29 Pictures Of Marine Drill Instructors Screaming In People's Faces
Like I said, the thing of legend. These guys spend 13 weeks crushing every undisciplined aspect of a recruit's body into dust.
Their faces are priceless, and at times it takes everything you've got not to laugh.
Showing emotion is strictly forbidden though — Marines call this 'bearing,' and they are regularly graded on it.
In bootcamp, the first thing a recruit learns is that the word "I" is forbidden.
Forced instead to refer to themselves in the third person. "This recruit doesn't know what he did wrong, SIR!"
Next thing they'll do is get as close to you as humanly possible. A recruit doesn't even own the space around himself ...
... that is the Drill Instructor's space.
Running in place, push ups, side straddle hops, and other grueling exercises dominate a recruit's life, 24/7.
Good — It's no surprise this long-haired hippie got the attention of a DI.
The people in random colored t-shirts are 'poolees' — future recruits. Real recruits wear Marine Corps green.
On occasion DI's will do outreach to poolee programs to give them a feel for what they'll see in boot.
Big time executives have even organized trips to get a chance to get hustled around by Marine Corps DI's.
Oh no! The classic 'knife hand' is a mainstay of DI's. Marines will go on into their careers and do parodies of DI knife hands.
Wow, someone screwed up.
Even future officers have enlisted DI's. That's why second lieutenants are a little jumpy when they hit the fleet Marine Corps.
And also kids in JROTC programs get to get a piece. DI's have enough for anyone who wants. (By the way, her bearing is ... Outstanding!)
On special occasions recruits will do something that raises the ire of several DIs.
This poolee will learn if he gets to recruit training: NEVER look directly at the Drill Instructor.
I see the tiniest hint of a grin on this poolee here. He'll learn if he ever gets down to the island.
Ambush.
Eventually DIs will scream themselves hoarse, forced to use what they call a frog voice.
After multiple years as a DI, the frog voice sounds like some kind of demonic possession.
But there is a method to the madness. Future Marines need to learn how to deal with incredible amounts of stress.
The best way to put that stress on a human is to hustle them around, every minute of every day, watching for the slightest little twitch of a mistake.
Combat is a game of millimeters and milliseconds, one screw up could lose lives. Every recruit learns this.
And most will lose weight and gain muscle throughout their stay on the island. Believe it or not, every Marine learns to love and respect his Drill Instructors. They will never forget those names.
They'll also learn that flat out, leathery toughness is a gender-neutral attribute.
Every now and then a DI will go too far: Here a 1st Sergeant lets the DI know, meanwhile the recruit books it.
Now that you've been sufficiently screamed at ...
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