The D.I. end scene

Great movie...always enjoyed it.

PO3 Steven Sherrill Jack Webb had a knack for presenting realism in an entertaining fashion. This remains one of my favorite USMC movies of all times. I borrow one of his lines form the movie regularly..."It's OK, I'm over 21 and I don't get mean when I drink it," referring to water. This was a great movie for showing many things not the least of which was the change from youth to Marine. The strength of character shown by many is a message worth repeating. Thank you PO3 Steven Sherrill for sharing. Great post!

Try to Imagine going to or through boot camp three times. I saw this when former enlisted Marines, Reservists or AD Marines, signed up for the Platoon Leaders Course in college, and when, like I did, attended two summer sessions of OCS (six weeks each), separated by one or two college years. I went in to PLC Juniors at OCS in Quantico, in the summer of 1983, and to PLC Seniors at OCS in Quantico in 1985. In both summer sessions we had prior Marines (or current Marines like a Marine reservist friend of mine who was a Dragon Gunner MOS 0351, and had been selected for Sargent E-5, but his reservist Infantry Unit would not let him pin it on, once he had transitioned into the PLC Program-they let him drill as a corporal, but would not let his promotion go through after he had become an Officer Candidate in the PLC Program), who were generally the most squared away officer candidates. I also remember the ribbing a former Marine Sergent (and Force Marine Recon Marine) got from a DI Corporal at OCS. They loved to rub it in on him, that he was just a lowly Officer Candidate now, and they sometimes like to call him Candidate "Sarge." I think he ended up being the honor grad in our OCS Company.