Marine Corps Boot Camp Horror Stories

Marine Corps Boot Camp horror stories are not as common as they used to be, but there are myths out there and there are some true ones that may be blown out of proportion.  I would like to take this moment to tell of what some may consider a “horror story”, but I do not and it happened to me.

I was in Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris Island in 1979.  I was the age of 17 and I was in Platoon 1047 and graduated on 14 September 1979.  My Senior Drill Instructor was Staff Sergeant Fair and it happened late one evening while I was on fire watch.  I had on my chrome dome and my war belt, as they were called and if I remember correctly it was about 0230 hours.  It was pouring rain outside and I was the only one awake, or so I thought.

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I was goofing off and I was tired and I was bored and I thought it was a waste of time to be up at that time.  I recall having my leg up on some sort of ledge and the next thing I remember was being flat on my back with a sheathed bayonet to my throat.  Over me stood Staff Sergeant Fair in full face camo looking me in the eyes with the look of a wild-man.  In a very hushed tone he asked me “what would have happened if this was combat”  I meekly replied that “the Private would be dead.”  With the sheathed bayonet still to my throat he leaned closer and whispered in an even more intense “Fuck the Private….your fellow Marines would be dead.  They were counting on you to be here to guard them and you let them down.  If this was combat, you would be the reason why 71 Marines would have been killed.”  He then looked in my eyes with an expression I will never forgot and he said “my brother was killed by the Cong and it is my job to make sure that you don’t graduate from here and be the reason any of those men in there (squadbay) die”. He looked me square in the eyes and said that it better never happen again.

 I never doubted what he said, not even for a second.

He was gone in an instant and it was never mentioned again and it was in that moment that I think I became a Marine.  It was in that moment that I understood and it was in that moment that the bond of being a Marine was, and will be forever forged in my heart.  Some liberal whiner would cry about what happened then and there, but that moment of training carried me on to graduate with honors.  The Marine Corps Boot Camp Horror story really was no horror story at all.  That was the moment in my life that I became a Marine and for that I offer this Thank You to Senior Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Fair.  I will forever be grateful for that moment of training.

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