We’ll keep fighting until there’s no fight left in us and I’m really going to miss being surrounded by people with that kind of mindset.” I’ve seen Marines facing overwhelming odds, but they fight anyway, for our fellow Marines, our Corps and our country. “Knowing that I can rely on the person to the left and to the right of me. “The brotherhood Marines have is like none other,” Hawes said as he reflects on his career. “You soon realize that there’s a purpose for everything Marines do… we inspect to make sure we’re ready when the nation is least ready.”Īs Hawes gets ready to hang up his uniform, he says the thing he’s going to miss the most is the comradery with his fellow Marines.
“As a young Marine, I always found the countless inspections useless like, ‘Why do I need to keep cleaning my weapon time after time?’” said Hawes.
Take pride in the uniform you worked hard to earn.” “I used to have to spit shine boots, which we don’t do anymore, but I’ve always had pressed uniforms and looked sharp. “Take pride in the uniform you wear,” Hawes advises Marines. “They put in countless hours and sacrifice a lot, but they’re out there finding the next generation of elite warriors.” “Recruiters need to enjoy the one or two days they get off, have some fun and unwind,” said Hawes. “You take care of the home front when we’re gone and we don’t take you for granted.” “To the families, wives, husbands, children, significant others, we appreciate the support and the ‘I love you’ when we’re out there executing orders,” said Hawes. “It’s easy to quit, but earning that title of United States Marine far outweighs the easy.” “The secret is just to dig in, fight and don’t give up,” advised Hawes, a prior drill instructor, to individuals preparing to ship to boot camp. Hawes, the 9 th Marine Corps District sergeant major, prepares to retire from the Marine Corps, but not before giving a few words of wisdom. – On March 28, 1986, a Kemmerer, Wyoming, native enlisted in the military and on July 8, 1986, he shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in California to earn the title of United States Marine. Dialogue is often unintelligible, but that’s due to subjects’ fatigued mumbling or barked rapid-fire orders as much as to any recording difficulties.GREAT LAKES, Ill. John Stutzman’s relaxed score provides a surprising counterpoint to the tense onscreen content. Auds can, and no doubt will, read into the pic whatever political agenda they came in with. Nonetheless, the wide-format images - by turns formally crisp and hand-held frenetic - as well as his tight editing vividly convey the confusion engendered by extreme discipline, and the intense emotions felt by the young recruits. While chapter intertitles obscurely hint at humor (while referencing the events we’re about to see), Brumley otherwise maintains a strictly neutral, nonjudgmental p.o.v. The first section of Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” comes to mind, although shorn of all melodrama and nearly all human interest, this nonfiction portrait is an even purer distillation of famously brutal Marine training methods.
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Grueling physical challenges culminate in an epic “death march” with full gear in sweltering heat. Such are the rigorous standards that it can take seven men to properly make one bed. Already hard to differentiate as individuals due to their uniforms and shaven heads, recruits in Platoon 1141 emerge as separate beings only in moments when one of them commits some blunder, prompting sustained humiliation and punishment from their drill sergeant. Sans narration or interviews, pic echoes the breakdown of individual will and buildup of team-mindedness that comes with indoctrination.
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