Marines Raising the Next Generation Right

Posted by LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. on May 3, 2012

Found this in Sgt. Grits newsletter. Watch what happens when evening colors plays.

Got kinda dusty in here.

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  1. 1
    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    May 3, 2012 at 22:55

    that little girl in the yellow jumping for joy at the end pretty well summed it for me…..happy to be an American she is.

    that was great.

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    LC HJ Caveman82952 growls and barks:
    May 3, 2012 at 23:30

    If I hadn’t seen it…..gives me hope. Thanks Crunch… :em01:

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    Slightly to the right of Gingis Khan growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 00:25

    Amen

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    FrankOK growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 00:58

    Thanks, Sir Crunch – at least kids know what’s right.

    :em01: :em01:
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    lc purple raider growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 02:16

    Someone is definately raising those children right.

    Won’t be any dropouts in that lot.

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    BigDogg growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 07:18

    My thoughts echo Cave’s … there is hope for our future. If only there were more just like them, everywhere.

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    LC FORGER - Monster Hunter growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 08:26

    Just when I’m ready to say, “Fuck It. C’mon SMOD*”, I run across something like this and it reminds me that America is still out there and she’s worth fighting, and dying for.

    Those kids give me the hope I need to fight for change.

    Thanks, Marine.

    (*SMOD – Sweet Meteor Of Doom/Death)

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    Mark12A growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 08:40

    The base I retired from had a metal fence between it and the outside world. When they played retreat everything inside the fence stopped, but outside the world continued, running, playing and general grab-assery going on. I saw one NCO with his little boy, maybe five, standing outside their car, both saluting. After it was over, I told him that he had every right to be proud of both his son and himself.

    I miss that reverence, but since I don’t live on base anymore, I rarely see it. This took me back. Thanks.

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    L.O.R. Ankle biter growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 12:03

    So what were they doing? The silence is obvious, but being blind I don’t know what they were actually doing. Thanks for indulging the question.

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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 12:22

    L.O.R. Ankle biter says:

    So what were they doing? The silence is obvious, but being blind I don’t know what they were actually doing. Thanks for indulging the question.

    The video was shot through the kitchen window of a home on MCAS New River base housing. About five kids were all playing on a swing set. When colors sounded they all stopped and came to the position of attention. Once colors finished they went right back to playing. It was a really beautiful thing to see and my description does not do it justice.
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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 12:24

    LC FORGER – Monster Hunter says:

    Those kids give me the hope I need to fight for change.

    Thanks, Marine.

    You ain’t alone, believe me. And don’t thank me, thank their parents.
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    VonZorch Imperial Researcher growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 12:29

    L.O.R. Ankle biter @ #:
    When Evening Colors played the children stopped playing and stood at attention until the end of colors, the oldest child looked to be about 8.

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    bloodyspartan growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 14:55

    The little one in yellow is Fucking Amazing, they are all good Kids, but she is a leader methinks.

    Shit made my tired old ass want to jump out of the damn chair and it is dusty in my Computer Room.

    Watch how fast she let’s go of that swing and jumps to.
    I keep watching it and it is wonderful.

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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 17:28

    one more thing about that video…..

    note the playground equipment, you’d be hard pressed to find that stuff on a public school playground……

    it’s just too dangerous ya’ know.

    :em04:

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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 17:32

    bloodyspartan says:

    The little one in yellow is Fucking Amazing, they are all good Kids, but she is a leader methinks.

    and watch how she takes that swing for an upside down spin……an aviator in the making me thinks

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    readerjp growls and barks:
    May 4, 2012 at 22:43

    The military and their families make so many sacrifices, fighting for our freedom and way of life.

    So WTF is this?!!

    The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012. Barack Obama signed this law, giving the president — for the first time in American history — the power to imprison indefinitely an American citizen “suspected” of “association” (without evidence) with terrorists. This fate comes without charge or trial.

    On March 22, reports Engelhardt, Attorney General Eric Holder, our chief law officer, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr., agreed to “new guidelines allowing the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) … to hold on to information about Americans in no way known to be connected to terrorism — about you and me, that is — for up to five years.” Its previous limit was 180 days.

    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff050212.php3

  17. 17
    Library Czar growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 01:14

    Well if that left your room dusty read this

    Marine Stands Guard

    Crunch I think this deserves its own post

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    LC FORGER - Monster Hunter growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 09:33

    Library Czar says:

    Well if that left your room dusty read this

    Marine Stands Guard
    Crunch I think this deserves its own post

    Another Marine to guard the streets of Heaven.

    Dammit, it’s dusty in this post…..

    Is there a Salute smiley?? Posts like these need one.

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    LCBrendan growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 10:11

    Crunchie, I have a question, and you know me, i am not being disrespectful, but a video I have seen makes no sense to me.

    It’s a video in boot camp, with a recruit standing at attention, and no less than three DI’s literally screaming at this guy at the top of their lungs, about 1cm from the guy’s ear. I man screaming, one DI was at his side and literally at the guy’s ear, screaming at the top of his lungs..not actually saying anyrthing, just screamikng in his ear.

    How the hell does he make out anything any one of them is trying to say, if he cant understand a single word they are saying/ there’s one just standing there and going AARGHHHH in his ear at top volume…what does that accomplish?

    Apart from the fact that by the end of it the recruit may be deafened , or his hearing damaged by that volume, what’s the point? That’s training? That’s teaching? What’s the recruit supposed to learn from no less than three DI’s doing this?

