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I went through Marines boot camp and that was a ton of verbal and psychological abuse. There were very clear restrictions on physically assaulting recruits -- i
by emptysongglass 5y ago
I went through Marines boot camp and that was a ton of verbal and psychological abuse. There were very clear restrictions on physically assaulting recruits -- if a recruit entered within five feet? of a Drill Instructor, they could consider it an attack on their person and physically react -- so the DIs would spread their arms out and run at us to force us into their "engagement zone".
I saw a guy piss himself from the verbal abuse in front of 100 other recruits in the squad bay. Another recruit vomited bile from being spurred to exhaustion by our "Kill Hat", again in public view of the rest of us and to the protests of the medic who pleaded with the Kill Hat to stop. He seemed a deeply sadistic man. There were so many of us for so few DIs it was possible to avoid their attention: my teenage self with a head full of fantasy called this the "eye of the malefactor".
I've never seen so much evil in my life but I also never made it to a conflict zone.
- rawgabbit 5y agoSorry you went through that. I can only speak for myself and what I understand to be the norm. I know many countries’ boot camps still believe in the lie that abuse makes someone better. When/where was your boot camp?
- emptysongglass 5y agoThis was 14 years ago at the San Diego Recruit Depot right next to the airport. Those planes would keep us up all night. I remember breaking protocol to buy some earplugs so I could sleep. Much of that experience felt like a wild fever dream.
- rawgabbit 5y agoFYI https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/marine-drill-instructor-gets-10-years-abusing-recruits-n819816 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/marine-drill-inst... https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-drill-instructors-less-hazing/ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-drill-instructors-les...
- Igelau 5y ago> Felix was convicted of ordering Lance Cpl. Ameer Bourmeche into a dryer, which then was turned on as Felix demanded he renounce his faith. Bourmeche testified that he twice affirmed his faith and Felix and another drill instructor twice sent him for a bruising, scorching tumble inside the dryer. > After a third spin, Bourmeche said, he feared for his life and renounced his religion. The drill instructors then let him out, he said. He only got 10 years for that? What a farce. He should hang. That's a depraved attack on the core values of the nation he's supposed to be protecting.
- nate_meurer 5y agoMarcus Luttrell (the Lone Survivor guy) says that the brutal training required to join the SEALs is the reason he survived his ordeal.