Beating up recruts? Not ideal. Name calling? Come on. It's the military...

If new recruits can't handle the stress from boot camp, how can they handle the stress from combat where instead of being called mean names, people are actively trying to kill you?

I guess these guys never saw Full Metal Jacket.

Tough yes, cruel to an extent. But putting a recruit into a dryer, eh, that's a bit much.

As long as they don’t put their hands on you or be racist they have every right to call you names and scream at you to toughen you up.

Politically correctness should stay out of the military

The ultimate disservice by a drill instructor is to send a young man to war knowing he is not mentally and emotionally prepared for combat.

“Drill sergeants” cause we’re in the army now right??

USMC You Signed a Motherfucking Contract

My drill instructors were professionals but yet tough. They had no favorites and equally hazed everyone. Everyone got smoked

If you can't handle a criticism, some harsh words, a little food deprivation, or even the occasional punch to the gut by your drill instructor, then how in the hell are you going to fight a war with bullets whizzing by your head after just reading your Dear John letter and being stranded behind enemy lines with no rations for 5 days? We've raised a generation of completely adolescent, sissified crybabies. Boot camp is supposed to suck because war sucks. Anything less than suffering won't prepare you.

Bruh, name calling? I thought this was the military.

LOL! I thought that shit was normal??!!?

I am a product of Parris Island, Plt 3014, 1988-1989, it's supposed to be tough, and the brutal hazing part of the program. I know what I was getting into when I joined. I'm tired of this punk ass people wanting to make Marine bootcamp soft. if you can't hack it don't join our beloved Corps...Oorah!

I am an X-Marine. I went through Marine boot camp in 1968 at San Diego Recruit Depot. My platoon got west pac orders, meaning Vietnam. I was lucky, I stayed stateside. I seen recruits abused as well as I was abused. Upon graduating from boot camp, I remember a drill instructor saying, "if you hate us when you leave here, we did our job." If your thinking about going into the Marine Corps watch the movie , "Full Metal Jacket." Hollywood got this one right.

Get out of my marine corps then!!! Air Force is for u

Anyone else catch the reporter referring the Drill Instructor as a "Drill Sargeant"...

All the idiots saying the DI was right. I dont think slapping is bad. However the choking could cause a disharge

If you can't handle some name calling and shoving maybe you shouldn't be on the front line protecting this country

In the 70's , 8/74-11/74, I saw Recruits hit called everything in the world but that is how Marines were made to stand the rigors of war. Semper Fi.

the new soft generation.

If you wanted to be respected and treated like a human, you should've joined the Army.

When I went through boot camp we ate sand. All day long. That was our chow.

To all you Jarheads, Grunts, Coasties and Squids, thank you for your outstanding service and sacrifice throughout the history of our great country. Without your diligent service, I would not have been able to enjoy 22 years of 9 to 5 bliss in air-conditioned comfort while in the Air Force :) love you all!!

Sir the enemy wont stop shooting at me sir

I went through Paris Island in 68, and if they were not as mean, rotten and nasty as they were, I would have never made it through Vietnam!!!! Thank You Drill Instructors.

Our DI's threw 4 recruits in a closet and emptied a bottle of bleach on the floor. They came out with eye burns.

If the commanding general says it's not permitted to act like that, then it's clearly a problem. Its ASSAULT. They are to be trained yes and hazed yes. But assaulting your rectruits and threatening that if they told the truth they'll get stitches will make them not trust you or want to defend you or fight by your side. And that's how we should think. Would you want to defend your brothers in arms that support you or a bully that is on a power trip in the military abusing his power? And the fact that people think this is fine is a problem. They support eachother more then abusing. Trust in key. Not abuse. It's astounding that people believe bullying is the solution to better fighters and soldiers.

I'm a Navy Desert Storm Veteran, and what the hell is happening to our Military? Can't call them names? wtf? I took beat downs when I got to the fleet, and I enjoyed the camaraderie with my shipmates. I wouldn't trade my military brothers and sisters in for nobody!

We had to do pushups naked in the showers, there was a Korean girl, that every time they said "hit it" she had to sing gagnum style lmao

my buddy is stationed in nc and came home the other day and was telling me about this and i assumed shoving the guy in a dryer thing was a joke but holy shit man

Blame the millennials.. not the core. This is the military, you're government property when you sign that contract

America is a superpower in decline.

Recruit strangles DI: Recruit gets thrown in the brig. DI strangles recruit: DI gets paid leave.

If physical abuse is going to be part of recruit training, recruits have a right to know that before they take the oath. It’s not fair to tell them that it’s not permitted, and then when it happens, tell them that they signed a contract, took an oath, etc. Yes, they took an oath, but the Corps did also, in the form of rules. If the Corps doesn’t hold up its end, why should the recruit?

A professional drill instructor can gain respect without hazing.

