Opening scene of the rare film 'The D-I' about US Marine recruits going through boot camp at Parris Island. All of the actors playing recruits and assistant drill instructors ('DIs') are US Marines.
I saw something written about this movie a week ago that called it "campy." Imo, the only reason people say things like that about this movie is because there's no foul language or sex.
When i was drafted in early 1968, having been sworn in,and still at the induction center waiting for transportation to basic training,the Marines came over and pulled 4 for the Corp, leaving the rest of us relieved not to have been picked. Seeing how the government has devolved to socialism, treating illegals better than the citizens, including veterans, i’d never serve in this army today.
@@xxxxxx-tq4mw It gets even better: The DoD is now screwing reservists out of their earned retirement by actually making us apply for it, instead of us just getting checks cut from DFAS. With sending a page length of instructions that are poorly written and conflicting, along with hardly any other communication (other than a rare "DO NOT REPLY" email), they're not even trying to ensure that we get our retirements. There have to be some incapacitated individuals out there who are falling through the cracks. I guess that's just what this broke-a$$ gov't wants these days.
RIP John T. Ahern (aka PVT Casto, aka The Great White Whale). John passed away on August 8, 2016,aged 80, in the Quad Cities area. I believe that he eventually worked in mechanical engineering for the Rock Island Railroad and Catepillar, Inc. Also I wanted to note here the passing of Paul Prutzman (aka SGT Braver) in March of 2015. After the USMC, he worked for many years in the Aerospace industry and he also did occasional local theatre acting. Thank you both for your honorable service.
What about Jack Webb? A long time ago on wiki I read where Jack Webb is a Marine, but they don't say anything about that now. He had to have been in the Corps to play such an outstanding role. That is how boot camp was when I was in there with a few differences because I was a Hollywood Marine from MCRD San Diego. For my fellow Marines, I have a cousin buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery. His name was Cpl Richard Losey I think his middle name was David. He was sometimes a point man in Korea carrying a B.A.R. He froze his legs at the Chosin Reservoir. I love the sound of a B.A.R. In the TV Show Combat I recorded Kerby firing his B.A.R. and I made it a ring tone but with all the shootings I decided not to use it anymore. So in the movie Enter the Dragon where Hawn says "Bolo" and Bolo says 'AH' I have the Bolo and AH both as a ringtone. Also my cousin Richard was also in WWII. If you like the Military, I'm reading an outstanding book by General Omar Nelson Bradley. The title is "A Soldiers Story." When I finish reading it I will read the book, Beetle - The Life of General Walter Beetle Smith. I have the movie 'To Hell and Back' on VHS. At the beginning General Smith gives an honorable discourse on Major Audie Leon Murphy. We need to put the values of the WWII Military back into our lifestyle and every political party on this coming ballot. I was using A.I. a few days ago. And I asked it who was the most decorated person in the military and it wrote me back, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone. I knew who he was because they taught us about him in Boot Camp and he's in the guidebook. I mean I'm a Marine but I was raised on Audie Murphy since I was a teenager watching the late shows in the summer and eating bologna sandwiches. So I asked that A.I. program again "What about Audie Murphy?" And it wrote back something to the affect, "Yes Audie Murphy is the most decorated person in the history of the USA. I wish my dad was still alive. From 1946-48 he was in Military Government in Japan in the Army. Then in the reserves for 9 years in Intelligence. I learned in this book that there are four designations for intelligence G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4. He was discharged what would be an E-7 Sgt. He had three BALD brothers. They were all at the Battle of the Bulge all earned a Bronze Star and one was later the SgtMajor of Campo George West here in Golden, Colorado. I have all kinds of family on both my mom's side and my dad's side that were in the Military. I know I have family that was in the Revolutionary War and also a relative that signed either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. I think his name was Elray or Elron or sometime thing like that. I have a great, great uncle that fought on both the North and the South in the Civil War and he was in Andersonville. That is a story in itself because he was a French Canadian and not even an American.
@brandtbecker1810 Every one of the 'recruits' (boots), in Sgt. Moore's Squad, were 'real' on duty Marines. The assorted humorous bits in "The D.I.", were "The Corps", poking themselves in the funny bone. During the infamous nighttime search for the poor li'l ol' Sand flea, that Pvt. Owen's 'murdered'; Sgt. Moore, takes the time to 'chew' on his 'other' project, one Pvt. Casto! When Pvt. Casto, is asked why he joined the Marines, he simply replied, "because, The Navy wouldn't take me Sir!"
2:54 - I'm not a marine but I can't see a DI telling someone directly they aren't going to make it. The thing is, that person did make and was a marine or wouldn't have been in the movie. Thanks for your service.
The scene in the video with Owens reminded of when I was in Air Force basic training. One of the flight members wanted to go to sick call. Our Training Instructor screamed, "WHAT IS IT NOW!! YOU GOT A F--KING HEADACHE?? YOU DON'T FEEL GOOD??? WHAT THE F-K IS IT THIS TIME??" "Sir AIRMAN 'JOHNSON" REQUESTS PERMISSION TO GO TO SICK CALL!!" "ARE YOU F--KING DYING???" Anyway you get the idea. This went back and forth. RIP Jack Webb and all those in the film that have since passed on.
Im an old Marine and I live in a part of Texas that is highly populated with Czech descendents who still speak the language. I noticed he asked the 2nd recruit who was Polish the phrase ," yak se mas".That phrase is Czech and it means how are you.
