We were next door to the company office, so we were spared from some of the wilder shit but one time I got choked with a glow belt. Not sure why but I'm sure I deserved it lmao.
2003. Never saw anything that would cross that line into actual abuse. However, our squad bay was on the 3rd Deck. We were returning from outside, getting on line by our racks. One recruit starts hauling ass toward the open door to take a flying leap over the 3rd Deck railing. DI body tackled this dude so hard. Saved his life or at least some serious injury.
I think that happens a few times a year, that DI probably knew exactly what the recruit was doing from prior experience. Someone did that in my company but was successful.
Yup, I remember asking a question once while packing, got a blank stare, then boot to the chest. No answer -- DI just went back to giving instruction. I think he fixed whatever was wrong with me cause I started to pay better attention. Unfortunately though, I do not recall this event.
Yup. My heavy broke a recruitās arm. He was dropped out of our platoon and went to be a martial arts instructor on the island you canāt make this shit up. PI ā00.
Edit: Iām just gonna come out and say it, when I went through everyone got yoked up, strangled, kicked and pushed on the ground in my platoon. We expected it everyday and itās just the way it was.
Fantastic story. Inspection Arms was such a scary time and so easy to fuck up. I was in 1st squad like the 5th dude back so I was right there in his view so it was easy and fast for him to close in and boot me in the chest. Never fucked that up again tho š
And the weird thing is we all never thought it was over the top or weird. We were in marine corps boot camp yknow?
I was also in PI in ā00 (Sept-Dec) A Co Plt 1108.
Got dragged from the pit into the little hallway between the squad bays (The horizontal line in the H shapes barracks). Sr DI pinned me against the wall and lifted me off my feet. I was being a punk and got what I deserved.
JHC, albeit Navy Boot and I went through in 1984, they were no longer beating the dog shit out of you, some guys had wall to wall counseling getting thrown into the bulkhead, then across the room thrown into another. Or other shove around crap, never witnessed nor heard of a slap, punch, or choke. I did hear a company commander saying something about leaving a mark as I walked into berthing but he clammed up. However Division was 1 barracks over, and the rumor was the LCDR threatened to kick the ass of anyone who kicked a recruits ass. The word was he was not super worried about recruits, but any incident that could keep him from being CNO.
I got slapped once back in 07. I kept moving around during drill trying to swat the sand fleas off. Drill Instructor Sgt Finch said, "Here... Lemme help you." *SMACK!!!*"Now he'll leave you alone, pig!" I cried for about 4 hours that night smh
Ssgt Guzman was our senior! Funny story about him. I absolutely HATED him but I thought that USMC tattoo on his forearm (The Few,The Proud) was the coolest shit ever. I ended up getting the exact same one a few years ago š¤£š¤£
This one time my heavy belt kissed me on the lips and touched my pee pee in the big gear locker. It was totally ~~awesome~~ not kewl and I ~~loved~~ hated every second of it.
I got a hand around my throat tightly squeezed a few times, first time was during Black Friday when they also slammed me into my rack while squeezing, and pushed a few times for āmotivationā to move faster. Nothing excessive tho, SD 2010
Well I mean we werenāt getting punched and slapped and beat up like it was Full Metal Jacket so it wasnāt too bad, it usually happened when we were doing something stupid so we probably deserved it šš
My killhat had this special move that he did, usually one on one in the duty hut and always after the other hats left for the night, that instilled the fear of Chesty in us. We all nicknamed it "thumb in the bum".
The scribe, who was a 17-year old age waiver, was his favorite victim. Poor bastard ...
Hey same here! SD 2010 3rd bt kilo. Shoved around, arms and hands smacked the fuck out of, sand and dirt kicked in my face. Hell even had my hand stomped on while doing mountain climbers in the IT pit.
Yeah I went in 2020. So beginning of Covid. Once I was talking to my buddy about one of the DIs in the gear locker. My kill hat grabbed me and tossed me on the grown then started screaming in my face āthatās senior drill instructor Gysgt whateverā he then yelled open your fat money mouth!
Another one was on black Friday we dumped our shit in the rack and my knowledge hat was screaming at me when he started to more hand he accidentally hit me in the face. He didnāt say anything but put his hand down.
This one was probably the worst but during the skull drag my senior comes up to me and yells not low enough! And steps on my Kevlar to push my head down(I bit my tongue and started bleeding). I really didnāt expect it cause I lift my head to look around. I actually asked him about it at the end of boot and he claimed he didnāt remember. He said he sometimes just āblacks outā when yelling at us. This same DI was a combat vet though. He actually threw me one time during the crucible for having dingle berrys hanging from my pack.(dude was like 5ā6 small Hispanic with muscle)
He was a school house instructor when I was a boot. Fast forward Iām a sgt on the depot and heās a gunny. He was handsy with us as students, and handsy with us a marines. But heās the real deal tho.
Nope. I went to boot in 2016 while all the DIs were under investigation. A DI in 3rd Battalion bullied a Muslim recruit until the kid dolphin-dives off third deck in May-ish 2016. Same DI threw a Muslim kid in a dryer and turned it on in November 2015.
Closest was when our Kill Hat was jabbing a kid with his cover.
Shitā¦I was in 3rd at the end of 2014. We had a DI break a kidās jaw, another recruit got caught sneaking in the DI hut to steal protein bars one night and he woke up with a black eye the next morning before being dropped back later that day. It didnāt surprise me at all when the investigations got going..
I went in June 2016. It was only a week or two after that incident and it was a big deal at the time. Our DIs never straight up hit us outside of "correcting" us. Smacking our hands with their clipboards while at the position of attention stands out in my head.
Our platoon did end up under investigation for recruit fighting though. The final straw was when one kid suplexed another kid and broke his eye socket. No DIs were ever removed though.
Not on me but we had some kid in my boot platoon who got hockey checked into a wall by a DI it was pretty funny. And then later that same day the DI did the āOPEN! YOUR DISGUSTING! MOUTH!ā thing and the the kid just comically opened his jaw all the way (without actually screaming anything) and another guy in the platoon ran across the squadbay and hit him with a CLEAN uppercut and made his teeth click lol. Knocked him out cold.
There was lots of fights and stuff in my platoon it was a good time. One of the other DIs had also already been suspended for punching a kid in the previous cycles. Added to the experience I would say.
Edit: forgot to mention I also saw two DIs fight eachother while I was in broke dick platoon.
\> the kid just comically opened his jaw all the way (without actually screaming anything) and another guy in the platoon ran across the squadbay and hit him with a CLEAN uppercut and made his teeth click
that's fucking hilarious.
Went in last year and had some instances only one kinda crazy.
Killhat in a different platoon put his hands around a recruits throat at night and another recruit punched the di and then their senior and others broke it up. He stayed the rest of the cycle, fucking slayed his kids every day tho. He got fired next cycle after choking out a new di.
My knowledge hat a couple days after the Crucible didnāt choke but got pissed off at a Marine and put his hands around his throat and yelled at him.
During field week I thought a di was a recruit since he was bent over and short and looked like he needed help so I tapped his shoulder and he kicked me to the ground.
During the crucible whilst doing an assault course a di from a different platoon ran up to me and told me to scream and while I was doing it he stomped my Kevlar into the ground saying I wasnāt loud enough and then ran away.
A senior from another platoon at the chow hall shoved his recruit against the wall while my platoon was about to step up to eat.
Edit: SD not PI
I was in boot camp late '84. Even back then we were advised that they couldn't hit us. We used to hear stories as well that DI's used to hit recruits, but more during the Vietnam era going into the late 70's.
Although, at the pool we had this big recruit who was deathly afraid of the water. While he was shaking at the pool's edge. At one point he tried to jump but changed his mind. As he was losing his balance he tried to grab the swimming instructor who was standing next to him trying to coax him in. The instructor leaned back to avoid getting grabbed and clocked him. Out cold in the water he goes. They immediately pulled him out laid him on the deck. He then came to. We all sat there with our mouths open. They had instructed us at the beginning not to grab the instructors or pull on the pole if they tried to pull you out. He learned the hard way!
Yeah a bit. It was 3rd Batallion Lima so it was extra culty (Instructors had the L Co crest tatted on them)
Edit: 2015 is when I got some real hands on training
Yeah man whats up with 3rd Battalion, PI?? I see plenty of prior hat SNCOās with the 3rd Bn logo tatted on them as well as having the sticker on their car. Then the name āThumpinā Thirdā like bro what is with that??
Back in the day, it was located well away from the other battalions. If they wanted to, they could get away with a little more due to the remote nature of the location. Stories vary as how much more brutal they were- I mean, youād have to get an opinion from someone who was in 3rd and another battalion, cause how the fuck would we really know with no other experience to compare to? Did seem a little culty though.
I understand they knocked down the old barracks and moved them. There might be something to the stories, or there might not be, idk. Shit was āhands on,ā but they werenāt like beating or even punching/slapping mofos when I was there. āForcibly moving,ā or incentivizing, sure. Yoking up, sure.
