profit motive to know why that is what it is. But to that point, they mostly seek PTSD laden vets or those who wish they had served, devoid of all empathy and now, want their piece of the action. Either way, it’s a bad situation.
We had a recruit named Ramirez, he was having issues shooting his rifle on the range. All over the place… DI SSGT Holt said, “Hey Ramirez I bet if we get you a lowrider and let you hang out the window you might be able to hit something…” 😂🤣
had a recruit named Ramirez, dide pulled a dummy grenade pin in his hand in the bleachers next to like 10 people and almost blew his hand off😂
Lol
Lmao hahaha xD
Ramirez !!!!!!!!!
nice fake story man.
My dad,rip, was a marine in Vietnam, he has told me that this is the most realistic Vietnam movie made.
Zero14u Sorry for your loss, and thank him for his service.
Sorry for your loss, in my opinion Full Metal Jacket and Platoon are the most realistic movies about Vietnam War.
Sure got my vote. Cant Imagine they could make this movie today with all the people acting on virtues now days instead of truth. We are Being bullied to see things their way. I love America...
I took my youngest Son (Jason) to see it when it First came out. After the Movie he asked Me "Daddy was it really like that for you too ?" I told him "YES Son, Every Bit of it." Which now that I think about it, is probably the reason He Joined the ARMY.
The Navy gets the Gravy and the Army gets the beans, beans, beans, beans...
First off, thanks to the author for your service. As for the abuse, it is absolutely needed because in a combat situation, the soldier must be able to take incoming fire and still achieve the mission objective. And oh, being accustomed to abuse will be a very good experience if ever a POW.
DI didn't like how my arms were swinging when I marched. Had to run around the platoon swinging my arms like the robot from lost in space screaming "Danger Will Robinson, Danger"
That, that's funny.
Every time our DIs got pissed of for sloppy marching, whether real or imagined, they would just yell "Asshole to belly button"!!!!!, and if you're a Marine, you know that's not cool LOL
That's a fucking hilarious mental image
Remember, 6 to the front, 3 to the rear.
@@oldgysgt 9 to the front, and 6 to the rear! That's the way we do it here!
The actor (R Lee Ermey) was a real Marine drill instructor. He was originally brought in as a consultant. But he did such a good job that Kubrick just had him play the character.
Not one single person ever knew that. You must be some type of sorcerer to have so much wisdom.
@@Today_I_Choose_Violence Well it IS a video about "does this stuff really happen" so MAYBE enough people nowadays don't remember that devil dog.
"Git some, GIT SOME!!!"
Joker: How can you kill women, and children?
"Easy, ya just don't lead so much. Ain't war hell?"
Best war film ever. It literally gets better with age.
Yup, the Huey gunner was the original to play Hartman. Gunny was so natural Kubrick have the role to him.
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Master Kubrick.
We had a recruit smuggle a cookie back into the barracks. At hygiene inspection time, the Sr. Drill Instructor found a cookie in his footlocker. We got lucky. The Sr. only IT’d him. For the rest of boot camp, his name was the Cookie Monster.
Lmfaooo "cookie monster"
I had a similar experience.
During Army Basic Training, someone in 4th platoon put one of those small peanut butter packets in his pockets because it didn't fit on his tray. Three Drill Sergeants saw him, smoked him with pushups for a solid 10-15 minutes, and dubbed him as the "Peanut Butter Bandit"
We had a guy smuggle a cliff bar and when the Sr found it, he made him eat cliff bars until he puked
@@DarkXVector that’s hilarious
lol i remember something similar. My bunk mate smuggled in a packet of candy and hid it between some clothes in his locker. that fucker forgot about it for a couple days and eventually we had an ant problem. my DI came and turn the entire bunk inside out.
I still have nightmares about DI Sgt Pridgen, that dude hated me, swear to God he was trying to kill me. He shook my hand first thing as I walked off the Parade Deck, told me I was his favorite, that he loved to stress me cause of the was I always looked " Like his 6 month old with a dirty diaper" he actually said that to my mother. God I miss that.
Mi Senior never said anything like that, but when he handed me that EGA I lost it
Lol
I had a similar experience....the DI that always singled me out and harassed me I thought hated me...I ended up getting rolled back after team week for stress fractures and ended up in a different platoon...that same DI came to my graduation
OMG LOL
Ermey was a real drill instructor that was initially brought in to be a consultant to someone that was supposed to play the part, but they figured why just not have him in the movie cause he really didn't have to act it, he lived it.
The door gunner was planned to play the DI. The consultant was far better.
Coming from Puerto Rico, one of my DIs asked me “when was my banana boat coming to pick me up” referring to our graduation date.
😂😂
And how did that make you feel?
I so hope that he was Puerto Rican.
No he was not. He was from Greensboro, South Carolina. To tell the truth, I could care less. Joining the Marine Corps was a dream of mine. To this day, no words hurt me. Only lies and betrayal hurt. So no words from what I knew was a “training attitude” would break me. As a matter of fact, all my Marine friends had some sort of story if their DIs punishing them to the extreme or saying something about the island. Me, I didn’t want to be left out. To this date I remember him, the day he said it, how he said it, his breath stench when he said it. My answer and what came afterwards. Quarterdeck, but no heart pain.
@@javenrilo I was called a spik, but not from DI's (didn't know what it meant at the time)
In basic training at Fort Benning a private in my platoon pissed himself during a long march so the drill sergeant called him "Piss-in-boots"! This soldier's name was Greathouse, which a drill sergeant updated to Outhouse! Drill sergeants are quick witted and can crack jokes instantly!