I reported into Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego 9 days after my 17th birthday in 1974. The Corps shaped who I am and still practice what I was taught. SFMF
@@bradmarkell12167 To easily answer that question, EVERYTHING that the Corps instilled which starting with my DI's of which I had four SSGT's and three of them fought in Vietnam. Marines like myself are the last of those who trained to their standards that I now watch disappear then told as fellow Maines we should accept change. This co-ed summer camp integrated politically "woke" Marine Corps will prove to be flat out useless if this sh*t isn't stopped cold. Based on today's standards, men will be allowed to wear drag make up and surgically join the newly adopted women at San Diego, and the women will be allowed to take their no longer needed parts to become men for their "identity reassignment" then BOTH will be allowed to protest if their freakin' "pronouns" aren't properly respected. My career in the Corps has been unforgettable almost unexplainably rewarding and from what I see taking place today in America itself as well as the Corps, I am so very glad of that. Survival of the fittest isn't a standard anymore. Acceptance of weakness is now tolerated and simply adapted to. Good luck. This country will DEFINITELY need it. Semper Fi.🇺🇲
Oh my God. I knew an old guy named Al who was a USMC radar tech/operater off the coast of Okinawa during the battle. He told me he was an E-7. I said oh, you were a gunnery sergeant. He said no, he was a specialist tech sergeant with 3 stripes and the 2 flat rockers, not curved on the bottom like the images of Jack Web. The WW-2 USMC hade specialist ranks with the flat rockers on the bottom.
This was such a great movie! Jack Webb was phenomenal in this role. I loved the flea scene which is not shown in this clip, but it was one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen!
No bread, no corn, pie, cake, desserts of any kind, whole milk, beans, butter, sugar, potatoes, candy, ice cream, salad dressing, or peanut butter. TSgt Moore is right except butter and salad dressing. That leaves the private to eat any meat and cheese, any non-starchy vegetables, and pasta! He forgot that one, LOL. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the food pyramid recommended grains more than anything else and small amounts of proteins and cheese. I knew of an Airman one time outside of boot camp that had to march in formation with others that were overweight to breakfast and lunch every day. Breakfast was 2 boiled eggs, two strips of bacon, and a small box of Special K served with skim milk. Lunch was a salad and soup. He lost over 20 pounds within the month.
I swear once a Marine, always a Marine, he screamed, hey little boy you better scream like a man and I screamed, “Aye Sir!”. I swear, once a Marine, always a Marine!
I made it my business, to buy this movie, directly from the Warner Archive! I saw this movie, back in the 1970s. On CBS-TV, back when the Network, actually put GOOD entertainment on at 10:30 pm! (Before some programming genius, came up with the bright idea to give Johnny Carson some late-night competition!)
And the funny thing is, Jack Webb was ATFU. "During World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, but he "washed out" of flight training.[citation needed] He later received a hardship discharge because he was the primary financial support for both his mother and grandmother."
This movie came out not long after the Ribbon Creek incident at Parris Island in which six Marine six recruits drowned. The fall out from that incident was the first time the general public questioned why Marine training is the way it is. During the trial that followed, famed Marine Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller testified for the defense. Behind closed doors, Gen. Puller had a few hard words for Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, the Drill Instructor at the center of the trail. However, when on the stand and under oath, he gave a full on defense of Marine Corps training and why its challenging to the degree it is, saying that while the incident in Ribbon Creek was "a deplorable accident", it did not warrant a court-martial. He went on to say that discipline is vital to a military, quoting Napoleon when he said that "An army becomes a mob with out it."
Yes, it saves lives in combat. I could never have survived the training BAMs go through today. I was a WAVE in 1972, and the training was nothing in comparison to the combat training the women endure today. I was 5'3" and weighted 102 lbs., so it would have been impossible for me to lift/carried a 6 ft., 160lb man. Sorry, I KNOW such opinions are unwelcomed today, but that is my experience. I was detached to the Army and sent to Nam. Served at the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon (corpsman/OR tech). I patched up a lot of you grunts! Army, too. You are the best. Always my heroes!
Yeah, he was good to go coming into the program. The key to good teachers / trainers etc. is to make sure they are all good to go on the way out. I liked how the DI found something good that each recruit could develop, and which buttons to push for the different personalities. I love the kid Kennedy with the high voice - as the saying goes 'he didn't know what he didn't know'. As the movie went on, they were all alright. :D
@@SuperColonel91 they were all part of a jr DI training platoon, I believe. Amazing to think the "kennedy" guy was in that status but one could be 20-21 and be in training for such a position.
I spoke to someone who was 15 lbs overweight when he went in. He was restricted to a 2,000 calorie a day diet, and how he divided that up was up to him. He became solid steel quick.
When I was in boot camp, I wasn't allowed to refer to myself as I. I had to say "The Private" Like this: The Private requests permission to speak to the Drill Instructor Sir. You never said "you" either. A Ewe is a female sheep. Everybody that wore glasses was four eyes. However the high shooter in our platoon wore glasses. He was the second high shooter in the series and I was the third. When I went in, there were 3 of us from Colorado. The first time we ran together as a Platoon it was on the 1/2 mile track at MCRD San Diego. The drill instructor told us "We will run 2 miles. When you feel pain in your side suck in more air don't quit." We started with 84 and at the end of the run there were only ten of us that finished. Two of us were from Colorado. When it was over the Drill Instructor said looked back there. All those people that didn't finish are non-hackers. You are the hackers. This was in 1973 May. The term hackers had nothing to do with a computer. When some of us run hard we hack up spit and spit it out. That run was the hardest thing I ever did in my whole life. I went in the Marines when I was 17. Up to then the most I ever ran was 1 mile in gym class in Jr. High. However when I was in Jr. High I had a Denver Post paper route that I did with a pedal bike. My District Adviser told me it was one of the hardest routes because of the hills. The medical doctors agree that if you can run a mile under 7 minutes then you are an athlete. But if you are thinking about going into the USMC you don't need to be an athlete, the Corps will make you into one. I'm 68 and for me there has been no better high than running hard and fast in a Platoon of Marines.