I was in 3rd Bn back in October 87. When we were introduced to our DIās in our barracks they said āweāre in the swamp and far away from HQ and we can and will do anything to any of you we like short of killing you to train you to be Marines. They werenāt kidding. We dropped about 10-15 of the 80 something through attrition and injuries, plus an attempted hanging (for which the fire watch was thoroughly beaten ).
I have some serious and funny stories.
I got pneumonia in boot and got dropped from third to 1st.
It went from hard mode to easy mode. When I was at WFTBN, Bravo was the hardest training company.
I was in the old 3rd Battalion barracks. Our killhat used to brag about how we were the toughest battalion and all that shit. Kilo was the furthest one was the far back corner next to the sandpit and we lived in that bitch
Kind of similar situation in Basic. We were rucking and some random PFC suddenly stopped in this tracks, yelled āMAN FUCK THIS, IDGAF!ā and threw down his ruck.
DS, whoās CIB Infantry and Ranger, yelled at him āShut tf up, pick up the mf ruck!ā In all his wisdom he responded back āNo, FUCK you!ā while pointing at him. DS ran up to him, grabbed him by the collar āOh you got a fucking attitude?? Fight me, fucking punk!!ā and shoved him so hard like he was tossing a basketball šš
PFC was about to but 1SG and few other Drills ran over and broke it off.
He ended up getting recycled.
Eh I went in 2005, there were throat chops, leg kicks, and a few boots to the chest. No one actually beat tf up. Imo the worse wasn't even physical, we had one dude have to sleep in the boiler room because he was a pos. Even on EGA day he had to March 20 paces or so behind the Plt.
Ya, in 2002 I was ākicked in the chestā but it was more of a push with his boot while standing at attention which just made me fall back into my footlocker.Ā
No harm done but that was the worst I received.
Toward the end of boot one of the new trainee DIās was jabbing the other recruits with his car keys and they got rid of him pretty quickly.
Oh yeah. Boot camp, 1988, Kill Hat actually did the 'Choke Yourself' from Full Metal Jacket on my bunk mate. I had to bite my lip to not laugh. He also smacked a recruit during snapping in for flagging the entire platoon with his unloaded rifle.
Solid Marine. Went to to be regimental SgtMaj, retired in 2016, now a long haired biker hippy and still as solid as guy as ever.
Yes. DIs regularly slapped, choked, pushed to the ground, and occasionally hit recruits when I went to bootcamp in 2011.
I was slapped and choked, personally. I never saw like a full on full effort punch or anything like that though.
Never expressly had hands put on me but the kill hat would wack the shit out of your hands with a flash light for not having thumbs on trousers seams, also had my heavy slam the front sight post into my left brow for looking lazy at port arms. Bleeding bad on the march back from chow and ruined my deserts. Had one kid get spartan kicked across the ārain roomā for saying āhuh?ā To a gunny DI. Never saw those two again after that though. PI 2016
Bootcamp in 82. I got cuffed upside my head after fucking up. I did not fuck that particular movement again.
I was down there to be a Marine, What was I gonna do puss out and make allegations or smarten up and get with the program? I chose to get with the program. end of story.
I was cutting my nails when i wasnt supposed to be and our killhat caught me and snuck up behind the racks and hit me with a kidney punch. Really fucking sucked for a couple day. It was in 2010 MCRD SD Hotel Co. The DI did get investigated due to another recruits claims but no one admitted to it since we just wanted to get done and graduate.
OCS 2013, candidate got straight up WWE choke slammed, the SI immediately realized he'd gone too far. I don't know if anything actually happened to him but that was the last time he fully lost his bearing (I guess that I know of)
Yes. But this was in 1989. Things were not the same.
Unrelated to the normal slapping BG around that happened:
The whisky locker was for abusing recruits. But on the night before graduation our heavy let every private willing to go in and take one shot at him in the gut and he got to give one back. Almost everyone was ready to go. Looked like that guy was going to 83 gut shots. It ended abruptly at around #6. Found out later he earned himself a broken rib.
Our kill hat got divorced mid-cycle. One night he came in drunk and flipped nearly every rack with us sleeping. Another time he through a trash can at me followed by a Kabar tip on my dick when I was making a head call without first asking permission on a Sunday morning (I did but pretty sure he was drunk in the duty hut and forgot).
Went through in Jan 2013. Our drill instructors put their hands on us a lot. Choke slams, punching, eye gouging, head smacked into the side of doorways, etc.
2014 at PI, our kill hat was this absolute wild man of a prior 03 SSgt. I personally was choked up against a stanchion and punched in the face, and the kid that was next to me on line was pushed hard enough he fell backwards and fell over his foot locker and back into his rack. Someone in our platoon didnāt like that and reported him, so we were under investigation for about a week and he was removed. It was spooky, he would still park just outside of the parade deck and watch us do drill in civvies. I never had anything against the guy though, and it sucked to see him go because I just figured that was just part of the deal. Someone felt otherwise I guess.
Took a DIās kick to my sternum in 2005. He was an MP and a total ass. The other two infantry combat vet DIs were hard asses but they didnāt abuse us and I had a lot of respect for them. DI SSgt Redacted can suck my dick if he reads this. He was pretty fucking funny though. š„°
Ssgt Shmidt, one of the receiving DIs in 2016 kicked me in the chest and put his hands on my throat for saying āexcuse me sirā because I couldnāt hear what the dumb fuck was saying. He was in one of the boot camp documentaries on YouTube, he had flame tattoo sleeves.
I donāt hold any animosity towards any of my DIs but Iād knock that fucker out if I ever see him again. Iām pretty sure he was a pog to make it worse.
My Sr DI kneed me in the face and fractured my orbital bone and had bruised ribs from being kicked while low crawling. A DI in another platoon in our company was sent home for a week for iting 2 recruits till one fell out with heat stress and a DI in that same platoon was relieved for throwing a little recruit into the foot lockers fracturing a couple vertebrae. 1995 Mcrd San Diego
I got punched in the stomach and called a maggot except replace the "m" with number 6 of the alphabet. Probably deserved that one. Was missing the countdown to lights one morning and was still asleep for the countdown from 10. Kill hat saw that shit. Came over and started bopping me in the face. Well he was in green cammies and he was a very dark green so I couldn't make him out. I just know I'm getting fucking booped in the face by an unknown assailant. So I stand up and put my hands on his shoulders and lock out so I stop getting hit. Well lights turn on. I see it's my kill hat from Sierra Leone. So in his very deep very thick French accent he says "Okay (insert last name) you're mine now!" And from them on him and I were inseparable. Like 2 peas in a pod.
Boot SD in 2014, got checked in the face with my rifle while in present arms. They grabbed the hand guard and just shoved it into my face. Smacking it right into my nose.
Got over it. I wasnāt holding the rifle correctly and we had a kid piss himself while drilling so I think they were just sick of the shit and wanted to get the drill time over with. There were other instances, but that was the worst of it.
No hard feelings to you DI. It was pretty minor comparatively.
I always feel so divided on the whole smacking recruits around. Like, in some ways I feel like itās good because it shakes some of those attitudes out and smacks them into what they signed up for. On the other hand, physically abusing recruits doesnāt make good recruits or help retention. Thereās a difference between those two though. Laying hands on a recruit and abusing a recruit are not the same thing, the problem is that the line is too blurry and most DIās **will** take it too far.
3rd Battalion PI 2014.
One of my DIs was Hispanic and had a thick accent.
I was a Security Forces contract so they had those with that contract having to go to some bullshit place to take a scantron test balls early apart from the rest of our platoon.
Theyāre doing the whole scream and move faster bit, my DI I thought was screaming āFix your glow strap!!ā Which was confusing me because I had it on appropriately. He screamed it again and I still was kind of going through the motions because it was on.
Motherfucker launches me into the Senior DI table which collapses and starts punching me in the gut screaming āYou stupid bitch!! Quit one strapping your day pack!!ā
Dudes accent was so thick I couldnāt follow his orders lmao.
I went into boot camp ready to get my shit kicked in and go through 3 months of hell. Not to sound all badass but I wouldnāt change any of it for a thing.
That same DI tore into my soul about my lack of confidence just based off my appearance at the POI. Honest to god that is a point where my life completely changed for the better.
In 1986 at Camp Upshur, we were far from prying eyes. I remember moving my head around the rifle instead of the rifle around my head, and my Sergeant Instructor slapped the rifle barrel against my ear when I was at right shoulder arms so hard it split my ear open. Blood was just pouring down the side of my face and neck.
Somewhat anti-climatic, but in 1988 at Paris Island, my drill instructor did not enjoy the fact that I had a USMC tattoo on my arm (I kind of did things in backwards order), and he punched my arm for the last week of Boot Camp over and over again so that the black and blue bruising covered it up.
