Yeah

My dad was in the service. Joined the Air Force 3 days after his 17th birthday. He always laughed like hell when we watched this. I am sure it reminded him of boot camp.

God bless your dad thank him for me😊😊❤

@@gemoftheocean There is ABSOLUTELY NO relation between AF summer camp and Marine Corps Basic Training!

@@dav9620 To be fair, as a Marine I talk a lot of shit about the other services. Some of it is true but you also have to realize everything is relative as well. ANYONE who serves should get respect because most people don't.

Indeed.

Oh yeah. Because it’s so old. I introduced my fellow compadres when we were on ship to Heartbreak Ridge and we all watched, Jarhead together. I showed my mom Major Payne and Generation Kill, she laughed.

​@@charles1203Old is not necessarily a good reason for underrating it. The only reason this movie gets badges is that it doesn't have foul language or sexual innuendo.

Joseph Romano Amen. Jack Webb was the best.

He died in 1982

@@TheAnimatedLegendaryCoyote2008 Cigarettes took him away, SIR!

Nice and just to let you know ma’am, Marine is always capitalized. ❤

Mine were far worse

Lol

It's Ermey, Jesus H. Christ😂

@@tjm11015 And Ermey wasn't 'acting' in Full Metal Jacket!

Darren McGavin was a Fine D.I.

Vincent was even funnier in ''Baby Blue Marine.'' In WWII the Corps sent washed out ex-recruits home in a goofy blue pinstripe seersucker cotton suit with a matching newsboy cap It was a form of humiliation. At a slop chute in a city, Vincent runs into a white haired 24 year old Marine T/Sgt with a Raiders patch on his shoulder.and a 1000 yard stare, [Richard Gere]. Vincent wakes up the next morning in an alley. His money's gone, and so is his Baby Blue Suit. Somehow the Marine Raiders' dress greens are on Vincent [and fit like on the drill deck]. He goes back to his hometown and inspired by the costume, does heroic deeds. Meanwhile Gere escapes his War Bond Tour and goes AWOL on a great drunken bender until MPs catch him.

@@HootOwl513 Semper-Fi, Mac'

@@maureencora1 Do or Die!

@@HootOwl513 Semper-Fi'.

Or couldn't handle boot camp

Millennials

No, they're not clueless! They're Dragnet fans.

And he had a neat, little role in one of my all-time fav movies, "From Here To Eternity."

Amen I went in 1987 ain’t it something they did a helluva job didn’t they!

@@cowlico I still use stuff Senior said, “Just because you’re not good at something, it’s doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means it’s not for you.”.

Then why did he choose the army instead of the Marines?

Thats the right Marine attitude...

USMC... Danger is Ours Business. Semper-Fi.

Basic Training? Army or Air Force?

I served with a bunch of Marines in Iraq and they were just as real as that bunch was on that film. I was their Doc. Two of them didn't make it home they're buried up at section 60 in Arlington Steven. They were just as real as the time you served. The times may change in some ways the techniques might change but by God and by having they are still f****** Marines!

But you probably heard lots of curse words in your time.

I didn't know that. How did you learn that?

Webb served in the Air Corp

I'd like to know what it means.

@@David-yw2lvPogey bate is basically any junk food. It’s a way that the grunts made fun of the more out of shape pogs(person other than a grunts) friendly banter from within the ranks. That’s from my experience. I believe the term came from the Army technically.

@@michealknight3776 Thank you

@@David-yw2lv Pogey Bait is Candy, or any sweet junk food. Donuts etc. ''Gedunk'' is the Navy equivalent.' As legend goes, China Marines were reputed to seduce very young prostitutes [Pogies] in China with American Candy Bars. Also a POG is any rear echelon type sitting on his butt all day, like a Clerk Typist. From the Gaeltacht ,,Pogue''.. = arse. . = Kiss my A$%^

Of course, Moore had an easier time since his platoon was made up of real Marines; they were all junior drill instructors in training at Parris Island instead of having a plt like Hartman, complete with psycho suicidal fat -bodied, donut eating disgrace.

I liked how two Marines were digging dirt out of the hole and another was putting it back in.

That's only because the ants dragged it away a long time ago. And Jack webbs character knew it.

Wow, blue falcons

I can really take my soft cover off for Pvt owen's mom showed up and gave both T-Sgt Moore and the Company commander a to-from concerning them sending him home. She told them that he had what it takes to be a bonifed US Marine and dont dishonor herhusband and other in his family who were Marines by sending him home.

@@olddocman She also reminded them that they had seen his record and that she had made mistakes, with him; that if he were allowed to quit this, that he would not be any good. She probably would have liked to have had him home, but she also wanted him to succeed and become a man. In a way, she did the best thing for him, that she could possibly do. And the Company Commander followed on, about the grin, that Mrs Owens mentioned, commenting about not killing anymore sand fleas. I think at that point, Owens realized that they really did want him to succeed and weren't just hounding him.

*"Dragnet"*

Lee Marvin wanted this role real bad! He was a Marine in World War II.

And 4. Drill Instructors carry swagger sticks in addition to wearing the campaign covers.

If you look closely, I don;t think that there is a pistol in his holster. I cannot see the butt of the grip. The holster leans out from his hip. I don't think it would do that with the weight of the pistol in it. Just my observations.

@@jason60chev Hello. I myself thought that the Drill Instructors' appearances in "The D.I."--as far as campaign covers, swagger sticks and sidearm holster--were similar to those of state troopers and prison guards combined, to be honest.

That's pretty much how it was when I went through US Navy boot camp in 1980. Smoking or the restriction of it used as a huge motivator. Guys did not want to lose their smoking!

Smoking lamp was lit the final two weeks after chow in 1965.

Y’all got to smoke? 😩

Co-ed now. Fuggetaboutit.

Indeed. Even Drill Instructors were in that movie as well: some *portrayed* Drill Instructors while others portrayed recruits.

I entered USAF in 1989. I had two female TIs. They were not vulgar, as I recall. Now, I attended and graduated from The Citadel, a Military college. There were no women there, 1980-1984. They were the most fouled mouth "Southern Gentlemen" whom I ever came across.

1961 - The style of “cool” high school age civilians was sideburns. Everly Brothers went through San Diego while I was there. They lost their sideburns also. When I was standing in the line for haircuts, a barber asked a recruit if he wanted to save those sideburns, the recruit said Yes and the barber started clipping them and said “catch”.

I just don't see the connection.