@@armybeef68 I was in Plt 2117, Co G, 2RTR, MCRD SD start date 731203. We also had to refer to ourselves as ''the Private.'' and avoid the use of first and second person pronouns.. I think the movie-going public would have been confused by that level of brainwashing, so standard English was used.
a run I remember well was at Airborne School in April 1984. We ran everywhere, and we did platoon runs. If you dropped out more than once you were immediately kicked out. I was in the front rank and the Black Hats started running and running and running. I don't remember how far we ran but it was a good distance. The pace did not slow down. The lead instructor (Black Hat) picked up the pace. And we ran farther then he really picked up the pace. I was in good shape and I was a fairly good runner so I didn't have a hard time keeping up. Then he picked up the pace again. It was starting to get tough now. I was at the front so I couldn't see how many dropped out. Then he picked up the pace again. Now we were really running fast. He was running us at a much faster pace and farther than we normally ran. I was having trouble keeping up but I was determined not to fall behind. It was getting hard to breathe and I was still up front. We ran even farther and I was getting worried I wasn't going to make it. He wanted to see what we were made of and most of us passed. Then he slowed us down and let the stragglers catch up. The formation was strung out and a few dropped out of the run.
@@sjb3460 That might have been the run up "Heartbreak Hill" just before you get to Lawson Army Airfield. That was a tough run in 1980. "Airborne, Airborne where've you been? Downtown Columbus drinking gin. Watcha gonna do when you get back? Run five miles on the Airborne track." Airborne all the way!
Sugar and bread don’t make u fat. Sitting all day watching TV and driving everywhere will. There’s a guy on UA-cam who ate only potatoes for 1 yr and lost 115lbs.
"You ain't gonna eat no bread, no corn, no pie, cake, desserts of any kind, no whole milk, no beans, no butter, no sugar, no potatoes, candy, ice cream, salad dressings, or peanut butter". That ought to do the trick.😀
Graduated 1982 MCRD San Diego. This was how it was when I was in. My son is in as well! Graduated almost 40 years from the time I joined. MCRD San Diego. Semper Fi my brothers and sisters.
all the fat guys in our company ate at the same table, 2 glasses of water, 2 pieces of toast no butter and a hard boiled egg. imagine seeing guys sitting there choking back their tears and crying as they ate. the drill sergeants were very good at removing 40 lbs of blubber. 😁
House Mouse MCRD San Diego, CA 3rd Recruit Training Battalion RTB Kilo Company Platoon 3008 01/12/1983 to 04/01/1983. Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant GYSGT Gerald A. Gordon D.I. Staff Sergeant SSGT Larry Ray L.R. Algien Native American Vietnam War Combat RECON Marine. D.I. Staff Sergeant SSGT Keith Bland D.I. Sergeant SGT Shawn Kennedy S.K. Summers from New York City.
@@roaddog7793@roaddog7793 EVERY Sunday morning it was shown on ETV. If you didnt go to chapel, you stayed in the squadbay and studied your knowledge or squared away your uniforms. Plt 2080 Co D Parris Island SC 1985. Next time, know what youre talking about
PVT Owens at frame [3:12] has his Military Alignment 5 inches out of whack and Gy Webb doesn't make him square that away before he speaks. Typical Sea Lawyer, trying to slime out before he even graduates.
The U.S.M.C. Will yield for Moms. At MCRD San Diego CA 01121983 to 04011983 3rd Recruit Training Battalion Kilo Company Platoons 3005 3006 3007 and mine 3008 During Grunt Week Training Early March, 1983. at MCB Camp Pendleton San Onofre where Infantry Training School was located. We humped up a hill the First Day for a Training Lecture. It starting Raining Monsoon weather the Entire Week. We humped back to our Barracks and our D.I.s told us that They Did not want to have to deal with "The Mothers of America." We trained in the Squad Bay and slept in our sleeping bags on the Deck. The rain stop on our last day so then we humped another hill for a Training session. The next day we went back to MCRD San Diego, CA to finish our Third Phase Boot Camp training to graduate on Friday, April 1st 1983. So we never got a chance to Hump Mount Mother until those of us who were open contract Enlistments were assigned the M.O S. 0300 reported back to I.T.S. Grunt School on 04/16/1983. Once I got to my First Duty Station Marine Barracks Guam Marianas Island we had cool light green Marine from down Home The South one of the Carolina states Lance Corporal LCPL Charles Gregory McKinney. Now he had been in the Corps for over 8 months and had not called or wrote his mother. Our Commanding Officer Colonel Justus Karl Miller (1935 to 2016) and Sergeant Major James H. Ables had gotten a call from The Red Cross about LCPL McKinney's Mom not hearing from him. They had our Guard Company 2nd Platoon Commander First LIeutenant David T. Liepold and Platoon Sergeant Staff Sergeant SSGT Simmie F. Jackson, Jr. Bring him to the Colonel's office and made him call his Mom. They jumped on him verbally and we all got the lecture -- do not have your mothers needng to call the U.S.M.C. to get in touch with you because of some family disagreement. I made sure to have a $100.00 a month Alottment sent to my Mom until I got my Honorable Discharge so she would not call on me.
@@MARYREED-nh7gb Well Thank You very much for the thought but that was not the way that turned out. Far be it for any child to criticize the failings of their parents but needless to say I did what I had to do in looking out for my mother until she went to sleep in death in 2004.
@@marcusjustice6165 So sorry for the death of your Mom. My folks are gone too, and I supported them ($$) and two nephews. (Their Mom died at a young age of breast cancer.) You were raised right. I guess we both were, come to think of it. I hope you will write down more of your experiences. Too many of "the guys" think that their experiences have little meaning, but I find them very enjoyable, and I really think many other people do as well. Besides, I have learned so much from all the different experiences. Blessings to you and your family.
The comment he made in polish 🇵🇱 was “how are you doing” but he totally butchered it. I have to listen to it a few times to understand what he was trying to say.
At the time a Gunnery Sergeant had been renamed as Technical Sergeant, which was then later changed again to Staff Sergeant, and Gunnery Sergeant became an E-7.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 that's great! You've reminded me of my late dad's OLD ('40s, '50s) college football magazines and the muscle building ads!! Charles Atlas!
