What a wonderful story about your family, and your son, the Marine! You both played more than a small role! And The Father sent him home safely to you.

Please tell your son thank you for his service. Without men and women like him, we would not have the freedoms we have now.

Two things. Thank your son for serving and I believe that you are half the man he is. You raised him and he became a Marine. You have something to do with that.

You might not be half the combat trained participant he is, but you are definitely all man. It takes tons of bravery for a parent to step back and let their baby take on becoming an adult. You gave him the opportunity and support he needed, and that gave him the tools he needed to forge ahead. I realize I’m early, or late, but happy Father’s Day. And merry Christmas. Well done.

That’s a really awesome story. Your son must be very proud of what he did with his life Semper Fi

Thank you so much for your service and sacrifice.

Once a marine always a marine. Thank you for your service.

Semper Fi

Semper Fi brother, from me it's been a mere 47 years since I stepped on the yellow footprints at PI.

Thank you for your service.

I’ve no doubt. Because you literally overcame and conquered one of the toughest tasks of your life under the most punishing conditions Anyone who becomes a Marine should be proud

We one of the few

OoRah Devil dog 1982 grad of P.I. here

Dude at work is always apologizing for my jar head tendencies

Hard chargers too. Best employees I ever had were Marines after they left active duty. None better.

0352 - anti-tank - 2/7 80-86 Semepr Fi

Semper Fi

Started my enlistment process yesterday. Still not sure what MOS is right for me. But God help me I’ll be a devil dog like you. Thank you for your sacrifice sir.

@@crayonsfordinner1035 good luck.keep mouth shut,listen please do as much PT as you can before you stand on our yellow foot prints

Good Luck to you. Once in Boot Camp, Stay positive and NEVER quit!

well she was in the cadets at school, so i guess they learn the lingo.

Spoken as a rifleman sir

It's not PC, it's CYA Alpha Company, Platoon 1142, MCRD San Diego, 2000

That's true if I was to go from army to marines id have redo basic But not for navy or air force You guys kick ass

🌸 One of my brothers graduated from Parris Island in '75.

Went thru PI In late 75. 0311 grunt.

new river?

Golf Co! Hell yea! Parris Island 2021 Plt 2090 G Co. THE Golf Co.!!

Hotel Co 2046 "89

@@tedzimmerly oh hell yeah, I was the last cycle of Hotel that graduated Dec 22nd, 21. Hotel Hell for life🙌🏻 Still got a long way to go. “Let me hear that ‘THUNDER’, that 2nd battalion ‘BOOM’, cause 1st battalion ‘SUCKS’, and 3rd battalion’s ‘WHACK’. Our diddys were pretty sick haha. Lots of fun

I was 2nd Bn, G Co, plt 2020, 2007 at the beautiful parris island.

My son is currently in MCRD San Diego, 2nd Bn. Echo Co. and graduating in 3 weeks. His Crucible is less than 1 week away.

This is so true. Before my dad retired he told me about how even the people working in the post office had to do this.

I can attest. Went from PI to MCAS New River for C-School and NAS Pensacola for A-School, a year total between the two. I was a 6323 - Avionics for CH-53D, which I believe was retired in 2012, so no longer in operation.

Once a marine, always a marine

It is a title that once earned can never be taken away from you

If you call out "Hey, Marine" even to this day, I will turn to answer. It has been 20 years since I became inactive.

I stepped off the bus around that same time in January of 2000. After I was discharged, I had a dream for several years where I was back at Parris Island and telling the drill instructors that I wasn't supposed to be there because I had already finished. It was the same drill instructors I actually had, and they weren't interested in listening. I still remember the emotions I was feeling like it was yesterday, and standing on the yellow footprints thinking, "Well, here we go."

condolences to you. how wonderful to have such a person to look up to. may he rest in peace.

Millie needs to be on the same side as the camera .. she is MUCH prettier ..

@@eTraxx well that’s dude’s girlfriend. When you get one you can put her as close to the camera as you want unless you creep her out and she leaves you.

@@eTraxx Coming off a little creepy

2009 Charlie Co. Rah

@kai savage Oh, you mean the Army gives out more medals than the Marines?

@@TacShooter Army gives out medals for peeing and hitting the toilet !! (it's a joke people, sorta)

@@Mrstrikerace I barely got a Good Conduct Medal out of it. It helps to brown nose, I hear.

Crayons actually taste good.Parris Island serves the Crayola Brand.MMMMMMM!

I heard they only eat the red white and blue crayons. Obviously I don't think they really do. Too waxy feeling to even think about eating. But great for fire

Thanks so much for your husband's service, and you too! I'm sure it wasn't easy not knowing whether he would come back alive or not. I've always thought about joining the Marine Corps or perhaps the Navy because I want to make my grandpa proud. He served and dedicated 22 years of his life to the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam, he saw so many horrible things over there and had been stabbed multiple times. Fighting a guerilla war in a dense jungle against an enemy that uses civilians as human shields and plant traps everywhere must be extremely difficult to fight....some of those men were just young teenagers to. I'd love to see him at my graduation, because even though he is extremely strict and kinda, set in his ways when it comes to LGBT stuff, he's alright and I really do respect him and ALL service members or new and of old. 🙌

I tried to talk my son into joining another branch too. My son is very sensitive and very in tune to others around him. He is such a sweet boy. But he joined anyway and now his Crucible starts next week. I have faith he is strong and determined like his mom and nothing can stop him. But I just felt he was perfect already. I hope the Marine Corp boot camp only made him better.

