11 days into Marine Corps boot camp and drunk? Not likely. When I was a Marine there was no way a boot had access to alcohol until a few days before graduation when the let you go to the base club and have one beer if I remember right.
We had one recruit die during his first week, overweight and being yelled at by a group of DI’s, had a heart attack and died after he collapsed and the DI’s all yelling at him to get back on his feet. Big investigation, some DI’s had apparently kicked him on the ground, heard they were busted in rank and got some time in the brig.
The DI that marched them into the creek, not the recruit.
I think he meant that the DI was drunk at the time of the incident.
Maybe the recruit guzzled his bottle of Listerine, the only way I could think anyone had access to alcohol.
Two recruits died during my cycle, both suicides, but neither were from my series much less my training battalion. One killed himself at Edson range with his rifle in front of everyone while our platoon was snapping in. They sent the navy chaplain around talking to every platoon in RTFD about suicide because of that. I can’t remember what the details of the other suicide was about.
But this death after 11 days.... Wow. That’s just a few days after the end of his forming battalion. I hadn’t heard about this one until just today.