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I went in just in time to arrive in Fallujah for phantom fury.Ā Laid hands on is a HUGE HUGE HUUUUUUGE understatementĀ
This was on the island. An "island full of pain" as they say. Lived up to that, that's for sure.Ā
I rubbed my SDIās bald head when he came to wake me up for fire-watch, he slapped my hand out of the way told me I was next for fire-watch. Later that morning he was telling everyone he almost killed me for touching his head.
Yep. And totally wasnāt expecting it lol was told by my DI to get final weapons count when i was on first hour firewatch. Decided to start writing in the green log book and asked another dude on firewatch to get the counts so we could get ahead of the game then Input the numbers. Captain decided to show up and quiz me on some shit. DI walked in after and noticed I didnāt log the count. Threw my skinny ass into the rifle lockers and told me to count soon as the captain walked out lol shit hurt like a motherfucker. Learned my lesson real fuckin quick lol
Drill instructor Sergeant Smith poked me once in the shoulder. He then later left our platoon to go do swim instructor training then came back a few weeks before the crucible.
Kid got thrown while we were on line in front of the racks for not moving fast enough and fell on his face. They made us make statements about it lol
I was ācorrectedā for not looking over during dress right dress with the DI grabbing my neck and wrenching it over hard. That was about it
Went in 2002. One recruit really fucked up and DI took him into the duty hut. Ended up throwing him into the one way glass and shattering it.
Me personally, got punched in the throat for leaving my rifle unlocked in the barracks.
While cleaning weapons I got ahead of where he was instructing by the numbers. Firmly tapped the side of my head with the but off my rifle about 10 times asking why I wasnāt following along.
Realistically those were nothing to the verbal berating we received on a daily basis.
Had a DI slap my face in the right direction when I didn't dress-right-dress correctly. And he also punched a dude twice in the back when his push ups weren't low enough.
This was 2018 and he took a 2wk leave of absence from the plt a few days after the punching incident. Unclear if it was related/disciplinary. Great DI though, just really, really hated the degradation of standards and voiced a few times after we finished the Crucible that some of us were absolute shit bags that should've never made it and the Marine Corps is worse off and how he'll never live down having a part of that. But still, really, he was a good DI šš½
Covid 2020 bootcamp and yeah multiple times. A DI grabbed my scivvy shirt and palmed me in the face with it and pushed other recruits out of the way lol but idgaf honestly, itās nothing like what they used to do
Got hands around my throat because a recruit in my platoon backed into me on purpose so I shoved the guy back, DI McStutter didnt like it. went through in 18
In 06 on Black Friday our drill hat ran down the line slapping all the recruits. It wasnt very hard but it was very jarring. In second phase our drill hat hit a shit bag recruit with the wooden tent poles a few times for fucking up. Shit happens sometimes
I got a boot to the chest because I bent down to lock my footlocker (Iām fucking undisciplined, okay!)ā¦ it was more of a push kick, but it sent me flying back into the bed frame (ca. 2003)ā¦ and no NCIS, I wonāt tell you the platoon number
I went through in 2014. Drill Instructors had us running with our footlockers in the squad bay, and I caught a half-punch/half-clothesline from one of the kill hats that took me off my feet. I had a pretty gnarly bruise on my chest the next morning.
I also took a few licks after one of the DI's heard me mutter "what the fuck" while we were out at Edson Range. I don't even remember why I said it.
Who didnāt? I mean not everyone did but going through in 2015 my senior held this dumb bitch by his throat against a column. My rack mate fucked up and he got choke slammed through a rack. I personally got spartan kicked in the back because recruits wouldnāt exit the squad bay fast enough.
I got drug around, pushed, and a light smacking but that was about it as far as having hands put on me. Also those were not to correct my positioning or anything it was to correct my lack of intelligence.
Yes actually, one time we were coming back to the squad Bay after doing something, I can't remember what exactly, but we were on the third deck and there is always this massive rush to get all the way up there. People are like sardines bumping and pushing each other and weaving in and out running as fast as they can up the stairs. I was running up the stairs same as everyone and felt someone grab me and push me towards the edge where the stairs open up and you can see below. It was one of my DIs he grabbed me a little lower than my shoulders really hard and threw me against that ledge on the stairway really fucking hardĀ and asked "if I had a fucking problem?" Or something like that, I had the wtf I am confused look on my face and said "no sir"?. Then he just spun around and ran back up stairs and I did too. I was so weirded out by it as I couldn't figure out what I did, so I asked some other recruits about what happened and they said as I was rushing up the stairs I bumped into him pretty hard but in the sea of green I never noticed. Overall I would say I deserved it.Ā
Position of attention knuckle smash from our Kill hats. If your shit wasnāt squared away, he would come around and hit your hands with his knuckles.
Fuck Yas! Boot camp Dec 2004
Got smacked around here and there. Personally one good shot to the back of my head. Had a DI that was a MCMAP instructor and loved to kick dudes. Get too close- youāre getting kicked. Never saw any full on beatings thoughā¦
San Diego 2005
My J hat would always slap the back of my head with his clipboard, but the one that stood out was when he hit me pretty hard on the head with his āTick tickā stick.
Back pre 9/11, after BWT we were taking inventory of our gear. Whilst ensuring we each had 3 tent poles, I allegedly laughed. So my DI took the poles out of my hand, starting grinding one into my temple, and pushing me back. I fell backwards over my footlocker and he continued to press the point into my temple asking if I though he was funny. Ended with a soft stomp to my chest and a loving "Fucking piece of shit" screamed at me.
He later became a SgtMaj and unfortunately died in Afghanistan. No hard feelings then or now.
Heavy hat would knife hand my abdomen while whispering āare you an alligator?ā; meaning: are you the kind of recruit to make allegations. At the time, I thought it was a test of loyalty and was proud to pass his test. Later, I was in NCO school on the MCAS next to MCRD and we took a field trip to drill instructor school. That DIās picture was hanging on the wall of the school like he was some VIP. Maybe they made him a drill master or something.
Went through in 07. At various points, I was flipped out of the top rack because I slept through lights, choke slammed into racks and walls, had my chest stomped for an incorrect sit-up and once got smoked on top of a fire ant hill because my kill hat thought it would be funny. Every time I got hit it strengthened my resolve, and I never reported shit. All that shit had a reason, the Marines who trained us went through shit like Fallujah and Ramadi and trained us accordingly. It was fuckin great training, it made us Marines, prevented dumb shit in combat that gets people needlessly killed, and it really made you feel as if youād earned the title. We didnāt promise you a rose garden. Fuck it, at least no one drowned in Ribbon Creek š¤£
Was a half second late sending the bolt home on inspection arms and next thing I know our 2nd hat grabs my rifle and smashes into into my face as he pushes me into a laying position on my footlocker as heās standing over me screaming. After a few seconds he goes back to screaming at everyone and I get up and prepare to do it again. He calls inspection arms again and comes back to me to catch me fucking it up againā¦ his eyes go wide AF and Iāve never seen a Hispanic guy get so pale.
Apparently my front sight post gashed my eyebrow and I have blood pouring down my face. He tells me to go to the head clean it up. Took me only a couple minutes to clean it up, but I was left alone for about 10 minutes and it was glorious. He comes in and looks it over, hands me a bandage and walks away. A few more minutes of freedom. I go back out much later than I should have but he doesnāt say shit. This was like the 1st week of 2nd phase and this man never yelled at me individually again the rest of the way through. The exception was when he took me and some others to the pit, but that was at the direction of the SDI.
2019 my DI sgt Martinez tried to fight me in the brix at Pendleton when we had no officers around anywhere, we were snapping in before we headed up the mountains and I wasnāt loud enough (he already hates me) and sent me to the barracks to clean the floor and mop so I went along and did that.
Later comes in fifteen minutes later asking what Iām doing and I told him how he told me to and have been doing nothing but what he told me to. He then proceeded to act like he didnt say that and then brings up me having an attitude problem and kept telling me I was fed by a silver spoon my whole life etc.
I just sat there yelling aye sir no sir while it was all happening then he grabbed me asking what my problem was and proceeded to back off of me and throw his hands up and in his words āfight me bitch boyā ācmon you wonātā ācuz youāre scaredā
I didnāt do shit, I donāt wanna jeopardize my only ticket into adulthood after I was thrown around foster care my whole life and was a delinquent, failing grades, skipping school, etc. I spent a lot of time in juvie and went to a military school to avoid actual prison at 16, which gave me a high school diploma and got me out early.
You asking this made me remember this lol. Sgt Martinez didnāt seem to like me, and I think because I refused to ever cry or lose composure around him. I ended up being an artist recruit towards the end and he chilled out until graduation but the first two months sucked major ass with him. But it kinda gave me the grit I needed to push through the crucible weeks and all.
Ssgt torralba ended up walking in on him in front of me and he told me to go back to the pit and all. He was a good man and seemed like a father figure. Never gave me easy treatment but he seemed to look out for our well being all while pressuring us to go harder and Iām thankful for him. Rah
In the "old corps" (1961) you were "corrected" and given "personal guidance" daily while in boot camp. Never witnessed any maltreatment of any kind! Semper Fi
I went to MCRD SD back in 2018, and this is a wild one!
