Close-Order Drill on Parris Island
“If you all scream together, you will stay together!” a drill instructor yells to Marine recruits.
“Yes, Sir!”
By popular demand, I’m posting some of the video I shot at boot camp last year. In this clip, recruits on their tenth training day practice handling their M-16 rifles.
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For two decades, I worked at political jobs. Then my parents got sick, and I went home to help care for them, and they died, fourteen weeks apart, in their late 60s. And I decided that life is too dear, and too uncertain, to fritter away in political offices. I fought back the sorrow with travel, and started this blog. I believe that passions are more fun when you share them with others, and my hope is to share my passions for travel and culture with you. Welcome! Read more …




Oh the real fun is if you drop your weapon…. You’d be better off cracking a joke about you DI’s mother…