All the staff sergeant is thinking is how much paperwork he's about to have to fill out.

I like how the staff sergeant genuinely seems to be affected by the death of that soldier, but then quickly regroups himself and yells at the dead soldier in order not to lose face.

guy getting shot in the head... that's fine. guy cursing? oh ,no.. we can't have that.

"If you listened to me, you would still be fucking alive right now" - every DI ever

Even after death, he still scolded him😂😂😂

3:19 that poor gunner in the background "oh god....what have i done?"

Nothing ruins a good movie like unnecessary bleeps.

I love how the amount of people training decreases without outright telling the viewers, a kind of subtle detail, a few people might miss

Let’s clear this up: This sort of combat exercise IS used in Basic Training / Boot Camp, at least in the Army and Marine Corps. There ARE live rounds being fired over your head as you crawl and navigate across an obstacle course. The tracer rounds are visible so there is no doubt that it is actual gunfire. Now, at least in my own personal experience in the Army in the 90’s the rounds passing overhead were higher than the movie clip portrayed. You might be able to stand up straight and not get hit, but I never saw anyone attempt to do so. There were also simulated mortars detonating with loud explosions and dirt being thrown all over the place. So even though you know it is an exercise, it is very realistic and intense when you are in the middle of it. This scene in this film seems unlikely, not because of the live fire, but because these Marines were not in boot camp. Although it was not my branch, I know that these guys would have gone through a lot of intense training prior to ever attending the sniper school. So someone nutting up like that would have been weeded out earlier and never been billeted to that school. And yes, the overhead machine gun fire should have ceased when the one guy was seen panicking. The instructor overseeing this exercise would have been toast too. You would also need more than one instructor to properly and safely supervise a live fire exercise like this.

After the guy stood up and got shot, I could feel a really heavy atmosphere where everybody got a reality check. When you join the Army, at some point, you need to accept the fact that you could die.

all the censoring defeats the purpose of the language of the Marines lmao

RICO! You are relieved of squad command!

3:20 the machine gunners reaction is perfect

Using real bullets in training, truly jarheads

This movie Training 90% War 5% Drama 5%

There was an incident similar to this in 1994 at Fort Sill. An M60 machine gun was set up about 8 feet high and had a mechanism to prevent from firing downward onto the recruits. It was a night exercise. The gun jammed and the Sergeant took it off its mount and it went off and killed the private.

Imagine the world we’d have if every boss was like Jamie Fox in this film

3:12 was the only actual killing in the movie and it was from there own troops

“You guys crawl like old people f***!” Back to when one contestant of Hell’s Kitchen, long time back, said to the others “You guys cook like old people f***!”

I really think this was one of Jamie's best performances. He was so believable and authentic as the SNCO

when i was younger it pazzled me how people even manage to die during training, and then when i went to the army i witnessed how one poor lad shoot himself into the head while climbing out of tranches , and i realised how simple it actually is

Hmm so this is what Jarhead, in morse code sounds like.

I had a friend who was a runt in high school. About 5'2''. He joined the Marines and grew a foot! He said his DI's loved him because he was always going back for seconds in the mess and ate all he got. I was proud as hell for that guy.

first of all , the commanding officer would be court-martialed for failing to see a trainee under stress. Second of all they do actually do this to get you used to fire over your head but its never anything this remotely close as to put trainees in danger.

the beeps just make this funny lol

"The more thou sweateth in training the less thou bleedeth in combat".-Richard Marcinko

Jamie Foxx was a force of nature in this film

1:35 bro the drill sergeant is a legit savage

Jamie fox plays a perfect role of a Marine Staff SGT in the grunts. Well done.

Former Hospital Corpsman.. this rarely happened that I can remember at least in the 80's to 2006, I did have a patient that broke his neck, stabilized him and sent him off, mostly foot injuries and heat exhaustion.

I went through this training when I was in the Army. They used blanks and fired high enough over the trainee's head where even if they stood up and the rounds were live, they wouldn't get shot.

I *beep* love this *beep* videoclip *beep* ey!

We did the night infiltration training with 2 M-60's filling the night sky with live red tracer rounds over our heads-except the Army made sure both were elevated at least 40 feet over the course. They also played 'Ride Of The Valkries' over the PA while we did it.

why censor this.. its 2020. Not a telegraphic message.