This reminds me of the movie major paine when the little kid pissed himself and he said "you nasty little worm".
Happened in my BCT class at Sand hill too lmao
My summer camp often had privates like you guys volunteering as counselors, and there was one counselor we had that was similarly called "Pee Pee" because he pissed himself while they were standing attention!
We had a guy that was getting smoked and scrambled eggs came out of his cargo pocket. The Drill Sergeant asked him why the hell he would put scrambled eggs in a pocket. He said “they were hard boiled when I put them in there drill sergeant!” 🤣
Sand Hill 2001
R Lee Ermey actually was a real drill-instructor. When he played this part he was actually improvising the hell out it. It's pretty amazing.
once watched a kubrik interview about this movie and he said "R. Lee Ermey is a genuinely nice dude, very down to earth and cares about his people but the moment he got into that uniform he was like a changed man"
R Lee was hired as a military advisor for the actor who was supposed to to be the di. Kubrick watched him on set and hired him.. literally made this movie.
Without Gunny Hartman the movie wouldn't be worth watching more than once. I watch Gunny clips on youtube once a day and it never gets old.
@@maxandmols9526 100% fact
That man still to this day is a god and legend, today's DIs hope to one day be him lol
10:56 we were forbidden from walking around with no shoes on. You had to have either your boots on or you had to have your "shower shoes" ie-flip flops. If they caught you shoeless, you were in for it.
We had a guy who kept answering "yeah". Our DI made him go to every toilet, yell "yeah" into it, and flush; just to get rid of it! All the while we were all trying not to laugh! That was 1995 and I remember it like it was yesterday.
Parris Island 1994 platoon 1009
Dude, that's hilarious. I love it.
PI 98 that’s the stuff!!!
This is what I've always wondered. How do you not laugh at some point when they're screaming in your face and trashing you and your squad mates with funny ass one liners? I guess that gets knocked out of you pretty quickly?
Just imagining that made me laugh
My father told me of a story from his time in Navy Boot camp back in the mid 50s.
Was After lights out, and several men were making noise. DI came in and said he better not hear another peep, After he turned of lights and shut door, someone yelled peep. No one owned up. DI made every get up put on full gear and March all night.
Father said a couple nights later the jokester was the guest of honor at a "Blanket party"
When I went through there was no blanket party, but heard of it, I went in 1988, a year or so after this. DIs were know as CCs Company Commander.
I went through marine recruit training in 1997 in San Diego. Our platoon’s knucklehead was also the guest of honor in a blanket party.
Navy boot camp?
@@holdmybeer7621 Yes, Navy. It's nowhere near as physical as Marine Boot Camp but they f&ck with you mentally some kind of awful
I remember recruit training in 1975 and it was fairly physical and the mental harrassment was intense during the first few weeks. I had a migraine for a couple of days and one of the people in our company messed up badly and wouldn't own it. I discovered that intense physical training was a cure for the migraine. The young man who messed up was the recipient of a "blanket party". It took me a couple of years to understand that everything the company Commander did was designed to turn us from civilians sailors
I like to imagine that he wasnt hired and he just broke into the set and started screaming at the recruits
The guy who says in the helicopter “you just don’t lead em so much” was supposed to be the actual DI
However ermey was a stand in or something and after awhile of persistence he got the roll
@@shuneughu4244 afaik Emey was hired as a teacher for that actor, and as a consultant for all things regarding boot camp and while excersizing the actor Kubrick came along when Emey was cussing things Kubrick never heard of, so Stanley got interested and finally Emey got the role.
I believe he was actually a consultant in the beginning
lolllll
@@shuneughu4244 ermy was a retired di
Had a friend who served in the army recently tell me that when he was in basic, a guy in his unit chuckled at a drill sergeant who was yelling at a guy about something and the drill sergeant heard him. The sergeant ran over and yelled at the guy with the “do clowns make you laugh” scene from The Devil’s Rejects. That only made the guy want to laugh even harder, but he held it in. He lookes like a puffer fish and his face was red, but he held it together.
"Your so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece" I am dead LOLOLOL
*you’re or you are
I almost busted out laughing the 1st time 1 of our DI.'s called us a"gaggle of effing "ass-bgs"!1nce I was out in the FMF, "assbag" became 1 of my favorite insults.
Smarty Jonez ok this is a comment section not a English class
Ahahahhahaha
DamperEmu dude.........
Actor R. Lee Ermey ad libbed throughout the movie. Much of what he said wasn’t apart of the script. Even the director was shocked with some of the things he would say. R. Lee Ermey created his own script and the other actors would just follow along. R. Lee Ermey was himself a drill Sergeant in Vietnam. Actually, he was just being himself.
It was weird seeing him in Toy Story and the angry beavers cause his tone was different even in SpongeBob it was strange seeing him watered down
R Lee was a DI at San Diego and he did serve in Vietnam!
Drill instructor**
Without Ermey, I don't think this movie is as successful. His portion is at the beginning and his authenticity just sucks you into the movie. Plus, the main demo of the movie were the ones went through this and survived. It's up there with the greatest ~10 minute clip of a movie ever.
Didn't knew he was ad libbing, which makes the scenes and other actors abilities that much more impressive.
@@9mmsleepingpill851 Yep. He was great. One really remarkable thing to me is: Ermey had already played a drill instructor in another movie, ten years earlier.. but wasn't very good. No offense meant. He was mediocre as a drill instructor in an earlier movie, but brilliant in this. Kubrick brought the genius out of him.