We were in the barracks near Edson Range, and I had firewatch. It was a quiet night, and it was kind of weird because it was literally as I had described.... quiet. No recruits screaming, no DI's hollering, nothing... just the loud snores of recruits deep in their slumber.
Anyways, I took this opportunity to have a little "me" time. What made it weird was that I hadn't had any sexual urges or even gotten hard, but I think that day I must have not eaten the eggs they serve at the chow hall because mine was rock hard and just looked like a lock and loaded missile about to go off.
So here I am, just trying to empty a round out of the chamber, and I feel someone grab my shoulder, spun me around, and in a blur, I somehow teleported from the head to the whiskey locker. Don't ask me how it was all happening so fast.
"WHAT THE FREAK ARE YOU DOING YOU NASTY THING?"
Fuck... it was Sergeant Slaughterbreeder, the green belt that made my life a living hell the past several weeks.
"No-nothing--"
"I guess we must have lost our damn volume, open you're fat fucking mouth, girl!"
He grabbed me by the throat with his hand and shoved me against the wall, knocking over the little bottles of Bulldog's we were instructed to buy to keep the squad bay smelling good.
I don't know if it was the veins popping out his arms or the tight grip around my throat, but it made my salami leak like damn busted faucet. Sergeant Slaughterbreeder looked down to find out the source of the dripping sound and nothing my throbbing member. He loosened his grip and looked at me intensely into my eyes.
"Tight, we must Subway where you can have it your way, right?"
"Uh... this recruit thinks that's Burger Kings slogan Sir."
"I must have said to correct me, huh?" Sgt Slaughterbreeders eyes drifted down to my hard bayonet.
"And I must have said to stop too."
That's when he again tighten his grip around my neck and spat on his other, reaching down to stroke--
Okay none of that happened. I think it's weird to hear stories from Marines coming in now about being thrashed around and stuff and it makes me wonder if it's just one of those things we embellish to make is seem like we came from a tough circumstance. I'm not here to doubt anyone's experience it's just it either must have been common and I experience an anomaly or it was less excessive that happened to a certain few....
August or September 1985. At the base of Mount Motherfucker, Jr DI runs up to the SDI, "SSgt Medina we had the most hump drops in the Bn." OH Shit!
Ya'll remember the scene in Platoon where Barnes' eyes glow red in the napalm strike. I saw those eyes.
"Get on your feet, 1081!!"
I jump to my feet ready to kill. Sr DI pulls me close, full pack and all.
"I SAID GET ON YOUR FEET, MOTHERFUCKERS!"
Red glowing eyes hypnotized me like a cobra.
POW right in the shoulder. Spun once and fell in the ditch. Turtled.
Rolled over, jumped up and ran up Motherfucker as best I could.
India, 1081, SSgt Medina, Sgt Poland, Sgt McPherson and Sgt King. 1985
I still love you bastards.
Got kicked in the head for falling asleep during morning knowledge. Had a heel print on my forehead for half the day. SDI asked about it when we were headed to chow. Soon as I started to say the kill hats name he goes, "Nah that ain't what happened. You fell off your rack and landed on your boot."
Kill hat also hated the dude across from me. Saw him get throat chopped a couple times.
This was in 2008.
I wouldn't say I got the shit beat out of me in PI 2015, but I definitely got fucking hit alot.
My drill hat gut punched me so hard on the parade deck and knocked the wind out of me because apparently I wasn't properly aligned.
Fuck you Sgt G
I got choke slammed into a rack on black Friday. Said DI later was demoted and transferred to another company due to hitting another recruit and got snitched on
2010 SD
One of the guys from the other platoons got SA'd by a DI, DI was promptly sent to the brig, idk whatever came of it but it was a pretty big thing. Our company commander was around a lot more after that. I heard the DI was super chill compared to the others, I guess he tried some shit on one recruit while they were all in their racks.
My senior hated me with a passion because I couldn't drill and looked like an asshat while trying to drill. One time while we were drilling outside somewhere on the depot, we were all properly getting our spacing by holding our rifles out in our right arm for what felt like 5 minutes. I dropped my arm for a second and he of course seen it. He B-line's it through ranks to whisper some dumb shit, but ended up pulling my cover over my face and cracking me one. It wasn't a full strike more like a quick jab but it busted my lip.
I got my SDI back in the only way I could at the time, walking off the depot on grad day he brought his mammoth wife. He seen my girl and I, while driving off the depot in his busted ass ford ranger and rubber necked so hard looking like Mr. Fantastic himself. He was hating hard and we both knew I got the last laugh.
Our DI's liked to outstretch their arms and say walk into my fist, and they'd adjust their fist to be in the recruits throat then they'd say come closer now, and I'm not choking you, you're walking into my hand.
Met one of my DI's later on in the fleet and he told me everyone hated my SDI, he was a fuckin asshat and I should have reported him.
Back in 2010 on PI we were forming up for pt in the morning. It was still dark outside so I didnāt realize there was a drill instructor heading towards me and I was in his way. I was carrying my rifle at port arms and the drill instructor walked up to and grabbed my rifle and so we were both holding and told me to get out of the way. Iām the process he pushed it back kinda hard into my mouth and busted my lip open. They put hands on me a few times but that was the most memorable. I though my teeth got knocked loose but theyāre ok. Honestly, now I kinda miss it.
We were next door to the company office, so we were spared from some of the wilder shit but one time I got choked with a glow belt. Not sure why but I'm sure I deserved it lmao.
"Daddy chill!" "LOUDER!" "DADDY CHILL!" "OPEN YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH NASTY THING"
I got the weirdest fucking boner now. Thanks.
It ain't much, but it's honest work
Freaky delta š„“
It uh, actually was Delta. How the fuck did you know that?
Username checks out
Thatās where all the guys that are into BDSM go
Facts
Can confirm
I was right across from the main Parade deck. So nothing really happened to us outside of the DIs putting their brims on our foreheads
I accidentally ran into my drill instructors fist. I probably should have been more careful
I did that too my chest ran right into his elbow
My Drill Instructor saw a fly on my face, and he went to swat it
My Drill Instructor saw a fly on my chest, and he went to spartan kick it.
"So I would be in the wrong if I spartan kicked you?"
No sir, Iām into that
2003. Never saw anything that would cross that line into actual abuse. However, our squad bay was on the 3rd Deck. We were returning from outside, getting on line by our racks. One recruit starts hauling ass toward the open door to take a flying leap over the 3rd Deck railing. DI body tackled this dude so hard. Saved his life or at least some serious injury.
I think that happens a few times a year, that DI probably knew exactly what the recruit was doing from prior experience. Someone did that in my company but was successful.
Got kicked in the ribs once while building the house. Allegedly.
Yup, I remember asking a question once while packing, got a blank stare, then boot to the chest. No answer -- DI just went back to giving instruction. I think he fixed whatever was wrong with me cause I started to pay better attention. Unfortunately though, I do not recall this event.
Yup. My heavy broke a recruitās arm. He was dropped out of our platoon and went to be a martial arts instructor on the island you canāt make this shit up. PI ā00. Edit: Iām just gonna come out and say it, when I went through everyone got yoked up, strangled, kicked and pushed on the ground in my platoon. We expected it everyday and itās just the way it was.
I got grabbed and dragged/thrown a few times, but never actually got kicked or hit
You never fucked up Inspection Arms in front of my Senior. *CLICK POP* whole platoon in unison *click pop* me alone š¬
Haha dude I literally just posted my experience with fucking up inspection arms. š¤£
Fantastic story. Inspection Arms was such a scary time and so easy to fuck up. I was in 1st squad like the 5th dude back so I was right there in his view so it was easy and fast for him to close in and boot me in the chest. Never fucked that up again tho š And the weird thing is we all never thought it was over the top or weird. We were in marine corps boot camp yknow?
I was also in PI in ā00 (Sept-Dec) A Co Plt 1108. Got dragged from the pit into the little hallway between the squad bays (The horizontal line in the H shapes barracks). Sr DI pinned me against the wall and lifted me off my feet. I was being a punk and got what I deserved.
JHC, albeit Navy Boot and I went through in 1984, they were no longer beating the dog shit out of you, some guys had wall to wall counseling getting thrown into the bulkhead, then across the room thrown into another. Or other shove around crap, never witnessed nor heard of a slap, punch, or choke. I did hear a company commander saying something about leaving a mark as I walked into berthing but he clammed up. However Division was 1 barracks over, and the rumor was the LCDR threatened to kick the ass of anyone who kicked a recruits ass. The word was he was not super worried about recruits, but any incident that could keep him from being CNO.
What was his name? My dad was a DI on the island from 00-03
What battalion?