The worst part about that shot is it was the LAST ROUND of that burst. Had he got up a split second later, the SGT would have stopped the firing.

hes actually a really good SSG he’s passionate about what he’s teaching which motivates and is good for passing on knowledge creating better soldiers/marines

I was a Canadian Reservist in the era known as the "dark 90's". We had almost zero training budget, and my QL2 and 3 were an absolute joke. The instructors were friends with certain recruits before the course even started, and REALLY played favourites. Certain candidates were never yelled at, never got fire piquet when in barracks, always got the sweetheart shifts when we had to do sentry duty in the field, and were treated much more leniently than the rest of us. We had one instructor actually start a relationship with a female candidate at least 10 years younger than he was WHILE ON COURSE. Of course it got swept under the rug, and any attempt to report the fraternization got quashed immediately by the course warrant officer. I hung around for a few years hoping to see improvement in some way, but when it didn't happen, I lost interest and eventually got out. There is a reason it's referred to as "the dark 90's" by those of us that were there.

While he said, "Scratch your nose, you die." I was scratching my nose at the time. After that, I slowly stopped scratching it.

I couldn't imagine accidently killing you're own brother

Ex Australian Army and I love this flick as it shows all the time filling in being on the job.

Staff sergeant Is pissed cause he died without permission

Jamie Foxx yelling at the dead body gets me every time

3:19 look in the backround, imagine that guys feeling when he shots a friendly who was scared... thats a trauma tight there :(

I remember when I was in basic training and they had live rounds going over us during this exact same crawl, but at night. And they had tracer rounds, so you could see that shit was real. It was the trippiest thing I’ve ever experienced to this day... I felt like I was in some kind of a movie, because those rounds were so goddamn close. And I could fucking hear them whizzing overhead. I didn’t know you could really hear that, I thought that was just some shit they put in movies.

It happens, couple years ago there was a guy from one of our sister units (others units that we bump into regularly during training and courses etc) who was on a live fire training course doing CQB kind of stuff, apparently what happened was after doing a run in the killhouse the were unloading their weapons and 1 guy didnt' do the drills properly and discharged a round into the back of another guy, he died a few days later. The army mourned and investigated not sure what came of it but it was quickly swept under the rug and listed as a training accident. In short happens all the time, guys get tired or are lazy and make mistakes and in a combat environment that can prove fatal and is the reason why they are so intense when it comes to training, they want it realistic and for the guys to be stressed so they learn how to do the job in the worst conditions when it counts.2

"No Sir".....no Marine would dare call an NCO.....let alone a Staff NCO...."SIR"...

The way the scene just goes completely quiet after the cease-fire, and all you hear is the rain is so beautiful

COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC! not a single crayon in sight..

I will never forget the first time I heard a round pass by. I remember thinking wow you can really hear it I thought it would sound different than it did

When you get hurt, a lot of paper work. When you die, even more paper work.

USMC 2000-2005 We were monsters back then. Still am.

Jamie Fox is just too good at everything he does !!! Elevated 🙌🏼

At 2:03 they bleeped but you can still hear the echo

I was in the Navy. We had NOTHING like this shit. I'll stick with giving yall Marines a ride wherever ya gotta go. God bless you Marines.

Love how the platoon consists of less and less people at each run.

My grandpa went through military training and did the crawling under barbwire like that. He said he saw a guy get nearly cut in half by an m60 because he stood up. I believe him.

Him screaming at a dead Marine for not following the simple orders that could have kept him alive is 1000%

Marines... They can't catch a break... Even after he's dead he's still yelled at 😂

jamie foxx is such a great actor

2:01 I love that you can still ehar him swearing in the echo.

Any overhead fire exercise has (had) more than enough room for someone to stand up underneath. This guy firing an M60E3 (which were phased out in 1996, but would still have been in use for this) manually with no depression stakes and not in any sort of elevated position is absurd. Machinegun fire (any gunfire, honestly) sounds VERY different when pointed at you than when you are firing it, so it does have training value. I don't know how things are anymore, but when I was a machinegunner at Lejeune, there was a live-fire range called L-1011 that was hands-down the most dangerous range in the Corps. It was an overhead fire range. 0331s had no problems there, but when non-experts ran overhead fire at night, especially with 249s, people could get stitched up. It was one of the reasons that 0331 NCOs went to Advanced Machinegun Leaders Course and would occasionally get detached out to teach non-infantry units how to properly employ their machineguns. Honestly have no idea how that works now, but it certainly must be much, much better. I got out in 2003 and there has been a ton of combat since then to inform correct training.