0:57 What are you Polish? Corporal Jeffrey E. Cywinski from Pennsylvania. Big SKI weightlifting bodybuilder. USMC Tour of Duty 1983 To 1986. MCRD Parris Island P.I. S.C. Infantry Training School I.T.S. MCB Camp Geiger N.C. M.O.S. 0311. First Duty Station Marine Barracks Guam Marianas Island M.I. 1983 to 1984. Second Duty Station: MCB Camp LeJeune, N.C. Mainside Headquarters and Service Company 3rd Battalion 6th Marine Regiment H&S 3/6 French Fourragere 2nd Marine Division 2nd MAR DIV 1984 to 1986. Honorable Discharge.
They would, depending on if they needed you or not. Right now, they do need recruits across the board. So, they will take you into basic and try to get the weight off. I have seen some active-duty female personnel, and I couldn't believe how overweight they were. And I am referring to officers. I didn't know they made uniforms that big! Yes, I know I will get burned for my comment. And yes, I am a female.
Maybe, but Al Qaeda, bin Laden are stains on history. We broke the back of international jihadism and the Taliban are a shadow of what they were. Besides, Biden gave it away probably at the request of China. You see, large lithium reserves are there.
I recommend Capt. Eliot Ackerman's account of the Battle of Fallujah. He explains in plain terms that we won the war on terrorism but failed at nation building in Afghanistan. Having said all that we had the Taliban subdued until Biden made a deal with someone, probably China to pull out in the most ridiculous, catastrophic fashion. He left billions in gear, got a lot of our troops killed and abandoned our friends who helped us while we were there.
Ahh, please site the source. I am calling it attribution error. There is NOTHING from DOD with regards to rates higher than the civilian life. Was the comparison made to law enforcement? Teachers? Farmers? Army? Please qualify the source.
One of the Best USMC Movie, Semper-Fi. Jack Webb Should Got the Oscar For This Film. May He R.I.P.
I saw something written about this movie a week ago that called it "campy." Imo, the only reason people say things like that about this movie is because there's no foul language or sex.
@@teller1290 Touche' (smile)
When i was drafted in early 1968, having been sworn in,and still at the induction center waiting for transportation to basic training,the Marines came over and pulled 4 for the Corp, leaving the rest of us relieved not to have been picked. Seeing how the government has devolved to socialism, treating illegals better than the citizens, including veterans, i’d never serve in this army today.
@@xxxxxx-tq4mw Semper-Fi, Mac'
@@xxxxxx-tq4mw It gets even better: The DoD is now screwing reservists out of their earned retirement by actually making us apply for it, instead of us just getting checks cut from DFAS. With sending a page length of instructions that are poorly written and conflicting, along with hardly any other communication (other than a rare "DO NOT REPLY" email), they're not even trying to ensure that we get our retirements. There have to be some incapacitated individuals out there who are falling through the cracks. I guess that's just what this broke-a$$ gov't wants these days.
RIP John T. Ahern (aka PVT Casto, aka The Great White Whale). John passed away on August 8, 2016,aged 80, in the Quad Cities area. I believe that he eventually worked in mechanical engineering for the Rock Island Railroad and Catepillar, Inc. Also I wanted to note here the passing of Paul Prutzman (aka SGT Braver) in March of 2015. After the USMC, he worked for many years in the Aerospace industry and he also did occasional local theatre acting. Thank you both for your honorable service.
What about Jack Webb? A long time ago on wiki I read where Jack Webb is a Marine, but they don't say anything about that now. He had to have been in the Corps to play such an outstanding role. That is how boot camp was when I was in there with a few differences because I was a Hollywood Marine from MCRD San Diego. For my fellow Marines, I have a cousin buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery. His name was Cpl Richard Losey I think his middle name was David. He was sometimes a point man in Korea carrying a B.A.R. He froze his legs at the Chosin Reservoir. I love the sound of a B.A.R. In the TV Show Combat I recorded Kerby firing his B.A.R. and I made it a ring tone but with all the shootings I decided not to use it anymore. So in the movie Enter the Dragon where Hawn says "Bolo" and Bolo says 'AH' I have the Bolo and AH both as a ringtone. Also my cousin Richard was also in WWII. If you like the Military, I'm reading an outstanding book by General Omar Nelson Bradley. The title is "A Soldiers Story." When I finish reading it I will read the book, Beetle - The Life of General Walter Beetle Smith. I have the movie 'To Hell and Back' on VHS. At the beginning General Smith gives an honorable discourse on Major Audie Leon Murphy. We need to put the values of the WWII Military back into our lifestyle and every political party on this coming ballot. I was using A.I. a few days ago. And I asked it who was the most decorated person in the military and it wrote me back, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone. I knew who he was because they taught us about him in Boot Camp and he's in the guidebook. I mean I'm a Marine but I was raised on Audie Murphy since I was a teenager watching the late shows in the summer and eating bologna sandwiches. So I asked that A.I. program again "What about Audie Murphy?" And it wrote back something to the affect, "Yes Audie Murphy is the most decorated person in the history of the USA. I wish my dad was still alive. From 1946-48 he was in Military Government in Japan in the Army. Then in the reserves for 9 years in Intelligence. I learned in this book that there are four designations for intelligence G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4. He was discharged what would be an E-7 Sgt. He had three BALD brothers. They were all at the Battle of the Bulge all earned a Bronze Star and one was later the SgtMajor of Campo George West here in Golden, Colorado. I have all kinds of family on both my mom's side and my dad's side that were in the Military. I know I have family that was in the Revolutionary War and also a relative that signed either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. I think his name was Elray or Elron or sometime thing like that. I have a great, great uncle that fought on both the North and the South in the Civil War and he was in Andersonville. That is a story in itself because he was a French Canadian and not even an American.
@@AmericanIsraeliJew Impressive and very informative. You should be extremely proud of your ancestors.
"CASTO! Get up out of that HOLE!"
