PrincessHades
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The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread
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Dak
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(new) Marine Corps boot camp documentary coming out. This clip right here pretty much covers 25-35% of the boot camp experience lol.
Master_Yoda77
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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.
Gay.
King Richard
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Good times. That recruit in front of the camera is going to crack and will always be the one bringing up the rear.
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
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rms
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I don't miss those bullshit sessions of holding your arms up for like 30 minutes. Nothing to make you feel like a bitch more than that.
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Dak
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FMJ is a joke imo, I didn't even finish the movie. It's both worse than and not as bad as that.
CiG
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Dak
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I hated trunk/bag dumping/rack tossing more than anything. The worst instance we ever had was every single item was dumped into the middle of the squad bay, then all the mattresses were stripped and piled on top of the items and blankets, and then everyone had held out their containers of antifungal powder and had to "make it snow" in the squad bay, and then me and another guy had to grab the ice coolers and dump them all over everything......and then we had to have it all cleaned up in like 30 minutes.
Dak
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They decided to renovate the 1Bn chow hall at PI while I was there, which meant marching a couple of miles back and forth to 3rd's chow hall for every meal. I hated it at the time, but after I got out realized it saved us from a ton of fuck fuck games. Also, since it was winter and the fact we were on the 3rd deck, we hardly ever hit the sand pit, our DIs preferred to either kill us online, or have us run up and down the stairs "to" the sand pit, but always yell for us to get back online when we got down to the ground, rinse repeat.
rms
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I remember we had to take our beds and lockers out of the 2nd floor barracks down to the company area and then bring it back up, at like 10 at night. That was bullshit.
We didn't really have free time outside of sundays during church hours and the last week before graduation, but my basic training unit were kind of fuck ups
I dunno, FMJ is more realistic in their bootcamp portrayal than that clip on youtube. That's day 0/1 stuff, but FMJ shows the evolution of the DS/DI throughout bootcamp, especially when recruits/privates improve. People think that's what happens everyday you're in, but in reality it slows down a lot and reappears only when people fuck up
We didn't really have free time outside of sundays during church hours and the last week before graduation, but my basic training unit were kind of fuck ups
I dunno, FMJ is more realistic in their bootcamp portrayal than that clip on youtube. That's day 0/1 stuff, but FMJ shows the evolution of the DS/DI throughout bootcamp, especially when recruits/privates improve. People think that's what happens everyday you're in, but in reality it slows down a lot and reappears only when people fuck up
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Sitting in class again, this is a study hall, though, so I'm allowed to post. I just turned my English project in.
Dak
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I think my platoon was a 50/50 mix between the physically challenged and the mentally challenged.
It didn't really slow down much for my platoon until after the Crucible. Might be a difference between Marines and Army, or possibly because our drill hat started with us as our kill hat, and when they yanked our drill hat to be a senior elsewhere a month in, the kill hat became the drill but never changed his methods - so we basically had 2 kill hats and our senior was never around to tone things down. Probably good because the senior made a comment once about missing kill hatting, and the dude was like Cam Newton sized but with a mean face lol.
It didn't really slow down much for my platoon until after the Crucible. Might be a difference between Marines and Army, or possibly because our drill hat started with us as our kill hat, and when they yanked our drill hat to be a senior elsewhere a month in, the kill hat became the drill but never changed his methods - so we basically had 2 kill hats and our senior was never around to tone things down. Probably good because the senior made a comment once about missing kill hatting, and the dude was like Cam Newton sized but with a mean face lol.
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
Hoping the furnace at my other house can be fixed easily.
Might just be the pressure switch. I'll believe it when it's completely fixed.
Might just be the pressure switch. I'll believe it when it's completely fixed.
King Richard
Hello there
The Ozzman
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dwellerINTHEdark
Curator of the mausoleum
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
@King Richard @The Ozzman
Actually im selling the house to my realtor.
It's been almost 2 fucking years! Rented it for 6 months, had to fix bullshit.
My realtor is going to buy it then rent it. The guy who is renting it is a buddy of mine, other guitarist that I jam metal with. weird!
2016 is going to be a little odd... we will finally have money. These last two years have sucked massive amounts of dick.
We havent been able to do much. We went to Disney and Universal because of her tax return last April. Other than that, boring, boring, boring!
Actually im selling the house to my realtor.
It's been almost 2 fucking years! Rented it for 6 months, had to fix bullshit.
My realtor is going to buy it then rent it. The guy who is renting it is a buddy of mine, other guitarist that I jam metal with. weird!
2016 is going to be a little odd... we will finally have money. These last two years have sucked massive amounts of dick.
We havent been able to do much. We went to Disney and Universal because of her tax return last April. Other than that, boring, boring, boring!
Dak
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If you decide to ever do a beach trip to the NC OBX let me know and will try to meet up. How old are the kids? (mine are 5&4)
JontRevolting
FALSE ARREST! FALSE ARREST!
About to start work but It's bloody shocking on here this embarrassing dickhead staff chief engineer has been carrying on like a retard since the start and yesterday two ppl typed out emails and sent them to head office it's gonna be bloody embarrassing and awkward on here from now until Xmas eve when we leave. Literally stumbling over the finish line from now until Xmas eve when I go home.
Dak
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I couldn't work on a ship. Simply couldn't. That's why I wouldn't/won't go Navy and when I was in the Marines I did a specific non-possible ship MOS. Fuck being out to sea with a bunch of random fucks in enclosed and inescapable spaces.