The Marine Corps would never authorize this now. The risk is not worth the training value

2:43 That quote about old people made me think of Full Metal Jacket which also has to do with Vietnam and the marine corps.

This movie is masterpiece

"We've all been taught that thou shalt not kill, but hear this: F that shit" lmao

And always remember to turn off friendly fire.

I like that Staff Sergeant. He knows his sh*t and can explain it in simple words.

This dialogue to beep ratio is amazing

Jamie Foxx does a good job. As a marine from 02--06, and watching this on 05, we started brining back the "right ricky tick" saying. Marines use lots of diddys

that movie is very realistic though, I remember I had instructor just like him who trained us. One fact, during basic training, particularly mud scene in life military they shoot with blank bullets, so none gets accidentally killed. There is more chance dying from catching cold, rather than getting a bullet.

"You guys crawl like old people f**k" Best line I've ever heard

I miss BDUs. I'm glad I managed to hang on to a pair when we made the switch to ACUs.

Damn imagine dying in training and not in combat.

man the anger he had when he yelled "stupid fuck", I felt that.

poor baby Swofford, i am so sorry for him

2:15, oh the memories!

Helpful tips. 1: Always have 2 drill sergeants 2: aim higher to where you can stand up. It still is immersive in the actual head of combat. 3: If one guy seems to panic and be afraid, stop the exercise immediately, they are most likely the man who died in this scene. The reasons are because jesus christ so much paperwork needs to be filled, The gunner will have a mental breakdown, and everyone will feel like dogshit.

Anyone notice when he reloads no casing is ejected but you still hear it

Must be cool to watch the bloopers of the really serious parts of this movie.

Keep your head down guy! Don’t freeze!

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Staff sgt is pissed cuz now there is an investigation as to why some family is getting a couple hundred grand because their son died in “training”

Top 3 favorite all time movie..

This shit happens in real life during training accidents

You face the danger, you know the danger. People can have problem with real rounds in training, but greatest units comes out exacly from trainings like this. That was and will be part of training for people who want to kill not get killed.

training casuality, there is a formal word for it

How am I only finding this movie now it’s sick

As I recall it, we used real bullets in the army too. HOWEVER, I was told that they were 10 ft up in the air. So unless you had a sudden urge to do an air Jordan during Night infiltration Course (NIC at night for thos who remember) you good.

Holy shit lmao this is insane

i love how when he says fuck that shit the echoes are uncensored

Truly Man is the silliest of creatures

even reserve units in Canada do this with live rounds, they give plenty of warning, but you could certainly take a ricohet to head if not careful

This brings back a memory i have. Nothing bad happened but we were training with live rounds. The boot LT came in and decided he knew everything for his first training exercise. He almost killed 3 Marines by telling them to go a different direction when we were firing. And it was at night. Fucker almost made me a murderer

I remember doing those army crawls with live fire and tracers above my head. Good times

when the jamie foxx character says, "god help me", you know he is taking 100% of the blame on himself.

2:00 Should've censored the echo too lol

So I went to basic in 2018 and yes they actually used live tracer rounds overhead. how do I know this? Because during the night infiltration course or "nik at night" you typically have 2 or 3 towers way over your head shooting 249s or 240s as fast as possible and you have those lazer beam like lines overhead as you climb over the trench they have, making sure that even if you were to stand up the live rounds aren't going to dome you. Anyone who says the army or marines for that matter don't do this training either never had it during their training cycle or they subscribe to the same gun fudd boomer logic that old folks use to say that the 1911 is the best pistol in the world and that you don't need an AR15 because a springfield M1A or Remington M700 in .308 or 30-06 is all you need.

He's actually a good sargeant 😂

Underrated performance by Foxx.

One of my favorite things about this film was seeing Marine Corp training that takes place outside Marine Corp Boot camp. I've never been a Marine, but Staff Sergeants are addressed as Staff Sergeant, not Sir unless a recruit is addressing them in basic training. Yes Sir, No Sir and Aye Sir, is for boot camp only, unless you are addressing a commissioned officer. There might be some exceptions that I'm not aware of though?