Interesting info, thanks for the update.
@brandtbecker1810 Every one of the 'recruits' (boots), in Sgt. Moore's Squad, were 'real' on duty Marines.
The assorted humorous bits in "The D.I.", were "The Corps", poking themselves in the funny bone.
During the infamous nighttime search for the poor li'l ol' Sand flea, that Pvt. Owen's 'murdered'; Sgt. Moore, takes the time to 'chew' on his 'other' project, one Pvt. Casto!
When Pvt. Casto, is asked why he joined the Marines, he simply replied, "because, The Navy wouldn't take me Sir!"
I remember doing this in basic but our DI wasn't so kind and used more colorful language.
Did boot at age 17, didn't turn 18 until I had already been in the Corps for 4 months...
2:54 - I'm not a marine but I can't see a DI telling someone directly they aren't going to make it. The thing is, that person did make and was a marine or wouldn't have been in the movie. Thanks for your service.
Same here. Left home at 17, joined the Corps and never looked back. Semper Fi
One of the great military movies of all time. Jack Webb was superb.
The scene in the video with Owens reminded of when I was in Air Force basic training. One of the flight members wanted to go to sick call. Our Training Instructor screamed, "WHAT IS IT NOW!! YOU GOT A F--KING HEADACHE?? YOU DON'T FEEL GOOD??? WHAT THE F-K IS IT THIS TIME??" "Sir AIRMAN 'JOHNSON" REQUESTS PERMISSION TO GO TO SICK CALL!!" "ARE YOU F--KING DYING???" Anyway you get the idea. This went back and forth. RIP Jack Webb and all those in the film that have since passed on.
if it was still like this, the old motto would still be true "we build men".
Now you know to that they would have to again separate the women like it used to be!
Im an old Marine and I live in a part of Texas that is highly populated with Czech descendents who still speak the language. I noticed he asked the 2nd recruit who was Polish the phrase ," yak se mas".That phrase is Czech and it means how are you.
I am Polish and my wife was born and raised in Poland...yes it means how are you.
@@curtc2194 Is the phrase universal in Eastern Europe?
@@curtc2194 What would be the correct response?
I reported into Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego 9 days after my 17th birthday in 1974. The Corps shaped who I am and still practice what I was taught. SFMF
@@JeepWrangler1957 same here. The values learned in the Corps stays with you forever.
I joined the army when I was 17, went to Nam when I was 18 & came back when I was 20. 50 years later I still do PT/exercise every day.
I didn't get there til' 1981, and almost went back as a DI to pick up SSGT! Semper Fi!🇺🇲
What were u taught that u still use today?
@@bradmarkell12167
To easily answer that question, EVERYTHING that the Corps instilled which starting with my DI's of which I had four SSGT's and three of them fought in Vietnam. Marines like myself are the last of those who trained to their standards that I now watch disappear then told as fellow Maines we should accept change. This co-ed summer camp integrated politically "woke" Marine Corps will prove to be flat out useless if this sh*t isn't stopped cold. Based on today's standards, men will be allowed to wear drag make up and surgically join the newly adopted women at San Diego, and the women will be allowed to take their no longer needed parts to become men for their "identity reassignment" then BOTH will be allowed to protest if their freakin' "pronouns" aren't properly respected. My career in the Corps has been unforgettable almost unexplainably rewarding and from what I see taking place today in America itself as well as the Corps, I am so very glad of that. Survival of the fittest isn't a standard anymore. Acceptance of weakness is now tolerated and simply adapted to. Good luck. This country will DEFINITELY need it. Semper Fi.🇺🇲
Oh my God. I knew an old guy named Al who was a USMC radar tech/operater off the coast of Okinawa during the battle. He told me he was an E-7. I said oh, you were a gunnery sergeant. He said no, he was a specialist tech sergeant with 3 stripes and the 2 flat rockers, not curved on the bottom like the images of Jack Web. The WW-2 USMC hade specialist ranks with the flat rockers on the bottom.
Great movie. My two brothers were US Marines. Semper Fi. Rest In Peace Jack Webb.
Joker said it "Home of the Phony Tough and Crazy Brave".
FULL METAL JACKET ! ❤
The movie Tribes with Jan Micheal Vincent got me psyched to get to Boot Camp. The bucket scene was the one that hooked me.
I remember that movie from my youth. A classic!
First watched this with my father as a kid. I later became a Marine in 1984. SF!
"you looked like the great white whale didn't you?" That line kills me every time. :D
This was such a great movie! Jack Webb was phenomenal in this role. I loved the flea scene which is not shown in this clip, but it was one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen!
No bread, no corn, pie, cake, desserts of any kind, whole milk, beans, butter, sugar, potatoes, candy, ice cream, salad dressing, or peanut butter. TSgt Moore is right except butter and salad dressing. That leaves the private to eat any meat and cheese, any non-starchy vegetables, and pasta! He forgot that one, LOL.
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the food pyramid recommended grains more than anything else and small amounts of proteins and cheese.
I knew of an Airman one time outside of boot camp that had to march in formation with others that were overweight to breakfast and lunch every day. Breakfast was 2 boiled eggs, two strips of bacon, and a small box of Special K served with skim milk. Lunch was a salad and soup. He lost over 20 pounds within the month.
Graduated 1988 M.C.R.D. San Diego
I swear once a Marine, always a Marine, he screamed, hey little boy you better scream like a man and I screamed, “Aye Sir!”. I swear, once a Marine, always a Marine!
I made it my business, to buy this movie, directly from the Warner Archive! I saw this movie, back in the 1970s. On CBS-TV, back when the Network, actually put GOOD entertainment on at 10:30 pm!
(Before some programming genius, came up with the bright idea to give Johnny Carson some late-night competition!)
And the funny thing is, Jack Webb was ATFU.
"During World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, but he "washed out" of flight training.[citation needed] He later received a hardship discharge because he was the primary financial support for both his mother and grandmother."
