Not from what I've seen. Why did you think that I meant that? (Army doesn't have Gunnies, and I wasn't talking about Marine boot camp anyways).
When I went to Navy boot in San Diego, every now and then some idjit would go over the fence - into Marine boot camp. We were told that if anybody did that the Marines would keep them for 12 weeks, and make them go through Marine boot camp. Then they would give them back to the Navy, where they'd spend some time in the brig, and then go through 8 more weeks of Navy boot camp.
We did have a couple of guys jump the fence, but never that one! I always wondered why they would jump the fence anyways. All they had to do was refuse to obey orders and get a general discharge. Jump the fence and you do time in the brig, then get a discharge that maybe is a bit worse than a general discharge.
I remember that at San Diego back in 69-70. It was a lot of fun to watch the poor dumb swabbie get put into a Marine platoon and have to endure our training, even if only for a day. They truly thought that they had entered the lowest level of hell.
Hey, ask your nephew sometime about Hydration Formations! LOL!
What?? When was this? If I had known it was *that* easy, I could have saved myself a lot of trouble.
What about Article 15's? What about Courts Martial?