I have a friend in the Marine Corps who tells me its now common for drill instructors to receive anxious and instructional calls from recruits’ mothers.
I wish I knew some present D.I.’s who could confirm or deny that for me....
When you do receive confirmation will you please let me know?
I have long held that when the USMC is fully compromised this nation is fully screwed.
I saw this as someone who was not a member of the USMC.
What do they even SAY to recruits nowadays? All the four letter words, and the MF’er type variants seem to be normal speech today. How do you get their attention?? ;)
I wish I knew some present D.I.’s who could confirm or deny that for me....
I would also like to hear some confirmation of that. I am sure the Corps has "evolved" a bit over the decades since I went through MCRD, but that is just beyond belief.
I did witness the ceasing of DI's being allowed to physically assault recruits during my time in MCRD. Had one genius hop the fence at Edson Range and try to hitch a ride north on I5 only to be picked up by a DI coming to work. Apparently he cried about how hard one DI was on him.
Said DI was a bit over the top, but we loved him (he was crazy with the stuff he had us do, but another story) was soon removed from the platoon.
We all checked it off to them deciding to take in draftees that soon wrote letters home whining how hard it all was and how unfair. We volunteers wanted no part of that crap, good thing there were no draftees in our platoon.
Would not be surprised at all. My oldest son was giving interviews for a position in his technical firm. One interviewee, a Stanford grad, actually brought his parents. He was not hired.
This guy might have something to say
http://www.rleeermey.com/sounds.php
When my son went to Parris Island a little over a year ago, I was told to never ever ever ever ever call one of the DIs, because he would be certain to take it out of my son's hide. If someone in the family died, I was to call the Red Cross and let them get a message through. But if I wanted my son to survive PI, I was not to disturb the DIs.
Oddly enough, the SDI emailed me! He had a question about organizing my son's paperwork for graduation. We had a nice correspondence. A lovely young man, very kind. My son, who is twice his size, cannot believe that I think his Senior Drill Instructor is a sweet lad.
I don’t know about phone calls, but the moms have support groups on Facebook where they can chat with each other about their kids and then the recruiting classes have FB or Youtube pages where they post updates on what the class is doing, along with pictures of the recruits doing various training tasks.