The new Gen Z recruits: 'OMG the drill instructor called me a name! I'm gonna go tell my mommy! CBS News: Recruit abuse is on the rise

Something needs to be done it’s October 15, 2023. My daughter almost died she’s been complaining she was sick for two weeks now Monday she started coughing up line Saturday. They sent her to meds finally and now she’s in the hospital with severe pneumonia and the flu. She’s not doing good she’s mentally and physically unstable. She wants to come home and they giving me a problem.

my uncle would see this as normal when he was in Marine boot camp in the 60's

Queue the “back in my day...” lol

If they can't handle being called names and touched? Are they even marines?

Name calling? That's the reason I graduated to be a marine.

Everything the Drill Instructors did was to my benefit. Thank you Sgt. Bryant. Semper Fi.

We cannot allow our military, Marines or any other branch, to be weakened and infected by our civilian societies hypersensitivity. War requires tough servicemembers, not fully grown man-children whose feelings and body can't handle a bit of a beating.

i got the the barrel of an M16A1 jabbed in my chest plenty of times of the Parade Deck.. good times lol

You never forget bootcamp. Ever

ALl these "tough guys" who have never been abused by a drill instructor. Makes them feel macho to belittle the abused recruits.

Ppl know what recruit training is like before going so if you know you can’t handle it dont go

If you pay attention and follow simple instructions, the drill instructors will never even learn your name. Personally, I appreciated all of the stupid recruits who kept sky-lining themselves because it kept the drill instructor’s attention away from me.

My drill instructor smoked me hard and pushed me beyond my capabilities. I graduated bootcamp and he gave me a hug with tears of joy.

Inflicting physical harm is absolutely uncalled for, but everything else verbally and mentally is absolutely not only called for but required. This is the Marines. In battle the enemy ain’t gonna be nice to you. Basic training MCRD is when those who cannot handle that must be rooted out. The only policy change that needs to happen is for those who can’t handle a complete verbal assault on everything from your looks to your faith to your sex and sexual orientation should be sent home and permanently discharged by the Marines and never again permitted into any branch of the American armed forces. I say this with every bit of respect to every single person to steps off that bus and on to the yellow footprints. If you’re not mentally prepared to do hand-to-hand and face-to-face combat with the worst enemies and bad guys on this planet, who would torture you physically and mentally in ways you can’t comprehend, the time to find that out is during basic training. And not when you’ve been captured. Not everyone can, or should, be a Marine.

I got punched in the chest as soon as I got off the bus and was standing on the yellow footprints. I had sunflower seeds in my mouth. The DI asked what the F*&K was I eating. I replied sunflower seeds...can't you tell? Boom...I was on my ass the next second. That was 1981. I deserved it...being a punk ass recruit. I saw guys kicked in the ass. Slammed against the wall or to the floor. I thought it was normal stuff. Nobody complained. It was the price we paid to be a member.

I agree. It's the Marine Corps. I went in with a bad attitude. I was punched, chocked, hazed, and it was the toughest time if my life. I may not have known it then, but it made me tough and learned how to manage brutality. I can honestly say, everything I learned and went through in boot camp saved my life in Iraq, a number of times. You can't go into war with a weak mindset or think the enemy is going to care about your feelings. That is literally what can get you and others killed

The Drill Instructor probably had PTSD from serving in Iraq or Afganistan thats probably why he choked the haji

Tell the recruits to toughen up.

I was kicked, punched, pinched, slapped, grabbed, thrown. Constantly stressed and then yelled at and mentally and verbally abused even when i was doing perfect. However that is the whole point, that is what i signed up for. My resolve was tested and then strengthened. To this day being yelled at has nearly no effect on me, i can be called all sorts of names and it does not break me, physically i am not afraid of others. If you don't have stress training like this and you go in to combat it could potentially be the thing that ends you.

When I went there, they beat us and called us every name in the book. That’s just how it is. If you can’t take that, how are you going to handle combat?

I was there when all this happened it was all we recruits could talk about when the kid was in the dryer. It seemed like something new happened every week after that.

My dad was one of these drill sergeants. He was accused for smacking recruits in the cheeks when they answer his questions wrong.

I went to bootcamp in 2012 expecting something like Full Metal Jacket. I was kinda disappointed honestly but it still managed to weed out some people that couldn’t handle it.

Get politics out of the military. Harsher training saves lives in combat the more you sweat in training the less you bleed in combat

Semper Fi to my Brothers and Sisters.

Cruel and Unusual is why I joined. Keep your baby boys home mommas, the Corps doesn’t need them.

“You can’t handle the truth!”

What's next? turning in rifles for standard issue pillows and having pillow fights with the enemies?

Full metal jackets opening scene should be mirrored in my opinion

They say its not for every one.

Only 1% of the cases actually get reported.

All of what the reporter mentioned, specifically the drinking, hazing, and even false reports on the young guys/recruits if they have an issue with them. If you speal up against beating another recruit etc you'll be targeted. It's very sickening. Go investigate in NC infantry and find the recruits that are hurt and intimidated by these bullies!!

AWWW...POOR LITTLE MAGGOTS !!!.....SHOULD SEEN WHAT WE WENT THROUGH IN 1972 !!!

