Marine Corps promotion ceremony

pishta said
A WM went through both MC basic training camps, San Diego originally where she broke her leg 2 weeks before graduation and then WM recovery platoon at Parris Island where she had to do it all over again. When asked what basic was harder, she said San Diego was harder physically (humping hills) but P.I was harder mentally (did not elaborate), take that inferior 'Hollywood Marine' crap and hump it.

My good buddy was a Hollywood Marine. He served from Vietnam through Desert Storm. His Marine Dad was wounded in a kamikaze attack on the USS Nashville in December '44. His Marine father was a veteran of Belleau Wood. My friend said it wasn't where you were trained but what you did with it.
And yes, Infantry school at Fort Benning in August is brutal on Yankee boys!