Boot camp story… Which part is funnier?

Posted: January 29th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Camping General | Tags: , , , , , | 10 Comments »

While running around Parris Island, our Drill Instructor was running backwards beside our troop yelling at us. He ran backwards into a sign knocking himself down. We kept going, but one Private broke rank to go help him. The D.I. yelled at him for breaking rank and said "I have been a soldier for twenty years, I think I know how to stand up!"

Personally, I think it was hilarious that the D.I. would rather sit there and bleed out his head rather than have some recruit help him!
Just like we don’t say "Sarge" eh?

Your DI ever get embarrassed like that?

10 Comments on “Boot camp story… Which part is funnier?”

  1. 1 oldhippypaul said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    yea – even an old grunt like me knows that no jar head would ever refer to himself as a soldier. The flag is up beyond a doubt.

  2. 2 Nick H said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    im raising the bull s h i t flag on this one. I too am a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman and no marine would refer to himself as a soldier and no buddy there is no use of the word SARGE in the marine corps. well at least not in the infantry. i dunno how u POGS do it.

  3. 3 Brad V said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    No DI would refer to himself as a soldier, ever ! Someone is telling tall tales !

  4. 4 desertviking_00 said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    What I find funny is the D.I. calling himself a soldier. I served eight years with Fleet Marine Forces and once served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman at Parris Island. Any Marine NCO who called himself a "soldier" would have his club membership taken away. LOL!

  5. 5 Elizabeth G said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    Ha ha… funny story, but the other guy is right – he’s a Marine, not a soldier…

  6. 6 abouch66 said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    Hey, I picked up on the exact same thing, that’d be like me going into work and calling myself a marine, even though I’m in the army.

  7. 7 Lavadog said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    Not to many Marines been in 20 years and are Drill Instructors, running besides their platoon..this would mean someone high ranking was leading your platoon on a run

  8. 8 origen01 said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    SOLDIER? That must have been enough to stop the march. When did this happen? Was he the Senior?

  9. 9 PAD-D said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    How about the old story about the guy that stood up in the infiltration course with machine gun fire over head. A Sergeant tells him to get down, and the guy says "clank, clank I’m a tank". Heard it several times from different sources. Then there’s the old story about asking for volunteers that know how to type, the eager volunteers were then taken to the supply room and made to carry several typewriters from one building to an other – that story is probably true; sounds Army to me.

  10. 10 matthewjayne20 said at 10:38 am on January 29th, 2011:

    Total and complete lie, no marine would ever refer to themselves as a soldier, xspecially a D.I. Go back home to mama you sissy

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