My son joined the Marines

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Originally Posted by [DvT]UY

Got my first letter from him yesterday. Said the DI's are messing with everybody but he knew that was coming. One guy ran away and they caught him on the tarmack at the SD airport.
They made him sqaud leader and he said it sucked cause he was always getting in trouble cause of the guys in his squad. lol

The DI's back in our day were pretty ruthless. I don't know if things are easier for our present day recruits. I seen guys slash their wrist with razors and also go UA to get out. Never understood those guys. Keep a low profile. Do what your told and it's really not that bad. Fook up... and life is he11.

We were screwing up in our Parade Drill one day and the DI's got po'd and took the squad leaders back to the barracks and bent and thrust them for the longest time. Come walking in and there was 5 pools of sweat on the floor. That night we all woke up to blanket parties from those 5. Nothing really physical. They went around just threatening everyone.

Actually I always thought those days were a blast.

[[DvT]UY]

Yeah, you got it right..."stfu and do what your told" works. Anything else and you're screwed usually. After he made me RP01 my CC took me into his office and opened a closet door where a blood stained mattress was and said "that happened to the last RP01"

I didn't get freaked out about it like he thought I would. Don't even know if it wasn't just a scare tactic.

We had one guy jump off the roof trying to commit suicide...but he was a nutjob anyway.

Those were the days