MCRD Parris Island 1950s
www.militaryvideo.com This video documents boot camp at Parris Island in the 1950s. The video is divided into three parts. Part I was produced by the Marine Corps. It is in black & white and narrated. It documents the boot camp experience with scenes of recruits getting haircuts, on the drill field, the rifle range, confidence course, using pugil sticks and even the infamous “bucket drill.” The second part of this video is in color and contains the “out-takes” (scenes not used in the original production) of the first film. There is no narration in this part (a music soundtrack) but the scenes taken in 1957 and 1958 offer additional perspectives on the training recruits received. The third part of this video is in black and white with a music soundtrack. It was made in 1951.
April 25th, 2010 at 8:37 am
They carried an M1911a1 but without ammo. Then is was discontinued but they wore a web duty belt with a first aid pouch in the rear (cigarettes).
April 25th, 2010 at 9:10 am
semper fi
April 25th, 2010 at 9:45 am
3rd BTN INIDA CO 3061 may 1st 2007
April 25th, 2010 at 10:17 am
OOORAAAH 3 BTN MIKE CO 3262 honor platoon MCRD SD
April 25th, 2010 at 11:09 am
love how the fucking statue of Iron Mike is in there-3rd Btn Mike Co
April 25th, 2010 at 11:57 am
1:30 – were the DIs armed back then?
April 25th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I love this shit! I could live off of the military channel, FOX News, and one movie channel like HBO/MAX. Just those three.
April 25th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
0:23: That road hasn’t changed; I remember both that road and that willow tree!
April 25th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
made way more sense back then, as oppsed to today it’s 2010~ they need to make some changes!
April 25th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
ooh rah
April 25th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Semper Fi….
April 25th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
needs more yelling.
April 25th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
airbomb i know how you feel. i graduated from san diego in 1988, and the only thing that was changed was the cars in the parking lot.
April 25th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
i definately agree with this. i too, will probably never go back to parris island. 13 weeks of the most bizzare, scary,funny, and awkward situations i have ever been involved in
April 25th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
I did my boot camp in San diego 1975. I was stationed at Paris Island in 1981 and worked in Special Services at the boat marina, talk about a cake job! Sometimes I’d have lunch at the W.M. chowhall, I remember that whenever they served hotdogs they were cut up!
April 25th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
LMAO yea your right about the black civilians with the ghetto doo rags.
Semper Fi
April 25th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Freakin Jarheads….semper fi
April 25th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Paris Island is in a time warp. That place looks exactly the same as it did 60 years ago. Everything is the same except for the dudes cutting your hair are all black civilians with ghetto doo rags. Paris Island is like the twilight zone and I’ll never step back on that island again.
2001 – 2005 active duty 0311
April 25th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I went through Parris Island 1965 and the foot locker drills in the dark was rough on the knuckles.The 1st battalion barracks looked the same.Our DI’s knew some us would die in Vietnam and made sure no marginal recruit graduated.Back then a bloody mouth was the soup de jour and we worked from 0400 to 2200 24/7.We were scared of our DI’s,but love and respect them for making us Marines,sadly 8 of our platoon died in Vietnam ,while the rest survived Vietnam.We owe much to our Drill Instructors .
April 25th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
I have spoken to alot of other Marines about it but never met any who actually had to do it. It was almost on the level of an urban legend, I could see some of the bigger men possibly doing it but us feather merchants would have been getting our asses kicked for not being able to do it.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
supposedly that is why they had the notch in them, so they would stay between the teeth?
April 25th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Semper de Corps
April 25th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I agree
April 25th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Does anybody remember air raid / flood? Holding your rifle at port arm with just your right hand? The DI hittting you in the bridge of your nose with the edge of his cover while yelling at you? Stepping on your hands while you were in push up position and telling you to get up? All the other games they came up with. One tried to really mess with our heads and said he was going to have us do manual of locker box when we got back from chow!
April 26th, 2010 at 12:33 am
BOY, did this bring back memories! I did boot camp twice. Being Italian & from New York, I caught alot of crap & couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I got sent to motivation which was watching war movies, KP & trying to sneak over the BAM barracks for 2 weeks then started over again with a new platoon. I learned my lesson & was saluting & yes sirring, I was house mouse, squad leader, guide on & graduated PFC. So to all my brothers out there, Semper Fi!