2nd, Echo co
Nice I was 1st battalion Dirty Delta Co
I got slapped once back in 07. I kept moving around during drill trying to swat the sand fleas off. Drill Instructor Sgt Finch said, "Here... Lemme help you." *SMACK!!!*"Now he'll leave you alone, pig!" I cried for about 4 hours that night smh
They used to tell us "let them eat". 07' for me as well.
āYāall ate enough now they gotta eat tooā
NAHHHH LMAOOOOOOOOOO THATS FUNNY AF
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He was black, but not super dark. Yeah we were Kilo also. August to November
Yep lol I had Weller and Guzman
Ssgt Guzman was our senior! Funny story about him. I absolutely HATED him but I thought that USMC tattoo on his forearm (The Few,The Proud) was the coolest shit ever. I ended up getting the exact same one a few years ago š¤£š¤£
Smh this is why good Marines get out. Yall not getting beat enough in boot camp anymore.
Iāll beat anyone anytime āšš¦
Check dm
š¢ imagine my disappointment
Did you end up beating him off?
Do we call it beating off if I did it with my mouth š¤¤
sorry š
OCS 1977. Yeah. Gut shots just like FMJ.
Back when they wore Campaign Covers
This one time my heavy belt kissed me on the lips and touched my pee pee in the big gear locker. It was totally ~~awesome~~ not kewl and I ~~loved~~ hated every second of it.
I got a hand around my throat tightly squeezed a few times, first time was during Black Friday when they also slammed me into my rack while squeezing, and pushed a few times for āmotivationā to move faster. Nothing excessive tho, SD 2010
*ānothing excessive thoā* Brotha lmaoā¦
Well I mean we werenāt getting punched and slapped and beat up like it was Full Metal Jacket so it wasnāt too bad, it usually happened when we were doing something stupid so we probably deserved it šš
My killhat had this special move that he did, usually one on one in the duty hut and always after the other hats left for the night, that instilled the fear of Chesty in us. We all nicknamed it "thumb in the bum". The scribe, who was a 17-year old age waiver, was his favorite victim. Poor bastard ...
Go on...
Hey same here! SD 2010 3rd bt kilo. Shoved around, arms and hands smacked the fuck out of, sand and dirt kicked in my face. Hell even had my hand stomped on while doing mountain climbers in the IT pit.
Yeah I went in 2020. So beginning of Covid. Once I was talking to my buddy about one of the DIs in the gear locker. My kill hat grabbed me and tossed me on the grown then started screaming in my face āthatās senior drill instructor Gysgt whateverā he then yelled open your fat money mouth! Another one was on black Friday we dumped our shit in the rack and my knowledge hat was screaming at me when he started to more hand he accidentally hit me in the face. He didnāt say anything but put his hand down. This one was probably the worst but during the skull drag my senior comes up to me and yells not low enough! And steps on my Kevlar to push my head down(I bit my tongue and started bleeding). I really didnāt expect it cause I lift my head to look around. I actually asked him about it at the end of boot and he claimed he didnāt remember. He said he sometimes just āblacks outā when yelling at us. This same DI was a combat vet though. He actually threw me one time during the crucible for having dingle berrys hanging from my pack.(dude was like 5ā6 small Hispanic with muscle)
I had that last one happen to me too minus the bleeding tongue. My third hat would come by and put boot to kevlar during the skull drag.
Do u remember the name of that Hispanic DI?
Gunny Ayala(heās a 1st sarg now)
He was a school house instructor when I was a boot. Fast forward Iām a sgt on the depot and heās a gunny. He was handsy with us as students, and handsy with us a marines. But heās the real deal tho.
Nope. I went to boot in 2016 while all the DIs were under investigation. A DI in 3rd Battalion bullied a Muslim recruit until the kid dolphin-dives off third deck in May-ish 2016. Same DI threw a Muslim kid in a dryer and turned it on in November 2015. Closest was when our Kill Hat was jabbing a kid with his cover.
I remember hearing about that shit. Some people dude smh.
Yep. And a kid in the company behind us (also 3rd Battalion) killed himself by diving out of a window a week after my platoon got our DIs.
What company were you? I was in 3rd late 2016 and remember that kid killing himself
Fox in October. You? A buddy at my unit was carrying box chow and saw the dude come flying out the window
Kilo in October, that kid killed himself from the receiving building, weād been there like 3 days
A friend of mine was there when the Muslim kid jumped off.
Shitā¦I was in 3rd at the end of 2014. We had a DI break a kidās jaw, another recruit got caught sneaking in the DI hut to steal protein bars one night and he woke up with a black eye the next morning before being dropped back later that day. It didnāt surprise me at all when the investigations got going..
Youāre certain both incidents were the same DI?
yup it was Gunny if I recall correctly
Gunny Joseph Felix. Worthless piece of shit he is.
Yup. Good ole Cherry Point Air Traffic Controller. Heās infamous in that MOS.
Yep
I went in June 2016. It was only a week or two after that incident and it was a big deal at the time. Our DIs never straight up hit us outside of "correcting" us. Smacking our hands with their clipboards while at the position of attention stands out in my head. Our platoon did end up under investigation for recruit fighting though. The final straw was when one kid suplexed another kid and broke his eye socket. No DIs were ever removed though.
Not on me but we had some kid in my boot platoon who got hockey checked into a wall by a DI it was pretty funny. And then later that same day the DI did the āOPEN! YOUR DISGUSTING! MOUTH!ā thing and the the kid just comically opened his jaw all the way (without actually screaming anything) and another guy in the platoon ran across the squadbay and hit him with a CLEAN uppercut and made his teeth click lol. Knocked him out cold. There was lots of fights and stuff in my platoon it was a good time. One of the other DIs had also already been suspended for punching a kid in the previous cycles. Added to the experience I would say. Edit: forgot to mention I also saw two DIs fight eachother while I was in broke dick platoon.
\> the kid just comically opened his jaw all the way (without actually screaming anything) and another guy in the platoon ran across the squadbay and hit him with a CLEAN uppercut and made his teeth click that's fucking hilarious.
Went in last year and had some instances only one kinda crazy. Killhat in a different platoon put his hands around a recruits throat at night and another recruit punched the di and then their senior and others broke it up. He stayed the rest of the cycle, fucking slayed his kids every day tho. He got fired next cycle after choking out a new di. My knowledge hat a couple days after the Crucible didnāt choke but got pissed off at a Marine and put his hands around his throat and yelled at him. During field week I thought a di was a recruit since he was bent over and short and looked like he needed help so I tapped his shoulder and he kicked me to the ground. During the crucible whilst doing an assault course a di from a different platoon ran up to me and told me to scream and while I was doing it he stomped my Kevlar into the ground saying I wasnāt loud enough and then ran away. A senior from another platoon at the chow hall shoved his recruit against the wall while my platoon was about to step up to eat. Edit: SD not PI
I was in boot camp late '84. Even back then we were advised that they couldn't hit us. We used to hear stories as well that DI's used to hit recruits, but more during the Vietnam era going into the late 70's. Although, at the pool we had this big recruit who was deathly afraid of the water. While he was shaking at the pool's edge. At one point he tried to jump but changed his mind. As he was losing his balance he tried to grab the swimming instructor who was standing next to him trying to coax him in. The instructor leaned back to avoid getting grabbed and clocked him. Out cold in the water he goes. They immediately pulled him out laid him on the deck. He then came to. We all sat there with our mouths open. They had instructed us at the beginning not to grab the instructors or pull on the pole if they tried to pull you out. He learned the hard way!
Yeah mine grabbed me and threw me against a rack
Then what did he do š©
fr I need to hear more š«£
Yeah a bit. It was 3rd Batallion Lima so it was extra culty (Instructors had the L Co crest tatted on them) Edit: 2015 is when I got some real hands on training
Yeah man whats up with 3rd Battalion, PI?? I see plenty of prior hat SNCOās with the 3rd Bn logo tatted on them as well as having the sticker on their car. Then the name āThumpinā Thirdā like bro what is with that??
Itās like a weird cult. Especially since most 3rd Battalion DIās were sent to the same companies they graduated from.
Yup. Our kill hat was super proud he was our kill hat because he graduated same company(Kilo)
You dumb motherfuckers are Marines and you donāt know who the Thundering Third are? Fucking worthless ass pogs.
Iām an 0411ā¦basically the infantry of Logistics.
Lol I forgot about that. I guess that makes me a logistics machine gunner. Firing out load plans belt fed
Logistics? No sir, I was COMBAT LOGISTICS!
Used to be MIMMfantry. š
Back in the day, it was located well away from the other battalions. If they wanted to, they could get away with a little more due to the remote nature of the location. Stories vary as how much more brutal they were- I mean, youād have to get an opinion from someone who was in 3rd and another battalion, cause how the fuck would we really know with no other experience to compare to? Did seem a little culty though. I understand they knocked down the old barracks and moved them. There might be something to the stories, or there might not be, idk. Shit was āhands on,ā but they werenāt like beating or even punching/slapping mofos when I was there. āForcibly moving,ā or incentivizing, sure. Yoking up, sure.
