My Marine friend.....

[762NATO]

Informed me that the Corps is considering the stress cards some of the other branches have. That seems just a slight bit stupid.

 

[Yrdawg]

WTF


Is your video supposed to say something about USMC ???


If you are a proponent of getting your ass whipped by DI's try to arrange for a real 1970's style one ...

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

If you haven't been to Boot Camp you should STFU about Boot Camp.

 

[chad]

If you haven't been to Boot Camp you should STFU about Boot Camp.

I read an entire wikipedia article on boot camp, thank you very much.

 

[ericlosh]

I read an entire wikipedia article on boot camp, thank you very much.

lol thats funny!

 

[Sugarbug]

At OCS we weren't supposed to call beatings "beatings." Rather, we were supposed to refer to it as RPT (rigorous PT). If you referred to it as a beating you got beat-- I mean RPT'd.

On our uniform, those little threads that stick out around seams and buttons were referred to as Irish Penants... of course, this was too politically incorrect and we then had to refer to them as "IPs" .... which stands for Irish Penants (So wtf difference does it make?).

But yeah... agree with the rest here on not having an opinion about something you've only read about (which I'm sure we've all done at some point or another). Not me, of course, as I have never done or said anything that couldn't be supported by personal experience.

 

[Peacemaker]

I have some friends and family that were in the Marines. I think they have been using stress cards for a while now. Not completely sure. I haven't done extensive research on the matter, but I do remember being told about it.

 

[Hunh Bruh]

I've always heard of a friend of a friend about them. never first hand

 

[kengel2]

In 04 there was no such things as "stress cards", in fact it was often used as a joke telling recruits they should have joined the army.

 

[returningliberty]

In 04 there was no such things as "stress cards", in fact it was often used as a joke telling recruits they should have joined the army.

Supposedly the army used them in the non combat arms BCT for awhile. In 05 at Knox we heard they were going to start issuing them a couple classes after us. For about a week after we heard the rumor the drills got pretty brutal. I guess they were mad. I "heard" they tried it in a few companies and promptly quit.

Anybody played "thunderdome" ? We did, a lot. I am still amazed we made it rain inside the barracks bays.

 

[Hitman]

In 04 there was no such things as "stress cards", in fact it was often used as a joke telling recruits they should have joined the army.

Same here, but I think even the Army joke is a joke itself. I don't think the Army actually issues them either.

Now I know that our DI's did indeed have a Card that some looked at often. I don't know what they called it but I know what it helped them accomplish. It was a numbered set of PT moves that if applied in order for whatever level the DI wanted to give, would QUICKLY thrash a recruit into complete exhaustion.

For Example. If they wanted to implement Level 1 Stress on a Recruit.
Level 1 Would read like this - JJ3s-MC5s-PU3s-CR10s
(Jumping Jacks 3 seconds)
(Mountain Climbers 5 seconds)
(Push-ups 3 seconds)
(Crunches 10 seconds)

Level 2 could be more or less elaborate. DI's made their own too all depending on what they thought worked best and what they had in mind. If a DI wanted your ass melted on the Quarter Deck in a matter of minutes, he'd choose a specific level for that. If he had something to talk to you about and needed you to get worn down over the course of 10 minutes he'd choose a less severe level so that you would be burnt out immediately. Either way by the end of it your soaking wet and if you were unfortunate to be on the end of a Kill Hat's wrath and you had the heart, you'd most likely end up being dragged away by your fellow recruits to get out of the way for the next recruit to be thrashed

I remember telling my Ol’Man once I got out. You know Dad, until going through boot camp I never knew what REAL (No ****) PURE Mental and Physical Exhaustion Felt like. Now I know what both feel like simultaneously Errah! Good ****!

 

[Cat]

I've always heard of a friend of a friend about them. never first hand

Truth.

We're an Army family, always the same thing. Heard of them, but never ever from anyone who held on in their grubby paws. As far back as late '90s.

 

[USMC-Deano]

Stress cards are ******** stories, period.

 

[Trey@IG]

Stress cards are ******** stories, period.

ya thats pretty much it.

everytime i heard of them in bootcamp it was in a joke about the army. then when i actually asked some army buddies about it they said they heard that about the air force or some crap. its all trash talking between the branches and it will never end

 

[762NATO]

Interesting...

 

[Neil09]

What are stress cards supposed to be for anyway?

 

[762NATO]

Make a drill sergeant or a DI or what have you back off if he is being too rough because it may damage you. Buddy said that the Mothers of America want it.

 

[Yrdawg]

Same here, but I think even the Army joke is a joke itself. I don't think the Army actually issues them either.

Now I know that our DI's did indeed have a Card that some looked at often. I don't know what they called it but I know what it helped them accomplish. It was a numbered set of PT moves that if applied in order for whatever level the DI wanted to give, would QUICKLY thrash a recruit into complete exhaustion.

For Example. If they wanted to implement Level 1 Stress on a Recruit.
Level 1 Would read like this - JJ3s-MC5s-PU3s-CR10s
(Jumping Jacks 3 seconds)
(Mountain Climbers 5 seconds)
(Push-ups 3 seconds)
(Crunches 10 seconds)

Level 2 could be more or less elaborate. DI's made their own too all depending on what they thought worked best and what they had in mind. If a DI wanted your ass melted on the Quarter Deck in a matter of minutes, he'd choose a specific level for that. If he had something to talk to you about and needed you to get worn down over the course of 10 minutes he'd choose a less severe level so that you would be burnt out immediately. Either way by the end of it your soaking wet and if you were unfortunate to be on the end of a Kill Hat's wrath and you had the heart, you'd most likely end up being dragged away by your fellow recruits to get out of the way for the next recruit to be thrashed

I remember telling my Ol’Man once I got out. You know Dad, until going through boot camp I never knew what REAL (No ****) PURE Mental and Physical Exhaustion Felt like. Now I know what both feel like simultaneously Errah! Good ****!

MCRD San Diego 1970

There were real and unashamed ass whippings in sight of whoever was present.

I watched a fat body on the rope climb " assisted " by a DI on either side till he was about halfway, they unassisted him, broke one leg and gone.

Countless at attention beatings by DI's with leather gloves

There were so many instances of what would be called abuse today...just countless

It was a different time ...I've always considered myself better for it.

What I do credit the DI's with...even in the pitts of despair the guys were funny. I found myself laughing many times while being " reeducated "

IDK why, they just made me laugh, I still use some graveside humor from then, served me well.


Just my .02

 

[Hunh Bruh]

Interesting you would find human abuse by drill instructors productive yet by police it's unconscionable.

Hint.
It's the same.

 

[Cat]

Interesting you would find human abuse by drill instructors productive yet by police it's unconscionable.

Hint.
It's the same.

Personally I was wondering how many times he actually laughed at a DI…

And how many times he puked afterwards.