![]() The moment boot camp begins, drill instructors are teaching recruits that they are pretty much worthless, and they have a long way to go before they earn the title of Marine. This recruit really wishes he were treated like a human being. Thankfully, once they are Marines, they will earn their Eagle, Globe, Anchor - and the right to have a bathroom door.Ĥ. Who needs privacy when you are trying to forge a brotherhood of Marines? Walk into any male recruit "head" (aka the bathroom) at the depot and you'll notice a couple of things: There is a big trough-like urinal with no dividers, and bathroom stalls have no doors on them.Įven during the times when a recruit is used to having maximum privacy, at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, there is none. How are there no freaking doors on these bathroom stalls right now? When a DI says you have ten seconds to put on your camouflage blouse and bottoms, you better not still be buttoning at 11.ģ. The countdowns induce a level of stress in recruits that are used to completing tasks at a leisurely pace. DIs will give countdowns of everything - from tying your right boot to brushing your teeth - that usually start from very small numbers like 20 seconds that rapidly dwindle depending on how hard the DI wants to make it. ![]() One of the "insane" things that drill instructors constantly stress is that recruits move fast. There's no way I can put on this uniform in less than 10 seconds. As trained professionals, the DIs put on a front of being upset about basically everything a recruit does, right or wrong.Ģ. They kind of have a point.ĭuring the first three days or so of boot camp, receiving drill instructors take recruits to supply, get their uniforms, feed them, and house them, before taking them to their actual DIs that will have them over a period of three months. In the eyes of a recruit, a drill instructor is an insane person, hell-bent on making his or her life a living hell. They scream, use wild gestures, throw things, and run around a room and back again. These drill instructors are literally insane.
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