Sgt. Grit Community

Boot Camp Lines

1. Flippity flop, mob stop!
2. There are only two ways off of this island, maggots. A pine box, or a Greyhound bus.
3. (snapping in at the range) You think it burns now, wait until I sit on your shoulders!
4. “Platoon 2102″ ……..”MARCH INTO CHOW”
5. Fat bodies to the end of the line, skinny bodies to the front.
6. Stick it out if you want some prive (you could have a lot of fun with this with a good looking gal on the shirt even though that’s not what it’s about)
7. The best part of you…..
8. Poster by the DI house of Life Magazine showing number of wounded Marines being medivacced many with severe injuries, “Sick Call goes at 08:00 now what’s your problem sweetheart?”
9. “Pack your trash bitch, you’re going to Motivation Platoon”
10. To WM”s……There is over five miles of dick on this island. And for the next 13 weeks, you ain’t gonna see one inch of it!
11. ANOTHER GLORIOUS DAY TO SERVE THE CORPS……
12. We’re on YOUR time, now ladies!
13. YOU EYEBALLING ME PUKE?!
14. Did you call me a “ewe”? Do I look like a female sheep to you? Do you want to F*** me, puke?
15. This is my rifle,
    This is my gun,
    My rifle’s for killing,
    My gun is for fun!
16. BENDS AND MOTHER F***ERS…ALL OF THEM THAT HAVE NOT BEEN DONE…READY,…Begin……..
17. “You can take the man from the Corps, but you’ll never take the Corps from the man”
18. “Semper fidelis is our creed… Marine Corps, is our breed”
19. “If anybody could be a MARINE, it wouldn’t be the MARINES.”
20. “The road to hell is paved by the bleached bones of the privates that fell by the wayside.”
21. Before going to sleep at the range we had to sing the Marine Corps hymn and then in unison “God bless America, F**k Ho Chi Minh.
22. GET ON YOUR STINKING FACE…NOW!!!!!
23. YOU JUST WANNA TO KILL MY SAND FLEA, HUH?!!!
24. Good thing you’re not a Marine yet, Because when a Marine quits HE’S DEAD!
25. Another Glorious day in the Corps, Where every meal is a fest and every job a job is a chance to shine.
26. I love this S***!
27. Chesty wouldn’t like that!
28. Good Morning! MARINES!!!!!! (LAST DAY)
29. You keep going until I’M tired!
30. You maggots pissed me off…..Squat thrusts forever…..
31. Yea, though I walk thru the valley of death, I will fear no evil, because I’m the meanest Mother F***** in the valley.
32. Good night Chesty Puller, where ever you are…Oorah!
33. You have 30 seconds! 29… 28… 10. 5. You’re done! You’re stinkin done!
34. I?m gonna get the senior to take ya straight to da PITT!!
35. You want to play games? We can play all day long…!
36. WAKE UP!!
37. “The smoking lamp is lit for one cigarette”
38. “ARE YOU TALKING TO ME PUKE?!?!?” …… “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!”
39. YOUR OTHER LEFT, SH!T FOR BRAINS!!!!!!
40. Your Marine Corps left, maggot!!!!
41. “Sir! The private requests permission to speak! Sir!”
    “YOU TALKING TO ME MAGGOT!”
    “Sir! Yes Sir!”
    “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
    “SIR! YES SIR!”
    “WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU MAGGOT?”
    “SIR! THE PRIVATE REQUESTS PERMISSION TO VISIT THE HEAD. SIR!”
    “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
    “SIR! THE PRIVATE REQUESTS PERMISSION TO VISIT THE HEAD SIR!”
    “DO IT!”

More Boot Camp Sayings and Quotes”

Sir Private (Jones) request permission to speak to the drill instructor.
(LOUDLY)
Speak Maggot
Sir Private Joe (Jones) requests permission to make a head call, sir.
Is it and emergency head call Maggot
Yes sir.
Then sound your siren and go read more

Drill Instructors Never Die!
Brian L. Hipwell
Adjutant/Paymaster
Twin State Detachment (#1010)
Marine Corps League
P.O.Box 1058
Lebanon, NH 03766

I enlisted in the Marine Corps April 23, 1965 under the 120 day delay program while in the senior year at Stevens High School, Claremont, New Hampshire. Shortly after graduation I shipped out for P.I. My father was a retired Marine M/SGT and I had been a service ‘brat’ so I knew what I was in line for. There were no surprizes at Boot Camp. read more

Looking Back At The Old Corps
Submitted by: Ron “Tank” Rotunno

In 1965, one special career Marine had excelled as a leader of men. Yes, he had claimed membership in “the few, the proud”, but more than that, he was gung-ho, a hard-charger, a member of the “Old Corps”. At age 37, Sgt. J.R. Mickel was senior D.I. of Platoon #135 Company, 1st Recruit Battalion. To most raw recruits at Parris Island, he might as well been God Himself. He not only commanded their respect; he led them beyond the call of duty. As an 0300 infantryman, he’d earned the Silver Star for bravery in Korea, with combat stars for time of actual enemy encounter. The recruits knew all of this, although he, himself, never told them. read more

A Marine from “K” Company, 2nd Bn, Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Submitted by: John Wintersteen

RE: 1/26/59

I’m sure most of you from “K” Company, 2nd Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC, could look at your DD-214’s and see that 44 years ago today, you enlisted in the finest major fighting force in the world. That decision alone to take such a large step is impressive enough. To finish Boot Camp and become a Marine is even more so. We all know inside ourselves what it took to overcome what fears we might have had. For some, it was being away from home and family for the first time in our lives, for others it was self-doubtcould we cut the mustard? What if we didn’t make it? Would we have to go back home and admit we failed? Maybe some worried about being sent to war. After all, the Korean War had ended just 6 short years before. read more

THE PUCKER FACTOR
Submitted by: James Collins

Sgt. Grit, I just read the news letter (JUNE 8, 2001) and I thought I would die laughing at the story of the D.I.. Well, at MCRD in 1990 going through Boot Camp platoon 3014 Our, Jr. D.I. was Sgt. Dickson, he was big and had a voice that would put the fear of GOD in you, no matter what you were doing. I had a lot of respect for him and for the other D.I.’s of our platoon. read more

Boot Camp. . . through the eyes of a recruit
Submitted by: Don J. Flickinger Sgt. USMC

Recruit Training, United States Marine Corps, officially comprises three definitive phases. First Phase concentrates on orientation, study of military subjects and physical training. Second Phase includes marksmanship training, combat exercises and long hikes. Third Phase is service week, final polishing and, finally, graduation. read more