Weapons of Marines’ destruction - Sep 20, 2007
from the San Diego Reader
By: neal | 09/20/07 | San Diego Reader | Trackback | 
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Bullshit. DI’s have to be hard on recruits to teach them to be able to operate in high stress environments. This is to prepare recruits for combat, because a Marine who can’t operate in combat is DRT–Dead Right There.
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OH-RAH, My instructors were’nt any kind of daisies, I came through it rough but we all did, everything they tought me in San Diego kept me the FUCK alive in the sand box, fucking liberal pussies. Always remember liberal assholes, American Heros like those Drills yer busting on died for your right to write, draw and generaly act like assholes
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If it wasn’t for my drill instructors busting our asses, I would have never made it home from Iraq. They’re doing it to teach you a lesson, not just to amuse yourself. Fuck all the liberal pussy democrats.
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well liberal or not the DI’s push us so we stay alive over there. Some do it the wrong way and give the good ones a bad name. Beating the crap out of a recruitand not teaching him anything isnt good leadership. That is why we have shit bags sl;lip through the cracks and fuck the corp up from the inside. Some of the happen to become4 drill insructors, some become platoon Sgt’s. It is what it is.
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DI’s do the job right. This trash is written by someone who want’s something given to them. DI’s are sometimes wrong on approach, but they do the job that some liberal punk will not. Do not hate them for molding boys into men. Hate mothers of america for turning DI’s into babysitters.
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If you’re a pussy… go join the National Guard, but if you want a real fight join the Marine Corps, that’s what i say. My DIs were ruthless towards me, but at the same time they gave me everything i have now in order to survive in combat. Yeah, i hated it at the time, but i can now see a bit of my DIs in myself. I wish everyone would quit fucking pointing fingers at Drill Instructors and actually thank them for turning little punk ass kids into REAL men and women.
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I’m a rare breed; a radical-liberal Marine (No-LOAD Marine). I have no delusions about my country being perfect, nor my Marine Corps being perfect (both are certainly the best there are), but this is obviously the work of someone who is uninformed about the realities of my Corps, and didn’t care enough to take the time to complete some accurate and unbiased research before publishing this crap. While in the Corps I worked in the office at MCRD San Diego that handled and responded to Congressional and public inquiries involving recruit mistreatment. In the approximately 2 years I was involved, not once was there even the hint of DI abuse intentionally targeting or intending to hurt a recruit. The vast majority of recruit injuries was sustained as a result of carelessness, or exaggeration of the actual events leading-up to the injury, exacerbated by extreme whining by the recruit and/or his family.
This political cartoon is just that; political.
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neal Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
What exactly do you think happened here? Do you think I just woke up one day and was like “Hey, I think I’ll draw a cartoon that accuses a Marine Corps trainer of abusing recruits!” ? This stuff was in the press, getting covered pretty heavily at the time. The military jury convicted this particular drill instructor of eight counts of abuse. As the L.A. Times reported at the time,
Now I’m obviously in no position to try to sotp you from claiming it’s all made up, but to act like this comes from a perspective that is either uninformed or dishonest - and by extention acting like these accusations never happened - is pretty silly to say the least. You claim that “not once was there even the hint of DI abuse.” Somebody should tell those 44 drill instructors.
I would like to respond to your closing argument by pointing out that this political cartoon is also a cartoon.