Am i going nuts?

[NeverQuit]

Okay i feel like i'm going crazy or i have missed something. I have a buddy that shipped to MCRD SD a month ago and his SR DI is a Female and that struck me as what? I had never heard of such a thing but apparently it's a common thing now? Female drill instructors with male recruits? I had another friend from back home who graduated Parris Island in September and his kill hat was a female as well....

[egbutler1]

I really hope not, I'm thinking something is up other than what may appear.

[Vandrel]

Not possible, there is no way in hell the Marine Corps would ever put a WM in a area where male Marines are often in running around naked as hell.

I got a few buddies that are prior hats and hats down there right now, I would have heard of that already.

[firedog974]

Sounds like BS to me. It seems like every year a rumor about "the new Corps" comes out. I remember when I was in the "stress card" rumor was floating for a while.

[NeverQuit]

His initial letter from his senior home to his parents talking about training etc was from a female DI, and as for my buddy who graduated from PI his pictures show a female DI in the platoon picture with the other 2 hats.

[Vandrel]

One of my cooworkers is at PI right now for his son's graduation. I'm going to text him and tell him to give me the scoop on this cause I want to know!


If anything would ever create a huge red star cluster of a **** storm for the Marine Corps with EO and sexual harrassment it would be putting male/female together in boot camp.


A platoon full of males with a female SDI, sitting in the squad bay on SDI time.... can't even imagine. Let me go take a shower while the female SDI is walking around on deck.

[Juicemang]

No way in hell.

[hussaf]

It's probably receiving or something. Still not a good idea (my receiving DI gave us instruction on how to shower and shave efficiently in bootcamp), but its more logical than an actual DI for recruit training....I guess. No, nevermind. It's still wrong.

[zx6rdr]

?

[SlingerDun]

Experimental?

Many male recruits have cut mom's apron strings for the first time in their young lives by attending boot camp only to be shadowed by a female hat bossin them around 18/7?!

bad plan

I can only imagine evening hygiene inspection

[Donut Brigade]

Remembered my kill hat: "You better shave, and you better wash your ****ing nuts, and you better smell good!" which my buddies perverted into "You better shave your nuts and wash them, and they better smell good!"

[Sgt Leprechaun]

Unlikely. However, it IS possible that there are female DI's in Recieving, or in other areas while 'on break' from running female recruits.

I don't really have an issue with that on the face of it, (realistically, Marines are going to have to learn to take orders from ANYone of higher rank once they get to their MOS school or the FMF) as long as they are not, in fact, running platoons. THAT I'd have an issue with. Not because I don't think WM's (or whatever the hell they are called these days) can do it, but because traditionally, they have NOT done so, and when we start tossing traditions in the face of PC crap, we are on the road to perdition or worse, as a Corps, for sure.

[Vandrel]

A Master Guns I used to work with many years ago loved to say this,
"Equal Opportunities isn't equal, they can call it equal when we have co-ed showers"

I sent a text to my cooworker to see if he can get to the bottom of this while he's there.

[ghost3000]

[quote=Sgt Leprechaun;579566]Unlikely. However, it IS possible that there are female DI's in Recieving, or in other areas while 'on break' from running female recruits.quote]

Since when does MCRD SD train female recruits? The OP stated MCRD SD.

[Vandrel]

Since when does MCRD SD train female recruits? The OP stated MCRD SD.

I noticed that as well and was thinking just that. I figured maybe it was a typo and meant PI?