Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

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

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.