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Drill Instructor

Drill Instructor

Drill Instructor

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What made your Drill Sergeant awesome?
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Drill Instructors: What’s the Funniest Thing a Recruit Has Said or You Caught Him Doing?

 

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This week’s Urban Valor episode features retried Marine First Sergeant Randall Parkes. Randall grew up in Hemet, CA, and frequently moved due to his father's enlistment in the Navy. He served in the I...
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Misgendering is the least of a recruits problems. As silly as --> Take the hill! pretty please....
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What's your information to pass on or experiences as a drill sergeant?

Hello Community,
I am currently in the process of reclassing from my current MOS. Though I am completely fine with this, there is something that is beckons me and always have: Being a Drill Sergeant.
I love scuffing up joe (for the purpose of strengthing mentally , physically, and emotionally and corr...
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How is drill Sergeant School during COVID19?

I report to face 2 in the middle of August. is there a possibility I can go on Leave after completing drill sergeant school?
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On April 15, 2018, R. Lee Ermey, American actor (Full Metal Jacket- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), died at the age of 74. Here are some great scenes from Full Metal Jacket.
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Can someone be forced into becoming a Drill Instructor? If so, how do you avoid it?

I've met several NCO's that were forced into becoming a drill instructor. They all hated it. My heart and simpathy goes out to them. Does this happen in all military branches? What about the National Guard? Is there a way to avoid it (besides going Special Forces)?
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When in boot camp, we attended a movie or two, So the drill instructor told us to take our buckets along and when we entered the theater he said buckets over your head and said that it was policy to ...
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The song of my people...
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you have to be a very strong mined man to be a marine not many could finish boot camp well when i went in the marines in 1953 it was tuff boot camp and id never joye anything but the marines semper fi goug ho
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Where can I find information for a possible DS disqualification?

I have been DA selected for DS, I feel like it would be an honor to serve in that position. I have a type II offense which according to the commander's checklist and the policy is an automatic disqualification from the assignment. Drill branch doesn't know yet until the packet is submitted, I guess ...
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Because of Covid-19. Will new soldiers in AIT have to still complete ACFT or APFT?

I thought that ACFT release was delayed a little bit because of all of this, so do AIT soldiers have to pass the ACFT to graduate?
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SFC ITALIG was from Fort Monmouth, NJ. He was our DI for our Officer Training at Fort Bragg, NC. back in 1982. He was an Ex Korean ROC Marine, and became a Naturalized American. He was present at and ...
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I went on the Drill Field in August of 1969. Vietnam was the focus at this time and the Marine Corps was taking cat 4's. I was assigned to this platoon with Cat 4's and volunteers. I had school tea...
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It was July, 1956 and we were on the drill pad, asphalt, 1400, and sun brutal at Lackland AFB, San Antonio. The DI kept us marching back and forth. Finally, he halted us and gave us Parade Rest. ...
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So I ship Monday with a mos of 11x any tips on passing basic and ait
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These guys work like dogs every cycle, so I understand how exhaustion could have caused this. Recruits, rightly focused on their own basic training experience, often don't notice just how long and ha...
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Poolee was supposedly dared by his recruiters to say this to the Drill Instructor. This kid is either crazy or brave.
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A federal judge in Detroit on Tuesday dismissed a $100-million lawsuit against the U.S. Marine Corps brought by the family of Raheel Siddiqui, who died in a fall from a stairwell at the Marines' Parri...
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Marine Drill Instructors told recruits to trash poorly prepared food and did not report that to their leadership? Hard is hard, leadership involves responsibility
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FYI: “What’s up Sir” is NOT an appropriate greeting for a #USMC Drill Instructor.
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I know it is a little harsh, and please excuse the profanity, but if you've been through basic you know this is so true.
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How would a boot camp drill instructor handle this situation?

I've been wanting to ask this of a drill instructor for a long time. I went through USAF Officer Training School, so I bypassed the chance to see this in real life.
Recalling Hollywood's portrayal of the first couple of hours of boot camp, the drill instructor makes his points and position clear wit...
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Interesting!
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We LOVE our Silent Drill Teams, but outside of the Army's being the best, this is really a good contest for second place between the Marines, The Belarus Team, the cooks in the Coast Guard, and every ...
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Beware!!! This could happen to you. Wrongfully convicted 2 years ago of a 20 year old false allegation by an AF Basic Trainee whom didn't even graduate Basic Training. Only in his sq for a couple days...
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A drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, was accused Thursday of making recruits exercise in a dusty, abandoned building nicknamed “the dungeon," and failing to ...
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A number of changes being considered that will impact training and advancement. Interesting article.
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A drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island has been arrested for internet crimes against children in Texas as part of a months-long sting operation.

 

Sgt. Keith Knight, assigned to ...
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