Flying an aircraft--especially a high performance aircraft--is not an easy skill. Many potential pilots washed out or died in flight training.
This movie came out not long after the Ribbon Creek incident at Parris Island in which six Marine six recruits drowned. The fall out from that incident was the first time the general public questioned why Marine training is the way it is.
During the trial that followed, famed Marine Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller testified for the defense. Behind closed doors, Gen. Puller had a few hard words for Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, the Drill Instructor at the center of the trail. However, when on the stand and under oath, he gave a full on defense of Marine Corps training and why its challenging to the degree it is, saying that while the incident in Ribbon Creek was "a deplorable accident", it did not warrant a court-martial. He went on to say that discipline is vital to a military, quoting Napoleon when he said that "An army becomes a mob with out it."
Yes, it saves lives in combat. I could never have survived the training BAMs go through today. I was a WAVE in 1972, and the training was nothing in comparison to the combat training the women endure today. I was 5'3" and weighted 102 lbs., so it would have been impossible for me to lift/carried a 6 ft., 160lb man. Sorry, I KNOW such opinions are unwelcomed today, but that is my experience.
I was detached to the Army and sent to Nam. Served at the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon (corpsman/OR tech). I patched up a lot of you grunts! Army, too. You are the best. Always my heroes!
Pvt..Rodriguez was a tough, confidant one.
Yeah, he was good to go coming into the program. The key to good teachers / trainers etc. is to make sure they are all good to go on the way out. I liked how the DI found something good that each recruit could develop, and which buttons to push for the different personalities. I love the kid Kennedy with the high voice - as the saying goes 'he didn't know what he didn't know'. As the movie went on, they were all alright. :D
"Hit the spot, baby!" LOL
That's because he was pry an actual Marine
@@SuperColonel91 they were all part of a jr DI training platoon, I believe. Amazing to think the "kennedy" guy was in that status but one could be 20-21 and be in training for such a position.
@@SuperColonel91 More than that: the Marine who potrayed Recruit Rodriguez was a Drill Instructor himself as well.
Love this movie. One of the best ever made.
This movie played the night before I went to MCRD San Diego and stepped on the yellow footprints. 6/27/1974
You were graduating as I was showing up...9/19/74...Plt 2105...
@@paulwatters9225 Yep, I graduated 9/25/74, platoon 2068.
So how much was the movie like MCRD San Diego?
@@kenfrank2730 It might have been like the 50's. My boot camp experience was like Full Metal Jacket.
Jack Webb was promoting the keto diet back then
I spoke to someone who was 15 lbs overweight when he went in. He was restricted to a 2,000 calorie a day diet, and how he divided that up was up to him. He became solid steel quick.
Jack Webb and R Lee Ermy the two best DI's in Marine cinema!
The legendary Jack Webb or the legendary R. Lee "disappear, scumbag!!" Ermey? Tough call.
...Thee ORIGINAL Gunny Hartman!!!
When I was in boot camp, I wasn't allowed to refer to myself as I. I had to say "The Private" Like this: The Private requests permission to speak to the Drill Instructor Sir. You never said "you" either. A Ewe is a female sheep. Everybody that wore glasses was four eyes. However the high shooter in our platoon wore glasses. He was the second high shooter in the series and I was the third. When I went in, there were 3 of us from Colorado. The first time we ran together as a Platoon it was on the 1/2 mile track at MCRD San Diego. The drill instructor told us "We will run 2 miles. When you feel pain in your side suck in more air don't quit." We started with 84 and at the end of the run there were only ten of us that finished. Two of us were from Colorado. When it was over the Drill Instructor said looked back there. All those people that didn't finish are non-hackers. You are the hackers. This was in 1973 May. The term hackers had nothing to do with a computer. When some of us run hard we hack up spit and spit it out. That run was the hardest thing I ever did in my whole life. I went in the Marines when I was 17. Up to then the most I ever ran was 1 mile in gym class in Jr. High. However when I was in Jr. High I had a Denver Post paper route that I did with a pedal bike. My District Adviser told me it was one of the hardest routes because of the hills. The medical doctors agree that if you can run a mile under 7 minutes then you are an athlete. But if you are thinking about going into the USMC you don't need to be an athlete, the Corps will make you into one. I'm 68 and for me there has been no better high than running hard and fast in a Platoon of Marines.
" I had to say "The Private" Like this: The Private"
As opposed to THIS Private.
It's ok, not everybody has had a simple kindergarten education.
@@armybeef68 I was in Plt 2117, Co G, 2RTR, MCRD SD start date 731203. We also had to refer to ourselves as ''the Private.'' and avoid the use of first and second person pronouns.. I think the movie-going public would have been confused by that level of brainwashing, so standard English was used.
HA !! I shipped out of RS Denver myself..
a run I remember well was at Airborne School in April 1984. We ran everywhere, and we did platoon runs. If you dropped out more than once you were immediately kicked out. I was in the front rank and the Black Hats started running and running and running. I don't remember how far we ran but it was a good distance. The pace did not slow down. The lead instructor (Black Hat) picked up the pace. And we ran farther then he really picked up the pace. I was in good shape and I was a fairly good runner so I didn't have a hard time keeping up. Then he picked up the pace again. It was starting to get tough now. I was at the front so I couldn't see how many dropped out. Then he picked up the pace again. Now we were really running fast. He was running us at a much faster pace and farther than we normally ran. I was having trouble keeping up but I was determined not to fall behind. It was getting hard to breathe and I was still up front. We ran even farther and I was getting worried I wasn't going to make it. He wanted to see what we were made of and most of us passed. Then he slowed us down and let the stragglers catch up. The formation was strung out and a few dropped out of the run.
@@sjb3460 That might have been the run up "Heartbreak Hill" just before you get to Lawson Army Airfield. That was a tough run in 1980. "Airborne, Airborne where've you been? Downtown Columbus drinking gin. Watcha gonna do when you get back? Run five miles on the Airborne track." Airborne all the way!