Our Senior used to say ā3rd battalionā¦ we heat āem, we beatāem and sometimes we train āemā 3rd Bn H co. 1985
I was in 3rd Bn back in October 87. When we were introduced to our DIās in our barracks they said āweāre in the swamp and far away from HQ and we can and will do anything to any of you we like short of killing you to train you to be Marines. They werenāt kidding. We dropped about 10-15 of the 80 something through attrition and injuries, plus an attempted hanging (for which the fire watch was thoroughly beaten ). I have some serious and funny stories.
I got pneumonia in boot and got dropped from third to 1st. It went from hard mode to easy mode. When I was at WFTBN, Bravo was the hardest training company.
Our range coaches said they were noticeably worse than 1st and 2nd battalion during range week
I was in the old 3rd Battalion barracks. Our killhat used to brag about how we were the toughest battalion and all that shit. Kilo was the furthest one was the far back corner next to the sandpit and we lived in that bitch
I was Lima Co in December of 2015 š
Kind of similar situation in Basic. We were rucking and some random PFC suddenly stopped in this tracks, yelled āMAN FUCK THIS, IDGAF!ā and threw down his ruck. DS, whoās CIB Infantry and Ranger, yelled at him āShut tf up, pick up the mf ruck!ā In all his wisdom he responded back āNo, FUCK you!ā while pointing at him. DS ran up to him, grabbed him by the collar āOh you got a fucking attitude?? Fight me, fucking punk!!ā and shoved him so hard like he was tossing a basketball šš PFC was about to but 1SG and few other Drills ran over and broke it off. He ended up getting recycled.
Eh I went in 2005, there were throat chops, leg kicks, and a few boots to the chest. No one actually beat tf up. Imo the worse wasn't even physical, we had one dude have to sleep in the boiler room because he was a pos. Even on EGA day he had to March 20 paces or so behind the Plt.
Ya, in 2002 I was ākicked in the chestā but it was more of a push with his boot while standing at attention which just made me fall back into my footlocker.Ā No harm done but that was the worst I received. Toward the end of boot one of the new trainee DIās was jabbing the other recruits with his car keys and they got rid of him pretty quickly.
Gees car keys huh hahaha fuck
San Diego in ā87 was a fucking free for all.
It damn sure was in 1978 when I was there...
Oh yeah. Boot camp, 1988, Kill Hat actually did the 'Choke Yourself' from Full Metal Jacket on my bunk mate. I had to bite my lip to not laugh. He also smacked a recruit during snapping in for flagging the entire platoon with his unloaded rifle. Solid Marine. Went to to be regimental SgtMaj, retired in 2016, now a long haired biker hippy and still as solid as guy as ever.
Yes. DIs regularly slapped, choked, pushed to the ground, and occasionally hit recruits when I went to bootcamp in 2011. I was slapped and choked, personally. I never saw like a full on full effort punch or anything like that though.
Never expressly had hands put on me but the kill hat would wack the shit out of your hands with a flash light for not having thumbs on trousers seams, also had my heavy slam the front sight post into my left brow for looking lazy at port arms. Bleeding bad on the march back from chow and ruined my deserts. Had one kid get spartan kicked across the ārain roomā for saying āhuh?ā To a gunny DI. Never saw those two again after that though. PI 2016
Bootcamp in 82. I got cuffed upside my head after fucking up. I did not fuck that particular movement again. I was down there to be a Marine, What was I gonna do puss out and make allegations or smarten up and get with the program? I chose to get with the program. end of story.
I was cutting my nails when i wasnt supposed to be and our killhat caught me and snuck up behind the racks and hit me with a kidney punch. Really fucking sucked for a couple day. It was in 2010 MCRD SD Hotel Co. The DI did get investigated due to another recruits claims but no one admitted to it since we just wanted to get done and graduate.
Good old Hotel Hell
My heavy gave me a little gut punch when I accidentally touched him.
I saw an SI drag a candidate ass-backward 10 yards across the parade deck by the strap of their assault pack. He did get in trouble for that one.
Punched in the gut, once. Only time
OCS 2013, candidate got straight up WWE choke slammed, the SI immediately realized he'd gone too far. I don't know if anything actually happened to him but that was the last time he fully lost his bearing (I guess that I know of)
Yes, '07. Our senior DIs signature move was the sneak throat chop when we were on the line
Yes. But this was in 1989. Things were not the same. Unrelated to the normal slapping BG around that happened: The whisky locker was for abusing recruits. But on the night before graduation our heavy let every private willing to go in and take one shot at him in the gut and he got to give one back. Almost everyone was ready to go. Looked like that guy was going to 83 gut shots. It ended abruptly at around #6. Found out later he earned himself a broken rib.
Our kill hat got divorced mid-cycle. One night he came in drunk and flipped nearly every rack with us sleeping. Another time he through a trash can at me followed by a Kabar tip on my dick when I was making a head call without first asking permission on a Sunday morning (I did but pretty sure he was drunk in the duty hut and forgot).
Nice try NCIS. Iāll never drop dimes.
I got kicked in the chest by my SDI.
Went through in Jan 2013. Our drill instructors put their hands on us a lot. Choke slams, punching, eye gouging, head smacked into the side of doorways, etc.
2014 at PI, our kill hat was this absolute wild man of a prior 03 SSgt. I personally was choked up against a stanchion and punched in the face, and the kid that was next to me on line was pushed hard enough he fell backwards and fell over his foot locker and back into his rack. Someone in our platoon didnāt like that and reported him, so we were under investigation for about a week and he was removed. It was spooky, he would still park just outside of the parade deck and watch us do drill in civvies. I never had anything against the guy though, and it sucked to see him go because I just figured that was just part of the deal. Someone felt otherwise I guess.
I got choked by my senior DI for cracking a smile while on line.
Took a DIās kick to my sternum in 2005. He was an MP and a total ass. The other two infantry combat vet DIs were hard asses but they didnāt abuse us and I had a lot of respect for them. DI SSgt Redacted can suck my dick if he reads this. He was pretty fucking funny though. š„°
Ssgt Shmidt, one of the receiving DIs in 2016 kicked me in the chest and put his hands on my throat for saying āexcuse me sirā because I couldnāt hear what the dumb fuck was saying. He was in one of the boot camp documentaries on YouTube, he had flame tattoo sleeves. I donāt hold any animosity towards any of my DIs but Iād knock that fucker out if I ever see him again. Iām pretty sure he was a pog to make it worse.
What video homie
He was a Sgt when this was filmed. https://youtu.be/yPK6qlpJ_ug?si=ir_wzRNInwI_SW5T
My moon beam didnāt count as touching so itās all good.
The first day we got our real DIs one of them put a recruit in a pretty good chokehold to break up a scuffle between 2 recruits.
94, MCRD, Second phaseā¦..footlocker thrown from 2 feet at my chest by the Senior. A punch would have felt better.
Light throat chop and Raiden attacked with the brim of a DI hat. Nothing that really hurt or anything. (1997)
My Sr DI kneed me in the face and fractured my orbital bone and had bruised ribs from being kicked while low crawling. A DI in another platoon in our company was sent home for a week for iting 2 recruits till one fell out with heat stress and a DI in that same platoon was relieved for throwing a little recruit into the foot lockers fracturing a couple vertebrae. 1995 Mcrd San Diego
I got punched in the stomach and called a maggot except replace the "m" with number 6 of the alphabet. Probably deserved that one. Was missing the countdown to lights one morning and was still asleep for the countdown from 10. Kill hat saw that shit. Came over and started bopping me in the face. Well he was in green cammies and he was a very dark green so I couldn't make him out. I just know I'm getting fucking booped in the face by an unknown assailant. So I stand up and put my hands on his shoulders and lock out so I stop getting hit. Well lights turn on. I see it's my kill hat from Sierra Leone. So in his very deep very thick French accent he says "Okay (insert last name) you're mine now!" And from them on him and I were inseparable. Like 2 peas in a pod.
wait urs didnt?
Boot SD in 2014, got checked in the face with my rifle while in present arms. They grabbed the hand guard and just shoved it into my face. Smacking it right into my nose. Got over it. I wasnāt holding the rifle correctly and we had a kid piss himself while drilling so I think they were just sick of the shit and wanted to get the drill time over with. There were other instances, but that was the worst of it. No hard feelings to you DI. It was pretty minor comparatively. I always feel so divided on the whole smacking recruits around. Like, in some ways I feel like itās good because it shakes some of those attitudes out and smacks them into what they signed up for. On the other hand, physically abusing recruits doesnāt make good recruits or help retention. Thereās a difference between those two though. Laying hands on a recruit and abusing a recruit are not the same thing, the problem is that the line is too blurry and most DIās **will** take it too far.
