Posted on 08/09/2009 5:29:14 PM PDT by Dubya
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. _ Here in Beaufort County, we make Marines. We're better known for making memorable vacations, houses, food, art and golf courses. But the most important thing we make by far are Marines. More than 1 million Americans have come to Beaufort County as wide-eyed kids and left as Marines. They come to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, an intriguing place rich with history and open to the public. Locals joke that it was Beaufort County's first gated community. The Marine Corps says it's "where the difference begins." Call it what you will, but what takes place on a Lowcountry island that's half marsh and half sand gnats changes forever all who encounter it. It also has been known to change families, cities _ and world history.
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I don't think so...
Semper fi!
From personal experience they do a piss poor job of taking care of their recruits especially when they become ill or injured...
My personal experience was quite different. Our Drill Instructors bent over backwards to help a young recruit who got a waiver to join. He was missing fingers on his right hand from a birth defect. He hung in there for three weeks, until the difficulty of handling an M-1 was too much. He left in tears; but no father was ever prouder of his son than that boy’s. See, he never told dad he was joining. He didn’t want his father to interfere. Dad was a Marine general.
Others who were physically unable to keep up were put into platoons where they could improve.
Platoon 102
C Company 1st Recruit Battalion
1959
Semper Fi Til I Die!
Hat tip: http://www.bobrohrer.com/parris_island_gallery.html
From personal experience, Marines do an excellent job of looking after the well-being and safety of recruits.
The moment the s**t hit the fan for the recruits. God bless them for enduring Parris and God bless them for defending their country.
I almost laughed when I saw your post and read your tagline.
As someone who has a daughter in Beaufort and spends time there the Marines are great neighbors. Both trainees and Flyboys.
I have come to expect ignorant replies on FR such as yours. Tell that to my nephew who suffered paralysis from a vaccination reaction. He didn’t ask anyone to wipe his nose or hold his hand. In fact, he was a star recruit who wouldn’t give up to the point of dragging his paralyzed legs out of bed, fighting to get his pants on through the pain to join his fellow recruits. When he was finally FORCED to go to the hospital the medical and command staff was indifferent. After months of rehabilitation he wanted to return to training but they gave him a bus ticket instead. I lived the whole experience last year and as a veteran can tell you I was highly disappointed at the piss poor handling of the situation by the Marines and associated command staff.
I know I will never forget the 15 or so weeks I spent there in 1974, it shaped my future for the better to be sure.
After 13 weeks at P.I. even the BAM’s looked good.
OooRah!
Sorry you had a bad experience.
I knew a recruit that stayed in PCP for a year, waiting for hairline fractures in her legs to heal. They did what they could for her afterwards, giving her camp privileges and a pension.
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