    If he screwed up, fine, but wouldnt it be better to have one just tell him, maybe sharply, but three?

    The volume I am referring to is if you put on a set of headphones, turned the volume to maximum and sat there whilst you played a Metallica concert..by the end you’d be lucky if you could hear anything, that’s if one of your eardrums didnt perforate as a result.

    I know what boot camp is, why it is what it is, what you need to teach recruits, and that boot is hard for a valid reason, that to train a Marine is a long process to make a disciplined soldier..maybe Im just stupid.

    What on earth are THREE DI’s trying to prove? that they can scream abuse all day long?

    I dont get it. If that had been me and I was asked what I had learned from that I’d say nothing, That is if i could even hear someone after that, as my ears would be ringing for hours.

    Am I missing something?

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    Mike M growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 11:27

    Brendan…

    Just speculating here, but it looks like that was a test and the recruit failed it. It appears the recruit was on firewatch and violated a cardinal rule by failing to challenge the person who entered the squadbay whereupon he immediately received corrective advice and counsel from his drill instructors. In this case actual words weren’t necessary to drive home their point.

    USMC Drill Instructor Ambush

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    Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 13:16

    Library Czar says:

    Well if that left your room dusty read this

    Marine Stands Guard

    God, the decency and nobility of that is beyond words……God bless you and your family Cody, stand up straight and tall with your fellow Marines in heaven.

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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 13:26

    LCBrendan @ #:
    As Mike M already pointed out, the maggot failed. Now I may be mistaken, but I’ve always thought that the kid had fallen asleep on firewatch, which is why he failed to challenge the Marine who walked on deck.

    As to what he learned, he learned not to fall the fuck asleep while on watch. The consequences for fucking up were severe, as they always are in boot camp (whether the fuck up be real, imagined, or contrived by the DI’s) because the consequences in the fleet of a fuck up are even more severe.

    It’s all part of the process Brendan. Boot camp is just as much psychological as it is physical, more so actually. We called them fuck-fuck games.

    Oh, and while you may not be able to understand much of what the DI’s are saying, I guarantee you the maggot understood every word, even the screams. DI’s speak in their own unique way that most outsiders can’t understand. Hell, it was a full week before I knew what the hell mine were trying to say.

    And if you watch, you’ll notice that the recruit never flinches while they unload on him. That’s discipline right there (well, pure terror also, but that’s alright too.)

    Good times, good times.
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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 14:24

    Library Czar says:

    Crunch I think this deserves its own post

    Indeed it does Czar, indeed it does. I’ll get to it later tonight.
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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 16:40

    LCBrendan says:

    there’s one just standing there and going AARGHHHH in his ear at top volume…what does that accomplish?

    That’s the DI screaming in anguish that he has failed to train the recruit. And…that’s not really sarcasm. That’s exactly what the DI would say he was doing.

    As to what it accomplished, well it does help the DI maintain the world renowned “froggy voice:” they’re so famous for. :em05:
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    LCBrendan growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 19:06

    Okay Crunchie, these words

    fallen asleep on firewatch,

    said it all.

    Now I understand.

    Fully.

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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 19:33

    LCBrendan @ #:
    That video of the DI’s is a thing of beauty though ain’t it? :em01:
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    LCBrendan growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 20:06

    That video of the DI’s is a thing of beauty though ain’t it?

    Crunchie..c’mere a minute. Your assessment of thE word “beauty”…one of these days, we gotta talk about that, k?

    :em05: :em07:

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    LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 5, 2012 at 20:14

    LCBrendan @ #:
    Well, I am a bit twisted. :-)
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    0352crumb crunch growls and barks:
    May 6, 2012 at 04:25

    Brendan…In regards to the recruit at the Island…What happened was that the OOD (Officer Of the Day) came on deck and was not greeted by the recruit in the proper fashion. As to what the recruit learned by that mild ass chewing. Intellectually, he learned nothing, nor was he supposed to learn anything. What his central nervous system learned was a little bit more of what it had been learning in the days and weeks prior to this video…how to deal with the stress of combat. What the Corps has known for generations is that screaming and getting into a recruits personal space is an excellent way to inoculate against stress, and prepare him for combat. The noise, chaos, uncomfortable closeness, awkwardness, fear, distraction, annoyance, anger, and adrenaline dump that a recruit experiences when he is ambushed by a pack of screaming, mouth foaming, rabid DI’s is very similar to the mental and physiological sensations he will experience in combat. The first time he is jumped by a rampaging pack of DI’s, he will lose his shit. After the third or fourth time, he will be able to maintain his bearing and defiantly scream “AYE SIR!” at the top of his lungs, much the same way that he will be able to grit his teeth and defiantly fire his weapon when the chaos of combat is erupting around him. Never allow the seemingly senseless nature of bootcamp fool you. There is rhyme and reason behind every second a recruit is on that island. What that video portrayed was part of a vital and time tested process of forging men into warriors.

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    LC Sir Rurik, K.o.E. growls and barks:
    May 6, 2012 at 20:59

    0352crumb crunch @ #:
    That was what I was going to try to say. :em01:
    That very much reminds me of what I encountered during my brief and misguided inflitration into Officer Candidate School. :em06: But it does have the effect you just described so well, as the other vets in hte Empire will also attest. And yes, it carries over even later. When I returned to graduate School in later years, I was always amused at what civvie grad students mistook for pressure, Cuntmuffins, half-baked cuntmuffins, hte bunch of them. :em05: