(new) Marine Corps boot camp documentary coming out. This clip right here pretty much covers 25-35% of the boot camp experience lol.
Good times. That recruit in front of the camera is going to crack and will always be the one bringing up the rear.
I was watching Full Metal Jacket with my friend who was in the army and I was like "yeah, this is dramatized and not a realistic portrayal, right?" and he gave me a straight face and said "no."
Gay.
It's way more intense than that a lot of the times. Especially considering you generally have 3-4 drill instructors running around at any given time. The Senior Drill Instructor hardly works with the recruits. For whatever reason he tries to portray himself as the "caring and understanding" leader, which is nonsense. The other drill instructors are the ones you spend the most time with, otherwise known as the "green belts." They're the ones that make your life a living hell.
The worst part about boot camp imo is the downtime we have, or the holes in our daily schedules where the DI's have nothing else for us to do but slay you. Meaning, they either take you out to your local pit, which is basically a sandbox and make you get all sweaty doing pushups, mountain climbers, side-straddle hops, and crunches, and then you get sand caked all over your body and uniform make you extremely uncomfortable the rest of the day. Or they'll do the same on the quarterdeck of the barracks, which I preferred tbh but still wasn't fun. It just seemed like a big waste of time. I'd rather just an intense PT session instead of that bullshit or study. But it's all good.
Honestly, sometimes I wish I had stayed in. It'd be pretty skate for me now. I would have changed my MOS asap after re-enlisting though, the infantry will destroy you over time. I'd only have 7 years to go before retirement, probably at the staff nco rank of some sort, assuming I didn't wind up with a couple njp's. Life might have been good. Or I'd be dead. heh