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[Marine84]

Has anybody seen this yet? If so, what did you think of it? I think the guy that made it missed something in the translation or I missed his point for making it.

If it's to be used as a motivational thing for poolees, some may be motivated but I didn't get that "funny feeling", you know? Like, any time I see a Marine Corps commercial on TV (I especially like the new diamond one), it makes me proud as hell because I know I did it. I thought I would get that same feeling with this movie but.....................it didn't do it for me.

It was edited way too much - just when you thought you were going to see it in the face of a recruit that just had the proverbial "light bulb" light up over his head when they FINALLY get it and they make that transformation that ALL of us have made - this guy edited it, cut folks off in mid sentence and didn't do a Marine Corps graduation justice.

Let me know what ya'll think about it...............

[Shaffer]

I saw some of the clips...godd stuff!

I would imagine the Marine Corps had final say in the editing process.

[outlaw3179]

I saw it on the documentary channel. It was ok, but just like M84 said , it just didnt get your heart going. there were some funny parts and times that you were laughing but a little too artsy.

[killhat3]

i got the DVD, its good to go!

[seabag]

I recently saw it on the documentary channel as well.
Although it's the best show I've ever seen on this channel, thats not saying much. I think they waste more electrons than Jerry Stringer.

What I found most amusing was the language of the DI's, the "Dad-gummits
Gaul-dernnits, Freakin' this and Freakin' that."

Marine Boot Camp can never be honestly portrayed, no one would enlist!
My own experience at MCRD San Diego, in 1969, was more like "Full Metal Jacket" times ten.

I think more shots of the base and rifle range would have been nice.
I was also disappointed to see all the quonset huts, so much a part of Marine history, gone.

Although, I'm not impressed by this production, I am VERY impressed by the
young Americans we have today who proudly call themselves UNITED STATES MARINES!

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[seabag]

I almost forgot........the chow hall. Civilians working the chow lines?? The only civilians we saw were at a distance, and that from the corner of our eyes.

Recruits pulled mess duty, (and trust me, it sucked!), and you sure did'nt pile your tray, you took the slop you got and gobbled it.
The smell from the mess hall was so nauseating, it took me a couple of days
to adjust, after that I could eat the ass-end out of a skunk.

Our big treat was the rifle range-MILK MACHINES! All you could drink! Chocolate too! Bad news was, it gave us all the sh**s.
:banana:

[Marinewing]

Just seen the clips. I was thinking that the guy who made the film was a former enlisted type, but I may be confusing another story.

They did that byword cussing at us for a day or so, then all hell broke loose with the language. SSGT Uvalle had so many new and exciting ways to drop the F bomb, we were always ready to learn a new one.

[LivinSoFree]

I almost forgot........the chow hall. Civilians working the chow lines?? The only civilians we saw were at a distance, and that from the corner of our eyes.

Believe me, this is NOT an improvement. Sodhexo, the contractors that do our food service, hires a lot of shady characters that don't give a d*mn about the food they serve, not like having Marines working the chow halls who take PRIDE in their work. Beyond that, they also hire a lot of individuals with "diminished mental capacity," which is all good and well, but perhaps the high-speed, high-stress environments of OCS/Recruit Training are NOT the best places for them...

[Marinewing]

Chow hall duty sucked! I would think they'd keep it part of the training regimen just because it sucked so bad. Really. I was in charge of the two sculleries (sp?) at the range chow hall at Parris Island, and that was the first real movin' and scootin' I'd ever had to do (I was barely 18, and had never worked anything that fast paced before).

Our guys learned very quickly to just throw the trays on the floor and make everything look cool from the outside. Then there'd be one recruit rounding up trays from the floor. Another just getting the utensils, one pulling them in from the window, and one guy scrubbing. I'd jump back and forth between the two and load the big conveyor belt washing machine.

[Marine84]

When I went through, we were required to pull 30 days chow hall duty a year - I was n't so lucky the first couple of years (pulled 30 at El Toro and 30 in Iwakuni) but my last couple of years there were more than enough folks to rotate so I got lucky and didn't have to. Didn't you just hate having to wake up at 0 dark thirty and having to go til about 6:30 or 7 that night? If you were good about the cleanup that the cooks expected , you could catch a catnap at the barracks but.................for the biggest part we never were. Imagine that?

