The Making of Full Metal Jacket

[Bourn]

For those that don't know a perfect Physical Fitness Test is based on 3 factors.

20 pull ups
80 sit ups in 2 minutes. (I would finish in about 80 seconds)
3 miles in under 18 minutes. ( That's equivilent to 12 laps around a 1/4 mile track at 1:30 seconds a lap). That's hauling ass!!

 

[RenoChazz]

Boot camp was a breeze to me. I had played soccer all my life so running and training was easy. I got a perfect PFT of 300 before it ended. Only 7 of us got a perfect score out of the 70 in my squadron. Sometimes I wish I could go back.

I barely missed on the perfect PFT, was perfect on everything and just missed on the pull ups by 2.

 

[Bourn]

At night before taps we had to fill our canteen and down it in a few seconds as the DI counted down, and what ever was left you had to dump over your head and go to bed wet. I would pretend it was beer and never had a problem. One kid used to not put water in it and just pretend he was drinking. He eventually got caught, and the DI smacked him in the head with the canteen and blood came gushing out. We were all told to turn and face the wall, kid came back with stitches the next day, claimed he hit his head on his bunk, never ratted the DI out.

Yeah, the thing was you held the full canteen out and when they said drink you had to finish the whole thing without letting up. If you pulled it away or took a breath they would make you fill it up again to do it all over. The body can only take so much water at once so there was a few pukers every night it seemed.

 

[Bourn]

We're you guys allowed to do the "kip" method when doing pull ups?

 

[RenoChazz]

Yeah, the thing was you held the full canteen out and when they said drink you had to finish the whole thing without letting up. If you pulled it away or took a breath they would make you fill it up again to do it all over. The body can only take so much water at once so there was a few pukers every night it seemed.

Yep I always got it done on the first take, because of my experience with downing beers. There were always pukers, some guys just couldn't do it, and it was always the same guys. I remember trying to keep it together during hygiene inspection, thought it was fucking hilarious.

 

[RenoChazz]

We're you guys allowed to do the "kip" method when doing pull ups?

Yeah but I couldn't get the kip down, and could only do 18, but that was 18 with no kip. Thats what kept me from a perfect PFT.

 

[Bourn]

Dude the kip made it way easy imo. I heard they outlawed that method. Cant do it any longer.

 

[RenoChazz]

Dude the kip made it way easy imo. I heard they outlawed that method. Cant do it any longer.

They did outlaw it before I got out. They changed the sit ups too. I couldn't get the kip in a rhythm so it didn't help me.

 

[texansfan]

The most authentic portrayal of Marine Corp boot camp, I've ever seen in a movie.

Yep, brought back many memories.

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Semper Fi to RenoChaz and Bourn from the Old Corps......lol

75-79.....

And of course to Texansfan...

 

[pocketrockets]

Great respect to whoever passes boot camp. That shit is rough, will make a man out of any pansy.

 

[texansfan]

Semper Fi to RenoChaz and Bourn from the Old Corps......lol

75-79.....

And of course to Texansfan...

I served from 84-88. I wonder how much boot camp has changed?

 

[RenoChazz]

Semper Fi to RenoChaz and Bourn from the Old Corps......lol

75-79.....

And of course to Texansfan...

cheersgif

 

[RenoChazz]

I served from 84-88. I wonder how much boot camp has changed?

After I got out they added something called the crucible, 54 hours of sleep and food deprivation, while out in the field.

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

I served from 84-88. I wonder how much boot camp has changed?

No matter how much it changed, still tougher than the other branches of service.....but much respect to all who have had military training......

 

[Enfuego]

No matter how much it changed, still tougher than the other branches of service.....but much respect to all who have had military training......

The military has changed a lot. Much more focus on working in joint environments due to all our deployments and such. And stuff you could get away with 20 years agao, isn't flying in today's military. Uniforms and technology have just improved so much.