One recruit responded to the receiving DI: "yes maam", the DI took his smokey hat and looked at him straight in the eyes and said: "do I look like a bitch to you"? It was funny.
this took place in the 60's so i totally believe this kind of talk happened back then!!
It happened when I went to bootcamp on 2009, trust me the stories and experiences that are talked about in this thread didnt stop.
Give it time, women will be DIs
@@honeysucklecat honestly I think it has the potential to be even more terrifying, there are some really spiteful women out there.
@@cestarianinhabitant5898 Nurse Ratched would make a terrifying DI
My father LOVED the flashback. He was AF in the 50s.
As enlisted, I was pretty lucky, I kept my mouth shut and stayed under the radar. I liked the fuckups because they drew fire away from the rest of us. However, when I went to OCS, for whatever reason, the main TAC Officer did not like me, and I was always getting dogged out. But hallway through the program he eased off. About 5 years later, I ran across him, asked what I had done wrong, he said nothing, he wanted to see how I would act under pressure. Lucky me, not LMAO!
Dogged out.......heard that one many times.....never heard civilians/non military say it. 81/85 US Army
March 1972 2030 pl was slap by DI San Diego for wrong movement D I BROKE PVT barney took him to duty hut later Barney cut his wrist in the head sent the mice to clean up
Just for leaving m14 rifle unlocked
I was doing a good job with my graduation uniform ironing job. The DI pronounced I will make a good wife someday. I almost lost it......
That's a good joke
I was waiting for him the joke of "so I married a man"... Not trying to offend just a joke.
Haha I can imagine this scenario.
The scene when they were playing reveille, there were 2 other DI’s with Hartman. Don’t know why they were only there for that one scene
My brother who was in the marines said that the night before graduation someone left a peach pit on the floor, and no one confessed to it, so the morning of, the DI had them clean the whole barracks
This guy in high school, he was just mean, said cutting things all the time. He was even mean and heartless to girls. He went into the service. He said boot camp was really hard. The guy in the bunk under him used to talk all the time after lights went out that he couldn't take it. He said he'd look down at him and say, its just a while longer, you'll make it. The guy kept saying he couldn't make it. About one week left he said to him "It's just one more week, you can get through". The guy kept saying no, no, I can't make it. They found him in the morning, dead from hanging himself. That guy that was mean in high school, at the 10 year class reunion, he was the nicest, most polite, most gentle spirited guy you could ever meet. Everyone was stunned, everyone. I asked him, what happened to you. He said, boot camp, and this guy in the bunk below me killed himself. It changed him. No one could understand it, how he was an entirely different person.
I want that from the Marines. A very different person from what I was when I was 15. Arrogant, foolish, lazy and full of it.
The young generation nowadays needs marine/military training.
@@astrohalo yep
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
@@astrohalo Nope.
I'm a USMC & US Army Veteran 1974-88, most of this this really happened back in the 1970's, a blanket party happened, 3 DI's screaming at me instead of just one, slapped on the side of the face, punched in the stomach, a boot in the butt, etc. One thing that happened in my USMC Boot Camp was somebody asked to watch TV, most of us thought it was a great idea, so the senior DI rolled out a TV on a cart, we had to assume the TV watching position toes & elbows touching the deck hands on our chins as we watched a unplugged TV, the 3 DI's made sure we did not let anything but our toes & elbows touched the deck, it seamed like hours, but it was probable only half an hour, we never asked to watch TV again.
One thing that was wrong was that no ammo or magazines were allowed off of the firing range, they were all strictly accounted for.
I am a Marine Corps veteran of the Desert Storm era, I can honestly say that Full Metal Jacket was dead on! I can recall during a series instruction class, of which the topic was the various battles in which Marines fault and never quit, the whole "Death Before Dishonor " thing, I made the mistake of asking " Is there EVER a time when a Marine retreats? I had every DI of every platoon barking and yelling at me, accusing me of calling the class instructor of being a coward! Repeating over and over, Did you just call him a coward? You're calling us cowards, He said the "R Word", over and over, for at least twenty minutes! All to end with the class instructor saying, "MARINES DON'T RETREAT, WE ADVANCE IN THE OTHER DIRECTION" ! That for me was the Defining Moment! The reason why, till this day, some 35 years later, " I'VE ALWAYS" worn The Eagle Globe and Anchor, on my person, Be it a dressed suit or birthday suit, It's on me ALWAYS, and "ALWAYS " WORN WITH PRIDE!!!! SEMPER FI!
Aaaaand that's why America loses everything. The arrogance. Let's see: show up late for WW1 with a million men, don't open a second front in WW2,til 1944 by which time the Red Army had won the European war, in fact really opened it to keep western Europe from communism, dropped atom bombs to defeat Japan, completely ignore the contribution of Allied troops in island hopping...since then, one long litany of defeat. You can only win little police actions with overwhelming force, and you get millions of civilians killed. Now attempting to bully tiny nation of north Korea to give up their defenses...really, why should they? Rogue nation! It's not N Korea killed millions in Indonesia, its not N Korea seeks to impose its will on other nations...I'd would so love to see the USA try and beat them
@@SesameR7sh You say all this while you're sitting on your couch eating chips and becoming a greasy potatoe sack
Retreat is a military tactic. Everyone does it, there is nothing wrong with retreat. Even for marines.