Friday's best role.
Best movie ever.
Back then they knew what would make you fat: sugar and bread. Then the USDA came out with the food pyramid and everyone got fat.
Just follow that diet plan. You’ll lose weight
whole milk won't make you fat though
Sugar and bread don’t make u fat.
Sitting all day watching TV and driving everywhere will.
There’s a guy on UA-cam who ate only potatoes for 1 yr and lost 115lbs.
"You ain't gonna eat no bread, no corn, no pie, cake, desserts of any kind, no whole milk, no beans, no butter, no sugar, no potatoes, candy, ice cream, salad dressings, or peanut butter". That ought to do the trick.😀
What wrong with beans?as long as they're not cooked with any sugars.
In other words: “don’t eat any food during your entire time in boot camp.”
"Diet Private" MCRD San Diego, CA Chow Hall Mess Duty Marine Recruits: "STAY MOTIVATED, Private, STAY MOTIVATED!"
@@charleshammer2928 high in calories.
BED EM DOWN, and then the music------so damn cool!!
Been there, done that 1960’ish. Sgt Kurtz, Silver Star Platoon 342
Did he transfer to the army and make O-6? Hmm.
"It's job." Yup, this is the Marine Corps.
Graduated 1982 MCRD San Diego. This was how it was when I was in. My son is in as well! Graduated almost 40 years from the time I joined. MCRD San Diego. Semper Fi my brothers and sisters.
my poppa is in there
Please tell us about him?
Hi Molly! Please tell us about you Dad.
Legendary!
So…Mark VII Productions starring Jack Webb, but this isn’t part of an episode of Dragnet? Interesting.
MCRD should be as it was in '59. Kick ass and take names.
1:28 is my favorite!
Hell of a movie
Never been able to catch this in it's entirety, gotta so so :)
2:35 - and just think, that kid in real life was a real marine.
IIRC PVT Kennedy was actually the highest-ranking one of them all at E-5!
Yes sir, Mr Steinbrenner!
Tappin on my timber ! Classic
I love it. Men in a man's outfit.
"Rare film"? It's available on DVD as we speak.
Pvt. Casto and TSgt Moore were early innovators of the Carnivore/Keto diet protocol! RIP my brothers, OO RAH!!!
Great advice on losing fat
all the fat guys in our company ate at the same table, 2 glasses of water, 2 pieces of toast no butter and a hard boiled egg. imagine seeing guys sitting there choking back their tears and crying as they ate. the drill sergeants were very good at removing 40 lbs of blubber. 😁
All you HOUSE MOUSES, SOUND OFF
House Mouse MCRD San Diego, CA 3rd Recruit Training Battalion RTB Kilo Company Platoon 3008 01/12/1983 to 04/01/1983. Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant GYSGT Gerald A. Gordon D.I. Staff Sergeant SSGT Larry Ray L.R. Algien Native American Vietnam War Combat RECON Marine. D.I. Staff Sergeant SSGT Keith Bland D.I. Sergeant SGT Shawn Kennedy S.K. Summers from New York City.
We watched this EVERY SUNDAY MORNING on Parris Island 😅😅😅
No you didn't if you were a recruit
@@roaddog7793@roaddog7793 EVERY Sunday morning it was shown on ETV. If you didnt go to chapel, you stayed in the squadbay and studied your knowledge or squared away your uniforms. Plt 2080 Co D Parris Island SC 1985. Next time, know what youre talking about
Great movie. But Mr. Webb's hair is too long.
Semper Fi, Mr. Webb!
LMAO early adopter Keto diet at 1:49. Can confirm efficacy of that diet.
That was me just a pipsqueak
During World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, but he "washed out" of flight training.
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sign at the beginning of the movie used the wrong form of its.
At 1:51, I am thinking that this the inspiration for recruit Pyle in the movie "Full Metal Jacket" ?
Jack Webb was a robot who never misspoke a single syllable even at an auctioneer’s speed.
PVT Owens at frame [3:12] has his Military Alignment 5 inches out of whack and Gy Webb doesn't make him square that away before he speaks. Typical Sea Lawyer, trying to slime out before he even graduates.
...the ORIGINAL Gunny Hartman...
Classic💯
Owens mom is the star of this movie
Jack Webb was a good guy. The guy that played Owens was in some Dragnet Episodes as was His mother.
The U.S.M.C. Will yield for Moms.
At MCRD San Diego CA 01121983 to 04011983 3rd Recruit Training Battalion Kilo Company Platoons 3005 3006 3007 and mine 3008 During Grunt Week Training Early March, 1983. at MCB Camp Pendleton San Onofre where Infantry Training School was located. We humped up a hill the First Day for a Training Lecture. It starting Raining Monsoon weather the Entire Week. We humped back to our Barracks and our D.I.s told us that They Did not want to have to deal with "The Mothers of America." We trained in the Squad Bay and slept in our sleeping bags on the Deck. The rain stop on our last day so then we humped another hill for a Training session. The next day we went back to MCRD San Diego, CA to finish our Third Phase Boot Camp training to graduate on Friday, April 1st 1983. So we never got a chance to Hump Mount Mother until those of us who were open contract Enlistments were assigned the M.O S. 0300 reported back to I.T.S. Grunt School on 04/16/1983.
Once I got to my First Duty Station Marine Barracks Guam Marianas Island we had cool light green Marine from down Home The South one of the Carolina states Lance Corporal LCPL Charles Gregory McKinney. Now he had been in the Corps for over 8 months and had not called or wrote his mother. Our Commanding Officer Colonel Justus Karl Miller (1935 to 2016) and Sergeant Major James H. Ables had gotten a call from The Red Cross about LCPL McKinney's Mom not hearing from him. They had our Guard Company 2nd Platoon Commander First LIeutenant David T. Liepold and Platoon Sergeant Staff Sergeant SSGT Simmie F. Jackson, Jr. Bring him to the Colonel's office and made him call his Mom. They jumped on him verbally and we all got the lecture -- do not have your mothers needng to call the U.S.M.C. to get in touch with you because of some family disagreement. I made sure to have a $100.00 a month Alottment sent to my Mom until I got my Honorable Discharge so she would not call on me.