@@shyryTsr2k Don't join the Marine Corps to make anyone proud unless that person is yourself. The Marine Corps has to be a journey you take for you, or it won't work out. Being a Marine is not for everyone. Marines really are cut from a different cloth. It's a very hard life, and one has to be a little bit crazy to sign up for it to begin with. Boot camp is just the beginning. Make sure it's something you really want. It will be the hardest thing you've ever done.

They do it for Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies too!

Yeah, the comedy is usually overlooked by the civilian world.

I used to have to bite my lips until they bled to keep from laughing. One day when walking out of the head, I saw one of my drill instructors standing in the corner with a recruit and trying to get him to drink from the mug jug. I don't know if they still have those, but it was basically a big jar of cotton balls in a mixture of rubbing alcohol and Aqua Velva aftershave. It was used for cleaning our faces. I started laughing uncontrollably and continued even though I had two drill instructors yelling at me. I paid dearly for that, but I just couldn't help it.

@@joshm9504 what the fuck hahaha. What they would do to us at boot was during chow, they would make the fat kids mix their food and make a “mcflurry” which was yogurt, green beans, asparagus, chicken and cheese.

We had great respect for our corpsmen because they earned it. We always had their backs and we knew they had ours. There really is a brotherhood among Marines and corpsmen are included.

Semper Fi Doc

Too funny, I was there Christmas day, we played rifle drills with footlockers for the first half of the day until the Senior DI came in. Semper Fi

@@Mrstrikerace Hoorah Devil! Christmas day our company was marched to one of the movie theatre sized classrooms and we were told that we were getting rewarded on Christmas day. When we got there, finished the stupid games and were seated, the DI's said we could have Snickers bars and DP's while Saving Private Ryan was playing. Since all of us were starving and stupid enough to believe them, many recruits gorged themselves and about half an hour later DI's took recruits out in fireteams and smoked us until every bit of candy and soda filled large parts of the pit up. The next group of recruits got smoked in the vomit, contributed what they ate, so on and so forth. I wish I'd have been one of the first dozen to go out there, because everyone after that got covered in a cement like mix of sand, Snickers, DP and whatever you ate for morning chow. We then went back in and had to watch the rest of Saving Private Ryan and I don't think I've ever watched a movie that seemed as long as that one did, that day. The smell was hard to describe. Doing laundry from the start in boot camp as a recruit meant slowly marching in a conga line of guys that were afraid to take a shit (ever), washed our clothes by jamming almost everything we were issued in a laundry bag and prayed we could at least get them wet (this was a horrible idea) in the hopes that we could wring out the taint sweat smell and replace it with a pleasant mildew smell. If you tried hard enough to concentrate on the Snickers and DP puke, it made the taint and mildew stink a smidge less offensive. Running in formations back to the barracks after that "Christmas gift" was an experience. Our showers were similar to the washing laundry method, except everyone was naked and if you were lucky, you got enough water to rinse the palm of your hands, before the recruit behind you forgot to stop shuffling forward and you got to experience something entirely different. 100 recruits trying to navigate that quickly led to violence and people seemed to forget that all we were wearing were shower shoes. Recruits made enemies that day. Bulldog smell good (aftershave) was thick in the air that night and you couldn't burn the stink out of those clothes. Thank God there were no female recruits at MCRD San Diego, because that would've made it so much worse... Good times!

Did any Marines fight in Germany in WW2? The only Marines who fought Germans in WW2 was Marine Maj. Peter Otiz and 6 other Marines when they parachuted into Franch with an Army Air Corps Officer. One Marine died because his chute malfunctioned. Maj Ortiz had previously worked and trained with the French resistance.

that's sensible. no need to waste water; it's a precious resource.

What a way to get dishonorably discharged

@@djentyman4002 Nah they had finished basic, they were living on base. My mom worked in the JAG office (basically military court system) and my dad was an engineer. They both left the Marines before I was born but they both had honorable discharges. I served in the National Guard because there was no way I was built for the Marines, I was a 74 Delta (CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear engineer)

@@nfamus540 ahh okay I got it now.. much respect for you and your parents for serving!

In the Corps, we called them bloop-bloops. That was the sound of their air bubbles popping on the surface from the bottom of the pool.

Did he also have to walk to school uphill both ways with his shoelaces tied together?

@@Sandman60077 You know, I think I have heard that story once or twice myself. 😉 I think he meant it was a different time and type of training. I think you train for the time you’re in. We have way more technology today, which makes planning and training different. Thanks for the sarcasm. 😁

@@moemoe211 The sky is blue and stop signs say stop, why are we stating the obvious?

@@wildwulf7065 Thanks for the comment. I believe I was adding to a conversation about a video at hand. Sorry you feel so triggered my friend.

@@moemoe211 from what you first said I feel as if people with common sense can come to an understanding that of course things where done differently due to the fact it was a different time and we have became way more knowledgeable now and have made many things easier for ourselves. Just saying that the second statement was pretty redundant. Im trigger disciplined, not triggered.

Yep, my son was at San Diego as well. He just took it all in stride. Woke up in the middle of the night to do cleaning, finished it and the instructor dumped all the garbage out and said do it again. He'd just shrug and do it. Definitely brought out the absolute best in him. He was a bit messy before and now he keeps his place so clean. I wish all young people would be required to spent 8-12 weeks in Maine boot camp at the end of high school. It just helped him so much i think it would be a good thing for most all young people to go through.

🙋‍♂🙋‍♂waving hello from Florida

Yes, Drill Instructors are essentially practiced, performed and controlled psychopaths...most of the time in dress uniforms and dress shoes. It is almost all very intentional. I was in the Marines and my platoon SGT was a former DI but alot of times he still retained the craziness though.