USMC Boot Camp Final Drill At Parris Island

This is my platoon

Man those new Barracks look nice, I was there in 06 and we were still in Vietnam Era Gear and Barracks. Our racks had BLOOPER shells as stoppers for the top of the poles. Still had washing stations in the middle of the barracks 3rd btn was newer but out by the range.

i should be marine corps :)))

56 years ago.. Still remember it like it was yesterday. Semper Fi.. PLT. 3022.

I remember we had about guys in the platoon that couldn't march worth a crap so on competition day they hid them back in the barracks. Funny!

Counter column was not hard to teach and recruits preformed quite well after some pratice.

What boots are those we didn’t have those when I went thru

Worst part of the corps is the emphasis on drill.

I remember my platoon participating in 1st and 3rd phase Drill Competition. We placed 2nd both times. In third phase, we missed winning by a very slight margin. Our Senior Drill Instructor praised our efforts, something he rarely did which told us he was proud. Sort of old school Marine Corps after Vietnam in 1974. Two of our Drill Instructors were battle hardened Vietnam Veterans. I would give anything to hear their cadence one more time. PISC Oct74-Jan75 SFMF

It has been nearly 20 years since I experienced the Marine Corps initiation myself and as much as I hated it at the time, I would love nothing more than to relive it all over again.

Men need purpose in life. This is the greatest purpose.

Naaaahhh
I’ll leave all that to real men!

I was in Navy boot camp in the early 80s and man, did did we drill endlessly but this is whole different level shit.😳

new style BC Glasses

May we never have to carry these guns. But we will!

Thank u sirs!

It was awesome picking my brother up when hurricane Hugo was on its way. He never got to have a indoor or outside graduation. Shared this one to him.

I was on Paris island a month after my 17th birthday in 1979 ,plt.2201Delta company second battalion, Barnum was the commanding officer on deck he has a ship that was named after him not to long ago and I am more than happy he was alive to see it, he's a great marine.

Did I just see Male and female recruits together in the recieving barracks...I never thought it would come to that.

There was a squad of Marines when I was doing Army OSUT for E19 in Ft. Knox. They were there training for Armor Crewman like me. I admired how the squad march slowly and without a sound. Semper Fi Marines.

You just can’t get this in the Army or Navy. Nowhere. But I have to say, those boots aren’t hittin’ like the all leather combat boots we wore back in the 90’s. Semper Fi to all my Parris Island 1st Battalion “drill” recruits… nothing like us.

There is something about military drills that cannot be put into words... it's an artform in itself - and I love it!

Those recruits probably cpl and Sgt now

God Bless The Marine Corps

Awesome snap!👏 God bless the marine corps!🙏🙏

Thats 3rd Batt Baby

Awesome marines!! Glad we have them right now ready to defend us from our liberal democrat enemies! Turnaround is coming!

Drilled with the M14 🇺🇸

Looking for anybody who was in Mike company of March 1995. I was 3068 fellow series

The true Honor too serve in my beloved Corps

So crazy seeing them acogs on the rifles during boot.

2 years in the Corps and I still don’t know how I managed to get through all of that. At the time I hated Parris Island mainly because i wasn’t used to the life style. Once I got my EGA I felt like I was a completely different person from 3 months prior. That’s what that shit did to me, built a character I didn’t know I had. I can still hear my DI’s scream to platoon 3010 “Through pain comes discipline!” Rah !

Man is wish we would have had scopes. We were iron sights all day long.

REAL cadence.

See s today all DI’s use the same boring cadence! They NEED to watch DIs from the 1950’ s and learn REAL canencs.

Dat mutant Mike?

what is that building?

Proud to be an American!

I hated drill when I was going through. When I got to the fleet it was fine but good Lord in boot camp it was miserable.

Marines adapt, but pls never change. Makes me so proud to be in the US.

Final drill been so long ago 1974 plt3008 3rd bn back in the boonies

Elenore Roosevelt once said: "The Marines have the cleanest bodies, the filthest minds, the highest morale and lowest morals of any animal l have ever seen", "God bless the United States Marine Corp"

What no battle buddies hehehehe 😜

At this point they are tired of playing military. Hahahaha

Noted a couple changes since ‘62. No more shining boots, shoes, barrack caps, or polishing brass. What do they do with that extra time?

This is my company, and my platoon for actually a majority of the video. The end was our final drill. Kinda weird but cool looking back on it. To think I’d be getting out in a month but I made the decision to re-enlist which I think is the best choice I could’ve made!

Similar to Rome, the last thing holding us together is our military.

Never see army do any of this. They can’t march. Never see them drill with weapons. So. This must be over a army ds head. Marine can march and do weapons drill

Mighty Fine Marching there Marines.