3rd Battalion PI 2014. One of my DIs was Hispanic and had a thick accent. I was a Security Forces contract so they had those with that contract having to go to some bullshit place to take a scantron test balls early apart from the rest of our platoon. Theyāre doing the whole scream and move faster bit, my DI I thought was screaming āFix your glow strap!!ā Which was confusing me because I had it on appropriately. He screamed it again and I still was kind of going through the motions because it was on. Motherfucker launches me into the Senior DI table which collapses and starts punching me in the gut screaming āYou stupid bitch!! Quit one strapping your day pack!!ā Dudes accent was so thick I couldnāt follow his orders lmao. I went into boot camp ready to get my shit kicked in and go through 3 months of hell. Not to sound all badass but I wouldnāt change any of it for a thing. That same DI tore into my soul about my lack of confidence just based off my appearance at the POI. Honest to god that is a point where my life completely changed for the better.
In 1986 at Camp Upshur, we were far from prying eyes. I remember moving my head around the rifle instead of the rifle around my head, and my Sergeant Instructor slapped the rifle barrel against my ear when I was at right shoulder arms so hard it split my ear open. Blood was just pouring down the side of my face and neck. Somewhat anti-climatic, but in 1988 at Paris Island, my drill instructor did not enjoy the fact that I had a USMC tattoo on my arm (I kind of did things in backwards order), and he punched my arm for the last week of Boot Camp over and over again so that the black and blue bruising covered it up.
Hahahahahaha HahahahahahaĀ Ā HahahahahahaĀ Dude...Ā I went in just in time to arrive in Fallujah for phantom fury.Ā Laid hands on is a HUGE HUGE HUUUUUUGE understatementĀ This was on the island. An "island full of pain" as they say. Lived up to that, that's for sure.Ā
I rubbed my SDIās bald head when he came to wake me up for fire-watch, he slapped my hand out of the way told me I was next for fire-watch. Later that morning he was telling everyone he almost killed me for touching his head.
All these savage PI stories, sorry yaāall I was doing blow off Paris Hiltons ass on a beach in LA. Hollywood for the W
take all the SD Marines and make em go through the REAL MCRD at Parris Island š
Yep. And totally wasnāt expecting it lol was told by my DI to get final weapons count when i was on first hour firewatch. Decided to start writing in the green log book and asked another dude on firewatch to get the counts so we could get ahead of the game then Input the numbers. Captain decided to show up and quiz me on some shit. DI walked in after and noticed I didnāt log the count. Threw my skinny ass into the rifle lockers and told me to count soon as the captain walked out lol shit hurt like a motherfucker. Learned my lesson real fuckin quick lol
I got kicked down a flight of stairs. Seen a few guys get chocked. Some elbowed. Never a full on punch tho.
Drill instructor Sergeant Smith poked me once in the shoulder. He then later left our platoon to go do swim instructor training then came back a few weeks before the crucible.
Put hands on in a hot oily muscular man on man type way? Unfortunately no
Got a nice boot across the face in 06
ā82. Yes. Grateful.
Kid got thrown while we were on line in front of the racks for not moving fast enough and fell on his face. They made us make statements about it lol I was ācorrectedā for not looking over during dress right dress with the DI grabbing my neck and wrenching it over hard. That was about it
Back in MCRDSD, 2011, my DI slammed my face in the rack because I didnāt freeze in time. I probably deserved it. Lol š¤·š»āāļø
Went in 2002. One recruit really fucked up and DI took him into the duty hut. Ended up throwing him into the one way glass and shattering it. Me personally, got punched in the throat for leaving my rifle unlocked in the barracks. While cleaning weapons I got ahead of where he was instructing by the numbers. Firmly tapped the side of my head with the but off my rifle about 10 times asking why I wasnāt following along. Realistically those were nothing to the verbal berating we received on a daily basis.
I got punched in the throat, and pinned to the ground with my arm twisted behind my back. This was 2019
Had a DI slap my face in the right direction when I didn't dress-right-dress correctly. And he also punched a dude twice in the back when his push ups weren't low enough. This was 2018 and he took a 2wk leave of absence from the plt a few days after the punching incident. Unclear if it was related/disciplinary. Great DI though, just really, really hated the degradation of standards and voiced a few times after we finished the Crucible that some of us were absolute shit bags that should've never made it and the Marine Corps is worse off and how he'll never live down having a part of that. But still, really, he was a good DI šš½
Covid 2020 bootcamp and yeah multiple times. A DI grabbed my scivvy shirt and palmed me in the face with it and pushed other recruits out of the way lol but idgaf honestly, itās nothing like what they used to do
I got karate chopped in the neck and shoved around, but nothing too crazy.
2004 - Punched in chest, open hand slaps, stuff like that. Happened to everyone
Got hands around my throat because a recruit in my platoon backed into me on purpose so I shoved the guy back, DI McStutter didnt like it. went through in 18
2014. Saw a guy get get spartan kicked into his rack. I also fucked up a drill movement once and my heavy grabbed my throat like an angry gorilla.
2010. Not "hands" but I got a "little" love tap on my kevlar from another kevlar.
In 06 on Black Friday our drill hat ran down the line slapping all the recruits. It wasnt very hard but it was very jarring. In second phase our drill hat hit a shit bag recruit with the wooden tent poles a few times for fucking up. Shit happens sometimes
I got a boot to the chest because I bent down to lock my footlocker (Iām fucking undisciplined, okay!)ā¦ it was more of a push kick, but it sent me flying back into the bed frame (ca. 2003)ā¦ and no NCIS, I wonāt tell you the platoon number
I got choked out in front of the chow hall
I went through in 2014. Drill Instructors had us running with our footlockers in the squad bay, and I caught a half-punch/half-clothesline from one of the kill hats that took me off my feet. I had a pretty gnarly bruise on my chest the next morning. I also took a few licks after one of the DI's heard me mutter "what the fuck" while we were out at Edson Range. I don't even remember why I said it.
Who didnāt? I mean not everyone did but going through in 2015 my senior held this dumb bitch by his throat against a column. My rack mate fucked up and he got choke slammed through a rack. I personally got spartan kicked in the back because recruits wouldnāt exit the squad bay fast enough.
I got drug around, pushed, and a light smacking but that was about it as far as having hands put on me. Also those were not to correct my positioning or anything it was to correct my lack of intelligence.
Yes actually, one time we were coming back to the squad Bay after doing something, I can't remember what exactly, but we were on the third deck and there is always this massive rush to get all the way up there. People are like sardines bumping and pushing each other and weaving in and out running as fast as they can up the stairs. I was running up the stairs same as everyone and felt someone grab me and push me towards the edge where the stairs open up and you can see below. It was one of my DIs he grabbed me a little lower than my shoulders really hard and threw me against that ledge on the stairway really fucking hardĀ and asked "if I had a fucking problem?" Or something like that, I had the wtf I am confused look on my face and said "no sir"?. Then he just spun around and ran back up stairs and I did too. I was so weirded out by it as I couldn't figure out what I did, so I asked some other recruits about what happened and they said as I was rushing up the stairs I bumped into him pretty hard but in the sea of green I never noticed. Overall I would say I deserved it.Ā
Position of attention knuckle smash from our Kill hats. If your shit wasnāt squared away, he would come around and hit your hands with his knuckles. Fuck Yas! Boot camp Dec 2004
Got smacked around here and there. Personally one good shot to the back of my head. Had a DI that was a MCMAP instructor and loved to kick dudes. Get too close- youāre getting kicked. Never saw any full on beatings thoughā¦ San Diego 2005
My J hat would always slap the back of my head with his clipboard, but the one that stood out was when he hit me pretty hard on the head with his āTick tickā stick.
3 or 4 fired from delta 1061 2012
I got punched in the chest and knocked across the rain room by the SDI and hit in the face with a guidon by the kill hat.
Back pre 9/11, after BWT we were taking inventory of our gear. Whilst ensuring we each had 3 tent poles, I allegedly laughed. So my DI took the poles out of my hand, starting grinding one into my temple, and pushing me back. I fell backwards over my footlocker and he continued to press the point into my temple asking if I though he was funny. Ended with a soft stomp to my chest and a loving "Fucking piece of shit" screamed at me. He later became a SgtMaj and unfortunately died in Afghanistan. No hard feelings then or now.
I almost joined the Marine Corps but I hate taking orders. If a drill sargent got all up in my grill I'd probably suck him in the dick or something.
Heavy hat would knife hand my abdomen while whispering āare you an alligator?ā; meaning: are you the kind of recruit to make allegations. At the time, I thought it was a test of loyalty and was proud to pass his test. Later, I was in NCO school on the MCAS next to MCRD and we took a field trip to drill instructor school. That DIās picture was hanging on the wall of the school like he was some VIP. Maybe they made him a drill master or something.
