First an officer in dress blues explains what a proud moment in your life it is for you to be taking part in this glorious brotherhood we call the Marine Corps. Then, he says, Drill instucters, take charge of your platoon…after the door closes behind him there´s three, sometimes four Hartmanns makeing it perfectly clear to you exactly where you are in the food chain. For the next three months unless you are orderd otherwise you will stand at attention. Throwing GI cans, screeming, yelling , shouting? Uh uh, after one week all the DI has to do is turn on the lights in the squad bay and ever single body is standing at attention. When i arived at Parris Island I was 135 lbs of useless dope smoking trash. In the end, when I marched across that parade deck, I was 160 lbs of dedicated muscle just like all those men and women doing it today. Computer generation ? These guys are still running back out into a street swept by machinegun fire to pull out someboy whose been hit. Evan if they hate the guy down! Maybe if they made every prisioner at GITMO watch this movie the word would get around and there would be no more probems. Semper FI to SSgt Evens, Sgt Rice, Sgt Sekula, Plt 1062, B CO, !st Bn, RTR, 9 Oct, 1980! Parris Island SC, 29905