[Dubya]

Drill Instructor Staff Sgt. Matthew M. James encourages Marine Recruit Joseph D. Contois to do a better job of lining up footgear placed under barracks "racks," or bunk beds, Nov. 3 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. James is one of the 500 or so drill instructors that introduce about 18,000 recruits a year to their new lives at Parris Island. Recruits from west of the Mississippi River go to San Diego for boot camp; those who enlist east of the Mississippi go to Parris Island. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore

[squirt]

Look at those mattresses, this must be Pleasure Island not the real BOOT CAMP.

[fnord]

Man, when did they get those fancy mattresses!?

The ones I slept on had to be 20 years old.