Marine Corps Drill Instructors - article about Marine Corps Drill Instructors

With the unpopularity of the current US war effort, the flaws and injustices of Marine Corps recruiting are exposed on a daily basis. Marine Corps recruiters will do everything and anything possible, including lying, to get your kid to join up while they're still in high school and too young and stupid to know what is best for them. They only have one goal: to get your kid to sign up for the Marines. Ethics do not matter to them. Honesty does not matter to them. As a parent, you had best beware.

Of course, if Marine Corps recruiters are bad, Marine Corps drill instructors are awful. You have to remember that in any army, basic training is one third physical conditioning and two thirds brainwashing. This is especially true in an elite branch of the Army such as the Marine Corps. Marine Corps drill instructors are there to break you down and then build you back up. They will humiliate you, abuse you, work you to the point of physical exhaustion, and do anything that they can to strip your old personality away. They do this with the goal of “making you into a Marine”. What this really means is destroying the person who was there before, and putting a slavishly obedient and violent killing machine in its place. They rarely succeed in doing this completely, but it is certainly the goal.

I'm not saying that a Marine Corps drill instructor is necessarily an evil person. Many Marine Corps drill instructors are nice in their personal lives. It is just that they serve an institution whose goal is to make you into a violent fighting machine. Marine Corps drill instructors, and the Marines in general, do not need you to be able to think. They do not need you to be able to morally question and decide what is right for yourself. All that they need you to be able to do is to obey and to kill. This is a Marine Corps drill instructors job: to turn you into a soldier who is good at obeying, and good at killing.

Of course, every branch of the Army is like this to some degree. The problem is that the Marines are the most elite fighting force. They are sent in first, so they need to have the best instincts and the least reservation about killing. This is why Marine Corps drill instructors are more brutal and more vicious than most drill instructors. They have to be.

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By Danielle	2008-06-02 04:03:34
First, you need to do a little research. The Marines are not a part of the Army, they are a completely separate branch and most would be completely offended that you did not acknowledge that. Second, these men and women are going off to possibly fight a war, which is brutal and inhumane in it's own right. You can't send them to Camp Cupcake and expect them to be ready for a war. Marine boot camp prepares Marines to deal with the harsh realities of war. They are not killing machines as you put it. They are men and women out their defending your right to write this ridiculous article. As a side note, these drill instructors give up years of their life dedicated to shaping and molding Marines...they are amazing men and women and deserve your respect, especially when you haven't even served. You should be ashamed for writing such an uneducated, ignorant piece of rubish.
By Alexis	2008-05-04 01:15:18
You dont know what you are talking about!!! Drill instructors do not teach you how to be "violent killing machines" I was in the Marine Corps for FOUR long years and decided to get out because I started having children. The Marine Corps tought me to be a better person and it helped me to be more mature. I love the Marine Corps it have helped my family and it still does..

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