My grandfather was a vietnam era marine. He was my D.I and he was exactly like R. Lee Ermee in this movie. He was also the nicest man (if you did what you were told) in the world. He did not even make it easier on you even if you were related to him. Still i Love him and miss him to this day
"advance in the other direction". Champion. Absolute champion. 😄
Fun Fact During filming, R Lee Ermey was told to improvise his lines. He actually had written 150 pages of insults. So just imagine what things that this man came up with in those pages.
He was a former DI, so it was natural for him :)
I would Love to see the out takes from that movie!
The rumors go around as to how Ermy got the role. He was already a fairly successful actor--remember in Apocalypse Now when they assaulted the beach--he was the Chopper pilot in that scene. But he got a call from his agent not for an onscreen acting gig but to teach actors Vincent D'onofirio and Matt Modine the ropes of Marines. Seems that day that Stanley Kubrick was going over the script with his team while off a ways, Ermy was ranting and he came to the part where he told Snowball, that he "wouldn't even give me a reach around". Seems Kubrick stopped in his tracks--he had never heard the term. "Who is that guy:"..."Oh, he's showing the cast about Marine Basic". Kubrick says "Not anymore, I want that guy for my Sgt Hartman"...and over many years I have seen Ermy, he was always putting in how grateful he was that Kubrick happened to be there in right place and right time--seems like our destiny really is in 'the stars" as Caesar said
A twisted sense of humor and definitely a great command of the English language!
My Dad was a DI from the mid 60s to late 70s. Never yelled at me or my brothers like that. I never even knew what a DI really was or what they had to do until I was a teenager. My Dad rarely talked about it , but when he did we listened. He said once his only job was to do whatever it took, say whatever needs said to give those kids the best chance to make it back home. I seen him crying once in later years about the deaths. He said they tried not to let it get personal but sometimes it just did and it was at times horrible.
Navy "Boot Camp" 1971. Yikes. Slapped, a soft blow to your Nuts, Chocked out, spit in your face. If it is really bad, DI sends in the Black Aigullettes wearing DIs to rough up everything in the barracks. Then there's Jumping Jacks, 500, and Screaming each jump. After a week or two your only fear was being sent back to start over. Boot camp made life easier and better in the Seabees. Overseas we worked up to 30 hours, and then there was hunger. One meal a day, then kill something to eat.
San Diego we said that the Navy trains next door and they all have little dicks why sir because they masturbate constantly
I received my draft notice in Februay 1968. It was 5 months before my 22nd Birthday and after 4 years of avoiding the draft. I believe the reason was the TET offensive as we had to report in 14 days for induction. I went to Fort Bragg for Basic Training and I was in the exact same area for Basic at Fort Brag where my day was in the 36 Combat Engineers in 1942. The first week was zero week testing, hair cut, recieving my issue and whatever. After zero week we were assembled in an area to board buses to go to the Basic Training Area. As I sat there I noticed this big black mean looking Drill Sergeant and I though to my self with my luck I'll bet he is going to be my Drill Sergeant. I was the first to be called and board the bus so now I'm in the back of the bus. The last one on the bus was the Drill Sergeant, my guess was correct. He didn't say a word until we got to the Basic Training Center. The bus stopped, the Drill Sergeant stood up and yelled you have 10 seconds to un-ass this bus. I'm the last guy off. I got off the bus and there was a bunch of Drill Sergeants yelling and screaming at us. I think I ran over top of at least a dozen guys. Later when our Drill Sergeant was working us over with all kinds of commands my first thought was to feel sorry for myself and wonder why me. Then I would enter a real pissed off mood and think to myself give me a chance you might beat my ass but I just want to put one on you. After that feeling I would look around at everyone and see how stupid we all looked and what he was yelling at us, now the real problem started, and that was to laugh as the whole thing looked ridiculous. I thought don't let him catch me laughing. As it turned out that big black mean looking Drill Sergeant was Staff Sergeant Archie Jones and he was a real super guy. I never forgot him. Sure he broke our stones and he was tough but most of all he was fair. After a few weeks and we were squared away he sat us down and explained why he did what he did and broke our stones and said okay that's now over. If a guy had a problem Jones had an ear and woud help him. I'll never foget him.
I can recall being on a forced march at the Field First, Senior Drill Instructor, was yelling at me. I got pissed and yelled back at him. To my surprise he comment to me was, "That's right lean and mean." He was enjoying my come back!
When I went to Fort Sill for advanced individual training I had Drill Sergeant Loggins. He was a Sergeant First Class and was in the first class of US Army Drill Sergeants who where trained by the Marines. He made sure he told us every morning. I was the Assistant Platoon Guide. Jim Wolver was the Platoon Guide. Jim was a big guy from the Tennessee Mountains. He was strong but he was a real nice guy. Drill Sergeant Loggins was riding Jim somehting terrible. Jim came to me almost in tears. Needless to say it lit me off and I approached Drill Sergeant Loggins again with my attitute "you may kick my ass but I just want to put on you." I said Drill Sergeant I ant to talk to you in a commanding voice. Drill Sergeant Jones looked at me and said you do? I said lay off Jimmy , year driving him in a hole. Loggins came back and said I'm trying to drive him out of a hole. My response was is not working he getting ready to crack up. What a surprise to me Loggins took it all in and I didn't get punished. Later he wuld brake my stones. If we were in formation and he was telling us something to do he worul look over to me and say is that okay with you Lonabaugh? The point is Drill Sergeant Loggins was like Drill Sergeant Jones. I decend guy. Years later when I watched the Movie Officer and a Gentleman I was first shocked how muct Lou Gosset resembled Drill Sergeant Loggins. No doubt Gosset spent some type on a post learning how a Drill Sergeant / Drill Instructor operates. As such I was able to predict the final scene of the Movie.
