"They'll think they're saying something so serious, but it'll come out so ridiculous and you just want to laugh." "It's just the things recruits say," he said. Lanier said he was tempted to laugh nonstop while on DI duty. Drill instructors think recruits do and say some pretty funny things. The screaming that recruits must endure might actually be masking a different reaction: laughter. "It's something about the vinegar or the acid in the lime juice," she said. But she has also tried pickle juice or lime juice mixed with salt. She drinks hot tea followed by a cold drink, she said.
Melissa Sandoval, a DI with 4th Recruit Training Battalion here, said some DIs get a little more creative. Craven said the treatment is similar to soothing a sore throat, including hot water with honey and lemon. While they do lose their voices on occasion, they have become masters at getting it back fast. Schoolhouse instructors will stand a set number of paces away from the Marines as they learn to project their voices, he said. Still, they need to speak loudly enough for about 100 recruits to hear them, and that requires practice. Antonio Curry, a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, barks out orders to his platoon of fresh recruits. Curry, who is on his second b-billet after completing a tour of duty as a recruiter, says his prior experience has helped him become a better drill instrutor for his recruits. Curry, a drill instructor aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, barks out instructions to align his platoon of fresh recruits Aug 30, 2012.
Despite their gruff, borderline hostile interaction with recruits, DIs are real people with real emotions and tremendous dedication to molding young lives. At its best, it's masterful performance art, but with a twist - the tremendous personal responsibility they feel for building raw recruits into disciplined Marines. Make no mistake: these Marines are playing a role. Photo Credit: Cpl.Caitlin Brink/Marine Corps Roughly 20,000 recruits pass through Parris Island annually. William Loughran encourages recruits at during physical training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. About 600 Marine Corps drill instructors train about 20,000 recruits who come to Parris Island annually.(U.S. “ is the most demanding duty … yet probably the most rewarding thing I have ever done,” Loughran said. Loughran joined the Corps in 2004 and became a drill instructor in 2012. William Loughran encourages recruits from Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, to give 100 percent during physical training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. Recruits don't hear about them at boot camp - not where it's likely that you'll get smoked with incentive training for simply asking a dumb question. Like any other community in the Corps, its members have a shared bond and tricks of the trade that have been handed down for generations. Those drill instructors have secrets, though. The process creates a special bond, a love-hate relationship that the recruits will remember for the rest of their lives. They teach them Marine Corps culture, heritage and traditions.
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The DIs break them down, teach them how to follow orders and how to dress, speak and act like Marines. They know what it's like to fumble around trying to follow the simplest of orders, but be paralyzed with confusion and fear in the face of so much pressure and heat.īoot camp is a rite of passage in which drill instructors forge recruits' identities as Marines. They share the remembrances of dread when they incurred their DI's wrath. All enlisted Marines are united by memories of the drill instructors who barked orders at them - morning, noon and night - for the first 13 weeks of their Marine Corps lives.