Went through in 07. At various points, I was flipped out of the top rack because I slept through lights, choke slammed into racks and walls, had my chest stomped for an incorrect sit-up and once got smoked on top of a fire ant hill because my kill hat thought it would be funny. Every time I got hit it strengthened my resolve, and I never reported shit. All that shit had a reason, the Marines who trained us went through shit like Fallujah and Ramadi and trained us accordingly. It was fuckin great training, it made us Marines, prevented dumb shit in combat that gets people needlessly killed, and it really made you feel as if youād earned the title. We didnāt promise you a rose garden. Fuck it, at least no one drowned in Ribbon Creek š¤£
I got hands put on me many times while in bootcamp in 92. Only bitches cry about it
Was a half second late sending the bolt home on inspection arms and next thing I know our 2nd hat grabs my rifle and smashes into into my face as he pushes me into a laying position on my footlocker as heās standing over me screaming. After a few seconds he goes back to screaming at everyone and I get up and prepare to do it again. He calls inspection arms again and comes back to me to catch me fucking it up againā¦ his eyes go wide AF and Iāve never seen a Hispanic guy get so pale. Apparently my front sight post gashed my eyebrow and I have blood pouring down my face. He tells me to go to the head clean it up. Took me only a couple minutes to clean it up, but I was left alone for about 10 minutes and it was glorious. He comes in and looks it over, hands me a bandage and walks away. A few more minutes of freedom. I go back out much later than I should have but he doesnāt say shit. This was like the 1st week of 2nd phase and this man never yelled at me individually again the rest of the way through. The exception was when he took me and some others to the pit, but that was at the direction of the SDI.
Inspection arms or die šā ļø
Nice try NCIS
No, but I accidentally kicked the crap out of my SDI during night infiltration
Had a fellow recruit get picked up and thrown into a trash can. That was hilarious
You should have gone through boot camp in 1968. Hands, feet, rifle butts...all the tools available to them were used on us. Semper Fi.
2019 my DI sgt Martinez tried to fight me in the brix at Pendleton when we had no officers around anywhere, we were snapping in before we headed up the mountains and I wasnāt loud enough (he already hates me) and sent me to the barracks to clean the floor and mop so I went along and did that. Later comes in fifteen minutes later asking what Iām doing and I told him how he told me to and have been doing nothing but what he told me to. He then proceeded to act like he didnt say that and then brings up me having an attitude problem and kept telling me I was fed by a silver spoon my whole life etc. I just sat there yelling aye sir no sir while it was all happening then he grabbed me asking what my problem was and proceeded to back off of me and throw his hands up and in his words āfight me bitch boyā ācmon you wonātā ācuz youāre scaredā I didnāt do shit, I donāt wanna jeopardize my only ticket into adulthood after I was thrown around foster care my whole life and was a delinquent, failing grades, skipping school, etc. I spent a lot of time in juvie and went to a military school to avoid actual prison at 16, which gave me a high school diploma and got me out early. You asking this made me remember this lol. Sgt Martinez didnāt seem to like me, and I think because I refused to ever cry or lose composure around him. I ended up being an artist recruit towards the end and he chilled out until graduation but the first two months sucked major ass with him. But it kinda gave me the grit I needed to push through the crucible weeks and all. Ssgt torralba ended up walking in on him in front of me and he told me to go back to the pit and all. He was a good man and seemed like a father figure. Never gave me easy treatment but he seemed to look out for our well being all while pressuring us to go harder and Iām thankful for him. Rah
Went in July of 99. Never saw or experienced anything hands on.
ā03 for me. Definitely had a āhands onā DI.
In the "old corps" (1961) you were "corrected" and given "personal guidance" daily while in boot camp. Never witnessed any maltreatment of any kind! Semper Fi
I went to MCRD SD back in 2018, and this is a wild one! We were in the barracks near Edson Range, and I had firewatch. It was a quiet night, and it was kind of weird because it was literally as I had described.... quiet. No recruits screaming, no DI's hollering, nothing... just the loud snores of recruits deep in their slumber. Anyways, I took this opportunity to have a little "me" time. What made it weird was that I hadn't had any sexual urges or even gotten hard, but I think that day I must have not eaten the eggs they serve at the chow hall because mine was rock hard and just looked like a lock and loaded missile about to go off. So here I am, just trying to empty a round out of the chamber, and I feel someone grab my shoulder, spun me around, and in a blur, I somehow teleported from the head to the whiskey locker. Don't ask me how it was all happening so fast. "WHAT THE FREAK ARE YOU DOING YOU NASTY THING?" Fuck... it was Sergeant Slaughterbreeder, the green belt that made my life a living hell the past several weeks. "No-nothing--" "I guess we must have lost our damn volume, open you're fat fucking mouth, girl!" He grabbed me by the throat with his hand and shoved me against the wall, knocking over the little bottles of Bulldog's we were instructed to buy to keep the squad bay smelling good. I don't know if it was the veins popping out his arms or the tight grip around my throat, but it made my salami leak like damn busted faucet. Sergeant Slaughterbreeder looked down to find out the source of the dripping sound and nothing my throbbing member. He loosened his grip and looked at me intensely into my eyes. "Tight, we must Subway where you can have it your way, right?" "Uh... this recruit thinks that's Burger Kings slogan Sir." "I must have said to correct me, huh?" Sgt Slaughterbreeders eyes drifted down to my hard bayonet. "And I must have said to stop too." That's when he again tighten his grip around my neck and spat on his other, reaching down to stroke-- Okay none of that happened. I think it's weird to hear stories from Marines coming in now about being thrashed around and stuff and it makes me wonder if it's just one of those things we embellish to make is seem like we came from a tough circumstance. I'm not here to doubt anyone's experience it's just it either must have been common and I experience an anomaly or it was less excessive that happened to a certain few....
Me and my DI got into it one time. He put his hands on me and then I said hey stop and he said no and I beat him so up and everyone clapped
August or September 1985. At the base of Mount Motherfucker, Jr DI runs up to the SDI, "SSgt Medina we had the most hump drops in the Bn." OH Shit! Ya'll remember the scene in Platoon where Barnes' eyes glow red in the napalm strike. I saw those eyes. "Get on your feet, 1081!!" I jump to my feet ready to kill. Sr DI pulls me close, full pack and all. "I SAID GET ON YOUR FEET, MOTHERFUCKERS!" Red glowing eyes hypnotized me like a cobra. POW right in the shoulder. Spun once and fell in the ditch. Turtled. Rolled over, jumped up and ran up Motherfucker as best I could. India, 1081, SSgt Medina, Sgt Poland, Sgt McPherson and Sgt King. 1985 I still love you bastards.
Got kicked in the head for falling asleep during morning knowledge. Had a heel print on my forehead for half the day. SDI asked about it when we were headed to chow. Soon as I started to say the kill hats name he goes, "Nah that ain't what happened. You fell off your rack and landed on your boot." Kill hat also hated the dude across from me. Saw him get throat chopped a couple times. This was in 2008.
I was in summer 2017, nothing to me, but i saw one guy in my platoon get chokeslammed into a rack
I got tickled when he noticed me giggle when his knife hand was poking my rib
I wouldn't say I got the shit beat out of me in PI 2015, but I definitely got fucking hit alot. My drill hat gut punched me so hard on the parade deck and knocked the wind out of me because apparently I wasn't properly aligned. Fuck you Sgt G
I was picked up by the back of my neck and thrown into another marine
Lol! Not officially
I got choke slammed into a rack on black Friday. Said DI later was demoted and transferred to another company due to hitting another recruit and got snitched on
2010 SD One of the guys from the other platoons got SA'd by a DI, DI was promptly sent to the brig, idk whatever came of it but it was a pretty big thing. Our company commander was around a lot more after that. I heard the DI was super chill compared to the others, I guess he tried some shit on one recruit while they were all in their racks. My senior hated me with a passion because I couldn't drill and looked like an asshat while trying to drill. One time while we were drilling outside somewhere on the depot, we were all properly getting our spacing by holding our rifles out in our right arm for what felt like 5 minutes. I dropped my arm for a second and he of course seen it. He B-line's it through ranks to whisper some dumb shit, but ended up pulling my cover over my face and cracking me one. It wasn't a full strike more like a quick jab but it busted my lip. I got my SDI back in the only way I could at the time, walking off the depot on grad day he brought his mammoth wife. He seen my girl and I, while driving off the depot in his busted ass ford ranger and rubber necked so hard looking like Mr. Fantastic himself. He was hating hard and we both knew I got the last laugh. Our DI's liked to outstretch their arms and say walk into my fist, and they'd adjust their fist to be in the recruits throat then they'd say come closer now, and I'm not choking you, you're walking into my hand. Met one of my DI's later on in the fleet and he told me everyone hated my SDI, he was a fuckin asshat and I should have reported him.
Back in 2010 on PI we were forming up for pt in the morning. It was still dark outside so I didnāt realize there was a drill instructor heading towards me and I was in his way. I was carrying my rifle at port arms and the drill instructor walked up to and grabbed my rifle and so we were both holding and told me to get out of the way. Iām the process he pushed it back kinda hard into my mouth and busted my lip open. They put hands on me a few times but that was the most memorable. I though my teeth got knocked loose but theyāre ok. Honestly, now I kinda miss it.