This is the way I found Drill Sergeants in the Army. If you screwup admitted, stand up on you two feet and be a man and do what's right. To me that seems to be what they were looking for.
I applogize for rambling on, it's the way I found it.
Great story Raymond.
I enjoyed your story Raymond, thank you
Great story dude
Thank you for a great story , I have a half dozen Friends that went through United States Army Basic & told me similar stories , I'm going to tell you none of that would have ever happened in Parris Island Boot Camp or Camp Lejeune Infantry Training , at least not in the late 60's when I was there........
@@danielcarroll5667
My Army Advanced Individual Training was Field Artillery, Fire Direction Control (FDC). We did all the calcultions for the guns including weather corrections, ammo registratrations, height defference guns versus target and transcribed observer taget line of site (direction to the target) to gun target line of site (direction to the target) and also forward observer. We had 8 weeks to learn averthing. After the first two weeks we were going to class all day and after dinner. We even went to class on Saturday. There wasn't much time for other trainging even PT so we didn't see much of our Drill Sargeant after the first two weeks. Field Gunnery Manual 6-40 or what I called the Artillery Bible.
My all time favorite I heard from a DI was “Did your mother force feed you paint chips, or make you forage for your own?!”
can’t remember where i heard it from but “If brains were gasoline you wouldn’t have enough juice to drive a piss ants go cart two laps around a cheerio!”
Bro that's golden 😭😭😭
@@josemartinez5366 the way I always heard it from my old man was "if your brains where gasoline you couldn't ride a piss ant's motorcycle around the inside of a thimble."
the follow up if needed was normally "if your brains where a thermonuclear device you couldn't blow your own nose"
@@homeFall1 😂😂
Goddamn 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: Stanley Kubrick let R. Lee Ermey improvise most of his own lines.
90% of the lines were at least influence by him
R. Lee ermey was actually a drill instructor
@@linkmaballs540 "No $#!+...We got ourselves a comedian...private Joker!"
everybody knows this
@@bidenisthebest7181 because of comments like his
Fun fact : Lee Ermy didn’t have a dialogue script for his insults. It was all improvised in the moment.
He definitely got his lines from real life experience - his performance was SPOT ON! Uncanny.
The gunny used what he had done years before, it was all natural and that is why it worked, I know many actors could with time and much effort put something together, but this was 1 time that the only way for it to work was to have a real DI fill this roll, Semper Fi Gunny.
He wasn't even supposed to play the role was he? The original DI was the "get some" guy....
And that's why he got an oscar for it.
phoenix rising yup! Door gunner lost the role to ermy!!
Try going through boot when your Senior DI is best friends with your uncle. And your uncle was the Navy Corpman Master Chief for 12 years at Paris Island. It was a brutal time for me.
They made sure they would never be accused of bias towards you.
Someone probably already told you this, R. Lee Ermey was a real-life Marine drill instructor, in San Diego CA from 1965 to 1967. So, he probably came up with that stuff himself. He was nominated for a golden globe for that performance.
I wish we had footage of his real-life drill instructing.
He did not come up with that himself , I was in Parris Island in 1969 , I heard some of his exact insults and even "better" , years later when I spoke to People that had been there before him they said the same
@Daniel Carroll that simply doesn't make sense... he was a drill instructor from 1965-1967, so he predates your time in boot camp. Also, he was a drill instructor in San Diego, not Parris Island.
@@randybobandy9828 genius
@Light Heavyweight Dosser I'm not claiming he made up all his own material in the movie, but the guy above story doesn't disprove anything.
In USMC boot camp you never say "You". If a recruit does, a common retort from the DI is something like "Oh, 'ewe', huh? Like I run around with a wool blanket going 'baaaa'? The DI said that to one recruit in my platoon, Perez, and Perez replied "Sir, this recruit does not know what the DI does in his spare time, sir!" The DI was trying his hardest to not laugh and all he could say was "Push!" Afterwards Perez always said it was worth it.
correct!
Do i look like a female sheep ?
They always answered us with, "You?" "Do I have hair around my ass."
I got caught with that one once. It never happened again. sgt Keddy asked me if I thought he was a female sheep and did I want to fuck him
We had one of those guys, our Perez was named Lester Mexico. He was the funniest dude I ever met. He only made it a few days (popped on the piss test we took during pick up). I swear they let him stay for a few days longer than they would normally have because of how funny he was. He broke the SDI's bearing on the first night in the squad bay with a one liner.
We had a big ol country bubba kid in our Company who would sneak food out of the galley or chow hall all the time. He finally got busted when the Company Commanders (Navy Boot Camp DI's) found his canteen filled with grapes. They made him eat each grape one by one slowly while saying "Grape Ape loves Grapes" . All the while we were doing 8 count body builders for like 30 mins straight. He was known as Grape Ape from then on out. Man, the military was a good time in my life.
Holy jesus. What is that? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?! WHAT IS THAT PRIVATE GRAPE APE!!
"...are you allowed to eat GRAPES recruit Grape Ape???" ~ROFL~ ...i was lucky enough in the 80s to have had my dad in Navy, older cousin in Air Force so they warned me and kept asking "...are you SURE you want to go in the marines???" XD
What’s with the music halfway through?
The advice I was given at 18:
Don’t be first... don’t be last. You’re %^cked either way. You’re going to get targeted. Just realize you’re gonna screw up. They rig it that way. I was told to learn to “ fail upwards”
(Fail/Learn/move on)
And dont let yourself get hung up mentally.
