The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

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• R. Lee Ermey:

  I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

• R. Lee Ermey:

  There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

• R. Lee Ermey:

  I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit gradua

• R. Lee Ermey:

  Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the

• R. Lee Ermey:

  Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Co

• R. Lee Ermey:

  The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

• R. Lee Ermey:

  Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no

• R. Lee Ermey:

  We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barrac

• R. Lee Ermey:

  Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

• R. Lee Ermey:

  I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to