[Marine84]

OH! And after seeing a graduation ceremony at the Island last month - I KNOW this guy didn't do it justice. Something different I noticed though at the emblem ceremony - they put the emblem in your hand now and you have to put it on your cover - the DIs used to "pin" you themselves.

[capmarine]

the film maker is a former barber at MCRDSD.i met one of the drill instrs at camp pendleton that was in the movie-he's teaching at the drill instr school now.

[maverickmarine]

I haven't seen it but want to. I hope it is okay. I was one of the lucky ones, I got picked as a vampire for chow hall duty and the vampire honcho to boot. So, we would go work overnight with just a Marine Sgt, not a DI, who I'm sure was a cook watching over us. We did have to bust our buts but overall it was pretty relaxed. He let me get a coke once and call home once. Also, when the other recruits were being pulled back to our barracks quarterdeck to push we would just be in the rack asleep. Pretty goo deal. But, overall it still sucked and was glad that it was one of only a few times I ever had to pull mess duty.

[sirmess1]

Do they said CLICK at San Diego, cause at PI, we just said snap. Also when I was at OCS, we had some Sgt. Instructors from San Diego, and they always wore this canteen thing on their backs at PT, whats up with that?
Thanks

[Born Invincible]

Believe me, this is NOT an improvement. Sodhexo, the contractors that do our food service, hires a lot of shady characters that don't give a d*mn about the food they serve, not like having Marines working the chow halls who take PRIDE in their work. Beyond that, they also hire a lot of individuals with "diminished mental capacity," which is all good and well, but perhaps the high-speed, high-stress environments of OCS/Recruit Training are NOT the best places for them...

So true. The workers who speak english, aren't wearing ankle monitors, or are old enough to be my grandparents grandparents are few and far between. The fact that they won't open to accomodate 03 battalions that often work out side of normal business hours is rediculous.

[Born Invincible]

Do they said CLICK at San Diego, cause at PI, we just said snap. Also when I was at OCS, we had some Sgt. Instructors from San Diego, and they always wore this canteen thing on their backs at PT, whats up with that?
Thanks

that is a PI thing and the DIs now-a-days wear the 2 quart as an SOP thing since I'm stationed over here on the west coast i see it all the time but i don't know if it is only a MCRD SD or MCRD PI thing.

One thing I find funny is on the west coast boot camp is called MCRD but universally if you went to Parris Island that's what you called it... stinkin hollywierd Marines. lol

[nativedevil2061]

I thought it was alright, but they did leave a few things out. I just got the DVD. My son who's three loves when the Drill Instructors yell at the recruits, he goes crazy in the house points at everyone and babbles wildly. I LMAOF occassionally. Should have put more humps, game playing and the graduation. Out of five stars 3 1/2

[x2cat]

This movie is such a big disappointment I don't know where to start. Did anyone else notice that the recruits in this documentary hardly ever marched, walked or ran in STEP. At one point in the film the recruits (already showing a little 'flat top' hair) couldn't execute a simple left-oblique... awful.
And then there is the total disregard of one of the most important aspects of recruit training... the discipline of physical confidence. Where was the morning run, PT, Marine Corps History lessons, punishment training... and on and on.
Awful waste of my time and money.... This movie must be some kind of joke. They should have called it "Recruit training - Lite."
Wonder if recruit training at Parris Island is also like San Diego recruit training?

[grodunt]

I bought it before I went to boot this summer. I'll have to watch it again. I went to PI and I know for sure the stuff at the end about the cruicible was completely different then the Crucible at PI. All of our hikes were as a platoon and there never were any stragglers like you see in EOEC.

[irizavrima]

I have this movie and its not really that great. After going to boot camp you realize that it really doesnt show anything. About 90 percent of it was first phase and even at that it didnt show much. It hardly even covered second phase. It's not worth it at all.