Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: These are Marine Corps drill instructors conducting a pickup of new recruits in boot camp. But before they get there, it all starts here ...
The video begins with a scene of Ronald Lee Ermey, the Marine drill instructor ... Service Commissioned Corps, and as such ...
Drill instructor: Finish her! Narrator: But to get there, they have to fight each other first. Drill instructor: Break his ribs! Narrator: Using hand-to-hand combat in an event called the Battle ...
More than a century after thousands of Marine Corps recruits, drill instructors, and officers formed up to create a "living Eagle, Globe and Anchor," at Parris Island, South Carolina, another ...
Born in 1944 in Kansas, Ermey was a staff sergeant in the marine corps in the 1960s and early 1970s, serving tours in Japan and Vietnam. He also served as a real-life drill instructor. Ermey later ...