DI Abuse at San Diego

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Gypsy Dawg - April 22, 2020

In reply to Skip Redpath.
What wrong with that SNOFLAKE? If he went thru boot in 62 then sounds as if he has taken a couple hard left turns in the last 55 years. I guess he thought strapping a recruit to a pullup bar may have hurt his SELF ESTEEM! The kid was probably a disgusting FAT BODY and needed a blanket party. SNOFLAKE needs to realize that ABUSE comes when ISIS or Taliban idea of a haircut is a beheading. SNOFLAKE needs a teachable moment as a former POTUS liked to say.

DUB - April 22, 2020

I was in MCRD San Diego in 2003, was a fat body myself. I got kicked in the ribs while doing pushups. Also was smashed on the side of the head with my own rifle. GET SOME!!

Sgt Court C Conkwright - April 22, 2020

I was at Parris Island in the summer of 1962 in 2BN Plt 238………….we had our share of weeding out the ones that couldn’t make it in Boot Camp. You were not the only one that got kicked around. Of the 75 men that were in 238………..we may have gotten 38 thru that started out together. The balance that out posted together on Sep 13th, 1962 was about 70 that had pickup in our Plt. But one thing I knew, they always had my back and in battle and would never run, but fight to the end with me……..that was what we were trained to do. I was a 0311 and proud of it in the FMF……….I have found 152 Marines from L Company 2BN Plts 236-237-238 and 239 from 1962. It was 55 years ago this summer we were there. We have had 2 reunions back at P.I. and we all keep in touch with each other now. There are only about 90 that have email addresses, but everyday we are in touch with each other in the form of a mass email. It took me about 2 years to find them all, but it was worth every minute. I have added on many other Marines and even a few other servicemen on my list…………it was worth every minute starting out a P.I. and it made better men out of all of us. Semper Fi!

Sgt. Robert L Sisson Vietnam April 1969- Oct 1970 11th Marines 12 Marines - April 22, 2020

In reply to WILLIAM RUSSO.
I agree we had one DI that was a real wack JOB. I know because I was one myself. I was a bully in High School a smart ass after High School Worked in a Steel Mill and construction by the time I was 20 I was on the wrong path. Thank GOD a good Judge gave me the choice jail (AGAIN ) or the Marines. I noticed that wack job DI the first week. He was all over the weaker guys in the platoon the same way I had been my whole life. Made me realize what an asshole I was. Changed my whole life around. At the end of 3 years I wanted to stay in the Corp but after spending 1 1/2 years in Vietnam my wife was afraid they would send me back to Vietnam again so we came back to Pittsburgh and the Steel Mill. The thing about boot camp was there were a lot of people to to young to be there. They had no business being there should have been in the Air Force or Navy. Never saw so many out of shape people. By the way when I was in Vietnam I met a guy that had that same DI after I graduated and he told me he killed a guy in their platoon with an M14 to the temple.

Sgt. Whalen JH ’68-’72 2463XXX - April 22, 2020

Aug. ’68 MCRD San Diego Plt. 1066. Was grabbed once by the stacking swivel and thrown through the back door of our Quonset hut because, I as 1st squad leader, was supposed to have secured the hatch with a pad lock and had not. My fault. I deserved the flight time through the hatch and never felt anything but complete respect for my Sr. D.I. No body promised you a rose garden. Join the Army, Navy or Air Force if you want the gravy train. I thank my hero my father and brother Marine for putting the notion in my head that I had what it takes to be a United Sates Marine. RIP dad.

GySgt W.F. “Bill” Pakinkis USMC (Ret) - April 22, 2020

Well P.I. was no picnic in ’62 the D.I.’s were “Tough and Rough”. It was their job to “Make Marines” not Pansies. Our enemies do not fight fair and in a combat situation Marines are there to “Win”. If it was not for our D.I’s we would have not been hardened warriors when we left Boot Camp. You have to do what it takes to make good Marines…..

John Carr - April 22, 2020

In reply to George L Kudlinski.
The same for me George. The proudest day in my life was the night before we shipped out to Camp Geiger AIT.The DI said goodnight Marines. What a feeling flooded over me. I will never forget it.

Porfirio Moreno Jr E-5 - April 22, 2020

In reply to Porfirio Moreno Jr.
Moreno. MCRD Diego, 1967

Porfirio Moreno Jr - April 22, 2020

In reply to William M..
Suck it up! What we used to encourage ourselves with. Sure we got beat up! But we learned from our mistakes! We were headed to Nam. Not Disneyland! Once more for the Corps, Ooh-Rah!

Arnold Cabral - April 22, 2020

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