[relictele]

Good thing the new rules weren't around when Lee Ermey was a DI:

[freema]

Ping.

[The KG9 Kid]

I won't go into specifics about incidents involved in my own recruit training, but there was definitely a lot of stuff that happened there that the 'Old Corps' guys think only happened to them.

On that note, I am officially 'Old Corps', I guess that makes me.

[Manic_Episode]

I JUST DIED A LITTLE INSIDE, YOU MAGGOT!

[GaryLee1990]

Of course the LA Times would report on this with glee I might add. Your going to always have a couple bad eggs in a bunch.

WatchingHillary.com

[oh8eleven]

I graduated from PI in Dec '66 and what our DIs did to us as a platoon was unbelievable, but NOT unexpected. However, when some boots repeatedly screwed up, they paid for it ... big time.
Despite the "harsh" PI training, then weeks of advanced infantry training, followed by more pre-VN "combat training" - it was NOTHING compared to being in VN and in combat.
So, would getting whacked in the head with a tent pole be considered abuse back then? Only if it required two or more recruits to extract it from the other recruit's head.

[kansascdr]

Just found a note posted by Axelsrd that said Semper Fi Plt 1229, SD 1969. I was in that platoon. Who are you, where are you contact me asap. If anyone sees this please pass it on.

[UCANSEE2]

A DI should not resort to physical abuse.

By that I mean striking a trainee.

That’s what the other cadets are there for.

A good DI punishes a trainee by pushing him harder in personal challenge.

Being conditioned to accept physical abuse from a superior is like conditioning soldiers to lie down for the enemy.

Getting ‘beat down’ is not going to produce the results that ‘beating a personal challenge and gaining respect’ does.

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Maybe my opinion , on this subject, isn’t worth a plugged nickel. I’ve not been in the military, but my son has.