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Aristus

(68,627 posts) Sun Jul 29, 2018, 09:46 AM Jul 2018

Question for our DU Marines:

I served in the Army, where our drill sergeants spoke with a 'normal' voice; loud, abrasive, and authoritarian, but 'normal'.

In the past, I've seen bits from those military reality shows, including the ones featuring Marine boot camp. The drill instructors all talk in fake, cartoonishly gravelly, snarling voices that made me want to laugh my ass off.

Now, in the movie Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey (a real Marine) spoke in a voluable, highly-profane manner, but it was still more or less a 'normal' voice.

So, do Marine D.I.'s really speak in that idiotic, raspy, tough-guy voice from the TV shows? Or was that more un-reality from a 'reality' program?

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Question for our DU Marines: (Original Post) Aristus Jul 2018 OP

San Diego boot camp in 1958 OxQQme Jul 2018 #1

OxQQme

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1. San Diego boot camp in 1958

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Sun Jul 29, 2018, 11:25 AM

Jul 2018

"You don't like my voice boot?"
"Give me fifty push-ups. Then we're all going for a five mile run with back packs and rifles."
"Left...Left...Left Right Left."

Yep. Gravely voice.

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