The man my mom was dating when I was a kid was a Vietnam era vet. I got some good pre conditioning wisdom due to that.
No matter what they say to you, realize it’s for a reason. It’s not personal. They’ve seen everything before, just keep going and move on.
Additionally He said: :Take responsibility wherever possible.. Don’t make any excuses or pass the buck. Just fix it ASAP ...and square it the fuck away. “Shit rolls downhill kid, so just Shut up, and start shovelling.”
He also said :
Don’t go in physically unprepared. If you’re focused on dragging ass and being exhausted while trying to learn what they are teaching it doubles your stress and ridicule. You’ll be hating life.
“Play a contact sport ‘panty hands’. “ ( this was his name for anyone who was too soft ) Preferably wrestling or football.
Wrestling was what I chose.
It’s builds a highly aggressive instinct in you.
It makes you extremely uncomfortable and pushes you out of your comfort zone. The mental toughness helped me deal with a lot of adversity later on.
Plus i became insanely fit.
This one REALLY helped: He made sure I Got used to being emasculated. Lol.
Bernie used to call me “ Jennifer “ if I ever balked at running at 5 am before school during wrestling season.
I hated Jennifer. So I GUT STOMPED her out of me whenever i heard that name.. The point is : Dont let their insults hurt your feelings.
It’s not personal. Use it as fuel and move the fuck on.
Lastiy:
Bernie was adamant about this one.
He chased me off of casual dating the whole year before. Don’t go in with some broad on your mind. If things go sideways at home with her then you’ll be comprised. Lots of young Guys become totally combat ineffective when Jodi shows up. Bernie was a hard ass but he never steered me wrong.
It’s all brutal - But my mentality was.
1000s of people have done this before and made it. So I knew it was possible to succeed even if it felt impossible at times.
AND they gotta feed me...
So I figured :just get to the next meal. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Lol
All that being said. I was still surprised, stressed, scared and unprepared for certain things.
I was sure happy I had some of this wisdom going out in the world though. No one will ever be a perfect recruit, and that’s the point. You can’t be... but it’s how you handle the shit storm that counts.
So much wisdom, this will be necessary for when i do go and try to be a PJ
Good observation, I came home from Boot Camp and every who’s name began with J got a word from me. In Infantry, when we began being trained with C4, dynamite 🧨 and such, we were told what we could do to Jody!
First time I opened my footlocker some anonymous sage had written "you're in a world of sh-t prive" on the inside of the lid.
The first Pillar of Wisdom.
GOOD shit!
That's what I did. I was just "another face in the crowd." I did just a little better than average in most things. The only time I was ever noticed was when I made the sort of mistakes that everyone else made. The DS ends up having to chew someone out every day, and I was just another one of those routine ass-chewings. When I committed my worst fuckup, I was part of a group who had done the same thing, which made it easier to stay anonymous. They did notice me trying to not be noticed, but when they asked me basic skills questions or had me demonstrate my proficiency, I always got it right. I guess they decided to leave me alone since I was learning, performing to standard and staying out of trouble; I was the least of their concerns.
First day the senior Drill said, "You need to know something about me: I HATE my family. I am going to live with you to avoid going home to my piece of shit kids."
It wasn't funny, it was scary lol
I was really quiet in Army Basic Training (1973) Drill Sergeant Jarvis came and sat on the step with me. We could do our own thing on sunday for a few hours. He asked me where I grew up, and stuff. I remember thinking "What is wrong with this guy". I figured that he must think I'm getting weird on him 'cause I'm too quiet. I told him "Believe it or not I kinda like the Army, and my home life growing up was way way more fucked up than you guys. He acted like he was relieved, and that he had got an answer he did not expect, but that made sense to him.
Nice bro
@John
I wonder if he was concerned that you could be the "silent suicidal" or "silent psychopathic" type, wanted to get to the bottom of it, and was relieved to find out you were just very well conditioned for the military, because you'd grown up with worse.
Do you think he chose not to give you a harder time of it because he figured you had already "paid your dues" and had already reached the mental toughness from such pressure so it was unnecessary? Or did they go harder on you to push you further?
@@mrfixitusa6165 Your first paragraph nailed it in my opinion.
He was not hard, or easy on me, and like I said I kinda liked the Army even basic training.
Were you also a military man?
@@JOHN-km8dh no, I tried to join at 18 & 19 but that was back in the early '90s and as soon as they found out that I'd had "childhood asthma" they all rejected me.
My best friend and I had wanted to be Marine snipers since we were 10 or 11 years old. Even as a young kid, Carlos Hathcock was one of my heroes, and as I entered my teens, I viewed the "ultimate achievement" as becoming a Navy SEAL
But because of the childhood asthma, first the Marines rejected me, then the army.
In my mind the only goal left was the dream to become a SEAL, but I knew if the Marines wouldn't take me, there's no way I'd get accepted to try out for the teams, even if I could somehow manage to get into the Navy ....and the thought of being stuck on a floating bathtub sounded like torture, so I figured that dream was over.
By the time I'd heard they had changed the requirements so that asthma wasn't a problem, I was too old and that ship had sailed...
But for some reason most all of the friends I've had through years were military law enforcement or both and I've always had high respect for each of them, and try to understand things they deal with, as best as I can as a civilian.
@@mrfixitusa6165 You had the best of intentions. You wanted to serve, that is just as good as having served. You just got dealt the wrong hand with having asthma.
That's called a blanket party. We did it in basic in 84 at Ft. McClellan.
My DI told someone once "If it was raining soup, you'd run outside with a fork."
