[arthurus]

You wanna be a marine? You gotta be tough. The marines don’t give lessons in dinnerware arrangement. They teach you to survive in hell.

[boop]

I worked with a (liberal) doctor who was in boot camp at Parris Island during Vietnam.

I asked him if Full Metal Jacket was in any way realistic.

He said yes, not that much different. It was brutal. But they can't do things like that anymore.

(Like punching recruits.)