Why Are You Walking in a Parking Lot, Recruit?

    At Navy boot camp, rules are strict — even where you walk matters. One recruit stepped into the middle of the parking lot instead of staying on the sidewalk, an area clearly off-limits. A senior instructor quickly noticed, and from that moment, the lesson in discipline became unforgettable. In the United States Navy, attention to detail isn’t optional — every action, every step, counts.
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    1. Been in the army for 13 years. 4 combat deployments. Was on the trail for 3 years. Never felt the need to do this shit. There’s a time for yelling. And that’s in combat, and training. This video is the mindset of the fuck wads in the military and that’s why I’m getting out in 2 months 😂 every e-8 I work with is a fucking tool

    2. You yell at someone like this if they doing something unsafe during a training exercise that way they never forget to make that same mistake. Not when someone is walking in a fucking parking lot. 13 years and this fuck shit is why I’m getting out of

    3. This is boot camp. Don’t criticize her for treating him this way, this is part of the brainwashing that HAS to happen. The recruit is wrong… and there is a reason they call this base “Great Mistakes” instead of Great Lakes Naval Trsining center of which I am a graduate of.

    4. For those of you in the comments condemning her for yelling at him for wandering through the parking lot, settle down. This isn't about a woman using her rank or making a mountain out of a molehill. This is about separating the men from the children.

      There are a lot of moving parts involved in basic training. One of them is identifying and removing the ones who don't belong there. The first week of boot camp, there were approximately 140 recruits in my division. By the time we graduated, there were 85. I went in during 1996, when there was a big push in the criminal courts to give young offenders an opportunity to better themselves by choosing the military instead of serving jail time. Plenty of those guys didn't make it. I never understood how someone would rather go to jail than the military, but that's just me. They didn't necessarily volunteer the way I did.

      But that's what this is about. Whether or not that guy makes it, who knows? He's just not off to a good start. You are taught from day one: if you are going anywhere, you walk on the sidewalks. It's not like he has a car. He was taking a shortcut, and somebody who takes shortcuts is not someone I'd feel comfortable having my back. Ultimately, that's what it could come down to, and that's why it's so important to call it out when you see it and correct it immediately.

    5. All these people bad mouthing this RDC has either never served, or went in thinking the U.S. military was something different than they expected serving a begruntled single enlistment, or served as a s#!t bag. In some of the words of Jack Nicholas, So maybe you should just close your pietraps otherwise pickup a weapon and stand a post.

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