My grandfather was a merchant marine in WWII and said that to my cousin.
im keeping this
I’d say I would because I’m on a diet
Oasis' Noel Gallagher on his brother Liam: he's like a man with a fork in world full of soup. That had me laughing. Yours also!
Lmfao!!
My dad was a navy vet from WWII and couldn't stand R. Lee Ermey, he said he was just like his DI in boot.
I mean he was a DI 🤣🤣
Probably the best compliment be could receive
From my own experience at MCRD in San Diego back in 1980, I thought everything was exactly the way it was in real life EXCEPT the DIs couldn't touch you. They'd go face to face with us, with the brim of their covers shoved into our foreheads, but never anything physical.
Someone told me these days that they can't even insult your mother. Not sure if that's factual or not. Maybe someone can verify?
Many people don't know the Naval Academy (which are both USN and USMC) get their instruction from USMC Sergeants. In WW2, yes, game on, USMC was in charge.
To be honest, the gunnery seargents of these days served a purpose. They tried to harden their rookies into soldiers.
I mean, even with THIS kind of treatment, vietnamese partisans considered american soldiers as weak and spoiled.
They were not considered as real soldiers who were eager to serve to a greater good.
And in these (modern) days, a drill seargent is not even allowed to break them by insulting them or punching them?! What will they experience, when they happen to be get captured or even tortured by the enemy? They will be completely helpless and afraid, because they have not experienced even a bit of bad treatment, at all...
There may be a place for weak persons in civil life, yes. But not in the military. As a firefighter, myself, I never had much acceptance about other firefighters who were complaining about their clothing (a suit with a tie) because they should have been used to some uncomfortable clothing, having to wear fire proof clothes and a quite heavy oxygen tank on their back in the case of actual fire-fighting.
If they even can not endure that moderately inconvinient clothing, how will the behave when the shit will really be on steam?!
I am proud to be not weak, but to be able to endure some punishment. As these soldiers were surely, too, in the past. They survived boot camp. It surely gave them, at least, some self-confidence.
It is the least you can do to your soldiers, you are going to send into places, where they will have to endure the real hell of mankind...
PS: In Germany, there was a reverend called Hans Milch who said: "Man muss immer lieben, aber die Liebe erfordert Härte!" which can be roughly translated into: "You have to love. Always. But loving someone, always includes being firm to them."
I believe in these sentences. And I was raised with that believe. Sometimes you have to be firm to your loved ones, BECAUSE you DO value (and love) them.
Instead, sometimes, "love" does not make people strong and independent, but instead, weak and dependent on someone else...
We had a guy in the troop that was a little overweight. The Drill Seargent pointed at his stomach with his staff and told the recruit he was afraid. The Seargent asked him, "Do you know why I'm afraid private?" No Sergeant. "I'm afraid right now, because I worried that something is going to come out of that and attack me around my neck!"
That would have been cool if the sergeant quoted Col. Jessup from A Few Good Men, "You put LIVES in danger," in that Jack Nicholson sardonic tone.
He would have been scared shitless by ex-girlfriend’s mom.
That Drill instructor needs to work on his material
We had a guy who just couldn’t remember the historical knowledge the DIs were trying to drill into our heads, so our knowledge hat made him do pull-ups while screaming out the names of the Korean War and WW2 battles and then had him walk around the barracks and apologize to every recruit and DI for wasting their oxygen. He was carrying a potted plant at the time.
My father was a drill sergeant and a veteran of three wars: World War II, Korean War, Vietnam war his way of leading the troops was a lot different he was strict regimen but he really rarely raised his voice. In the Vietnam War he did not lose one man in his whole group he was a tanker in the black horse regimen
Your father sounds a lot like my grandpa. He was born in 1900 so he was in WW1 WW2 Korea and Vietnam. The dude was kind of intimidating so he never really had to raise his voice. But my grandpa was a field medic early on and later on was a medic/gunner on the helicopter. Dude was in his 60s out in the field. He was crazy.
@@knickingaround7810 Your grandfather was different.
Bad ass
No effing wayl, my grandfather was in the Black Horse regiment!
Black Horse Regimen, that is the 11 ACR. Hooah!
One of my drill instructors asked the really short recruit to my left during a hygiene inspection where he was from. When the recruit sounded off "
Alaska, Sir", the drill instructor said, "No wonder you're so damned short... YOU LIVED IN A FRIGGIN Igloo DIDN'T YOU"!
🤣🤣
Hahaha
@@new2POOL208 You know, I have to add also that the drill instructor was so short that the recruit from Alaska was the only person in the platoon shorter than the drill instructor. Also, the drill instructor looked like a dead ringer for a live-action Elmer Fudd. I got in so much trouble when I fell out laughing behind the igloo crack! :)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What would happen if you laughed? Even when people are insulting me, if it's funny I will still laugh.
"Does the stuff in Full Metal Jacket actually happen?"
Everyone who has ever served: "Oh yeah. All of it."
even the war face??
So blanket party is really a thing irl?
@@curtraick6242 sorta
@@curtraick6242 A guy who kept screwing up and getting the whole squad roasted on a regular basis was given what we called a "sock party", which was just a different name for blanket party. He got pinned down with his blanket in his top bunk a few hours after lights out, while people in the squad beat him with socks filled with bars of soap...few guys even got licks in with their boots. Those who did not participate just pretended to sleep and didn't say a damn word to the chain of command.
He was "voted out" shortly after and certain "evidence" was planted in his locker, the result of which being he was recycled back two weeks because even the beating wasn't enough to set him straight...meaning he had to go back and train with another squad who wasn't as far along, and not graduate with us. Don't know what happened to him after he was recycled...
