DI Abuse at San Diego

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Dennis Krug - April 22, 2020

I went through boot camp December of 1961 platoon 2003 and all I can say about the idea of abuse is ridicules those drill instructors were there to train you so you would be ready for combat or being a P.O.W. if that should accrue. Yes they put you through a lot but the purpose was justified. The drill instructors aren’t there to fluff your pillow, cover you up at night and tell you bed time stories they are there to train you. My three drill instructors were GySgt Meek, SSgt Ellis and Sgt. Enos

L/Cpl Kelly D.S. - April 22, 2020

I had my 19th birthday at Parris Island in 1971 and didn’t know it. I guess I was too busy becoming a Marine.

Jack Webb - April 22, 2020

I have posted on this subject before. MCRDSD in Dec. 1960, plt 3010. After a week or so in boot camp the DI did his trash can lid wake up in the quonset hut and I was a little slow to rouse. Sgt gently asked me to get up and I sleepily said I would in a few minutes-oops! My presence was requested in the duty hut where I was introduced to Corporal/Sgt. attitude adjustment. Never slept in again. Some of my fellow recruits evidently needed some additional adjusting, because after a few weeks a couple of them were no longer there. Accurate information is rare in boot camp so we weren’t sure what happened, but about halfway through bc some of our DI’s were replaced. Our information came through the grapevine and was very limited but we put 2&2 together and got 5. Never did resent getting bounced around, did me good. Semper Fi till I die!

Joel Martinez - April 22, 2020

In reply to Skip Redpath.
ooh-rah!!

JACK D HANSON - April 22, 2020

I spent 30 days in the FAT farm and the DI before he sent off said, “its not my (his) fault I was a couch potato” he was so correct. After those 30 days I could do anything Class of 1966

John Carr - April 22, 2020

I went to PI Feb 1960 and it was pretty tough. I got pounded on often , but those twelve weeks turned me into a Marine and a Man. I did have one DI that was cruel, Sgt. Gleason. We didn’t learn too much from him. He was borderline idiot.The other two, Smith and Shultz were very good instructors. They also were known to pound a few knots on my head, most I had coming. I am now 75. Would I do it over again? Heck yes I would

jack d - April 22, 2020

In reply to William Steinberg, Jr..
I was trackin’ until you went PC on me with that man and WOMEN and crap.

robert myers - April 22, 2020

Semper Fi!!! To be a Marine takes the ability to overcome whatever is in front, beside, and behind you. The training was what I expected and I was not disappointed. If you are signing on to be a Marine…research what it means to wear the E,G,A and be A Marine. We are trained to kill so that others may survive. Do we like that we have that ability…Yes. Do we want to do it….No. Will we do it if called…YES. Our DI’s and SGT. Instructors gave us their best so we could be their Brothers In Arms!! We ARE!!

Mel Huffman - April 22, 2020

SSGT KR THOMAS: A fellow Radar Marine – albeit a few years later… Please contact me at: mel(dot)huffman(dot)or(AT)iCloud.com There are a bunch of fellow radar marines that would enjoy connecting up.

Bill Case Vietnam 67-68 - April 22, 2020

Everything I have ever accomplished in life was because of the discipline instilled in me by the Marine Corps. Some of that was the result of “uniform adjustments” 😉 and a couple of times a punch to the old breadbasket. For that I say to my drill instructors, in all seriousness, “Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.”