@@marcusjustice6165 I hope your Mom saved it for you.
@@MARYREED-nh7gb Well Thank You very much for the thought but that was not the way that turned out. Far be it for any child to criticize the failings of their parents but needless to say I did what I had to do in looking out for my mother until she went to sleep in death in 2004.
@@marcusjustice6165 So sorry for the death of your Mom. My folks are gone too, and I supported them ($$) and two nephews. (Their Mom died at a young age of breast cancer.) You were raised right. I guess we both were, come to think of it.
I hope you will write down more of your experiences. Too many of "the guys" think that their experiences have little meaning, but I find them very enjoyable, and I really think many other people do as well. Besides, I have learned so much from all the different experiences. Blessings to you and your family.
Best damn job I ever had...SFMF ☠️🇺🇸♥️💪
Jack Webb Reminds Me Of Bill Courtney
Hey Marines, thank you for your devoted service! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
The comment he made in polish 🇵🇱 was “how are you doing” but he totally butchered it. I have to listen to it a few times to understand what he was trying to say.
I wish I knew more about boot camp before I joined. No, not really.
The fat potential future marine got off easy with that unsat uniform.
A little Hollywood and they had to keep it clean back in those days. Semper Fi! Carry On.
Actor William Smith portrayed castro.he was in the marines back then you can see the resemblence
William Smith was not a Marine.
You have to check the resemblance they look almost alike the facial features
I love William Smith
Is your DI a good DI?
I didn't know Jack Webb spoke Polish.
3:07 Isn't that an actor?
Does anyone know if they've fixed the misspelling ("it's") on that plaque?
That’s a story for another day.
If it was spelled right it would be a movie about the Navy.
@@zachmartin1458 ouch!
@@zachmartin1458 ouch!
I knew the PVT who did the 11 General Orders!
Semper Fi
Yep, jack webb.
I? I?? I?!?!?!
Heyy all i eat is beans and im extremley healthy
Do they serve candy in Boot Camp. He would not get in 58lbs over weight. Different times or just Movie Bull?
Technical Sergeant? I was a Technical Sergeant but in the Air Force! His rank looked more like a Gunny! What gives?
At the time a Gunnery Sergeant had been renamed as Technical Sergeant, which was then later changed again to Staff Sergeant, and Gunnery Sergeant became an E-7.
you slip and slide for two and...what? Slip, sneak? What does that mean?
It's a football reference to the quarterback sneak that usually gains one to two yards to cross the goal line.
@@FIREBRAND38 how does it relate to USMC boot camp then?
Bootcamp jan 9 89 or in mc terms 89 1 9
never can figure out what Moore asks Casto about looking "like the "after(?)."
The before picture and the 58 lbs lighter “after” picture. Are you squared away now, you got the vision? Alright, get back to the squad bay!
@@jeffmcconnell8446 haha! Yeh, I had a -30lbs "after."
Advertisements for muscle building courses in old comic books always had "before" and "after" pictures.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 that's great! You've reminded me of my late dad's OLD ('40s, '50s) college football magazines and the muscle building ads!! Charles Atlas!
I had a 35 pound after!!! Boot Camp was NO JOKE!!! I am definitely better for it though. The Marine Corps changed my life!!
Help me join love my Usmc
0:57 What are you Polish? Corporal Jeffrey E. Cywinski from Pennsylvania. Big SKI weightlifting bodybuilder. USMC Tour of Duty 1983 To 1986. MCRD Parris Island P.I. S.C. Infantry Training School I.T.S. MCB Camp Geiger N.C. M.O.S. 0311. First Duty Station Marine Barracks Guam Marianas Island M.I. 1983 to 1984.
Second Duty Station: MCB Camp LeJeune, N.C. Mainside Headquarters and Service Company 3rd Battalion 6th Marine Regiment H&S 3/6 French Fourragere 2nd Marine Division 2nd MAR DIV 1984 to 1986. Honorable Discharge.
3:32
It's not it's
No piggies allowed. Why not turn away those overweight recruits.
They would, depending on if they needed you or not. Right now, they do need recruits across the board. So, they will take you into basic and try to get the weight off. I have seen some active-duty female personnel, and I couldn't believe how overweight they were. And I am referring to officers. I didn't know they made uniforms that big! Yes, I know I will get burned for my comment. And yes, I am a female.
No nose rings, pink hair, or safe spaces?? Just good old fashioned Male toxicity!!
In the opening scene, there’s a grammatical mistake in that placard - no wonder we lost Afghanistan.
Maybe, but Al Qaeda, bin Laden are stains on history. We broke the back of international jihadism and the Taliban are a shadow of what they were. Besides, Biden gave it away probably at the request of China. You see, large lithium reserves are there.
The Marines did NOT lose Afghanistan. BIDEN lost Afghanistan.
That was not the fault of the USMC. That was apolitical call.
I recommend Capt. Eliot Ackerman's account of the Battle of Fallujah. He explains in plain terms that we won the war on terrorism but failed at nation building in Afghanistan. Having said all that we had the Taliban subdued until Biden made a deal with someone, probably China to pull out in the most ridiculous, catastrophic fashion. He left billions in gear, got a lot of our troops killed and abandoned our friends who helped us while we were there.
@@MARYREED-nh7gb So was Vietnam. We win the battles and the politicians sell us out.
Marine vets have higher rates of
Divorce
Drug abuse
PTSD
Incarceration
Suicide
Is that what you want for your family ?
Ahh, please site the source. I am calling it attribution error. There is NOTHING from DOD with regards to rates higher than the civilian life. Was the comparison made to law enforcement? Teachers? Farmers? Army? Please qualify the source.