Craziest part of this was the Air Force early 2000's, and we are known for being amongst the "softest" of the branches.
@@knownanonymous8802 u folks planted contraband at his locker so he can get kicked out? Dang thats cold
One of my favorite insults was and is, If brains were gasoline, you wouldn't have enough to power a piss ant's motor scooter half way around a BB.
R Lee Ermy WAS an actual DI in the Marines. That's how he came up with his lines. His lines were all improv.
A rarity for a Stanley Kubrick movie.
He was originally hired as a consultant, but no one could sell the role as well as the real deal. Teaching someone to pretend to be a DI was no substitute.
They werent all improv and i dont know how that rumor started considering him and Kubrick went and made lines for himself and even had the lines from the previous actor.
@@darrengarcia4937 According to sources, it's about 50% script and 50% improv, but improvised lines during filming are pretty common depending on the type of film. Dialogue as set dressing is a lot less likely to need scripting than dialogue that drives the main plot.
I went to Paris Island in the late 60's to see my brother graduate. He was a changed man and after 13 months in Nam he was changed even more. RIP Dave
Rip Dave, sorry for your loss
Sorry bro. All the best from Norway.
May God rest his soul.
Thanking him for his service, RIP Dave!
@@13thvarebel16 amen
While at bivouac, we were getting our gear together to make the trek back to the barracks.. i found a cool looking bird feather, so I put in the rubber of my steel pot and forgot it was there .. Got into formation , started our march back , when the DI called halt , calls me up to the front and asked me “ wtf is this? “ slaps my steel pot off my head, he had me running around the formation for like 3 miles screaming “ cock a doodle do!!” From that point on I was “ Chicken Head” lmao
lmao nice story
Marine to Navy boot camp marine horror story: Someone make a head call without permission. He did not flush the toilet lest he alert the Fire Watch. The DI was outraged. "Who took a dump without permission!?" Nobody fessed up. "Squad Leader! Get that turd and bring it here!" He then had the squad leader hold it up for all to see. "Anyone recognize who this belongs to!?" No answer. "You will pass this turn up and down the line! Each one of you will carefully examine it and determine if you recognize whose asshole it came out of!"
O_O Jeez.
Damn
Holy smoke that is funny. Genius.
BS story. You could get up during the night to make a head call, why would fire watch try to stop you??? Why not flush the toilet??? Did the DI get up each morning and go look in every shitter so see if anyone didn't flush??? Handing a turd from recruit to recruit.....That don't pass the "smell test" dude. That is over the top even for the Marines. PS when I was a teacher we had an incident of a kid smearing feces on the bathroom wall, I had a school counselor tell me that people who play with human feces are very, very often the victims of sexual abuse. So if a DI actually did this......hmmmmm.
Reminds me of the GI Jane Navy Seal movie where they dump all their breakfast food in a trash can and give it to them for dinner and they scarff it down because they are staving. Ok, imagine all those guys at sick call for food poisoning the next morning....sets back training several days, a week, what ever. IF they ever did actually make them eat out of a trash can it was a trash can cleaned with boiling water, food dumped in, then put in a walk-in refrigerator and then brought back out at the end of the day. No food poisoning but a great story about how tough they are. We went on humps in boot camp and in infantry school and was told it was 10 miles when I know damn good and well it wasn't even 5 miles. BS stories to make us all feel tough. Sorry but it's true.
@@313-v9k in Army basic i could get up and use the latrine no questions asked. In Navy Boot, the head is on lockdown until morning. Maybe the firewatch wouldn't say anything, but also maybe the recruit is scared of the firewatch because they have to take logs of everything that happens in minute detail. Especially in the beginning of boot when nobody knows eachother yet and all scared of the RDCs. The stories are endless and never cease to surprise even the most senior RDCs, DI's, and Drill Sergeants. Privates/Recruits do dumb shit.
Talking about private Pyle to choke himself..one of our DI'S told a recruite to beat his face.. he starts hitting himself and DI told him push ups not hit himself
In the uniform code of military justice,there is a clause that basically says you are government property.
And as such, if you damage that property, are subject to a court martial.
IE Like maybe getting a severe sunburn and not being able to do your assigned duties for a few days.
cpu554 well I’m sure that most DI’s will be careful enough to not hit TOO hard, so that it doesn’t give long term bruising, but enough for them to feel it sting for the day. Though I’m sure there were DI’s that hit way too hard as it’s bound to happen.
Another one was the DI's made a recruit run in place in front of a mirror, and say over and over again, "I'm not crazy, you're crazy." While pointing at himself and his reflection.
That's just fraternal hazing
YEAH!!! LOL!!
I'm laughing so hard imagining that
Brilliant
this is easily my favorite war movie ever. it's so cool to me seeing an actual marine react to it and give his thoughts
We had a dead beat recruit, and we were outside washing our skivvies, when a bird dropped a turd on him and the DI shouted out "even the f$%^'n birds know your worth recruit!" Classic!
oh yeah, pick on the weak, a classic trait in the military.
@@Socialisten shut. The. Fuck. Up. Soyboi
@@Socialisten u wanna fight beside lil bitches that might have your back? or you want soldiers
Socialisten the whole purpose of doing that is to force the weak to be strong so they can survive
@@Socialisten that's what the military does. they make the weak strong so that they can survive if they were attacked or attacking. the military is clearly not for you fucking Pussy if you don't like the military why are you even watching this ?