Don’t grab a recruit, name calling is one thing. Racism is something else.

If you report your drill instructor you should be court marshaled.

These kids need to grow some balls and realize that THIS IS THE MARINES.

I thought that was the general rule, you can't hit them.

Aww... Too soft... Too soft... Well i got kicked, slapped, chocked, punched, hit, so many damn times.. N now im here..still alive. Still on service. Now im a corporal. Damn...bcos of tht i learn how to handle stresses.

Proud to be a Marine from the Old Corps but glad I'm not in the Corps today. It's not the Corps of 50 years ago.

they’re really adjusting to gen z ❄️❄️

It has been over a half century since I went through USMC boot camp the DI’s had very creative ways of motivating us yes there were some beatings they just wanted to weed out the week ones it was tough though mostly mentally. I think that infantry training was much tougher physically but then we were marines and in boot camp we were recruits. I enlisted when I was 17 you can take a lot when your are young I have no regrets and I’m glad that I did it I certainly wouldn’t want to do it over again. I like to think that I’m still in great physical condition but I do not think I could make it through Boot Camp and infantry training again.😁👍

What happens in the barracks stays in the barracks! Recruits are there on their on accord.NOBODY forced them to go!!

I just started to look for funny videos of drill instructors beating up recruits and I found this.

Ok, so what do these recruits think will happen when they run out of food during a firefight and supplies are cut

Bro That's my platoon doing pt at the end LOL

This generation is too soft.

Everything seems to be in order

I have experience with this parris island thing, and that officer running PR was the funniest thing ever. It should be noted the "training" is generally overseen pretty strictly in boot camp, even though DI's constantly get in trouble for going to far...All that said "Can they call them names?....... They cannot" is still the funniest pair of sentences i think ive ever heard.

Went to Parris Island basic in 1976, my Drill Instructors were Vietnam Combat Soldiers,who taught us war is tough, and we would be trained in a tough manner to survive, bas is was hell, but has made me the man I am today with the same drive and determination

Drill sergeant at Paris. I wanna tell my daughter that the only reason why she’s here to sleep over to the top, but I’m like that I’m home and all that.

Marine Corps boot camp is the only boot camp left that people on the outside look at and say, wow that is really tough, you must have balls to get through that. Even the other branches know what Marines went through in boot camp and acknowledge it as the toughest. Lets keep it that way. There's a reason prior Army soldiers still have to go through Marine boot camp if they decide to join the Marine Corps..

*joins marine force* lays on finger on him *Sue's the sergeant for harrassment & abuse*

Its permitted sir. In the time of combat we need to ensure combat readiness, obedience to orders, and resilience.

What these Drill Sergeants have to remember is that these people are going in to serve the United States of America but at the same time the recruits have to realize that they're not going there for summer vacation they're going there to become United States Marines it's not a walk in the park.

Your being trained to be a soldier. You can’t expect them to be soft because when in your in the battlefield it’s a different story

I was in the Devil Pups when I was 16, if you dont know what that is google it. we were put through the same training as regular marines and on the last day we were lined up on our foot lockers and the DI came and punched each one of us in the chest to prove we were marine tough, I still to this day at 57 think on this as a day I'm proud of boot camp is not meant to be easy

Imagine the people defending the sergeants putting YOUR kid in the dryer

If you can't handle it then don't enlist in the USMC!

Lol at everyone blaming liberals and millennials..who raised millennials? That's right, you dropped the ball there. It's your fault. And I'll tell you what, all you need to do to "trigger" a right winger is to make a joke about Jesus..easiest thing ever

I'm not one of those 'ooh-rah, kill bodies' type of Marines, but hear me out. I find it somewhat interesting that because a muslim recruit (Its cool, Muslim it up- Our country was founded on religious freedom) took the coward's way out, we're supposed to be outraged. There was a protestant recruit in the cycle before mine that hung himself in the shower, though I bet you'll never hear his name. The double-standard is complete and utter bullshit. Having completed recruit training some time ago (and gone on to be a relative success by a Corporal's standards), I think some degree of what you might refer to as 'hazing' is necessary. I've had to put mustard in my Gatorade (Oh no! Write the President!) and I can think of an occasion where I was actually choke-slammed into a rack, but you best believe I deserved it. I don't hold any contempt for how I was treated, because I believe that it all served a greater purpose. The bottom line, I guess is that recruits need to think long and hard about whether they truly want to be a Marine; it isn't a title that is conferred lightly. If you can't handle hating your life for 3 months, go join the Air Force- Its okay, really. The Marine Corps isn't for everyone. That's not to say that we wouldn't be better served by improved mental health screening at our entry processing centers and at every level of our recruiting process, and Lord knows that I've seen that proven first-hand time and time again. I see MEPS as the true point of failure, not recruit training.

They want to push you and tear you down and rebuild you and being aggressive but theres something called being too aggressive that will result in a injury that puts them out of training

Why am I not surprised?

Hazing good for me, good for you!