I can't help but laugh.

[jdakota]

No it went more like, "Hey Candidates let me tell you about the first time the Marine Corps got the internet? Ya your probably thinkin lookin at Marine Corps sh#t right. Candidate, you over there, what would you could look at the internet what would you look at"?. "This candidates e-mail staff sgt". "Then what"? "School stuff Staff sgt". "Then what, ya you know what youd look at"? "Porn Staff sgt". "Thats right porn, thats what I looked at. And you want to know what I saw"? And then he went into detail about the kind of porn he saw. Honestly the sickest sh#t Ive ever heard coming out of someones mouth and the hardest time ive ever had keeping a straight face but he was laughing also.

 

[Slaps22]

Thanks for your input Barnard. I hope you're right. I just don't want to be seen as a jackass that thinks everything is funny and doesn't care about anything else...kind of hard to explain, but I think you understand. Thanks again.

 

[invertedflyer]

*perspective

The clip is of Marine boot camp, not OCS. Never once during juniors or seniors did I experience something even remotely close to the terror imposed by DIs at boot camp. Rest assured that your enlisted brethren, myself included, have endured many of these kind of rituals.

As stated before, you'll be too busy screeming "Aye Aye GySgt." to be thinking anything remotely funny. Also, after the first few weeks of OCS the DIs truly turn the heat down and such ass-chewings are few and far between.

If, however, you are confronted with this type of situation just keep yelling "Aye Aye GySgt" ... worked for me a couple times =)

 

[Zilch]

*perspective

The clip is of Marine boot camp, not OCS. Never once during juniors or seniors did I experience something even remotely close to the terror imposed by DIs at boot camp. Rest assured that your enlisted brethren, myself included, have endured many of these kind of rituals.

As stated before, you'll be too busy screeming "Aye Aye GySgt." to be thinking anything remotely funny. Also, after the first few weeks of OCS the DIs truly turn the heat down and such ass-chewings are few and far between.

If, however, you are confronted with this type of situation just keep yelling "Aye Aye GySgt" ... worked for me a couple times =)

Eh, I saw it when a candidate did something f'd up on the way out of the classroom. He had at least 5 instructors on him. I also saw it in the chow hall. This was within the first week, however.

 

[invertedflyer]

I won't deny that it happened in OCS, it just happens less frequently and only during the first couple weeks. Its a completely different kind of training because you are only being taught to be a follower in boot. Not to mention, there was no getting killed, slayed, or IT'd (Inspirational training) in OCS... you couldn't be taken aside at any given moment and hazed, essentially. Different world man, differnet world.

 

[RyanVR]

"I can get Sgt. **** out here and to play games with you ladies all night and you all know he is good at it, but i'd rather just go write the paperwork to get you booted out of here." -Platoon Sergeant GySgt G****** PLC 186C A Co 5th Plt

You stop fooling around real fast when you know the stakes.

First 3 weeks you'll be too afraid and too tired to laugh unless you are a dirtbag with no bearing at all. Week 7+ its not such a uncommon thing.

Just worry about not getting broke, not this crap IMO.

 

[invertedflyer]

Amen Ryan, I almost got broke pretty bad myself. STRETCH FREQUENTLY!

 

[theblakeness]

"where you at, Brokedick platoon?! Start steppin"

 

[Lawman]

Just worry about not getting broke, not this crap IMO.

Damn straight.

Also repeat after me, "This Candidate was mistaken GySgt/SSgt...."

That phrase will save your ass. I dont know what it was but that phrase got me out of some severe ass chewings and turned them into learning experiances. Like when the Company Gunny, 1st Sgt, and 2 Platoon Commanders heared me call the XO by his rank instead of Sir (First week... I grew up around the Air Force where its acceptable). Also be the first guy to figure out that your SI's are more interested in teaching you the right way to do things and if you dont know how to do something ask. I was Guidon for a March.... I had no idea what the hell a Guidon does during a march so I asked SSgt _____ and told him "This candidate requests to know the correct proceedures during a hike with the guidon so not to embarrass himself or the platoon." It then became some sort of strange father son type deal where you were learning but still terrified that Dad might kill you.

Only a couple of times was anything ever funny enough that even the SI's were cracking up. Like when one of the candidates in my platoon complained of a rash on his ass during a hygeine inspection, or when the mail got messed up and one of the candidates recieved womens underware that was for a candidate with the same last name in Charlie Co.